Ep. 1536 - Even The Libs Are Shocked By The Assassination Hearing
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It s been 10 days since an assassination attempt on a former president of the United States, and the woman in charge of keeping that nominee safe still has her job, and she s still stonewalling members of Congress on basic aspects of the assassination attempt.
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While the political media want you to focus on the bread and circuses of who Democrat Party elites will crown as their next presidential nominee,
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I would like to refocus our attention back on that little story that seems to have fallen out of the news,
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namely that the Republican nominee was very nearly murdered nine days ago.
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And how the woman in charge of keeping that nominee safe still has her job.
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And how that woman is still stonewalling members of Congress on basic aspects of the assassination attempt.
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To be fair, I am not the only one asking the questions.
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Republicans aren't the only ones asking these questions.
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Many people are surprised to see that during congressional testimony yesterday,
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Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheadle faced calls to resign even from Democrat congressmen,
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So the notion of a report coming out in 60 days when the threat environment is so high in the United States,
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And I think it's very important to understand that.
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This is about the safety of some of the most highly targeted and valued targets internationally and domestically
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So the idea that a report will be finalized in 60 days, let alone prior to any actionable decisions that would be made,
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It has been 10 days since an assassination attempt on a former president of the United States, regardless of party.
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AOC was not the only Democrat who called on Cheadle to resign.
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Here's Big Lib Ro Khanna of California demanding the same.
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You know, do you know what Stuart Knight did when he was in charge at the time of the Secret Service?
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Why are Democrats siding with Republicans in demanding the resignation of a Biden appointee?
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Have they suddenly cultivated some care for the common good?
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Are they true statesmen willing to put aside partisan squabbles?
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The Democrats are piling on the Secret Service director because she is small potatoes.
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She's a far more convenient fall guy for the failed assassination attempt than, say, her boss, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
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She's an infinitely more convenient fall guy than his boss, Joe Biden, whose legacy will still fuel Democrat prospects in this election, whether he's on the ballot or not.
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If you are a Democrat legislator, this is a no-brainer.
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And Kamala Harris didn't ease people's worries when she seemed to suggest that she was playing a recording of Biden when she was supposed to be having a phone call with him.
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And I don'tâmy friend Bridget Phetasy posted last night, she said, you know, it's kind of weird.
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People are talking about whether or not the president of the United States is alive or dead, and it's only, like, the third weirdest thing that's happened in the last nine days.
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Before we get into Schrodinger's president, I don't want to move on too quickly from the Secret Service director.
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Everything we learn about the Secret Service's handling of this assassination makes it seem worse and worse.
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This was absolutely disastrous testimony from Kimberly Cheadle.
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Congressman Andy Biggs asked a really basic question about the assassination attempt.
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He said, okay, so you don't seem to have a lot of answers for us.
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Can you confirm that, at the very least, this was a lone gunman?
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It is unfathomable that a 20-year-old on the radar of Secret Service and local law enforcement before President Trump went on stage
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was able to climb onto the roof of a building with a rifle and fire off multiple rounds before he was neutralized.
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Again, I would have to refer you to the FBI's investigation.
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I would have to refer you to the FBI's investigation for motive.
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I understand there are some questions that she is not going to want to answer during this testimony
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because it was the biggest Secret Service screw-up since Reagan was shot in the 80s.
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Okay, well, during this major screw-up, there was a lone gunman, right?
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You can't tell me how many shooters there were who did succeed at murdering one citizen
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attending a political rally, critically injured two, and nearly blew the head off the former
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president, I hope future president, current leading presidential candidate?
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Then Nancy Mace, another Republican congressman, turned the grilling up even higher.
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Both sides of the aisle today have asked for your resignation.
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Would you like to use my five minutes to draft your resignation letter, yes or no?
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Was it a colossal failure is the question, yes or no?
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Has the Secret Service been transparent with this committee?
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Would you say the fact that we had to issue a subpoena to get you to show up today as being
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I have always been eager to come and talk to the committee.
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We had to issue a subpoena to get you to show up today.
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You stated earlier, Secret Service is not political.
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Would you say leaking your opening statement to Punchbowl News, Politico's playbook, and
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Washington Post several hours before you sent it to this committee as being political,
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Her language gets a little bit saltier even as the grilling continues.
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I thought this was a great grilling by Nancy Mace.
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She didn't have to go blue in her language because the Secret Service director admitted
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She got her on the question, was this a colossal failure?
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But then, crucially, she gets her on the leaked testimony.
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I'm not talking about agents on the ground actively protecting the president and other high-profile
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No one is suggesting that those guys are colluding with some political party.
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We're talking about people like Kimberly Cheadle, appointed by Joe Biden.
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Is the US Secret Service, from the perspective of the bureaucracy, the administrative state,
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And then Nancy Mace says, well, how'd your speech get leaked to left-wing news outlets?
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But even if Cheadle didn't leak it, Cheadle is saying, not only do I know that,
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I don't have control over my job, which is to protect the presidents, not only do I not
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have control over the security perimeters around these events, I don't have control over my
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I don't have control over my immediate subordinates.
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I don't have control even to protect my remarks from going out to the establishment press.
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That admission, either she's admitting that the Secret Service has become politicized, as
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have so many formerly nonpartisan aspects of our government under Joe Biden and under Barack
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But she's either admitting that or she's admitting that she can't perform even the most basic
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She can't even keep her own remarks from leaking out.
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Jesse Waters just sat down with President Trump and J.D. Vance.
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He asked President Trump, he said, hey, there was this security risk that was called in about
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15 minutes before your speech, or more, actually.
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I mean, according to some reports, the threat was seen an hour before, maybe even more than
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They were monitoring this guy for an hour beforehand.
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They could have said, let's wait for 15 minutes, 20 minutes, five minutes, something.
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When you had Trumpers screaming, the woman in the red shirt, she was screaming, there's
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And then other people said, there's a man on the roof who's got a gun.
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And that was quite a bit before I walked onto the stage.
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So you would have thought somebody would have done something about it.
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If you're tracking this guy before the event even starts, you don't tell the president,
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He's the president of the United States, former president and future president.
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I've had to hold my events when there were threats outside.
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And threats that are less severe than a guy walking around potentially with a rifle using a rangefinder.
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Apparently, the shooter had a drone over the site, though it's unclear if that was known to law enforcement beforehand.
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That's what that's the purpose of a green room.
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So now everyone's going to yell at the Secret Service director and they're going to probably chase her out of her job.
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The former president, current leading presidential candidate, was very nearly murdered.
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The only reason he is alive is by the grace of God, because of a nanosecond early, unpredicted head turn that prevented the back of his head from being blown out and only blew off the top part of his ear.
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Everyone's going to say, move along, move along.
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First, though, a lot of people are asking that.
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Is Biden even, because we haven't seen him in, what, six days now?
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And Biden stepped down as their Democrat nominee after weeks and weeks and months and months of saying, I will be the nominee.
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He stepped down from that role through a picture of a letter that he supposedly wrote, posted to a social media account that he doesn't run.
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He's in his private home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.
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He left Las Vegas under kind of murky circumstances.
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Then we were told he came down with COVID, so he had to cancel another speech in Vegas.
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There are other unconfirmed kind of murky reports about maybe there was a more serious medical event that occurred in Las Vegas.
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And then Kamala Harris was trying to quell concerns about whether or not the president is still alive or conscious.
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You probably, you guys heard it from Doug's voice.
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However, the Democrats are doing a great job at convincing me he's not.
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She goes, and I know we still have Joe on the recording phone call.
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Don't forget, all the actual videos of Joe Biden slurring his words and falling down,
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and they were denounced as cheapfakes until the Democrats admitted that he doesn't know which end is up.
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Now, the proof of life is that we hear audio that vaguely sounds like Joe Biden,
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that his vice president, and now heir apparent who's taken over his spot as the nominee for president,
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And then the moment that you have another interjection from Biden,
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She goes, I knew you were still on the phone call.
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You know, that totally live thing with a live person who is alive on the other end?
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Really, really, really weird, as are many things.
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Now, look, Kamala Harris is one of the worst orators I've ever heard.
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There have been three big options that we've been told could explain what's going on.
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That Biden is really gravely ill, so bad off that we can't see him.
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That he's in a hospital bed or in a hospice, some random Twitter account posted last night.
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Or he's dead, and it's total weekend at Bernie's.
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Or the third option, which I think is the most likely, is he's really, really, really irritated
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because his supposed friends and allies took his job away from him, took his legacy away from him,
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pushed him aside, threw him out like yesterday's news, and picked this woman whom I strongly
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So I don't know that Biden feels very much sincerely or really can discern between truth
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But this woman launched her national political career, her presidential political career,
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by calling Biden a racist who tried to keep her off a school bus when she was a little girl
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Even though she's half Indian and like a little bit black and a little bit white and anyway, whatever.
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I think he's really, really, really angry at the people around him, and he doesn't want to talk to anyone.
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Ron Klain, who is the ostensible president's former chief of staff,
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he tweeted out, now that the donors and electeds have pushed out the only candidate who has ever
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beaten Trump, it is time to end the political fantasy games and unite behind the only veteran
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of a national campaign, our outstanding VP Kamala Harris, two exclamation points.
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So I think those two exclamation points, there's a little wink here.
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After he says the donors and electeds have pushed out the best candidate.
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I don't think this was a sacrifice as the establishment media are trying to paint it
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She called it a recording, started to call it a recording.
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Ron Klain, one of the people closest to Biden, is saying openly he got pushed out that it
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He said he was going to address the nation later in the week.
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The one thing that I can predict with certainty is that no one can really reliably predict
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Now, if you have any familiarity with history, this whole thing probably seems oddly familiar.
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Chernenko, the last leader of the Soviet Union before Gorbachev dismantled it.
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And even before Chernenko, we had Andropov, who also was like one of these just doddering
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He said, look, I want to cut a deal with the Soviet Union, but their leaders keep dying
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Then he was finally able to work with Gorbachev.
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It feels as though we defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and then we became the
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Sometimes victorious powers come to resemble the peoples that they vanquished.
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The knock on the Soviet Union was that it was a decrepit bureaucracy that was extraordinarily
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inefficient, that wasn't able to create really sustainable economic growth, that had been
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captured by corrupt oligarchs, that was not accountable to the people.
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Yeah, wow, boy, that had its empire beginning to fray and fall away.
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That was being led by extremely old men who didn't know what their name was anymore.
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History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
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And so I pointed this out yesterday, and someone said, well, Michael, does that mean, in this
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analogy, does that mean that Trump is Gorbachev?
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Because the explicit fear of the liberal establishment is that President Trump will upend the prevailing
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political order and that he will dismantle the empire, the American empire involving pride
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flags in Kandahar, and even though it was Biden who pulled out of Afghanistan, and Ukraine,
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Ukraine is the 51st state or something, and that he'll upend American foreign policy.
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That is an explicit worry of the establishment.
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And if the historical analogy holds, that does not bode very well for the stability of America
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Kamala Harris's campaign has officially kicked off.
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And it's kicked off with a little bit of a stumble.
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Kamala decided to follow in the footsteps of Jeb Bush.
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And he looks forward to getting back on the road.
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And I wanted to say a few words about our president.
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Joe Biden's legacy of accomplishment over the past three years is unmatched in modern history.
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In one term, he has already, yes, you may clap.
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I know, you know, it's a Republican who's flopping around, but it's just a funny clip from 2016.
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The next president needs to be a lot quieter, but send a signal that we're prepared to act in the national security interests of this country to get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world.
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You know, if I want to win this presidential election in some of the toughest circumstances that we've seen in modern times, I know who I'll model my campaign after.
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Despite, look, people's predictions are all over the place these days.
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We're now trying to predict whether the sitting president is alive or dead.
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I mentioned it takes a big, handsome man to admit when he's wrong.
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I thought there was still a good chance Biden would stay in the race.
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I do, however, feel totally vindicated on a prediction I made back in 2018 or 2019, before the 2020 election, where I said, I think Kamala Harris could go far.
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I think she's, no one was really looking at her at the time.
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Everyone was looking at the bigger ticket Democrat items.
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But I said, Kamala, she's crafty, she's clever, she's a real careerist, she checks a lot of intersectional boxes.
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And it looked like I was wrong when she got out of the race before the primaries.
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But then I felt quite vindicated when Biden picked her for the VP.
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This woman is very good at working behind the scenes to amass political power.
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So I don't mean to take anything away from her in that regard.
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She is one of the worst retail politicians I have ever seen.
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And in many ways, a demented Joe Biden is a better orator than Kamala Harris at her prime.
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That's why she just repeats herself the same platitudes about imagining what can be by being unburdened by what has been.
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It's probably why the liberal establishment likes her so much.
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She has secured officially enough delegates to be the nominee.
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There are only something like 103 or 104 days left.
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But if she stumbles, if she really continues to stumble on the campaign trail, if some of the big power players in the Democrat Party continue to withhold endorsements, there is a chance.
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Look, as my friend Bridget Phetasy pointed out, we're debating whether the president's alive or dead.
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And that's the third weirdest thing to happen in the last nine days.
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My only real prediction here is that people who are making solid predictions have no idea what they are talking about.
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Now, there's a big new hit on Trump regarding Kamala, assuming Kamala is the Democrat nominee.
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And from 2011 to 2013, Trump gave $6,000 to Harris's re-election campaign for California attorney general.
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And he has bragged for decades about buying off politicians.
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This line of attack, I can't even imagine the Democrats are foolish enough to try to use it.
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This line of attack is the exact same line of attack they used in 2016 when they said,
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I bought politicians on both sides of the aisle.
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So I can't imagine the Harris campaign is going to want to use this.
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Because it is not only pretty much as effective as it was in 2016 against Hillary.
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It also highlights similarities between Kamala and Hillary Clinton.
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Both seemed to credit some of their political rise, at least to men in their orbit.
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Neither has any particular accomplishments under their belt.
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They're really being graded on a curve if they're being considered presidential material.
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The only difference, I guess, is that Hillary was more widely hated because Hillary was more widely known for a longer period of time.
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Many people, probably most people, don't even really know who Kamala Harris is.
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They are running a woman who in many ways resembles the last candidate to lose to Trump.
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They replaced a guy who can claim to have beaten Trump with someone who is much closer to the woman who lost to Trump than the guy who ostensibly beat him.
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So lots of people are miffed about the Kamala choice.
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Lots of Democrats are miffed about the Kamala choice.
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And then the Democrats cleverly switched at the last minute.
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And I don't think it changes the fundamentals of the race.
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But it is going to make it harder for Republicans to pivot.
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The other guy who's really irritated is J.D. Vance.
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Because J.D. Vance really wanted to debate Kamala Harris.
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By the way, speaking about takebacks, I was told I was going to get to debate Kamala Harris.
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And now President Trump's going to get to debate her?
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I'm kind of pissed off about that, if I'm being honest with you.
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Now, speaking, I mean, look, if I were J.D. Vance, I would be pretty miffed, too.
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That debate would have just been so absolutely magnificent.
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People have pointed out that J.D.'s wife, Usha, is also of Indian descent.
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And so J.D. has this special talent for resolving conflicts with Indian women, you know, as any married man will know.
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It's good, you know, when you have discussions with your wife, sometimes there are disagreements that can help.
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So all sorts of jokes about this, including being made by J.D. Vance.
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We don't know who she's going to pick for her VP.
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They will change all the voting rules in the lead-up to an election to give themselves an advantage if they think they're not going to win otherwise.
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They'll advocate locking the whole country down if they think it'll give them an advantage.
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They'll boot out the sitting president of the United States.
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They will kick him off his own presidential ticket over his strenuous objections.
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They'll send him to his home in Rehoboth Beach and lock him up if they think it'll give them any advantage.
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Speaking of people who are ticked off, Elon Musk sat down with my friend and colleague, Jordan Peterson, yesterday.
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And the part of this discussion that's really gone viral is when Elon describes his political revolution, how he came to so oppose what he would call the woke mind virus.
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It's not just something he saw on TV or read about in a newspaper.
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I was tricked into doing this, and it wasn't explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs.
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So, you know, they call it dead naming for a reason.
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All right, so the reason it's called dead naming is because your son is dead.
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Yeah, and there's lots of people in that situation now.
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Yeah, well, that's a good reason to be the final straw.
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So I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that.
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I mean, you really feel for the guy hearing this.
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I mean, I'm miffed by plenty of abstract political issues.
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And I'm devoted to trying to improve aspects of society in the abstract.
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But when it hits your kid like that, and you get tricked into going along with it,
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and you're wracked by guilt and fury and all these things.
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And you happen to be the richest, one of the richest and one of the most powerful men on earth.
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Yeah, you're going to devote yourself to attacking that.
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He uses this phrase, and it's a popular phrase, the woke mind virus.
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I think my friend Gad Saad came up with the phrase.
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But it's a little difficult to pin down for a lot of people.
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Even conservatives have struggled to define what is woke.
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The woke mind virus is just a roundabout way of saying liberalism.
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A lot of people want to distinguish between liberalism and the woke mind virus because they
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They want to hold on to the premises of liberalism.
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They don't want to have to call themselves right-wing or conservative or this or that or
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But it's just, and even a lot of conservatives would still call themselves liberals.
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Liberalism is the centering of individual autonomy in the political order.
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Liberalism is an exaltation of the self as primary in politics.
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Liberalism is an indulgence of any desire, rational or appetitive, from the individual.
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And so the logical conclusion of that is, if politics ought to allow you to do whatever
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it is you want to do, no matter how irrational, then the logical conclusion of that is, I
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ought to be able to be anything that I could even be.
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I could even imagine being even contrary to nature.
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I can violate the laws of logic and physics and biology and anything.
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But that's just following liberalism to its logical conclusion.
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And so in order to stop the woke mind virus, the reason I mention this is not so we can
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The reason I mention this is if you actually want to stop the woke mind virus, you have
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And so the core issue are the premises of political liberalism.
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And that means you're going to have to give up a lot of things that are fashionable and
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modern and, you know, you ostensibly would go along with.
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But you're not going to eradicate the woke mind virus by trying to rewind politics three
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You have to fundamentally rethink your premises.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from the drummer's workshop, Norm's Music, who writes,
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if Joe Biden really did write that letter, it would have ended with, put pencil down.
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Speaking of working your way through institutions and gaining an advantage and what Wall Street
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Journal purports to have the secret to getting ahead.
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And it is apparently Riz, R-I-double-Z, cool Zoomer slang for charisma, Riz.
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Whether you call it charisma, charm, or magnetism, some people seem like naturals.
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So I'm going through this article and the thrust of it.
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I won't read it in verbatim, but the thrust of it is you need to be approachable and relatable.
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You need to recognize that everyone's important.
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You're not just nice to the people ahead of you who you're trying to suck up to and impress.
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You got to be nice to everybody, even the low people, even anybody.
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You just got to be nice to them, and you got to remember their names and aspects of their life,
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and then they're going to like you, and then you're going to get promoted.
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It is, if you've ever read the most famous self-help book of the last hundred years,
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How to Win Friends and Influence People, it's by Dale Carnegie.
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I'm not really a big fan of the self-help genre, but sure, why not?
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And it basically comes down to be nice and learn people's names.
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But here's the key, and this is something that the Wall Street Journal, I think, is missing here.
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And then a lot of self-help books, and a lot of hustler gurus, and Sigma Grind said,
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People write into the show a lot, and not even in terms of how to get ahead at work.
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They'll write into the show on how to ask a woman out on a date, or how to impress a woman on a date.
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And my answer is always, oh, you have to like them.
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You should like them, and you should be interested in them and what they have to say.
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There was an old line I remember back when I was a young man working in show business.
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You always hear, be nice to the people on your way up because you're going to see the very same people on your way down.
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There's another image, comes from the Middle Ages, and has been transported to network primetime television, which is the Wheel of Fortune.
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And sometimes you're at the top, but then sure, if you're at the top, you know for certain you're going to go back down to the bottom again.
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And if you're at the bottom, that's very unpleasant.
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But one consolation is the only place you can go is up, and that's just how it works in the tribulations and vicissitudes of this life.
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And so you're going to see the same people, and you've got to be nice so that they don't hate you.
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And so maybe they'll even help you on your way up or on your way down.
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People will know if you're using them as instruments and tools for your own self-aggrandizement.
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People can tell when you're flattering them, and everyone hates a flatterer.
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No, what all this really comes down to is practicing virtues.
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You are prudent in your speech and your actions.
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You are, you're, maybe you show a little grace and mercy sometimes if people screw up.
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You're not only focused on yourself, but you're actually interested in other people because man is a social creature.
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That's what you're, that's, that's the secret to getting ahead.
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Can I, can I write an essay in the Wall Street Journal about this?
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Because every time you try to cheat it or find a shortcut, people are going to notice it.
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But it's not going to be learned from some hustler or some pimp or someone trying to give you a shortcut to get ahead.
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Riz can be learned by, by practicing the moral and intellectual virtues.
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But, uh, speaking of riz and going on dates and things like that, Americans are not having kids.
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And our friends in the establishment media, I think this might be the journal too, actually.
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Wall Street Journal, not, not having a great, great week.
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Wall Street Journal has this headline, why Americans aren't having babies.
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The costs and rising expectations of parenthood are making young people think hard about having any children at all.
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Uh, women without children, rather than those having fewer, are responsible for most of the decline in average births among 35 to 44-year-olds during their lifetimes so far.
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So it's not just that people are having smaller families.
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It's that many more people are just not having any children at all.
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This, according to the Census Bureau, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
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Childlessness accounted for over two-thirds of the six and a half percent drop in average births between 2012 and 2022.
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Well, according to the article, according to what a lot of people are saying these days, it's because of the cost of having children.
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Now, the journal sees something here beyond that, which is, it's not just that kids are expensive, it's that we are expected to have a higher standard of living today than maybe our parents or our grandparents did.
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So, yeah, maybe you could keep the kid alive for a modest amount of money, but if you want to buy him the latest toys and put him in the fancy school and get him the gizmos and the gadgets and the screens and the college-educated, cage-free, range-free eggs or whatever, you know, then that's all going to be, if you need to have the really big house.
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We have bigger houses now, if we have houses at all.
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But they don't really make those small houses quite so much anymore.
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It's either people living in apartment pods or they're living in a bigger kind of a house.
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But I guess my problem with this analysis is it just doesn't match up with what I observe and have observed for years.
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My friends who don't have kids are not poorer on average than my other friends.
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The people I know who have lots of kids, with some exception, tend to be less wealthy.
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It's notâI don't buy this story for a second.
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I wish I could have children, but it's just, you know, the money is so hard.
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It's because you like buying the $25 cocktail at the special bar in Tribeca.
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It's because you want to have the fancy car and go on the fancy vacation.
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But I suspect what it is is that people get addicted to money.
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There are plenty of people who just can't have kids because they're infertile and because, well, there are all sorts of reasons why people are suffering infertility these days.
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But there are many, many people who are perfectly fertile who just choose not to have kids, and that's driving the population decline.
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And it's notâdon't let them lie to you and tell you it's because, well, it's just too hard to make a buck these days.
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It's becauseâthe poor can always have children.
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Children were once called the poor man's wealth, which changes a little bit in the industrial age.
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But nevertheless, that remains a visible phenomenon.
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It's because people get attracted to the things of this world.
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Wow, here's why people aren't giving of themselves to other people.
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It's because they're kind of selfish sometimes.
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