Ep. 1632 - Why Are We Celebrating Terrorists Taking Over Syria？
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There's good news and bad news in geopolitics over the weekend.
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The good news is that a brutal Middle Eastern dictator has been overthrown.
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Now, the bad news is the guy who overthrew him is a leader of Al-Qaeda.
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But par for the course when it comes to our foreign policy establishments blunders.
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I can't believe it, but we're going to have to begin today with foreign policy.
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No one ever really cares about foreign policy, including me, really.
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You know, it's just, it's so complicated and there are all these alliances.
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But this one does show you a certain aspect of domestic politics too, namely how the media
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work and how our foreign policy establishment doesn't ever seem to have its priorities in
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Bashar al-Assad, the leader of Syria until about five minutes ago, has been overthrown after
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And that is after his father ruled for a quarter century.
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So the, the Assad family has been running the show in Syria for a long time.
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I looked at first as though Assad was going to go 10 years ago, whatever it was.
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And the international community and all the Democrats and all the Western powers said,
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And then we all made nice with Assad again, but now he's gone.
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And the person who replaced him is an Islamist named Abu Muhammad al-Golani.
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It's a little confusing because that's not even really his name.
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I forget what, whatever his real name is, but he goes by Abu Muhammad al-Golani, the nom
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de guerre referring to the Golan Heights, which is currently controlled by the state of Israel,
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And in the West, we pronounce it, you know, in Hebrew and in English, we pronounce it Golan.
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So anyway, whatever you want to call him, al-Golani or al-Julani, call him whatever you like.
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He showed up and led this offensive through Syria.
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Now, in the Western media, we've been told that Bashar al-Assad is the really evil, terrible man,
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And he's legitimately done very terrible things, tortured people.
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He's accused of using chemical weapons against his own people.
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And we're told the rebels are the good guys because they're overthrowing the oppressive leader.
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The problem is that the rebels are made up of guys who served in al-Qaeda, guys who served in ISIS.
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Actually, this guy, Abu Muhammad al-Golani, served in both of those.
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And he led this coalition to topple Assad and to take over Syria.
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Now, he is, in the words of Bill Rogio, who is a managing editor of Long War Journal,
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he is a, quote, specially designated global terrorist.
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After we hear all the great media reports, so good, Bashar al-Assad is gone.
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Now the Syrian people have their spring, a chance at freedom and independence.
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Can anyone explain to me why I am supposed to celebrate that Bashar al-Assad was replaced by a member of al-Qaeda?
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I've made temperate defenses of Assad and of his father, by the way, for years at this point.
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Because nasty fella, total butcher, all sorts of bad things as dictators and totalitarians do.
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But one thing that he did right, that he made a key aspect of his presidential propaganda and of his administration, was to protect religious minorities.
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But there are all sorts of other people in Syria.
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And so this is really what gets to my interest here.
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When I think about all these countries that have all sorts of problems, probably my chief interest is the protection of Christians.
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The Middle East, this area right here, the Levant, is the birthplace of Christianity.
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These are the oldest Christian communities in the world.
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They have been subjected to absolute misery and terror, in particular over the last quarter century, though many times over the last 1,400 years or so.
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And Bashar al-Assad, say what you will about him, was pretty good at protecting the Christians in Syria.
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When these Islamists take over, the Christians get absolutely decimated, further decimated than they are before.
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He basically kept things together and basically protected the Christians.
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I see no reason to believe that things will improve in Syria with Assad gone.
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Just as, remember all the Democrats told us it'll be so great when Gaddafi's gone in Libya.
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There'll be freedom and a new spring for the Libyan people.
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And that's why the U.S. has to put its thumb on the scale and overthrow Gaddafi.
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Basically, the same thing was true with Mubarak in Egypt.
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A lot of our interventions in the Middle East only seem to make things work.
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The overthrow of Saddam, did that really help the region?
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Did that even advance our stated goals of countering Iran?
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It seems as though the Western forays into the Middle East are a series of one blunder after another.
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And we never learn the lesson that sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don't.
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And why is the foreign policy establishment happy about this?
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Because Bashar Assad was a proxy of Iran in particular and a proxy of Vladimir Putin.
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Israel is the closest American ally in the Middle East.
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And Iran and Russia are both on the same page when it comes to Syria.
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And we've been fighting Russia for about 70, 80 years now.
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But Russia still has a lot of missiles pointed at us.
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So now that you've got the Turks, who are a NATO ally, even though we don't really like the Turks that much.
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And the West has been fighting the Turks for also like a thousand years now.
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But we are friends with the Turks for the purposes of the Cold War.
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And we've maintained Turkey in the NATO alliance.
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And Turkey is allied not only with NATO in the U.S., but also allied with Israel, which makes it really complex in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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Because in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Armenian Christians, the only oldest Christian nation in the world, is actually allied with Iran.
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And I don't like the Azerbaijanis in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.
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And anyway, as you can see, it's very, very confusing.
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But if I'm trying to simplify it, and I just look at this today, I say, this is a bad thing for Christians in the Middle East.
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The U.S. foreign policy establishment might say, okay, well, this sort of advances our grand strategic goals.
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I need a little bit more of a track record of our grand strategic goals working out after 25 years of just absolute chaos and blunder and failure in the Middle East.
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I know that all the newspapers want me to celebrate Assad is leaving.
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Now, speaking of historic drubbings, Assad run out of Syria to Russia, where he got asylum in Moscow for supposedly humanitarian reasons, not just because he was a puppet of Russia.
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President Trump just gave a brutal drubbing to NBC and meet the press.
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He went on this classic establishment media show.
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Why doesn't he just boot him out of the press room and move on?
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And it did work out because he did not take their bait at all.
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Whatever they were giving to him, he gave it to them three times over.
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Here is the first time that Welker on Meet the Press tries to lead Trump into questions about the 2020 election.
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Sir, I don't have to tell you this because you've talked about it.
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It comes at a time when the country is deeply divided.
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And now you're going to be leading this country for the next four years.
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For the sake of unifying this country, will you concede the 2020 election and turn the page on that chapter?
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But let me just tell you, when you say the country is deeply divided, I'm not the president.
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And you know where he divided it more than anything else and it probably backfired on him?
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When he weaponized the Justice Department and he went after his political opponent, me,
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he went after his political opponent violently because he knew he couldn't beat him.
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So she goes, will you, just for unity, because if I divided, we are, will you admit that you
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lost the 2020 election and then, the implication is, you led an insurrection to try to overthrow
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And the way he can get away with this is not only because he has gulions of steel, but
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also because he just won in a landslide, an electoral college landslide, and he won the
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So if the American people really believed that Trump were an existential threat to democracy,
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he were causing the division, they wouldn't have elected him, including the majority of
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married women and 40 percent of women under 30 and one of five black guys and almost half
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of Hispanics and just a good chunk of every single group in the country voted for him.
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Biden is the president and everyone just reelected me.
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The libs then believe, before we get to the major policy announcement that Trump just
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made here, the libs believe that in the Meet the Press interview, they got a real gotcha
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I want to delve into one of your signature promises on the campaign trail, which was to
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You are now proposing tariffs against the United States' three biggest trading partners,
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economists of all stripes, say that ultimately consumers pay the price of tariffs.
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Can you guarantee American families won't pay more?
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This is another example of him just swatting down the premise.
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Can you guarantee that your major economic policy will not increase the cost of goods in
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And he looks at her like she's got three heads.
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And so the libs think, ha ha, here's the gotcha.
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Trump is admitting that his economic policies might increase the cost of goods and services.
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None of a, I think that there is a good case to be made, not only for tariffs as a tactical
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matter in a negotiation, but also for tariffs as a way to raise revenue and support the economic
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health of the country by increasing domestic manufacturing.
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I think there's a good argument for tariffs, okay?
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But I'm not going to suggest that tariffs won't possibly raise the prices of goods.
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So what Trump is saying is, I think by implication, in the short run, tariffs might increase the
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And that's going to be a little bit of pain in the short run.
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But in the long run, that redounds to the health of the country.
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Because one, whatever that price spike is, could come down substantially once we start making
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those goods here in America, which is the point of the tariffs.
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The point of the tariffs is not just to punish people overseas, not just to punish China for
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The purpose of the tariffs is to create an incentive for American companies to produce goods
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here, to create an incentive for American consumers to buy goods that are bought here.
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And maybe it'll be a little bit more expensive because China has slave labor in concentration camps,
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But so first of all, there's just an ethical argument to pay a little bit more anyway,
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because we don't want to be supporting slavery.
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But even beyond that, it's a matter of national security.
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We saw during COVID that when we don't control our manufacturing, if supply chains get disrupted
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for anything, for the Wu flu, for a little cough coming out of a lab in Wuhan, that Americans
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might not get their medicine, might not get their goods, might not get their food, for
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So it is a matter of pressing national security that we start making some goods here again.
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And Trump is saying, yeah, look, I'm willing to take the short-term political hit.
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I'm willing to deal with a little short-term economic difficulty for a long-term economic
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But then he announces, he announces the big policy that he's talking about.
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And he begins with the question of deportations.
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Trump says, we need to deport the criminals who are in this country illegally.
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And the libs say, no, but what about the sweet little dreamers?
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You know, and the dreamers at this point are like 50 years old.
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And they try to pretend that it's, you know, six-year-olds, doe-eyed, who are brought across
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the border without their consent, without their knowledge.
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What about, even beyond the dreamers, the people who are born in this country?
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He says, you know, you have a situation where you've got illegal aliens crossing the border.
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The baby is granted American citizenship at birth.
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So are you really going to deport the family members of that person who's given birthright
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In other words, they're trying to smuggle in 11 million, maybe as high as 20 million
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people, because they say, look, some of them have had anchor babies, so you can't deport
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Trump says, nah, I'm afraid we're going to enforce the law.
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The estimated 4 million families in America who have mixed immigration status.
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So I'm talking about parents who might be here illegally, but the kids are here legally.
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Yeah, well, I mean, there are two aspects to this.
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Your borders are Tom Homan said they can be deported together.
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Well, that way you keep the, well, I don't want to be breaking up families.
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So the only way you don't break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send
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Well, well, what you're going to do if they want to stay with the father, look, we have
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You can always find something out like, you know, this doesn't work.
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I'll tell you what's going to be horrible when we take a wonderful young woman who's
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with a criminal and they show the woman and she could stay by the law, but they show the
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woman being taken out or they want her out and your cameras are focused on her as she's
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crying as she's being taken out of our country.
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And then the public turns against us, but we have to do our job.
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So he's, he's saying, look, I know exactly your game plan.
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You're going to just give all the hardest cases possible where you've got some criminal,
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some economic migrant who came over blatant violation of our laws and she's a pretty young
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gal and they want to, you know, get married or something like that, but we got to deport
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He goes, and you're going to try to turn that on me, but look, I'm willing to take the short
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This is the, they always say Trump is just reactive and he just goes wherever the wind
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blows and he's so emotional, but, but think about what he's saying here on tariffs.
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He goes, look, I'm going to do the responsible thing for our country.
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Even if it hurts me and my, my ratings in the short term on immigration, he goes, look, I
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I know you're going to attack me unfairly and I'm willing to take the hit because we have
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I wasn't elected necessarily just to be popular.
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He doesn't care about the long-term health of the country.
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This guy is taking a mature statesmanlike approach to these issues.
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And he is actually demonstrating the political courage and discipline and even humility to
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do what his predecessors, including the Republicans refused to do because they were too afraid
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The problem here is you have families with mixed citizenship because you got the anchor
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babies and you got some parents who are here illegally.
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He says we need to rescind birthright citizenship.
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You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one.
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The 14th Amendment, though, says that, quote, all persons born in the United States are citizens.
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Can you get around the 14th Amendment with an executive action?
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You know, if somebody sets a foot, just a foot, one foot, you don't need to on our land.
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Congratulations, you are now a citizen of the United States of America.
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Yes, we're going to end that because it's ridiculous.
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I was going to do it through executive action, but then we had to fix COVID first, to be
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Now, there's a little trick that that journalist slipped in there.
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NBC News, after Trump says, we're going to get rid of birthright citizenship.
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The 14th Amendment, the greatest amendment ever to the Constitution, the amendment that lets
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us do whatever we want and we can justify basically anything by twisting its words.
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It says that any person born in the United States is a citizen.
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Any person born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof is a citizen.
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The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to make black people into citizens.
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There had been controversy over whether black people were citizens, could ever be citizens,
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could actually participate in American political life, even after being freed slaves.
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And 14th Amendment, 13th Amendment abolishes slavery.
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This doesn't mean that if the ambassador to Mexico's child is born while he's on duty in
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America, that the child of the ambassador to Mexico is a citizen.
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There was an open question as to whether or not foreign nationals born here are citizens.
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And that was resolved to some degree in 1898 in the Wong Kim Ark case, which follows English
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It goes back to the 17th century when the English said, if you are born on the soil,
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you are subject to the king and you have the privileges and protection and rights given
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So that's where you get the use solely in the American tradition, the right of the soil.
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But there's another kind of right, which would be use sanguinis.
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So if you are born to American citizens overseas, you are an American citizen at birth, even if
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This is part of why the controversy over Barack Obama's citizenship was a little bit of a
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Because even if Barack Obama had been born in Kenya, even if he had been born on planet
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Mars, his mother was an American citizen, he would have inherited American citizenship at
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So the question here is, are we going to maintain on the basis of a tenuous reading of the 14th
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amendment and following this one Supreme Court case, one Kim Ark in 1898, are we going to
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continue to create a major incentive for foreign nationals to break our laws, come to America,
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bring a ton of drugs, bring a ton of crime, all in the hope of getting one of the most valuable
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commodities in the world, which is American citizenship, are we going to do that?
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And I think Trump's answer is a very practical answer.
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And I think it's obviously the right answer, which is he's not getting into constitutional
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debates over Wong Kim Ark or the 150-year reading of the 14th amendment.
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He's saying, look, we can all say, we can all know, actually, the people who drafted the
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14th amendment did not intend for the amendment to create automatic citizens out of 20 million
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Okay, that was not the, I can promise you that, that wasn't the purpose of it.
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And even if you have this tradition of right of the soil, of, you know, coming from the
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English common law, we now have a particular political problem, a particular political
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And maybe that means that we need to circumscribe the rights of so-called birthright citizenship
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so that we stop creating the incentive for all these people to come over.
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60 to 80% of women and girls who come across that border illegally are raped along the way,
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according to Fusion Amnesty International, reported in the Huffington Post.
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We know that the people who come here are often paid lower wages.
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That's one of the arguments from the supposed people on the right who support the open border
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is they say, look, we need to pay off our gardeners.
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Good luck finding someone to mow your lawn for a cheap price.
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But I don't think it's a good thing to keep these people in a state of perpetual indentured
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I don't think that's, I think it's good to pay people slave wages.
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We're no longer allowed to have our own borders.
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We're now no longer allowed to make our own immigration laws.
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The most basic aspect of having a country we're not allowed to do.
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It wasn't a problem in 17th century England, but it is a problem now.
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And so we're just going to use the law to deal with that.
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Speaking of birth, horrific story out of, out of the UK, I believe a man has just been
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sentenced to jail for 12 years for slipping a woman, an abortion pill in her drink.
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You know, the woman gets up to use the bathroom.
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The man slips, not a Mickey, not a, not a roofie.
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If you've ever been pregnant or if your wife's ever been pregnant, you know, 15 weeks.
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Five more weeks, the baby can survive in some cases outside the womb.
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So, abortion is wrong at all stages, but it's viscerably, knowably wrong at, at 15 weeks.
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He apparently also gave her a bunch of other abortion tablets to try to make sure that this
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Now, the woman has lifelong anonymity because she's a victim of a sexual offense, but she
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She said, look, this might be the only time I can get pregnant.
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In reality, this guy should at the very least be imprisoned for life and probably should be
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executed by the state for what he did because he murdered a little baby.
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He murdered a woman's child, also happened to be his child, and forget whose child it
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This guy, at the very least, should be imprisoned for life without parole and more likely should
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If that kind of a crime does not merit the death penalty, I don't know what does.
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The only punishment that doesn't make any sense is 12 years in prison.
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If the baby had been born and he walked up and took a sledgehammer and smushed the baby,
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Or if it wasn't really a baby, if he just walked up to a clump of cells, like a mass of, I don't know,
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an amoeba or something, and smashed that with a sledgehammer, he would be given no prison time.
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12 years sentence for this crime is a perfect representation of our total incoherence on this issue.
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We can't resolve, as in our civilization, whether we want to protect babies or not.
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But in the Bible, when splitting the baby comes up, it is used as an example to show the absurdity.
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He goes, you know, I think that abortion, look, it's a woman's choice.
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But I don't even understand what the argument would be that it's just this kind of moderate crime.
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And you get, you know, 12-year sentence, but you only serve five, and then you get probation.
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So they give the actual worst sentence, which is a handful of years in prison.
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He got off the hook for murdering a kid and killing a woman's kid and endangering her health.
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I remember during college, we were debating all of the incipient debates over rape culture on college campuses and the Title IX lawsuits.
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And a lot of it seemed really incoherent because on the one hand, you'd have these leftists and feminists arguing that sex was not meaningful at all.
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You should just go out and engage in the hookup culture.
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There was no difference between how men and women approached sex.
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It was just a casual, fun thing, kind of like shaking someone's hand.
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But on the other hand, sexual assault was the worst crime ever.
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It was so serious that you shouldn't even be entitled to a trial by a jury of your peers.
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You should just immediately be expelled and have your life ruined if you were even suggested to have maybe engaged in any improper sexual activity.
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If sex is meaningless, then why is sexual assault different than any other assault?
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Why is it different than giving someone a shove or slapping them in the face?
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Speaking of the sexual revolution, back here in America, our own Department of Health and Human Services is celebrating Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day.
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I hope you all had a blessed Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day.
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This was two days after the Feast of St. Nicholas.
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One day before today's feast, which is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, HHS was celebrating what they considered to be a much more important feast on the liberal liturgical calendar.
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Today on Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day, everyone deserves to feel seen, respected, and supported no matter who they love.
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Create a world where everyone feels proud to be themselves.
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So a lot of people are going to ask, what does pansexual mean?
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Pansexual and panromantic is apparently just bisexual, but through the lens of transgenderism.
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So it just means that you'll date or hook up with whoever.
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But whereas bisexual believes that sex and gender are basically the same thing, now we live even further through the looking glass.
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So pansexual thinks that there's a difference between sexual, biological sex, and gender identity.
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And they say that if you're pansexual, you can be attracted to anyone.
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A man who thinks he's a woman, a woman who thinks she's a man, a man who thinks he's a man, or a woman who thinks she's a woman.
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So it's just bisexual, but with a few extra fantastical steps in your own mind.
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This concept, which is totally counter to science, it's supposed to be a scientific department, counter to health, certainly mental health.
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Because we're going to have feast days, that's why.
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Just another reminder, we are going to have feast days.
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That's what every people has done for all of history.
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So for the secularists, the people who want to separate church and state, so we got to get our religion out of the state.
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So the question is, are we going to have good holidays or ridiculous holidays?
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Are we going to celebrate the Feast of St. Nicholas around Christmas time?
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Or are we going to celebrate pansexual, pan-romantic pride day?
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Are we going to celebrate people of heroic virtue?
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Or are we going to celebrate the queen of all vice, pride?
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Chemical Prophecy.
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He says, does anyone actually know where Biden is?
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We've been going back and forth between England and America, England and America.
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But as we look ahead to our political future, don't think that the threats to your political life have gone away.
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A cop has just gone viral in the UK for attempting to arrest a man for Facebook comments.
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Times, 20 to 3, 1440, arresting you on suspicion of improper use of the electronic communications network.
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So you do not have to say that it may harm your defence if you don't mention one question, support you later or I am caught.
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Okay, this is in relation to some comments that you've made on a Facebook page.
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So we need to ask you some questions about that.
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I'm going to be arrested for posting on Facebook.
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I've made some comments that are offensive, obscene, and people have made a complaint about that.
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And so what, am I going to be locked up for the night or...
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Yeah, we've had a few too many likes on Twitter from some right-wing content.
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This video is from back in June, June of this year.
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The guy who was arrested, it's not clear what he was arrested for.
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Was he posting about, you know, men are not women or some basic sort of thing?
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According to the UK government, he violated Section 127 of the UK Communications Act in 2003,
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which criminalizes matter that is, quote, grossly offensive or indecent, obscene, or menacing in character.
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So it could have been just offensive by today's standards, which is, you say, a baby is a baby.
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But it might have been indecent, might have been obscene, might have been menacing in character.
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And we have laws against that stuff in America, too.
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And we have prosecuted people for that stuff in America for all of American history,
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even back in the good old free, you know, early constitutional days.
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And even recently, we prosecuted and imprisoned at the federal level a pornographer in 2008,
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right as Barack Obama was about to take office.
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It's kind of my point on the holidays and the holy days.
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We're going to have rules against certain speech and behavior.
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We have for all of American history, and we've enforced them.
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The question is, what are you going to go to jail for?
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Are you going to go to jail for showing pornography to kids in schools?
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Now you're going to be put on the board that is establishing curricula standards,
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Are you going to go to jail for exposing kids to pornography?
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Or are you going to go to jail for questioning transgenderism?
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But it's not, are you going to be punished for certain kinds of speech?
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And if we ignore that substantive question, we only focus on procedural matters,
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hearkening back to some halcyon libertarian era when we didn't in any way enforce speech
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standards that never existed, we're just going to keep losing.
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Now, what is going to inform us can either be the degeneracy, the culture of selfishness
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and atheism that the libs are pushing, or it can be our traditional moral standards.
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Bible sales are up 22% year over year, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, if you look October 2024 versus October 2023,
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This is despite nearly a third of US adults identifying as religiously unaffiliated.
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So they're not exactly saying they're atheists.
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A lot of them were raised without a religion, or they were raised in some incoherent kind of
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You know, I have a lot of friends like this, who they grew up in New York, and one parent
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And so rather than coming to a decision and say, okay, what are we going to teach our kids
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You know, you'll go to Sunday school, and then you'll go to Hebrew school.
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And in one, they'll tell you that Christ is Lord, and in the other, they'll say that he
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And you'll just have these two contradictory religious systems.
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The real result is not going to be that you're Christian or Jewish.
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The real result is you're not going to have any religion.
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And to you, if you do vaguely end up Christian, it's going to be Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
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If you vaguely end up Jewish, it's going to be bagels and a sense of history, the tragedy
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of the Holocaust and, I don't know, going back to the exodus of Moses.
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It's not going to actually have meaning to you.
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And so these people, I have great sympathy for them, grow up without much religion, and
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They're buying the Bibles because the eternal questions remain.
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Chris Hitchens could turn a witty phrase with that silly accent of his.
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I'm being really tough on the Brits today, huh?
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He could turn a clever phrase, but there wasn't much substance there.
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I remember I read his stupid book, God is Not Great.
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He never actually makes the argument that God is not great.
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And I think the new atheism really ran its course because it was based on lies.
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You know, it was based on, and there were historical lies, historical moments that they
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But it was based on the lie after 9-11 that all religion's the same.
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So you think Islam is bad, but you don't want to criticize Islam.
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They believe different things about basic questions.
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It was based on the lie that the Catholic Church sex scandal was the worst sex scandal ever.
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But turns out, with the light of data and retrospection, we can see the sex abuse scandal
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in the Catholic Church was no worse than in any other religious group.
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It was actually significantly lower in frequency and severity than some other religious groups.
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And it was about half the rate of public schools.
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I have a theory, even beyond those sociological observations, that is politically incorrect,
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And that is that the Bible is the inerrant word of God.
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It actually is what the church says that it is.
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And the fundamental things apply as time goes by.
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And the revolutionaries and the social engineers and the people who want to rewrite the world,
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they can try as they might to stop it, but it's not going to work.
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Now, before we go, I do want to get to an important case.
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Daniel Penny, who is that hero Marine who protected people on the subway when a crazy person was threatening them,
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but then the guy ended up dying as Daniel Penny was restraining him,
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There was just the jury said, no, we can't convict him of this.
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But because the judge, in an unusual way, threw out the top charge,
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the judge will now have the jury consider a lesser charge,
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but still a serious charge that carries four years of jail time.
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And Daniel Penny's lawyers have objected to this, said, hold on, you can't,
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You knew you weren't going to get him on what you're going after him for,
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so you're trying to, you're begging the jury, please give him the lesser verdict,
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Several subway riders said they were terrified that Jordan Neely,
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the man who, the guy with a long, a rap sheet a mile long,
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who was, by the account of the defense, schizophrenic and high on drugs,
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he was on a drug called Spice, which is synthetic cannabinoids,
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it's much more serious than marijuana, tries to mimic that though,
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He says, restraining him for the moment was a relief,
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but if he would have gotten up, he would have done what he would have done,
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in part because they have this racial politics that says black people are always innocent,
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So that's part of it, that's obviously informing it.
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But also because the libs are responsible for Jordan Neely's behavior,
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The people need to have the liberty and the freedom to roam the streets and shoot up drugs.
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The libs want to decriminalize and liberalize drugs.
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The libs think that law enforcement is somehow evil,
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So they created the conditions for this kind of incident to occur.
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I'm going to protect you if your civil authority won't.
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Because Jordan Neely, the criminal, is the avatar for the liberal establishment.
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