Ep. 1505 - WWII Vets Feel Like Foreigners In Their Own Country
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On the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied landing at Normandy in 1944, some of the remaining vets are feeling decidedly untriumphant. When you think about the state of our country today, how do you feel about the country that you worked so hard to stay free?
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Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied landing at Normandy in 1944.
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There are not many World War II vets still with us. 16.4 million Americans served during the war.
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My grandfather, probably many of your fathers and grandfathers among them,
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as of last year, only 119,550 or 0.7% were still around. And on the anniversary of perhaps their
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greatest triumph in that war, some of the remaining vets are feeling decidedly untriumphant.
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When you're here with all of these brothers and people who experienced the war as you did,
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and also the subsequent wars in Korea and Vietnam, what do you think about the state of our country
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today? How do you feel about the country that you worked so hard to stay free, to keep free?
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The real truth? Yeah. I feel like a foreigner in my own country lots of times. And I don't like it.
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It makes my heart real heavy. And I just hope we can pull out of this. There's too much Hollywood
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going on in Washington all the time. The important subjects they don't cover. So the thing is,
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I hope all the guys will rally up and we'll go back and straighten it all out.
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So that's the kind of tough attitude that's very typical of that generation.
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But the feeling he's describing is devastating. I feel like a foreigner in my own country.
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And it is brutal because that feeling is not just the typical kind of feeling that comes to everyone
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with age. This is the consequence of a deliberate campaign to make Americans strangers in their own
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country. This is an intentional campaign to replace our country's traditions, laws, customs,
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language, social order, even people with something else. We all sense that America has not simply
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progressed or developed, but that it's been changed on some fundamental level. This is not
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the same country. And it is going to take another historic effort to straighten it all out.
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That is goodranchers.com, promo code Knowles. Our political order is in real rough shape. And it's not
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just the veterans at the Normandy anniversary that are telling us this, and it's not just our politicians
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who are telling us this. Anyone with eyes can see it. Here's just exhibit 552,321 that our political
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order is falling apart. A dead guy just won a Democrat primary for Congress. This took place
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in New Jersey. Representative, the late Representative Donald Payne Jr., just won the Democrat
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Party's primary on Tuesday with a little more than a month in the grave. So he, this guy died at the age
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of 65. It's very sad. Obviously, we pray for his soul, pray for his family. But he died over a month
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ago, and then he won the Democrat Party primary for Congress. Voters could have submitted a write-in
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alternative, but they didn't. They voted for a corpse over any living person. Now, there's a
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Republican who's running, Carmen Bucco. He's considered a long shot, even against a dead man
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in this race. Presumably, what the Democrats will do is at their convention, they'll just swap out the
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guy who won the primary, who obviously can't run for some other candidate, and the Republican almost
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certainly will not win. This is an indictment of the Democrat Party, in part. I guess so many of the
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Democrat voters are dead people that it would stand to reason that, you know, like is attracted to
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like, so they would vote for a dead guy. But it's not just an indictment of the Democrat Party. It's
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kind of an indictment of democracy, and not to be too catastrophic about it. In a functioning
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government, in a functioning body politic, even if you're a rabid partisan, and you have to choose
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between a dead person and anyone else, you should vote for anyone else, if you're serious about
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government. But we're not. A lot of people probably didn't even know the candidate was dead,
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and it doesn't really matter. We joke about how they wheel in Biden, and they, you know,
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either reanimate him with drugs, or they put him on marionette strings, and they just, you know,
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traipse this cadaver through the White House as though he were the real president. But they're kind
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of proving that in New Jersey. They don't, they would vote for a dead person over a Republican.
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Because no one's really focused on the judgment of the politicians. That's something that we're
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supposed to take into account when we elect our representatives in a representative democracy.
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No one really cares about the individuals. No one really cares about their character. No one really
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cares about any of that. They just are NPCs, right? They just are zombies who are going about and who
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will, and who will vote for dead people. There's that old line that, from an old Bob Hope movie that
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makes the rounds every election year, where the doctor is saying, these zombies, they're not like
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you and me. They're brainless. They're mindless. They just walk around not having any idea where
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they're going, any idea what they're doing. And Bob Hope says, oh, you mean like Democrats? Oh,
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here it is. They did it. They did the meme. They proved the joke.
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How long can a country endure and flourish when our government is being run by dead people or
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zombies? When the people who elect those who are supposed to run our government don't even look
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into whether or not these people are alive. Now, speaking of Biden and the Democrats' electoral
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pitch, Joe Biden's campaign spokesman just made a very unusual admission about the
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brain function or lack thereof that is necessary for candidates.
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How much should a candidate's cognitive function factor into that decision when someone votes?
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Okay, how much does cognitive function matter in a campaign spokesman then? I guess we're
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going to have to ask that question at one further level of remove. You don't know what the phrase
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cognitive function means. Of course. Of course. Par for the course, I should have expected that.
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This is not a trick question. This is not a particularly complicated question. The words
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cognitive and function are not particularly complex or sophisticated. To what degree does a politician's
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brain need to work for him to be elected? Huh? What's that mean? Now, I hope she knows what it means and
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she's just trying to duck the question because Joe Biden is obviously senile and in decline. But maybe
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she doesn't know what it means. Maybe it's just, excuse me, could you use some synonyms? Could you define
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those words for me, please? I don't know. Yeah, of course you don't know. That's how we got in this mess
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in the first place. They don't know. And more importantly, they don't care whether or not a
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politician's brain is working. And they don't care because they're electing a politician to be
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nothing more than a rubber stamp for an ideological agenda that they pretty much totally agree on.
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There are a few wedge issues within the Democrat Party. We've seen the Israel-Gaza war is a big wedge
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issue right now. But other than that, they're totally in lockstep. There are no blue dogs.
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There are no conservative Democrats anymore. It's just progressives. That's not true for the
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Republicans. It's not true for conservatives. Conservatives are divided on all sorts of
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questions. We're divided on the Ukraine-Russia war. I suppose the Israel-Gaza war to some degree, too.
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We're divided on tariffs. Some Republicans are total free traders. Some are pro-tariff.
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We're divided on immigration. Some Republicans want more immigration. Some Republicans want less
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immigration. We're divided on the brashness of our candidates. Some like the kind of brash
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street rhetoric of Donald Trump. Some want the country club types. We're divided on everything.
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Gay marriage, quote unquote, divided. Even there are some pro-abortion Republicans divided on abortion,
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divided on everything. There are all sorts of Republicans. And so the individual judgment of
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candidates really matters to conservatives. For the Democrats, they don't care. That's how they end up
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electing these sorts of cadavers. Because the Democrat agenda is very ideological. It's five
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bullet points on the back of a napkin. And it amounts to overturn everything. Overturn tradition,
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upend the political order, abolish norms and standards, all in the name of liberation. It's a
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liberal political movement. And maximizing individual autonomy and choice and mocking and pulling down
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the order of norms and taboos. That's the name of the game. And anyone can do that. Even the staffers
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pulling the marionette strings of the cadavers currently running our government. Now, this woman
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couldn't even give a simple yes or no to should candidates have working brains. That does not play
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very well in Peoria. It doesn't play very well with the American people. You're seeing this reflected
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in Democrats' poll numbers. So what are they going to do? They're going to try to rig the game.
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Obviously, they're prosecuting Trump. Obviously, they've imprisoned Trump associates. I think of
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Peter Navarro. Peter Navarro, a senior presidential advisor. He was the trade advisor who ends up being sent
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to prison. He's currently in jail because he refused to go along with the Democrats' hack
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partisan January 6th commission. And so he's the first senior presidential advisor ever to be thrown
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in jail for contempt of Congress. We know they're doing all of that, but it's not just the executive
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branch they're going after. They're not just trying to undermine executive privilege and the separation
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of powers between the Congress and the White House. They're also attacking separation of powers
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between the Congress and the judiciary. Dick Durbin, who's one of the most senior Democrats
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in the Senate, he's the Senate Majority Whip, he just got up and demanded that Justice Alito recuse
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himself from the politically important cases. Displaying the upside down American flag and appeal
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to heaven flag creates the appearance that Justice Alito has already aligned himself with the Stop the
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Steal campaign. He cannot credibly claim to be an umpire calling balls and strikes in these cases.
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He has donned the jersey of his favorite team. That's why I called on Justice Alito to recuse himself
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and why I urged Chief Justice Roberts to finally step up and take the steps necessary to ensure that
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Justice Alito does not sit on those cases and rather that he recuse himself. The most charitable take
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one can have on Dick Durbin here is that he's a complete idiot. That's the charitable take. The more
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likely take, I don't think he's a complete idiot, so the more likely take is just that he's lying.
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He says, the upside down flag is a symbol that you've aligned yourself with the Stop the Steal
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campaign. The upside down flag is a universal symbol of distress, and its particular expression
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is usually distress at sea. If a ship is flying the flag upside down, it means they're probably
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going down and they're calling for help. But obviously, symbolically, it is a symbol of
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political distress more broadly. Fair enough, since liberals were trying to murder the Supreme Court
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justices after someone on the court, almost certainly a liberal, leaked the Dobbs decision,
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which was practically speaking a call to arms for someone to go murder the judges so that if the
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conservatives didn't have a majority, the Dobbs decision wouldn't be ratified. That's what that
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came down to. That would give me some distress. If prominent liberals were implicitly calling for my
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murder, and then liberals actually showed up to the houses of at least my colleagues and tried to
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murder us, that would give me some distress. So I think he was probably justified in flying the flag
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upside down. And then the Appeal to Heaven flag, I have this collection of flags on my desk here.
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This is a flag, I don't know, I guess there's an extra flag. I don't know where that slot goes.
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I'll put that in my drawer. I've got too many revolutionary flags on my desk. I've had this
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since I started at Daily Wire, long before the Stop the Steal campaign. The Appeal to Heaven flag is
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one of the earliest American flags. It was flying on government property in San Francisco, of all
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places, until very, very recently. This is one of the great symbols, a flag flown on ships commissioned
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by George Washington. But Dick Durbin's got to rewrite that history, too. They have to rewrite the
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history. They have to prosecute their rivals. They have to pressure judges. Why do they have to do
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those things? Because they know that they can't win fair and square. And as they tighten their grip
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on power in a way that is off-putting to an increasing number of the American people, you're
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going to see public opinion shift even more in Trump's direction, which means that the Democrats
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have two options. They can let up, fight a fair fight, and let Trump go back into the White House,
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or they can tighten their grip even more. Which one do you think they're going to pick?
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So speaking of fairness, Maya Hawk. Maya Hawk is a young actress. She played that character
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in Stranger Things who was a kind of delightful character. And you thought that she was going
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to end up hooking up with the guy. I think Steve was the character's name. And it was a
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great story. And then because the libs have to ruin everything, out of nowhere at the end
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of the season, spoiler alert, they decided to make her a lesbian because you need, everyone
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needs to be a lesbian now because everything's super gay because we live in 2024. Anyway, that's
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a slight digression. Maya Hawk, nice young actress. And she was asked recently about how
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she got her start in the acting business, how she was cast in Quentin Tarantino's 2019 movie
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. And on the red carpet, she said, oh, well, when I auditioned
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for the part, X, Y, and Z happened. And people made fun of her for this because they said, you
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didn't get the part because you auditioned. You got the part because your mother is in every
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Quentin Tarantino movie and your father is a major movie star and you got it because
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of nepotism. You're a nepo baby, Maya Hawk. And then Maya Hawk responded to that and said,
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yeah, yeah, sorry, duh, I didn't mean to insinuate anything else. Of course I got the
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job because my mother is Uma Thurman and my father is Ethan Hawke. Yeah, of course. She
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says, I've been wildly made fun of for this clip when I sat on the red carpet that I auditioned.
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I never meant to imply I didn't get the part for nepotistic reasons. I think I totally
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did. She goes on and she says, you know, look, what am I going to do? She said, I could
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get a nose job and change my name and go to open casting calls, but this is my name. This
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is who I am. This is how I was raised. And I don't think there's really anything wrong
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with that. And Maya Hawk is totally right. She's totally right. Nepo babies are good, actually.
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A healthy nepotism is actually good for society. And that's not a liberal or leftist idea. That's
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actually very conservative because why does Maya Hawk get these parts? Why is she able to just
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act in movies? It's not a super easy job. Actually, acting can be kind of difficult. And I'm not saying
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she's the greatest actress in the world. Maybe she could be. I don't know. I'm not totally
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familiar with her work. But if you grow up and your parents do a thing, you're going to be more
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familiar with that thing. If that thing is just around you for your whole life and you're raised
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in it and you're steeped in it, you're going to be more inclined toward that thing. That's how
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education works. That's how culture works. That's how tradition works. If you plucked a random person
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off of the street and said, hey, today you're the king of England, go. Do you think that person would
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be better or worse equipped to be the king of England than, say, Prince William? Prince William,
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whose family has sat on the throne in England for centuries? Probably Prince William because he was
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just raised in it. And he knows how the palaces work. And he knows who the butlers are. And he
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knows what the events are like. And he saw his father do it. And he saw his grandmother and
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grandfather do it. And you kind of know. Generational continuity is a good thing.
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Nepo babies are a good thing. I'm not a Nepo baby. I like that there's opportunity for it. But there's
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nothing wrong with going into the same line of work that your parents are in. There's nothing
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wrong. That's actually good for society and provides some stability. And it provides and
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encourages the continuation of expertise. The notion that you should never have any privilege because of
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how your parents live their lives. The notion that we should never have any continuity within
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families. That's a radically liberal notion. The calls for radical meritocracy or whatever. Those are
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very liberal, radical, left notions. The conservatives, we like conserving things. And we recognize that
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there's more to growing up in education than just reading a manifesto or just starting the world anew with
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each generation. There is such a thing as generational knowledge. That's the sort of thing we're trying to
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conserve. Now, there is a dark side to nepotism. I turn, of course, to Hunter Biden. This would be
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Hunter Biden. He did not take whatever advantages his father gave him and then build on them and cultivate
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them. No, he actually just traded him in. He just traded on his name and any virtues that Joe Biden might
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possess. So there's probably one or two of them. He ignored those and he lived a life of total vice and traded on
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his dad's name and made millions and millions of dollars from some of the worst people on earth.
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Here we have another conspiracy theory proven true. The DOJ is now prosecuting Hunter. They tried
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not to prosecute Hunter. They tried to give him a sweetheart deal to let him off the hook without any
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consequences for his many, many crimes, his gun crimes, his sex crimes, his financial crimes,
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his political crimes, all of his crimes that we've seen on his laptop. The laptop that we were told was
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fake Russian disinformation. The laptop, which when the story broke, New York Post, October 2020,
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right before the election, look at this. Hunter involved in lots of crimes. Hunter implicating Joe
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Biden in lots of crimes and political corruption. We were told it's fake news. The intelligence
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agencies told us it was fake news. The big tech companies censored the story. Not only could you
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not post that extremely relevant political news story, but you couldn't even private message it
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on some social media platforms. Then we find out totally true. And we found out it's totally true
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because the DOJ is submitting it as evidence now that they weren't able to give Hunter the sweetheart
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deal. Now that they have to actually prosecute him for at least some of the crimes he committed,
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not the most serious ones. Turns out it's totally true. The FBI agent Erica Jensen testified in court
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that the agency had verified the laptop as belonging to Hunter through its serial number and records from
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Apple, according to CNN. I'm really glad we found that out four years after it mattered.
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Four years after we were called conspiracy theorists and Russian stooges and crypto KGB agents for
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observing that the Biden family is extremely corrupt. Really glad we figured that out four years after a
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poll was taken following the election, which showed that a huge number, something like 12% of Democrats
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would have changed their vote had they known about the Hunter Biden laptop, which would have swung the
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election, of course. And it's a great moral victory, but they got their political victory. And Hunter is
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almost certainly going to get off the hook anyway. And so the question is, are we going to keep fighting
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that fight? See, we were right. We were right about COVID. We were right about Fauci. We were right
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about Hunter. We were right about this. We were right about that. Or are we going to look, what are
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they doing right now? What is the lie? What is the hoax that they're pulling right now to steal the
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election? And the obvious answer is the prosecution of Donald Trump on ridiculous grounds. He just got
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convicted of 34 felonies without the Democrats even articulating what crime he committed.
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That's what they're doing now. That's the Hunter Biden laptop of 2024. And it's going to be
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controverted in the press. And four years from now, everyone's going to admit, okay, Trump maybe
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didn't really commit any crimes, but that's going to be after it matters. There's always a new one of
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shave like a man, not a manifesto. Speaking of paternity, grossest story of the week.
00:25:02.840
Male birth control is on the horizon. This, according to the Washington Post.
00:25:08.720
Male birth control gel shows promise in early-stage clinical trials. So the article opens up. I'll just
00:25:16.520
give you the highlights. It says, in the realm of reproductive health, male birth control has loomed
00:25:21.520
as a long-standing quest. I'm going to pause here. What kind of quest is that? I'm not questing for
00:25:27.020
that. Normal people I know are not questing for that. Most men I know don't want to geld themselves.
00:25:33.700
So who's seeking? The liberals are seeking this male birth control on their great quest. Recently,
00:25:40.580
a combination hormonal topical gel has shown promise by suppressing sperm production in a shorter
00:25:46.640
amount of time than experimental products tested in other clinical trials. One of the people behind
00:25:52.540
this innovation says, there are a lot of women who have difficulties with various contraceptive
00:25:58.040
methods, and one eye-opening aspect of the clinical trial has been listening to women and hearing what
00:26:02.980
it meant to them to be in the study, especially when they were able to stop using their birth control
00:26:07.560
for a year. Yeah, I totally agree. Hormonal birth control is terrible, and the fact that we prescribe
00:26:12.100
it in this country, not only to grown women, but also to really young girls. They'll put 12- and 13-year-old
00:26:17.420
girls on this, and they'll come up with all sorts of fake reasons why they're doing it, but it's to get
00:26:21.320
them on birth control, and it's bad. And they say, look, this has no effect on your long-term fertility
00:26:26.240
or health. It's a little hard for me to believe that when you're just radically altering the hormones of
00:26:32.840
very young girls and then keeping them on it for a decade, two decades. You don't think that has
00:26:37.060
any effects whatsoever. I'm a little bit skeptical. But, the article goes on, the only effective forms
00:26:44.580
of birth control on the market for men are vasectomies, which are not easily reversible,
00:26:48.560
and condoms, which have a low acceptance rate. Now, this is really telling. This is really telling.
00:26:56.240
Vasectomies, obviously, a lot of men are opposed to this, one, because it's very difficult to reverse
00:27:00.940
them, but two, most men don't want to geld themselves. They don't want to castrate themselves.
00:27:05.300
And I know it's like a little bit different. But that's kind of what it feels like, right? You go
00:27:10.000
in, and you get a little snip-snip. Most guys don't want to do that. They do not want to become
00:27:14.940
vasectomites, okay? And for whatever reason, that has a low acceptance rate. But what else has a low
00:27:23.120
acceptance rate here? The really simple method of contraception, which is condoms. Why does it have
00:27:27.560
a low acceptance rate? Because most people know that it's icky and wrong. Most people know that there's
00:27:33.700
something disordered about that kind of artificial contraception. Most people recognize that it is a
00:27:39.320
symbol of withholding from your sexual partner, withholding something of yourself. So you're not
00:27:44.900
giving of yourself totally, which is supposed to be what love is. And we all know that implicitly.
00:27:50.240
And obviously, you're only supposed to do that act when you are married. And so if you use condoms when
00:27:56.860
you're married, then it seems even more disordered somehow. Because you've pledged your whole life
00:28:02.520
to this spouse. You said, we're going to come together and become one flesh. And what God has
00:28:06.620
joined, let no man separate. But actually, I'm going to let this little piece of plastic separate us.
00:28:10.560
Because I want to withhold something from you that would realize our love. It would make our love so
00:28:17.120
real that it would actually create another person. And most people just realize implicitly,
00:28:20.640
that is icky and wrong and gross and offensive. So they don't use it. Again, don't say that it's me,
00:28:27.860
the social conservative or the prude or the whatever that's going on and invective against
00:28:33.320
condoms. The article itself is admitting most people hate condoms. I'm just explaining why that
00:28:39.460
is. I'm explaining why they're pushing for this gross birth control. Because what they want with
00:28:45.340
contraception, what I think people really want is they want contraception. They want to be able to have
00:28:50.440
promiscuous sex. They don't want to deal with the consequences of sex, which is children.
00:28:54.760
But they don't want to be conscious of that fact. They want it to seem like they're having
00:29:01.660
normal relations. But they don't want to deal with the consequences of normal relations.
00:29:08.140
They want to have their cake and eat it too. So how does this work? The way it works,
00:29:12.040
according to the article, is the five milliliter hormonal gel is applied once daily and split between
00:29:19.420
the shoulder blades. Okay? That's not where I would have expected, but all right, you get a little
00:29:23.400
shoulder massage. The gel's segesterone acetate component, which is a synthetic progesterone,
00:29:30.800
suppresses hormones needed to maintain testosterone concentrations in the male sexual organ,
00:29:37.440
which is where the sperm are made, thereby inhibiting sperm production. The testosterone component
00:29:43.920
in this two-part system ensures that testosterone levels are essential for male physiological processes
00:29:48.860
and health are maintained at stable levels. Okay. So you just rub a bunch of lady hormones on your
00:29:53.500
shoulders and then your virile potent center of your body stops producing the male hormone or it
00:30:04.080
stops doing the things that happen in the vital center of the male reproductive organ. But then they'll
00:30:09.760
also give you a little testosterone to kind of offset it. And this is so
00:30:13.240
fitting for pride month because this is so gay. This is like the gayest thing ever.
00:30:21.300
You imagine 100 pride parades walking down the street, hate Ashbury in San Francisco. That is not
00:30:29.080
half as gay as this male birth control gel that kills your male hormones and gales you. This is,
00:30:35.800
and I mean that word, which I'm, is probably being censored on YouTube in a really technical way.
00:30:43.240
It's not, I don't mean gay just like a schoolyard taunt. I mean gay in that this partakes of a,
00:30:48.780
of a gay anthropology. Okay. Because it's, this is sterile. The whole point of this is sterility.
00:30:55.580
The whole point of this is to have, to engage in sexual acts that will not be fruitful and will not
00:31:01.880
produce anything, will not come to any end. And so then my second takeaway reading this is, man,
00:31:08.720
this is a lot of effort and a lot of money, a lot of really smart people with a lot of really fancy
00:31:14.500
degrees devoting their lives to helping people avoid one of life's greatest blessings. Like,
00:31:21.220
wow, that seems like a lot of misdirected energy. Just have kids, guys. Kids are great. Okay.
00:31:27.440
Just get married and have kids and be normal and have a good life. People are just so
00:31:33.540
hell bent on not having a good life. It's crazy. Men are, you know, that meme, you know, men would
00:31:41.060
rather X, Y, and Z than talk to a therapist. Men would rather rub a weird expensive jelly that took
00:31:49.120
a hundred years to produce that, that effectively gelds them on their shoulder blades than just like
00:31:55.700
have kids and have a good normal life. Just why would you, this is so degrading. Every aspect of this
00:32:02.320
is so degrading. It's so emasculating. It's so, so gay. I can't, oh man, good grief. Guys, just have
00:32:12.580
kids. A lot of people want to have kids and they can't have kids. And these weirdos are buying expensive
00:32:19.140
gels and rubbing it all over themselves to avoid having kids. What a bunch of weirdos. Now, one of
00:32:25.720
the consequences of not having kids is that our political elites push for mass migration. So our
00:32:33.800
country has not been having kids for about 50 years. Like we have kids, some people have kids, but
00:32:38.040
we don't have enough kids to replace the people who are dying. So that's been true since 1971.
00:32:45.860
And what have we done as a response to that? We've imported people from foreign cultures,
00:32:51.360
and this has led to social instability as mass migration always does. And that's, it's led to
00:32:58.180
a decay of trust in our political institutions and upending of our political traditions and just
00:33:02.960
a ton of different people in the country. And, you know, a country is, is made up of its people.
00:33:09.960
So if you have totally new people in a country, when you have a kind of a totally new country,
00:33:13.840
you will feel like a stranger in your, you're in your own country because when, when you dial up
00:33:17.580
customer service, you're going to have to press one or two for English. That's a crazy thing in
00:33:21.980
your own kind of America to have to press a special button. If you want to hear instructions
00:33:27.560
in your native tongue, that's, that is a sign that your country is unrecognizable. That is a sign that
00:33:36.540
you are a stranger, a foreigner in your own land. So what do we do about this? Well, it's a little bit
00:33:42.380
chicken and the egg. Part of the reason that people have fewer children now is, is because
00:33:48.220
of mass migration, because wages have been suppressed. It's hard to raise a family. It's
00:33:52.060
expensive to have kids. That's part, it's not, I'm not even saying that's the primary reason why
00:33:55.360
people aren't having kids, but that is one of the reasons. One of the reasons people aren't having
00:33:59.800
kids is because of a leftist liberationist ideology that says that all limits are bad. The limits of
00:34:07.160
borders are very bad. The limits of the moral order and the sexual ethic are very bad. So if you
00:34:11.580
were, if you were to correct that, that extremely liberal ideology that might bring behaviors back
00:34:16.900
into line, but it's a little bit the chicken or the egg. You can't stop the mass migration
00:34:21.620
while people aren't having kids because then the economy implodes, but you're not going to have
00:34:26.020
people start to have a lot of kids while you still have mass migration, which is demoralizing for the
00:34:30.560
political order. So Tom Cotton has a solution. Tom Cotton is proposing a bill that would ban birthright
00:34:37.400
citizenship for the kids of illegal aliens. It's called the Constitutional Citizenship
00:34:43.040
Clarification Act. It's a bill that aims to enshrine in statute the ambassador's and invader's
00:34:49.600
exceptions to birthright citizenship. So we get this notion of birthright citizenship from the 14th
00:34:56.140
Amendment, and then it's expressed elsewhere in our law. And it says that if you're born here and
00:35:04.900
subject to the jurisdiction thereof, you're a citizen. And this was put into our Constitution
00:35:10.520
to deal with what to do with the freed slaves, who the Supreme Court previously had said could
00:35:17.800
not become American citizens. So what do you do? You have this huge portion of the population that
00:35:22.280
can't ever be citizens. No, the 14th Amendment says they are citizens. But this was extrapolated to
00:35:28.380
say that now, you know, anyone who's born here automatically becomes a citizen. This is not the norm
00:35:34.240
throughout the world. It's the norm throughout the Anglosphere, but it's not really the norm
00:35:37.060
throughout the rest of the world. And it's led to all sorts of political problems, and it's created
00:35:41.820
bad incentives. And now you have people just coming over with the help of criminal cartels to have
00:35:45.360
anchor babies because they know it's going to get them a lot of political advantages. So it's not true
00:35:50.420
of anyone who's born here. If you're the child of an ambassador, if you're the ambassador from Sweden
00:35:54.540
to the United States, the Swedish ambassador's wife has a kid while she's here. That kid does not
00:35:59.800
automatically become a U.S. citizen. So there have always been exceptions to this. And Cotton's bill
00:36:04.260
would clarify those exceptions, would bar children of illegal aliens, foreign terrorists, and foreign
00:36:09.680
spies from being entitled to birthright citizenship. It would amend Section 301 of the Immigration and
00:36:14.680
Nationality Act. And it would therefore clarify that, quote, a person born in the U.S. shall not be
00:36:20.680
considered subject to jurisdiction of the United States in the person of alien parents who are
00:36:25.740
unlawfully present in the United States, present in the U.S. for diplomatic purposes,
00:36:30.920
engaged in a hostile occupation of or a hostile operation in the United States. There you go. Simple
00:36:35.800
as. Who would oppose this? The people who would oppose this are the people who think that they will
00:36:42.980
get a political advantage. Either are the people who think that citizenship is bogus and nations are
00:36:48.580
bogus and borders are bogus. And so they just think we're all citizens of the world, man, and there
00:36:53.800
should be no limits. Radical liberals think that. Or cynical liberals who think that they get a
00:36:58.180
political advantage by flooding the country with foreigners to radically change the country because
00:37:02.460
they don't like the country because they, in the words of Barack Obama, want to fundamentally
00:37:05.880
transform America, which is a sign that you hate your own country, which they do. The Center for
00:37:11.280
Immigration Studies found in a study about six years ago, there were about 300,000 births per year
00:37:19.320
to illegal aliens. Now, that might not seem like a lot in a country of 330 million people. 300,000
00:37:26.200
births per year to illegal aliens is larger than the total number of births in any other state in
00:37:32.340
the country other than California and Texas. So illegal aliens are the most fecund, fertile state in the
00:37:41.700
country if you took them all as a whole other than these two gigantic states, California and Texas.
00:37:50.560
How long does that continue before you have a radically different country?
00:37:56.160
Are we assimilating these illegal aliens? No, we're actually, we discourage them from assimilating.
00:38:01.960
Are we bringing in migrants gradually? No, we're flooding the zone with the migrants.
00:38:08.260
Are we doing this because this is what our founding fathers want, or this is what even the authors of
00:38:15.360
the 14th Amendment wanted, or the people who were alive at the time of the ratification of the 14th
00:38:19.860
Amendment? No, it's just a loophole. There has always been, as I mentioned earlier, in the Anglosphere,
00:38:27.680
for a very long time in the Anglosphere, a notion of birthright citizenship. And in America,
00:38:32.860
this was clarified by a Supreme Court case about 125, 130 years ago. But even going back further,
00:38:37.800
there's this notion of the idea of use solely, the right of the soil. This is contrasted with
00:38:43.460
use sanguinis, the right of blood, blood right citizenship. And most countries in the world have,
00:38:49.700
the vast majority of countries in the world have blood-based citizenship, right? Use sanguinis.
00:38:56.960
But okay, we're in the Anglosphere, we're in the English tradition, so we have this idea of use solely.
00:39:02.860
Okay, that's fine. But even the countries with the tradition of birthright citizenship have laws
00:39:08.980
that regulate it. So we're not saying obliterate birthright citizenship entirely. We're just saying
00:39:13.020
there's this loophole that's causing lots of political problems that's obviously being exploited
00:39:17.000
in recent years by very bad actors. And so we're going to correct that. That is a very common sense
00:39:22.200
proposal. What Tom Cotton is suggesting here is not throwing bombs. It's not an upending of the
00:39:28.060
American tradition. It's a relatively modest proposal, a common sense proposal, to clarify
00:39:33.580
a very contentious and silly aspect of the law. Pay attention to who opposes it, because it's not
00:39:39.160
just going to be the libs. There are going to be a lot of squishes who oppose it too, out of ignorance
00:39:42.940
or out of cynicism, because they're the court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism whose only job is to
00:39:48.000
lose. My favorite comment yesterday is from Mr. Drew One, who says, Amazon Tribe gets the internet
00:39:54.060
and immediately gets addicted to social media and weird sex stuff. Thanks, Al Gore. Yeah, real nice,
00:40:00.380
Al Gore. This is what we get. Imagine if that guy had become president. Every little untouched tribe in
00:40:06.640
the world would be addicted to Facebook and porn by now. Do people still use Facebook? TikTok, I guess,
00:40:12.860
would be the more up-to-date reference. But speaking of social media, I'm very sorry to say
00:40:18.380
that X, formerly known as Twitter, is now officially allowing pornography. So I guess
00:40:26.940
this is good for that Amazon tribe, because now they can get everything they want on the internet
00:40:31.280
in one place. We've all seen a ton of porn on, if you use Twitter or X, rather, in recent months,
00:40:38.220
you've seen a ton of porn. Because everything you tweet, there's some bot will respond and will say,
00:40:43.840
nudes in bio, in all kind of weird fonts. So they try to evade some of the censorship.
00:40:50.420
I've started posting, you know, banjo videos in bio, right? Whatever I'm trying to push. Cigar
00:40:57.520
links in bio. But I don't know, those get censored more than the porn, probably. Well, now they don't
00:41:03.480
need to censor it. They don't need to try to get around it because X added clauses to its rules,
00:41:08.880
officially allowing porn. Quote, we believe that users should be able to create, distribute,
00:41:13.020
and consume material related to sexual themes, as long as it is consensually produced and
00:41:16.720
distributed. Sexual expression, visual or written, can be a legitimate form of artistic expression.
00:41:22.440
Well, hold on. Hold on. This is under the adult content policies. Sexual expression can be a
00:41:28.780
legitimate form of artistic expression. There are sexual themes described in great literature,
00:41:37.980
depicted in great paintings, written about in the Bible, for goodness sakes. But that's different
00:41:45.340
from pornography. An artistically significant sexual depiction or description is different
00:41:55.940
from pornography in actually a pretty clear way. Everyone wants to blur these lines. We go back to
00:42:01.860
the Justice Potter Stewart line. I can't define it, but I know it when I see it. No, you actually can define
00:42:06.540
it. It's just that pornography appeals primarily to the prurient interest. It's just about arousing you.
00:42:13.600
Whereas sexual scenes that do have artistic merit, and literary merit, and philosophical or theological
00:42:20.540
merit for that matter, do not appeal primarily to your loins. They appeal primarily to your head.
00:42:26.920
They appeal primarily to your reason. That's the difference. We used to know these things.
00:42:33.560
So what X is doing here is they're blurring the lines intentionally. They're saying, what? You think
00:42:39.580
that there's no sexual content that could have artistic merit? No, of course there is. But that's
00:42:43.980
not what you're doing. You're allowing some OnlyFans people to go out and just prostitute themselves on
00:42:48.760
the platform and entice young men into giving them a bunch of money and, at the very least, giving them
00:42:53.720
their attention and messing up their heads and screwing up their souls. That's what you're doing, and you're
00:42:58.240
pretending it's some matter of artistic expression. But it's not. Later on, X gets to what this is
00:43:03.920
really about. X says, we believe in the autonomy of adults to engage with and create content that
00:43:11.340
reflects their own beliefs, desires, and experiences, including those related to sexuality. We balance
00:43:16.500
this freedom by restricting exposure to adult content for children or adult users who choose not
00:43:20.600
to see it. Okay, good. I'm glad we can opt out of it. I'm skeptical that that will work, but that's
00:43:26.100
fine. I'm glad that children can opt out of it, or it won't be presented to children. I'm not sure
00:43:30.100
why children are on X anyway. But this is the whole game. We believe in the autonomy of adults to do
00:43:37.640
whatever the hell they want. That's it. This is the supposedly conservative social media platform.
00:43:43.320
Ah, conservatism. Ah, sweet, sweet conservatism, also known as liberalism from five years ago.
00:43:51.780
Oh, it's so sweet, isn't it? What big victories we have. We now, now that Elon Musk has purchased
00:44:01.780
Twitter from the evil liberals, now, finally, we conservatives can get porn all over the platform.
00:44:08.420
What a win. And I'm not, I like Elon Musk. I think he's a net force for good in politics. But
00:44:15.340
Elon Musk is a radical liberal in his own words. He's a classical liberal or libertarian or something
00:44:22.600
like that. And liberalism and conservatism are different. Liberalism is about the autonomy of
00:44:32.300
adults to do whatever the hell they want. And conservatism is not really about it. Conservatism
00:44:36.820
just has a different view of how the will works and how freedom works and how the intellect works.
00:44:40.740
And we just think that, yeah, if I want real freedom, I don't want to see porn anywhere because
00:44:47.900
porn clouds my freedom because it appeals to my loins and it makes me go crazy. Like my reason
00:44:53.760
has less control over my person when I'm constantly in a state of arousal or temptation. That's the
00:45:02.480
conservative view. That's the classical view of freedom. It's not the libertarian view, of course.
00:45:05.640
16 years ago in this country, we sent a pornographer to federal prison for obscenity,
00:45:13.120
not for filming children, not for rape, not for just for obscenity. Okay. That was 16 years ago.
00:45:20.340
That wasn't so long ago. Now, not even the conservatives would defend that. Now the conservatives
00:45:25.420
are defending what? Porn on Twitter. That's the great win. Why? Because of free speech,
00:45:31.320
because of unfettered free speech, that's a liberal value too. What are we conserving?
00:45:37.720
And then we take that as a victory. You want to hear the great victory. You might've heard this
00:45:41.800
reported this week. Great news this Pride Month. 11 NFL teams didn't issue Pride Month tweets.
00:45:50.840
And here are the teams. The teams are the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals,
00:45:54.360
the Titans, the Chiefs, the Broncos, the Cowboys, the Packers, the Saints, and the Falcons.
00:45:58.320
Oh, this is a big win. The tide is turning against the Rainbow Coalition, the Gay Stapo in the Pride
00:46:05.440
Month. Yeah, maybe. I don't know. I Google. First of all, the Packers did issue a tweet. So now we're
00:46:11.400
down to 10, maybe nine. I don't know if more have issued since then. But then I just Googled. I said,
00:46:14.960
all right, Steelers Pride. Now it pulls up on the Steelers website, a whole Pride section of their shop.
00:46:21.100
Love wins. Love, love, love. Pride, pride, pride. Rainbows on all their stuff.
00:46:26.860
Then I said, what about the Bengals? I don't know. Let's look up the Bengals. Same kind of thing.
00:46:30.440
I said, what about the Cowboys? The Cowboys are actually a pretty conservative team.
00:46:33.800
I thought, at least. Same thing. Same thing. We take these great victories that would have been
00:46:41.960
radical liberalism 20 years ago. If you told someone 20 years ago, every NFL team on their
00:46:48.780
website is going to be promoting LGBT. People wouldn't have even known what that acronym meant
00:46:54.720
back then, probably. But they'll be promoting gay pride on their NFL websites. People would say,
00:47:00.300
what? How far left has our country gotten? But now the country has moved so far to the left that now we
00:47:05.560
say, oh, great. All the football teams are just promoting the rainbow flag on their website. Wow,
00:47:11.520
what a victory. That's not a victory. That's a cope. That's a total cope. We allowed the Supreme
00:47:18.020
Court to radically redefine marriage in our law, obliterate the basic political institution.
00:47:22.480
And then, that was the Obergefell decision. Then in the Bostock decision, we allowed the Supreme
00:47:28.120
Court to redefine sex for the purposes of our civil rights law and say that there's some right of a man
00:47:32.820
to wear a dress at work. It's all just cope until we overturn those things. Any supposed victory
00:47:40.280
we're making is just a cope to habituate ourselves to a radical kind of liberalism that no one,
00:47:45.980
including the Clinton Democrats, would have tolerated even 20, 25 years ago. Okay, today is
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