Ep. 1524 - Soros-Backed Group Spends $10M To Destroy SCOTUS
Summary
Democrat Demand Justice is spending $10 million to attack the Supreme Court, according to a new report from a left-wing activist masquerading as a reporter. A black Olympian runner has just declared through tears that she is so happy that she was picked for the Olympics because she s now making a way for everyone who looks like her.
Transcript
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Democrats have suffered some major setbacks since their presidential nominee
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suffered rigor mortis on national television, but they've got a new strategy.
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Destroy the Supreme Court. According to fawning reporting from Politico's Heidi Prezibola,
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the liberal Soros-funded activist group Demand Justice will now spend $10 million
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attacking the Supreme Court for doing its job. If the name Heidi Prezibola, I'm probably
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mispronouncing that, sounds familiar. It is because she was featured on this show not long ago,
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demanding that Christians shut up and stay out of the political process.
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And the one thing that unites all of them, because there's many different groups orbiting Trump,
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but the thing that unites them as Christian nationalists, not Christians, by the way,
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because Christian nationalists is very different, is that they believe that our rights as Americans,
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as all human beings, don't come from any earthly authority. They don't come from Congress,
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they don't come from the Supreme Court, they come from God.
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That left-wing activist masquerading as a reporter has obviously never read the Declaration of
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Independence or the Bible, or one suspects any serious political philosophy of any kind.
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And she has outlined in what is basically a press release how the money is going to be spent to
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destroy the Supreme Court. Democrats will, in her words, conduct, quote, opposition research on
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potential Supreme Court picks and, quote, work to mobilize key constituencies affected by the court's
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decisions. That last phrase is particularly interesting because Supreme Court justices are not
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elected. They're appointed, and they're appointed for life, so they're not even reappointed.
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They're just, they're there. Mobilizing key constituencies could not serve any legal or
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constitutional purpose. All it can mean is encouraging threats against the court, the kind
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we saw in the lead-up to the Dobbs decision, when leftists illegally protested outside the homes of
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conservative justices, one of whom was nearly assassinated, and another one of whom was forced
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to flee his home. These are not fringe groups or activists. This is a well-funded mainstream liberal
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group promoted by a national reporter for Politico. This is not an idle complaint. It is a declaration
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of war against a co-equal branch of government, the sort of thing one might call an insurrection
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and an existential threat to our democracy. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. A black Olympian runner has just declared through tears that she is so
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happy that she was picked for the Olympics because she's now making a way for everyone who looks like
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her. So I dug into some of the numbers on how rare black runners are in the Olympics, and the results
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home. We'll blitz through the latest round of bad polls for Biden because it's very newsworthy,
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but then it tells you about all the machinations. The political ground right now is moving very,
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very quickly under our feet, and nobody really knows what's going to happen. But the reason that
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the ground is moving is because Biden showed himself to be half a dead guy during that national
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debate, and the polls are reflecting that. So these are some of the earliest polls that have
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come out after the presidential debate. USA Today Suffolk University poll shows 41% of Democrat voters
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want Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 race. Now, okay, that's the headline that everyone's reporting.
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However, the flip side of that is 51% of Democrats want him to remain on the ticket.
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So it's not good for a guy who's now, who's an incumbent and who's supposed to be the nominee
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of the party. 51% seems low, but it's a bare majority. And so Democrats, if you remove Biden now,
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that is a threat to our democracy. How dare you undermine our sacred, beautiful democracy?
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You can't. He's your nominee. No take backs. You got to stick with him. The poll also shows
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only 28% of Biden's supporters said that he won the debate. You know, usually after these things,
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a guy could show up on stage, start speaking gibberish, and bang his head against the podium.
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His partisans will still say he won the debate. Well, here, Biden's performance was so bad,
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just a little over a quarter of his own supporters say he won the debate.
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And then when you look at independents, 64% of independent voters want Biden replaced on the
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ballot. So these are people who theoretically could vote for Biden. You know, not the hard
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partisan Republicans, you're never going to win. Not the hard partisan Democrats, you're never going
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to lose. It's those independents that both parties are going to fight over. A clear majority of them
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say they want Biden gone. There's another poll, CBS News, YouGov shows 72% of registered voters
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believe that Joe Biden does not have the mental and cognitive health to serve as president.
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Almost three quarters of registered voters think that this man's brain has turned to mush,
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and he can't even do the job today of being president, much less get a second term.
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Why that matters is not that people recognize Biden's in decline. Some of us have pointed that
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out for some years now. It's the movement, because they took this same poll back on June 9th.
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Only 65% of registered voters said that Biden was senile and not fit to be president.
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So it's a huge number too. But then you see a spike like that, a 7% spike that's more than
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a 10% spike over where it had been. Yikes. That's not good news. I looked at the New York
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Times website yesterday, something I tried rarely to do. And four out of the five top op-eds on the
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website were calling on Biden to drop out. And one of the op-eds was still kind of touching on
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the Biden issue, but it wasn't explicitly calling on him to drop out of the race. But four out of five
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of the op-eds on the New York Times, you know, the house organ of the liberal establishment,
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brutal news. Meanwhile, you get Carl Bernstein, who is one of the journalists. It was Woodward and
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Bernstein to take down Richard Nixon. It was really just a deep state coup to take down Richard Nixon,
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but that's a conversation for another time. Bernstein, you know, goes on. And for the last 50
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years, his job has been to go on cable news and whoever the president is, usually a Republican,
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say, this is President so-and-so's Watergate moment. He's brought on, trotted on by the liberal
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establishment. He has carried water for the liberal establishment since the 1970s. And even Carl
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Bernstein is coming out here and saying, actually, my sources say Biden is even worse than you think.
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Well, these are people, several of them, who are very close to President Biden, who love him,
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have supported him, have been among them, or some people who have raised a lot of money for him.
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And they are adamant that what we saw the other night, the Joe Biden we saw, is not a one-off,
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that there have been 15, 20 occasions in the last year and a half when the president has appeared
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somewhat as he did in that horror show that we witnessed.
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Okay. Fifteen times at least in the past year that Carl Bernstein, intrepid reporter Carl Bernstein's
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sources say he appeared just as bad. My question is, where was that reporting before the debate?
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Where were all these intrepid journalists who have all their well-cultivated sources
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before the debate? If this has been going on 15 times that Biden looks slack-jawed and drooling
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in the past year in front of people, how come those reports didn't come out before the debate?
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One, because the journalists are not fair reporters. They are radical left-wing activists like that lady,
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Heidi Prezibola, who's writing press releases for groups that are designed to take down the,
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that are left-wing funded, left-wing billionaire funded groups designed to take down a co-equal
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branch of government. And they are propagandists for the liberal establishment who go on TV and carry
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the Democrat Party message when it's convenient. And they were trying to squeak Biden across the finish
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line. Either they just didn't know. They just hadn't talked to those sources. They weren't doing
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their jobs. Or they did know, and they were covering up for Biden because they thought, you know,
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we'll just call it a childhood stutter. The American people are so stupid that they're not going to
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figure out that we're lying to them. And then we'll get him across the finish line. And then whatever.
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If he falls down a flight of stairs, then we'll have Kamala. And it doesn't even matter. Kamala's no
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good. But we'll, we'll just have all of our apparatchiks in the administration and we'll get the
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policies we want. And then when it was undeniable on national television, now all of a sudden the
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those annoying phone calls. AmericanFinancing.net. At least one person wants Joe Biden to stay in the
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race. This, according to the New York Times, Hunter Biden is one of the strongest voices urging his
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father to stay in the race. I'm just quoting now from the Times. One of the strongest voices imploring
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Mr. Biden to resist pressure to drop out was his son Hunter Biden, whom the president has long leaned
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on for advice, said one of the people informed about the discussions, who, like others, spoke on
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condition of anonymity to share internal deliberations. Hunter Biden wants Americans to see the version of
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his father that he knows, scrappy and in command of the facts, rather than the stumbling aging president
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we saw on Thursday night. Hmm, gee, I wonder why Hunter Biden might want his dad to remain president.
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You know, I wonder why the guy who has been found guilty of all sorts of crimes and who has not even
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yet been prosecuted for the serious crimes that he obviously committed. We have the, his own records,
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we have pictures, we have videos of it that he took from his laptop. Wonder why that guy might want his
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dad to remain president. Hey, dad, hey, don't listen to every single other person out there. No, no.
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Come on, man. Come on, Jack. Need you to stick in there. Give, give old big H the pardon power,
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baby. Come on, let's do it. Let's do it, dad. We have to. This is a classic example of the dark side
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of political regime. Going back to our good friend Polybius, the ancient writer, he says there's good
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forms of government, bad forms of government, and they look like mirror images of each other.
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So the good form of government by one man is a monarchy. The bad form of government by one man is
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a tyranny. Good form of government by a small group of people is aristocracy. The bad version
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is oligarchy. The good version of government by the people is democracy. The bad version is mob rule.
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What distinguishes them? In the good versions, you rule for the common good. In the bad versions,
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you rule for private interest. This is obviously just about private interest. If Hunter had any care
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for his father, he would stop this embarrassment. But Hunter wants to avoid putting on an orange jumpsuit,
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and Hunter, having been the bag man, apparently, for the Biden family for some years,
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feels that this is owed to him, one suspects. And so he's saying, hey, dad, you got to stick in the
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race. One of the strongest voices urging him to stay in. No surprises there whatsoever.
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Meanwhile, the persecution of the Trump-affiliated conservatives is ramping up. Steve Bannon
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is going to jail. And for his jail, for his sentence, he has chosen Danbury Correctional
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Facility in Connecticut. Why did he choose it? Here is Steve Bannon in his own words.
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Look, folks, if it took me going to prison, because remember, the reason I chose Danbury,
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I asked for Danbury for a very specific reason. Back in 19, the only other person that's ever been
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sent to prison for a congressional subpoena, a congressional subpoena, not going to a house
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subpoena for contempt, held in contempt, was Reg Lardner Jr. Back in the 1940s, during the
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House Un-American Activity Investigation. Columbia Studio fired him, okay, because of his political
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beliefs. And then he was found guilty. They sent it to the DOJ. He was sent to prison. He was sent to
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this prison. That's why I requested Danbury, because there's no difference in his fight
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than in our fight. I'm a political prisoner of Nancy Pelosi. I'm a political prisoner of Merrick
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Garland. I'm a political prisoner. I'm a political prisoner of Joe Biden, the corrupt Biden establishment.
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Okay. Obviously, we support Steve. We support anyone who's being unjustly persecuted for being
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a conservative. But what he said here isn't true. He said there's no difference between that communist
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being sent to prison and Steve Bannon being sent to prison. There's a big difference. The big difference
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is that guy was a communist, and Steve Bannon is a conservative. Steve is not giving himself anywhere
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near enough credit. There's a big difference. The people who are putting Steve Bannon in jail right now
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are communists or communist sympathizers, or at least we would say radical leftists,
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why would Steve Bannon draw a comparison between himself and a communist and express sympathy for
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the communist? His speech here is taking a liberal line of argument to say, look, it's not about the
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particulars of political philosophy or the particular political ends we want to achieve. All that matters is
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procedure. I am being targeted for my political speech. Forget about the substance of that
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political speech, the substance of goods we're after. No, no, it's just about procedural norms.
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I'm being targeted by the government for things that I'm saying about politics, and that's why I'm the
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same as a communist. Now, Steve Bannon is a very intelligent guy. So I suspect that he didn't just
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make this argument accidentally. Probably he is intentionally making a liberal line of argument here
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in order to persuade more liberal and moderate, centrist, independent voters.
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But it is kind of funny to hear him say this because, you know, here he's criticizing the House
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Committee on Un-American Activities. The HCUA was great. It was fabulous. There were actual communists,
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not only in Hollywood, there were communists in the State Department. We know this for a fact because
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Richard Nixon doggedly pursued one of them who was a very senior member of the State Department
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who helped found the United Nations, for goodness sakes. That was Alger Hiss. And this was based on
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the testimony of Whitaker Chambers, a former communist who left the Communist Party, wrote an
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excellent book called Witness. And nobody believed Whitaker Chambers other than Richard Nixon.
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And no one believed Nixon. They always mocked Nixon. And Nixon and Chambers and the hardcore
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conservatives and McCarthy, a man who was defended by William F. Buckley Jr., so urbane a conservative
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as that in McCarthy and his enemies, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities. They were all right.
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There were communists who had infiltrated the government who were trying to destroy the government
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from within. And we nabbed at least one of them. We nabbed Alger Hiss. We got some other spies too,
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you know, during the effort to root out communists. For goodness sakes, we were in a cold war with the
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Soviet Union that was trying to subvert our country and install communism as they did in a number of
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other countries around the world. Very curious that Steve Bannon would take this line of argument here.
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He's appealing to a liberal sensibility. And maybe this is what the Republicans are going to do moving
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forward. I'm not sure this is the wisest strategy. In fact, I think it's better to draw a clear
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distinction between us and communists. And I think it's important to focus on substantive goods rather than
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merely procedural norms. I think that the liberal lines of argument actually have hurt us. But maybe Steve Bannon
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is thinking it's an election year. Just say we're we are being politically persecuted. Forget about what we
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believe and what we're trying to achieve. Forget about that. If you're a leftist and you even have sympathy for the
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Anyway, it's it's a bold strategy. We'll see if it pays off. I don't mean that in a snarky way.
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It very well might. In fact, if the polls are any indication, it is paying off when the vast majority
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of Americans, including a lot of Democrats, including a lot of centrists, believe that that Trump is being
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prosecuted primarily for political reasons. Now, speaking of liberal lines of argument, there's this
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black Olympic runner. Her name is Alacia Johnson. She's the runner in the women's 100 meter.
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She has just come out, tears in her eyes, so happy that her selection for the Olympics
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will maybe help to carve a path for people who look like her.
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It was all guy. I already knew. I already knew before the season started what was coming for me.
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I literally I knew it was the easiest thing to do because everybody all the time said that I wasn't
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good enough, said that I didn't deserve. And so I did this my way, my team's way, and just the way
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that it was meant to be. This is for the hood babies. This is for the people who are poor to come from
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nothing. This is for everybody that looks like me, that was ever doubting and I did it with a black
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designer on my chest. This is what I stand for, and I'm making a way for everybody in my position.
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She's making a way for everyone who looks like her. People are told you can't do this because
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you're black. Couldn't be because she's a woman because the event is actually only for women. So
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it's got to be because she's black and black people, they just they're told they can't succeed in
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running. So I'm looking at the video of her doing the the hundred meter hurdles and every single
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person running is black except for one. There's one white lady, but then all the rest of them are
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black. And then that got me thinking, I'm not the biggest athlete in the world. You know, I don't
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watch the Olympics really, but I said, well, how many runners, just runners generally and all these
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different events, how many of them are black? Is it true that there is a dearth of black people
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running? So I looked over just the last 60 years. That's that's as far as I went back in the men's
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100 meter running. I don't know whatever the race is. Nine out of 10 gold medalists have been black
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and one out of 10 was Italian and the Italians are kind of like 50-50. You know, they're the
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Africans of Europe. 10 out of 10 silver medalists black, 10 out of 10 bronze medalists black. I looked
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at the men's 200 meter, nine out of 10 who won the gold black. One out of 10, the one who wasn't
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black was Greek. And you know, the Greeks invented the Olympics and they've been running for a long
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time. So and they're also a little racially kind of ambiguous. 10 out of 10 silver medalists black,
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nine out of 10 bronze medalists black. Men's 400 meter. I kept going down the list on the wiki page.
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Nine or 10 of the gold medalists were black. One of them was ethnically ambiguous, might've been a
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little bit black. I said, okay, let me look at the women. So I look at the women,
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100 meter, eight out of nine gold medalists black, nine out of 10 silver black, seven out of
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nine bronze black. What about the women's 200? 10 out of 10 gold medalists black, nine of 10 silver
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medalists black, nine of 10 bronze medalists black. I don't know. I could probably fill up the whole
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show listing the events in the Olympics, especially running where virtually every winner has been black
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for a very long time. The only people who might think that they can't make it in Olympic running
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are, are the people who do not look like that runner. Those are the old, the people who look like
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that runner, the one, you know, she's carving away from people who look like her. They should feel the
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most confident about being able to make it into the Olympics. So why is she saying this? Because
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this is the ideology that forms our views of everything. Now, if you are black, you are always
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at a disadvantage for everything. If you are white, you are always at an advantage for everything.
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If you are black, anytime you do anything, it is the greatest triumph ever. You've overcome such odds.
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If you are white, nothing you ever do is worth any kind of praise. Actually, it's worth derision,
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even if you achieve something that's good. That's just the ideology. And the ideology has permeated
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the culture and it's set in for everyone such that a woman who is an Olympic runner herself
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could actually believe, say it with a straight face. I have overcome such odds because of my
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skin color. I am paving a way for black people in running. There's so much more to say. First,
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to brief me earlier, my brother has an expression, you got to know how to know. You, you do have to
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know how to know. I guess that that's epistemology. Maybe Joe Biden is lecturing on epistemology here.
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That was the only part I could really catch clearly. The rest of the sun, so my son, but
00:24:31.000
going back down, swimming pooled in Scranton, Pennsylvania. We got my little corn pop, got the
00:24:36.920
hairy legs on an ice cream and he's sitting in my mind. I got my brother, my brother, Jackie,
00:24:40.860
tell me you got to know what you know. You know what you know in there, Chief? It's almost blending
00:24:46.180
into Kamala Harris speaking jive. I don't know which, you know, we, we out here in these streets,
00:24:50.800
Jive Turkey, you know, we got, you know what I'm talking about, Slim Jack? We ain't here out,
00:24:54.180
it ain't easy, no man. You dig what I'm saying? That blood, my brother, Jack, my brother, Jack,
00:24:59.460
he know how to know. He know what you know how to don't know what you don't know. So who knows?
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Maybe there actually will be a relatively smooth transition if Biden steps down and Kamala Harris
00:25:10.340
becomes the president. In any case, this is not fixing Biden's problem. To fix the problem,
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I see why Biden gave this speech. Biden has to give a lot of speeches right now,
00:25:20.380
and he has to give the speeches because to fix the problem that was created by his dismal performance
00:25:26.900
at the debate, he needs to show people that he knows how to talk. This is the only skill Joe Biden
00:25:32.400
has ever possessed. He's a talker. That's what politicians do. They talk. And he's been talking
00:25:38.640
pretty well since the early 1970s when he was elected to the Senate below the constitutional age
00:25:45.080
requirement to be elected to the Senate. He's been in it for a long time, very ambitious guy,
00:25:49.740
and he's a slick talker, but he's not a slick talker anymore. So he's lost the one skill necessary
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for politicians. So to fix it, he's got to go out there. He's got to show people he can talk.
00:25:59.240
Problem is he can't talk. He no longer can speak. And Democrats have known this since at least 2020.
00:26:06.140
That's why they invented this story about the childhood stutter, which whether or not Biden had
00:26:11.220
a stutter as a child, it disappeared for 47 years of his national political career. No one ever heard of
00:26:16.700
it. No one ever suspected it. It came roaring back with a vengeance somehow. And it came roaring
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back because it was not a return of a childhood stutter. It was the onset of dementia. So he can't
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win for losing. If he does nothing and stays on his porch, as he did during the 2020 race, he's going
00:26:35.340
to lose. All the polls show it. If he goes out and speaks, he is going to lose even more.
00:26:44.660
As of right now, it seems there is nothing Biden can do to win. He can't even rig the election and
00:26:49.900
change all the rules because there's no bad batch of bat soup coming out of Wuhan. It's a little late
00:26:56.440
probably to do a global pandemic. So what's he going to do? The entire liberal establishment has
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said his brain has turned to pudding. So what's he going to do? Nothing. Everything he does and says
00:27:11.780
makes it worse. This is true even for his spokesman. He's got this terrible spokesman,
00:27:18.020
Corrine Jean-Pierre, who's not that great at speaking herself, but they can't fire her
00:27:21.420
because, speaking of identity politics, she's not only a black person, but a black woman. Not
00:27:27.200
only a black woman, but a black lesbian. And so she has total job security. Her predecessor,
00:27:32.560
Jen Psaki, was okay. She was fine in the role. There have been many better press secretaries.
00:27:37.400
There have been many worse. One of the worst ones is Corrine Jean-Pierre. But Corrine Jean-Pierre is
00:27:42.560
going to have that job as long as she wants because she's not fireable. She's not good at the job,
00:27:48.860
but she's a member of identity groups that just simply can't be fired, certainly on the left.
00:27:53.000
So whenever there's a really important announcement to make, they always trot out John Kirby, who's just
00:27:58.160
like the plainest looking white guy you ever saw in your life. But John Kirby, who in any other
00:28:02.980
situation would already be the White House press secretary, because he's a white guy, he can't
00:28:06.860
replace a black lesbian. So he just remains the National Security Council spokesman. And they trot him out
00:28:11.580
when they've got important announcements to make. Here, they put out Corrine Jean-Pierre.
00:28:14.960
She's asked, okay, can you give us any explanation about the bad debate performance? I know that Biden
00:28:21.080
had a cold or something. Was he on cold medication? Is that why he was slurring his words and slack jaw
00:28:26.480
drooling? And her answer actually makes it worse. You just reminded us that President Biden had a cold
00:28:33.240
on Thursday. What medications was he taking in the days or hours leading up to the debate?
00:28:38.900
And I know that question has come in a couple of times to us. He was not taking any cold medication.
00:28:43.480
Was he taking any medication that would have interfered with his performance?
00:28:47.280
He was not taking any cold medication. That is what I can speak to. I've asked his doctor,
00:28:52.760
and that's what he stated to us. After the debate, did the President get examed by a doctor,
00:28:59.880
or did he get a neurological scan? A neurological scan? Look, what I can say is that, just to take a step
00:29:09.960
back. It was a bad night. We understand that it was a bad night. And the President has spoken to this.
00:29:19.240
And he understands that. And so I cannot speak to anything beyond what I just shared. The President
00:29:27.800
has regular annual physicals that we release in a thorough report.
00:29:33.900
Okay, just end it. I can't even bear to watch this brutal performance any longer. Almost as bad as the
00:29:42.240
presidential debate. But what's she going to say? It says he wasn't on any cold meds. Okay,
00:29:45.960
follow up. Normal question. Was he on any kind of medication that would interfere
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with his performance? That's specific. It's not, was he on any other kind of medication? Joe Biden is in
00:29:55.960
his 80s. I'm sure he's on plenty of medication. Who knows? Maybe he's on blood pressure medication.
00:30:00.240
Maybe he's on this medication. Maybe he's on that. So the question specifically is any medication that
00:30:05.200
might have interfered with his performance. That is, any medication that alters one's state of mind
00:30:09.560
or radically alters one's behavior. Is he on any senility medication? Any dementia kind of medication?
00:30:19.260
And Corinne Jean-Pierre's implicit answer is yes. He says he wasn't on any cold meds. That's all I can
00:30:26.500
tell you. Now, she could have said, look, no, he's not on any medication that would have interfered
00:30:33.480
for his performance. And that would have covered all the normal meds that all sorts of old people
00:30:37.140
are on, like blood pressure meds, for instance. But she couldn't say no because I guess the implicit
00:30:43.380
admission here is, yeah, he was on a lot of medications that might have affected his behavior
00:30:48.840
in his speech and his performance. Yeah, he's senile. Yeah, that's what it is.
00:30:54.640
When the White House has to make the statement she made, look, we know it was a bad night.
00:31:00.420
You know things are bad. This woman's job is to never have to say such and such that the president
00:31:08.360
did is bad. That's her whole job. Everything the president does is good. Nothing he ever does is bad.
00:31:13.840
When the White House spokesman is forced by circumstances to say it was bad,
00:31:20.380
you know it's real bad. It's even the subject of jokes on SNL. We have our biannual funny sketch
00:31:28.480
from Saturday Night Live came out specifically on the question of, are they going to replace Biden?
00:31:55.440
From the producers of Smile and the twisted minds of Morning Joe.
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For those not, for those listening right now, it's at Beto 2020.
00:32:37.100
It's the biannual funny sketch from SNL because it's true.
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I had actually forgotten when I did my own version of that sketch,
00:32:45.220
not having seen SNL or maybe before the SNL one came out,
00:32:54.920
Here's one weird trick how Bernie can really, it's going to be 2072.
00:32:57.840
We're going to be saying, no, there's actually a chance Bernie could still win it.
00:33:04.080
Really, the only even semi-plausible answer they've got right now is Kamala Harris.
00:33:09.940
The reason being, if Biden says he won't seek re-election because he's demented,
00:33:21.480
If he's saying, I'm not going to run again, not because, like LBJ, you know,
00:33:26.480
I don't want to deal with the politics of it or I don't think I would win re-election
00:33:32.420
He would be saying, I'm not running anymore because I'm not up to the job.
00:33:35.180
Well, if you're not up to the job in November, you're not up to the job today.
00:33:39.560
So, then he would have to step down or they'd have to 25th Amendment, the guy.
00:33:44.800
And then Kamala would be president and then Kamala would be the presumptive nominee.
00:33:50.540
And so, if the Democrats skipped over her, they would be violating one of their sacred dogmas,
00:33:56.240
the dogma of intersectionality and black women being right about everything.
00:34:00.320
So, they couldn't replace her with a white guy.
00:34:03.040
They couldn't replace her with a lot of the candidates that they might consider.
00:34:08.580
And Kamala almost certainly loses to Trump, I think, and probably does worse against Trump
00:34:19.060
It's a horror show for the Democrats and it's very funny for the rest of us because of how
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For now, you know, to quote Trump, we knock on wood, we knock on wood wherever we might have wood.
00:34:30.360
Now, speaking of entertainment, there's a story that I'm surprised that I am as interested in
00:34:36.740
This is the rumor, now months-long rumors, of a divorce between Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
00:34:42.940
Now, if you have not been following this story, you might think you were just transported back to 2003 or something.
00:34:50.500
Ben Affleck dated J-Lo back in the early 2000s.
00:34:55.200
Then, they were engaged at one point, famously.
00:34:57.480
They did that terrible movie together, Geely, and it was a big tabloid thing.
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Ben Affleck gets married to another actress, Jennifer Garner.
00:35:07.060
He's married her for 13 years from 2005 to 2018.
00:35:10.440
Then, they break up and he starts dating J-Lo again a few years ago.
00:35:14.160
And then, they got married and now the rumor is they might get divorced.
00:35:19.140
Because it reminds me of words of a great poet-philosopher, Don Henley.
00:35:26.480
The words are, there's danger in the embers and you have only yourself to blame if you get burned when you try to rekindle that old flame.
00:35:41.160
Is it really me you miss or just your long-lost youth?
00:35:45.300
The J-Lo Ben Affleck story, it speaks to me in part because I was a kid when they were a big tabloid feature when they were dating.
00:35:58.060
Oh, man, you were just married to this other woman for 13 years and then you're going back to your old flame.
00:36:09.880
And nostalgia is a really insidious temptation.
00:36:15.600
Nostalgia, my friend Father George Rutler says, nostalgia is history after a few drinks.
00:36:24.540
But nostalgia can be a real danger because you can't go backwards in time.
00:36:29.980
This is actually an area where the liberals and the progressives are probably a little more grounded to reality than the conservatives are a lot of the time.
00:36:38.280
It pains me to say it because the leftists are not all that grounded to reality on pretty much any other issue.
00:36:46.560
I joke and I say, I'd like to go back not to 2012, but to 1220.
00:36:54.900
I see there are a lot of great things about the past.
00:36:56.620
But I don't actually want to get in a time machine.
00:36:58.260
I just want to reestablish certain conditions and rehabituate people to certain behaviors and beliefs in the present.
00:37:06.720
But moving forward, because time only moves in one direction, you know, for Christians, for those of us in the West.
00:37:12.960
The Eastern religions don't really believe in time the way that we believe in time.
00:37:18.660
They think time can be cyclical or there can be cycles of reincarnation or certain pagan groups thought that time was kind of eternal, you know, and that nothing really ever changes and the universe is eternal.
00:37:39.120
The pivot of history is the incarnation and the crucifixion and the resurrection.
00:37:44.120
And we know it will end one day in the apocalypse.
00:37:50.640
Marriage here, in fact, the Christians raise it to a sacrament.
00:37:55.300
It says marriage is a symbol between Christ and his church.
00:38:02.440
And it's a symbol of Christ's love for his church.
00:38:04.620
So that marriage, from the Christian perspective, is permanent.
00:38:12.780
And as we lose our Christian sense of society, you're going to see, as you are seeing, a lot more divorce.
00:38:19.060
But you're also going to see a lot more nostalgia, kind of paradoxically, I suppose.
00:38:25.140
Because you're going to see people forgetting that you've got to move forward.
00:38:28.960
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Becky Faith, 1070, who says,
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If Biden can't debate at 9 p.m., how can he make critical decisions at 2 a.m.?
00:39:39.320
And this is why the moment he steps down for re-election, he's got to resign the presidency.
00:39:50.320
Speaking of marriage and the fruit of marriage, a really sad story hits the news.
00:39:55.760
And it's not only a story of great sadness, it's a story of great hypocrisy.
00:40:03.700
A British nurse has been convicted of killing seven babies and trying to kill an eighth baby.
00:40:08.640
This is a nurse, Lucy Letby, who works in a neonatal unit at a hospital.
00:40:24.820
This 34-year-old woman tried to kill a baby girl in his child, Kay, back in February 2016.
00:40:31.740
She had already killed a lot of other kids, allegedly.
00:40:37.020
And the kids she's killed were very premature girls.
00:40:42.700
The one she tried to kill was a very premature, in the words of the court, baby girl.
00:40:47.520
And she's killed others because she's in the neonatal unit.
00:40:52.120
In the UK, it is currently legal to kill these babies as long as you kill these babies in the womb.
00:40:59.520
But the babies could be the exact same age as the babies that this woman killed.
00:41:03.300
They just happen to be inside the womb and their parents don't want them.
00:41:09.620
And so, had this woman just moved from the neonatal unit into the abortion unit and killed the exact same type of babies at the exact same age, those babies might have looked almost identical.
00:41:21.720
This woman not only wouldn't be brought up on charges, she'd be hailed as a hero of reproductive rights and freedom and gender equality.
00:41:30.420
But because the babies, delivered prematurely, were outside the womb, the babies that she killed and tried to kill, allegedly, could actually have been younger.
00:41:40.740
In some cases, significantly younger than the babies that are legally killed inside the womb in the United Kingdom.
00:41:48.100
Because the UK really doesn't place almost any limit on abortion at all.
00:41:54.560
Most abortions are supposed to take place before 24 weeks in the UK.
00:42:01.640
We played a clip on the show a couple days ago of a woman who was told, full term, 38 or 39 weeks, that in the UK she could still abort her baby because the baby had Down syndrome.
00:42:12.940
If there's a threat to the life of the mother, one.
00:42:18.700
So, if the baby's handicapped or a little mentally impaired or something, then you can kill the baby, you know, just seconds before the baby would have been born otherwise.
00:42:26.500
So, why is this woman being brought up on charges?
00:42:31.220
The woman's being brought up on charges because it's one of the most heinous crimes you can possibly imagine.
00:42:36.660
And, you know, the blood of the innocent cries out to God for justice.
00:42:40.820
No even semi-sensible person would suggest this woman should face anything other than the most severe consequences possible for these crimes.
00:42:49.780
But then, if you want to be consistent about that, you've got to outlaw the abortions.
00:42:59.120
You either have to let this baby murderer off the hook for all of the babies she's killed.
00:43:05.060
This woman's allegedly killed, what, seven babies, tried to murder an eighth?
00:43:10.640
That's child's play compared to any Planned Parenthood.
00:43:12.880
They do that kind of thing between breakfast and lunch.
00:43:14.940
Actually, they kill many more babies between breakfast and lunch.
00:43:17.720
So, you either have to let the murderer off the hook and keep your abortion or get rid of your abortion, outlaw your abortion, and you prosecute this woman if you want to be consistent about it, if you want to be fair and equitable, which obviously the libs do not.
00:43:35.720
Speaking of aberrant sexual behavior, really sad story.
00:43:40.240
I was going around the internet yesterday from The Guardian, another UK story.
00:43:44.860
And it was hitting a lot of the aggregators and the social media feeds.
00:43:49.560
And it stuck out to me in part because I receive a lot of mailbag questions about this very topic.
00:44:01.140
As pornography use soars, some men feel their behavior is moving from a compulsion to an addiction.
00:44:05.300
They describe how this affects their health, happiness, and relationships.
00:44:09.980
Tony is in his 50s and recently did a rough calculation of how much of his life he has spent looking at pornography.
00:44:26.220
He's not saying that he looked at pornography sometimes over the course of eight years.
00:44:31.140
He spent eight full years of his life looking at pornography.
00:44:47.980
And he says, look, he's got a total double life.
00:44:52.220
You know, he's told a couple of therapists and now this reporter.
00:44:55.320
And then the reporter interviews other people, health officials, who say, look, this is obviously an addiction, but it's not treated as an addiction.
00:45:09.280
It's not very sex positive to say that this is an addiction, but it obviously is.
00:45:13.660
In part, one doctor says that it is because it escalates.
00:45:18.380
It's not like, you know, you just look at porn and then you're good.
00:45:21.380
But you keep seeking out harder and harder forms of it.
00:45:25.120
Like with a drug, you start out with a soft drug.
00:45:26.860
And then if you keep doing drugs, you seek out harder and harder drugs.
00:45:37.840
And you really feel for all these guys who don't get married because of this, who don't have kids because of this, who have trouble holding down jobs.
00:45:45.220
Some of these guys start looking at porn at work because they're addicted.
00:45:48.420
You know, it's like a guy who's, I don't know, he's doing a drug.
00:45:50.400
He's blowing a line of Coke in the bathroom at work or something.
00:45:53.040
They start doing all of this and it's taken over their lives and they're miserable because of it.
00:46:03.300
When you have people living double lives, obviously that's a public issue because at least one of those lives is the public one.
00:46:10.100
And there's no such thing really as a totally personal sin.
00:46:12.640
But when it's affecting marriages, when it's affecting birth rates, when it's affecting work, those are political problems.
00:46:19.020
This needs to be treated as a public health crisis and a political issue.
00:46:23.460
The problem is in our country, we're no longer even treating drugs as a public health crisis.
00:46:27.980
We regulate cigars and then we deregulate fentanyl and cocaine and heroin.
00:46:36.220
We regulate businesses, you know, operating their business, but we deregulate bizarre sex stuff.
00:46:43.340
I mean, there's one story out of San Francisco that actually ties in with my guest who's about to come on the member of the segment to him.
00:46:47.640
The San Francisco Pride Parade has just turned into the most depraved Sodom and Gomorrah style display in front of little children.
00:46:58.700
I'm sorry to say I watched a minute or two of it.
00:47:06.200
If you want to tune in, you've got to become a member at dailywire.com.
00:47:14.700
You can't say love is love, you know, just leave me alone, stop interfering in my bedroom.
00:47:28.440
The libertarian solution even is not going to work.
00:47:30.400
We need a classical and conservative solution here to help these people and to advance good and to set up the conditions for human flourishing.