Ep. 1539 - The Olympics Embrace the Rainbow
Summary
Kamala Harris has released her first presidential campaign ad, and it tells you everything you need to know about her campaign. I need freedom too. The freedom to be safe from gun violence, the freedom to make decisions about your own body, we choose a future where no child lives in poverty, where we can all afford health care, where no one is above the law, we believe in the promise of America, and we re ready to fight for it. Because when we fight, we win.
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Kamala Harris has released her first presidential campaign ad, and it tells you everything you need to know about her campaign.
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The freedom to make decisions about your own body.
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We choose a future where no child lives in poverty, where we can all afford health care, where no one is above the law.
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We believe in the promise of America, and we're ready to fight for it.
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I'm going to keep on running, because the winners don't quit on themselves.
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Notice, Kamala only gets specific on two issues, guns and abortion.
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Two issues to rile up the base, and crucially, two issues that don't require any actual record of achievement.
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There's always another gun to steal and another baby to kill.
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Otherwise, the rest of the ad is about some vague kind of freedom.
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Because when it comes to specifics, Kamala loses.
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Either because she's too far left on an issue like transing the kids say, or because she's a failure on an issue like immigration.
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When Kamala repeats vague nonsense about imagining what will be unburdened by what has been, the ambiguity is intentional.
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The Olympics has now had a transvestite carry the Olympic torch on the way to Paris, or something.
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I don't, people, the conservatives are freaking out over this.
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And speaking of learning things, you might be wondering, Michael, why is there so much ambient noise?
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If you are listening to this right now, or if you're watching, you might say, Michael, where are you?
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Why are there people walking around behind you?
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And I'm going to let you in on a little secret.
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I know blockchain, decentralized, future, currency.
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I know, like, I know all of that, but it's not really, I don't really know what that means.
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A lot of libertarians really like it, but some conservatives, too.
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We will get into what the Bitcoin conference is.
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The reason I'm here is because it seems that every prominent politico in the country is coming to this.
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Oddly enough, last night, I was the corner man for a karate combat fight for Smiling Sam Alvey, a member of the Creme de la Creme.
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And Bobby Kennedy Jr. came into this fight here in Nashville.
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Kamala Harris has announced she is not coming to the Bitcoin conference.
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Initially, she was going to do, but now she's not going to.
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And the reason she's not going to is because she would have been booed back to Kentucky.
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So, anyway, we will check in on that throughout the day.
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Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, was just asked a question about Kamala Harris.
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Kamala Harris was put in charge of the border by her boss, Joe Biden.
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And then the Democrats, when Kamala became the presumptive nominee, wanted to deny that she was ever put in charge of the border.
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And here is poor Karine Jean-Pierre squirming around to answer.
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Democrats on Capitol Hill are being handed this card with talking points about the vice president and the border.
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So, the first one says, Vice President Harris was never appointed border czar.
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Why are Democrats so sensitive about the vice president and the border?
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Why are Republicans so sensitive about actually not owning up to them getting in the way of a border deal?
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Why won't they own up to what the last president told them not to move forward?
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It was a bipartisan deal on, just right there, available to them.
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Why are they so sensitive to moving forward and actually dealing on an issue that majority of Americans care about?
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Yeah, I mean, like, come on, like, I know you are, but what am I?
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You know, like, I am rubber and you are glue, and what you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.
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That is the substance of Karine Jean-Pierre's answer here.
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I've asked her, the VP today, because she's the most qualified person to do it,
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to lead our efforts with Mexico and the Northern Triangle and the countries that help
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are going to need to help in stemming the movement of so many folks,
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It's not her full responsibility and job, but she's leading the effort
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because I think the best thing to do is to put someone who, when he or she speaks,
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they don't have to wonder about, is that where the president is?
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This was three years ago, and Biden already was struggling greatly with the English language,
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but I think you get the point of what he's saying.
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If you were confused, here he is, next sentence.
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He imbues her with presidential authority on the issue of the border and migration.
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She knows what she's doing, and I hope we can move this along.
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And you're smiling, and there's no one better capable of trying to organize this for us.
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And now the Democrats are saying, there's no real, there's no position of border czar.
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Yeah, there's no position of czar in the government.
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Czar is an imperial title that derives from Caesar.
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So, no, we don't have a formal position named Caesar or czar.
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But if you look to Wikipedia, or if you looked to Wikipedia before a couple days ago,
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And you'd get a whole list of them, including Kamala Harris as the border czar.
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It's an informal term to refer to the person who has been put in charge of a particular subject.
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And the Democrats are now arguing this point over addiction.
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Because if they insist in this, I guess, nominalist way on saying that there's no such thing as border czar,
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then you would ask them, OK, what does it mean to be the border czar?
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It means to be the person put in charge of the border.
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Joe Biden said, when Kamala speaks on the border and migration, she speaks for the president.
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No one had greater authority on the border than Kamala, and she totally failed.
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So then, when the nominalism nonsense doesn't work,
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Karine Jean-Pierre tries to redirect and says, well, the Republicans killed a border bill.
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Yes, there was a border bill that the Democrats were peddling.
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It was always a bad idea to consider any of the Democrats' border legislation
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because the president was ignoring the immigration laws that were already on the books.
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The president already had the authority to enforce immigration law,
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and he chose not to do it because he wanted migrants to flood into the country
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because the Democrats believe that it gives them a permanent electoral majority.
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So if the Biden administration was ignoring the laws that already existed,
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why would we believe that passing one more law would help?
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But furthermore, Karine Jean-Pierre and the Democrats are now saying,
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The border bill that was proposed by the Democrats would have begun to take some more significant actions against the migrants
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when border encounters averaged 4,000 per day over the course of a week.
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So the supposedly really strong border bill the Democrats were pushing
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would not have even been triggered to start considering increased enforcement
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And then, OK, maybe if you get 8,500 in one day, then you could also trigger it.
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So, in fact, it would have weakened border security that was already on the books
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I feel bad for Karine Jean-Pierre because she's got no answers,
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because the Biden-Harris administration has no answers, because it's been a failure.
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That's why the Democrats are making these last-minute desperate plays
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to try to swap out their nominee or to try to redirect
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or to try to ignore the fact that Trump was nearly assassinated a couple of weeks ago.
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Karine Jean-Pierre was asked about that last-minute swap by Zeke Miller of the Associated Press
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who asks the press secretary, hey, Mrs. Press Secretary,
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how is it possible that Joe Biden is unfit to run for president but fit to serve as president?
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The president believes that it's best for the country that he not be in the Oval Office for another four years.
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How can you assure the American people that he's up to be in the office for the next six months?
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Well, first I would say is that, and I've heard these suggestions out there,
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this is not an answer to you, this is an answer to the suggestions that I've had.
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We believe, and any suggestion of that note is ridiculous.
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The president, I just laid out what the president has been able to do in almost four years,
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He's been able to do more, again, than any president has been able to do in two terms.
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And he wants to finish the job that he started and delivering more historic results for the American people.
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And, look, he didn't step down from campaigning or from running
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because he didn't believe he can serve in a second term.
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And what I would say as I just finished my opening, I would say, tune in.
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Tune in to what he has to say tonight, and he will lay that out for you all and the American people
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Okay, so she basically waves the white flag here.
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She says, I don't, just, just listen to whatever Biden says.
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I don't, she wants to say he didn't step down because he's not fit to do the job.
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But we all know he's stepped down because he has dementia.
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We all know he's stepped down because he's not physically or mentally able to run for president.
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Well, how is he mentally able to serve as president or even physically able to serve as president?
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So now what the Democrats have to do is distract away from Kamala.
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And she hasn't succeeded at the few things she's been tasked with.
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So now they've got to focus things back on Trump.
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But the problem is Trump has garnered some sympathy recently.
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One, because the Democrats have tried to throw him off of the ballot.
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We still don't have a lot of answers on exactly how all that went down.
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But we do know that Biden and the Democratic leadership established the premise that would justify an assassination of Trump.
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Namely, that he poses an existential threat to the country and that he's the second coming of Hitler.
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So when you look at Trump, now all of a sudden the voters are going to feel some sympathy.
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So the next Democrat strategy is they've got to take away that sympathy.
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Christopher Wray, the FBI director, appears before the House Judiciary Committee.
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Jim Jordan, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is posing typically excellent questions to Wray about the attempted assassination.
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And Chris Wray confuses the story by raising the possibility that Trump wasn't even shot.
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Where did all eight bullets go is, I guess, my question.
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As I said, I think with respect to former President Trump, there's some question about whether or not it's a bullet or shrapnel that hit his ear.
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Although, as I sit here right now, I don't know whether that bullet, in addition to causing the grazing, could have also landed somewhere else.
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But I believe we've accounted for all of the shots in the cartridges.
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It's my understanding that the very first one was the one that hit the president.
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Is that the very first shot, or is that not accurate?
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I don't, as I sit here right now, I don't know the answer to that.
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The FBI director doesn't seem to know a lot of anything.
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Because you all saw on TV, what was it, 12, 13 days ago, that President Trump was shot in the head.
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And it would have blown off the back of his head, except for a nanosecond earlier turn of about 20 degrees that allowed the bullet to go through the top of his ear.
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A hair's breadth away from the man having had his head blown off on national television.
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And Christopher Wray is telling you, no, you didn't really see that.
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Actually, we don't even know if Trump was shot.
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To show you how ridiculous this line of attack is, which I've heard before.
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I was on Piers Morgan's show the other day, and Wajahat Ali, this left-wing columnist for the Daily Beast, he raised the possibility that maybe Trump wasn't actually shot.
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Even the New York Times, which is doing its best to downplay the near assassination of Trump, even the New York Times is admitting, okay, he was shot with a bullet.
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They say, I just saw this this morning, speculation swirls about what hit Trump.
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Speculation swirls about what gave me a tan when I was at the beach.
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Speculation swirls about how my suit got wet when I was walking outside.
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An analysis, a super-duper New York Times analysis suggests it was the rain.
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An absence of medical records or FBI findings has led to an information vacuum.
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But a Times analysis indicates that a bullet wounded Donald Trump.
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You guys, man, get the New York Times another Pulitzer.
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They, the New York Times, watched the same video that we all watched and saw a bullet go through his ear, and they concluded a bullet went through his ear.
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In fairness, the New York Times now is more observant, better forensic investigators than the head of the FBI, doing his damnedest to downplay the near assassination of Trump.
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What do we know from the liberal establishment?
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We know, we know that Kamala wasn't the borders are.
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We know that actually there is no border crisis.
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I think that's basically what the libs are telling us.
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Now, speaking of gaslighting, a transvestite, a drag queen, has been tasked with carrying the Olympic torch on part of its journey to the Paris Olympics.
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And this has sent the conservative commentariat into a tizzy.
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The first drag queen to carry the Olympic torch, Martin Namius, better known as Miss Martini.
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Her aim, it's a him, obviously, is to further the debate about weird sex stuff or something.
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What's kind of weird about all this is even a year or two ago, there was this distinction between drag queens and transgenders.
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And the distinction was that drag queens know that they're really men, but they dress up like women.
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And transgenders are women, even though their bodies would say otherwise.
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But now I guess this is getting blurred because this left-wing outlet is calling him a her.
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But in any case, the conservatives are really upset about this.
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The Olympic torch ceremony is an overtly pagan ritual that begins with a reenactment of the Vestal Virgins worshipping at the Temple of Hera.
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And then they carry the eternal flame of the Olympic torch on this overtly pagan journey toward this resuscitation of overtly pagan games.
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So, yeah, they're going to do weird pagan stuff.
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I'm as rock-ribbed about the trans movement as anybody.
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I think transgenderism ought to be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole preposterous ideology at every level.
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I think I didn't know the Olympics were happening this year.
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Mr. Davies, who's kind of a big beefcake of a producer and was considering actually being in the Olympics when he was a younger man,
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He even called the story to my attention, but I don't know.
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Yeah, stuff that derives from weird ancient Greek, especially.
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I guess it takes more to scandalize me than weird pagan sex stuff at a Greek thing.
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So, my favorite comment yesterday is from Aufskrösser1509, who says,
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I'm a childless cat lady, but I still support Trump and have a brain that I actually use.
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That no childless cat ladies who support conservatives were offended by what J.D. Vance said.
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Because J.D. Vance obviously isn't talking about you.
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I'm a graduate of a very liberal university, and I studied something that is not technically practical there.
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And conservatives make fun of that type all the time.
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But I'm not offended when they make fun of that type, because they're not talking about me.
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You're hearing Democrats now saying, oh, J.D. Vance, he's offended couples that struggle with infertility.
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It's not consecrated people who are living in a consecrated kind of celibacy.
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And stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason, because all stereotypes are true.
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That doesn't mean that the stereotype necessarily applies to every single individual.
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Okay, speaking of weird sex stuff, this is troubling.
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Scientists, according to this report, scientists have grown male genitals in a lab, and there
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Not because I think it's going to make blokes obsolete, but because that must be a very creepy lab.
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Some scientist, Dr. Nitzan Gonin, an Israeli scientist, has produced these male genitals
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from cells extracted from mice, and she hopes that she'll be able to produce human versions
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This is from the Sex Determination Laboratory in Bar Ilan, Israel.
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And the goal is not to make men redundant, but to help the crisis of male fertility.
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But there's a fear now, oh no, are you going to make men obsolete?
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Until scientists can develop a way in a laboratory to kill bugs or to reach things on the top shelf,
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Because sex is about more than just your gonads.
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Being a man, being a woman, is about more than just your chromosomes.
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And the libs think that sex has nothing to do with your biology or your gonads or your chromosomes.
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But the conservatives go too far in the other direction.
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And they say that sex and sexual difference is all about your gonads and your chromosomes.
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One of those is a Gnostic error, and one of those is a materialist error.
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But we, conservatives, reasonable people, especially if you're religious, especially if you're Christian,
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you believe that man is hylomorphic, body and soul united.
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And that there's a physical expression of what it means to be a man,
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And there's more to it than just your gullions.
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And so I mentioned this when we were all having the debate over what is a woman.
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I mentioned that the conservatives are falling into the same kind of materialism that led us to this place in the first place.
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Once I was doing an interview with my friend Matt Fradd.
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And he said, well, Michael, are you saying that being a woman is, you know,
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you're not saying that it's about wearing frilly dresses and, you know, making fancy breakfasts in the morning, are you?
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It's not only about that, but that's part of it.
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You know, a man is one who has the physicality of a man and who does the things that men are supposed to do.
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Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics tells us that virtue is excellent rational activity.
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Virtue comes from the Latin word vir, which means man.
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Grow as many gonads as you want in the laboratory.
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I meant to get to this last week, and I'm really glad I can touch on it right now.
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There are actually many caves on the moon, but a cave on the moon has been confirmed.
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And according to this story, scientists suspect hundreds more like it could house future explorers,
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could shelter the explorers on the moon, which raised a question in my mind.
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Is Matt Walsh right that there are extraterrestrials living on the moon?
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Now, some people, some pedantic people out there have suggested,
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no, Michael, it's to shelter the astronauts from radiation or the sun or whatever.
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I want to know about moon bears is what I want to know about.
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In any case, I like that we're talking about this.
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I like that we're talking about this because it gives us something ambitious to consider in our politics.
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I'm old enough to remember, and I'm sitting here at the Bitcoin conference,
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which is all about free markets and decentralization and property rights
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And there's a place for that when you have increasingly tyrannical leftists
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trying to stick their fingers into every aspect of your life.
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However, that's not the whole story of politics.
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I'm old enough to remember, when I started out in national political campaigns and political media,
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it was at the height of the Tea Party movement.
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There was a lot to recommend the Tea Party, but there was also this notion,
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especially once the Beltway crowd got a hold of it,
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that the Tea Party just came down to, let me keep more of my money and that's it.
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The grassroots of the Tea Party movement was about more than that.
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But the Beltway version, it said, just let me keep my money, get the government out of everything.
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Maximizing individual autonomy is not the be-all and end-all of politics.
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It's not even that persuasive a political movement.
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And I remember even thinking back then to a year or two later, back in 2012,
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Newt Gingrich, when he was running for president,
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I want-and at the time, this seemed discordant with the just shrink the government,
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don't have the government do anything, don't spend a single penny that's extraneous.
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But Newt said, no, I want a big political vision.
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I want something that we're working toward together.
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The right has moved beyond mere individual autonomy as an animating principle.
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Political is what we all do together, just by definition.
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And so if you want to build a political movement, you need to give them something to hope for, to look toward.
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When you think about the height of Western civilization, was the height of Western civilization defined by just keeping lots of property to yourself
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and not having the political order do anything?
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The great heights of our civilization, I think of the Crusades.
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The great heights of our civilization, I think of the exploration of the New World, 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
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I think of, and which would be probably, well, both of those, really, are good analogs for going to the moon and building things
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and living in caves and doing science experiments and hoping for something and looking toward the future.
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And I'm not afraid of the government doing something that is actually good and galvanizing.
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Now, presently, we can't do that because we don't really even seem to have a president.
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Joe Biden's brother has just gotten the Biden political apparatus in trouble.
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As we are told time and again by Joe, by Kamala, by Karine Jean-Pierre, that Biden is not stepping down because of his health.
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He's stepping down, I don't know, for some other reason that they're not able to name.
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But Biden's brother, Frank, just came out, and this was reported by CBS News, a liberal news outlet, that, yeah, of course he's stepping down from the nomination because of his health.
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CBS News had a brief conversation with Frank Biden, one of President Biden's two younger brothers.
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Selfishly, I will have him back to enjoy whatever time we have left.
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It sounds corny in our cynical political environment, but he nor I are cynical.
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The goal remains the same, defeat Trump and continue the work that Joe has done.
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My hope is that our party rallies around this heroic act.
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We asked him whether he feels that his brother's overall health and vitality played a major role in this decision.
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So a member of the president's family now confirming that the president's health was indeed a major factor in this decision.
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And so then a source close to the Biden family comes out and says, no, this is completely untrue.
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Frank Biden suffers from alcoholism, hasn't spoken to his brother, the president, in weeks.
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What he said about President Biden's health being a factor in his decision is completely untrue.
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And so I forget, obviously, Biden's stepping down because he's demented.
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And this family, man, this family, this tells you more about the Biden political failure than just about anything.
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His family's out selling his influence overseas.
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But even if he's not, even if he just can't control his brothers and his son, if a guy can't get his family in order, he probably can't get politics in order.
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If it's falling apart, if it's fraying, if a guy's not interested in having a family, to get to a point J.D. made, well, OK, you know, different strokes for different folks.
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But that's probably not the guy to lead your country.
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It's probably not the man or woman to lead your country.
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Since pretty much everyone at the Daily Wire has published a book, I had a quick question.
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I'm currently writing a book, and I wanted to know where would be a good conservative-friendly place to publish it.
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It is a fiction, if that information is important for that.
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If I were in your shoes, I would self-publish it.
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You could, if you want to try it out first, you could send it to an agent, and maybe an agent reads it.
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And then if you do land an agent, he can send it out to a publisher, and maybe the publisher reads it.
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And then you can go the traditional publishing route, even as the traditional publishing industry falls apart.
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But what I would recommend, if it were me, look, we're at the Bitcoin conference.
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This is the height of, you know, decentralization, cut through the middleman, do it yourself.
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I would recommend self-publishing and then getting any of your friends with a social media following to plug it.
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And you'd have to, one, make sure it's edited impeccably.
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There's a higher bar for self-published books than traditionally published books.
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And you have to make sure the cover art is extremely well done.
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There's even a higher bar for that, probably, in self-published than traditionally published.
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But I would not waste all your time trying to go the traditional route.
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I once asked Drew if he reads unsolicited manuscripts.
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And he said, Michael, if my mother on her deathbed begged me to read her screenplay, I would maybe consider it.
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I mean, the fact that, look, I got my publishing deal by self-publishing.
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My first book, my fake book, the blank one, Reasons to After Democrats, was initially self-published.
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But otherwise, you know, there are a handful of publishers that might, but they're probably only going to, not only look at established authors,
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they're just going to look at people who have big social media followings.
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Because they just are doing, they're trying desperately to sell books in an industry that's largely dying.
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Hello, Mr. Knowles, long-time listener, first-time caller, never been able to be in the chat due to work.
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How is it that the Pope can be infallible if the very first Pope, Peter, was rebuked by the Apostle Paul due to his hypocrisy
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when it came to recoiling at the dining with Gentiles,
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when he was already shown by the Lord that nothing can be unclean that the Lord has made clean?
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This is very often raised as a reputation of papal infallibility, but it's very easily answered, which is, well, you said it yourself.
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Does Paul rebuke Peter because of a definitive teaching on faith and morals?
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He rebukes Peter for his hypocritical behavior.
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But papal infallibility doesn't say the Pope can't do anything wrong.
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Papal infallibility, which is largely misunderstood, simply says that the Pope speaks infallibly when he speaks ex cathedra definitively on matters of faith and morals.
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So Paul's rebuke of him doesn't come anywhere close to that category.
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And furthermore, people who have a problem with papal infallibility, I think they almost have a problem with the phrase,
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because we know that we're human beings and we're fallible, usually because we do bad things.
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But we also think wrong things sometimes, and that's true.
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So I think an easier way to think of it is that people infallibility answers a necessary question, which is, where does the buck stop?
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It answers the question of, where does authority lie?
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So if you say, you know, when there are disagreements between churches, as we see going all the way back to antiquity,
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disagreements between the church at Athens and the church at Alexandria,
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they're going to appeal to someone, the Pope, to settle that dispute.
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So when there are disagreements between priests, you go to your bishop.
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When there are disagreements among bishops, you go to the cardinal.
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When there are disagreements between the cardinals, you go to the Pope.
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But someone's got to settle the dispute if the church is going to maintain its four marks,
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which are to be one holy, catholic, and apostolic, which we read in the Creed.
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So I guess I would flip the question and say, if you don't believe in people infallibility,
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and trust me, I'm the first one to tell you, we've had plenty of bad popes,
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you know, questionable popes, we're popes who have done very bad things.
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If you don't believe in people infallibility, though, then who settles the dispute?
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When there's disagreement, how do you resolve that?
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Probably what many of my Protestant friends would say is, well, you just resolve it by turning to the Word of God.
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Okay, well, what happens when people have different interpretive principles,
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and they interpret the Word of God differently, interpret Scripture differently, as happens all the time?
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Well, you know, I'll just be guided by the Holy Spirit in my interpretation of it.
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Okay, well, the other guy says that he's guided by the Holy Spirit, so how do I know which one of you is right?
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And often what it comes down to, people will say, is, well, I just know that I'm right, you know,
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Okay, so then what you're asserting is not merely a rejection of papal infallibility.
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What you're asserting is a kind of individual infallibility, a self-turned infallibility.
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But I don't really buy that, you know, I don't think, I don't think in matters of disagreement that I am necessarily right.
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So, the question is just where does authority lie?
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And this was a point driven home by John Henry Newman, who was an Anglican theologian, quite anti-Catholic.
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But he, I will point out, he did convert, and he became a Catholic cardinal and then a saint.
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One of the things I'm really thinking about, specifically after yesterday's hearing with Netanyahu,
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is why the comparisons are not being made between the destruction of the protesters yesterday and January 6th.
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It seems to me that there was at least a comparable amount of destruction that happened,
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and it doesn't seem like that gets pointed out.
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Sure, in a world that made sense, or the world does make sense,
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but in a world in which the liberals made sense, then, yes, that would persuade them.
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The actual Capitol, not just engaged in political violence.
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The left has attacked the Capitol and blown up rooms in the Capitol and shot members of Congress
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and performed acts of terrorism there many times over the years.
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The January 6th attack on the Capitol probably doesn't rank within the top dozen attacks on the Capitol in American history,
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the majority of which have been committed by leftists.
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So you can argue that until you're blue in the face.
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The libs don't care about the attack on the Capitol, per se.
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They don't care about the undermining of our democracy, per se.
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They hate democracy when democracy elects conservatives.
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They hate it when it elects Orban in Hungary and Maloney in Italy and so on.
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They care when the conservatives are doing something bad.
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when Antifa goes and attacks right-wingers on campuses,
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So we would do better to redirect our rhetorical efforts and the air in our lungs
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toward things that we can actually persuade people on.
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The border is a big issue, and she totally failed.
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Well, we already convinced them that Joe Biden is senile,
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and so there was pressure to get Biden out of the race.
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Donald Trump is not what the libs have told us he is.
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Things were a lot better when he was the president, and he should be reelected.
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to prove to the Democrats that they're hypocritical,
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I'm calling in to ask your thoughts on Kamala's chances of winning.
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Part of me believes that she couldn't possibly win against Trump,
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If so, what would America look like under her presidency?
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I guess I'd put a modest amount of Bitcoin on Trump winning.
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There are all these doom and gloomers on the right
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than to just be miserable and complain all the time.
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But I actually think that Trump looks good right now in the polls,
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I think the reason why people like Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom
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is because they don't want to burn their political careers
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So I think this is why the Obamas took a while to endorse Kamala.
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If the Dems do a better job of ballot harvesting,
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depending on who Kamala picks as a running mate,
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maybe if the Democrats do a good job at memory-holing the attempted assassination of Trump.
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For all of those reasons, they potentially could push Kamala across the finish line.
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And so what would a Kamala administration look like?
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It would look considerably more left-wing than Biden's.
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The Democrats are trying to memory-hol this now, too.
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Kamala was the most left-wing member of the U.S. Senate while she was there,
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She's particularly left-wing on issues like abortion.
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She prosecuted a friend of mine, a pro-life hero, David Daleida,
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because he's so good at exposing the evils of the abortion industry.
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She also supports Medicare for All, socialized medicine, you know, all the way.
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She also was the border czar, and she flooded the country with illegals.
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So it would look considerably to the left of Biden.
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But if you think the Biden administration's bad, it'll get turned up to 11.
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conservatives love nothing more than to be doer and complain.
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I was looking forward to member-room segmented,
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but now I'm being told by Professor Jacob there is a member block.
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