Ep. 1549 - Jenna Ortega Belittles White Men
Summary
Jake Tapper asks where is Joe Biden and why is he not talking to the press anymore? And what is going on with the White House and what s going on in the inner sanctum? And who is currently the President?
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He used to be running for re-election for president this year, and he's not doing that anymore.
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But no one seems to hear from him or about him at all anymore.
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He is apparently at his private home in Delaware again right now.
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And while some members of the Democrat establishment are still trying to make excuses for his obvious demonstration of dementia in that debate five weeks ago,
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even the liberal press are not having it anymore.
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You want to show people what's in your heart, you don't have to memorize anything.
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So when I saw him, I thought, in my view, over-prepped, not a good idea.
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Did you think that that was all that was going on?
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I mean, the president has not had a full cabinet meeting since last October.
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Yeah, no, that bad debate he had, he was just over-prepped.
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Jake Tapper there goes, yeah, so that was all that was going on, though?
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He was over-prepared because he hasn't had a cabinet meeting since October.
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There are people, Democrats that I've talked to, who think that obviously he's not able to communicate the way he used to be able to communicate.
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And they think that people in the White House were hiding this from senior Democrats like yourself, keeping him, keeping a close control over who got to see him.
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I think this president is, I mean, he is a consequential president.
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In his term in office, he has accomplished great things as we talk about.
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How do you think history is going to remember his decision to not run for re-election?
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I mentioned yesterday on this show that we are easily distracted in this tumultuous news cycle.
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So, I'm just going to raise another one of these questions.
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Yesterday, I said, hey, you guys remember when Trump almost had his head blown off and the news has just totally pushed that out of the cycle and you're not seeing headlines about it anywhere.
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And, okay, I'm going to raise another one of those questions.
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Joe Rogan has made his presidential endorsement and we'll get to who that is in just a moment.
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And speaking of white people disappearing, white people are disappearing.
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This, according to a new study that just came out from the Brookings Institution.
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So, the Brookings Institution is a center-left think tank.
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It's not like this is some far right-wing institution.
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And the Brookings Institution found that from April of 2020 to July of 2023, so during the course of the COVID lockdowns and pandemic, the Hispanic population grew by 3.2 million people in the United States.
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And the white population fell 2.1 million people.
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I'm not saying that the birth rates trickled off, so the rates of growth of the white people in America are lower than they previously were.
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There are 2.1 million fewer white people in July of 2023 than there were in April of 2020.
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And there are 3.2 million more Hispanic people in the United States.
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And when we say Hispanic people in the United States, we're largely not talking about Hispanic Americans who have been here for generations who are having kids.
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People coming in, foreigners coming in who are unfamiliar with American culture, who don't speak the English language.
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You see other groups are also growing to some degree.
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Black, Asian, and mixed-race populations grew by a modest amount, hundreds of thousands of people each.
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Native Americans grew by 23,000, so a very small amount.
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But the only group that declined and declined dramatically, precipitously, is white people.
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So the U.S. population over the whole period grew 3.4 million people according to U.S. Census Bureau data, but the white people disappeared.
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I wonder, I just want to focus in for a second on the group that is declining and collapsing and the group that is exploding, driven largely by immigration.
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I wonder if this might have something to do with the fact that a report came out in February that during the Biden-Harris administration, 7.2 million illegal aliens came into the country.
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I wonder if that might have something to do with the rapid demographic change in the United States.
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I wonder if the Democrats are shocked by this data, or these data, or if they're actually thrilled by these data because this is what they want.
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For instance, when the current vice presidential nominee for the Democrats, Tim Walls, says that, an ironically named man,
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because he said, if the Republicans build a wall, if they build a 25-foot wall, he wants a 30-foot ladder factory.
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Conservatives are so afraid to touch this issue.
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Republicans are so afraid to touch this issue because we don't want to be called racist.
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America has been a majority white country from the beginning.
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It was almost an exclusively white country in the early days, and even in the age of large waves of migration.
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It was still, it remains even today, a majority white country.
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So if you have the white population just completely collapsing, it's not to say that any other group is bad or you don't like them or anything like that.
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That represents a pretty fundamental shift in how your country operates.
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Just look at native-born population versus foreign-born population.
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Because that's really what's lying underneath these numbers here.
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If you have a collapse in the majority of the native-born population, and you have a mass influx of a foreign-born population, you have a different country.
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This is a political insight that goes back to Aristotle.
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Aristotle writes in the politics that when polities take in foreigners, it generally is not a great thing.
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Dante, I'm giving a lecture on Dante tonight at the ISI, Intercollegiate Studies Institute Honors Program.
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And Dante hears this point in paradise, actually, from his ancestor, Kaccia Guida, says,
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you know, when you mix in a lot of foreign people, things start to get a little rough in the city.
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Why? Not because the people in themselves are bad, just because they don't quite fit.
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You know, when you change the people of a body politic, you're going to change the body politic.
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That's difficult for us to accept, even on the right, in our highly ideological age, in which we're told America is an idea.
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It's not a people, it's not a tradition, it's not geography, it's just an idea floating in outer space.
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And if you went to the moon and you just injected the moon with the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence,
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Nations, polities, are made up primarily of people.
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And those people don't exist just at one moment in time, they exist over generations.
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There's a lived experience, to use the term of the leftists, they like that term a lot.
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Well, there is, there is a lived experience of what it means to be American,
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that you can't distill into five bullet points on the back of a napkin.
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You can't distill it even into a couple of documents like the Declaration and the Constitution.
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The left has exhibited probably the clearest example of what Michael Anton calls the celebration parallax
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when it comes to the replacement of the native-born population with a foreign population.
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We're so glad that the native-born population, especially those pesky white people, are dying off
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So they will be replaced with a foreign population.
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But then the moment that the conservatives say, hey, look at that, the population is actually being replaced.
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The native population is failing to replace itself and then it's being replaced through mass migration.
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Even though it's contrary to the law, it's being cheered on and encouraged by the Democrats up to now
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and including the president, the vice president who's the presidential nominee,
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and the running mate for that vice president saying he wants to build a ladder factory
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The moment the conservatives criticize that, all of a sudden this is called a grave, awful, terrible conspiracy theory.
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But now we've got a study from Brookings, which is a left-wing institution, saying exactly the same thing.
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But if you change the people, you change the country.
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You know, I mean, don't forget, I'm old enough to remember when Barack Obama was running for president
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and he said, I want to fundamentally transform America.
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So then conservatives said, oh, you don't love America.
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And the lib said, how dare you suggest Obama doesn't love America.
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But of course, you don't want to fundamentally transform something that you love.
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You don't say to your wife, I want to fundamentally transform you, honey.
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So they've been saying this for a long time, and now we're seeing that come to fruition.
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Speaking of the left cheering on the diminishment of white people,
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I'd heard the name, couldn't pick her out of a lineup,
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but Jenna Ortega has gone viral for giving an interview to Vanity Fair
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The show that I do right now, I have to play the cello,
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and I don't play the cello, and I want it to look real
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so that cellists don't look at it and call me mean names.
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My teacher told me that as long as I looked confident in my movement
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and I was strong and stoic and, you know, fully embodied the character,
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And she told me that I just needed to approach everything I do in life
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with the confidence of the average white man, and that changed my life.
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I was nervous to even do this because I ramble like crazy.
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So I was like, man, what am I going to talk about for all this time?
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And then I just remembered, how would an average white man do this?
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And he probably would have shown up with mismatched socks.
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Okay, so there at the end, you get a little bit of the mockery.
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So I see why people are offended by what she says.
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She's saying, oh, these white guys, you know, they're so incompetent.
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But the first part, I actually don't really see why people are offended about this.
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She says, yeah, some really good advice I got was to emulate the average white guy.
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I think, as a white fella myself, a little, you know, a little swarthy, a child of the mezzogiorno.
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But I thought, okay, well, that's, yeah, white guys are, average white guy's pretty good at stuff.
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I'm not saying, I mean, other people are good at stuff too.
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But yeah, white, the average white guy, yeah, he's pretty, he's actually not a bad fella.
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So sure, you want to, you want to emulate an average white guy?
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She's saying average white guys are more confident than other people.
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Actually, I think probably Jenna Ortega is not aware of how right her words are.
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Because what she's suggesting is white guys have this unearned sense of confidence.
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It's easy for white guys, but it's really difficult for everyone else.
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It's white women, and then especially women of color and men of color and they, thems of whatever various shade she's imagining.
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But ironically, in the age of DEI, the opposite is true.
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In the age of affirmative action, the opposite is true.
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In the age of disadvantaging white guys in hiring in college admissions, well, if a white guy gets into an elite institution, be it a school or a place of employment, that means he really earned it.
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He really, really earned it because he overcame all of the handicaps and disadvantages that are in place by law and by culture.
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This is not some conspiracy theory or something like that.
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There are laws on the books, and there are practices that institutions have owned up to, to disadvantage white guys in college admissions and employment in any place in society.
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White people are the only people that you can discriminate against by law and by culture.
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You can also discriminate against Asians by law, so maybe she should have the confidence of the average Asian, you know, Asian immigrant who works his way up to Harvard and then gets a job engineering or something.
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But the reason the white people in particular have this disadvantage in DEI culture is they're the group that you can discriminate against by law and by culture.
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That's the only group that you are sanctioned by the culture and encouraged by the culture, actually, to insult and diminish an attack, as we see in Jenna Ortega's comments here.
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So the reason I wouldn't be offended by it is I think it's actually pretty good advice.
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Yeah, have the confidence of the average white guy.
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Maybe it could change a lot of other libs' lives, too.
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There is at least one guy who is overconfident.
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There is one guy, one white guy in America who has way more confidence than he should.
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That, of course, would be Tim Walz, the running mate for Kamala Harris.
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Tim Walz is under attack right now because people are learning who he is, and that is inviting a lot of attack.
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It's because he's done many disreputable and bizarre and dishonorable things in his life.
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So people pointed out his big achievement as governor of Minnesota was putting tampons in the bathrooms of fourth grade boys in public schools.
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We know his other big achievement was letting Minneapolis burn down on his watch and, frankly, seeming to encourage it half the time.
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And then we know one of his big accomplishments is that he served in the military for 24 years, and he deployed.
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He carried guns in war, and he's now a retired command sergeant major.
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Except that we found out a lot of that is just complete bunk.
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And we now have proof of that from the Harris-Walls campaign.
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The Harris-Walls campaign has altered its website's bio of Tim Walz, removing its reference to him as a retired command sergeant major.
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He once served at the command sergeant major rank, as Politico reports, but he actually didn't fulfill the requirements to have that title.
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Walz's official campaign bio now describes him as rising to the rank of command sergeant major, but doesn't mention his rank being reduced before retirement.
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What you're going to hear from the libs is, oh, this is no big deal.
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If they're going to alter the Harris campaign website, they know this is a big deal, and Republicans need to keep pushing on this, okay?
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I in no way would diminish anything about serving 24 years in the National Guard.
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I think it's a little disreputable to, as Tim Walz did, say that you will deploy to Iraq or you will deploy to the Middle East if your unit goes, and then to bail out as quickly as you can when it seems that your unit actually will go.
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I think it is disreputable to pretend that you retired at a higher rank than you did.
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I think it is disreputable to pretend that you carried weapons in a combat zone in war when you did not.
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I think stolen valor and fraud generally are quite disreputable things.
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But the Harris campaign obviously thinks this is a vulnerability, okay?
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If they did not, they wouldn't be stealth editing the website.
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Another major vulnerability for Kamala Harris comes from my friend David Daleiden, who runs the Center for Medical Progress, who you might remember this story from years ago at this point.
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David went undercover, he got footage of Planned Parenthood officials trying to buy baby body parts, okay?
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Planned Parenthood denied that they were doing it.
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David goes undercover, and he gets them admitting.
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He got one video of a Planned Parenthood staffer saying,
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oh, yeah, well, we're going to haggle over the price because, you know, I want to buy a Lamborghini.
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Whoever gives the first number out there loses in a negotiation.
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Well, years after the fact, David is releasing more footage, really jarring footage.
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And it's coming out now because at the heart of this controversy is Kamala Harris.
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All right, the footage you're about to see was taken from an undercover meeting with top-level people.
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She's going to pull off a leg or two so it's not partial to work.
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Trust me, because, like, I would never have had a conversation with you if I wasn't already, like, fairly confident
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that it was going to be, you know, that our race is going to be like that.
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I would never have had a conversation with you if I thought you were going to record it.
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So this clinic that we're hearing about aborted babies up to six months and sold their body parts.
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This abortion practice ended with the Dobbs decision.
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This person here, Tram Noyan, is the VP of Abortion Access,
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oversaw the abortion practice at Planned Parenthood here.
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Dr. Ann Schutt, Ann Chief Medical Officer for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.
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She connected NIH-funded professors with Planned Parenthood to purchase aborted babies.
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They attempt to hide the fact that they're killing babies.
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They commit illegal abortions, like partial birth abortion,
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and they try to hide that fact by pulling off a leg or two, as you heard that woman say.
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They know exactly what they're doing, and Kamala Harris covered up for them because Kamala Harris
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has been prosecuting what was prosecuting David Daleiden when she was the Attorney General of
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My favorite comment yesterday, it's from Juliana Rose, 9149, who says,
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as a woman, I think it's just plain embarrassing to propose to your boyfriend.
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Okay, I caught a lot of flack yesterday, got a lot of headlines, got even women in the office
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were somewhat in dispute about this because that gal at the Olympics proposed to her boyfriend
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and I said, this is not how things are supposed to go.
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So I heard a response, which is that, well, you know, Michael, they had been dating reportedly
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for nine years and the boyfriend hadn't proposed.
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And so really, Michael, that guy should have just manned up and proposed.
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No, I'm sorry, that's not, yes, I'm sure he should have proposed or he should have dumped
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But the woman should not propose to the man because that is just not the sort of thing
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That's not, that is not how marriages are supposed to work.
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That is, and we went through some of the reasons for this yesterday.
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But I have great sympathy for this woman and I think the guy is a total loser.
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So, and now the world thinks the guy is a total loser because of how this whole thing
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Well, she should have dumped him either years ago or if she didn't want to dump him, she
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should have done what my grandmother did to my grandfather.
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This was just a kind of usual thing that women would do back in the day.
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She would say, all right, listen, Buster, we've been dating for a little while now and
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please excuse my vulgar language, but these are the words of my grandmother, piss or get
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And my grandfather proposed and they had six kids and they had a wonderful life and were
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That's, uh, and they would, would have been married forever had he, had he lived longer.
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So, uh, that's, that's what should have happened.
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But a woman proposing to a man on international television, did she buy the man a ring?
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I don't, no way, no, not the way it's supposed to be.
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David Daleiden of the Center for Medical Progress is now coming out with even more footage, even
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more damning footage of Planned Parenthood attempting to purchase baby body parts illegally.
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Because Kamala Harris tried to cover up and they've been prosecuting this guy ever since
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David writes, he just posted this yesterday in 2016, Kamala Harris seized dozens of hours
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Now that this evidence is finally coming out for the first time, it's clear Kamala Harris
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led a coverup of late term abortion crimes as California attorney general.
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Anyway, even though she knew they all knew this was totally bogus.
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They seized all the undercover footage for Planned Parenthood.
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A state judge ruled years later that it was obviously filmed in public.
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But the damage to me and my team was already done.
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This woman, we laugh at Kamala Harris because she's goofy and she doesn't seem to know very
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much and she has a vocabulary of about 11 words and most of her public speeches are just
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And we all view her as an empty suit just as we viewed Biden as an empty suit.
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Somehow perhaps her suit is even more empty if that were possible.
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But there's something really nefarious going on.
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There's something really dark about Kamala Harris.
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If she cares about any issue at all, there's probably just one issue and it is killing babies.
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She loves killing babies and she will defend it to the death.
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And she has been complicit in persecuting a journalist for going out and proving on camera
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that a major organization that has received a lot of taxpayer money breaks the law in about
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as egregious and horrifying a way as is possible.
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Okay, well, that's after this woman's been vice president.
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She's on the brink of becoming president of the United States.
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Sure would be a shame, I guess, for the Harris campaign if these clips went viral.
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Speaking of complicity, Hillary Clinton is embracing the nickname that conservatives have
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Conservatives have dubbed Tim Walz Tampon Tim because he was so insistent upon putting tampons
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So Hillary writes, how nice of the Trump camp to help publicize Governor Tim Walz's compassionate
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and common sense policy of providing free menstrual products to students in Minnesota's public schools.
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Let's put tampons in the bathrooms of fourth grade boys everywhere in the country, says
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I was mentioning earlier in the week that the Democrats just completely made up this gross
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They said that J.D. Vance wrote in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy, that he did some weird sex stuff
00:28:39.520
with a couch. And this went viral, not because it was a joke. There was no joke to it. There was no
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setup and punchline. It didn't really refer to anything that would seal the joke. It was just a
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lie. And it went viral because many libs are illiterate, functionally illiterate. And so they
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don't, or practically illiterate, I suppose. So they don't, they didn't actually read the book.
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They just took this guy's word for it. It was totally made up. And they ran with this story.
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Republicans are running with a story about Tim Walz that is demonstrably true. He pushed a policy
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that put tampons in fourth grade boys' bathrooms in public schools. So the libs are running on a weird
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sex accusation that's completely invented, completely fabricated. The Republicans are
00:29:27.280
running on one that is true, so true that the Democrats are embracing it. Hillary Clinton's
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embracing it. I'm glad we agree. I don't want to lie about Tim Walz. Tim Walz lies about himself and
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his record, but I don't want to lie about Tim Walz. I don't want to lie about Kamala Harris. I don't
00:29:41.300
want to lie about my political opposition. I want all of my attacks on the political opposition
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to be 100% precise and true. My problem with them is that they're wrong and they have a terrible
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vision for the country. So I want to present their vision in honesty. It's very telling that the libs
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attacks on Trump and J.D. Vance and all the other Republicans are based on lies. When Joe Biden comes
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out, he launched his whole presidential campaign in 2020 and had Trump supposedly called Nazis fine
00:30:17.940
people at Charlottesville. Even PolitiFact, Snopes, Snopes it was, came out and said, no, that isn't
00:30:23.240
true. They came out seven years later and said it isn't true, but they said it isn't true. The libs
00:30:28.500
attacks on conservatives are false. The conservatives attacks on libs are true. Even if you're a lib,
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I think you have to kind of grant that fact. And that should tell you a lot about the respective
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camps. Now, speaking of fairness in the election, Kamala Harris has agreed to one debate with Donald
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Trump. You remember Biden proposed two debates to Trump. Trump immediately accepted. Trump beat
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Biden so badly in the first debate that Biden is no longer the nominee. So then Kamala said, okay,
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I want to do that second debate. You already agreed to it. And Trump said, hold on, I agree to this.
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I agreed to debate the guy who was your nominee until I beat him so badly that now he's out of
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the race. So then Kamala said, oh, I want to do it. I want to do the debate on ABC, all these super
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libs and let's get it done. And Trump said, okay, well, hold on. Now we have a new negotiation because
00:31:22.460
we have a new nominee. So I propose three or four debates. I want one on Fox News and I want one here
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and I want one there. And Kamala won't do it. She's only agreeing to the one ABC debate. So it seems as
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though Trump is going to do the ABC debate with Kamala, but Trump still wants these other debates
00:31:41.180
in addition. So what's really going on here? I mentioned earlier, earlier in the week or last
00:31:46.540
week that Trump should debate Kamala. She's not that good on her feet. Trump is considerably better
00:31:50.220
on his feet than she is. But I said, so why is Trump trying to avoid the ABC debate? And he's
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pushing a Fox debate in this debate. I said, I think it's a negotiation. I think he's going to do the
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debate. But I think this is all a negotiation tactic. And it would appear that that was correct.
00:32:09.860
And what was the negotiation? Is Kamala going to do the Fox News debate? No, probably not. Maybe she
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will, but there's no evidence that she will right now. The negotiation was, the angle here for Trump
00:32:22.580
was, he has reframed the debate issue. Biden had framed the debate issue as, I want to debate Trump,
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but he's going to be scared. Trump said, I accept your terms, even though they're all beneficial to
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you, I'll accept your terms. Then Kamala reframed the debate issue. Trump's afraid to debate me,
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even though Trump never agreed to debate her. Now Trump has reframed it. Yeah, why won't Kamala
00:32:45.980
do the extra debates? Why is Kamala running from the Fox debate and the NBC debate? Why is Kamala
00:32:51.520
running away? So it's just a reframing of what the debate even means. I think it was well done.
00:32:55.460
And I continue to hold that Trump should debate Kamala because he's better at it than she is.
00:32:59.280
And because she's radical and people don't actually like her. That's why she got out of the 2020
00:33:02.860
presidential primaries before the first primary. Now, speaking of the presidential race,
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Joe Rogan has just weighed in. He's made his endorsement in 2024. Is he going to endorse Biden?
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Or not Biden, Biden's out. Is he going to endorse Kamala? Is he going to endorse Trump?
00:33:16.700
He is going to endorse Bobby Kennedy Jr. He's okay. He's doing the third party thing, RFK. That's
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it. I actually, I haven't heard the words out of Joe Rogan's mouth. So I guess it's possible this
00:33:31.360
is social media fake news, but this was being widely reported yesterday and it would, it would
00:33:35.600
make sense. Some are saying that this would be cynical. This way, Joe gets to avoid picking one
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of the two major parties. I don't know that, I mean, look, maybe there's a business calculation
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there, but I don't think it would be cynical. I think Bobby Kennedy is actually a pretty,
00:33:53.320
pretty spot on in terms of Joe Rogan's politics. Joe Rogan is anti-establishment. He's anti,
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he was vicious on Biden. He liked some things about Bernie. He liked some things about Trump.
00:34:06.240
And so I, I kind of get it. Bobby Kennedy is weirdly, even though he's a Kennedy,
00:34:10.760
he's anti-establishment, but he is still liberal on many issues. Joe Rogan, I think is liberal on,
00:34:16.400
on a number of issues, but he's, there's no way he's going to vote for Kamala. Probably he should,
00:34:20.480
he should, he should just vote for Trump. He's, he's clearly got a pretty good space in the Trump
00:34:24.880
world. But I don't know. I'm not that, yeah, okay. I, I see why Bobby Kennedy would, would appeal
00:34:32.300
to a voter like Joe Rogan. Now, ultimately does that take votes away from Kamala or does that
00:34:40.420
take votes away from Trump? I'm continue to maintain Bobby Kennedy in as many votes as he
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will get, we'll take more votes from Kamala than he will from Trump. Do you remember our
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official trailer at amiracist.com. Finally, finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week
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when I get to hear from you in the mailbag. Our mailbag is sponsored by pure talk at
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puretalk.com slash Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S. Take it away. Hi, Michael, Chris here, Huntington Beach.
00:35:27.080
I'm listening to your rant about women's boxing. And I would just like to point out a couple things.
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I think they've been boxing a lot longer than two decades. I think it's more like the beginning of
00:35:40.040
the century. A, women didn't get to vote until the 20s. Were we some sort of far left, crazy,
00:35:51.440
liberal, non-conservative if we wanted women to vote? And then what about skateboarding?
00:36:01.220
They've been skateboarding for, I don't know, 40 years, maybe longer, I don't know. And it just got
00:36:06.500
added to the Olympics. I think your logic's a little flawed here. I'd like to hear your rebuttal.
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In any case, pretty much everything else I agree with, and thank you for all you do.
00:36:16.740
Very good series of questions. I will take them one at a time. Yes, women have been boxing since
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the beginning of the century. This century, though, the 21st century, not the 20th century.
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There were sporadic attempts in the 20th century to institute women's boxing, but they were snuffed
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out very quickly. In fact, in the UK, I forget the UK political leader who, as he was snuffing this out
00:36:43.100
in the early 20th century, he said, you know, this is really weird. This is, I think, appealing to the
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prurient interest for some perverse men. I'm paraphrasing, that's not verbatim. But no, it
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didn't exist in anything even resembling mainstream life until about 1998 in the UK, 1999, 2000, you start
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to see a little bit of this. And then in the Olympics, not until 2012. So no, women's boxing,
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other than a few sporadic attempts that were quickly extinguished, it did not exist until about
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1998. And in the Olympics, not until just a dozen years ago. But then you say, well, what about,
00:37:22.960
you know, women's voting? Now, we'll avoid any debates that any members of the audience want to
00:37:29.540
have over the 19th Amendment. It's worth pointing out that there were many women who were opposed to
00:37:33.580
the 19th Amendment for perfectly reasonable political concerns. However, women can vote in a
00:37:44.600
way that women can't box because women do possess an intellect. What is required for voting is judgment
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and intellect. Women possess that. What is required for boxing is brute strength. Women generally do not
00:38:00.300
possess that. And what is required for boxing is taking punches to the face. And I don't think it's
00:38:08.080
ever appropriate for women to be punched in the face. So that's why I think voting is different from
00:38:14.780
boxing. And then the final question, what was the final? Oh, skateboarding. Yeah, skateboarding is
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like a very light, easy pastime. I know you can do all sorts of tricks and everything. But, you know,
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it's like surf. I think women can surf too. I think that's fine. I think women can play tennis. I think
00:38:34.200
that's perfectly normal. And skateboarding, I guess, like voting, doesn't involve women getting punched
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in the face, which is different than, you know, other sports are not the same as full-on contact
00:38:48.040
sports, especially boxing. So for those reasons, I think your refutations of my argument are ultimately
00:38:57.300
Hello, Mr. Knowles. First of all, I want to say thank you to you and the rest of the Daily Wire for helping me
00:39:03.500
get through almost to the end of my high school experience, despite a radicalized, liberal, infiltrated
00:39:10.800
experience and curriculum in the public school. I've been listening since I was in eighth grade.
00:39:17.180
And I have a couple questions now as I am approaching my senior year. As someone that is
00:39:24.400
interested in entering the field of philosophy, I am curious about the best ways to approach this,
00:39:31.300
entering this field. From your perspective, especially with all the modern issues, I am open
00:39:37.600
to any ideas. But one option I've considered is attending my small local Catholic school, where
00:39:43.280
there will be fewer leftist cult ideologies pushed throughout the curriculum and my overall life
00:39:50.500
and values. Any wisdom is appreciated, Michael. Thank you. And also tell Professor Jacob I said hi, too.
00:40:00.540
A really good question about philosophy. And I've got a very simple answer for you.
00:40:08.600
Your teachers, broadly, are going to convince you that philosophy is something that dead men said.
00:40:17.140
It's not. It's something that living people should do. You should approach philosophy not as something
00:40:24.120
dead men said, but as something living people should do. You should view philosophy as a practical
00:40:29.920
science. You should read philosophy, but then you need to implement the wisdom that you glean from
00:40:37.400
philosophy in your own life. There's technical learning. There's practical learning. So it's one thing
00:40:43.260
to read about the virtues. It's one thing to read Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.
00:40:46.900
It's another thing to live a virtuous life. It's another thing to recognize that virtue is
00:40:52.820
rational activity done in an excellent way, and then to implement that. It's one thing to read
00:41:00.160
about magnanimity. It's another to cultivate greatness of soul. That's what you have to do.
00:41:04.620
If you approach philosophy as just some nerdy academic field in which you write a lot of papers,
00:41:10.360
it's not going to be fruitful. If you approach philosophy as a love of wisdom,
00:41:15.420
and if you approach philosophy as a way to improve your life, then it will be worthwhile.
00:41:23.340
Hi, Michael. It's the Shuckmeister. There's been a lot of talk about the situation surrounding Mr.
00:41:28.960
Beast because of all the terrible things Chris Tyson did. Since then, people have been taking a
00:41:33.000
closer look at how he does his charity videos and have noticed surprising methods of how they're
00:41:37.760
conducted, gamified, and breaking FTC law. All of that's interesting, but I would love to hear
00:41:42.200
your perspective on charity. Is what Mr. Beast is doing actually considered charity? It is a net
00:41:48.080
positive that he brings water wells to Africa and pays for cataract surgery, and I think to an extent
00:41:53.020
public acts of charity inspire other people to give charity, but in his case, much of it is done with
00:41:58.420
the knowledge that the revenue brought in will be greater than the revenue expensed, and those costs
00:42:02.760
are often backfilled through very shady practices. I've been leaning into thinking it's not real charity
00:42:08.120
after reading through Dante when he has this very interesting discussion with St. John the Evangelist
00:42:13.020
in Canto 26 of Paradiso. The blindness Dante has when discussing love for his other man and the
00:42:18.880
divine seems to me like the purest definition of charity, but what can we learn from this? I would
00:42:25.440
Mr. Shuckmeister, wonderful take, and I agree with you. What Mr. Beast is doing can be good, you know,
00:42:33.780
if he's going to go build wells for kids in the third world or something. That's really good. I'm not
00:42:38.660
discouraging it at all, and from the perspective of those kids in the third world, it probably feels
00:42:45.940
like charity, and it's just as good as charity, and maybe it's better than charity in some cases
00:42:50.780
because NGOs are often not efficient or effective, but from the perspective of Mr. Beast's soul, it is
00:42:58.400
not the same thing as charity. Mr. Beast is doing business, and he might be running a good business,
00:43:05.640
and he might be running a business that does good things. He's obviously running a powerful
00:43:09.820
business that is good at doing business. He's got zillions of views, and he's making lots of money.
00:43:15.820
His business might well be doing good, but from the perspective of his soul, it's probably not
00:43:21.860
fulfilling—it's probably not helping him to grow in charity, necessarily, because he is personally
00:43:29.280
benefiting from this. So it's not a selfless giving. It's not a concern for the other for his own good,
00:43:37.260
you know, willing the good of the other for his own good, absent any kind of personal or selfish
00:43:41.200
desires. So, you know, keep it going for the kids in the third world. That's great, but if Mr. Beast
00:43:48.360
were to ask, how can I grow in charity? Yes, you would probably respond and say, well, you should
00:43:54.320
do something else in addition to what you're doing. Next question. Hi, Michael. Thank you so much for
00:44:00.560
your show. I really appreciate what you bring to it, particularly as a Christian, and I'm wondering
00:44:07.800
what your thoughts are, particularly as we head into the election season, the role of the media has in
00:44:16.720
maybe bringing down some of the tone and polarization. We've already had one serious
00:44:24.540
assassination attempt, and clearly there's polarization everywhere. And do you think the
00:44:32.020
media can do a better job in unifying instead of polarizing? Thank you so much.
00:44:40.580
Absolutely. Great question. And of course, the media can do a better job. They don't want to,
00:44:47.660
is the thing, because the media are not the intrepid fourth estate speaking truth to power.
00:44:52.300
The media, broadly, are the propaganda arm for the liberal establishment. That's just what they are.
00:44:59.620
I don't mean to sound edgy or conspiratorial. That's just a fact. I mean, I don't think it's even
00:45:06.240
really disputed anymore among most people. So that's what they do. So when they raise the
00:45:11.640
temperature and they say Trump's an existential threat to the country, even after someone tried
00:45:15.900
to blow his head off, they're doing that intentionally. They want to raise the
00:45:19.160
temperature because they want to put Kamala Harris into office. Let's take one written mailbag before
00:45:24.840
we get to the member of segmentum from David. Michael, I have to say, I completely disagree with
00:45:31.100
your take that women should not be allowed to box. Here we go. More women's boxing questions.
00:45:34.500
There aren't always men around to protect women, and women should be able to learn and practice
00:45:38.400
defending themselves. Boxing is a sport. If women want to box, who are you to say now? Okay, well,
00:45:41.900
hold on. Are you objecting because women practically need to be able to defend themselves against men,
00:45:46.980
or are you objecting because boxing is a sport? It seems like there's a contradiction there,
00:45:51.540
but I'll take them both. Yes, women should be able to protect themselves, especially if they're
00:45:56.740
ever finding themselves walking down a dark alleyway in an unfamiliar place. I certainly want women to
00:46:01.760
protect themselves. They will not protect themselves by punching a man. It won't happen.
00:46:05.920
They'll protect themselves by shooting a man, or maybe by using mace or bear spray or pepper spray,
00:46:11.820
but they will not punch their way out of an attack by a man. And it's actually misleading and dangerous
00:46:21.860
to convince them that they will. It's not going to happen. So yeah, I want women to be able to protect
00:46:26.420
themselves from bad guys too. They need guns to do that. As for boxing being a sport, not as a way
00:46:34.260
to protect yourself. Yeah, it's a sport. I think men and women are different. So I think certain
00:46:39.020
behaviors are particular to women. Certain behaviors are particular to men. And there's some overlap,
00:46:45.100
but for some things, actually some things are better left to the fellas, like catching blows to
00:46:48.900
the head. And some things are better left to the women, like giving birth, for instance. Now we have
00:46:54.060
men who are attempting to give birth and it doesn't really work. They're trying to emulate it, even
00:46:57.800
though it's biologically impossible. So that's my view. And who am I to say that? Well, I'm just a
00:47:03.220
citizen with at least semi-functional faculties of reason and judgment. I'm just a guy who lives in a
00:47:10.640
body politic in a country that's supposedly self-governed. I don't know. That's all I am
00:47:16.580
in this case. It's Fake Headline Friday. The rest of the show continues now. You don't want to miss
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Republicans are Nazis. You cannot separate yourselves from the bad white people.
00:47:44.660
Growing up, I never thought much about race. It never really seemed to matter that much,
00:47:50.240
I would really appreciate it if you left. I'm trying to learn. I'm on this journey.
00:47:53.800
If I'm going to sort this out, I need to go deeper undercover.
00:47:58.100
They don't say I'm racist. Joining us now is Matt, certified DEI expert.
00:48:03.020
Here's my certification. And what you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
00:48:06.880
This is more for you than this for you. Is America inherently racist?
00:48:09.440
The word inherent is challenging there. I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the
00:48:13.400
George Floyd Monument. America is racist to its bones. So inherently.
00:48:25.160
There's a black person right here. Does he not exist?
00:48:31.620
I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.