Ep. 1578 - S＊＊ Parties, Drugs, & Sin： COVID Rules Architect Exposed
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On today's episode of the podcast, we discuss the new movie, "Am I Racist?" directed by Ben Affleck and starring Amy Poehler and directed by Alex Blumberg. The movie is based on the true story of a group of people who were caught on hidden camera having sex with each other under the guise of protecting the public health.
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Your movie is really funny. It's really funny. By myself, laughing out loud hysterically today.
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It is one of the most important contributions to cinema in American history. Your goal is to
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conduct an investigation into something key to the culture war. There were so many great moments in
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there. Were these people real that are in this movie? It's a great film. I highly recommend
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everybody go see this movie. Mazel tov, as Ben's people would say.
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New York City's COVID czar Jay Varma has been caught on hidden camera admitting that he violated
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the very public health mandates that he implemented. And boy, did he violate them. Hat tip to Stephen
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Crowder for the footage you're about to see. Viewer discretion advised.
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I actually was the one who convinced the mayor to make it a man do.
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Like New York City found out that you're having sex partings during COVID?
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Yeah, it would have been a big deal. Yeah, it would have been a real bad.
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We went to some underground dance party underneath the bank in Wall Street. And we were all rolling.
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We're all taking Molly and everybody's high. And I was so happy because I hadn't done that in
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like a year and a half, like a year or whatever. And I, but I was looking around being like,
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I wonder if he sees you. Because this was not COVID. Wait, when was it?
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New York City's job for the city was if I had some way to blow off steam everything.
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I was thinking about because hotels didn't want people gathering there.
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Because I was like running the entire commercial city. My wife and I like had one with our friends
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like in August of like that first summer. So we rented a hotel. It was fun. We all like took like,
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you know, Molly and just like, there was like 10 or nine of us in our room and everybody
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did a blast because everybody was like so pissed off. Because it had been like,
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everybody was just like stuck together and stuff like that.
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Yeah. And sometimes it's not so much about like being introduced,
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but sometimes it's just something about like bodies being close to each other,
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You know, you know how sometimes you just like to be naked with all your friends.
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And maybe you guys are like bumping uglies, but maybe you're just you're maybe you're just all
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being naked with friends in a hotel room or in a secret rave party fueled by Molly under a Wall Street
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bank while you're running the COVID response that's locking everyone down and getting people fired from
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their jobs if they don't comply with the mandates that you're violating to hold orgies. He goes on.
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So like walk around the streets, you need to have to worry.
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The hotels didn't want to decide parties, but they weren't going to like.
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It's like this because I did all this like deviant like sexual stuff.
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And I was like, no, actually, I'm like really like I love being my authentic side.
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So the way we do it in public health is we make it very uncomfortable to to be unvaccinated.
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I don't expect the education to change your behavior.
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I'm just going to make it really hard for you to do your job.
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So was it technically like kind of forcing people?
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Yeah, you force people by making it really uncomfortable.
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You're going to hear a lot about how this undercover footage proves Democrat hypocrisy.
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The people who canceled Christmas, the people who wouldn't let you visit your dying parents
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and grandparents, the people who wouldn't let you have a funeral for them.
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They were violating their own rules while you were practically imprisoned in your home.
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The bigger story for me, though, is not the hypocrisy.
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It's actually a simpler explanation of our present political corruption.
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The people who rule us are drug addled sex freaks enthralled to persistent grave mortal sin.
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Yes, they fail to live up to the standards they set.
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And sometimes they intentionally violate those standards and they're hypocrites.
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But at a more basic level, they're just degenerate.
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They give free reign to base passions that overwhelm their reason.
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And so long as they do that, they're going to act like freaks and they're
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going to impose their freakishness on all of us.
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J.D. Vance completely destroyed a Politico reporter with facts and logic on a top election issue,
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which is illegal aliens and the deportation of the people who came through mass migration.
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Maybe the craziest part of that whole video of the COVID czar in New York City talking about all the orgies he would go to
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and the drugs he would do while everyone else was locked up.
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I think the craziest part was he said, yeah, when we went, we were at this underground rave
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where everyone's rolling on Mali and Ecstasy and it was underneath a Wall Street bank.
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And I just, it was so great because I hadn't done that for like a year or a year and a half.
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You're telling me the craziest thing about being at that rave was that it had been like 12 to 18 months since you last did it.
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How often, how often do the people who rule us, who impose mandates that change our lives,
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sometimes deprive us of our livelihoods, that prevent us from seeing our families,
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how often do these people go to weird, drug-fueled, freak show orgies?
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I'm getting the impression it's more frequently than many of us would suspect.
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You hear, I'm remembering a story going back 15, 20 years now, Dominic Strauss-Kahn,
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when he was caught in his sex scandal over at the IMF.
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And even, he would talk about these kind of weird, I don't know, are they all just,
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I guess nothing changes in the history of the world.
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You read in the Old Testament about rulers doing a ton of weird sex stuff.
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And you read in history books about pagan elites and rulers and aristocrats.
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Not very oristo, because oristo means good, and they're quite the opposite of good.
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In that guy's own words, he says, yeah, I would be doing weird, deviant stuff.
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But then I'd also go on TV and tell people how they had to lock down and take the vaccine.
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The people who are telling us about public health, supposedly in charge of the public health
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of society, are ingesting poisonous chemicals and then going to orgies.
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Tells you everything you need to know about our present government.
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Now, speaking of sin and grace, on the flip side of things,
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President Trump is due to visit a Marian shrine with the Polish president, Duda.
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This would be the national shrine of Our Lady of Częstochowa.
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Our Lady of Częstochowa, which is a very important Marian shrine.
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He's going to visit with this Polish conservative leader.
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It's supposed to happen September 22nd on a Sunday.
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This is a shrine in Bucks County, which is an important county to win.
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In Pennsylvania, a very important state to win.
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And I know how the news media are going to report on this.
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I know how the liberals are going to report on this.
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I know how the Squish conservatives are going to react to this.
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They're going to say, how dare this man, how dare this sinner, Donald Trump,
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President Trump has done this sort of thing before.
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He visited the shrine of John Paul II and was criticized by a cardinal, actually, for doing that.
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How dare this sinner show up to this important religious site?
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To which one might respond, who do you think the shrines are for?
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Oh, it's for the people who've never committed a sin in their life, right?
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Our Lord comes not for the righteous, but to bring sinners to repentance.
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The fact that Trump now consistently talks about God on the campaign trail after the first
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assassination attempt, the fact that he held up that Bible in front of St. John's Church,
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the fact that he has visited now, well, one shrine, he's about to visit another important shrine.
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Because, you know, Trump gets this rap of being really prideful and boastful, and he puts his name
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in gold, and he does, but he also kind of jokes about that.
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One gets the sense that Trump is fairly self-aware, and he recognizes his own shortcomings.
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The line that I keep coming back to is when he was asked about having a beer, and he said,
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you know, I think I'm the first president who's never had a beer.
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Can you imagine if I had a beer, if I were a drinker?
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Probably the only good thing you can say about me is I've never had a beer.
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The way he holds himself, even the way he talks.
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Ronald Reagan, that movie star, everything was good-looking, scripted perfectly, extraordinarily
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eloquent speaker, and very involved in the conservative movement, Ronald Reagan.
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Trump isn't that guy, and he doesn't pretend to be that guy.
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I'm going to try to help fix the country, and I'm going to do my best, and I've got my
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flaws, and I'm going to show up to some religious sites sometimes, too, because I'm not a perfect
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This one takes the cake of all of the insane criticisms leveled at Trump over the years.
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This is from The Atlantic, a once rather prestigious liberal magazine.
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No other president has used an assassination attempt to inflame American politics the way
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They're criticizing him for almost being assassinated and then talking about it.
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Because Gerald Ford, there was a period of time, a rather short period of time.
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I think it was something like 18 days, which two people tried to kill Ford, and it didn't
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And then he wore a bulletproof overcoat for the rest of his presidency in public.
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And Trump has talked about how he very nearly had the back of his skull blown off.
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Only a slight 20-degree turn of his head at the last minute, last second, prevented him from
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And then the second time, they found a muzzle going through his golf course.
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And he's mentioned that there have been multiple assassination attempts, and he shouldn't talk
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The other way he's not Gerald Ford is that the libs didn't call Gerald Ford an existential
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threat to democracy in the second coming of Hitler.
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The libs didn't justify and encourage the assassination attempts on Gerald Ford.
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The libs are tone policing the near murder of Trump, the twice near murder of Trump.
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You know, he should really use different words to describe how his head was almost blown
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The Libs are still trying to kill Trump, by the way.
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Roughly three in 10 Democrats say America would be better off had Trump been assassinated.
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While it is always difficult to wish ill of another human being, would America be better
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off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend?
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17% of respondents said it would have been better for Trump to have been slaughtered on
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Only 47% of Democrat respondents indicated that America would not benefit from Trump being
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So the Democrats are going to try to say that they have no culpability whatsoever for
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This is ammo for the water cooler, okay, when the Libs try to gaslight us on this.
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Biden launched his presidential campaign on the existential threat that Trump plays
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to, or poses to democracy, and how he hangs around with Nazis.
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Kamala has kept up that line of attack, including after the first assassination attempt, including
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after the second assassination attempt, and three in 10 Democrats today wish Trump had been
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So don't tell me they have nothing to do with this.
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I said it in a speech at YAF that ended up getting some play in the media, but I was totally
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But political violence today is an exclusively left-wing problem in America.
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It is being pushed by the left from the lowest level all the way up to the highest level,
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from the Antifa anarchists who threw an explosive at the building when I was about to go on stage
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at the University of Pittsburgh, all the way up to the president of the United States who
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has justified these assassination attempts, all the way up to Kamala Harris, the vice president
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who's currently the nominee, who bailed violent rioters out of jail when they burned down
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These people promote political violence, and it's not right-wingers, and it's not centrists
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It's the left that's doing it in every single case.
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Not good, but you're not going to solve political problems if you don't acknowledge political
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Now, speaking of rabid Democrats, J.D. Vance was asked a question on the campaign trail
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He was asked, actually, it's a tricky little question, because the Trump campaign is running
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against illegal immigration, but says that it is for more legal immigration.
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But the Trump campaign is also running against the 300,000 Haitian migrants who were imported
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into the country by Biden and Harris, some of whom have been reported to be doing all sorts
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of weird things with animals that they should not be doing.
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You say you're running against illegal immigration, you're for legal immigration.
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Well, those 300,000 Haitians that Biden and Harris imported, they're technically here legally.
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There are all sorts of people who have been imported into this country and been given temporary
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legal status or have been given a kind of amnesty.
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A question for you about the Haitian migrants in Springfield.
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So I know you've talked a lot about how we need to deport illegal aliens, but I wanted
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to ask you, the majority of the Haitians in Springfield came under TPS, so they are here
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And I know you've expressed a lot of your issues with the TPS program and wanting to
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change that under a Trump-Vance administration.
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But I guess my question for you is, if you become the vice president under a Trump administration,
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what will you guys do about the migrants that are already there since they did arrive legally?
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And a follow-up to that, if you plan to deport them, how would you do that legally?
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Well, look, this is a media and Kamala Harris fact check that I want to clarify and clear
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Now, the media loves to say that the Haitian migrants, hundreds of thousands of them, by
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the way, 20,000 in Springfield, but hundreds of thousands of them all across our country,
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And what they mean is that Kamala Harris used two separate programs, mass parole and temporary
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She used two programs to wave a wand and to say, we're not going to deport those people
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Well, if Kamala Harris waves the wand illegally and says these people are now here legally,
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And a legal action from Kamala Harris does not make an alien legal.
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And J.D. Vance is just extremely intelligent and he's really well read on the subject.
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And he's doing what a running mate should be doing.
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The Libs were really upset when Trump picked J.D. Vance and they tried to portray him as a big
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drag on the ticket and a bad choice and all the rest.
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I suspect one of the big reasons they were portraying J.D. that way is because he is really
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The point of being the running mate, your job on the campaign is to be the attack dog,
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is to have all your facts lined up, is to know exactly how to give that soundbite to
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And he's making an important point about policy.
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People don't object to the 300,000 Haitians or 20,000 Haitians in Springfield taking over
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They don't object to countless Latin American migrants pouring into the country unvetted,
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illegally, taking over communities, driving cars into school buses and buildings, putting
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a drain on government services, filling up public schools.
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They don't object to it because of the technical labeling of those migrants.
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They object to it because mass migration has, in practice, constituted an invasion of our
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And it's created a lot of social disorder, and it's put a ton of strain on our resources,
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and it's fractured our society because these people have largely not assimilated.
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And Democrats have done it cynically to give themselves a permanent electoral majority.
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They don't object to it because one immigrant is totally unvetted and an illegal alien while
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one has temporary protective status and a kind of parole while the other one has a green card
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They object to it because you have to press three for English, and that's annoying.
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They object to it because there is increased crime in certain neighborhoods in our country.
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They object to it because the ducks are going missing at the public park, okay?
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To use the vivid example that has been much debated over the past few weeks.
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They object to the fact of it, not the words that you use to describe it.
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And J.D. is saying, we're going to fix the problem in practice.
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We're not going to be like the libs and just use mealy-mouthed euphemisms and new sorts of words
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What the libs want to do is say, okay, we have millions and millions, maybe more than 11 or 12 million
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illegal aliens in this country, well, we're just going to call them undocumented Americans.
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There's my magic dust, and now the problem goes away.
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You have to deal with the actual political issue, which is mass unassimilated migration
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into America in a short period of time that screws up the labor market, that screws up the
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housing market, that causes crime to increase in certain areas.
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That brings in all sorts of terrible elements, including the criminal cartels that control
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the border and the poison of fentanyl that's killing hundreds of thousands of Americans.
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Now, speaking of Latin American countries, actually, Cuba, communist Cuba, has just done
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Two and a half years in prison for sharing memes.
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Barreiro Rauco, I'm sure I'm mispronouncing that, is a 52-year-old barber, lives in the
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And he's a member of a local dissident group, the Cuba Citizens Movement for Reflection and
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This is what you get in a communist, totalitarian, enslaved country where people don't really have freedom or political rights.
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He had this edgy Twitter account called Ricky Vaughn, based on the movie Major League.
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He was arrested, then convicted, and then imprisoned for sharing memes.
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This all happened in March of 2023, was when he was found guilty.
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Happily, he was only sentenced to seven months in jail.
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So that, okay, that's one difference between us and communist Cuba.
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In America, you, well, you could be sentenced, actually, to much more jail time than the Cuban
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But maybe you'll get a little bit less jail time.
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So instead of two and a half years, maybe it'll be seven months.
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Okay, better part of a year for the same supposed crime.
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One of the memes was, don't skip the line, vote from home.
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You know, if you're a Democrat, text your vote or something like that.
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I'd work on campaigns when I was a, when I was a youth back in my teenage years and in
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And you'd be standing around talking to voters, passing out palm cards.
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And sometimes they'd say, hey, when's the election?
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And the joke was, well, are you a Democrat or a Republican?
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If you're a Republican, the election's on Tuesday.
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But if you're a Democrat, the election's not till Wednesday.
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And it's a, it's a, it's a very old political campaign joke.
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So this guy, Douglas Mackey, posts a meme basically about that joke.
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It's just a new high-tech version of that joke.
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For one, it's, it's hard to grow tobacco that's as good in America.
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Though Connecticut-shaped tobacco is very good.
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But our government is, is acting increasingly in a way that is similar to, uh, totalitarian,
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oppressive, actually communist regimes elsewhere in the world.
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Now, speaking of internet culture, sort of a sad story from University of Michigan Health.
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One in five parents says that his or her kids don't have any friends.
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This is a poll of over a thousand parents with kids between six and 12, uh, years, years old.
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They say 20% of kids potentially feel lonely or isolated during crucial years of social development.
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One, uh, one in five of parents, of the one in five, one in five of them say it's shyness or social awkwardness.
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An additional 15% said it's because other kids are jerks.
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And then less than 10% say it's a medical condition or disability.
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So it's not, they're, they're not saying, well, you know, my kid's being made fun of because he's in a wheelchair or something.
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Or because he, you know, has autism or something like that.
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It's not that, that's, that's the lowest ranking problem, according to these parents.
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It's that the kids are shy and socially awkward.
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And it's a problem, like kids, some kids go through tough times when they're kids.
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You know, that's just, that's part of growing up.
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However, some go through tougher times than others in certain social circumstances can, can be better or worse.
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Most kids went to public school, or maybe if they were rich kids, they went to a private school.
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But they didn't really homeschool because there was this fear that the kids who went, were homeschooled would not develop social skills.
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They wouldn't know how to interact with people.
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They'd be shy and awkward and weird, and they couldn't, they wouldn't be able to get along with other people.
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They wouldn't be socialized into the normal culture.
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Today, if you are socialized into the normal culture that you see in our, in public school and in the mainstream, you are much more likely to be weird and shy and awkward and anxious and depressed and think that you're the opposite sex or anything in between.
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Today, today, if you, if you want to be normal, that is to say, well-adjusted and basically grounded in reality, you have to avoid being socialized into the mainstream culture.
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Ever since COVID, especially, homeschooling has really taken off in America.
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I know so many of them just around my local parish.
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I meet a lot of people who homeschool their kids.
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These kids are among the very most normal, mature, well-adjusted kids I've ever met in my whole life.
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It's the kids who go even to the mainstream private schools who have all sorts of problems and all sorts of disorders and all sorts of questions about their identity and all sorts of social problems.
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That is an amazing, if you want your kid to be well-adjusted and properly socialized, you actually have to keep them out of the mainstream culture because the mainstream culture is, is not conducive to their flourishing.
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Aristotle writes about this at length, that friendship is, well, basically the highest form of love.
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There's friendship of utility where you just kind of, there's friendship of pleasure where, you know, you both like playing Pinochle or something.
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Then there's friendship of utility where you're networking and you help each other out, maybe professionally.
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And then there's friendship of virtue, friendship of the good.
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And Aristotle says, a virtuous friend is another self, which sounds kind of narcissistic and self-centered, but it's really not.
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Because you're standing with another person, both looking at the good, both pursuing the good, both wishing to be better, and both helping to make each other better.
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It's a true friend holds up a mirror to yourself.
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It's like growing another brain is what a true friend is like.
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And that's extraordinarily important because man is a social creature and we don't just live in isolation.
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Okay, before we get to the mailbag, I'm going to do something really weird.
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I just saw a great music video and I have to play it for you.
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I will narrate for those who are just listening on podcast or radio.
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This is a video, black and white, Trump walking alone down a hallway.
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Trump just black and white walking through crowds.
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Wearing a MAGA hat, smiling in a suit, rain coming down.
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It's him walking by courthouses, picking up that Marine's hat, putting it on his head.
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Standing supporting different people at the White House.
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Smiling with the MAGA hat on and his shirt and jacket.
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Kissing an older woman on the head, you know, a little woman who's obviously a supporter of his.
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A few short clips of Trump as a young man looking serious.
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These, you know, deplorable, irredeemable people who were just actually good, normal Americans who want a normal country.
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And then the video ends with, in the same place it started, him walking alone down a hallway.
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I'm basically immune to political propaganda, to most political propaganda.
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It's exactly the right tone because it rings true.
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I mentioned earlier in the show that Trump's not Reagan.
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They have the same campaign slogan, but he's not Reagan.
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Because it captures the essence of Reagan in the real person of Trump.
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And he doesn't give the speeches that Ronald Reagan gave.
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And he doesn't have certain attributes that other great leaders have had.
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You know, George Washington or Abraham Lincoln or whoever.
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And this is a guy who has extraordinary natural virtues that most other people lack.
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And, you know, so there's footage of him all the way back in the 80s or 90s.
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And he just, this guy, his superpower is, you just can't get him down.
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Any other man, four prosecutions, four criminal prosecutions.
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And he speaks in a way that's weirdly humble for a billionaire with his name in gold who was the
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And there's something deeply American about that.
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And there's something deeply inspiring in a time when people have become so cynical and so weak.
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You know, the number one new comedy in America is Am I Racist?
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We've claimed the number four spot at the box office.
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And the movie already has a 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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American Thinker calls it a brilliant hysterical expose of the race hustling industry.
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The Wall Street Journal only needed one word to describe the movie.
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Hey, Michael, as a young Christian, I thought Christian and conservative films were poorly
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So I went out and got a degree in media and performing arts from a fancy art school.
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I wanted to advance and improve the field in whatever way I could.
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For a long time, however, I struggled with the idea that acting was lying in a way.
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It wasn't until I confessed the struggle to a secular professor in college that I got a great
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She said that acting wasn't about lying, but rather it was and should be when well done
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Why do so many Christians and Christian organizations reject and downplay the use of this art form when it could be such an amazing
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The Catholic Church uses art in so many unique and beautiful ways.
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For example, why do both Protestants and Catholics reject this medium pretty much across the board?
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As you can imagine, I hit a wake-up wall after college and I'm now not directly using my degree.
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And I have a little extra insight into this because I was an actor.
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And so I'm now a Christian and I'm now a practicing Christian.
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I suppose I was a cradle Catholic and then fell away for 10 years.
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And reverting to the church has complicated my views on acting because you're absolutely right,
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or your professor's right, that acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.
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If you're any good at it, that's what you're doing.
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There's one TV show where I play a guy who supposedly blew up the Hindenburg.
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You know, when I play a football player or whatever, soldier or something, I'm not really
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those guys, but you're living truthfully within the imaginary circumstances.
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But that creates problems for the actor in particular, but to a lesser degree for the
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Fiction creates problems, or it can create problems for the audience.
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There is a reason why the Church Fathers pretty much universally condemned the theater,
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in part because the plays that were being presented in the theaters were extraordinarily
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So that's one historical reason why presumably one could have a wholesome movie or a wholesome
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There's another fear, though, when we engage with fiction, which is the fear that Dante writes
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about in Canto 5 of Inferno, which is that sometimes we can make interpretive errors and
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we can mistake the fictional lives of the characters for our own lives.
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That's what the adulterous lover Francesca de Rimini does.
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She's reading Lancelot and Guinevere, and she misinterprets the text, and she reads it as
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And then she has an adulterous affair with her brother-in-law, and it leads to their death,
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So that's one fear, is that you can read great works of fiction or watch a great play
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or a great movie and understand through the imaginary circumstances truth, but you have
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to make sure that you can keep a distance between yourself and the play.
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If you become too lost in it, you lose touch with reality, and that can lead you into sin
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This risk is all the more pronounced for actors because, especially in modern acting, since
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Stanislavski and the Moscow Art Theater, which then comes to America through the group theater
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and people like Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler and Harold Klerman and Sanford Meisner, that
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new style of acting, which has been around for something like 100 years now, draws heavily
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on Freud, and it involves not representing something.
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It relies on cultivating an inner life of the character.
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So if you want to play a guy who's in love with a woman on screen, you really want to
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cultivate a kind of love and attraction for that woman, which can compromise you.
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If you want to play a mass murderer, you have to cultivate the desire to murder people.
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You want to cultivate that inner life so that it kind of just overflows.
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And then it's like a sponge that gets overly full, and then the water that comes out, that's
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Sometimes it's called method acting, which is a subset of it.
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But that can be really damaging because you're constantly reshaping your soul in ways that
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So it's not so simple as saying theater is perfectly fine.
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It's just living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.
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What is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances, that's the problem, is it can be psychologically
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and spiritually damaging, a little bit for the audience, but especially for the actors.
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Not saying there's no right way to do it, but the church fathers had a point when they
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My question is, why do you think the left is not promoting Kamala as the potential first
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The left is ordinarily quick to highlight anyone who might be the first anything.
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When Hillary ran, they talked nonstop of a woman finally leading our country.
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When Obama ran, black people couldn't wait to see someone who looked like them be our
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Even when Pete Buttigieg ran for president, they touted him as the first openly gay man to
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But we hear crickets about this with Kamala as the current Democratic candidate.
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My thoughts on their silence is that women and feminists, we want to be proud of what
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our gender accomplishes, standing on our own merits.
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She would become a first solely due to circumstance rather than on her own achievements.
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Also because, yeah, she's getting the nomination in a way that is cheating.
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Also, they ran Hillary as the first woman president.
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So maybe they're beginning to realize that's not the best idea.
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They want to run Kamala as everything and nothing.
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They want her to just be a generic alternative to Trump.
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You said that Pete Buttigieg was running to be our first gay, openly gay president.
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But of course, our actual first homosexual president was James Buchanan, the worst president
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in American history who very nearly destroyed the country.
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So that'll be something Pete can grapple with the next time he runs.
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I have a question regarding communion during Mass.
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I see fellow parishioners receiving the body in different ways, by hand or by the tongue,
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What are your thoughts about these different methods of receiving the Eucharist?
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And is there a specific method that should be practiced more over others?
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Many thanks in advance for your insight and have a blessed weekend.
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The church permits all of those different ways.
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However, I think the traditional way probably has quite a lot to it, which is to receive the Eucharist
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on the tongue, not in your hand, on the tongue, while kneeling.
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Because, you know, you're kneeling while you receive our Lord, you know, in the holy sacrifice
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If you're going to kneel before you enter a pew, if you're going to, you know, kneel before an icon or something,
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probably you'd want to kneel when receiving the holy sacrament.
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And then the reason to receive on the tongue is the priest's hands are consecrated,
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So just really practical, it's kind of funny to speak practically about this extraordinary mystery.
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But, you know, if you receive the Eucharist on the hand, and you really believe that this
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is the body, blood, soul, and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, then if there's a crumb,
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or if a piece falls onto the floor or something, any little tiny little crumb or remnant of it,
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You know, you're, falls on the ground, and then you're stepping on it.
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It's just, you know, really hideous to think about.
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So I would recommend receiving on the tongue while kneeling at an altar rail, preferably.
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Republicans or Nazis, you cannot separate yourselves from the bad.
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What you're doing is you're stretching out of your whiteness.
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You 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.