Ep. 1561 - Woke University Targets Michael Knowles
Summary
A major new endorsement for Trump, a bill in California that mandates taxpayer funding for homosexual IVF and abortion, and more! All that and much more on today's episode of The Michael Knowles Show.
Transcript
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There's a lot to get to today. A major new endorsement for Trump, hundreds of thousands
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of immigrant children missing on Kamala's watch, a new law proposed in California to make people
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pay for homosexual IVF and abortion. There's a ton of stuff in the news. First, though,
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an even more absurd news story that is a little closer to home. I've just been informed by Young
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America's Foundation that the University of Buffalo Media Studies Department has devoted
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a significant portion of its homepage, the second paragraph actually, to a permanent denunciation
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of me for saying that men and women are different. Immediately after introducing what the U Buffalo
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Media Studies Department is and does, the website reads, quote, the faculty of the Media Studies
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Department stand in solidarity with the transgender community and others who have been the target
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of Michael Knowles' rhetoric and threats of eradication and genocide. While we are committed
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to the free and open exchange of ideas, we are also committed to inclusiveness, social
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justice, and respect for all. There is no space for hate speech, as there can be no open exchange
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of ideas without inclusion and justice and respect. We view Knowles' public appearance on our campus
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as contrary to the values and aims of our academic community. For those who have not followed this
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saga, myself included, apparently, I would like to remind people I am not a graduate of the University
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of Buffalo. I've never been employed by the University of Buffalo. I gave a single speech at that university
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almost a year and a half ago and the speech was not even about transgenderism. I simply said at a
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different speech somewhere else now more than two years ago that men and women are different and we
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should stop pretending otherwise. And for that, a public university has included a permanent denouncement
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and libel of me on an academic department homepage. However far you think higher education has fallen,
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however much you think our political and academic elites hate you for being normal and thinking normal
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things, I promise you the reality is at least 100 times worse. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. By the way, if you want to get a little insight into what campus life is like
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at the University of Buffalo, we did film. Well, Mr. Davies, my producer, filmed all sorts of little
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interviews with students out there, some scenes of the protest. I sat down actually with some of my
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critics on a Cross the Line episode a year and a half ago when I was there. Take a look.
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When a conservative speaks on a college campus, anything can happen.
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Outrage boiling over at the University of Buffalo.
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Mr. Knowles calling for an eradication of transgenderism is a call for genocide.
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Hundreds of students and community members gathered in protest.
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Chanting, picketing, and some even needing police restraint.
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Because transphobia is beta behavior, and you are a beta male. You should leave.
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This is a great time was had by all, so go check that out.
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Also, speaking of weird sex stuff, there is a really disturbing bill that is being proposed
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in California right now. It would mandate taxpayer funding for homosexual IVF and then practically
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speaking abortion. So we'll get to what that means in just a moment. First, though, I want
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to get to this new endorsement of Trump. Because, you know, we talked about the RFK
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endorsement of Trump. That came out just the day after the DNC. And that was a very prominent
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Democrat who feels that not that he's leaving the Democrat Party, but that the Democratic
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Party has left him. I mean, this is a Kennedy, for goodness sakes. These guys are Democrat
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Party royalty. Well, just shortly after that endorsement, you have another once prominent
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Democrat politician, now a prominent independent politician, Tulsi Gabbard, also endorsing Trump.
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And closer to the brink of nuclear war than we ever have been before. This is one of the
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main reasons why I'm committed to doing all that I can to send President Trump back to
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the White House where he can once again serve us as our Commander-in-Chief.
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Because I am confident that his first task will be to do the work to walk us back from the
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brink of war. We cannot be prosperous unless we are at peace. And we can't live free as long as we have
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a government that is retaliating against its political opponents and undermining our civil
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liberties, weaponizing our very institutions against those they deem as a threat.
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This is a really brilliant argument. This is a really brilliant justification for a politician who's
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not a Republican, who's actually served in Congress as a Democrat, who ran for president as a Democrat,
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to endorse the Republican nominee. It's a very simple argument. She's saying,
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we can't be free unless we have peace. In the classical political tradition,
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this is the argument for government. The argument for government is that we need
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peace and order in order to attain man's natural ends and in order to attain man's supernatural ends,
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for that matter. It's a lot harder to pray when the bullets are flying off all around you.
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You're probably more impelled to pray when bullets are flying around you, but it's difficult to live
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a religious life. And it's certainly difficult to achieve man's natural ends when there's no
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political order, when there's no civil justice, when there's no peace. And Tulsi says, Trump is the
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peace president. Seems kind of crazy because he's so belligerent in his rhetoric as a reality TV star,
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as a tabloid fixture, but it's true. He was the peace president. This is probably the most
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underappreciated aspect of the Trump presidency. We had relative world peace. The world was much
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more peaceful under Trump than it was under Barack Obama, than it was under George W. Bush,
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than it was under Bill Clinton, certainly than it was under the Biden-Harris administration.
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And so Tulsi's argument, if you had told someone this argument before Trump was elected president in
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2016, they would have laughed at you. They said, you got to vote for Donald Trump because he's the
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world peace president. They would have laughed in your face. And yet, look, you're never going to
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have perfect peace in the world, in this fallen world, until the end of time. Okay, you know, there's
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sin and concupiscence and death, and that's just how it works in a world where human nature is a little
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bit broken. But relatively, you want peace? Vote for Trump. Simple as. Now, speaking of war,
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President Trump honored the 13 American service members who were killed in Joe Biden's disastrous
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Afghanistan withdrawal three years ago. August 30th, 2021, Joe Biden runs the horrific Afghanistan
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withdrawal. It was mishandled on basically every single level. We gave the Taliban billions of dollars
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worth of military equipment. Over a dozen American service members were killed. President Trump just
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came out on that anniversary. Biden wasn't there. Harris wasn't there. I'm not sure they were
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invited. But Trump came out at Arlington and paid his respects. Now, Trump has tied
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the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal to Kamala Harris in remarks. He said, not just Biden, but also
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Kamala Harris. And the Democrats, the operatives and the flax in the media, I guess there's not much
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of a distinction between the two. They have said that this isn't fair. This is Trump politicizing.
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Politicizing what? Politicizing one of the biggest political events of the last five or 10 years,
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the Afghanistan withdrawal. So, of course, it's a political event. But they say, well,
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it's unfair to tie it to Kamala Harris. Joe Biden was the president. Kamala Harris was not the president.
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And Kamala Harris is now the nominee, but she's not responsible for the Biden-Harris administration.
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No, not if you believe Kamala Harris. Joe Biden, on multiple occasions, has imbued
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Kamala Harris with presidential authority. But specifically on the Afghanistan withdrawal,
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if you listen to Kamala Harris's own words, she acknowledges that she was the last person in the
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room with the president when that decision was made. Biden always said that he wants you to be the
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last person in the room, particularly for big decisions, just as he was for President Obama.
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He just made a really big decision. Afghanistan. Yes. Were you the last person in the room? Yes.
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And you feel comfortable? I do. Yes, I was the last person in the room. I feel comfortable. I own
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Biden's decision for how he's going to withdraw from Afghanistan. I'm responsible. That's what she's
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saying. I share responsibility for what happens as a result of that decision. And the decision
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ended in disaster. So now the only other objection the Libs can make now is, well, look,
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yeah, it was disastrous. Yeah, it was bad. And yes, Kamala is in part responsible,
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even in her own words. But look, no one could have known. No one could have predicted that that kind of
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attack killing those service members could have possibly happened in a rapid Afghanistan withdrawal.
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Who could have predicted that? And the answer and the reason that Trump is totally justified
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in levying this political attack, the answer is Trump predicted it four years before the withdrawal,
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almost to the day. The consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable.
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9-11, the worst terrorist attack in our history, was planned and directed from Afghanistan because that
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country was ruled by a government that gave comfort and shelter to terrorists. A hasty withdrawal would
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create a vacuum that terrorists, including ISIS and al-Qaeda, would instantly fill, just as happened
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before September 11th. Check, check, check, check, check, check. Every single thing he predicted has
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come true, which I think totally justifies Trump's political attacks here. I think it totally justifies
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Kamala being the object of the political attacks or the target of the political attacks. But it's also
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a reminder. While we talk about how great Trump was for the economy, when we talk about how relatively
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Trump good was for the border, when we talk about how good Trump was for this, that, and the other thing,
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Donald Trump was the best foreign policy president since at least George H.W. Bush. George H.W. Bush,
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whatever other weaknesses of his presidency, he was a pretty good foreign policy president.
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He presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union, and it was a peaceful collapse of the Soviet Union.
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He was the man behind Operation Desert Storm, and they got all the best stuff out of that without any of
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the downsides that the later invasion of Iraq would bring to us. So George H.W. Bush was pretty good.
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Ronald Reagan was a pretty good foreign policy president. But certainly since at least those guys,
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Donald Trump is the best foreign policy president we had. Better than that super genius wonk Bill
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Clinton, who really screwed up things in the Middle East, in many ways set the stage for Osama bin Laden
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and the 2001 attack, screwed up things in Africa. He was not a great foreign policy president.
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George W. Bush famously mishandled certain aspects of foreign policy. Barack Obama was a disaster on
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foreign policy in Libya and Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East. Biden obviously has been awful.
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You've had two major wars break out on his watch, a major war in Eastern Europe, first major war in
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Europe since World War II. And in fact, he invited that war. He said if there's a minor incursion into
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Ukraine by Russia, it won't be that big of a deal. Vladimir Zelensky, president of Ukraine, blames
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Joe Biden for that war. And then, of course, the war Israel-Gaza because of muddying the waters on our
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alliances with regard to Israel, also Saudi Arabia, also Iran. So a total disaster. Trump, whatever you
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want to say about his language and his tweeting and his this and his that, is the most sophisticated
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foreign policy president in at least a quarter century. Significantly more than that. I guess you'd say
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Kamala Harris's foreign policy is so bad, it's even bad at home. It's even bad on the domestic front.
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And I say Kamala Harris's foreign policy, I don't just say Joe Biden's, because Joe Biden,
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as I mentioned earlier, has imbued Kamala with presidential authority when it comes to certain
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aspects of his presidency. One of those being the southern border. He said, when Kamala speaks,
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she speaks for me. She has the authority of the president. She's in charge.
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And on the border, Kamala Harris has lost track of more than 320,000 migrant children.
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They cross the border. These are children who cross the border without their parents. This is one of the
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many terrible things that comes as a result of an open border, a border that's intentionally been
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opened by Kamala Harris, is you get these kids who are unaccompanied. So they're already in a very
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vulnerable, dangerous position for sex trafficking. They're just totally vulnerable to the criminal
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cartels that control the whole border on the Mexico side. So 320,000 migrant children crossed
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the border without parents, according to a new report from the Homeland Security Inspector General.
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As of May 2024, there were 291,000 migrant children who arrived as unaccompanied minors,
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set free, never given a date to appear in court. And then in addition, there were 32,000 children
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that ICE released into the U.S. with hearing dates who failed to show up. So we have no idea where they
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are. And most likely they're still associated with the criminal cartels that control the whole
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border. There was a study that came out. This was now a long time ago. I want to say this was 2008,
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2009, when the border crisis was much less severe than it is today. And this came out of a fusion
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and Amnesty International. It was reported in the Huffington Post. So these are left-wing publications
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that showed that 60 to 80 percent of women and girls who crossed that border illegally were sexually
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abused or raped on their journey. We know that the criminal cartels deal in all sorts of horrible
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stuff. Obviously, it is organized crime. There's a lot of drugs and there's a lot of sex trafficking.
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And we know that kids who are not accompanied are particularly vulnerable to sex trafficking.
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And Kamala Harris just lost over 300,000 of them without a care in the world. It was intentional.
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When you have policies that encourage unaccompanied minors to come to the border,
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that is intentionally subjecting kids to a high likelihood of human trafficking. Well,
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it's human trafficking by definition because you're smuggling people across the border,
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but a high likelihood of sex trafficking. When you release people into the country,
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you detain them, then you immediately release them. You are intentionally subjecting them to a
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high likelihood of sex trafficking. When you just don't really track them at all,
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you were intentionally subjecting them to a high likelihood of sex trafficking. Remember that the
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next time you hear any nonsense about kids in cages, kids and parents separated at the border,
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kids in cages under Trump. Because as we know, first of all, those cages were built under Barack
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Obama. The famous photos, the infamous photos of those supposed cages were taken under Barack Obama's
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administration, a Democrat administration. But second of all, I think kids would probably much
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rather be detained in a slightly unpleasant office building than released to criminal cartels to be
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trafficked. Probably, don't you think? Next time you hear about dreamers, oh, the sweet dreamers being
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deported potentially under the Trump administration. I think people would probably rather be deported
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than enslaved by criminal cartels, especially little kids. Okay, Republicans, we see your kids in
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cages and then the Democrats are going to raise sex trafficking by the cartels, 300,000. We have no
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idea where they are. We have some suspicion of where they are. We have a statistical high likelihood of
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knowing where they are, and it ain't anywhere good. Now, speaking of child abuse, there's this bill
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coming up in California right now, and very few people are talking about it, and you need to be
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talking about it. This is sick stuff coming out of the California Senate. After nearly a year in the
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Assembly Appropriations Committee, Senate Bill 729 has just been released by Committee Chair
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Assemblyman Buffy Wicks, SB 729. This bill redefines infertility for the purposes of California state
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law. So what does infertility mean? The traditional definition in our law of infertility is when a couple
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tries to conceive a child for a year unsuccessfully, you know, frequently doing the thing that conceives
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children and not using any contraception or anything like that, and you still can't have a
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kid. That's infertility. A lot of couples suffer from infertility. When sweet little Lisa and I were
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trying to conceive our first child, technically we were suffering from infertility because it took more
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than a year. It took two years, actually. Now I look at my wife across the room and she gets pregnant,
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but it takes a little while. Okay, that's the clinical definition. What the Democrats in the
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California Senate want to do now is redefine infertility to include individuals who are unable
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to conceive, not because of any malfunctioning of their reproductive systems, but because they are
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by nature unable to conceive, by definition unable to conceive, because they are single individuals.
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A man or a woman who doesn't have a husband or a wife, or a wife or a husband, respectively,
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just a single individual says, well, I want to have a kid and I'm not able to have a kid because
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I'm a single individual and I'm not doing the thing that conceives kids. I'm infertile. Or two dudes,
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or two chicks, a homosexual couple says, well, we're infertile. We're trying to conceive,
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but it's not working. I don't know. I guess we didn't take seventh grade biology, so it's not working.
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So now technically we're infertile, according to this new definition. Here is Caroline Menjivar.
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She's a Democrat state senator in California, explaining why it's so important to redefine
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SB 729 is looking to mandate large healthcare plans, provide and cover services for infertility,
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services for IUI, services for IVF. It's looking to also expand the definition of what it means to
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be infertile. For those of you who don't know, if I were to go into an office right now saying,
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I want to start a family with me and my wife, I would have to prove that I've had one year
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of unprotected heterosexual sex. That's something that we cannot prove, and most of my LGBTQ plus
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communities wouldn't be able to prove either way. Me and my wife sat down two years ago. We said,
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all right, we've saved this amount of money. Our choices are to invest in a house or start a family.
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You haven't seen me with a child in this past nine months, and that's because we decided two years
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ago to invest our nest egg into a house. But again, that's a decision that no one should have to
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make, because we shouldn't choose between the American dream of the white picket fence and
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starting the family should you wish to. This over 30 year old current law is discriminatory.
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It prevents single individuals from starting families. This law is discriminatory. The law
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that says infertility is what it really means. It's discriminatory against fantasy. It unjustly
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discriminates in favor of reality against fantasy. This woman says, you know, I have a wife, which is
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of course not possible for a woman to have a wife, but she says, I have a wife and it's amazing. We
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can't conceive a child, us two ladies. That's how, you're Robbie laid dick too. That's what, how amazing.
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And she says, so therefore we, but we, we want a child. And so we need taxpayers to pay for that
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because listen to the way she talks. We were thinking about buying a kid, but then we wanted to buy a house
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instead. And we shouldn't have to choose between buying a house and buying a kid. Now, when people
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conceive a child in the way that a child is conceived, you know, a man and a woman doing that thing that
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husbands and wives do, you don't have to pay a third party for that. You can just do it. It's free.
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It's fun and it's free. But as we have enacted fantasy, as we have a codified fantasy into our
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law, now all of a sudden reality doesn't work that way. Two ladies and two men can't, you know,
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can't make a child of themselves. So now you need a third party and you need, you need to create the
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baby store and you need to go rent eggs from someone else and purchase sperm from another guy
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and then have a third party. And it's, it's the commodification of human life. This law is really
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bad because it's going to force people who have religious objections, especially to pay for
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homosexuals to, to acquire children without even having to pay for it. You're going to,
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you're going to buy children for homosexuals to have and for single people, for single individuals to
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have. Even if you object to promoting, you know, a single person intentionally deprived,
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a child of a mother or a father of two men or two women, intentionally depriving a child
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of a mother or a father. These are the most important bonds for, for a little person in life.
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And you're going to intentionally deprive them of that. Obviously there's a huge objection to it.
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Then on top of that, IVF, practically speaking, usually entails abortions. You're going to force
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people to pay for abortions, but at an even more basic level, you are forcing people to commoditize
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human life. Just the way she talks about it shows you exactly what she thinks of little kids.
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Says, yeah, we want a family, you know, but we decided we were going to buy a house instead of
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buying a kid, but I still want to buy a kid, but I don't even want to have to pay to buy a kid. So
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I want you to buy me a kid. Give me my kid. That lady doesn't have a right to a kid. Nobody has a
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right to a kid. The only person who can be said to have any rights when it comes to reproduction is the
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child who has the right that can be known by reason that the child has the right to be the
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act of the specific, to be the product of the specific conjugal act of his parents, mother and
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father who are married and to be respected as a person from the moment of conception. This law in
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00:26:13.860
California, even California governor Gavin Newsom, governor American psycho himself is joking about
00:26:23.420
how bogus a presidential candidate Kamala Harris is. How are you feeling about the switch? I mean,
00:26:29.440
the switch. Now we went through a very open process, a very inclusive process. I was bottom up. I don't
00:26:36.480
know if you know that. Yes, that's what I've been told to say. Yes, it was a blitz primary,
00:26:41.460
I believe is what they called it. It was a very, very fast blitz. It was a blink primary,
00:26:45.800
so we saw that. Oh, a 30-minute convention between a tweet and another tweet. It's amazing how it
00:26:52.140
happened. Yeah, it's been amazing. But what is amazing is how unified everybody is. I mean,
00:26:56.620
it's next level. I really like that. When Gavin Newsom speaks this way as just a cold-blooded
00:27:03.120
political monster and machine, I actually have a reasonable amount of respect for him because he's
00:27:07.880
pretty good at the game. And here he's speaking on a real insidery podcast. This is Pod Save America.
00:27:14.000
The guy who was interviewing him is Jon Favreau, who's an Obama speechwriter. I think he was head
00:27:17.600
of speechwriting for Barack Obama. And they're joking. They're saying, so, you know, what do you
00:27:21.680
think about the switch? And Gavin says, oh, you mean that very open democratic primary? Oh, yeah.
00:27:27.780
No, I'm reliably informed. It was totally open and democratic from the bottom up,
00:27:33.040
the grassroots. And they're all giggling about this because of how preposterous the notion is.
00:27:40.220
Kamala was just crowned, rather. It was a coronation. It was a switch. They just swapped
00:27:47.440
out the candidates. The voters had no say. The party members for the Democrats had absolutely no say.
00:27:53.860
And they're laughing about it. And I suspect Gavin Newsom is, he's able to giggle about this in part
00:28:02.700
because he thinks she's probably not, she's probably not all that likely to win. This I think
00:28:09.160
is why he didn't gun harder for the nomination. This is why I think he didn't gun harder to be her
00:28:13.560
running mate. Gavin Newsom thinks, especially these days where you can run for president at 122,
00:28:19.280
he thinks, look, I got a political career ahead of me. I can run next time. Trump can have it for a
00:28:24.400
term and then I can run next time. And he brings it back at the end. He goes, what's amazing though,
00:28:28.400
really, is how unified we are. Oh, yeah. You didn't sound too unified two seconds ago when you
00:28:34.280
and the pod bro who worked in the Obama White House were just mocking this ridiculous process.
00:28:39.820
So the libs are doing their best to spin it, but it's not working very well. Jen Psaki, who was
00:28:45.020
Joe Biden's first press secretary on MSNBC, speaking to my doppelganger, was making the argument
00:28:54.200
that Kamala possesses at least a certain kind of charisma. She has this magical, charismatic
00:29:01.600
quality in person. So do a lot of politicians. People say that about Hillary Clinton. Also true.
00:29:06.700
Yes. No, she has a certain kind of charisma. She has the charisma of Hillary Clinton.
00:29:11.000
She has the physical fitness of a Samoan wrestler. She has the fair skin of Malcolm X. She has
00:29:26.340
the charisma of Hillary Clinton. I'm not familiar with the charisma of Hillary Clinton.
00:29:34.140
But I think Jen Psaki is right, actually. I think that's true. She does have the charisma of Hillary
00:29:37.340
Clinton. That is why they're going to do the best to just keep her out of the press.
00:29:41.420
This is why she hasn't done it. She's supposed to do an interview this week. We'll see if it happens.
00:29:44.860
She hasn't really done any interviews with the media yet. She hasn't done any real press conferences.
00:29:50.440
She hasn't. She hasn't done a debate yet. She's agreed to one debate with Trump. Trump proposed
00:29:55.220
multiple debates. She's agreed to only one on the one network that is going to be most favorable to her.
00:30:00.380
So the Democrat strategy at this point is just keep Kamala out of the news. Even with that debate I
00:30:07.680
just mentioned, Kamala is apparently trying to change the rules for the debate. This was reported
00:30:13.400
in Politico yesterday. Is this thing on? Harris and Trump battle over hot mics at the debate.
00:30:19.480
So there's a September 10th debate that's on ABC News. This was a debate agreed to between Trump and
00:30:25.060
Biden. Remember, there were two debates, Trump and Biden. They agreed to one debate on CNN back in June.
00:30:30.380
And then one debate on ABC in September. And Trump won the debate in June so hard. He won it so
00:30:36.560
decisively that Joe Biden is no longer the nominee. That's how badly he lost. So they agreed to certain
00:30:43.180
rules and they even agreed to these networks, which are left-wing networks. And so now Kamala came out
00:30:48.960
and she said, okay, well, we need to stick to that agreement, Mr. Trump. And Trump said, hold on,
00:30:53.480
wait a second. I didn't agree to debate you. I agreed to debate Biden. And then I won
00:30:59.940
so decisively that there was a palace coup and you became the nominee. So what are you talking
00:31:04.820
about? No, you need to stick to the rules, Donald. We agree. You, the Democrats broadly,
00:31:09.460
we all agreed. And so Trump says, okay, fine. You know what? Fine. Whatever. I'll, I will honor the,
00:31:15.020
even though I made the, the terms with Joe Biden and then you guys swapped out the nominee. Okay,
00:31:20.520
fine. I'll accept the terms. And then Kamala comes back and says, okay. And also we need to change
00:31:25.080
the terms. Wait, what? Hold on. You just asked me implausibly. You asked me to honor this agreement
00:31:32.500
that I made with someone else with you. Okay, fine. I'll do that. But now you're trying to change
00:31:37.680
the terms. She wants the microphones to be on the whole time, presumably so that she can interrupt
00:31:43.400
Trump or try to off-foot him because she's now concluded that that will help her. So she,
00:31:49.520
she insists on keeping the rules as they are for the purpose of doing a debate on ABC news where one
00:31:56.460
of Kamala's best friends is helping to run the network and where George Stephanopoulos, who was
00:32:01.220
the chief propagandist for the democratic party in the white house is the political anchor ABC news,
00:32:09.520
which is as left as any outlet. She wants the rules for the purpose of doing the debate,
00:32:14.740
but she wants to change the rules for the purpose of allowing her to interrupt Trump.
00:32:20.760
What's Trump say about that? Trump posted on Truth Social, he said,
00:32:23.640
I watched ABC fake news this morning, both lightweight reporter, Jonathan Carls,
00:32:28.240
K, this was, he spells Jonathan Carl, C-A-R-L, like the first name Carl, like Carl's Jr.
00:32:34.680
Cheeseburgers. But then he puts out to her in parentheses, K question mark.
00:32:40.800
Like, I just, I love, the Trump style of tweeting is so funny because it's, it seems
00:32:49.320
gratuitous. It seems bizarre. There's random capitalization. The punctuation is somewhat
00:32:57.540
dubious and, but it's, it's obviously all by design because it gets you to talk about it,
00:33:01.820
gets you to focus in on it. It's a kind of poetic diction. Donald Trump is the E.E. Cummings of
00:33:06.400
politicians, I think. Anyway, I digress. Jonathan Carl's ridiculous and biased interview of Tom
00:33:11.680
Cotton, who is fantastic, and their so-called panel of Trump haters. And I ask, why would I do the
00:33:17.180
debate against Kamala Harris on that network? Will panelist Donna Brazile give the questions to the
00:33:22.040
Marxist candidate like she did for Crooked Hillary Clinton? That's true. Donna Brazile did cheat for
00:33:26.020
Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders in 2016. Will Kamala's best friend who heads up ABC do
00:33:30.120
likewise? Where is little George Slopadopoulos hanging now? Will he be involved? They've got a lot of
00:33:35.260
questions to answer. Why did Harris turn down Fox, NBC, CBS, and even CNN? Stay tuned. Three exclamation
00:33:41.360
points. I really, really like this because it's being reported in the press. Trump is considering
00:33:47.760
backing out of the debate. I don't think that's true at all. Trump is reframing the headlines
00:33:56.060
from, you know, Kamala agrees to these terms to Kamala's changing the rules. Kamala wants to back
00:34:03.440
out of the debate. If Kamala wants to debate, Trump offered her, what, five more debates or
00:34:07.980
something like that, including on liberal networks like NBC and CBS and CNN. Actually,
00:34:13.600
the only even somewhat conservative network he suggested was Fox. Kamala's the one running
00:34:17.940
away. Kamala's the one trying to cheat. Kamala's the one trying to change the rules. That's all he's
00:34:21.780
doing here. This is obviously art of the deal kind of stuff, as he made clear when he was asked about
00:34:26.100
it by a reporter. President Trump, would you want the microphones muted in the debate whenever you're
00:34:30.600
not speaking? We agreed to the same rules. I don't know. It doesn't matter to me. I'd rather have it
00:34:35.360
probably on, but the agreement was that it would be the same as it was last time. In that case,
00:34:41.680
it was muted. I didn't like it the last time, but it worked out fine. I mean, ask Biden how it worked
00:34:48.200
out. It was fine. And I think it should be the same. We agreed to the same rules, same rules and same
00:34:55.000
specifications. And I think that's probably what it should be. But they're trying to change it.
00:35:00.660
The truth is they're trying to get out of it because she doesn't want to debate.
00:35:04.200
She's not a good debater. She's not a smart person. She doesn't want to debate.
00:35:08.840
This is it. So this is the proof of my interpretation of this, which is on the one
00:35:14.440
hand, out of one side of his mouth, he goes, this is completely unfair. I don't know if this is going
00:35:17.840
to happen. This is crazy. This is completely insane. Why would I do this? And then they ask him
00:35:21.840
the person who goes, huh? Oh, I don't know. Yeah. What do I care? Yeah. Leave the mics on. Okay.
00:35:25.280
You can do whatever you want. It's just kind of weird, isn't it? That she's trying to change the
00:35:29.200
rules. She's, I'm very good at debating. She's very bad at debating. She's trying to change the
00:35:33.680
rules. She's trying to get out of this. She's trying to poison the well. She's trying to make
00:35:37.840
this unacceptable to our side. She's running away. She's a coward. She, she, she, she, but me,
00:35:45.120
I don't care. I'm cool debating. I'll debate anywhere, anytime, baby. That's it. The purpose of the
00:35:50.400
truth social post is to get the question so that the media have to run him reframing the issue.
00:35:56.180
Obviously that's, that's what he's doing. And I think this even explains the particularly bizarre
00:36:01.640
capitalizations and grammar and digressions in the post. It's all to catch your attention. And
00:36:07.140
Donald Trump is very, very good at keeping your attention. He's kept all of our attention,
00:36:11.900
not just for eight years now, he's kept all of our attention for like 45 years. Okay. The guy has
00:36:16.120
been a global celebrity since at least the eighties. And that, that is the game he's playing
00:36:21.540
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one face at a time. My favorite comment yesterday, once again, I didn't even see this name when I
00:36:58.020
picked it. The drummer's workshop, Norm's Music says, if you think the latest news makes Thanksgiving
00:37:02.960
at the Kennedys more awkward, just wait until Trump wins. That's a fair point. So, you know,
00:37:07.840
the Kennedys, Bobby Kennedy's siblings came out against him, attacked him, maligned him,
00:37:14.500
disavowed him in a statement after he endorsed Trump. Can't wait. After Trump wins,
00:37:19.820
then you'll have Thanksgiving. Forget about some statement announcing someone. Bobby Kennedy can
00:37:25.200
just turn to his family and say, you're all under arrest. That serves you right. You're backstabbing
00:37:31.460
jerks. Enjoy jail. No, he probably won't do that. But it'd be kind of funny. The gloating would be
00:37:36.300
funny to see up at the Kennedy compound. If you want to get a sense of how biased ABC News will be
00:37:42.200
in Kamala's favor at that debate, take a look at ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl doing his damnedest
00:37:52.420
to run cover for Kamala Harris, the indefensible. President Trump is going to draw a sharp contrast
00:37:58.080
with Kamala Harris, who has supported things like decriminalizing illegal immigration or giving
00:38:03.420
taxpayer-funded health insurance to illegal aliens or taking away health insurance on the job for
00:38:09.100
170 million Americans, banning gas cars, confiscating firearms. These are all positions...
00:38:15.160
What do you mean taking away health insurance? What are you talking about?
00:38:17.620
She said when she ran for president that she wants to eliminate private health insurance on the job
00:38:25.540
How do you know that's not her position? How do you know that's not her position?
00:38:27.760
I mean, she says she no longer supports Medicare for All.
00:38:30.880
She has not said that. Maybe anonymous aides on a Friday night have said that,
00:38:42.700
It's really bad. So he's talking to Republican Senator Tom Cotton here. Tom Cotton says,
00:38:47.680
look, she's supported all these extremely radical things. She's to the left of Bernie Sanders.
00:38:51.180
And Jonathan Karl says, no, no, no, she's not. She's not. He goes,
00:38:53.700
what are you talking about? She's said that. It's all on camera.
00:38:55.800
No, no, no, but she's changed her mind on that. She's changed her position.
00:38:59.100
As if that's an excuse. No, no, don't worry. She's totally flip-flopped on all of the important
00:39:03.620
issues. But then Tom Cotton points out, no, she actually hasn't. He goes, John, when has she done
00:39:08.680
that? Well, no, no, no, she's just done that. He goes, no, no, no. Anonymous aides maybe have told
00:39:12.920
the media that. She hasn't done that. She hasn't spoken to the media. She hasn't said pretty much
00:39:19.360
anything at all. She has not disavowed those policies. She's lying about her policies.
00:39:25.380
And then Jonathan Karl, he has no answer to that. So he says, no, no, no. Well, but look,
00:39:29.220
she's not. She's not. Come on. She's trying to be more moderate now or whatever. He goes on.
00:39:34.340
This was not a radical convention. I mean, she, as you heard me go through with Bernie Sanders,
00:39:41.460
she is not taking the positions of the far left of her party. She's clearly making an effort to move
00:39:47.100
to the middle. I did hear what you said to Senator Sanders. And I thought it was clear that he's very
00:39:51.500
disappointed that she's taking these efforts not to change her positions, but to hide her positions,
00:39:57.380
John. The American people are totally justified to conclude that Kamala Harris is a dangerous San
00:40:03.340
Francisco liberal based on what she campaigned on the last time she ran for president and what
00:40:08.220
this administration has done for the last four years. Again, you would have thought watching the
00:40:13.600
Democratic convention last week that the Democrats are not in office, that they're not in power,
00:40:18.020
that they're campaigning against an incumbent Republican, when in reality, she's been part
00:40:22.780
of the failures of the Biden-Harris administration for four years. And when she campaigned for president
00:40:27.420
in her own right, she did, in fact, promise things like decriminalizing illegal immigration and taking
00:40:33.140
away health insurance. But that's a position she's clearly changed on and she has said she has changed.
00:40:37.540
Yes, yes, yes, she has. No, she has not. John, she has not said that.
00:40:42.280
No, she clearly, she's clearly changed. Come on. It's not a radical convention. Yeah,
00:40:46.460
right. She's hiding her views, but she hasn't contradicted them. Well, no, but she's, no,
00:40:50.500
she, no, she hasn't. No, she hasn't. No, no, but she has. She has. That's it. That's what
00:40:54.340
the big reporter at ABC News has been reduced to. No, no, no, seriously. Trust me, bro. She's way
00:40:59.600
nicer now. Trust me. Hey, viewers, stop listening to Tom Cotton. Trust me. She's really moderate now.
00:41:06.680
Listen to the desperation from Jonathan Karl to cover from her. And Jonathan Karl is one of the
00:41:12.140
better people at ABC, by the way. I don't want to be overly harsh on Jonathan Karl. Compared to some
00:41:17.980
of the other people at that network, he's actually relatively moderate and objective, and he's still
00:41:22.980
a rabid partisan, obviously, just from this interview. That's the, that's the one debate
00:41:29.580
Kamala's agreed to. Okay. Okay. Real depressing to see the state of our media. Now, speaking of
00:41:34.240
depressing things, there's a very interesting article in The Atlantic. I don't say that often,
00:41:38.360
but there is, called Young Adults Are in Crisis. It's in The Atlantic. You can read it. It was
00:41:43.540
linked all over the internet yesterday. And the article purported to have a surprising finding
00:41:50.940
from some studies about which group is really depressed in America. Because for years, we've
00:41:56.860
heard, oh, it's the really young teenagers, or it's the old people. That's how they open. They say,
00:42:00.900
what if I told you that one age group is more depressed, more anxious, and lonelier than any other
00:42:04.300
in America? You might assume I'm talking about teens, or you might think older adults. Perhaps
00:42:09.340
you'd be surprised to hear the results of a Harvard Graduate School of Education survey
00:42:12.440
on mental health in America. Young adults are the ones most in crisis. Even Richard Weisbord,
00:42:18.620
who led the study in 2022, was taken aback. I think I'm the only person who's not taken aback. But
00:42:23.460
everyone, everyone here was shocked and taken aback that 18 to 25-year-olds, 36% of 18 to 25-year-olds
00:42:31.980
reported experiencing anxiety. 29% reported experiencing depression. That's double the
00:42:38.120
proportion of 14 to 17-year-olds on each measure. More than half of young adults were worried about
00:42:42.380
money, felt that the pressure to achieve hurt their mental health, and believed that their lives
00:42:46.320
lacked meaning or purpose. Put a bookmark in that one. Lacked meaning or purpose. Teenagers and senior
00:42:52.300
citizens are actually the two populations with the lowest level of anxiety and depression,
00:42:55.960
Weisbord's research found. Yeah, of course, I'm not surprised at all.
00:42:59.020
I'm not, I'm, I'm, I'm surprised that all these other people at Harvard and all the geniuses in
00:43:04.740
the media are surprised. I'm not surprised at all. Of course, children are not the most anxious and
00:43:08.920
depressed. Children have their lives structured for them. So even if the, the ends of their education,
00:43:16.800
even if the, the specifics of the structure that they have are mistaken or erroneous, it doesn't
00:43:23.700
matter. They still have some structure. The kid wakes up, he eats his Pop-Tart, he goes to school,
00:43:28.220
he comes home, he does his homework, he goes to baseball practice, he goes to sleep, he repeats.
00:43:33.320
There's, there's structure in their lives. They know what they're doing the next day. They know
00:43:36.200
they have to get the good grade. They have to graduate. Okay. Senior citizens, even if they've
00:43:41.280
made all sorts of bad choices, even if the, the structure of society has, has damaged their
00:43:47.260
flourishing in their lives, senior citizens have kind of settled into a pattern. You know, even if it's
00:43:52.780
not the greatest pattern, it's a pattern. It's reliable. There's structure. They kind of get it.
00:43:56.260
Okay. If you, if you don't get it, if you don't, if you don't have some reasonable degree of comfort
00:44:02.460
in your first 65 or 70 years of life, you know, I don't know, something's really going wrong.
00:44:07.860
Most people kind of fall into a routine. Those 18 to 25 year olds, they're the people for whom
00:44:13.880
the earth is constantly shaking. They're there. They, they, they don't feel any solidity in life
00:44:19.980
because they've graduated from high school or if they've gone on to college, they've graduated from
00:44:23.820
college. They're not yet in their careers. They don't yet usually have a family. They don't yet
00:44:27.820
know, and they don't know what to do. Why are they anxious and depressed now more so than they have
00:44:34.840
been in the past? Because their entire education and the entire popular culture has told them that
00:44:42.180
there is no objective meaning in life, that there is no objective purpose in life. What's the purpose
00:44:46.940
of life is kind of a punchline question. Now there used to be an answer to that. I don't want to seem
00:44:53.620
like I'm being oversimplistic when I say here, Hey, I believe in God and go to church and your life will
00:44:57.800
get a lot better, but it will. That's, that's the problem. The problem for these people is they don't
00:45:01.580
believe in God and they don't go to church. There's more to it. There's a, don't think that if you just,
00:45:05.940
you know, show up to church on Sunday, all of your problems will go away. That's not how it's going to
00:45:09.840
work, but that is, that is the, uh, necessary, uh, first step to this. Because as you see that
00:45:16.840
they're saying, yeah, they're worried about money. Okay. Everybody's worried about money though.
00:45:19.960
You'll be less worried about money. If you understand the role of money in a, in a proper
00:45:23.260
human life and what money's for, uh, they, they feel a pressure to achieve. Okay. But if you, you know,
00:45:29.920
understanding what achievement even means in light of eternity, not just in our natural life is going
00:45:35.000
to help is certainly going to help you on that front, but also meaning and purpose. We, these
00:45:41.840
kids have been told, and now adults believe it too, because this has been going on for generations
00:45:45.540
have been told that there is objectively no meaning to life, that we're all just life is a tale told by
00:45:51.760
an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. We've been told that there's no purpose to life.
00:45:56.340
We make our own purpose, man, but you can't actually make your own purpose. That's not either. We have a
00:46:02.380
purpose. Either there is a natural end for a human being, or we're all just deluding ourselves. And
00:46:08.120
some people are better at deluding themselves than others, but that's, and so a lot of people
00:46:12.400
have concluded, no, there really is no objective purpose and I don't want to delude myself. So
00:46:15.960
is it any wonder they're depressed? And it doesn't affect kids because kids have structure and it
00:46:22.040
doesn't affect really older people because they have structure. It's the 18 to 25 year olds who are
00:46:26.820
trying to figure everything out. They're the ones who are most ill served by this garbage education
00:46:32.340
maleducation that they're receiving that is misshaping them, their minds and their spirits
00:46:38.360
and their bodies sometimes too, and is also just wrong. It just isn't true because there is
00:46:44.300
purpose to life. There is such a thing as God. There is such a thing as a moral order. There is
00:46:48.360
such a thing as eternity. We can know these things through reason. We can know a lot more about it
00:46:51.920
through revelation, but we can know them through reason. And an education system that ignores that or
00:46:57.940
outright denies that is going to leave people real anxious and depressed. This is not brain
00:47:03.180
surgery, guys. This is not rocket science. Okay. Doesn't, the only people that this should shock
00:47:08.900
are the erroneous self-styled geniuses at Harvard who don't seem to know anything.
00:47:15.120
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I'm going to sort this out. I need to go deeper undercover.
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What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
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I want to rename the George Washington Monument to the George Floyd Monument.
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I just had to ask who you are because you have to be careful.