Ep. 1520 - These 14 Squish Republicans Just Ruined Everything
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14 Republicans voted against a bill that would have blocked President Joe Biden's plan to give amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the lead-up to the mid-term elections. Drag Queens are lobbying Congress for LGBTQ rights.
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As President Biden attempts to give amnesty to more than half a million illegal aliens in the
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run-up to the election, Republican Congressman Chip Roy has proposed a measure that would use
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Congress's power of the purse to ban Homeland Security funds from being used to carry out Joe
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Biden's unconstitutional executive action. Clever idea, good policy, great example of checks and
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balances in our constitutional system. And it failed. It failed because 14 Republicans joined
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202 Democrats to vote against it. Those Republicans are Lori Chavez de Reamer, Mario Diaz-Balart,
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John Duarte, Brian Fitzpatrick, Carlos Jimenez, Jennifer Gonzalez-Cologne, David Joyce, Thomas
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Keane, Young Kim, Mike Lawler, Amada Radawagan, Maria Salazar, Michelle Steele, David Valadao.
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That's it. I haven't talked to those Republicans about it. Who knows? Maybe they have their reasons.
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I don't know. They're welcome to come on the show and explain themselves. It seems pretty crazy to me
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and sad. This is why we can't have nice things. Because even something so obvious, hey, do you
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think the president should be able to just with a magic wand make half a million, more than half a
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million illegal aliens likely on a path towards citizenship? Just give them blanket amnesty
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after that man's previous administration, the Obama administration, admitted that such an action
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would be unconstitutional? Hey, hey, Republicans, do you think that's a good idea or should we use the
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constitutional power we have to maybe try to stop him just a little bit or at least slow him down?
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Nope, we can't. We can't do that. We can't do that because 14 Republicans say that even using
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that tiny little eensy-weensy little bit of a modicum of power to defend the Constitution and
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stop the Democrats' obscene historic power grab, that's just too much. We can't have that.
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That's why we can't have nice things. This is also why I can't stomach all the purity spiraling
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that we see when it comes to the relatively conservative people in the GOP, guys like
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Chip Roy, guys like, fill in your congressman, fill in your senator, up to and including President
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Trump. Do you see what we're up against? There are people, I understand, who want to criticize Trump
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for not being restrictionist enough on immigration, for not being quite as right-wing as you'd like him
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to be, not quite as rigid as perhaps you are. Okay, yeah, I get it, I sympathize. 14 Republicans
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can't even agree not to give Democrats half a million more likely future voters in the lead-up
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to an election. That's where we are. So politics is the art of the possible. When it comes to candidates
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who show a decent to reasonable conservative inclination, more importantly, when we have candidates
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who have a hint of backbone, I don't really see a ton of backbone here among some of these other
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Republicans, I'm willing to take what I can get. The country has moved so far to the left,
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so far to the left that 14 Republicans can't say, hey, hold up half a million illegal aliens.
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We have got a long slog ahead of us. We need to take the leaders and the wins that we can
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when we can get them. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Drag queens are lobbying Congress for new LGBTQ rights. One of them went on CNN to demand this.
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Here's a little zinger, though. Here's a little surprise. The drag queen is actually a woman.
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Women. Drag queens are women now, apparently. Anyway, I don't know. We'll get into what that
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means. What we will also get into later on is the debate. Tonight is the big debate between Trump
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and Biden, the first of two presidential debates in 2024. It's going to be hosted on CNN. Totally
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different kind of debate than we've seen any of us really in our lifetimes, certainly in my lifetime.
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This will not be from the Commission on Presidential Debates. It'll be a whole new thing with all new
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sorts of rules that are probably designed to rig it against Trump. We will be covering it,
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that immigration enforcement has finally apprehended eight ISIS terrorists who crossed into our country
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illegally, then did kind of terrorist-y things in our country, then were talking about making bombs and
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committing acts of terrorism. And then finally, there was a sting in New York and LA and Philly,
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and they got these terrorists. What made the episode so embarrassing is we had already arrested
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these terrorists. When the ISIS-K terrorists crossed the southern border, we apprehended them.
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But because Joe Biden wants to flood the country with foreign nationals, Border Patrol had to let them go.
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They have to let everybody go, just about, because this is the long-term strategy for the Dems.
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So the Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, is doing the damage control tour now,
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and he's going on all the left-wing news channels. But this is a lot, even for the left-wing pundits.
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So even he goes on Morning Joe, he goes on MSNBC, and Mika Brzezinski, even she, as bona fide a left-winger
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as they come, says, hey, man, we're letting ISIS into the country. Now, this is pretty bad, right?
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And the excuse from Mayorkas is, I kid you not, that there's no evidence that ISIS was planning to harm us.
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The first is NBC News reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has identified over 400
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immigrants who have come to the U.S. from Central Asia and elsewhere as subjects of concern,
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and some even affiliated potentially with an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network.
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With respect to the people from Central Asia, we have no evidence that there are individuals
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plotting to harm the United States. That is inaccurate. It's very important to note
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that the safety and security of the American people are our highest priority. We screen and vet
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individuals at the time of encounter. If we learn of derogatory information, we take enforcement
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action. We are proceeding with extreme caution here in the service of the security and safety of the
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American people. No, you didn't. No, you're not. Okay, you screened them. You found out that they came
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by way of an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network, and then you let them go. So you're
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not taking this very seriously. You did learn derogatory information. Either you learned
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derogatory information. I love that euphemism. Derogatory. Either you learned that they're
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affiliated with terrorists, and you did nothing about it, or you didn't learn that they're
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affiliated with terrorists, and because you have a blanket policy of letting any foreigner who
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wants to invade the country come in, then you let them in anyway. Don't forget, we're talking about
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two separate issues here, people who are smuggled in through an ISIS-affiliated human smuggling network
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and those eight ISIS terrorists who made it into the country who were just arrested. Because don't
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forget, the excuse Mayorkas had when the sting operation caught the ISIS terrorists was, well,
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look, yeah, they're ISIS terrorists. They were talking about building bombs and stuff like that. But
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at the time we encountered them at the border, we didn't have any derogatory information.
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Well, maybe you got to look a little deeper, man, because you sure got some derogatory information
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later on. There's no evidence that ISIS affiliates mean to do us harm. I'm pretty
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sure there is information about that. I think there's a lot of evidence, like the affiliation
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with ISIS, that group that's killed a bunch of Americans and that wants to wage a war against the
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great Satan and establish a caliphate. Remember that war? And then Trump got elected in part
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unpromising to completely obliterate that group, which he did until then Trump was booted out of
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office and then the group came back again. Yeah, I think there's a lot of evidence of that, actually.
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There's no evidence. It's kind of like that clip of Ben. You know, there's that clip of Ben
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when he was at some school and he said, the Boy Scouts are only for boys. And some liberal student
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asked him, well, where does it say that? And he says, well, it's in the name Boy Scouts.
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An only slightly more abstract version. Where does it say that the ISIS terrorists
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want to do us harm? I think it's in the phrase ISIS terrorist. I think that's where it says it,
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actually. So then the MSNBC thing doesn't go very well. He then goes on to CNN and he's pulling all
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his favorite euphemisms. I love this new euphemism. The people from Central Asia.
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That's that's our new euphemism for terrorists. Well, I think you don't. Hey, you can't say that
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phrase terrorist. That's very offensive. Now, the new phrase is people from Central Asia. OK,
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that doesn't work. He goes on CNN and then his excuse beyond all the usual ones we've heard is
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no, no, you shouldn't worry about these ISIS guys getting caught. ISIS comes across our open border
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all the time. Kate, every year, every single year, we encounter individuals that do indeed pose a
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threat to our public safety. That is not something unique to this administration. When I was the
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deputy secretary, when I was the director of U.S. citizenship and immigration services, when I was a
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federal prosecutor in the 1990s for 12 years, we encountered individuals of concern and we take
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enforcement action. That's not something that is unique. So first excuse. Oh, yeah, we let terrorists
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cross the border all the time. Second excuse. Listen, I've worked in a lot of Democrat administrations
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and in those Democrat administrations, you know, frankly, we encourage the terrorists to come.
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We know. Yeah, it's an open border. But no, we take the enforcement actions that we think are
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appropriate and necessary. But what are the enforcement actions that the Democrats take that they
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encourage more illegals to cross the border? And he's trying to blur the situation here. He says,
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you know, look, it's every administration. No, not really. Trump ran and was elected in large part on
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securing the border. And he did secure the border in the first months of his presidency. He actually
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did secure the border and illegal immigration dropped dramatically. And then the Democrats stymied
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him and threw up all sorts of roadblocks and did their damnedest to knock down the border wall,
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both physical and metaphorical, you know, all of the laws and regulations that would stop it.
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And then Biden gets elected and gets rid of all of Trump's protections and actually removes pieces
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of the border wall because he wants these people coming across. But don't worry. ISIS terrorists cross
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the border all the time, especially when Democrats are in office, it would seem. It's no big deal.
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This happens every year, man. We're not going to stop it, but you know, it happens. Okay. We usually
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don't have that many terrorist attacks. There's so much more to say. First, though,
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whole terrorist thing. There's a special forces group, the Special Operations Association of America,
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which is warning that we are now at heightened risk of a Muslim terror attack. According to the SOAA
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Chairman Christopher Miller, he served as Acting Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration,
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he said in a letter that his organization was, quote, gravely concerned by the current heightened
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risk of terrorist attacks against targets in the United States and both U.S. and allied interests
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abroad. So, yeah, of course. The West has been fairly consistently fighting elements of the Muslim
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world for about 1,400 years now. So, you know, that's probably going to continue for the foreseeable
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future. And that's especially true when you let terrorists into your country, a terrorist who you
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know are talking about building bombs and harming people. That's true. But I mentioned that story
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because of a piece of wisdom that comes to us by way of Harold McMillan, the old conservative
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prime minister in the United Kingdom. McMillan was asked, what is the greatest challenge of
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statecraft? What's the greatest challenge a statesman can face? And he said, events, dear boy.
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Events, that's the big problem. And so, we don't know. Between now and November, we've got
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July, August, September, October. We've got a lot of time for some event to take place. Is it going
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to be a terror attack? Is it going to be some new war? Is it going to be a new pandemic? Is it going
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to be? I don't know. I mean, this time in 2020, it still kind of looked like Trump would win. I know
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we were really getting into the throes of the COVID mania, but things just happen. And I think there
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are a lot of conservatives who are feeling really good right now because the polls look good for
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Trump. And we'll get into some of those polls in just a moment. But especially if the Democrats'
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backs are against a wall and that nothing seems to be working, and even their extra constitutional
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strategies that are contrary to the American political tradition, like imprisoning the front
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runner for the GOP or the nominee now for the GOP. When that's all not working, who knows? Then
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they're going to be relying on luck and fate and history to intervene. And history does sometimes
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intervene. Speaking of scary things, a drag queen has gone on CNN to demand more rights from Congress
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for the LGBT LMNOP people. I'm curious for you, first of all, what this day means to you. And
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second of all, have both Democrats and Republicans agreed to meet with you?
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Yes, we will be meeting with both Democrats and Republicans. And I'm really excited to go speak
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with all of our lawmakers about the attacks that we're seeing on our LGBTQ community. It's so important
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to talk about and to discuss protections for our queer community. We already see so many attacks on our
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queer community. I already don't feel safe in my own hometown just dressed in drag like this. And it's
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very scary for queer people to exist in a time where we see this kind of rhetoric being pushed by our
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lawmakers and the people who should care about other issues that actually affect the American
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people. Okay, blah, blah, blah. We need more gay stuff. This is the sort of thing we hear every day of
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the month in June and really every day of the year period. What makes it newsworthy is that that drag queen
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is actually a woman. That drag queen is a woman, born a woman, remains a woman, as all people who are born
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women do. A woman dressed up as a man dressed up as a woman. I believe this is what the post-structuralists
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would call hyper-reality, where you have the symbol of the symbol of the symbol of the symbol of the
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thing so removed that this woman is dressing as a caricature of a woman that doesn't really even
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resemble a woman, which ironically enough, she is. That's culture, man. That's really spooky.
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Now, people are getting fooled by this. So some conservatives are attacking this drag queen,
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dressed as a drag queen, as being a man. But because, oddly enough, this is a woman who's
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dressing as a man dressed as a woman, the conservative critiques are inaccurate.
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And so Marjorie Greene rightly criticized this drag queen. And all sorts of left-wing newspapers
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are making fun of her for it, attacking her for it. Here is, I think it's Entertainment Weekly.
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Female drag queen owns Marjorie Taylor Greene after a politician called her a man. No idea what you're
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talking about. Now, if you read down in the article, it says, when reached for comment, Brigitte,
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the drag queen, confirms to Entertainment Weekly that she was born and is comfortable identifying
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as female, but that most accurately, she's a non-binary queen. Okay, hold on. Hold on.
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Headline just said the drag queen is female. But then in the body of the article, it says that
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she is non-binary. But according to the LGBT LMNOP orthodoxy, the dogma, if you are non-binary,
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you are not a female because it means you're neither male nor female. You're some third option.
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So what Entertainment Weekly and the LGBT LMNOP people want to do is they want to have it both
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ways. They always want, they do always want to have it both ways, don't they? They want to have
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it all the ways. For the purposes of upending our sexual ethic and our norms and our society,
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this drag queen is not a woman. But for the purposes of making fun of a Republican congressman,
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this drag queen is a woman. But even to be a woman, according to this drag queen, is really just
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based on an absurd caricature of a woman advanced by men in the LGBT LMNOP movement, which is
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increasingly divorced from reality. Really spooky stuff. Not only can we no longer answer the question,
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what is a woman? But we can no longer answer the question, what is a drag queen? Because we are so
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removed. I had someone on the show some years ago who was by Vocal Distance, really, really good
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Twitter account. And he's a big fan of Baudrillard, a philosopher and writer, who really advanced this
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concept of hyper-reality. And the example that Vocal Distance used was a strawberry. And you have
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a strawberry, and then you decide to make strawberry jam. And then you've got strawberry jam, and you
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like it so much, you decide to condense that flavor even more, and you make strawberry ice cream.
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And then you really, you make that flavor, you get it down to its essence even more, you make a
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strawberry jolly rancher. And then you get that flavor even more down to its essence, and you make
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a strawberry jolly rancher soda. But the strawberry jolly rancher soda doesn't really taste like a
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strawberry. It's been so removed through symbolism and artifice that you're now, you've got something
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really totally different. That's what's happened to this woman. That is what's happening to sex and
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gender roles broadly because of this constant process of imitation and caricature, because of this
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this constant remove from nature and the natural law and the behaviors that are conducive to human
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flourishing, according to the order of nature, and certainly according to the order of grace.
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Because we're now so far removed from that, this woman, she thinks she's a they-them, she thinks
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she's a man, she thinks she's a drag queen. And a drag queen, all of a sudden, which was previously a
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man who dresses as a woman can also be a woman dressed as a male caricature of a woman. And if
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you raise any questions about it, people are going to make fun of you. Who should, who should, what
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there is a big sign posted at an elementary school in California, and it says, Young Trans Joy.
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Big giant sign up there at an elementary school. The libs will say, we are not trying to trans the
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kids when the conservatives tell you that we're trying to trans the kids. That is lying. It's
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hyperbolic. It's fear-mongering. No, they really are trying to trans the kids and not just the 17-year-olds
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and the 16-year-olds. It's the seven-year-olds and the six-year-olds and the five-year-olds. They are
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trying to trans all the kids. They will trans your newborn if they have the opportunity to.
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I want to focus on that phrase, though, Young Trans Joy. I've seen this phrase,
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Trans Joy. It has cropped up increasingly in recent years as a response to the rational
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criticisms of the trans ideology. We are so joyful.
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It is a distinctive feature of joy, actual joy, that joy does not require billboards to persuade
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people that it exists. That's one of the things. If you think of the most joyful people you've ever
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met, did they have really big signs outside of their house that said, I'm really joyful?
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Did they wear t-shirts that said, I've never been enjoying myself more? Ah, look at all my joy.
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It is a distinctive feature of joyful people, to get a little realer and a little darker about it
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for a second, that joyful people don't have a 41% suicide rate. It is a distinctive feature
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of joyful people, that joyful people don't spend tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of
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dollars giving themselves expensive medical interventions and mutilations to radically alter
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their body, to reduce their life expectancy, to sterilize themselves in some cases,
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to more easily convince themselves that fantasy is reality. Though it never ultimately really works
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to convince themselves of that. Joy isn't like that. Joy has a little more levity to it.
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It's like that Chesterton line, the angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
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Well, that's another aspect. It seems to me joyful people don't spend all day thinking about
00:25:32.740
themselves. I know plenty of people who are joyful. I know plenty of people who think about themselves
00:25:38.360
all the time. That Venn diagram, pretty much two totally separate circles. The fact that they need
00:25:46.660
these major PR campaigns, that they need to change the law to stop you from criticizing transgender ideology,
00:25:52.680
to stop you really even from disagreeing with it in public life at all. The fact that they need to
00:25:59.840
hang big signs and go into the elementary school and convince your five-year-old that he's really
00:26:03.280
the opposite sex, and then put him on the path of the transgender transition ritual, maybe even with
00:26:09.820
some medical intervention without even telling you the parent. The fact that they got to do all that
00:26:14.960
would suggest to me, it's not a very joyful ideology. That's the kind of ideology that you
00:26:22.260
would want to protect your kids from at all costs. Now, the way that people protect themselves generally
00:26:29.200
is you put your kid in the private school if you can afford it. Maybe you homeschool your kid if you
00:26:33.920
have the resources to do that. It takes resources too. Maybe you move somewhere that's a little less
00:26:38.160
crazy than California, New York, or Chicago, but those are all defensive actions.
00:26:45.880
If you're in my neighborhood and I've got any political sway whatsoever through my property
00:26:50.740
taxes, through my votes, through my community organizing, and I can defund that school and
00:26:54.800
fire anyone who allowed that sign to go up, any administrator, any teacher who permitted that trans
00:27:01.960
joy sign to go up or stay up at that elementary school should be fired, should be barred from teaching,
00:27:07.420
should probably be barred from being within 300 yards of a child. That's what I would do because
00:27:13.760
this is a political problem. It's political. It's public. The trans movement is endeavoring to go
00:27:22.900
out and convince your kid in an elementary school that he's the opposite sex, and that endangers your
00:27:27.920
child. That's going to give your child a 41% chance of committing suicide someday. That's how dangerous
00:27:32.100
it is, and it's going to give your child a much higher chance of having anxiety, depression,
00:27:36.900
suicidality, becoming sterile, living a life that is not conducive to his or her flourishing.
00:27:42.960
And so that's a political problem, and political problems require political solutions,
00:27:47.460
which is why this ideology must be eradicated from public life entirely, must be dealt with
00:27:54.720
politically for the good of your kids at the elementary school and your community, and especially
00:28:00.480
for the good of the people who have fallen prey to that confusion. Now, let's turn to some good news.
00:28:05.960
Nate Silver, one of, if not the most famous political statisticians and pollsters out there,
00:28:15.780
Nate Silver is predicting that Donald Trump will win the presidency. He's predicting that Trump will win
00:28:22.740
with a 65.7% likelihood. He gives Biden only about a one in three chance of winning the presidency,
00:28:31.920
and he breaks it down in electoral college probability, which is all that matters. That's how we choose the
00:28:38.140
president, and popular vote probability, and predicted electoral votes, and predicted popular vote share,
00:28:44.160
and, you know, on and on. Notable that even when it comes to the popular vote, which gives Democrats an
00:28:49.580
advantage, Trump and Biden are pretty close. Nate Silver puts it at 51 Biden, 49 Trump. But when you get to
00:28:55.340
the electoral college, which is the system that we actually have in our constitutional republic, such
00:28:59.720
as it is, he says Trump far and away the favorite to win. Now, you might be confused, because if you're
00:29:06.400
a political nerd and you follow these polls, you might say, hold on, I was reading the 538 poll,
00:29:11.280
and 538, that's Nate Silver's polling outlet and statistics outlet, 538 says that Biden is the favorite
00:29:19.140
to win. Right. Nate Silver was either booted out of or left 538 last year. So Nate Silver's on his own. What
00:29:29.500
matters is, when you're trying to analyze what the top pollsters have to say about things, is not what Nate Silver's
00:29:37.120
old outlet says, it's what Nate Silver says. So the question is, is Nate Silver right? Well, let's just look at his
00:29:44.000
track record. 2008, that's when Silver came onto the screen. His final forecast for the election
00:29:50.240
accurately predicted the winner of 49 out of 50 states. The one state he got wrong was Indiana.
00:29:57.260
Other than that, Silver was 100% right. A couple years later, 2010, of 37 gubernatorial races,
00:30:03.880
Silver correctly predicted the winner of 36. 36 out of 37, pretty good. When it comes to the Senate races,
00:30:09.480
he correctly predicted the winner in 34 out of 37 races. That's very impressive. 2012,
00:30:15.580
Nate Silver's model correctly predicted the winner of every single state in the country and the
00:30:21.360
District of Columbia. Very good record. 2016. In 2016, Nate Silver predicted Hillary would win.
00:30:28.600
However, his final prediction gave Hillary a much lower chance of winning than any of the other
00:30:35.600
outlets out there. His final prediction said that Hillary had a 71% chance of winning.
00:30:41.860
Other major forecasters predicted that Clinton had an 85 to 99% chance of winning. So even there,
00:30:48.000
you'd say, okay, Nate Silver got it wrong, but he got it way less wrong than all of the other pollsters.
00:30:54.360
Then in 2020, they predicted, Silver and his crew predicted that Biden had an 89% chance of winning,
00:31:01.160
and he only missed Florida, North Carolina, and Maine's second congressional district in his
00:31:07.460
predictions. Otherwise, he got it totally right. So this is pretty good news. If you follow the
00:31:13.840
polls, and not just the polls that this partisan media outlet wants to push, or that partisan media
00:31:19.220
outlet wants to push, but if you actually examine the pollsters by their records, Trump's sitting pretty
00:31:26.420
right now. It's another knock for the Democrats. They weren't able to boot him out in the primary.
00:31:34.000
They weren't able to convince him not to run at all. They weren't able to kick him off of the ballot,
00:31:40.060
which is what they were trying to do. They weren't able to turn the public against him with all the
00:31:44.480
various hoaxes. That didn't work. They weren't able to put him into prison yet. I mean, I guess they're
00:31:50.700
trying to do that. We'll see when the sentencing comes up in a couple weeks.
00:31:53.220
They, three out of those four cases where they're prosecuting him, they're going to be pushed after
00:31:59.760
it matters in the election. And now the polls look like Trump's the favorite to win, by far.
00:32:09.280
If you're a Democrat, what do you do then? I think the last two options are you banish him to St.
00:32:13.300
Helena or you assassinate him. That's pretty much it. Neither of which would be good. Now,
00:32:17.580
even though it looks good for Trump, there is at least one Republican who is defecting.
00:32:24.100
This is a big theme of today's show, is squish Republicans defecting. The one Republican
00:32:28.540
who has now endorsed Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, that would be Adam Kinzinger.
00:32:36.580
You remember him? He's the guy. He was a member of Congress who said he was a Republican,
00:32:41.180
but he was effectively a Democrat. And he served on, along with Liz Cheney, on the otherwise entirely
00:32:46.900
Democrat January 6th commission. And he's the kind of Republican who supports Republican things until
00:32:52.780
it matters, until the crucial votes, where it actually requires some political courage and
00:32:57.740
backbone. And then he always squishes to the libs. So now he's just come out fully and endorsed Biden.
00:33:03.300
And the press release from the Biden campaign is, Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger endorses
00:33:09.340
President Biden and Vice President Harris. That is fake news. That is a fake news headline.
00:33:15.020
At the very least, because Kinzinger is not a congressman. He got booted out of Congress
00:33:18.860
because Republicans rightly recognized he's a rat, he's a wolf in sheep's clothing, and he's not a
00:33:24.720
Republican. So the first two words of that headline are fake news. He's practically speaking,
00:33:32.840
not a Republican. And he's just literally not a congressman. But of course, he's endorsing
00:33:38.160
Biden. He has to endorse Biden. Because the never Trump position has always been incoherent.
00:33:46.300
I understand why some people were attracted to the never Trump movement. Because Trump's kind
00:33:51.340
of eccentric, and Trump's mean to some people, and he ruffled a lot of feathers, and he irritated
00:33:55.440
certain friends of friends of this interest, or that political coalition, or that. He upended
00:34:01.220
the Republican coalition. I get it. And some people took that personally. It's like, man,
00:34:05.360
I took that very personally. Some people did take it personally. But politics is not supposed to be
00:34:11.280
about personal matters. It's supposed to be about public matters. So what was the argument
00:34:18.560
to vote for Hillary over Trump? Well, Trump's mean, and he's a jerk, and I hate him, and maybe
00:34:23.840
he'll be liberal. Turns out he wasn't a liberal president. He was the most conservative president of
00:34:27.720
our lifetimes. But who knows? We don't know. It's 2016. We don't know. Maybe. But what's the
00:34:31.760
argument for voting for Hillary, who you know is pretty much the devil, over Trump? There's no
00:34:36.660
argument. Other than personal interest. Well, Trump weakens my position in the Republican Party,
00:34:43.540
or the conservative movement, or the Congress, or whatever. There was a third option in 2016,
00:34:48.460
that guy, Egg McMuffin, the former CIA, House Republican flack, who ran and was a protest vote.
00:34:55.740
But again, what's the argument for throwing away your vote when the stakes are so high you got Trump
00:34:59.400
or Clinton? It never made sense. Certainly didn't make sense in 2020, and it especially doesn't make
00:35:06.080
sense now. The only reason to be never Trump now is because you're petty, navel-gazing, putting your
00:35:15.420
own personal interests over the public good. You're vindictive. You're butthurt. You're this,
00:35:22.840
you're that, you're this, you're that. Ironically, it's all the things that they accuse Trump of
00:35:28.320
being and doing. Ironically, the position of Adam Kinzinger, the reason that you're going to take
00:35:34.620
your ball and go home and go vote for Joe Biden, who wants to flood our country with illegal aliens,
00:35:38.940
stomp all over our Constitution, and kill every baby he can see, and then trans the kids that make
00:35:43.500
it through. If you're a principled conservative, you're a Republican, the only reason to do it is
00:35:49.120
because you're just so petty and vindictive and narcissistic that you can't tolerate that someone
00:35:54.780
that you personally don't like is the leader of the Republican Party. All the things they accuse
00:35:59.880
Trump of being, it's projection, not only among the Democrats, but among the fake Republicans too,
00:36:05.640
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00:36:12.240
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dailywire.com. My favorite comment yesterday is Laura Kate Baker, 4925, says, I can't stand being
00:37:05.300
lied to. I love this comment because I think that represents the primary political motivations of a
00:37:15.240
lot of people. A lot of people who maybe aren't the biggest political nerds. They're not the most
00:37:21.920
involved. You know, they're doing other things. They got other stuff going on in their lives.
00:37:25.420
But they really don't like being lied to. Being lied to is deeply offensive. It carries with it a
00:37:34.020
great lack of respect. It's an insult to one's intelligence. It's an insult to one's integrity and
00:37:42.480
dignity. It's just really nasty. And when voters sit there and they see someone like a Mayorkas come
00:37:50.820
out and say, huh, there's no evidence that ISIS wants to hurt you. Oh, no, come on. Come on. It's no big
00:37:57.500
deal that we're letting ISIS terrorists into the country. That's very offensive to people.
00:38:03.460
When Joe Biden floods the country with more foreign nationals, illegal foreign nationals,
00:38:09.800
than any president ever in history by a country mile. And then he says, no, I'm not doing that.
00:38:15.140
We are enforcing law. We are enforcing the border. That's very offensive to people, especially people
00:38:19.540
who maybe know someone who's been the victim of a crime by an illegal alien. Maybe someone who knows
00:38:24.140
someone who's been injured or has died from all the illegal drugs that are pouring across the border.
00:38:28.560
That's very, very offensive. You don't need to know that much about the geopolitics of Ukraine and
00:38:35.060
Iran and this and that. You don't need to know much about the Federal Reserve and interest rates and how
00:38:39.920
that affects the economy and how spending affects inflation. You don't need to know that lying is
00:38:46.000
really, really offensive and annoying and could be enough to sway some votes. Now,
00:38:52.220
speaking of the never Trump position, this is apparently the position of the CIA. There's a
00:38:57.820
congressional report out, House Judiciary just released it, that the CIA interfered in the 2020
00:39:04.940
election. In other news, dogs bark, fish swim, birds fly. Yeah, I'm grateful to the Congress and House
00:39:18.720
Judiciary for releasing this. I'm very grateful. I don't mean to be glib about it.
00:39:22.620
Because you know that the libs are going to keep lying to us and say, no, the CIA,
00:39:26.000
the intelligence community didn't interfere in the election. So it's very important, actually,
00:39:29.840
that an authoritative body like a congressional committee can go out and say, no, here's the
00:39:34.240
report. Here are the facts. The CIA did interfere because that confirms for something that we already
00:39:39.860
knew. I mean, I guess that's why I'm kind of laughing about it is we already knew the CIA and the
00:39:43.460
intelligence community interfered in 2020. Why? Because they released that long letter.
00:39:49.880
They released a letter signed by 51 ex-spies in 2020 saying that the Hunter Biden laptop story
00:39:56.340
was Russian disinformation. The Hunter Biden laptop story, which we now know the federal
00:40:00.160
government has admitted, was totally legit. The Hunter Biden laptop was real. It did include
00:40:05.900
evidence of lots of crimes, some of which, the least of which, Hunter Biden is now being prosecuted for.
00:40:11.520
The Hunter Biden laptop story comes out. The intelligence community with all these ex-spies
00:40:20.980
come out. They say it's fake news, Russian disinformation. The big social media platforms
00:40:27.100
then, under pressure from the intelligence community, limit the reach of that story,
00:40:31.500
the public reach and the private reach. They prevent people, in some cases, from even privately
00:40:35.280
messaging the story. Joe Biden then cites that story during the presidential debate with Trump
00:40:40.300
to push the story out of the news. The story, which after the 2020 election, a poll was conducted
00:40:45.620
that showed that 12% of Biden voters would have not voted for Biden had they known that the Hunter
00:40:50.600
Biden laptop story was real or had they heard about it at all. So is that it? Is that all there is to it?
00:40:56.440
Well, some ex-spies signed a letter. That's not the fault of the intelligence community necessarily,
00:41:00.620
even though the IC did put some pressure on the big tech companies. Well, that's not it,
00:41:03.920
right? No. Well, what Congress has uncovered is that high-ranking CIA officials, up to and
00:41:09.160
including then-CIA director Gina Haspel, were aware of the Hunter Biden laptop statement prior to
00:41:16.880
its approval. Why? Because when spies want to go around mouthing off to the press, they need to go
00:41:23.900
through something called the Pre-Publication Classification Review Board, the PCRB, which
00:41:30.140
then sends this statement to the CIA's then chief operating officer, Andrew McCritus,
00:41:38.260
who then informed the then director of the CIA, Haspel, or then deputy director Vaughn Frederick
00:41:44.380
Bishop, that the statement would soon be published. The CIA leadership, the active CIA leadership at the
00:41:49.520
very top had the opportunity to slow this down because it was fake news and it was obviously agency
00:41:55.220
interference in the political process, but they didn't do that. They didn't do that at all.
00:42:00.280
And by not doing that, the CIA, the active CIA co-signed it. Furthermore,
00:42:08.040
some of the ex-spies on the list weren't just ex-spies, like Michael Morell, who was on active
00:42:15.560
contract with the CIA at the time that he signed that letter. And after that letter came out,
00:42:22.820
we now know for a fact, CIA employees internally expressed concern that this would compromise the
00:42:28.780
agency, that this was an improper interference by the CIA into the political process, and that it
00:42:33.960
would not be, quote, helpful to the agency in the long run. Okay, we already knew this. It's important
00:42:39.180
to see this spelled out. It's kind of like the Snopes story. I mentioned this, I think, yesterday on the
00:42:43.580
show. Donald Trump, after the Charlottesville march, he comes out and he says, look, there are fine people
00:42:51.700
on both sides of this debate over whether or not to take down statues of people like Robert E. Lee.
00:42:57.560
And we should respect that, and we should respect history. I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and
00:43:02.380
the white supremacists who should be condemned totally. That was Trump's statement verbatim.
00:43:07.840
And the media lied about that, and they said, no, Trump called Nazis very fine people at Charlottesville.
00:43:12.740
And then Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign on that false claim. And then seven years
00:43:16.700
later, Snopes admitted, okay, yeah, I guess we in the liberal media lied about it. We, Snopes, as an
00:43:24.720
example and emblem of the liberal media, yeah, okay, I guess we could have fact-checked this seven years
00:43:28.880
ago, or five years ago, or four years ago, but now seven years later, people forget about it. We'll admit,
00:43:33.960
yeah, you guys were right, and we all lied, either by omission or directly. And then, and they'll do that.
00:43:40.820
They'll, in seven years, you'll hear all the lies that they're telling now. So they'll admit that those
00:43:45.140
lies in seven years when it no longer matters. So it's important to establish that for the record,
00:43:49.500
because at a certain point, when they all just keep lying to you all the time, and CNN,
00:43:54.720
and the New York Times, out of the CIA, at a certain point, the only rational course of action
00:44:00.280
is to stop believing them. And you know that there's going to be a deluge of propaganda coming
00:44:04.440
over the next five months from the media, probably from the intelligence community, too.
00:44:08.840
Good to prepare yourself now. Get it on the record. Take it with a big grain of salt.
00:44:13.440
Now, speaking of attacks from the liberal establishment on right-wingers all around the world,
00:44:19.360
there's an attack. I wanted to get to this yesterday. I'm glad we have a little bit of time today.
00:44:22.720
In the UK elections, where you're seeing a right-wing wave all over Europe in the European elections,
00:44:28.640
and that we'll then, we'll maybe see if that continues on in the national elections throughout
00:44:33.500
Europe and the United Kingdom. Nigel Farage, right now, looks like he's going to upend the oldest
00:44:37.560
continuously running political party in the world, the Tories, and he's going to have a real
00:44:42.640
right-wing party, Reform UK come out. So now the liberal media, they're all attacking him with
00:44:47.060
everything they got. They're accusing him of something that we've heard bandied about constantly
00:44:52.720
for the last eight years. They're accusing Nigel of being pro-Putin. And here's why.
00:44:59.240
On a tweet, it was a consequence of EU and NATO expansion. Is that a judgment you stand by?
00:45:06.340
Right. I'll tell you what you don't know. I stood up in the European Parliament in 2014,
00:45:11.420
and I said, and I quote, there will be a war in Ukraine. Why did I say that? It was obvious to me
00:45:19.420
that the ever eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union was giving this man a reason
00:45:26.320
to his Russian people to say they're coming for us again and to go to war.
00:45:35.920
No, no, no, no. Sorry, I've been saying this actually since the 1990s, ever since the fall of the war.
00:45:43.420
But hang on a second. We've provoked this war. Of course it's his fault. He's used what we've done as an excuse.
00:45:51.600
Yes, and very interestingly, once again, 10 years ago when I predicted this, by the way,
00:45:55.680
I'm the only person in British politics that predicted what would happen.
00:45:59.060
What Nigel just said here is 100% correct. And this interviewer on the BBC says,
00:46:04.620
you're saying that the West acted foolishly and recklessly in the lead up to the war of Ukraine
00:46:13.240
Yes, that's correct. Well, that's what Putin's saying. Yeah. Putin drinks water too. That means
00:46:19.460
everybody who drinks water, you know, Hitler liked his dog. Does that mean everyone who likes their dog
00:46:22.720
is doing something wicked? No. That opinion that the West and NATO acted recklessly and antagonized
00:46:33.000
Russia needlessly and that that helped bring about this war in Ukraine is not just an opinion held by
00:46:37.720
the radical far right. That's an opinion held by people like Henry Kissinger, a rather moderate
00:46:44.160
Republican who's been one of the leading figures in foreign policy until his recent death for well over
00:46:50.600
half a century. That's the opinion of people like Daniel Patrick Moynihan. That's the opinion of people
00:46:54.480
like Sam Nunn. That's the people, so including some Democrats. That's the opinion of people like George
00:46:58.780
Kennan who wrote the long telegram that crafted the very beginning of American Cold War strategy.
00:47:04.940
That's just common sense, man. That's what it is. But this is the line.
00:47:09.140
If you disagree with the liberal establishment, just constantly going in, acting in an aggressive
00:47:16.480
way, toppling countries, NATO's supposed to be in a defensive alliance, but sometimes it acts in a
00:47:21.800
not so defensive way and it actually goes in and is an offensive alliance, which then if you're
00:47:27.700
Vladimir Putin, you say, okay, well, if they're coming into Ukraine, that's an unacceptable security
00:47:30.940
risk on my border. And if NATO is now saying actually buffer states serve no purpose whatsoever in
00:47:36.160
geopolitics and we just need to conquer everything, that's a reckless and rash position.
00:47:42.440
And that is something that the liberal establishment can't tolerate. That kind of common sense, which is
00:47:49.260
extremely popular, I think that's probably the most popular position throughout not just the
00:47:54.160
Anglosphere but throughout the West, they can't tolerate that because you're saying, no, there ought to
00:47:59.040
be some limits to the conquest of liberalism. Not going to tolerate that. So they're going to lie.
00:48:07.300
It's an old tired attack. We're seeing a lot of the same old tired attacks and they don't seem to
00:48:12.240
be working very well. So if the rhetoric isn't working, if the liberals aren't doing a good job
00:48:16.500
of persuading people, the only option is to use force. We'll see if they end up doing that. We'll see
00:48:21.200
how persuasive Joe Biden is tonight at the debate. Today is Theology Thursday. The rest of the show
00:48:25.880
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