Ep. 1535 - The Suspicious Biden DROP-OUT, Does He Even Know？
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Former Vice President Joe Biden drops out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race. It's the strangest dropping out imaginable, like when LBJ announced his decision to not run for re-election in 1968. And it's no coincidence that Biden is now an elder statesman in his 90s.
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It takes a big man, a big, handsome, swarthy man to admit when he's wrong.
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I said as recently as late last week that I thought that there was still a chance,
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despite all reports to the contrary, that Biden would choose to stay in the 2024 race.
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Now, in my defense, I'm saying it looks like I was wrong.
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In my defense, there is still no proof that Biden knows that he has dropped out.
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When LBJ declined to run for re-election in 68, he announced it from the Oval Office.
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With Biden, we haven't actually seen or heard from him.
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A staffer just posted an image of a letter supposedly written by Biden to Biden's social media channels
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while Biden is locked away in his private home in Delaware in quarantine for a mild cold
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But whether Joe knows it or not, he has been dropped out of the race.
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And we will get into what that means in a moment.
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But I don't want you to lose sight of the big story here.
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The big story is not that a senile man won't run to be president at 86 years old.
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The big story, the scary story, is the persistent power of the establishment media.
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We, in the conservative and independent media, like to flatter ourselves
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that the old establishment media has been eclipsed,
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rendered impotent by podcasts and live streams and tweets.
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Three years ago, when Joe Biden was showing obvious signs of dementia,
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the establishment media lied and told everyone it was a childhood stutter.
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Last month, the media criticized Biden for the first time ever.
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And within three weeks, Biden was no longer running for re-election.
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And the media didn't criticize Biden because they suddenly contracted some integrity.
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They did it because they felt that the entire liberal establishment
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Vice President Kamala Harris is now the presumptive Democrat nominee.
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And some Republicans are happy because no one likes her,
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But if the media could make and break Joe Biden at will,
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Republicans would be crazy not to recognize that they might well pull it off again.
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Forget about the presidential race for a second,
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or forget about the people running in the presidential race.
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We also need to keep our eyes on this U.S. Secret Service story,
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the fact that the Secret Service director will not resign
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and the man came within a quarter of an inch of his head being blown off,
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Now, apparently, the Secret Service bureaucracy lying
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about whether or not there were requests for additional security from Trump.
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Now, the media are largely responsible for this.
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However, I think we have to give a big round of applause to President Trump.
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This all began because Trump destroyed Biden in a debate.
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The debate exposed the media as having been liars.
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It also exposed the whole game, so they had to try to move to replace him.
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And they took it so far that there was really no way for Biden to continue to run.
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It was this game of chicken where they were just destroying each other.
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Trump won that debate so hard, so decisively, that his opponent, the sitting President of the United States, is no longer running for President.
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The liberal establishment took a gamble on that because Biden's poll numbers weren't that great.
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He did so in a way that I think they all believed would lead Trump to either refuse or to try to negotiate on the terms, which seemed to be advantageous to Biden.
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He called Biden's bluff, and then the gamble didn't pay off, so then they had to fly into overdrive and replace Biden, which is what they were doing.
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No evidence that he wrote a single syllable of this letter.
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There's no direct evidence that he even knows this letter went up.
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But the strangest part of the letter comes in paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4.
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It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your president, and while it has been my intention to seek re-election, I believe it is in the best interests of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term.
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He's acknowledging that he's not going to run for re-election.
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It's not that he's going to drop out of the race because the numbers just aren't there or because Vietnam got a little too hot and it's hurt his standing in public opinion.
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He is not running for re-election because he's too old, because he's too senile, because he obviously has dementia.
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So if he's too senile and frail and demented to run for president, how is he fit to be president?
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The guy will stay in office, according to this letter, until January.
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Sorry, no sensible people who were paying attention and honest with themselves thought he was fit to be in office six months ago, maybe three years ago.
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I'm not running because I'm demented, but I'm going to stay in office.
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Fit enough to be president, not fit enough to run.
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The deal must have been, look, Joe, we're going to ramp up this pressure even more.
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So either you, if you continue to insist that you're going to run, maybe we'll just invoke the 25th Amendment and then what?
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I don't know what else gets this guy out of office.
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He was clinging on as recently as days ago, insisting, I am running, I am running, I've got to finish the job.
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There was some stick, there was some carrot here.
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And that kind of deal would explain this absurdity that he gets to remain president if he admits that he's too senile to run for president.
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That doesn't make any sense as a matter of coherent position, but it does make sense as a political compromise between Biden and the Democrat establishment.
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There will be increasing pressure from Republicans in the coming days for Biden to resign.
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The liberal establishment doesn't care about that.
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This has always been a little lover's quarrel among the, between the media and Biden.
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But it's not that the media finally wanted to speak truth to power.
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It's that the media wants to advance the liberal cause.
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And they just felt that Biden used to be helpful for that purpose.
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Biden says he'll address the nation later this week.
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I guess whenever they get around to telling him that this happened.
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Immediately afterward, Biden endorses Kamala Harris.
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He says, my fellow Democrats, I've decided not to accept the nomination.
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Focus all my energies on my duties as president for the remainder of my term.
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My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris.
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Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year.
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Democrats, it's time to come together and beat Trump.
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And there's a picture of Kamala laughing with her hand on Joe's back.
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Joe kind of looking confused, but smiling, walking through the Rose Garden.
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It brings to mind that last scene of of mice and men.
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You know, George and Letty go down to the pond.
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So now we have a presumptive Democrat nominee, Kamala Harris.
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I've been following her career since she was an AG and senator from California because, you know, I did live in California for some time.
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And I always thought, well, I'm being a big man and admitting I was wrong about Biden likely staying in the race.
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I did call from the beginning that this woman would go far in politics, not because she's popular, not because anyone wants to vote for her or anything like that.
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And she has made it now to become the Democrat nominee or presumptive Democrat nominee for president without ever having won a single vote in a primary that she was running in for president.
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For those of you who are not as familiar with Kamala Harris, here's just a little overview.
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I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been, you know?
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You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
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What we can see, what we believe can be unburdened by what has been.
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Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow school bus, right?
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Just there's something about the and most of us, many of us went to school on the yellow school bus, right?
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I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.
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There's so much more from Kamala Harris that you can dive into.
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You've now heard basically everything Kamala Harris has ever said.
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But in the calculus of the Democrats, that makes her black.
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She ranks very high on the intersectional hierarchy.
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Much of the Democrat establishment has leapt on.
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But there are some big players in the Dem establishment who are not fully on board with Kamala yet.
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which means that we're not going to have to deal with Hillary running again.
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It means we don't get to deal with Hillary running again.
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That would have been great, but it's not happening.
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The Congressional Black Caucus, which is very popular and powerful,
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A number of other legislators, members of Congress, super PACs, have endorsed Kamala.
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Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, who clearly wanted to be president and still wants
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to be president, he tweeted out when Biden said he was stepping down.
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and then almost immediately afterwards says, I'm endorsing Kamala.
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Can you imagine those six hours for Gavin Newsom?
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Can you imagine the amount of scheming and calculating and deal-making he must have gone through
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Josh Shapiro, who's being discussed as a potential running mate to Kamala.
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As of this morning, Pelosi was not yet on board.
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Now, again, this could change as I'm speaking during this show.
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The fact that the Obamas did not immediately endorse Kamala does raise the question about
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what I always felt was a fantasy and a fever dream that Michelle Obama could step in.
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You heard this from a lot of political nerds and fan fiction authors.
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I don't think Michelle Obama wants to be president.
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She infamously said the first time she was ever proud of her country was when it elected
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She's just, she doesn't have that gift that her husband has.
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The political situation has gotten crazier than many expected.
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So the fact that the Obamas didn't come out right away, hmm, does make you wonder.
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There was then a rumor started by Joe Manchin that Joe Manchin, the somewhat moderate senator
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from West Virginia, was going to challenge Kamala Harris for the nomination within about
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He came out and he said, no, I don't need that in my life.
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I wish there were a moderate or a centrist running, but it ain't going to be me.
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So the way is clear now for nominee Kamala Harris.
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Don't forget, the media were treating Biden as a great orator.
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He, a man who, he suffered from a childhood stutter.
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That's the only reason he was having any trouble on the campaign trail in 2020.
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But a great man, a noble man, a devout Catholic.
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Remember, you always heard about his devotion to Catholicism, specifically when he was endorsing
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abortion and crazy sex stuff and mutilating little kids.
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And that's when you especially heard about his devotion to Catholicism, despite his contradiction
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of a certain basic principles, non-negotiables.
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Then over the past few weeks, the media have said Biden's an old demented coot and he's
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He's a man, according to my doppelganger, who made a great sacrifice for this country.
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I cannot see anywhere in his personality where this decision today was possible.
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This is the opposite of something that is natural or easy for him.
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He is just not built to do something like this because his superpower is being underestimated.
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And that's why he's been so resolute and resisting all these calls for him to drop out.
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But him making this decision today is to give the country a chance.
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I'm just blown away by the sacrifice and the patriotism that this moment embodies.
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She says, I just I can't believe he would do this.
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This is something that he would never do in a million years.
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I've known Biden for a long time and this isn't this doesn't seem like him at all.
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Because we haven't seen him and we haven't actually heard from him.
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And it contradicts what he's been saying for weeks up until just a few days ago.
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But then let's say Biden does know or even if he doesn't, you know, he has been dropped out of the race.
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Right when the news broke, I was driving to the Daily Wire studios to broadcast.
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And I said, all right, let me check in on the news networks.
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It's going to be really funny to watch them do a total 180.
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And he said, it's so fitting that Biden's career is ending with the sacrifice because it began with a sacrifice.
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You know, Joe Biden only ran for president in 2020.
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He only ran because Trump called Nazis fine people at Charlottesville.
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Even Snopes and the left wing outlets are beginning to admit that.
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He only ran as a sacrifice to save American democracy.
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Bro, the guy has been running for president pretty much incessantly since 1988.
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The guy got elected to the U.S. Senate before he was constitutionally old enough to serve.
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The guy has been dreaming about being president since he was in the womb.
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He then finally gets to be president at age 152.
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And when it's clear that he can't even speak anymore, the one skill that is required of a politician, he still refuses to go.
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The media had to threaten him, had to humiliate him.
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And then finally, someone posted a statement for him.
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We still aren't even sure that it was Biden who did it.
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And he finally got it and he had it ripped away from him.
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Some people are saying they feel bad for Biden.
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I don't feel bad for Biden because his career is ending in this humiliating way.
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I find him to be a pretty nasty man and a liar and just a disreputable person in his public comportment.
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And I pity Joe Biden in as much as he did sacrifice the things that might have given him a good life, up to and especially his faith,
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in order to have a 54-year political career in which he accomplished basically nothing.
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Nothing would justify giving up the things that actually make a good life and especially one's faith.
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But it seems especially brutal to give up the things that might have given this man a good life in order to have this half-century-long,
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more than half-century-long political career in which he really didn't do much of anything.
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He has been many impressive things for many years, starting with a U.S. senator back in the 1970s.
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He was the vice president of the United States, and he became the president.
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What can he point to having done during all that time?
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Even if you're an ardent Biden defender, if any of those exist,
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could even his most vociferous supporters point to an accomplishment?
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He gave up the things that might have given him a good life,
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including his faith, which he has regularly contradicted.
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When his faith came into conflict with his political ambitions,
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he chose the political ambitions every single time.
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You know, the attack on Trump from the Democrats from the beginning of this campaign,
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really from the beginning of 2020, was that he is a threat to democracy.
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Trump recently addressed this argument days after having almost been murdered.
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When Biden says, we have to stop MAGA, we will stop MAGA.
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And, you know, the other side's going around trying to make me sound extreme.
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But what they do is misinformation and disinformation.
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And they keep saying, he's a threat to democracy.
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I'm saying, what the hell did I do for democracy?
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In a way that's not, he's not being dramatic about it.
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You guys, you Democrats have been as undemocratic as it can be.
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You tried to kick me off the ballot so people couldn't vote for me because I'm too popular.
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Then you tried to throw me in jail so people couldn't vote for me.
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And then someone, after y'all called me a threat to democracy for years and years,
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and you called me the second coming of Hitler for years and years, what do you know?
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Kamala, the presumptive Democrat nominee, dropped out of the 2020 presidential election
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She's never won a single vote while running in a primary.
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All of a sudden, she's going to be the Democrat nominee after the 2024 primaries where everyone
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The establishment, the establishment media, and the elites kick Biden out, replace him with Kamala Harris,
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whom no one has voted for while she was running for president.
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But this is some of the brilliance of putting Kamala Harris in the spot.
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All of a sudden, the Democrats don't need to run on the threat to democracy line anymore.
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But the threat to democracy line became a liability because when the libs have said that Trump poses an
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existential threat to democracy, that justifies an assassination.
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When the Democrats say Trump is Hitler, that is to justify assassination.
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If you disagree with me, then what you're saying is you don't think we should assassinate Hitler.
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You don't think that if someone poses an existential threat to your whole country,
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that that would justify stopping that person by any means necessary.
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But of course, the Democrats do believe that they should kill Hitler.
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They do believe that we should kill an existential threat to democracy.
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That's why it's very awkward for them now because someone took them up on their premise
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and they appear responsible for having established the political conditions that would justify an
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You even heard reporters asking Karine Champier this, the White House press secretary,
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and she had to dance around whether or not the Democrats would keep calling him a threat to
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Especially now that their nominee is someone who has ascended to the position through the
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least democratic means possible, the line's not going to work as well.
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So what the Democrats can do, now that they have a woman who's, I think, 59 years old,
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is they can just use the Republican attacks on Biden's age against Trump.
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They've already signaled that that's exactly what they're going to do.
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Democrats have been saying for years now, age should not be an issue in this campaign.
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And in any case, Trump is much more energetic, not only than Biden, but than Kamala Harris for
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And the media still have a tremendous amount of power.
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Now, speaking of people stepping down or people who should step down, the director of the U.S.
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Secret Service is somehow still in her job now more than a week, eight days after the very nearly
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successful assassination of President Donald Trump.
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Secret Service that we have not seen in a very long time.
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And I was at the RNC last week, as were many Republicans, as was the Secret Service director.
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And a number of not just, you know, hoi polloi Republicans, but we're talking about prominent
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senator, Marsha Blackburn, followed the Secret Service director around demanding her resignation.
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She just walks away, that Secret Service director.
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If all we knew about the assassination attempt was that there was a security failure and Trump
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came within a quarter of an inch of being murdered, that woman needs to resign.
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That woman who came out there, she said, oh, the buck stops with me.
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I'm responsible, but I'm not going to resign and nothing's going to change.
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However, now we are beginning to see evidence of a coverup.
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Because there were rumors that started to spread shortly after the assassination attempt
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that the Trump campaign had asked for additional security and had been denied additional
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The U.S. Secret Service came out, said this is not true.
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The assertion that a member of the former president's security team requested additional
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security resources that the U.S. Secret Service or the Department of Homeland Security
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rebuffed is absolutely false, says Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesman for the Secret Service.
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That was in a statement on the day after the shooting.
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But here, according to the Washington Post, after receiving detailed questions from the Washington
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Post, Guglielmi said the agency had learned new information indicating the agency's headquarters
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may have, in fact, denied some requests for additional security from Trump's detail and
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was reviewing documentation to understand the specific interactions better.
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This is not that they asked for a few more guys at Mar-a-Lago.
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The Secret Service said to have denied requests for more security at Trump events.
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Now, the Secret Service is acknowledging that after having lied about it a day after the
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I have spoken about the attempted assassination, the bizarre, very nearly successful, only unsuccessful
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by the grace of God, assassination of Donald Trump.
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I only want to give the facts, things that we know for certain.
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This is too serious an event to let speculation run away.
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Now we know for a fact the Secret Service lied.
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We know for a fact that the Trump security detail requested additional security.
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This is a man, he is both the most popular and probably the most hated man in the world.
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This is a man who has been maligned and defamed by the establishment as Hitlerian and an existential
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This is a man even beyond the wackos in America trying to murder him, who has had assassination
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This is a man who is in more danger, physical danger at any given time than anyone else on
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And his security detail requests additional resources.
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And the Secret Service or the Department of Homeland Security, this woman, say no.
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If Trump needs additional security, it should be, he shouldn't even have to ask, okay?
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He should just, he should maybe mention it offhand and there should be an army of agents
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He's the leading presidential candidate in 2024.
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The fact that it would be denied is completely insane.
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I, I can't, well, I can think of some explanations, but I'd prefer not to articulate them.
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Then you get the Secret Service lying about it.
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And then, then the Washington Post of all places, you get the media ask a pointed question
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and then the Secret Service have to admit that they lied.
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This is, this is beginning to look not merely like a catastrophic security failure.
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We are now beginning to see what looks like a coverup.
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On top of that, America First Legal has submitted FOIA requests, Freedom of Information Act requests
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for information on Secret Service staffing around Trump.
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The Secret Service has denied those FOIA requests.
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This is, I'm all for explanations from incompetence, okay?
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There's enough incompetence in the government to go around.
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And it could be that the Secret Service is now crookedly trying to cover up for its gross incompetence.
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It might just be that the kinds of people who have been calling Trump an existential threat to democracy
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and, and a Nazi for eight years, well, they might just not want to give him extra security.
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I'm not saying they need to go sit and conspire with someone to, to blow his head off or anything,
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but they might just, they might just not be inclined to give him extra security.
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Especially when he seems to be polling much better than the incumbent.
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The incumbent president, whose executive branch runs the Department of Homeland Security and the Secret Service.
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The first thing that needs to happen is this woman, Kimberly Cheadle, the head of the Secret Service, needs to resign.
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Every second she's in there, the Biden administration looks complicit in the attempted murder of his rival.
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Then we need this woman to answer a lot of questions.
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We need a very thorough investigation, and we need people to be held accountable.
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And we are getting some information now, reported by the New York Post,
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on what the would-be assassin of President Trump was doing just before he committed his crimes.
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First, though, my favorite comment on Friday is from T.T. Fresh, who says,
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Well, I guess this was probably a comment on my live stream yesterday, because with this political cycle,
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I now live at the Daily Wire studio, and I just broadcast all the time.
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I'm basically the star of a reality show now, as is everyone who is even remotely connected to politics or media,
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because this is the craziest election cycle since at least 1968, maybe further back.
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He will be livid when he finds out that he has dropped out of the presidential race.
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The Trump shooter, the would-be assassin, they cracked into his phone,
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and they found out that this guy's last online search was for porn.
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This is a guy who's about to go successfully murder one person,
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critically injure two other people, and nearly blow the head off the president,
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but for a 15, 20-degree turn of his head at the very last second,
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And the thing he does right before, he must know he's going there to die.
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There's no way he's going to get out of this alive.
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I don't think the last thing that he did would be to bake a pie for the old lady down the street.
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I don't think the last thing he did would be to donate to the poor.
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Of course, the last thing that this guy is going to do is going to be something sinful.
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And it underscores, forget about, we've been talking about the assassination for a very long time,
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or the near assassination for a very long time.
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Focus on the thing he does right before he goes out to kill people.
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There's not one ounce of hyperbole to say porn is one of the biggest problems,
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It is one of the gravest, most dangerous, most urgent political problems in America.
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Something like, what, 90% of men look at this stuff?
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And the median age of first exposure to porn is something like 11 years old.
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And a huge number of women are looking at it, too.
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And it radically warps people's minds to worship idols and to view other human beings as objects.
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The thing that the would-be assassin, the successful murderer, did right before he went out to kill people
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is something that the vast majority of people, and it's a thing that specifically perverts your mind.
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It turns you into a pervert or more of a pervert.
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And the way that it perverts you is by altering your vision and desires to view human beings not as proper subjects,
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It just gets worse the more you consider the problem.
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When you look at porn, from a spiritual perspective, you are worshiping demons, okay?
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I know for people who are not religious or who are materialists or atheists or whatever,
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that's going to sound foreign to them because they don't engage with metaphysical reality.
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We all have to engage with metaphysical reality in some ways because we're a body and soul combined.
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But some people are not conscious of that or they try to deny it or whatever.
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It is a religious ritual whereby you worship demons.
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At the very least, we would have to say you're worshiping idols.
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And idolatry is just when you value a created good as its own end,
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more than the creator outside of its proper place.
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So if you worship money, you're making an idol out of money.
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But if you worship money, if you make money the end of your desires,
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These are not things that are bad in themselves.
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And sex, obviously, is not a bad thing in itself.
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But when you pervert it, when you take it out of its proper context and out of its natural end,
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and you distort it now so that sex becomes just glittering images on a screen somewhere where you do all sorts of gross things,
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Do you know anyone who's ever gotten better, who's ever become a better person for looking at porn?
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Other than, I guess, the addicts who deep down probably do know that it's bad.
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We have tried multiple times in recent American history to fix this problem.
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The Prosecutions of Pornographers for Obscenity.
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And it often gets stymied by the courts, and there are all these kind of crazy lib free speech arguments about it.
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Porn is the kind of thing that would-be assassins look at before they murder people, okay?
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It's not the kind of thing that missionaries or humanitarians or charitable people look at before they go help others.
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And we need to deal with it as a political problem, or it's going to continue to fester.
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Now, speaking of demons and warping people's brains, the show really took a turn.
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So, even the secularists could probably appreciate this.
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It shows that a neuroscientist took psilocybin, you know, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, and then he watched his brain fall apart.
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This weirdo scientist takes the mushrooms and then sticks his head to an MRI machine and watches what happens, and he saw his brain fall apart.
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So, he's still open to magic mushrooms, but they're saying, look, it obviously has these really serious effects on the brain, and so how could it be used for good?
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A patient with addiction, for example, might be able to reframe their relationship with substances in the days and weeks following a dose of psilocybin, he says, because it's rewiring your brain and making things fall apart.
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But the approach has risks, says Dr. Ginger Nichol, a psychiatrist at Washington University whose husband was in the study and took psilocybin twice.
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He had an almost religious experience the first time, she says, the second time he saw demons.
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Yeah, yeah, he had an almost religious experience the first time, the second time he saw demons.
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Even so, psychedelics may offer a way to help psychiatric patients.
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It can offer help to help psychiatric patients recognize their own capacity to change.
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It takes years to figure that out in therapy, she says.
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This gives us a different way of thinking about learning and recovery.
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And, you know, you might accidentally run into some demons, but, you know, hey, can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs.
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As a general rule, I try to avoid things that will lead me to see demons.
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Demons, I think that's basically good advice for everyone.
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If a thing you're doing leads you to seeing demons and interacting with demons, turn around.
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Because what they're saying here, what the scientists are saying here is,
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It might help you get over certain other problems you've got.
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Illiterate shepherds in the ancient Middle East understood much better than these scientists the things the scientists are trying to articulate.
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You're often tempted to take shortcuts around the hard work that is required in cooperation with God's grace to grow in virtue and sanctity.
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But the shortcut might not work, and it might just leave you hanging out with demons.
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Amazing how the more we learn about science, the more science progresses, the more we realize that the gods of the copybook headings return.
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You know, the more we realize that the things that we've always kind of known to be true, they're actually basically still true.
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At least maybe you can smoke a little less pot or something by doing harder drugs and seeing demons.
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