Ep. 1627 - The Hunter Biden Pardon EXPLAINED In 5 Mins
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While notable Democrats are disowning their conservative family members, some liberal women are going so far as to sterilize themselves to get back at mean old daddy Trump. Joe Biden's son Hunter served on the board of Burisma, a company that makes the oil used to make gas and gas products.
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Go get it today for Cyber Monday before we get to anything else. Do you remember when Joe Biden's
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administration said that there was no chance that he would pardon his son Hunter over the many crimes
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that Hunter not only committed, but filmed himself committed and wrote messages to other people and
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for himself about having committed? Crimes that we have an entire hard drive full of evidence
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that he committed. If you do not remember that, I will refresh your memory. I will take you back to
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July 28th, 2023. Here is the White House Press Secretary.
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Let me go back to the first question of the briefing. I know you said not a lot's changed since yesterday
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and that it's a personal matter, but from a presidential perspective, is there any possibility
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that the president would end up pardoning his son? No. I just said no. I just answered. Go ahead.
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Go ahead. Yesterday, Joe Biden released this statement from the White House.
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Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. There is no chance. Full stop. No exceptions.
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Joe Biden will not pardon his son. Fast forward a little over a year. Today,
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I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. He goes on. From the day I took office, I said I would not
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interfere with the Justice Department's decision making, and I kept my word, even as I have watched
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my son being selectively and unfairly prosecuted. Give me a break. I've kept my word until now,
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but now I'm going to interfere. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently, Joe Biden says.
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That's true. That is 100% true. Hunter was treated differently. Anyone else who committed the crimes
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that Hunter Biden committed would have been prosecuted 10 years ago for those crimes? Because
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the crimes that Hunter Biden would appear to have committed and that we would appear to have written
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and even video evidence in some cases of his having committed are not only sex crimes and drug crimes
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and petty street level crimes, but also selling state influence, also raising money from unsavory
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characters and peddling the introduction to his father, who was then the vice president of the
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United States, acting as bag man for the Biden family, apparently money laundering. We're talking
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to the tune of millions and millions of dollars. In addition to all the other stuff, and what was he
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ever prosecuted for? He was prosecuted for some low-level gun crime. He filled out a gun purchase
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form wrong and for filing his taxes incorrectly. They didn't even go after the really serious tax
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crimes. It was a joke. He was treated differently. He was given much more lenient treatment than anyone
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else would have been, anyone else who did not have the last name Biden. In any case, Biden goes on.
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Here's the actual meat of the pardon. A full and unconditional pardon for those offenses against the
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United States, which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period
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from January 1st, 2014 through December 1st, 2024. Hold on. Wait. If you're telling me that Joe is
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pardoning Hunter for some tax issues and for filling out a gun form incorrectly, why wouldn't he date it
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exactly to the day that he filled out the gun form, for instance? Why cover this whole decade-long,
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more than a decade-long period? That doesn't make, oh, right, because that's the period during which
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Hunter Biden served on the board of Burisma, the Ukrainian oil and gas company. Burisma, a company
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that had no reason to hire Hunter Biden other than Biden's connection to Joe Biden, the then vice
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president of the United States, who was the point man on Ukraine policy. Ukraine, one of the most
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corrupt countries in the even semi-civilized world paid off the Biden family. Hunter does not speak
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Ukrainian, does not have any particular knowledge of oil or natural gas. There was no reason to put
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him on the board other than that. So it's covering any crimes that he might have committed, in addition
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to all the crazy sex stuff and all the crazy drug stuff and all the rest of it. How are the liberal
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media covering this? Politico does the meme. Politico reports, Republicans pounce on Biden,
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pardoning his son Hunter. That's the story, of course. The story is not that the White House lied,
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just lied directly to the American people, said Joe will not pardon Hunter Biden. Oh, yeah,
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he pardoned Hunter Biden. The story is Republicans criticized him pardoning Hunter Biden for all the
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crimes he committed. But I have a deeply unpopular take. Do you want to hear it or do you want to,
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I don't even know if you want to hear it. My deeply unpopular take is, yeah, okay, whatever,
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good on Joe. Whatever. He pardoned his son. There are two, listen, there are two takes you're going
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to hear about this. The first one is going to say, it's wonderful that Joe Biden pardoned his son.
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He's such a good, doting, wonderful father. This is an example of great virtue. How dare you ever
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criticize Biden? That's what you're going to hear from the Democrats. From the Republicans,
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you're going to hear, Joe Biden's a terrible father. This has nothing to do with his care for
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his only surviving son, Hunter. This is only because Hunter was the bag man for the Biden family.
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And so Joe's really just protecting himself. Because if Hunter goes down, Hunter's going to
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take Joe with him because Hunter was paying at least 10% to the big guy, maybe half of all of his
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earnings to the big guy, depending on what you believe in the Hunter Biden laptop.
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My view is, yeah, of course he's going to pardon his son. And in a way, I do think there's a certain
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virtue to being loyal to your family and pardoning your son, even taking away the individual personal
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ways in which Joe Biden is going to benefit from that. Yeah, okay, of course. I guess my reaction is
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just, yes, of course that's going to happen. That was always going to happen. Oh, Joe Biden lied?
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Oh, wow. One of the most prolific liars in American politics of the last half century,
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he lied again? Wow. Stop the presses. You're kidding me. Yeah, of course he was going to
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pardon his son. And I think it's actually, sometimes it's good to look at for your boy.
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I think that's good. If we really believe in family, you know, listen, Fredo, you're my brother
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and I love you, but never take sides against the family again. If you really believe in that stuff,
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yeah, okay, it's good to use what authority you have to maybe extend a little grace to your boy.
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There is a world in which, let's say your kid gets busted for drugs. He's 18 years old or
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something, and you make him sleep it off in jail. There is an argument that it is good for people
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to face the consequences of their actions. It's actually helpful to them. It's almost medicinal.
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This is the argument that Plato makes in Gorgias, in the mouth of Socrates. And sure, that's true.
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In this case, though, one, is Hunter really going to reform any more than he has? Probably not.
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Two, was this always in the cards? Three, is Biden looking out for himself? Yeah, sure.
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I just think it was always, Hunter was never even prosecuted for the serious crimes,
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as I mentioned before. And I guess the other reason why I'm not pulling my hair out over this
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pardon is not only because I always expected it would happen. I think anyone with two brain
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cells to rub together had to know this was going to happen. I guess the consolation about it for me is
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this exposes the Democrats as being crooked, self-dealing, and sanctimonious liars.
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There is no argument they can make. They've been running for years now on how no one is above the
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law. Joe Biden tweeted that out. No one's above the law except for my son and me, maybe,
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because I'm implicated in his crimes. No one's above the law. We shouldn't be doling out patronage.
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We shouldn't be nepotistic. Well, Joe Biden is all of these things. This was a final shiv to the
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Democrat Party. Had Kamala won, probably Kamala would have pardoned Hunter. There would have been
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a lot of pressure for Kamala to pardon Hunter. If the Democrat Party had not totally stabbed Joe
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Biden in the back and overthrown him, maybe Joe would have taken some lesser action, maybe not given
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a full pardon, but just commuted his sentence or something like that. But in this case, he says,
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no, forget about it. If you're going to send me down, I'm going to bring down the whole Democrat
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Party with me. Forget you guys. This will help Republicans, at least in the midterms. People's
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memories aren't all that long, so maybe it doesn't help them in 28. It will help them in the midterms.
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But then there's one more question, practically speaking. If you are President Trump, if you are
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the DOJ coming in under President Trump, the question is this. Can Joe Biden offer this kind of
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pardon to his son? This isn't just a pardon for the crimes that Hunter was convicted of.
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This is a pardon spanning a decade for any crime, any federal crime that Hunter Biden might have
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committed. Does the president have that authority? It's happened one time. Well, not this kind of
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pardon has not happened ever. But one time, you did have a president pardoning someone for a crime
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that he might have committed but wasn't indicted for. There have actually been a few times, but one
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that was really notable, and that was Jerry Ford pardoning Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was about
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to be impeached. He resigns the presidency, and Jerry Ford gives him a pardon. And it was controversial
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at the time because Richard Nixon never accepted guilt for the crime of duct taping a door the wrong
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way or whatever nonsense the deep state used to run him out of office. One of the most popularly
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elected presidents ever. I digress. So we've had it at moments of particular national crisis.
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We've had it in ways. Jimmy Carter pardoning the draft dodgers from Vietnam. Okay, there weren't a
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ton of prosecutions that were even really getting geared up for there. I don't, can he do this? I don't
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know. It seems constitutionally dubious at least. So if the Trump DOJ does want to go after Biden,
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not just Hunter, he's the street level guy. You want to go after the actual Biden family,
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the people who were ostensibly selling state secrets, who were benefiting, who were getting
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that 10% to 50% off the top. If there is appetite there to prosecute, I think you probably still could.
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I think Joe Biden is clearly overstepping his authority here. But this brings us back to the
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political reality as I spill my drink all over my studio. I'm just so fired up about this.
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This brings us back to the political reality, which is this was going to happen. There was no
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appetite to prosecute Hunter, even if, even if Joe Biden had not done this, there's really no
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appetite to go after Joe Biden. Trump is saying, let's let bygones be bygones. Let's move, move on.
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Let's, let's, you know, let's let the dead past bury the dead. Joe Biden probably voted for Donald
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Trump at this point. So I just don't think it was going to happen anyway. It's unsatisfying to
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people who view politics primarily as an ideal, idealist project with all sorts of purity,
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but that's not how it works. So I think, oh, this news comes out, Joe Biden's Hunter. Yeah. Duh.
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Now, speaking of family, there are a lot of women who are really angry at Donald Trump,
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and they're so angry at Donald Trump that according to Newsweek, they are sterilizing themselves.
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First paragraph. It's not a procedure you would expect a 28-year-old to be planning,
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but for Lydia Eccles from Texas, having her fallopian tubes removed is the price she's willing
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to pay to ensure her reproductive rights. Listen to that Orwellian sentence. Listen to that complete
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Alice in Wonderland nonsensical sentence. Having her fallopian tubes removed is the price she's willing
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to pay to ensure her reproductive rights. To ensure her reproductive rights, she is going to ensure that
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she can never reproduce. That's the world of leftism. That's the world of political correctness
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and wokeism. That's the world of Alice in Wonderland. Newsweek spoke to five women who've
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either undergone sterilization procedures or planned to in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump's
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victory on November 5th. They all expressed fear that their reproductive choices will be taken from
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them under Trump's administration. If I am denied any rights in the next four or more years, I will
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not give them up without a fight, Eccles said. Newsweek contacted the Trump team and they didn't
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respond to these lunatic women. Okay, that'll show them. That'll show them, huh? Trump's probably losing
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sleep over this. Leftist women, insane leftist women are sterilizing themselves to really show that
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mean old Donald Trump. To show daddy Trump. I'm sorry, wait, did I say that? I'm just to show
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Donald Trump that he is mean and nasty. Women do this thing all the time. Women engage in self-destructive
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behavior in order to get back at men and often their fathers all the time. This is classic behavior.
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This is pretty extreme. This is a pretty, usually women, when they're angry at their dad,
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they just get some like ugly tattoo or something. You, or they chop all their hair off or something
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like that. This is pretty extreme to sterilize yourself. But this is further evidence that all
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liberalism comes down to screw you dad. That's not an original insight. This was a friend of mine in LA
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pointed this out to me some years ago. It seems to be truer and truer. It, it, it all comes down to
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screw you dad. I'm going to harm myself and that will somehow really get back at you. And I don't
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think Trump is even going to read that article. Meanwhile, some other lib women are taking their
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anger out on their conservative family members by refusing to dine with them at Thanksgiving.
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Hold on. Let me check my notes. Ah, yes. Don't want to have turkey dinner with the people screaming
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your body, my choice. Make your own dinner, MAGA. Make your own sandwiches, wipe your own tears,
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troll amongst yourselves with Elon and leave us alone. You got your heart's desire, the president
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you dreamed of and worship instead of Jesus. And this time you didn't even have to storm the Capitol,
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smash the windows or try to kill police officers or issue death threats to poll workers. See,
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you did it just by voting this time. Congrats. You got your way. And he even got away with breaking
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the law. Yay. But if you expect the 73 million who voted for the prosecutor, not the felon,
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and particularly the 92% of black women who voted for Kamala to give you a cookie for your vote,
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a trophy, a hug, a high five, you might be asking too much. If we want to eat with you, we will.
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But if we just want some peace over the holidays and we don't want to put up with your trolling while
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we eat our tofurkey, get over it. Stop acting like we owe you. And for God's sakes, stop whining.
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It's embarrassing. Our Thanksgiving, our choice. Our Thanksgiving, our choice.
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Just as incorrect as the line that Joy Reid is aping here, which is our body, our choice.
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The notion that you have a right to kill your child or something. Both of those statements are
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incorrect. Thanksgiving is not about your choice. Some of you, I suspect, had contentious conversations
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with your liberal family members over Thanksgiving. Some of you might not have been invited to
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Thanksgiving. Or some of you might have had liberal family members decline to come to Thanksgiving.
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I've heard it happen personally. It seems particularly bad this year.
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Even the gate agent, I was speaking to a gate agent when I was at the airport flying to go visit my
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family. And the gate agent said, yeah, fewer people seem to be traveling for Thanksgiving this
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year. And when they travel, they're going on vacation. They're not going to see their family
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members. It's very strange. Thanksgiving doesn't seem to be what it once was. That's what the gate
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agent told me. And I think it's because of this error, that fundamental error. Are Thanksgiving
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our choice? No. Holidays are not about individual autonomy. You don't go to visit your family at
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Thanksgiving or Christmas or whenever because that is the thing that is most pleasing to you,
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the individual. It would probably be more pleasing to you, the individual, to go get a drink with your
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friends or to not travel with lots of children or to not see that cousin that you don't like.
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That would probably be more pleasing to you individually. You go to holidays with your
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family because family is good. And family is the bedrock political unit. And the demands of family
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supersede your individual preferences at least some of the time. That's why you go. That last sentence
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there tells you the whole story. Our Thanksgiving, our choice. If we want to eat with you, we will.
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But if we want some peace, get over it. Stop acting like we owe you. No, no, no. You do owe your family
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things. You owe it to your family. You have obligations. It's not just all about you, honey.
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It's not all about you, sister. It's not all about the individual. This is why, though, there is no point
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in arguing with family members who don't want to have Thanksgiving with you. With the joy reads of your
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family, there's no point in arguing with them. You're going to be tempted to argue with them.
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You're going to be tempted to say, no, actually, you don't understand. Trump's immigration policy
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is actually the just and lawful immigration policy. Or, no, you don't understand. Actually,
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we don't want to trans the kids because we think it's also bad for the kids and because of this and
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that and the other thing. It's a losing argument. There's no point in arguing these things because
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you and the joy reads of your family fundamentally disagree over family. That's the issue. It's not
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any of the individual political issues that you might disagree on. It's the more basic issue. What
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is family? What are the demands of family? What is the good of family? Is family good? That's what
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you're disagreeing over. And you're not going to, maybe it's a much longer conversation to try to
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persuade this family member that family is good, but it's a much deeper, more fundamental issue.
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And if they say, screw it, I don't care about family. All I care about is me and my own
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preferences and my own comfort at any given time. And then the exercise of my own autonomy,
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and that's the highest good for me. Okay. That's their, that's their first principle that they're
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Now, speaking of, you know, holidays come from holy day and speaking of holy things, potentially,
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I just sat down with a guy, a guy named Blake Healy, who claims to be able to see spiritual
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realities. We just had a very long conversation on my series, Michael and here's what he had to say.
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I'd seen angels and demons in about equal measure. There was this sense of separation. And even though I
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could identify that's something that might be scary, there wasn't any sense of immediate danger.
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I looked up and instead of my mom, I saw this just kind of shadow. As soon as I looked at it,
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it's kind of slunked into the crack, walked around to the edge of my bed. It kind of had these milky
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white eyes. Its eyes flashed. And I felt this overwhelming sense of fear. Absolute panic was
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just going through my body. It happened night after night after night for three and a half years.
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You have this question, which is, am I a highly functioning schizophrenic?
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They talked to me about this concept that I hadn't heard of before that they called seeing
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in the spirit. Something in that recipe of expanding the options from either I'm going crazy or the
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devil's decided to ruin my life to this third option of maybe I have a gift that I just haven't
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learned how to manage yet. This is your daily experience. It is. Do you see these things now?
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Like right now. Why are we talking at this very moment? What do you see? Right now,
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I can see your personal angel standing right behind you, just behind your left shoulder.
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Pretty spooky, huh? Well, maybe, maybe, maybe not. Some people are going to say there's no way this
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is true. There's no, this is crazy. However, in principle, if you believe that there is such a
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thing as the spiritual world, if you believe that there is metaphysics, for instance, then if you
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believe in principle that someone might have the charism of reading souls, well, maybe he's telling
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the truth. Only, only one way to find out or the best way to find out is to go check it out on the
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Michael Knowles YouTube channel or on Daily Wire Plus, Michael and the Seer. Speaking of family,
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British politicians just voted to kill their grandparents. The UK parliament has just approved
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assisted suicide by a vote of 330 to 275. Really dark stuff. Coming to America, it's already in some
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American states. There's going to be a push for this nationally. It's, this has been a, a deeply
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wicked pathology that has been spreading in the West for some decades now. A priest friend of mine
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pointed out once that the Hemlock Society, which is rebranded. Now, now the pro-suicide society has some
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fancy or nice sounding death with dignity or something like that, but they, they had books
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on killing yourself and that bookstores would put it in the self-help section. Seems a little ironic.
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This has been spreading for some time and, and the proponents of assisted suicide justify it
00:24:09.660
in the name of dignity. It seems like a rather dubious dignity to me for one's last act on earth
00:24:17.380
to be an act essentially of despair, of, of killing one's own self, of, of casting away the gift of
00:24:24.560
life that you did not create for yourself that was actually given to you by God. However, at the purely
00:24:30.780
political level, pay attention to these debates because the proponents of assisted suicide are
00:24:35.580
going to justify it in the name of this dubious dignity that just coincidentally will save the state
00:24:42.260
a ton of money. It purely coincidence, but especially in the UK, which has socialist health care,
00:24:48.380
the NHS spends a ton of money on end of life care. Any country spends most of its medical
00:24:56.380
expenditures at the very tail end of life. So if you can end life sooner, maybe a few months or even
00:25:03.380
a few years, or in some cases with assisted suicide, even a few decades sooner than you otherwise would,
00:25:08.800
you are going to save the state a ton of money. Now they're not going to make that argument because
00:25:13.180
it exposes how dark the assisted suicide program really is, but that does always seem to accompany
00:25:20.040
these bills. The New Atlantis has just reported on Canadian assisted suicide. They already have
00:25:26.160
assisted suicide. They call it medical aid in dying made in Canada. Ontario's euthanasia regulators
00:25:32.780
have tracked 428 cases of possible criminal violations here. So of people being pressured
00:25:39.760
into this, of people, of doctors not doing their due diligence, of doctors prescribing suicide in cases
00:25:47.200
that would not merit it, even according to this wicked and expansive law. 428 cases of possible criminal
00:25:55.920
violations. Ontario's euthanasia regulators have not referred a single case to law enforcement,
00:26:01.160
according to leaked documents reported by the New Atlantis. So this is rife with abuse. They call it
00:26:07.380
euthanasia. That alone is a wicked, wicked euphemism. Euthanasia means a good death. But in the classical and
00:26:15.100
medieval understanding of a good death, this is the worst kind of death possible. Traditionally in our
00:26:19.200
culture, we consider a good death to be a death where we know ahead of time that we're going to die, where we
00:26:23.500
have some longer type of illness, where we are able to prepare our souls for death, for what comes after we
00:26:30.260
shuffle off this mortal coil, where we are surrounded perhaps by loved ones and family members, where we
00:26:36.200
demonstrate some courage and strength in the face of the fate that meets all of us on this earth, and
00:26:42.100
where we demonstrate the theological virtue of hope for the life of the world to come. That's what was
00:26:47.640
traditionally considered a good death. Now a good death is when someone bludgeons you over the back
00:26:51.420
of the head, or puts you out like Lenny put out George, or George put out Lenny, and you don't even
00:26:57.620
see it coming. Or now in this case, you just get into a pod, fill it up with nitrogen, and asphyxiate.
00:27:07.680
Is it only going to be these poor people who are suffering with crippling kinds of pain? No. In
00:27:13.440
fact, it's almost never. It's almost never for them. This is what you hear for assisted suicide
00:27:18.080
proponents, that it's really just about people who are in such crippling, brutal pain at the very end of
00:27:22.800
their life, and they're going to shorten their life by five minutes, and it's going to put them out of
00:27:26.060
pain, and isn't that a mercy? If there is one thing our society is good at, it is managing pain.
00:27:34.160
We have made more technological advancements in palliative care, in numbing pain, than in probably
00:27:41.100
any other field of science, of practical science. Okay, there is no concern about managing care,
00:27:49.000
or managing pain at the end of our lives. And this does not just affect the 107-year-old with
00:27:54.840
crippling pain. There is a case in the Netherlands, and in Belgium, of physically healthy young women
00:28:03.900
who had depression. So these are women in their 20s who say, I have depression, and it's just so
00:28:09.400
hard. Anorexics, women who have different psychiatric conditions, but even just kind of being a little
00:28:13.340
bit glum. And they say, okay, please kill me. Life is full of suffering, and so I want to die in my 20s.
00:28:18.300
They have no physical ailments, psychological ailments, spiritual ailments, and the doctors
00:28:24.960
will prescribe them death, and they will kill themselves. In the Netherlands, in Belgium.
00:28:29.180
There was a case in the Netherlands of an elderly woman who was suffering from dementia,
00:28:32.900
who was held down by her family while her doctor forcibly poisoned her. She was trying to smack the
00:28:37.600
cup of poison out of his hand. She was resisting. She was shouting. She said, no, no, no. And the doctor,
00:28:42.380
with the help of the family, killed her anyway. You're going to hear a lot of good arguments.
00:28:47.880
You're going to hear a lot of arguments against assisted suicide, and they're going to focus on
00:28:51.460
cases like that. And they're going to focus on the slippery slope, and they're going to say, look,
00:28:54.940
this is going to take people who are already on the margins, people who worry that they're a burden
00:28:59.460
to their family, people who suffer from depression, people who are already so vulnerable, they're going
00:29:04.080
to be led to kill themselves because of this legal regime, and that's really bad. And sure, all of that
00:29:09.440
is true. But Adrian Vermeule, excellent philosopher and scholar at Harvard, points out, opposing this
00:29:18.260
policy, opposing assisted suicide on the grounds of a slippery slope is insufficient because the left
00:29:25.460
is just going to say, okay, well, we'll put some more regulations on it. We'll put some more
00:29:28.760
safeguards. We'll make sure that the Belgian woman or the Dutch woman isn't actually held down and
00:29:33.280
poisoned by her family. And don't worry, the court's already said that was a bad thing anyway. So don't
00:29:37.140
worry, we'll put more regulations and it'll be fine. And then the opponents of assisted suicide
00:29:40.900
have no argument. If all we do is argue about the slippery slope, what we have to do is argue
00:29:47.400
in principle, fundamentally, why has suicide been illegal basically everywhere for the history of
00:29:51.900
our civilization? Why is suicide illegal in most of America today? Because we have no right to kill
00:29:58.940
ourselves. Because life is not something that we make for ourselves. Life is a gift that we receive.
00:30:04.140
We have an obligation to be good stewards of that life. Suicide is a crime not only against God and
00:30:11.480
not only against the individual person, but against society. It's deeply scandalous. It leads to the
00:30:17.920
spread of suicide throughout families and communities. And it removes a member of the body politic.
00:30:25.880
It is contrary to the common good. It's just evil. It's just in itself unjust.
00:30:31.640
And we have laws against all sorts of things that are in themselves unjust.
00:30:36.920
And this should be one of them. This is the literal suicide of the West.
00:30:42.480
My friend, Father George Rutler, made a really good point. I was reading in a collection of his
00:30:46.260
writings last night on my flight back from New York. He pointed out that in the end, if we have a
00:30:54.560
society that is opposed to reality, reality is going to win. If we have a society, just take the case,
00:31:01.060
even forget about assisted suicide, killing yourself toward the end of your life. Forget even about
00:31:07.160
abortion, killing babies in the womb. Go all the way to contraception, the contraceptive mentality
00:31:13.640
that has come about since the 1960s. Contraception is contrary to nature, and it's contrary to
00:31:21.280
reality. We are social creatures. We are coupling beings. Love and marriage, love and marriage go
00:31:29.140
together like a horse in carriage, and pretty soon you're going to have a baby. This is a natural
00:31:36.920
thing. If we oppose that, we will not suddenly dominate all of society and reality. Our society
00:31:43.340
will just die. Ever since contraception has become widespread, our society has been dying.
00:31:48.420
This is true not just in our society. It's been true in all sorts of societies. So, okay, great.
00:31:53.480
Now everyone gets to have sterile sex, and our country can be run, in the case of Europe, by
00:31:59.020
the Muslims who take over, and in the case of America, by other foreigners who take over,
00:32:03.980
largely from Latin America, but from all sorts of other places, who don't practice contraception.
00:32:09.200
Okay, that's fine. You want to oppose reality? Reality is going to win. In this case, you want
00:32:14.660
to oppose the reality that life is a gift, and we actually have obligations, and there's a transcendent
00:32:18.300
moral order, and you can't actually change that. You can't, through the tyranny of your own will,
00:32:22.120
you can't rewrite morality. Okay, okay, you want to oppose all that? Sure, I guess you can. But if you do
00:32:27.660
that, your civilization will die. And the civilizations that will live and endure will be the ones that
00:32:34.240
don't kill themselves. That's how it's going to work. We have to oppose these things on principle,
00:32:40.480
and the principles that we have to embrace and exalt are the principles that cohere with reality.
00:32:47.960
The left wants to call us meanies because we say things that are just true. We say that marriage is
00:32:53.560
about men and women together, that you can't have a marriage between two men or two women or three
00:32:57.800
dudes and a billy goat. You just can't. It's not, listen, I've spent my life in New York and LA,
00:33:02.060
and I went to the gayest university in the world. I have no personal animus against anyone who has
00:33:07.160
eccentric desires or whatever, but it's just contrary to reality, and reality is going to win out in the
00:33:13.600
end. I'm sure people who are suffering from terminal illnesses or depression, I'm sure they have a
00:33:20.260
really tough go of it. They're suffering in all sorts of parts of life, and some people suffer a
00:33:24.040
lot more than others. I'm not denying that. But that doesn't give you the right to kill yourself.
00:33:30.500
When young women become pregnant by some dirtbag who runs off and they feel like they've got no
00:33:35.660
ability to raise their kids, I'm sure that's extremely scary. It's scary when a woman gets
00:33:39.520
pregnant and she's married and her husband has a good income and they have every material resource
00:33:44.120
they need. Pregnancy is very scary. I don't deny that. That doesn't give you the right to kill your
00:33:49.960
kid. Don't call me the meanie because I'm stating the obvious, okay? And please don't call yourself
00:33:58.520
good and forward-thinking because you are living in denial of reality and in contradiction of reality
00:34:04.400
because to persist in that as a matter of public policy is going to kill the whole country.
00:34:09.740
Now, speaking of radicalism in the Commonwealth and weird sex stuff, a Canadian town without a flagpole
00:34:15.620
has just been fined for not flying a gay flag. This is the town of Emo. It's being, it's population
00:34:24.180
1,333. Small little town. It's being ordered by the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario to pay damages
00:34:30.780
after failing to proclaim Pride Month as it was instructed to do in 2020. The town refused, the
00:34:37.760
mayor refused. The tribunal ruled that Borderland Pride, this radical sex group, must be given 15
00:34:44.240
grand, 10 of it coming from the township, 5 of it coming from the Emo mayor, Harold McQuaker.
00:34:50.380
McQuaker and Emo's chief administrative officer are required to engage in a re-education camp
00:34:56.140
called Human Rights 101 and provide proof of completion to this weird sex group, Borderland Pride,
00:35:02.740
and they also need to pay the fee. A reminder, even if you don't have a flagpole, they're not going to
00:35:11.060
let you off the hook. Okay, there's no playing nice and keeping your head down. The rainbow flag
00:35:17.240
thing, the weird sex stuff, and really just extreme liberalism, the denial of reality and the
00:35:23.240
exaltation of individual autonomy and subjective preference over reality and over objective truth
00:35:30.600
and over the moral order and obligation. That is the official religion of our pervert political
00:35:36.520
elite, and they will make you bend the knee just as surely as any ancient Roman tyrant demanded that
00:35:41.980
a Christian sacrifice to the false gods of the Roman Empire, lest they be eaten by lions. Your pervert
00:35:48.400
political elite will make you do the same. Unless we stand firm for principle, we do it in a way that is
00:35:56.140
just and sanctifying. We pray to God for deliverance as he gives us more often than we deserve.
00:36:01.940
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Join us now. Go to dailywire.com slash cybermonday. My favorite comment is from
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Fea Productions, 4630, who says, congrats on breaking X with that skit, Michael.
00:37:32.200
Thank you so much. If you didn't catch it, it's the second episode, the sequel to
00:37:37.380
The Conservative Uncle at Thanksgiving. And I posted it to, you know, I got, I don't know,
00:37:42.520
almost a couple million views on Instagram and whatever other platforms we put it on.
00:37:45.920
But then Elon posted it shortly after I uploaded it. And so it got, it's gotten over 100 million
00:37:51.660
views on X. It's pretty funny. I did not write the sketch. My producers didn't mostly write the
00:37:57.780
sketch. It was a member of my household who wrote the sketch, actually. Speaking of weird sex stuff,
00:38:04.200
there is a fella, goes by the name of Michaela J.A. Rodriguez. I don't know who this guy is.
00:38:10.920
He pretends to be a woman. And he claims that trans actors playing cis roles is no longer even a
00:38:21.080
question in Hollywood. Let me try to translate that into English. It is now taken as a fait accompli
00:38:28.460
that a man who thinks that he's a woman can play a woman in a movie or a TV show or a play.
00:38:37.000
And that's perfectly fine. And there's nothing unusual about that. He says, I think we've
00:38:43.200
definitely grown into a space where that is not a question. It's definitely a topic of discussion,
00:38:48.180
but it's not, not in the actor's space. I'll tell you that much. I think what we're working
00:38:51.860
toward is more agency and more open spaces for trans voices and trans people to obviously have
00:38:56.760
more parts and have more space to express different types of characters, just like any
00:39:00.880
other person on this planet. We've been asking for it for a long time. It's something that we've
00:39:04.520
always been able to do. We understand the experience of women. So they don't. These men
00:39:12.260
who pretend to be women, they don't, they do not understand the experience of women.
00:39:15.700
They understand women in the way that I understand women, which is that they, well,
00:39:20.060
they don't have functioning rational faculties. I have at least a somewhat functioning rational
00:39:24.040
faculty. And so I can understand it in the way that I can understand anything else that I don't
00:39:29.580
have experience. I can understand the game of football, more or less, even though I don't play
00:39:33.360
football. However, you can't intimately know the personal experiences that attend to being a woman
00:39:41.820
if you're a fellow. So they don't know that. And he says, you know, and that's why we can play women,
00:39:47.340
but they can't actually, they can't. They, they might think they can, they might be lying to
00:39:54.520
themselves and everyone else, or they might look, they have obviously a defect of perception and
00:39:58.580
judgment. So they might think that they can convincingly portray women, but they can't.
00:40:05.740
You have never met a transvestite in your life that you didn't know was a transvestite.
00:40:11.580
Basically, no one has. Even with a lot of extreme surgeries, it's pretty obvious. And for most of the
00:40:18.040
transvestites, it's really obvious. They're big, hulking, butch dudes. And they, just like an
00:40:25.420
anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat girl, they look in the mirror and see a woman,
00:40:30.520
but, but no one else sees that. So the question then becomes, what is the movie about? If it's
00:40:38.200
totally, if now we're going to see a bunch more transvestites playing women, earnestly playing
00:40:42.500
women in movies, the question is, what's the movie about? Is the movie about the whims and fancies
00:40:49.560
and fetishes and preferences of the actors? Or is the movie about the audiences? Is the movie about
00:40:56.620
conveying a story, telling a story to audiences? We used to say it was obviously the latter.
00:41:05.440
But all of acting, even with the advent of method acting and the Stanislavski system and
00:41:09.720
the more psychological type of acting that has now totally dominated theater and film,
00:41:15.140
even as the actors get so much in their own heads, it, it's still about telling the story. That's the,
00:41:20.700
that's the point of acting. That's the point of a play or a movie, or at least it was, but now it's
00:41:26.760
just all, it's all about them. It's not about us. And this, it's, it's a further break from reality,
00:41:34.280
I suppose, because they can do this. These fellas can go out there, the Hollywood studios,
00:41:40.260
afraid of being canceled by the LGBT Gestapo, the Gay Gestapo. They can cast the men as playing women
00:41:47.900
and in a way that's supposed to be earnest and not merely comedic. And, and okay, they can make
00:41:53.380
those movies. People won't see them because no one will be able to suspend disbelief because you
00:41:58.660
can't, the tyranny of your will will not ever defeat reality. So fine, that's okay. I don't care
00:42:06.220
for Hollywood. I don't see most movies that come out. I don't really care. So fine. Great.
00:42:11.380
Michaela, Michaela, J, whatever, you know, please play all the women and all the movies fine by me.
00:42:17.180
Speaking of radical leftists, if you were watching the Mesa's Thanksgiving Day Parade,
00:42:21.880
you might have noticed that pro-Palestine protesters disrupted one of the great American traditions.
00:42:30.180
I like Ronald McDonald just hovering behind them, waiting to like snuff them out with his pillow or
00:42:54.060
whatever he's holding. American capitalism is coming for you, you pro-Palestine leftists.
00:43:02.860
He's going to snuff them out. It looks like a heart-shaped pillow, even funnier. Okay,
00:43:05.560
I think I get the point with them. I think we get the point. This is the chief reason I can't get
00:43:12.180
behind the pro-Palestine activism. This is the chief reason these guys are not on my side.
00:43:19.780
These guys think and behave in ways that are totally contradictory to the ways that a conservative
00:43:27.360
or normal person thinks and behaves. And they are totally identical with the ways that radical
00:43:33.460
leftists who are wrong about statistically everything think and behave. So I just can't
00:43:38.340
get on their side. It's not that I don't think the Middle East is a complex question. It's not that
00:43:43.180
I don't care about persecuted Christians in the Middle East. I really care about persecuted
00:43:45.860
Christians in the Middle East. But it's not that I don't even have an interest in the Arab-Israeli
00:43:50.640
conflict that's been going on for 70 years or more. It's just that those guys aren't on my side.
00:43:58.300
So I'm not on their side. Is that the transitive property? I think it might be. Okay.
00:44:06.440
One last story I have to get to before we go. Speaking of crazy leftists putting on a show,
00:44:10.620
Wicked has become a movie. You know Wicked? I remember I saw it when it was on Broadway back
00:44:15.040
20 years ago. And it was a big phenomenon and it was a popular kind of new musical. And so 20 years
00:44:20.740
later, they make it into a movie with some odd looking sort of white woman and some odd looking
00:44:27.140
sort of black woman. But one of them is, what are their, who is it? One is Aribo, Cynthia Aribo,
00:44:32.480
I think. Is that right? Ariana Grande. I always confuse Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez and a few
00:44:41.300
of those girls from that era. But in any case, they're both sitting on a couch doing an interview
00:44:46.140
without magazine. These two women are holding hands and here's what they had to say about Wicked.
00:44:52.620
I've seen this week people are taking the lyrics of Defying Gravity and really holding space with that
00:44:59.680
and feeling power in that. I didn't know that that was happening. I've seen it, yeah. That's
00:45:06.260
really powerful. That's what I wanted. I don't think that's happening. I've seen it on a couple
00:45:18.240
posts. I don't know how widespread, but you know, I am in queer media, so that's my, you know. That's
00:45:23.700
really cool. Yeah. But yeah, it's happening. I think that it's really important for her in that
00:45:28.860
moment to not allow the things that have hurt her, that have stripped her of her humanity to keep her
00:45:41.120
down. Yeah. I just think they're holding hands. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. It's like, I think people are
00:45:49.260
using the lyrics of Defying Gravity to, you know, told space. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if that's true.
00:45:55.160
I just saw a couple posts on like Twitter or something, but yeah. Wow. Yeah. Oh, wow. They're
00:46:00.760
holding hands and they, you, you will not defy gravity. You will not defy gravity. The left wants
00:46:10.680
you to try to defy gravity. Actually, let me correct myself. There's, cause there's an irony here.
00:46:15.480
You can defy gravity. You can survive death. You can do things that seem impossible. We have a natural
00:46:27.000
longing for that. We're mortal creatures with immortal longings. You won't do it on your own
00:46:33.020
and you won't do it contrary to nature and you won't do it through your own power.
00:46:39.000
Now, God can help, God can help you do that. If you want to defeat death, it won't be in some
00:46:47.320
laboratory in Silicon Valley. If you want to defeat death, it will because, it will be because the
00:46:52.780
eternal God was incarnate, suffered death under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried,
00:46:57.540
and on the third day rose again and ascended into heaven. That's, that's how you'll, if there is any
00:47:02.140
chance you're going to defeat death, that's how you're going to do it. You can do, you, in, in that sense,
00:47:07.020
you actually can define, defy gravity. But if you try to do it by just running your head up against
00:47:14.940
the wall of, of indifferent nature, you are going to fail. If you are, if, if you devote your life to
00:47:22.480
opposing reality and, and, and opposing the creator of reality, you are going to fail. You will not defy
00:47:33.120
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