Ep. 1635 - Libs SIMP Over CEO Assassin
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As the Libs jump up and down with joy over the murder of a United Healthcare CEO, one liberal pundit, Joy Reid, is flipping the script. She says that conservatism "proves violence" when it comes to conservatives.
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Now that the election's over, the liberal media are admitting that under the Biden-Harris
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administration, pretty much everything has gotten worse, historically worse.
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Does it count as honest journalism if they tell the truth when the facts no longer matter?
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Hmm. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. As the libs jump up and down with joy over the murder of that United
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Healthcare CEO, one liberal pundit, Joy Reid, is flipping the script. She says that conservatism
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justifies violence. We'll get to that in a moment. First, though, folks, stop the car,
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Little bit of Christmas cheer coming in early. Jill Biden had this to say about the season at the
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White House. So, I hope that you all feel that sense of, you know, peace and light and that just
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for a moment when you leave here today that you feel, I don't know, a little, a sense of joy because
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I think we all need like this, you know, we all need to feel joy now during this, this time of the
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season, during, just during this time. So, anyway. Okay, now I'll start. You're all reading into that.
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Oh, man. Hell hath no fury like the wife of a husband scorned. You cannot convince me that
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Jill Biden did not vote for Donald Trump. That, to me, that seals the deal. That little joy
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comedy bit she just did, that little comedy routine, that is 100% proof that Jill Biden not
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only didn't vote for Kamala, I think the woman voted for Trump. Jill Biden is quickly becoming
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one of my favorite figures in American public life. I didn't see that one coming.
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But notice the setup here because Jill Biden's not really a politician and she's certainly not a
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comedian. So, she's a little awkward in her setup of what was obviously a comedy bit that was pointed
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at Kamala who made joy the initial motto of her campaign. She comes out there, she goes,
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this season, we all need to feel peace. We all need to feel comfort or whatever she said. I wasn't
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even paying attention. You know, there was the one, two, it's the rule of three. It's the one,
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two, and we need to feel this. And we need to feel, she has this theatrical pause. I don't know,
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just maybe a little bit of joy. Are we all feeling a little joy since the election? Kamala?
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Oh, wait. And then she even admits, she acknowledges the shade she is casting at Kamala
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when she looks with that mug on her face. She looks over there at the reporter. She says,
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oh, you're all reading a little bit into that, aren't you? That joy comment. How do you like
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that joy, Kamala? A lot of people suspected that maybe Jill Biden didn't like Kamala Harris so much
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after Kamala Harris led a coup d'etat to throw Jill's husband off the top of the ticket,
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booed him out of his second term. I guess it would have been Jill's second term.
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But then I think a lot of people got the sense that maybe this woman is voting for Trump
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when she wore a red dress on election day. Seemed pretty intentional. Then you have all these
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pictures of late with Trump visiting the White House and Jill looking at him like this man is
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her hero. She is just fawning over this guy. And then that final line, you know, ever since the
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election and this season happens to follow immediately after the election, I'm just feeling
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a little bit of joy. Love her. She's great. Jill has really done a 180 in my book. I am now very,
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very pro-Dr. Jill. I hope you are too. Why wouldn't Jill be feeling joy at the election of
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Donald Trump? A lot of, look, most Americans voted for Trump. Most Americans voted for Trump.
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A huge number of people across all different demographics voted for Trump. He won an electoral
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college landslide. Why is that? Because things under the Biden administration have gotten much,
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much worse. The liberal media would not admit that before the election. Now that the election
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is over, now they're all admitting it. Here's a CBS News headline. Just came out yesterday.
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CBS News. Americans are paying more than ever for health insurance. Denials add to their pain.
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Now this isn't not possible. You and I both know this headline. It can't possibly be true
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because Barack Obama promised us that when he passed his Obamacare health care plan,
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the Affordable Care Act, that was going to bring down the prices for health insurance. That was
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going to solve our health care problem once and for all. Do you, I'm not going crazy, right? You
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remember when he told us this. Over the next 10 years, from 2010 to 2019, they are pledging to cut
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the rate of growth of national health care spending by 1.5 percentage points each year,
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an amount that's equal to over $2 trillion. $2 trillion. Their efforts will help us take the next
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and most important step, comprehensive health care reform, so that we can do what I pledge
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to do as a candidate and save a typical family an average of $2,500 on their health care costs
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in the coming years. Let me repeat that point. What they're doing is complementary to and is going
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to be completely compatible with a strong, aggressive effort to move health care reform through here
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in Washington with an ultimate result of saving health care costs for families, businesses,
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and the government. That's how we can finally make health care affordable.
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Just in case you forgot, so private health care is going to cut the rate of growth and then the
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government's going to come in and it's actually going to cut costs. So the average American is going
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to save $2,500, except, well, hold on, CBS News is now admitting that Americans are paying more for
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health insurance than ever before. And we even gave Obama a little buffer here. He said this would
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all happen within 10 years. We gave him 15 years. Maybe that's what happened though. Maybe did they
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go down after 10 years and they spiked up again to the highest levels ever? No. Actually, the costs
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of health insurance just skyrocketed because of the Democrat policies. Joe Biden actually came out
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during the Obamacare signing. He said, this is a big effing deal. And it ended up being a huge deal.
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Because the opposite of what the Democrats promised has happened, health care costs went through the
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roof. Now, why else is CBS posting this now? Because CBS is justifying or at least laying the
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groundwork for others to justify the assassination of that UnitedHealthcare CEO. The UnitedHealthcare
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CEO comes out and then all of a sudden CBS says, well, you know, people are really irritated. There are a
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lot of denials of coverage and the costs are going through the roof. It turns out Obama and the
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Democrats totally lied to us. OK, well, the libs are reacting to this by cheering on the murder of
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the health care CEO and booing the arrest of his murderer. This from Jon Stewart.
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I was like, couldn't have been that guy today. They did appear to catch that guy today at a
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McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It's true. Look, I'm sorry, guys. Apparently, a bystander at the
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McDonald's ratted him out. And normally I would say snitches get stitches. But obviously without
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Several amazing parts of this clip, three distinct, amazing parts of this clip. One,
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they say the murderer got caught and you hear the audience, multiple people in the audience
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booing. Jon Stewart's very liberal, uniformly liberal audience boo. They caught the murderer
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of that health care CEO. Second amazing part of that clip, Jon Stewart's punchline is that
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health insurance companies are terrible. The punchline wasn't anything about how it's wrong
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to commit murder. The punchline wasn't anything even really about the murderer. The punchline was,
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yeah, don't we hate those health care companies? You don't get your pre-approval. And then the
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third amazing part ties in with what we were talking about with Obamacare, which is Barack Obama gets
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elected, promises to fix the health care problem once and for all. And Jon Stewart is making the same
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jokes today in the year of our Lord, 2024, as he would have been making in 2007. You had three
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Democrat terms over that time. You had Obamacare go through. You had the Supreme Court implausibly
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uphold Obamacare. You had Republicans, thanks to John McCain, unable to repeal Obamacare. You've had
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Barack Obama's health care plan since he passed it in his first term. And Jon Stewart's making the exact
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same jokes. Yeah, you need pre-approval. Yeah, the prices are going up. Yeah, you're going to be
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denied coverage. Yeah, this health care system's terrible. Then why did we pass you stupid Obamacare
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that shot the prices up through the roof? What was the point of it? It got us nothing. It only made
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the problem worse. Three amazing parts of that clip. Jon Stewart wasn't the only one, though. We also had
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Jimmy Kimmel and even Elizabeth Warren seeming to justify the murder of that health care CEO.
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What? You'll see. Earn five times the points on groceries, dining, recurring bill payments and
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more. Okay. Earn points for paying your credit card bill on time every month. Where'd this parrot
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even come from? Just flew in the window. I mean, like, from where? The zoo? The bank, I think. He's got
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a little suit on. Get rewarded with the BMO Eclipse Rise Visa card. Terms and conditions apply.
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Trademark of Visa International Service Association and used under license. BMO.
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You have the clapping seals in Jon Stewart's audience guffawing at the murder of the CEO.
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What is going on? There are dozens of products for sale on Etsy with his face on them. There are
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lookalike contests. There's Luigi Mangione crypto. People are making fan cams. Do you know what these
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are? These are, again, I learned about this thing. These are tribute montages like this.
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I'm taking a chance because I like you a lot. So I'll give it a shot. Give it all that I got.
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There's this whole segment about, man, how good looking is this murderer? Yeah, people love him.
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They're buying all sorts of merch from him and the audience laughing, clapping. So you say, okay,
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well, comedians are making jokes about it. But are there any sober, serious liberals, maybe even
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elected liberal politicians, maybe even major national statesmen who are justifying this sort of thing?
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And the answer is yes. Former Harvard professor, current United States senator,
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former presidential candidate, as establishment dem as it gets, Elizabeth Warren. Here's what she
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had to say to Joy Reid. Joy Reid, interviewing her, says, so we've been talking a lot about this
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Luigi Mangione, the case about the UnitedHealthcare CEO. People are very angry at UnitedHealthcare,
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I think, for a good reason, denying care and the whole system. So Joy Reid says, yeah,
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people are angry. Yeah. Basically, yeah, it's justified to murder the CEO. Elizabeth Warren,
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who is supposed to be a more normal person than Joy Reid, who's a complete lunatic,
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she says, look, we'll say it over and over. Maybe, should I do an Indian accent for Elizabeth
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Warren? Oh, yes. Well, great spirit says, no, no, no. Here's what she said. Look, we'll say it over
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and over. Violence is never the answer. This guy gets a trial, who's allegedly killed the CEO of
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UnitedHealthcare. But, here we go, here's a but. Violence is never the answer. No, I'll get a trial.
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But, you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands.
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And Joy Reid responds, they start to take, yeah. And then Warren said, we need regulation,
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in part, to rein those guys in. Those guys, the CEOs of the health, you don't, look,
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violence is never justified. That's also not true. Violence in self-defense is justified.
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Violence in a just war is justified. Violence on the part of the civil authority,
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for instance, to imprison or execute murderers, that's justified. Murdering someone in cold blood,
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that is not justified. That's never justified. And yet, what she seems to say here is, look,
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violence is never justified, but maybe this murder in cold blood of the CEO, maybe that is.
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I told you yesterday, there was a major journalist from a major outlet, a liberal outlet,
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who texted me, said, why are the libs getting the blame for celebrating the murder of this
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healthcare CEO? And I said, I think it's because of Taylor Lorenz, the wacky liberal influencer
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journalist. But it's actually not just Taylor Lorenz. Over the past 24 hours, you're seeing it's
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the audience from Jon Stewart, the audience for Jimmy Kimmel, a ton of people on social media,
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but even people like Joy Reid, okay? And then Elizabeth Warren, even a sitting U.S. Senator,
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they are substantially justifying this murder. Even when they say they're not justifying it,
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in their words, in their logic, they are. Why are they doing that? Why are you seeing the libs
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celebrate the murder of the healthcare CEO, but not the conservatives? Is it because conservatives love
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health insurance companies? No. We don't like health insurance companies anymore. I mean,
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we appreciate that there is such a thing as health insurance, but we have all the same problems with
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the healthcare system that the libs do. The reason is that the libs, in their ideology,
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take up a consequentialist view of ethics that says that the ends justify the means.
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They've done this for a very long time. The libs will say that perhaps even acts that we would say
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are intrinsically evil can be justified if they give us a good end. Conservatives don't really think that
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way. Libs are more comfortable with political violence. They do it during BLM. They support
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Antifa. I'm not just talking about the fringe weirdos. I'm saying established people in professors,
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in professor chairs, in the U.S. government. They will not only defend, they will sometimes even
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financially support violent groups that commit street violence in service of political ends.
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We once called that terrorism. In the case of BLM, in the case of Antifa, in the case of a guy
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murdering a healthcare CEO, they just do that. They're comfortable with that. Conservatives really
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are not. The rowdiest we get is some guy puts on a horn hat and takes selfies at the U.S. Capitol.
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No comparison there. So Joy Reid comes right out, not even just in her interview with Elizabeth
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Warren. She just comes right out and says that, look, stop talking about the liberals. Stop
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talking about this UnitedHealthcare CEO. Conservatives are the violent ones. In fact,
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conservatism itself calls for violence. Because the truth is, those on the right don't necessarily
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abhor violence if it's against someone they don't like, like Black Lives Matter activists or pro-Palestinian
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protesters, undocumented immigrants or the homeless. That's why we see them get behind people like
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Kyle Rittenhouse, who shot and killed two BLM protesters, or George Zimmerman, who shot and killed
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17-year-old Trayvon Martin and turned them into cause celebs. Just look at how, in nearly the same
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breath, Fox's Laura Ingraham speaks about the 26-year-old UnitedHealthcare suspect and Daniel
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Penny, who was just acquitted yesterday in the subway chokehold death of 30-year-old homeless man
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Did you notice anything about all the examples she cited? So in this case, Joy Reid is saying, look,
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some people on the left are celebrating the murder in cold blood of the CEO of a health insurance
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company. But conservatives will defend Kyle Rittenhouse or George Zimmerman or Daniel Penny.
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What do those three guys have in common? In all three cases, even including George Zimmerman,
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in all three cases, those men killed someone in self-defense. The case of Kyle Rittenhouse,
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he was being shot at by violent terrorist people, and he responded in self-defense. He was out there
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to defend his community. But then when he shot those people, he was defending himself. George Zimmerman,
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much maligned because he got out of the car and followed this young man around a neighborhood.
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But when George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin, he did so in self-defense. We have photographs
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from when he was booked of his head all bloodied up. I mean, Trayvon Martin was banging this guy's
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head into the ground. He could have killed him. Daniel Penny, the clearest example now, a career
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criminal, not just a homeless man, a career criminal with a rap sheet a mile long who had busted up an
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elderly woman's face and smacked another elderly guy's face and had been arrested something like 42 times,
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gets on a subway, says, I'm going to kill all of you. I'm going to hurt you. I don't care.
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I don't care about going to jail. Daniel Penny then subdues him, and the man who was also high
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on drugs dies in the process. That is self-defense. So Joy Reid says, look,
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stop talking about the leftists who support unjustified murder because the conservatives
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sometimes have to commit violence in self-defense. So those two things are basically the same.
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They don't really seem like the same thing to me. So a lot of the libs have lost it.
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Some Democrats are trying to suck up to Republicans right now. Some Democrats
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are trying to seem moderate and to be able to work with the new administration because the
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even amid the mass deportations? Dick Durbin, Senate Majority Whip, he says yes, at least the dreamers need
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to stay. Who are the dreamers? Dreamers, obviously, is a euphemism and a term of propaganda designed to
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tug on your heartstrings and make you give the Democrats whatever they want. Dream. What's
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a dreamer? I'm a dreamer. I have dreams sometimes. Do I, I don't count as a dreamer? It's, dreamer
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is an even more ridiculous euphemism than undocumented American. Whatever you want to say about illegal
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aliens, they ain't Americans. Undocumented American. The distinguishing feature of them is not that they
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lack documents. It's that they're here illegally. And then they're dreamers. And the other, the other
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aspect of the dreamer euphemism is it makes us imagine a five-year-old who was brought over here
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and it's just this doe-eyed little child in kindergarten. The dreamers are like 50 now.
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Okay. The dreamers are, are middle-aged people, sometimes approaching later middle age.
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Okay. Okay. The dreamers. But you might say, okay, they, they came over when they were young.
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They didn't really have much to say about it. Shouldn't we just let them all stay? Here's a
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problem. There are 535,000 DACA recipients in the U.S., the so-called dreamers, people who have
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officially been given an unconstitutional amnesty and promise by Barack Obama after Obama said he
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wouldn't do it after Obama admitted that what he eventually did do was unconstitutional. 535,000.
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Okay. Look, that's a lot of people, over half a million, but you might say it's a country of 320
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million people, 330 million people. Maybe we can absorb it. Problem is there are as many as 3.6
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million eligible dreamers because this, this dreamer nonsense has gone on for decades now.
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3.6 million people. You're talking about 30% of all the illegal aliens in the country, 40% of all
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the illegal aliens in the country. How do you, if, if the American people have just voted and said,
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hey, people are here illegally, they got to go. They can apply to come back legally, but you can't,
00:24:02.080
you can't just give them amnesty. One, it's going to give Democrats a permanent electoral majority.
00:24:06.460
That's the only reason the Democrats want it. Two, it's a basic violation of our law. Three,
00:24:11.620
it's going to create incentives for more of those illegals to come over. So it's only going to
00:24:15.360
exacerbate the problem at the border, which is going to further undermine American sovereignty.
00:24:19.540
And it's going to be worse for the illegal aliens who are crossing with the help of criminal cartels.
00:24:25.380
60 to 80% of women and girls who cross that border illegally are raped along the way. They all go
00:24:30.040
into massive debt to some of the worst gangster criminals on earth. It's just horrible. There's,
00:24:34.780
you can't do it. It's totally irresponsible and cruel to give these people, millions of people,
00:24:41.740
amnesty and create this perverse incentive. So what could you do? Ideally, I'll tell you,
00:24:48.380
I'll tell you what I would do. This is going to be a messy political solution and it's not going to
00:24:52.600
make anybody happy, but sometimes that's how you got to work in politics. Sometimes you have to
00:24:57.400
recognize that prudence is a wonderful mean between extremes and it's a virtue and it's the paramount
00:25:04.980
political virtue. If I had my druthers, if I were king, I would probably let a lot of these people
00:25:10.500
live here. Not the, not the really bad criminals, but I would let a lot of these people who were brought
00:25:15.880
here as kids. I would probably let them live here. I would not give them any chance at citizenship.
00:25:20.740
I would not give them any legal status if they wanted to leave and go back to their countries
00:25:25.620
that they actually hold citizenship in all the better. But if they do want to continue to live
00:25:30.980
here, I would have a conciliatory middle ground solution. I would do the thing that the Democrats
00:25:35.240
always suggest with bewilderment and befuddlement. They say, would you just let these people live in
00:25:40.560
the shadows? Yeah, I guess so. I guess that between the mass deportation of people who really,
00:25:48.000
they basically abide by the law. They didn't consciously break any laws when they came here
00:25:51.840
because they came here as kids, even if it was decades ago. Yeah, I guess I'd just let them live
00:25:55.560
in the shadows if that's what they want. So long as they're not really disrupting too much.
00:25:59.860
For many of them, I guess I would do that. I certainly wouldn't give them citizenship. You can't do
00:26:03.360
that. I wouldn't give them any legal status. It's unconstitutional. It's wrong. It creates bad.
00:26:09.000
But yeah, sure, I guess. I guess as a middle ground, conciliatory, moderate option,
00:26:13.740
I'd let them live in the shadows. Here's why that won't work.
00:26:18.100
The moment that Democrats come back into power, even if they just get the White House,
00:26:24.720
but certainly if they have unified government, they'll give them amnesty and they'll make them
00:26:29.380
into American citizens. They will probably permanently screw up the border problem
00:26:32.780
and they will create what might be a permanent electoral majority. You just can't.
00:26:38.820
The Democrats won't allow you to do the nice, prudent, moderate thing.
00:26:45.480
It's not. They won't allow it. It's only a matter of time before Democrats make them citizens.
00:26:50.440
So you have to enforce the law. Generally, it's good to enforce the law, even if you were willing
00:26:56.160
to kind of bend the law or have some mercy or exercise a type of a pardon. The Democrats won't
00:27:01.960
let you do it. You can't let the dreamers stay. To let the dreamers stay is to say we're going to
00:27:07.620
give mass amnesty to many, if not most, illegal aliens in the country. It's to totally undercut,
00:27:14.560
to do the opposite of what the American people sent the Republicans to Washington with a unified
00:27:19.760
government to do. It cannot be done. And the immigration problem is really, really bad right
00:27:24.900
now, as even the New York Times admits. New York Times put up a graph showing that we now have an
00:27:30.560
historic immigration problem. A historic boom in immigration, writes the Times. Average annual
00:27:37.180
change in the foreign-born population as a share of the total U.S. population, it's just skyrocketed.
00:27:43.800
We're just so high. We have the highest foreign-born percentage of the population ever.
00:27:49.980
The Times writes, the immigration surge of the last few years has been the largest in U.S. history.
00:27:54.880
Total net migration during the Biden administration is likely to exceed 8 million people. That includes
00:28:01.500
legal and illegals. According to this report by David Landhart, he runs The Morning, the flagship
00:28:10.500
daily newsletter for the New York Times. 60% of that surge has been illegal aliens. So the vast
00:28:15.560
majority, illegal aliens. I'm glad the New York Times is reporting on some news. Where was this
00:28:21.020
article a month and a half ago? After the election, we, oh yeah, Biden has had the worst immigration
00:28:26.780
policy ever, just even including legal immigration. This is an historic extreme, but it's also 60% of
00:28:33.600
it's illegal, and it's 8 million people, and it's really crazy. Where was that article before the
00:28:38.080
election? This is why people call these media fake news. And this is why outlets like the New York
00:28:46.660
Times probably should lose their seat in the White House briefing room. It's not even that they can't
00:28:51.600
collect the facts. In a way, it would be more excusable if they just couldn't do their jobs. They
00:28:56.080
couldn't collect the facts. They couldn't report on the news. They can, and they choose not to. Or they
00:29:02.680
choose only to report on the news when it will have a minimal political effect on Democrats,
00:29:09.160
a negative effect. They choose only to report on it after the election. They choose to order their
00:29:14.540
stories in ways to advance the agenda of Democrats and to attack Republicans. It's so, this is what
00:29:21.600
makes them the fake news. It's not that the individual things they're reporting are false. That
00:29:26.780
happens too with the New York Times. But that's not what goes on most of the time. It's the stories
00:29:32.540
they choose to cover, the stories they choose not to cover. When they choose to cover the stories
00:29:37.120
at the most strategic times for Democrats, it's just a PR company for Democrats. That's all it is,
00:29:44.360
which is fine. Republicans have PR companies too. But why would you give the Democrats PR company a
00:29:49.760
seat in the White House briefing room? Doesn't make sense. Turning from New York to California,
00:29:55.040
State Senator Scott Weiner. You might have heard of State Senator Weiner. He is a guy who got
00:30:01.960
national fame for trying to reduce punishments for pederasts in California successfully. He
00:30:10.260
introduced a bill to have the state go softer on grown men who sexually molest little boys.
00:30:18.320
That's Scott Weiner's claim to fame. Now, Scott Weiner is whining because Elon Musk is
00:30:26.980
not supportive of public transit in California. And he wants people to drive cars. Elon Musk,
00:30:35.780
the most prominent carmaker in the world now. He doesn't like the public transit system,
00:30:41.520
the so-called high-speed rail that's going to go in in California sometime within the next six
00:30:45.540
centuries. So Weiner is whining about this. He says, Elon has long hated public transit,
00:30:51.200
which he thinks carries a bunch of serial killers. He instead wants everyone to drive a car,
00:30:55.380
preferably a Tesla. Now he has government power and is trying to kill off California's high-speed
00:31:01.020
rail project. It's called killing off the competition. That's what it is. Killing off
00:31:04.840
the competition. Is California's high-speed rail project competition for Elon Musk? Well,
00:31:10.520
let's look at the numbers. I remember I lived in California back when they were building,
00:31:15.040
supposedly, the high-speed rail. Going to connect the top of the state to the bottom of the state.
00:31:19.540
It was going to move us into the future. It was going to be so amazing. And then I moved out of
00:31:23.820
California. They still don't have the high-speed rail. Construction of phase one began in the
00:31:29.420
Central Valley of California in 2015. Now the state even admitted they're not going to build
00:31:33.880
it all at once. So they were prioritizing the initial operating segment. The initial operating
00:31:39.360
segment was going to connect Merced to Bakersfield. So instead of connecting the whole state of
00:31:44.540
California, it was this little tiny, little tiny chunk, but two places that no one needs a train to
00:31:49.800
go between. That was the initial operating segment. Okay. That is 171 miles long. You could just drive
00:31:59.920
it. It's not a big deal. That's 35% of the total San Francisco to LA route from January 2015 to December
00:32:06.880
2023. Do you know how much money has been spent building just that tiny little segment between two
00:32:13.700
places that no one needs a train to travel between? $11.2 billion of taxpayer money.
00:32:22.320
So far, $11.2 billion has put not even the whole 171 miles, 119 miles under active construction.
00:32:35.860
It's not even close to being done. Not even close to being done. Not even that part.
00:32:38.860
As of this year, the entirety of phase one is projected to cost $106.2 billion.
00:32:49.240
Almost a decade after this project began, they're projecting that just phase one of this stupid
00:32:56.260
project is going to cost $106.2 billion. Let me put that number into perspective. Elon Musk
00:33:02.020
built both the Falcon 1 and Falcon 9 rockets, the latter of which the Falcon 9 is 605 tons and can land.
00:33:11.840
It can take off and then land on the ground. The most incredible technology maybe ever produced,
00:33:19.740
Elon Musk built both of those rockets for a total of $390 million. Million. It's difficult for us to
00:33:28.740
track orders of magnitude. We're talking about $106.2 billion with a B to build a tiny little part of
00:33:37.960
a railroad in California. That's what Scott Wiener and the Democrats want to do. Or Elon Musk can send
00:33:45.380
us up to outer space and land the car for $390 million for two different types of rockets.
00:33:52.360
No one trusts the liberal government to build, to maintain, or to police public transit. Up there at the
00:33:58.360
top, Scott Wiener said Elon doesn't like public transit because he says there are killers on
00:34:01.560
there. Yeah. Hey, did you pay attention at all to the Daniel Penny trial? There was a killer on the
00:34:06.660
New York City subway, a potential killer, a career criminal, Jordan Neely, who said, I'm going to kill
00:34:11.740
all you people and I'm going to hurt you and I don't care if I go to jail. Thankfully, there was a
00:34:16.320
hero Marine and the liberal government tried to put him in jail. Is it any wonder that no one trusts
00:34:22.660
this public transit? Is it any wonder that people might prefer to drive a Tesla or whatever robo-taxi
00:34:28.080
Elon's going to come up with? Might give him a little more credibility here. Is it any wonder?
00:34:34.560
As far as I'm concerned, I'm no arch libertarian, far from it. Let Elon Musk run the government.
00:34:40.280
He'd do a hell of a lot better job than Scott Wiener and the California State Assembly,
00:34:44.580
State Senate, the U.S. Congress for that matter.
00:34:47.100
Some people say, I'm so worried. It seems that Jeff Bezos and Amazon has taken over the shipping
00:34:55.880
and the mail. I mean, good, give him the postal service. Good. He's a lot better at it than these
00:35:01.280
people are. I'm not saying the government can't do these things well. I'm not a libertarian. I think
00:35:06.920
the government can do things well sometimes, but they're not right now. Our government's just corrupt
00:35:11.620
and dysfunctional. So, all right. All right, Elon. I'd rather ride Elon's rocket ship from LA to San
00:35:18.060
Francisco than some stupid zillion-dollar train that's never even going to be built. There's so
00:35:22.420
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Nick Ramirez, 5579, who writes,
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Influencer? I hardly know her. Damn near killed her, if you ask me. Speaking of people who kill
00:36:39.920
people, Bill Clinton is open to a pardon for Hillary Clinton in the final days of Joe Biden's
00:36:47.900
presidency. Here is Bill discussing the subject on The View. Do you think it would be wise of
00:36:55.920
President Biden to preemptively pardon any potential targets? What about your wife, Hillary
00:37:03.260
Clinton? She apparently is on Kash Patel's list. For what? Yeah. Well, they got a problem with her
00:37:10.320
because first, she didn't do anything wrong. Of course. Second, she followed the rules exactly as
00:37:17.580
they were written. President Biden wanted to talk to me about that. I would talk to him about it,
00:37:21.700
but I don't think I should be giving public advice on the pardon power. I think it's too,
00:37:28.320
it's a very personal thing. Bill Clinton probably shouldn't be giving public advice on the pardon
00:37:32.900
power, seeing as he infamously abused his pardon power when he was president in the final hours of
00:37:38.600
his presidency. Bill Clinton issued 456 pardons over the course of his presidency, which is actually not a
00:37:45.320
huge number in totality. But Clinton also issued 140 pardons of all sorts of cronies in the final
00:37:52.200
hours of the presidency. And that was widely criticized and it did appear to be corrupt.
00:37:57.540
But if I were Bill Clinton, I probably would like a little pardon from my wife.
00:38:02.300
Well, I don't know, if I'm Bill Clinton, maybe I want my wife to go behind bars so that I could have
00:38:05.140
a good time in Chappaqua. But Clinton here is saying, well, you know, I'd be open to it. But
00:38:10.900
you caught, he's losing his touch a little bit, Slick Willie, because when the view brings up this
00:38:18.060
matter at all, he says, you know, those Republicans, they're going after Hillary. They got it out for
00:38:22.640
Hillary because, and he's about to explain why the Republicans want to put Hillary into jail because
00:38:28.780
of all the crimes she's committed. But then he catches himself, he goes, because she did absolutely
00:38:34.920
nothing wrong ever. And she totally followed the law and she did everything right. And she never
00:38:40.400
even jaywalked. And that's why the Republicans want to, hey there, Sonny, what are you doing after
00:38:46.400
this taping? Maybe go get a little cup of coffee. I don't know. I'm just reading the subtext. I'm
00:38:53.380
reading what I suspect he was thinking about. That is a bad situation for the country because
00:38:59.400
because now there is an incentive to do it. There is an incentive to pardon all your cronies,
00:39:07.000
all of your associates at the end of your administration, blanket pardons a la Hunter
00:39:11.780
Biden, anything the guy might've even done for the past 10 years. We're just going to give him a
00:39:15.700
pardon now because the Democrats have established the precedent of imprisoning your political opponents.
00:39:23.840
This actually goes all the way back to Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson did this to Eugene Debs,
00:39:27.360
the socialist candidate, who still got 8% of the vote when he ran for president.
00:39:31.320
But then we kind of cut it out for a while. And now the Democrats are doing it again because they
00:39:35.340
tried to imprison Trump and they tried to kick Trump off the ballot and they justified his
00:39:39.400
assassination twice. So now we're in a situation where they say, oh no, man, those Republicans might
00:39:47.240
throw my wife in jail. The guilty flee when none pursueth. This is an example of that. This is an
00:39:53.340
example of the Democrats projecting. The Democrats know that they themselves tried to
00:39:57.080
imprison their political opponents. So even if, even if Republicans talk about it, sometimes,
00:40:01.480
you know, lock her up, lock her up. Trump didn't lock up Hillary Clinton. Now they're saying, oh,
00:40:04.560
yikes, this is the sort of thing I would do. So I should probably prepare for my opponents to do
00:40:09.380
that as well. The guilty flee when none pursueth. Speaking of political corruption, this is a side
00:40:16.420
little story. It's a little inside baseball, but it's pretty delightful and delicious. The Washington
00:40:20.960
Examiner is reporting that the Lincoln Project, these are the anti-Trump Republicans, the principled
00:40:29.740
Republicans who stood firm against rising tides of populism and Trumpism. And they supported the
00:40:38.360
Democrats because they put their country over party. That these guys are just a bunch of crooks
00:40:43.940
who set up the whole op to enrich themselves, which anyone with a modicum of political sense and
00:40:49.960
experience knew the whole time. Documents filed, according to the Examiner, with the Federal
00:40:55.900
Election Commission, show that over the last year, the Lincoln Project paid around $7 million
00:41:01.040
to consulting firms led by senior Lincoln Project operatives. So for those who don't know,
00:41:07.660
the Lincoln Project was founded by a bunch of slimy DC Republican political consultants who had not
00:41:14.440
been hired by Trump. When Trump took over the Republican Party, he did not hire these people.
00:41:19.240
These were very slimy people, and they were out. Some of them had even worked for Democrats because
00:41:24.000
they were mercenaries and they don't really have any principles. But when Trump gets in,
00:41:27.720
these guys are out. So being clever political operatives, they set up a group, they pretended
00:41:32.860
to have principles, and they milked Democrats for a ton of money. So they would go, they would air ads
00:41:38.500
in the most liberal media markets, places that would not have any effect on any elections,
00:41:43.220
but would convince libs to part with their money and give it to these slimy sort of Republican
00:41:49.280
operatives. And then the operatives would take all that money and pay their own individual
00:41:54.040
consulting firms for political consultancy. And they were just lining their own pockets. It was a
00:41:59.260
way to keep the lights on in their homes and keep their vacations coming and keep going to nice
00:42:04.620
restaurants while they were in the political wilderness because they couldn't get a job from
00:42:07.900
Donald Trump. The irony here is that the people, and it's an important lesson to learn, the people
00:42:14.480
who paraded their supposed morals and integrity are the most corrupt.
00:42:20.440
But I have to say, having been around politics for a little while and having worked campaigns and
00:42:27.880
seen that side of things, in a way, I think, good for them. It's slimy, it's gross, it's dishonest,
00:42:35.980
but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Because who's the victim here? The victims are these
00:42:42.200
Democrat donors who gave these dirtbags a ton of money to enrich themselves. They got no political
00:42:49.960
effect for it. So in a way, I'm sure that these slimeball Republican operatives just wanted to
00:42:58.300
hurt Trump because Trump wasn't hiring them. But the actual effect of their activity has been to
00:43:03.980
waste a ton of Democrat money that otherwise could have gone to good activism and campaigning and
00:43:09.400
might have actually hurt a Republican. Instead, it just went to buy these guys some new TVs and
00:43:14.060
automobiles. Okay. All right. It's gross. But while my enemies are fighting, why would I interfere?
00:43:22.880
Speaking of fake conservatism, this is one last little bit. Maybe I'll talk about it a little
00:43:26.920
more tomorrow. Republicans and conservatives are celebrating great news that one of those far
00:43:34.320
left-wing Ivy League schools, even, Yale Law School, is launching a center to defend academic freedom
00:43:41.840
freedom and free speech. That's right. Yale is, in many ways, the belly of the beast when it comes
00:43:46.840
to leftism on college campuses. So now, after incidents, including at the Yale Law School,
00:43:52.400
ostensibly the most prestigious law school in the country, where academics and prominent lawyers
00:43:57.740
have been shouted down, screamed at by these buffoonish students, now the Yale Law School is taking a
00:44:04.480
stand to defend academic freedom and free speech. The Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech,
00:44:11.160
a huge win for conservatives, except it's not really. Tactically, it might be okay for us for
00:44:18.280
a moment. But the reason that the Center for Academic Freedom and Free Speech is not a win for
00:44:24.200
conservatives is that those things aren't particularly conservative. We're going to have to leave that
00:44:28.160
there. We will get to more on that perhaps tomorrow. But I'm so excited now because I'm going to speak to
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great deal and you'll have a great time. I'm also going to speak to my friend, His Excellency,