Ep. 1514 - 500,000 Illegal Aliens Given Benefits And Amnesty
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A man who pretends to be a woman and who infamously flashed his artificial breasts at the White House is now being accused of sexual assault by women who think that they re men. Michael Knowles explains why.
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Yesterday, President Biden announced his plan to give amnesty to more than half a million
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illegal aliens. This program is manifestly unconstitutional. Even Joe Biden's old boss,
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Barack Obama, admitted repeatedly for his entire presidency that it was unconstitutional until
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2014 when Obama did it anyway. I taught the Constitution for 10 years.
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I know some here wish that I could just bypass Congress, change the law myself.
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But that's not how democracy works. And sometimes when I talk to immigration advocates,
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you know, they wish I could just bypass Congress and change the law myself.
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But that's not how democracy works. That's not how our democracy functions. That's not how our
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Constitution is written. This notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally
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is just not true. What you're not paying attention to is the fact that I just took an action to change
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the law. Wait, what? Hold on. Years and years. I can't do this. It's unconstitutional. I taught
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constitutional law. I can't change the law by myself. I can't change the law by myself. I can't.
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I changed the law by myself. And he did it. And it was so brazen because he had previously admitted
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that he couldn't do it. But he did it anyway because why not? Who's going to stop him? And now
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Joe Biden is doing that same thing again. The way he is working around the law this time
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is by granting these illegal aliens parole in place. It's a workaround to immigration law that goes even
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further to give the illegal aliens work permits, social security cards, and eligibility for welfare
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programs. And that's just while they're waiting for their green cards and eventually for their full
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citizenship. Joe Biden is calling this policy the keeping American families together order. In fact, the
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policy would be better named the oh crap, I'm down 20 points among Hispanics order. Biden is not even
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being subtle about this. The policy specifically benefits illegal aliens who are married to legal
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U.S. citizens. That is to say, it benefits the spouses of people who can already vote, who are,
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by the way, overwhelmingly likely to be Hispanic, the group that Biden is losing in droves. This is a
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naked ploy to buy votes by subverting the law. And unfortunately, thanks to our current political
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economy. It might work. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. A man who pretends to be a woman and who infamously
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flashed his artificial breasts at the White House is now being accused of sexual assault by women who
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Everyone hates mass migration. Everyone hates it. I don't mean literally everyone,
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but I mean the vast majority of Americans, Republicans, independents, Democrats, even they
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hate mass migration. But the powers that be continue to push mass migration. How do they
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get away with it? The way they get away with it is in large part because mass migration is the only
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thing that keeps our economy afloat because Americans don't have kids. And we haven't been
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having kids at replacement levels for over 50 years now. So that's the way they can push it
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through. They say, look, we need to do it just to keep the economy afloat. That's why business gets
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behind it. That's why established powers are able to push this, even though the American people don't
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want it. So on that front, I've got a little bit of good news. Some of you might have seen this on
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X yesterday, but I am doing my part to restore the American birth rate because we welcomed our third
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child, another boy yesterday. Very exciting. Still did the show yesterday. Did the show today.
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Daily Wire's paternity leave for the hosts. It's a little lackluster. Though the secret,
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the secret is, yes, paternity leave seems kind of modern. It seems a little lived. We make fun of
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it for that reason. But the real secret as to why conservatives don't like paternity leave that much
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is because the real paternity leave for men is going to work. Because especially in those days,
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right after a new child is born, staying at home and helping mama and dealing with maybe with the
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other kids and juggling all that stuff, that is much, much more work than actually just going to
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work and doing your job. So that's a little bit of the secret there. I did smoke maybe the best cigar
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of my life this morning on the drive from the hospital in to do the show. There's an old tradition.
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I still keep it up around the office. People don't really do it anymore. When a kid is born,
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you pass out cigars to your coworkers. You say, it's a boy or it's a girl or whatever.
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And so anyway, if you want to celebrate with me, obviously go to mayflowercigars.com. You have to
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I appreciate everyone for sending in congratulations, of course, but also prayers as we've,
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led up to this moment. Very, very exciting. Baby and mama both doing very, very well.
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Now, speaking of childhood, we turn from first childhood to second childhood. Joe Biden,
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in his senility, has frozen up again. You might recall a day or two ago, I played a clip on this
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show of Kareem Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, denying that Biden is freezing up
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and doddering around and losing his train of thought and walking into walls and looking like
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he saw a ghost. And the way Kareem Jean-Pierre denied this was she said the videos going around
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are cheap fakes, not deep fakes, because that actually refers to a specific type of technology,
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which is not being used here. The videos going around are just unvarnished videos of Biden looking
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like a senile old man. So no sooner do the words get out of Kareem Jean-Pierre's mouth,
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then Joe Biden falls into another one of these little stumbles.
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I was a congressman, Homeland Security secretary. I'm not sure you're going to do show the way.
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And the secretary, and I'm just kidding anyway. And you can look at their faces there. These are
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all really sharp politicians behind them. You see Alejandro Mayorkas, the DHS secretary. You see
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Chuck Schumer. They're all trying to keep their composure as Biden is just totally losing his train
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of thought and freezing up in public. But if you look closely on Chuck Schumer's face, even Schumer,
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a very practiced politician, you can see the alarm bells going off in his eyes. Oh, no. Here we go
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again. How are we going to spin this? You didn't really see that. These are cheap fakes. This isn't
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real. Don't believe your lying eyes. Is that a cheap fake, Kareem Jean-Pierre? I don't think so. I think
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this was video. It was broadcast live to a lot of people, and they all saw it. And we all know it. And
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that's in part why Biden's poll numbers are so bad. And that is especially why the majority of
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Democrats right now don't want him to be the nominee in 2024. But too bad for them. It's too late. So
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they can't replace him. And that means that all they're left to do is just deny and gaslight people
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and tell them they didn't see what they saw. They got nothing. And they are lying. The funniest version
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of them lying comes by way of a, I suppose you'd call him a middle-tier liberal commentator. He's
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this guy, Brian Tyler Cohen. I've chatted with this guy before. He and I had at least one debate,
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maybe a couple of debates, on Alex Michelson's show in LA. So I've been aware of him for a while.
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He tweeted out yesterday a picture of Donald Trump shaking a little hand. And if you know the
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characters involved, you can look down, you see, oh, there's Kimberly Guilfoyle. And oh,
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that's Don Jr. So he's just holding his son's hand, just shaking his hand a little bit as he's
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walking off a stage. And what Brian writes is, here is a photo of Trump having to hold someone's
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hand to guide him off stage. I'm sure this will get just as much coverage as the daily Biden old
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story gets. So you say, hold on, what do you mean hold someone's hand? That's his son.
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And it's a still photo of him just lightly touching his son's hand. So is it what Brian
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Tyler Cohen says it is? Is he grasping on to hold this man's hand so that he can walk off the stage?
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Well, fortunately, we have video. All the video that's causing all these problems for Democrats,
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we have video for Republicans too. We have now video of everything because everyone's recording
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everything all the time. So let's see. Trump's in Hylia, Florida. He's walking off a stage.
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What do we see? Okay, he's walking. He's applauding. He's looking good, virile, waving to
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everybody. Then for what? Two seconds, he touches his son's hand. His son is there just looking to
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shake his dad's hand. Trump's still waving to everyone else. And he looks down. Oh, hey, there's
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my son. Touches his son's hand for two seconds and walks off stage sauntering like the king of showbiz
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that he is. This post from Brian Tyler Cohen was a complete lie. And there's a special irony there
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because this guy Brian Tyler Cohen's show is called No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen, soon to be renamed
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Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen. I think that to say the man is lying is probably the most charitable take
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here. Because if Brian Tyler Cohen is not lying, he must be the dumbest person in America. And I don't
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think he's the I'm not saying the guy's a Rhodes Scholar, but I don't think he's so dumb as to
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believe that that picture represented Trump, you know, holding on for dear life, trying to get off
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the stage. Surely this guy, Brian Tyler Cohen, would have looked at the video before making this
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post. Surely he would have done even two seconds research to say, no, that isn't it at all. He just
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totally misrepresented it. So I think in fullness of charity, I have to say the guy is lying. So why
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are they lying like this? Because that's the only thing that you can do if you're trying to defend
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Biden on the charge of senility. If you're trying to distract people away from the fact that this man
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probably couldn't make himself a fried egg in the morning, much less be the president of the United
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States with any vigor or competence. And this is really pitiful. I really hope I never become
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a political commentator like this. The kind of guy, the kind of hack who just has to lie.
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What? To lie on behalf of some politician? I hope I never become that guy. I am a partisan.
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I am involved in active politics. I'm not a totally disinterested observer. Far from it.
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I'm a conservative. I'm a member of the Republican Party. I hope Donald Trump wins the election. I hope
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Joe Biden loses the election. Absolutely. But I would not lie to you in order to try to score some point
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for some politician. I would never do that. I would always give a little more grace to my side if I
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could in good conscience. I would always point out the errors of the other side as long as they're
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honest errors. But there's so many things that you could try to attack Trump for. This is it.
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This is the best they've got. Yes. I guess that's the good news. This is the best they've got.
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If they had anything better, they wouldn't have to lie. They wouldn't have to prosecute him.
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They wouldn't have to try to change all the election rules. They wouldn't have to try to kick
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The big question around Trump right now. Well, I guess the one question is,
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are they going to throw him in prison? Another question is, is he even going to be able to show
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up to the convention if the libs put him in prison? But the big question, if you take all
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their shenanigans out of it, is who is Trump going to pick for his running mate? The veep stakes are on.
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We've covered some of the possible names out there. People are talking about J.D. Vance.
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Some people are still talking about Nikki Haley. People are talking about Tulsi Gabbard. She's kind of
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a real dark horse candidate. Some have suggested Tim Scott, Ben Carson. Boy, wouldn't that be great?
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Some other names, Marco Rubio, Doug Burgum. Doug Burgum, you probably don't remember him.
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He ran for president this cycle. He was the North Dakota governor, a social liberal,
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but just kind of a business conservative, nice, amiable fellow, but didn't make a lot of waves.
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So the Rupert Murdoch empire, at least as expressed in the New York Post, has come out with
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their favorites. They want Burgum, and if not Burgum, they want Rubio. I joked about the
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Burgum candidates. I said, we got Burgum-mentum, baby. I joked about it in the same way I joked
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about Chris Christie. I said, here's the Chris-a-sans, croissants for short. You know,
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that's it. He's going to rally all the conservatives. Let's go, baby, Chris Christie. Or here we go.
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We've got Burgum-mentum. Are you feeling the Burg? But nobody was, which is why he dropped out.
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Doug Burgum had to bribe people to contribute to his campaign. I actually have a family member who
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did this. Burgum said, in order to get on the debate stage, I need to get X number of small
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dollar donors. So if you donate even $1 to my campaign right now, I will send you a gift card
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for $20. A pretty good investment. I should have invested in the Burgum campaign. I could have made
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20 times my money in Applebee's gift cards or whatever he was giving out. So of course,
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the more establishment New York kind of conservative media are coming out for Burgum.
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What's their argument? Their argument is that Burgum, he's a doer when it comes to business
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deals. He knows his way around the tech world. He worked for Microsoft. He's run several successful
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companies. And he kind of has a more of a hands-off approach to some of the social issues,
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to put it diplomatically. But he'd be great on the economy. So let's pick Burgum. And I think the
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New York Post realizes Burgum, it's not that he couldn't be the VP pick, but he's a little bit of
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a long shot right now. So if not Burgum, how about Rubio? Why Rubio? Well, because he's experienced in
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politics. He's served for a long time. He's learned some lessons from his own 2016 run, which didn't go
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that well. And this is actually a good point. They say he breaks with stale GOP orthodoxy when
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it comes to the interests of working class voters. That's true. Rubio has repositioned himself as more
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of a working class hero, a little bit more populist or of a traditional conservative to break away with
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some of the neoconservative or libertarian talking points that have typified the GOP for the last few
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decades. He's photogenic. And hey, by the way, he'll appeal to Hispanic voters. Okay, I'm not really
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persuaded by either of those arguments or either of those candidates for VP. But then the New York
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Post, the Murdoch Empire, which includes the New York Post, it includes Fox News Channel, it includes
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other very powerful right-wing entities. They make a point to say no to J.D. Vance. Do not pick J.D. Vance.
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He sought to suspend USAID to Ukraine. Oh, you could never do that.
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Even as Ukraine puts private American citizens and American journalists on hit lists,
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as you may recall, occurred to yours truly last week when I was informed of that by the U.S.
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Congress. No, no, no. Forget about it. That's okay. We still got to fund Ukraine.
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And he says his opposition to abortion goes well past Trump. So he's too pro-life.
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You can't pick a pro-lifer to be the VP for Trump. That would be very scary
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to the New York-style establishment conservatives. Okay. And he's a little young.
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Nah, can't. He's yet to complete even two years in the United States Senate. That's true. You know
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who else was only in the U.S. Senate for two years before he decided to have higher ambitions? That
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would be Barack Obama. He was a pretty successful political candidate, as I recall. No, no. It was
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fine for Obama. It was bad for Marco Rubio. Give me a break. Who should Trump pick? I think
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it was clear enough before, but it's especially clear after reading this editorial.
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J.D. Vance is the favorite of the base, the conservative base. There are always these new
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terms that crop up. Often, they're old terms that are just making a comeback for conservatives.
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The new right, the populists, the nationalists, the thisists, the thatists, whatever ism we're
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talking about that describes the tuned-in, hardcore conservative base. I think pretty
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clearly they want J.D. Vance of all the options that have been put on the table. The edgy choice,
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the really edgy, I said the dark horse of the dark horse choices, is Tulsi Gabbard, a former
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Democrat who's taken a far more, let's say, nationalist or isolationist stance on foreign
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policy when it comes to Ukraine, when it comes to, she's just unorthodox. She's the really edgy
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choice. The moderate choice remains Nikki Haley, who, as I've said from the beginning, is a very,
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very talented politician. She played well with Trump. She played pretty well against Trump.
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But during that presidential campaign, she positioned herself as the more moderate
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establishment, business kind of Republican choice for a president. Probably she's lost a little bit
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of her luster because of how tough that race got in the primary between her and Trump.
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Kristi Noem would have been another somewhat more moderate choice. And it can soften Trump's image,
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appeal maybe to these suburban women. These are the arguments you heard for these candidates.
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Kristi Noem may have shot her political career at the same time that she shot her dog in the back
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of the head, or at least when she admitted to shooting her dog. Again, I kind of defended Noem
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on the story, but politically, she probably doesn't really play anymore. So because those two choices
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in the moderate lane are probably off the table now, the New York Post is pushing for Burgum or Rubio.
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Okay, but why are we going to listen to the New York Post? I like the New York Post. It's one of my
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favorite papers of many years. I get a kick out of their headlines, their tabloid coverage. But
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the New York Post came out pretty strongly against Donald Trump for years at this point.
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On top of that, the New York Post, it always has that American flag in the corner of the paper.
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This is a paper that was founded by Alexander Hamilton. Well, when the Ukraine war took off,
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they put a Ukraine flag on the New York Post. Why is there a Ukraine flag on the New York Post,
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a paper founded by a founding father? They're fanatically in favor of Ukraine funding.
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Okay, and they don't like that J.D. Vance is opposed to that. So they're going to push Burgum
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or Rubio? I mean, I have nothing against those guys, really. But it seems a little tone deaf.
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Why would Trump listen to people who have been actively, fanatically working against him for years?
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The question for Trump is, what kind of VP does he want? Not just for 2024, but for 2028 and 2032.
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Nonetheless, interesting and unexpected analysis from Kamala Harris's former communications director.
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That would be Ashley Etienne, who went on CNN to give her pick.
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It says to me that to some degree that they think that she's somewhat of a threat. I mean,
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she's a former prosecutor. She spent time in courts defending her clients and defending the interests of
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California. So to me, it says that he might be slightly nervous. But I think there's one other
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thing we're not sort of taking into consideration. And that is, I think J.D. Vance would pose the
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greatest threat to Kamala Harris in some respects. I mean, he's an incredible debater. I think he
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has this quality that makes him seem palpable to that one to two percent that actually might
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vote or that's undecided, that will actually pay attention to the debates because most people don't
00:24:06.720
pay attention to the debates. And I think he's just got a quality about him where he's super smart
00:24:11.380
and sharp and quick-witted. I just think that, like, I think it's going to be a challenge to
00:24:16.480
see the two of them face to face. I mean, maybe it's just me, but I think he's going to be the
00:24:20.540
greatest threat. Totally right. This is really astute analysis. And she couches it in a really
00:24:26.560
smart way, which is she said, look, no one really cares about the VP debate. No, one to two percent of
00:24:31.340
voters maybe will be swayed by the VP debate. People don't vote for president based on the VP
00:24:37.200
debate, really not even based on the VP. But for those voters for whom this matters, J.D. Vance
00:24:44.640
would be the most formidable debate opponent to Kamala Harris. And when she says, don't underestimate
00:24:50.480
Kamala Harris, I think she actually makes a good point, too. I said that way back in 2018, 2019. I said,
00:24:56.240
Kamala Harris is an impressive candidate. Sure, she can barely speak. Sure, her cackle is like
00:25:02.220
nails on a chalkboard. Sure this, sure that. Sure, she had a kind of interesting way of rising up
00:25:07.160
through politics. We'll just leave it at that. However, she's made it. In fact, the fact that
00:25:15.300
she does not appear to be a Rhodes Scholar, the fact that she isn't the most impressive when it comes to
00:25:23.400
her recall of facts and events and policy wonkery, the fact that she's made it this far in politics,
00:25:30.920
despite all that, shows you how impressive a politician she is. Don't underestimate her.
00:25:35.260
And then sure enough, she gets picked for VP by Joe Biden, even after making her campaign about how
00:25:39.960
Joe Biden's a racist. That was how she launched her campaign on that debate stage for the 2020 election.
00:25:45.580
So she is somewhat formidable. And then you add on to that all the identity politics. She's a black
00:25:51.300
woman, or she's at least dark-skinned. She's got a more heterogeneous ethnic background, but she at
00:25:59.840
least reads as a black woman. And so that really, that gives her an identity advantage in this
00:26:05.740
intersectional age in politics. Vance would destroy her on a debate stage because J.D. Vance is extremely
00:26:14.680
intelligent. Not only is he a Yale Law graduate, the elite schools have gone pretty crazy, but
00:26:23.420
especially when you're talking about the law school, they still pick people who generally have
00:26:26.660
pretty high IQ, who are generally really politically ambitious. If you want to be a lawyer, often you go
00:26:32.680
to Harvard Law School or Stanford Law School. If you want to be Secretary of State or President,
00:26:36.680
you go to Yale Law School. Future politicians there. And even among people in his class,
00:26:42.520
he's shown himself to be extremely skilled and talented. He came out with that book,
00:26:48.100
Hillbilly Elegy, at exactly the right time, at precisely that moment when the deplorables
00:26:52.960
were voting for their great new candidate who emerged from the ruins of the Republican Party,
00:26:59.100
Donald Trump. That book became a huge bestseller, then became a movie. Then he parlayed that into
00:27:04.720
getting a seat in the U.S. Senate. This is a really, really impressive guy. So now it sounds
00:27:10.300
like I'm just advocating for J.D. Vance to be the VP. That's not what I intend to do. I love J.D. Vance.
00:27:17.240
He'd be a great VP. But I'm just trying to show you what the field looks like because now Trump has
00:27:23.560
a decision to make. What kind of VP does he want? Does he want a legacy type VP or does he want a lackey
00:27:34.680
type VP? That's the decision. Legacy or lackey? If he wants a lackey, then the New York Post is
00:27:41.200
right. The New York Post is pitching Doug Burgum as a lackey. Oh, he won't upstage Trump. He'll be
00:27:46.740
pretty quiet. He agrees with Trump on a lot of stuff, especially on business. He'll just fade
00:27:51.120
into the background and he'll be a loyal lackey. Okay, if Trump wants a lackey, and maybe Trump does
00:27:57.000
want a lackey, then that's the kind of candidate he should go for. But if he wants a candidate who's
00:28:02.460
going to be formidable in 2028, who maybe could win election and then win re-election in 2032,
00:28:08.480
then he's going to want a younger candidate, won't he? And if he wants a candidate who is more
00:28:13.660
ideologically aligned with him, probably he's going to want a J.D. Vance. Maybe Rubio. Rubio has
00:28:23.980
moved around a little bit during his career in the U.S. Senate and before that in the Florida House of
00:28:29.100
Representatives. He's positioned himself as a couple, at least a couple different kinds of
00:28:33.800
conservative. But Vance seems to be in that lane right now. We saw this in the primary. There are
00:28:39.880
just lanes. You can run in the Trumpian lane, the populist type lane. You can run in the Chamber of
00:28:44.460
Commerce type lane. You can run in the Maverick, reach across the aisle kind of lane. There are set
00:28:51.800
lanes. Vance is the legacy kind of candidate. If he wants to balance the ticket, Vance isn't that
00:29:00.300
guy. Vance agrees with Trump on a lot of stuff, and he's also a white guy. Now, I actually don't
00:29:05.620
think it's the worst thing in the world in this age where everyone is so sick of political correctness
00:29:09.460
and tokenism and picking people because of the color of their skin or their sex or whatever.
00:29:14.300
Picking a white guy is actually kind of a bold choice. It cuts against that current of PC and
00:29:19.420
wokeness. But if you want to balance the ticket, maybe you pick a woman. Maybe you pick someone
00:29:24.000
who's black. Maybe you pick, okay. It just, the question for Trump is, not just what does he want
00:29:32.800
to see happen in 2024. What does he want to see for 2028? What does he want to see for 2032?
00:29:37.980
Now, at least one Democrat strategist thinks none of this matters, and he's one of the most
00:29:43.560
famous Democrat strategists of the last 30 years. That would be the raging Cajun, James Carville,
00:29:49.420
who says it doesn't matter who he picks because there are simply not enough MAGA voters for Trump
00:29:54.880
to win the election. There's no Republicans. It's a Trump cult. The Republican Party that I knew,
00:30:00.740
all right, that people knew of Rob Portman or Bob Calker or even Dick Cheney, that no longer exists.
00:30:09.060
And Mike Johnson is literally part of a cult. The bad news is you're not going to change
00:30:14.940
MAGA's mind. The good news is that there's not enough MAGA for Trump to win with. There are not
00:30:21.320
enough of them to win a general election in this country, and they're not very growing. Mike Johnson
00:30:25.880
is not even a Republican in any sense of the word. He's a MAGA theocrat, and that's about it.
00:30:34.280
And they're not there. They know they don't have a party anymore. They have a personality cult.
00:30:40.660
They're not even a Republican anymore. And when I was a boy, we had good Republicans like Abraham
00:30:46.100
Lincoln. We had a lot of good Republicans like Chet Arthur, James Garfield. But we don't have
00:30:51.760
those Republicans no more because they've been dead for 150 years. So now we got these Republicans
00:30:55.640
like Mike Johnson. He's not a Republican. Donald Trump, he's not a Republican.
00:30:59.780
I think they are Republicans because they're the leaders of the Republican Party.
00:31:04.340
But they're not a Republican like the one that I like. First of all, to hear James Carville
00:31:09.120
compliment Dick Cheney, it's so tedious because the Democrats do this all the time.
00:31:16.180
Ask James Carville 20 years ago what he thinks about Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney was the devil.
00:31:19.940
Dick Cheney was Satan himself. Now though, now that Dick Cheney is a billion years old,
00:31:26.820
now that Dick Cheney has absolutely no influence in the Republican Party, now he's a good kind of
00:31:31.560
Republican. Now James Carville and the Democrats have a strange new respect. That's always the
00:31:36.600
phrase they use. It's a strange new respect for Dick Cheney and George Bush. And then who are the
00:31:42.000
other guys he lists? Rob Portman, Bob Corker. These were moderate, pretty liberal Republicans.
00:31:49.460
I like those Republicans who are real liberal and let the Democrat do whatever they want.
00:31:54.100
I'm sure you do. I'm sure those are your favorite. And we do it too. The conservatives during the
00:31:59.240
Bush era would say, I like those Democrats like Joe Lieberman. Yeah, because Joe Lieberman agrees
00:32:02.620
with our president. Of course you like him. I like those Democrats like Joe Manchin when he agrees
00:32:07.980
with us. I like those Democrats. Yeah, sure. Of course. You always like your opponent when your
00:32:11.440
opponent betrays his side and comes and supports your side. Yeah, of course. But that doesn't then
00:32:17.420
define the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. What happened to all them Republicans?
00:32:23.180
These are theocrats. First of all, James Carville, he's got a fair bit of insight into electoral
00:32:30.100
politics. At least he did in the 90s. He was a pretty astute analyst back then. Maybe he still is.
00:32:36.340
He doesn't know the meaning of the word theocracy. We throw these words around. Fascism,
00:32:42.520
democracy. And the way we talk about those words these days often have nothing to do with the
00:32:49.240
real meanings. We say that when most people vote for a candidate the liberals don't like,
00:32:52.780
that's a threat to democracy. Democracy is what most people vote for. That's democracy.
00:32:57.660
Fascism. Fascism is an ideology that comes out of Italy in the early to mid-20th century,
00:33:04.220
and it's expressed by real writers. You can go back and read their writing, Giovanni Gentile or
00:33:08.640
Marinetti or Mussolini for that matter. Fascism is not when a dad in the Midwest doesn't want some
00:33:16.080
hulking dude going into his daughter's changing room. That's not fascism, believe it or not. It
00:33:20.060
has a meaning. The Democrats don't use that meaning anymore. Same goes for theocracy. Theocracy is
00:33:25.400
rule by the clergy, political rule by members of the clergy. Nobody is calling for that.
00:33:33.160
Ironically, he's attacking evangelical Protestants as being theocrats. If there were a theocracy that
00:33:39.720
is ruled by priests and prelates, bishops ruled by the pope, the evangelical Protestants would be
00:33:44.680
the first to decry that because they actually don't recognize the pope and the bishops, and they're
00:33:49.680
relatively anti-hierarchical. No, that's not what theocracy is. What James Carville means is if you
00:33:57.840
have your political vision in any way informed by Christianity, then you're a theocrat. Well,
00:34:06.000
that's not what the word means, and everybody has his political vision informed by some idea or
00:34:14.260
ultimately by some religion because politics involves practical morality, and practical morality
00:34:20.160
comes from religion. So his problem here is not theocracy writ large. It's not even a religious
00:34:29.540
view writ large. It's that the religion that animates these people is not liberalism. For a lot of those
00:34:34.640
Republicans that he mentioned, all the Republicans he mentioned, they weren't particularly Christian.
00:34:39.640
And on crucial issues, they actually agreed with liberal political philosophy. That's why he
00:34:45.760
at least now grudgingly likes them. This guy did Mike Johnson. He's a member of a cult. I guess he
00:34:53.500
is a member of a cult. He's a member of a religion called Christianity, and James Carville doesn't
00:34:58.400
like that. Yeah, okay, sure. But the Republican Party now is more openly speaking in Christian terms.
00:35:07.220
And we used to do that 20 years ago. We actually did that too. There was the religious right. There was
00:35:11.500
the moral majority. And we're doing that again. We went through a little period where we stopped
00:35:14.940
speaking in religious terms, and then we lost everything because our ideas didn't make any
00:35:20.640
sense. They were no longer on solid ground. The liberals say what you want about them. They have
00:35:25.820
a pretty clear ideology. It's an ideology that comes out of liberalism that takes a fair bit from
00:35:32.220
Marxism, from socialism, and now I guess we would call it progressivism. And it's clear. They can write
00:35:40.260
down what they believe in a 10-bullet-point manifesto on the back of a napkin, and pretty much they all agree.
00:35:44.940
And even though their views are unpopular, the solidity, the coherence, the relative coherence of
00:35:49.680
those views gives it a certain kind of power. And now the conservatives are recognizing, hey, we haven't
00:35:54.400
even conserved the women's bathroom. Maybe our ideas need to be more coherent, more solid. So what are
00:35:59.480
we conserving? Well, we want to conserve virtue. We want to conserve the American way of life. And
00:36:02.300
ultimately, that means speaking in a Christian way. And the liberals can't stand it. Next Thursday night,
00:36:09.300
June 27th, Donald Trump and Joe Biden will enter the rhetorical gladiator pit for primetime
00:36:14.500
presidential debate. Their mics will be muted occasionally, probably more than occasionally,
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My favorite comment yesterday is from, can I have one dab 724? That's an interesting name.
00:37:05.580
It says, colored glass jars. Excuse me, Mike, the correct term is glass jars of color. You make a
00:37:13.360
good point. If you want to buy the Mayflower candles, we shouldn't say, that is an antiquated
00:37:18.400
and offensive term. We should not call them colored jars. They are jars of color, but they are beautiful
00:37:23.760
colors, and they are marvelous smelling candles. Speaking of attacks on Christianity, Hillary Clinton
00:37:30.900
has just come out. For some reason, she keeps talking. She's still around. She won't go away.
00:37:37.500
Like, I don't know, radon in a home. It's very difficult to get rid of it. Like various pests that
00:37:46.400
live in your walls. They just don't go away. Hillary won't go away. She's now attacking Sam Alito.
00:37:52.120
You'll notice that the Democrats are increasing their attacks on the Supreme Court, specifically
00:37:57.020
on probably the most conservative justice on the Supreme Court, Sam Alito, the man behind the Dobbs
00:38:01.700
decision, because they are looking ahead at 2024. They are seeing potentially a contested presidential
00:38:09.620
election. They know that the courts will be involved. The courts will certainly be involved
00:38:13.320
in answering questions about the constitutionality, legality of prosecuting Donald Trump, one of the
00:38:18.440
two major party nominees. They might be involved, as they were in Bush v. Gore, in deciding the election.
00:38:22.980
So Democrats are getting out ahead of this and attempting to delegitimize the court, the strategy
00:38:27.760
they've been building on for some years now. Hillary Clinton is joining the fray, and she mentions that
00:38:34.140
she was in the U.S. Senate when Sam Alito, and even when Justice John Roberts, were up for confirmation,
00:38:40.400
and she gives her insight as to why she voted against both of them.
00:38:45.800
You know, I was in the Senate when both John Roberts and Alito were nominated to the court by
00:38:52.620
George W. Bush. Therefore, I had a chance, as you rightly say, to interview both of them. And
00:38:58.680
I found John Roberts to be a kind of conservative, corporate-oriented lawyer who had a kind of
00:39:13.120
preconceived notion of the way things and people should work. And I voted against him because I
00:39:19.520
thought he was, you know, not only a candidate of the far right, the Federalist Society and their
00:39:27.640
agenda, but that his life experience was just too narrow to really be.
00:39:32.560
Put a pause here. Put a pause here before we get on to her invective against Sam Alito.
00:39:37.080
Chief Justice John Roberts is a candidate of the far right. John Roberts, the man who gave us
00:39:44.640
Obamacare, who twisted himself into a logical pretzel to explain why Obamacare, obviously unconstitutional,
00:39:54.120
must be preserved. He's a man of the far right. She just admitted in the same breath,
00:40:00.220
Roberts, he's kind of a business guy. You know, he's like a business Republican.
00:40:04.600
He's not really that concerned with the social issues. He's just like a business guy who,
00:40:08.800
he's a corporate-minded conservative, an institutional man, you might say.
00:40:13.840
But anyway, he's a candidate of the far right. There's another phrase that you're seeing crop up
00:40:16.960
everywhere. The far right, the far right, the far right. The far right now means anyone to
00:40:24.920
even slightly the left of Hillary Clinton. That's everyone. They say it about me all the time. They
00:40:32.260
say it about people at the Daily Wire, people at Fox News, people at the Blaze. These are
00:40:37.040
mainstream conservative outlets. These are the biggest conservative outlets in the country.
00:40:40.600
Everyone is now the far right. And if you were ever tempted to think that they were being honest here,
00:40:48.140
just know they consider John Roberts, the meek and mild-mannered Episcopalian who gave us Obamacare,
00:40:57.920
they consider that man to be on the far right as well. So she voted against him because he just had
00:41:01.680
a preconceived notion about how things are. Who doesn't? Only a child, only a totally ignorant
00:41:10.440
child, bereft even of the ability to speak, doesn't have a preconceived notion of how things are. And
00:41:17.340
actually, because the natural law is inscribed on every human heart, even little children have
00:41:22.040
some preconceived notion of how things really are. What does that mean? You think Elena Kagan
00:41:27.680
doesn't have a preconceived notion of how things are? You think Sonia Sotomayor doesn't have a
00:41:32.120
preconceived notion about things? You think Hillary Clinton doesn't have a preconceived notion? Of
00:41:34.820
course they do. If you've ever thought about anything, that means you have conceived of things,
00:41:39.860
you've conceptualized things. And then, assuming you don't, you're not put up for confirmation to
00:41:46.140
the Supreme Court the very day that you start thinking about things, then you have certain
00:41:50.080
preconceptions because you've thought about them before and you've come to certain conclusions.
00:41:53.580
That's called thinking. That's called education. That's called growing up. And she attacks John
00:41:58.580
Roberts for this because he came to the wrong conclusions in her mind. He doesn't, actually,
00:42:03.200
I don't even know what he thinks about abortion or whatever, but he's not as liberal as she is,
00:42:08.020
so that's too bad. His life experience is too narrow. Life experience is too narrow means white
00:42:12.400
guy. He was a white guy. That's why she voted against him. You're not, you think Sonia Sotomayor's
00:42:17.140
life experience isn't narrow? You think she has a broader life experience than John Roberts? I don't
00:42:24.280
think so. I'm not denying that she has a different life experience than John Roberts. She does. But
00:42:29.820
when they use that for a narrow life experience, all they're saying is we don't like white guys. We
00:42:34.020
don't want white guys to be in positions of power. That's what she's saying. That's the way the phrase
00:42:37.920
is used in our DEI gobbledego kind of culture. She goes on to attack the real object of her ire,
00:42:47.100
Really be in that position. Alito struck me almost immediately upon sitting down to talk with him
00:42:55.900
as a radical, as a fanatic about his views of culture and the role of religion in our society
00:43:06.680
and his religion, not maybe yours or mine, Marks, but his religion. And I found him scary. And I said
00:43:14.980
so on the floor of the Senate when I voted against him. We got the judges that had been groomed, put into
00:43:20.780
the pipeline to do what they are now doing. Hillary accidentally gave away the game here
00:43:26.880
because you hear all the usual stuff. Oh, he was scary. He's far right. And he's far right and scary
00:43:32.280
because he's religious. This is different than John Roberts. He was not that religious, it seems. But
00:43:36.300
Sam Alito, he's real religious. And that scared me because of his religion. Not yours or mine,
00:43:45.100
an interviewer, but his religion. What she's admitting here is that she doesn't have a problem
00:43:51.980
with religion in politics per se, because Hillary Clinton also is a fairly intelligent person. And
00:43:58.000
she knows you can't have politics without religion because politics involves applied morality, which
00:44:02.020
comes from religion. Hillary's problem with Sam Alito, the liberal's problem with Sam Alito is not
00:44:08.700
religion. It's his religion. And what is his religion? He's a Catholic. That's what she doesn't
00:44:15.460
like. This is the most naked anti-Catholic bigotry that I have seen in politics since
00:44:22.480
Dianne Feinstein was grilling Amy Coney Barrett, Amy Coney Barrett, who was up for a federal
00:44:27.960
judge position. And she said, what worries me about you, Judge Barrett, is that, or at that time,
00:44:35.740
I suppose, Professor Barrett, is the dogma lives loudly within you. It'd be one thing if you were
00:44:43.920
just a kind of mildly religious, or I don't know, if you were Episcopalian or Methodist or something.
00:44:50.480
But you believe in this Catholic dogma, and you really believe in it. It seems, you know,
00:44:55.460
you have a lot of kids, and you practice your faith, and you can't have that dogma live loudly
00:45:00.020
within you. This is the Democrats undermining a basic provision of the Constitution, which is
00:45:06.560
that there will not be a religious test for public office. There were some founding fathers who seemed
00:45:11.080
open to religious tests for public office. John Jay writes about how he thought only Christians
00:45:16.220
should hold public office. John Jay, who is one of the authors of The Federalist, who's defending the
00:45:20.260
Constitution, nevertheless, he says, look, it's a Christian country. We should have Christian politicians.
00:45:24.860
And he writes this in letters. Nevertheless, in the Constitution, we see no religious test.
00:45:32.240
And of course, you need to say, if we had a whole spate of politicians whose religion was
00:45:37.360
the anti-American religion, the anti-Constitution religion, well, that would create a political
00:45:42.880
problem, because the Constitution would have allowed these people to come in to undermine the
00:45:46.480
Constitution, to undermine the whole country. But that's what she's saying here. I don't like
00:45:53.440
Sam Alito because he's a Catholic. We don't want their religion. That's what James Carville is
00:45:59.440
saying. I don't like Mike Johnson because he's an evangelical. We don't like these Republicans
00:46:06.220
because these Republicans are more openly Christian. They're speaking in moral terms,
00:46:11.940
which for most of our history, going back to the founding of the party, going back to Abraham Lincoln
00:46:15.720
using language straight out of the King James Bible, has typified the Republican Party.
00:46:19.840
We don't like this because when Republicans talk in this way that's based on solid principles that
00:46:25.840
comes from true religion that animates our country and that has animated our country through our
00:46:30.580
country's growth, then they're a real threat. We Democrats don't like that. There's so much more
00:46:36.200
to get to. Speaking of religion, Cori Bush, a liberal Congress lady, has claimed that she's
00:46:41.880
performed miracles and cured tumors through faith healing. We're going to have to wait for that,
00:46:46.180
though. Because you know me. I'm a tease. We've got to get to the member room segmentum. This is
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