Ep. 1508 - This Black Vote Pandering Finally Crossed The Line
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Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, no longer identifies as a progressive. And a friend recently informed me that I am on a Ukrainian hit list, which is tantamount to a list of people and institutions that are apparently to blame for Ukraine s battlefield losses.
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Yesterday at the White House, President Biden hosted a Juneteenth celebration with lots of
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black people. But because it's June, the president also invited a transvestite.
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You can see him there. He's standing totally still. You have Kamala Harris.
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Next to her, you have Mr. Kamala Harris. Then you have a black guy in a dress.
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I can't tell if he's that tall or if he's just wearing high heels. It might be the high heels.
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Amid all of the puzzling aspects of that video, one stands out in particular.
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Yesterday wasn't Juneteenth. It was June 10th, which sounds like Juneteenth and Joe Biden is
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senile, so fair enough. Except the event wasn't organized by Biden. It was organized by his staff,
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most of whom are not senile. And they had so many choices that could have made sense.
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Juneteenth was contrived as a national holiday about five minutes ago. They say it's June 19th,
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but June 18th works too. Even June 17th or 16th or 15th or 14th or even 13th. But they didn't pick
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any of those days. They picked June 10th because I suppose now Juneteenth, like the simultaneous
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celebration of pride, is no longer a day, but a season. And as far as I'm concerned,
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it is the perfect representation of the American political order in 2024. A comatose president
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standing slack-jawed next to a giant black man jiggling in a sequined ballgown to celebrate a
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race thing on the wrong day of a month otherwise dedicated to homosexuals and transvestites.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. John Fetterman, Democrat senator from Pennsylvania,
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no longer identifies as a progressive. We will get to that in one moment.
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I just learned. A friend recently informed me that I am on a Ukrainian hit list.
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I just, I found this out. I guess Robbie Starbuck tweeted about this a few days ago. I must have
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missed it. There's, there's a Ukraine enemies list that was put out not by the government of Ukraine,
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because these sorts of things are pretty much never put out by the governments. It's put out by an NGO,
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a non-governmental organization. In this case, it's an NGO with ties to the US State Department
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crafting this policy. And it's an enemies list, a list of people and institutions that are apparently
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to blame for Ukraine's battlefield losses, put together by texty.org.ua.ua is the Ukrainian
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URL. And it was founded by Anatoly Bondarenko. Bondarenko has been an instructor for the US
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State Department's Tech Camp program. This provides training to all sorts of assets that we mobilize
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around the world from the US State Department. That includes foreign journalists and other NGOs
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and activists. So now you got the State Department plucking this guy out of obscurity, training him.
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This guy working for Ukraine is adding American citizens, yours truly included, to a Ukraine enemies
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list, which is tantamount to a hit list. And the funniest part of it is, I'm not even categorically
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opposed to helping Ukraine. Not in principle, at least. I have been for a very long time on the
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side of statesmen like George Kennan, author of the Long Telegram and American Cold War policy,
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people like Henry Kissinger, people like Sam Nunn, people like Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
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who urged caution after the fall of the Soviet Union. After the fall of the Soviet Union,
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we were managing the collapse of the evil empire. And these foreign policy realists said,
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hey, NATO should not just start expanding willy-nilly. That could be really, really
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provocative. It's good to have some buffer states. We need to manage this as we are now the global
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hegemon. We don't want to needlessly provoke our former adversary, Russia. And of course,
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the utopians and the liberal imperialists and the globalists and all the rest, they said, yeah,
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whatever, shut up. And they went out and they recklessly expanded NATO. And they got NATO involved
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in offensive wars. And it's been disastrous for US policy. So that's been my perspective.
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I think buffer states are good. Ukraine was a pretty good buffer state. There's no reason
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recklessly to invite Ukraine to join NATO or Ukraine even to join the European Union. It just
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seems kind of crazy to me. But okay, the die is cast. We already did that. And I guess categorically,
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I'm not necessarily opposed to helping Ukraine. Until now. Before, I sort of thought, ah, well,
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whatever. It's just a US client state. It's a satellite for America and Eastern Europe and
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whatever. We give them a little bit of money. Not ideal. But you know what? Now, if you're going to
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put me on a hit list, Putin can take it for all I care. Forget about it. I don't care. Zelensky,
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he can go take a long walk off a short pier as far as I'm concerned.
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I know Zelensky himself didn't put me on this list, but this is outrageous. And it wasn't just
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me. It was a ton of mainstream conservatives. Just around my name on this list, and the list goes
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very far. I saw Ben. I saw Brett. Daily Wire is an institution. Lots and lots of non-Daily Wire
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figures. So that's fine. All right. You know what I now think about Ukraine? Because the nation of
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Ukraine is just so terrible at winning friends and influencing people that they've turned off
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people who possibly could have been on their side. But I look at that conflict now, and I sort of
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think, well, only one of the belligerents in this conflict has ever put me on a hit list. And it
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wasn't Vladimir Putin. So you know what? Ukraine, good luck. Good luck. Enjoy. I am now, as of today,
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totally opposed to aid to Ukraine. That's what you get. That's what you get. You get what you get,
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and you can't get upset. Speaking of violence, Nancy Pelosi, in leaked video footage, has come out
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and taken responsibility for the political violence of January 6th.
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We have responsibility, Terry. We did not have any accountability for what was going on there,
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and we should have. This is ridiculous. You're going to ask me in the middle of the thing when
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they've already breached the inaugural stuff that should we call the Capitol Police? I mean,
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the National Guard? Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?
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They thought that they had sufficient resources.
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No, there's not a question of how they have been. They don't know. They clearly didn't know,
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and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more.
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She takes responsibility. Nancy Pelosi takes responsibility. Who filmed that? That was my
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first question. Is this a setup? Is this a strategic leak from the Democrats? Her daughter filmed that,
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apparently. It was for a documentary. And why are we seeing this footage now? Because the House
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Oversight Committee was able to get the footage. So this was filmed. The Democrats realized this
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doesn't make them look good. They never released the footage. Now the Republicans took the footage,
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and they're releasing it. This is pretty good stuff because the whole Biden campaign,
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the whole Democrat campaign against Donald Trump right now, pretty much comes down to Donald Trump
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tried to overthrow our democracy on January 6th, the worst day in the history of this Iranian
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republic. That's what it comes down to. And it's always been a bogus and unpersuasive line.
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But now it's especially unpersuasive and revealed to be bogus because Nancy Pelosi is saying,
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I am responsible for how things got out of hand on January 6th. It is my responsibility.
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So this fundamentally undercuts the Democrat argument. Democrat campaign, Trump is responsible
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for January 6th, almost destroyed the country. Nancy Pelosi, actually, I was responsible for
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January 6th. What are Democrats going to say now? What do they say? If you really believe that
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responsibility for January 6th is disqualifying, then you got to kick Pelosi out of Congress.
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And of course, they're not going to do that. So this really weakens the basis of their campaign.
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Just a word of caution, however, to the conservatives. The bait here, the vulnerability
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here is that conservatives are going to make a meal out of a cupcake with this.
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And they're going to say, that's right, that Nancy Pelosi is responsible for January 6th,
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the worst day in the history of this or any republic. Hold on, wait, wait, hold up.
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The conservative argument for the past three years has been that January 6th was basically
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not that big a deal. And yeah, things got a little bit rowdy, but it was nothing compared
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to the eight months of BLM marauding and raping and pillaging and burning all over the country.
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And it was nothing compared to most other left-wing aggressive protests and riots.
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And the libs are selectively outraged in making a mountain out of a molehill.
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So the temptation for Republicans right now is going to be, yeah, January 6th was the worst day
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in the history of this country. And Pelosi is responsible. No, no, no, no, no. We have to
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simultaneously hold both arguments, which is easily done. January 6th has been greatly exaggerated
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in its significance by the Dems. And also, in as much as anyone was responsible for it,
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Nancy Pelosi was responsible for it, as she admits. That's a one-two punch.
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We don't need to give up everything. We don't need to contradict ourselves and blow up our
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back to the show. Speaking of political figures caught on tape, all the libs, they've got him
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now. I'm not even talking about Trump. That's usually who they've got now. But no, no, no.
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Number one target for Democrats is Trump. Number two is Sam Alito. They've been going after Justice
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Alito, who authored the Dobbs decision that overruled Roe v. Wade. They've been going after him really
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hard. They've been trying to get him to recuse himself from cases. They've been trying to get
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him to step down from the Supreme Court. And they throw a bunch of nonsense at him. They say,
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Justice Alito flew a revolutionary war flag commissioned by George Washington's aide to
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camp at his home. Throw him off the court. Oh, no. Justice Alito, he and his wife flew an upside down
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American flag, which is a maritime symbol of distress. Throw him off the court. Oh, Justice Alito,
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he one time started walking across a crosswalk when the red hand was flashing. Throw him off the
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court. So here's the latest one. Rolling Stone, breaking exclusive story. Justice Alito, caught on
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tape discussing how the battle for America can't be compromised. Okay, just that headline.
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I, is there, would anyone disagree with that? No, the battle for America can be compromised.
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Screw America. Is that, that's the liberal position? That's the, that's the supposed moderate
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position? No, everyone, at least in principle, should agree America, battle for America can't
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be compromised. Then subheader, in a new secret recording, the Supreme Court justice says he agrees
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that the U.S. should return to a place of godliness. So, so is the liberal position now
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that America should not be godly? That America should be demonic? I mean, that practically,
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that is their position. That's what they want. But they usually don't admit that. Usually the
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Democrats would pretend to say, no, we want a good country. We want our country to be good
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and virtuous and just. We want a godly country. They don't really mean it, but that's what they
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would at least say that. But now, this is the gotcha. Ha ha! That judge, he wants America to be
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good. Ha ha! But we want it to be evil. So, he's compromised. We got to get him off the court.
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What is this recording? This recording took place at some sort of historical society, and
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it was recorded by this woman, Lauren Windsor, who is some lib documentary filmmaker who approached
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Justice Alito and pretended to be a conservative Catholic. And Lauren Windsor, maybe she's a fine
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director. Maybe she's a fine producer. She's not much of an actress because she opens up presenting
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herself as this conservative Catholic. Doesn't really convince me. Considering everything that's
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been going on in the past year, you know, as a Catholic and as someone who, like, really
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cherishes my faith, I just don't, I don't know that we can negotiate with the left in the way that,
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like, needs to happen for the polarization to end. I think that it's a matter of, like, winning.
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Okay, just before we get to Alito's answer, Justice Alito, I am quite confident, did not believe that
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this woman was an actual conservative Catholic because she sounds like a caricature of a purple
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haired lib girl. Conservative Catholics, I think perhaps without exception, do not use the word like
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as a comma. So, like, Justice Alito, I, like, really love God and stuff. And, like, I want,
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I hate the gays and everything. And I, I want to do Christian Sharia and, like, want America, like,
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to be more, like, good and, and churchy, like, you know? So, like, shouldn't we get all the libs and
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kill them all? I'm sure Alito, who is one of the most intelligent people in the country,
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certainly in public life, I was listening. Here we go. We got another wacko. I can just say,
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from my own rather modest perch in public life, where you go to events and people come up and
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they're usually great and they ask you insightful questions. But sometimes, every so often, you get
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a wacko and you just kind of have to give them whatever answer you can and try to move on. I
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promise you that that was Alito's perspective, listening to this woman do a terrible impression
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of a conservative Catholic. Without further ado, here's his answer.
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I think you're probably right. I think one side or the other, one side or the other is going to win.
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I don't know. I mean, there can be a way of working, a way of living together peacefully,
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but it's difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really
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can't be compromised. You know, really can't be compromised. So, it's not like you're going
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just what the difference is. And that's what I'm saying. I just, I think that the solution
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really is, like, winning the moral argument. Like, people in this country who believe in God
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have got to keep fighting for that to return our country to a place of godliness.
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Okay, that's pretty much it. It goes on and this woman keeps babbling for a while and then you can
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hear other people trying to cut in because it's ridiculous, this woman. So,
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that's it. That's the big gotcha clip. He says, yeah, I agree. You can live together peacefully
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and you can work together, but sometimes it's hard because sometimes there are fundamental
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differences and those really can't be compromised. On some issues, you really can't split the baby.
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So, I guess one good example of this, not that Alito brings it up, is if you think abortion is
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murder, which it is, then you can't support it. And if you think abortion is not murder,
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if you've somehow convinced yourself that a baby is not really a baby, then maybe you do support it.
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But there's no compromise, you know, as King Solomon shows us, there's no coherent middle ground there.
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On certain issues, you just have to pick a side and one side is going to win or the other.
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Either marriage is going to be what it has always been understood to be everywhere in the world,
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or marriage is going to be some totally new thing, but it can't simultaneously be both of those things.
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And the Libs are trying to point to this and say, this is an example of Alito being a crazy,
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wild extremist opposed to the American tradition. No, it's Sam Alito just read Aristotle's law of
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non-contradiction. Sam Alito has even a basic degree of education. He actually has a rather
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advanced degree of education, but you don't need an advanced education to understand that two opposing
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ideas cannot simultaneously be true. And two opposing policies cannot simultaneously be enforced.
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What does this say about the left? That they think this is a gotcha. Ha ha, he wants a godly country.
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Got him. I think most people want a godly country, even if they don't do godly things, even if they don't
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practice virtue, even if they don't go to church, even if they're not even all that conscious of it.
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I think most people know, because we have a moral conscience that's inscribed in every human heart,
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an understanding of the natural law that is inscribed in every human heart, I think most
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people know that good is to be preferred to evil. And now what they're trying to say is, see,
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Alito's not neutral. He's not neutral. Judges are not supposed to be neutral. Judges are supposed to
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be just. Judges are not supposed to be neutral between good and evil. That would totally undermine
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the purpose of a judge. And in this case, a judge on the Supreme Court is called a justice. So it
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tells you right there what they're supposed to do. They're supposed to be just. So there's nothing just
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about neutrality between good and evil. There's nothing just about neutrality between the law and
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lawlessness. There's nothing. They don't even understand what a judge does. There's so much
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FDIC. Terms and conditions apply. Speaking of political appeals, President Trump has just come out.
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He was campaigning in Las Vegas, Nevada, and he proposed something that's going to make the
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establishment Republicans. It's going to make the hair stick up on their backs. It's going to,
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oh, it's going to bother them deeply, but it's really brilliant politics.
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Trump says he wants to end taxes on tips for service workers.
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This is the first time I've said this, and for those hotel workers and people that get tips,
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you're going to be very happy because when I get to office, we are going to not charge
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We're not going to do it, and we're going to do that right away. First thing in office, because
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it's been a point of contention for years and years and years, and you do a great job of service.
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You take care of people, and I think it's going to be something that really is deserved.
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More importantly, popular or unpopular. I do some unpopular things, too, if it's right for the
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country. I do what's right. But so those people that have jobs in restaurants, whatever the job
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may be, a tipping job, we're not going after for taxes anymore. This will be ended.
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And I announced that for the first time. First time I've brought it up. First time anyone's
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brought it up. I think it's never been brought up before, and I also think it's very appropriate.
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Great. This is great. Let's approach it in two sections here, because there's two aspects to
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this policy. What it means for the government and revenue and policy and all the dorks pushing their
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glasses up on their nose, and what it means politically at the ballot box in November.
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As a matter of policy, best numbers I could find go back to 2018. $38.3 billion
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were earned in tips by 6 million service workers in 2018. That's it. $38.3 billion.
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Most service workers are going to pay a tax rate of about 12%. Because it's a tough job. It's not the
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highest paying job. If you are a, you know, really, really successful server, maybe you're paying a
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22% tax rate. If you're like the highest paid server in the country, maybe you're paying a 24%
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tax rate. But more likely it's going to be about 12%. 12% of $38.3 billion is, hold on, let's see,
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I'll just do the math here. It's about $4.6 billion. $4.6 billion is 0.075% of the federal budget.
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It is a rounding error, a rounding error of a rounding error of the federal budget.
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The amount of money that Donald Trump is saying the federal government will not receive
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because he's going to get rid of the taxes on tips is 1.38 the amount of money that we have sent to
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Ukraine alone. Ukraine, which put me on a hit list, so they're dead to me and I don't want them to get
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another single penny until they apologize to me personally and apologize to the rest of the Daily Wire.
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And Charlie Kirk and the American Conservative and Candace and all the rest of them.
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I think we can handle it. I think we, can we, do you think we can afford that? I think we can.
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Now, some, especially libertarian types are going to say, hey, this is playing favorites.
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This is, this is the government getting involved in tinkering in the market.
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This is no different than, than Joe Biden forgiving student loans. No, I think it's pretty
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different actually. First of all, the student loan forgiveness is going to cost a lot more money,
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especially in the longterm. But also student loan forgiveness, more to the point, is giving a
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handout to people who statistically are going to make much more money than the average American worker.
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That, that is a, a, a, just a, a payoff to people who are already doing relatively pretty well.
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Here, you're talking about service workers. It's a really tough job. And a tip is a, is a gratuity.
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And by the way, when service workers were tipped in cash, a lot of them weren't paying taxes on it
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either. So in a way, this is kind of just rectifying a change in technology because a lot of people now tip
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on card that is recorded and now they're more likely to pay taxes on it. And so, yeah, is it,
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is it a favor to a certain sector of the economy? Yeah. But that's called politics because on the
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electoral side of this, Nevada has the absolute highest, or it's at least at the very top tier,
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location quotient of waiters and waitresses by state. So you're looking at the dominance of this line
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of work in the state. Nevada's at the very tippy top. There's some other places here, you know,
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you got, uh, Rhode Island. I don't think, I don't think Trump's going to win Rhode Island.
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You got South Carolina. We're probably good. Florida. We're probably good. Nevada though.
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Trump might win Nevada. Trump might lose Nevada. Nevada is a swing state. It would be really,
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really helpful if Trump could win Nevada. This is a really easy way to do it. And he says,
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I'm not just doing it because it's popular. He knows it's popular. He says, I'm also doing it
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because it's right. I think it's a totally justified policy, especially when you think
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of all the other ways we waste money in this country. It's smart. It's really smart. We win
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Nevada. We're a lot further down the line to winning back the White House. And then we get a
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lot of good policy and the winners go to Washington and the losers go home to quote cocaine Mitch.
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Speaking of realignment, John Fetterman, Democrat from Pennsylvania, who is, you might recall,
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suffered a stroke on the campaign trail. He was really out of it for a while. He could barely
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speak. He then checked himself into a medical center. I think it was Walter Reed because he
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said he was suffering from depression because first of all, I think anybody who goes and works in
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Washington, works certainly in the Congress or the U.S. Senate is going to suffer from some
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depression. It's kind of a depressing job. And then if you're also struggling to speak, which is the
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tool of the trade when it comes to politics, that's going to make you a little bit more depressed and
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all the rest of it. He goes in, he checks himself out, but he's been recovering. And as he has recovered
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from this major brain injury, he has become much less progressive.
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I want to ask you personally about your own sort of journey, as the kids say. Some progressives have
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criticized you for being a different senator than you suggested you would be when you were a
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candidate for Senate. What do you say to that? Well, I wasn't. I was very clear for saying that
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for years I'm not a progressive and I just identified myself as just a regular Democrat. So it really
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wasn't any new news. Now, eight years ago, I was a progressive, but the situations change. And I've
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been very clear that I didn't leave that label. That label leaves me. And I think it's much more
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important to be focusing on Donald Trump. Okay. So he says, look, I'm not a progressive.
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I haven't been a progressive. Eight years ago, I was a progressive. Is that a contradiction? I'm not.
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Maybe it was, but I think what he's saying there is when I was campaigning for the Senate seat,
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I said, no, I'm not a progressive. I'm just a Democrat. A while ago, eight years ago,
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I was a progressive, but now I'm not. And he used the old line that Reagan used that a lot of people
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use. I didn't leave my party. My party left me. But usually it's the case that people actually do
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leave their party. And that seems to be what Fetterman is actually implying here.
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Great news. I'm glad. He's bucked the Dems on a few issues.
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I urge a little caution here. I always urge a little caution. Just say, we'll see if it bears fruit.
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Because what Fetterman might be doing here is continuing to vote party line Democrat,
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continuing to vote with the loonies in his party, but just trying to play the moderate because the
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moderate plays a lot better in his state in Pennsylvania. And he's going to need to use
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that kind of language in order to get reelected. So look, I'm hopeful. I'm not calling him a liar.
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I think the Babylon Bee headline was prophetic, actually, when it said,
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a man becomes more conservative as he recovers from brain injury. And that seems to be the line
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that Fetterman himself is now taking. But we'll see if it bears fruit. You know the tree by the
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fruit. If Fetterman continues to move to the right, if he starts taking votes with some Republicans on
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issues, if he starts really bucking his party on major contentious issues, then that's great.
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And he'll be a great example of what happens. As your brain recovers, you become more right-wing.
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Speaking of the realignment and Democrats suffering some losses here, CNN is furious. They're up in arms.
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Their chief data analyst just presenting on TV a major swing, a 20-point swing in Trump's favor among
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Hispanic voters. Look at this change in the vote. All right. This is the polls at this point among
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Hispanic voters nationally. You know, at this point in 2020, Joe Biden had a very clear advantage,
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right? 59 percent, 32 percent. That's a 27-point lead. Look at this tremendous shift. Oh, my goodness
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gracious. Now to 2024. Biden's dropped by 8 points, 51 percent. Trump is up 12 points to 44 percent.
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And you have what was a 27-point margin has been shrunk to 7. That margin has been shrunk by 20 points
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now versus this point four years ago. So it's no wonder that Donald Trump thinks he can play for
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the Hispanic vote. And it's no wonder that Joe Biden thinks he has to defend against Trump's
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advances. Okay. This is really good news. And I do think this is true. And I think we've actually
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seen this borne out, not just in a lot of different polls, but even at the ballot box. And conservatives
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have been able to win over Hispanics in large numbers. Still, though, those numbers aren't great.
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The absolute disaster for the Democrats is that they're only getting a bare majority of the
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Hispanic vote. So even in the scenario where Hispanic public opinion shifts 20 points to the
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Republican, Democrats still get the majority of the Hispanic vote, which is why they still encourage
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mass migration from Latin America, because they feel that in the long run, it's going to help them.
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It's going to give them a permanent electoral majority. Even as the Hispanics become way more
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right wing. It's just, there's so much ground that Democrats can afford to lose before the Hispanics
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become a political problem for them, that they're still going to encourage that mass migration. That's
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still going to be something that conservatives need to worry about. In principle, I like the Reagan
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line, Hispanics are conservative. They just don't know it yet. And a lot of the people crossing the
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border are Christian, like Catholic, but a lot of Protestants too. And they have big families and all
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the rest of it. So the ingredients are there, but it just has not yet coalesced into a conservative
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political identity. Maybe that 20 point trend will just continue unabated. And maybe soon enough,
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we'll see Republicans winning the majority of Hispanics or a major majority of Hispanics. Boy,
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wouldn't that be great? But again, we take the good trend lines, but don't declare victory yet.
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We'll see if it actually bears fruit. We've all been fooled before. Now, speaking of our political
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system, we were talking earlier, especially about our judicial system. Our judicial system is broken,
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okay? There are a lot of judges out there who seem more interested in left-wing politics than
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injustice. There's one man who stands above the fray. I am talking, of course, about Judge Matt Walsh.
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The final episode of Judged by Matt Walsh, season one, is now streaming exclusively on Daily Wire+.
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When I first heard that Matt Walsh was given the official title of Judge Walsh and that his
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decisions would be legally binding, I was skeptical. Who would trust Matt Walsh with the power to make
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final decisions on legal disputes? Only lunatics, like the people lining up to enter his courtroom.
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They were eager to have their cases judged by him for their settlement and for our entertainment.
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Matt Walsh promised us a court filled with the pettiest disputes, and he has delivered.
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Check out a sneak peek of the final episode of Judged by Matt Walsh.
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Coming up on Judged, you are over the age of 11. You're big into Halloween. What does that mean
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exactly? I have a very large display, animatronics. Kids enjoy it. My kids enjoy it.
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So you're trying to lure the kids in the neighborhood to your house?
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Does that make it better? That does not make it better at all.
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I went to console one of the dogs, and I said, he was a big boy, and I rubbed his belly, and I assumed...
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The question was not directed at you. Or was it? Were you fat shaming the bailiff?
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Watch as Judge Walsh slams the gavel one last time this season. It is the finale of Judged
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by Matt Walsh, streaming now exclusively on Daily Wire Plus. My favorite comment yesterday
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is from Scurvy Dog 20, who says, Michael's description of ideology is why I always say
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gays were not oppressed, they were suppressed. You oppress an innocent, you suppress an evil
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or harmful. That actually wasn't my favorite comment. I don't know. I guess the producers
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in the control room were just extremely homophobic or something like that. No. It's Pride Month,
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and I will not tolerate such a comment. Strike that comment from the record.
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Now, speaking of Trump's shifting support, there's a Pew survey app shows that Trump supporters
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are far more likely than Joe Biden supporters to say that society should prioritize marriage
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and having children. The survey here... Here it is. The survey here is entirely unsurprising,
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of course. If you just had to get, without looking at any data, you say, hey, who do you think's
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more into marriage and having kids and being normal and having a good life? The conservatives
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or the purple-haired transvestites? Not a difficult choice. So among all voters, 39% say they are
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interested in getting people to get married and have children, making that a priority.
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Among Trump supporters, it's 59%. Among Biden supporters, it's 19%.
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Fewer than one in five Biden supporters think that society does better when people get married and
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have kids. Men are more likely to think it than women overall. But for the Trump-supporting men and
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women, it's pretty close. White people and Hispanic people are much more likely to think this than
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black people and Asian people. 60% of white Trump supporters say society's better off when people
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get married and have kids. Only 17% of white Biden supporters. So for black people, it's just much
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narrower, the range. Only 34% of black Trump supporters think that society is better off.
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Actually, I'm sorry, I have to correct that. Black Trump supporters don't even show up in the poll.
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Oh no, there it is right there. That's really unfortunate. So you've only got all voters and
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black voters, but you can't even really see a distinction for Trump supporters. Okay, that's
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too bad. But in any case, the range there is just 29 to 34. So the black Biden supporters are much more
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likely to favor getting married and having kids than the white Biden supporters. But it's still a pretty
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small number. Hispanics is broader. Asians, it's more condensed. Among college graduates who support
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Biden, 66%. So the most likely people to say getting married and having kids is good for society
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are actually college graduates who support Trump. That result might be kind of surprising because you
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think people get indoctrinated in college. But if you graduate college and you remain a conservative,
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then you're going to see not only at a gut level why getting married and having kids is good, but
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you're going to have processed some of the philosophical and historical arguments maybe
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for why that's true. And then that's a huge, the college grad Biden supporters pretty much the least
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likely to support that. Okay, no surprise whatsoever. The modern Democrat party is a death cult.
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It's simple as they want to kill the babies in the womb. When they can't kill the babies in the womb,
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they want to castrate the kids when they get out of the womb and they want to limit their life
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expectancies by pumping them full of cross-sex hormones and give them all sorts of bone diseases
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and sterilize them so that they can't have kids themselves. And then when they get a little bit older
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and they suffer from some chronic pain or something, they're going to try to kill them through
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so-called euthanasia, assisted suicide, murder at every step of the way, sterility at every step of
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the way. Because in the meantime, they're also going to push contraception. They're also going to push
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sterilization. They're going to push all the rest of it. It's kind of weird. It's kind of weird how
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every Democrat policy that could possibly touch on life opposes life. It's not just abortion.
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It's abortion. It's the euthanasia. It's contraception. It's the sterilization. It's this.
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It's just on and on. It's discouraging marriage. It's discouraging having kids. It's all the rest.
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The one, I guess you could say the one Democrat policy that is not totally opposed to life
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is their endorsement of IVF in the surrogacy industry, which does lead to people being born,
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but it also just, it just sells babies. It commoditizes human life and sells babies and
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treats human beings as something less than human. So there's a trade-off there. Okay. And that one,
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they don't want to kill the babies. They just want to, they just want to treat human beings as
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property to be bought and sold. It's weird. It's weird. It's, it's almost as though there is a
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spiritual aspect behind all of those policies that is extraordinarily dark. I'm not accusing the
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Democrats of, you know, explicitly and intentionally worshiping demons. Sometimes they do. There is a
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lot of occult imagery, and especially with all the pride stuff, which is the deadliest of the seven
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deadly sins. They have a whole month dedicated to it. But if all of your policies end up with
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murder and sterilization and the degradation of human beings,
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maybe you got to ask what, what spiritual aspect lies behind those policies,
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which the Wall Street Journal is asking. The Wall Street Journal just has a headline. It's one of
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the funniest headlines I've read in a while. Story in the journal about sleep paralysis.
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And if you've ever, if you've never had sleep paralysis, it's when you, you kind of wake up,
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but you can't really move and you hear demons screaming, you know, or you hallucinate really scary
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things. It's really scary. It's only happened to me once or twice, but it's, it's scary, man. You
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have auditory hallucinations and a lot of people have this, at least at some point in their lives.
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So the headline is, if not demons, what causes sleep paralysis? And that headline to me kind of
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reads like, like, if not light, what causes photosynthesis? If not water, what causes things
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to become wet? You know, like you're taking out what is, in my view, an explanation that should
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not so readily be dismissed. But, but let's say, let's just say that there is some convincing,
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purely physical, empirical explanation for sleep paralysis. There might well be. I'm sure there is.
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I'm sure there is some physical explanation. Whether or not the scientists have discovered it yet is
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another matter, but I'm sure there's some way to observe what happens during sleep paralysis and
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to give a purely physical account of what that is. The mistake here is not to say that there's a
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physical explanation for things. The mistake that the libs at the Wall Street Journal and that the
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libs in America broadly make is they say that a physical explanation precludes a metaphysical
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explanation. The, the mistake they're making is, is that they're denying that physical things have
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meaning. That's the mistake they're making. It might well be the case that if you have too much coffee
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and, uh, provolone cheese before bed, you're more likely to fall into sleep paralysis, which is when
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your muscles sort of seize up and, uh, certain chemicals aren't firing off in your brain in the right way.
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And therefore you're hearing these sounds that, uh, that oddly enough, just always seem to be really
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demonic and everything. It might well be the case that that is true. And also there's a demon in your
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bedroom because, because we know that there, there are physical things like my leftist tears tumbler
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here or my microphone or my note cards. And we know that there are things that are not physical,
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like justice and mathematics and love. And if you take religion seriously, angels and demons and God,
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God who becomes physical, uh, but who is beyond the physical world, which he created.
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So the, the two things coincide. And I, I know that in our modern really
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degraded and materialist age, a lot of people think that's silly, but we, we all acknowledge
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that non-physical things exist. So if you wake up in the middle of the night and you can't move
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and you see a demon crawling on top of you and you're, you hear demons screaming at you or something,
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I, is it that much of a stretch to say there's such a thing as evil that has a personality?
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Is it, is that such a stretch? I don't, I don't think it's a huge stretch. Now,
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speaking of the meaning of physical things, I'm going to give you a little tease. You know me,
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I'm a tease. This is a story. It's a story many years in the making now. Hey, I really hate to say
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I told you so about this. Some years ago, I mentioned that the libs were going to try to
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get us to eat bugs. And there was a meme going around at the time that the libs wanted to get us
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to eat bugs and live in a pod and own nothing and be happy. Well, some people said, that's crazy,
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Michael. That's just a conspiracy theory, right-wing fever dream. Yeah. Well, well,
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you know what, you know what they say about conspiracy theories. This wasn't six to 12
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months, I guess it was more like 18 to 24 months, but it's happening. Aldi, the grocery store
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is considering selling you bugs so that you can get your protein. Well, the political elite enjoy
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wagyu beef or whatever they eat. We'll get to what the edible bugs mean tomorrow. But for right
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now, I'm very excited to say we have a guest coming on the member block. That is my friend,
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Mary Margaret Olihan. And I'll be taking obviously your questions, your comments, your exclamations,
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your ejaculations in, let's say that's a rhetorical term. Thank you very much. Get your
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mindset of the gutter. That will happen in the member segmentum. The rest of the show continues
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