Ep. 1638 - Another Christian School Attacked
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Just when you think the liberal media cannot humiliate themselves any further, CNN accidentally frees a Syrian war criminal and torturer from prison and brags about it on TV. This is the most CNN thing I could possibly imagine.
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Just when you think the liberal media cannot humiliate themselves any further, CNN accidentally frees a Syrian war criminal extortionist and torturer from prison and brags about it on TV.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Liberal Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson has made her Broadway debut.
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She's singing on stage on Broadway. We will get to that momentarily.
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CNN has just done the most CNN thing I could possibly imagine. This is as CNN is concerned
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about their ratings collapsing, mass layoffs. Not just CNN. MSNBC is on the chopping block.
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New York Times and Washington Post both admitting that they're having their lunch eaten by
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podcasts and new media. So CNN goes in, intrepid investigative reporters in Syria,
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and they actually free a prisoner who was being held captive by the Bashar Assad regime,
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which has just fallen. Here is the incredible clip from CNN.
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The guard makes us turn the camera off while he shoots the lock off the cell door.
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We go in to get a closer look. It's still not clear if there is something under the blanket.
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He tells the fighter he's from the city of Humps and has been in the cell for three months.
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I'm only laughing because I know how this story ends, guys. Don't, it's not, I don't mean to seem heartless.
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Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike. Okay, it's water, it's water.
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You're okay. You're okay, civilian who's been held captive for three months.
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Except it turns out, like so much CNN reporting, none of that is true.
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That man is not a civilian. He's not been held captive for three months.
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That man is apparently one of the most notorious torturers from Bashar Assad's regime.
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And he was imprisoned because of his particular cruelty.
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This is according to reports that have since come out.
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Even CNN has had to acknowledge this doesn't look really great.
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This guy's real name is Salama Mohammed Salama, a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force intelligence.
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He has committed a slew of war crimes, allegedly.
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So he was imprisoned, according to the subsequent reporting,
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And if the people didn't pay him money and didn't bribe him,
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then he would torture them so brutally, so severely,
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that he was ultimately put in prison until he was freed by CNN.
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CNN, which believed his lies, bought it all, hook, line, and sinker,
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and has freed an extremely dangerous psychopath.
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that maybe we shouldn't celebrate the fall of Bashar Assad.
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I know Bashar Assad, he did lots of really tough things.
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And I know he suppressed people's autonomy in Syria.
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But compared to what is about to come in Syria,
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don't forget, the people who took control of Syria are lunatic Islamists.
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Say what you will about Hafez Assad, Bashar Assad's father.
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The Assad family has ruled Syria for half a century.
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They did a relatively decent job of protecting religious minorities
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from the lunatic Islamist majority in that country.
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I think you're going to expect a lot more of that guy.
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because he obviously worked with the regime until he was imprisoned.
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You're going to see a lot of lunatic ideologues.
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Now CNN is going and freeing the people from prison.
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The question is not, did Bashar Assad put people in prison?
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The left says, we have so many people in prison.
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The question to me is not, how many people do we have in prison?
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The question is, who's in prison and what are they there for?
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So if you've got political dissidents who have done nothing wrong,
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Okay, yeah, I guess they should probably be let out of prison.
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But if the people in prison are psychos and torturers and murderers,
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there are all sorts of people committing all sorts of real crimes.
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The moment that Assad fell in Syria, the media,
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I don't want crazy torturers and psychos and Islamists out on the streets of the Middle East.
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I don't want criminals out on the streets of America.
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It reminds me of when the American left talks about how we have an over-incarceration problem.
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So if anything, it seems to me we have an under-incarceration problem.
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Or more precisely, perhaps we're just incarcerating the wrong people.
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We're really good at locking up Midwestern grannies who take photos in the Capitol Rotunda on January 6th,
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But we're not so good at locking up Mexican gangsters and Venezuelan gangsters
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and murderers and looters and drug dealers and pimps.
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Now, speaking of crime, a really horrific story yesterday came out of Madison, Wisconsin.
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There was a school shooting there at Abundant Life Christian School.
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Yet another Christian school being targeted in recent years.
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There was that awful shooting at a Christian elementary school in Nashville.
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So yesterday, a teenager opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison,
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killed a teacher, killed another teenage student.
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Two of those people were, as of last night, in critical condition with life-threatening injuries.
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So, you know, we hope that they'll make a recovery.
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The other four people had non-life-threatening injuries.
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Well, the shooter's not talking because the shooter killed herself.
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Madison Police Chief Sean Barnes said that the way the shooter died was most likely self-inflicted.
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However, the establishment media and law enforcement are being pretty tight-lipped on what actually happened here.
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Not only because the old establishment media tend to be slow, not only because law enforcement tends to be tight-lipped,
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Had the shooter been a right-wing white teenage male, you would have known every single person about,
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every single thing about this person's life within about five minutes of the shooting.
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In this case, initially, the Associated Press reported that the shooter was a 17-year-old female student.
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But as we know, the establishment media have lost a lot of credibility.
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People don't go to the news, go to the Associated Press for the news anymore.
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Twitter X very clearly began to report that the shooter was a 15-year-old female student.
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Andy Ngo in particular, a Twitter account, Pagliacci the Hated, who I believe is with Redux.
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A number of other accounts, which are journalists, but they use Twitter and they're a little more independent.
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They got the story, it would appear, much closer to the truth than the Associated Press or the establishment media.
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And according to the most recent reports from the Daily Mail, there's a report out from lifenews.com,
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So there were some reports initially that maybe it was a trans-identifying shooter.
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Maybe it was really a boy who identified as a girl or whatever.
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The best reporting we have right now says this was a 15-year-old girl.
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She was a radical feminist, though, and was following radical feminist accounts.
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And if the report's going around her to be believed, again, you've got to take everything right now with a little bit of a grain of salt
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because it's happened so recently and the news is changing quickly.
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But there's a little piece of a manifesto that the shooter appears to have left,
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which talked about how women are the only hope for the world and patriarchy is evil
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and the radical feminists are vindicated now and this girl hated her father and her parents and all sorts of feminism.
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Especially right before Christmas, everyone should say a prayer or two for the victims.
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Also, from a political standpoint, expect this story to disappear very quickly.
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None of this checks out for the liberal narrative that they want to push.
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It's a, even the gun, the gun was a 9mm pistol.
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So nothing about this story is helpful to the left.
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Had it been a mosque, had it been a madrasa, even maybe a synagogue, it would be helpful to the,
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certainly a public school would be very helpful to the left's narrative.
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Christian school, girl shooter, 9mm pistol, radical feminist.
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No, the media, they're not, they're not reporting on it well right now.
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And I don't, I don't think you're going to hear much about it two days from now.
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The Biden White House has already tried to seize on this story to advance its own largely disconnected
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political agenda, but it looks ridiculous and the White House is not going to get very far.
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I created the first ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, but more is needed.
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Congress must pass common sense gun safety laws, universal background checks, a national red flag law,
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a ban on assault weapons with high capacity magazines.
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First of all, Biden says, I've done all this great stuff on gun violence prevention.
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Apparently not, because it didn't work, because we're, there are still shootings that go on.
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So anything Biden claims to have done, any competency he claims to have had
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in preventing gun violence, obviously hasn't worked.
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But then furthermore, he says, we need this new stuff.
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Universal background checks, that would not have stopped the shooter.
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The shooter reportedly got the gun from her father.
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Universal background checks, there's no reason to believe the father
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didn't have every right to purchase a gun, so that wouldn't have stopped it.
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A national red flag law, again, it wasn't her personal firearm.
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No evidence to suggest that that would have stopped the shooting.
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A ban on assault weapons with high capacity magazines, that's the most ridiculous example.
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There's really no such thing as an assault weapon.
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That's the purpose of weapons, is to assault people.
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So what they call an assault weapon, which is a term of propaganda that developed in the 1990s,
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But it's just a rifle where you pull the trigger once and one round is released.
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It's not a burst fire, it's not a fully automatic weapon, it's just a rifle.
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And what they mean by high capacity magazine, what do they mean, 10 rounds?
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Maybe they mean 20 rounds, 30 rounds, a zillion, 100 rounds.
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It would be as though Joe Biden came out and said,
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and I'm going to capitalize on it to tell you why you need to pass a new carbon tax.
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A new carbon tax would have exactly as much effect on this shooting
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as any of the nonsense that he's promoting here.
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The left has not one square foot to stand on in this.
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It's so horrific this time of year, so horrific for the families.
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Speaking of law and order, Justice Ketanji Jackson,
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the latest Democrat on the bench, has just made her Broadway musical debut.
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I think that it means that anything is possible.
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I think what I like about it is that I am having a very strongly negative reaction to it.
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And it's not that Ketanji Jackson enjoys theater or musicals or movies or show business.
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Many, if not most, politicians, including Supreme Court justices,
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have some interest in or connection to the theater.
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Donald Trump has at least been in a bunch of movies and TV shows.
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There, the skills of the theater and the skills of politics are quite similar.
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There are plenty, plenty of people in show business have been,
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actors have been interested in theater and film and TV.
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In fact, there was an opera written about Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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I don't think that Scalia sang any arias as a tenor, though.
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It's perfectly ordinary for politicians to have some kind of interest in the theater.
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But when you become a politician, when you become a statesman,
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certainly when you become a judge, you need to be sober.
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Most important of all, you are supposed to be unimpressed by crowds.
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The most disturbing part of that video for me is how much Ketanji Jackson loves the applause of the crowd.
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Maybe she should have ran for Congress if that was the case.
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But judges, in particular, are supposed to be unimpressed by the crowd.
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They are supposed to be interpreting the Constitution.
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They are supposed to be standing against the crowd much of the time.
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The activist judges, which tend to be on the left, they are impressed by the crowds.
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And the leftist politicians want that kind of pressure on the court.
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He said, listen, Justice Kavanaugh, listen, Justice Gorsuch, you have reaped the whirlwind.
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Justice Alito has to move out of his house because the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs over ruling Roe v. Wade was leaked.
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She decides she's going to go become a Broadway star.
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And she's going to go say all of these lines in an unconvincing way that are really highly polemical, highly party political.
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I understand it even at a deeper level than politicians and statesmen often have a connection to the theater.
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The deeper level is today show business is considered more desirable than serving in the government.
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It used to be, in the old days, that actors, singers, dancers, they were considered kind of the lowest of the low.
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They were lumped in with criminals and prostitutes and statesmen.
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It used to be, if you wanted to have real influence and prestige in society, in public life, why you would vie to have some public office.
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Today, however, even the people who are already in public office want to be in show business.
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They feel they can have more influence in show business.
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Think about how many elected politicians have podcasts at this point.
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You know, Senator Cruz and I launched a podcast together.
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I think it was basically the first of its kind.
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And it was this unique opportunity during the impeachment when we could break through the establishment media and Senator Cruz could walk from the Capitol.
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We'd go into a studio at 1 o'clock in the morning and explain to the American people what's going on.
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But when that show hit number one, just about every politician in the country decided he was going to have a podcast.
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Sometimes people leave Congress and they get a promotion.
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And their promotion is to have a cable news talk show or to have a podcast or to have a radio show.
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As the government, as the political order has become impotent, as legislators lose their power, they lose their power to bureaucrats, they lose their power to private corporations that exert a lot of control over public life.
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You think of the big tech companies that control the public square.
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As that all happens, power actually starts to move into the media, into show business, into Hollywood, or into whichever entity in show business comes next.
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Ketanji Jackson is revealing that a little bit.
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And it's probably not good for our country, but it is what it is.
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My last speech of the semester was at the University of Iowa, which is much more left-wing than I expected.
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And so people protest and they yell and they make stupid comments.
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But sometimes, after the speech, Mr. Davies will go out, he'll brave the mobs, and he'll find one or two people who are protesting me, who hate me, who showed up to pull their hair out of my speech, but who are willing to speak.
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Here is just a little teaser of my conversation with two campus leftists at Iowa.
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If I told you I am a black man like Congolese, heart-of-darkness black, would you believe me?
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The liberals are a lot louder than the Republicans are.
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It was only after the speech ended, while conservative students were being berated outside, that two students agreed to cross the line, come back in, and talk to me face-to-face.
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Speaking of governments losing credibility, Mr. Justin Trudeau, according to his birth certificate, the son of Pierre Trudeau, according to Twitter, the son of Fidel Castro, certainly has the politics of Fidel Castro.
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Trudeau, the liberal leader of Canada, might go down up there in America's evil top hat, and he might go down because of Trump.
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According to reporting, it was just breaking last night, this is happening in real time, probably while we're speaking, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has been thrown into disarray because Chrystia Freeland, his finance minister, has resigned.
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She's resigned in large part because of President Trump's tariff threat.
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Then, yesterday, Canada's three opposition party leaders said Trudeau's got to go.
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Notably, Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party, great Conservative politician, up in Canada, called for a federal election as soon as possible.
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Because it shows that Trump's tariffs work, at least as a matter of tactics.
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I've said, as Trump has been pushing tariffs, I've said there are two arguments for tariffs.
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One is the actual revenue-raising argument, that tariffs can help raise revenue, and it'll be good for the economy, and it'll stimulate American manufacturing, and it'll help national security.
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And sure, okay, put that to the side for a second.
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The other reason that I think even more people can agree tariffs work is they can be a tactic.
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They can be a tactic to get what you want on the world stage.
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They can be a tactic of grand strategy to actually replace leaders you don't like.
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Trump says, hey, Trudeau, I'm going to smack a 25% tariff on you, and your country is going to collapse.
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Because I'm sick of trying to work with you, and because you're not doing what I want you to do.
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He says, please, Mr. Trump, don't smack a 25% tariff on me.
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He says, I don't know, maybe I will, maybe I won't.
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But just the threat, just Trump's little truth social post about 25% tariffs might have just caused the Canadian government to collapse.
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That is the power of focused negotiation that we see from President Trump.
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And that's the power of tariffs, at least the threat of tariffs.
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I think Trump totally vindicated on pushing the tariffs.
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Now, speaking of liberal politicians who have been ousted because of Trump, Bob Casey, the Pennsylvania senator, former, soon to be former Pennsylvania senator, who went down, lost to Dave McCormick, didn't want to concede the race.
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He held out until the very end, but then eventually it was pretty clear McCormick won.
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He was asked, why is it that McCormick was able to win?
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And he said, it wasn't McCormick, it was Trump.
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He said, I think it's probably premature to make an assessment as to whether we're going in one direction decidedly or the other.
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But I will say there were factors in this election that won't be a play or won't be relevant in 2028.
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One of them is Donald Trump will not be a candidate for president.
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I think he's about as strong a Republican candidate as they've had for president in my lifetime.
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And all I want is for the anti-Trump Republicans to admit it.
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And we all need to be able to move on from that.
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There are still people, a dwindling number, but still some people, who insist that nominating President Trump in 2016 was a really terrible idea and it was going to cause the end of the Republican Party and we were never going to win an election again and it was going to be so humiliating and he was the worst candidate ever.
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He won in a pretty decisive electoral college victory in 2016.
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Then in 2020, the Democrats changed all the rules and all of the new rules advantaged them.
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In some cases, they were illegal or unconstitutional and they seemed a little bit sus.
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So then the anti-Trump Republicans said, see, ha ha, we were right.
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But then we didn't even fix all the voting rules again in 2024.
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We just restored a little bit of normality to it.
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And Trump won in a massive electoral college victory in a landslide.
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And he won the popular vote as a Republican for the first time in 20 years.
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So can we just all admit, Trump's a good candidate.
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He then won in a massive landslide for re-election.
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Then the deep state pulled a coup on him and tossed him out because of how some guy duct-taped
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Ronald Reagan, 84, was an even stronger candidate.
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George H.W. Bush really just won Reagan's third term.
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When he had to run on his own two feet, he lost.
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George H.W. Bush was a weak Republican candidate.
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George W. Bush in 2000, weak Republican candidate who barely won.
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He only won because of 500 votes in the state of Florida.
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Those happy hanging chads in the punch card ballots.
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So all the people who were forcing John McCain on us, who were forcing Mitt Romney on us, who
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I don't think they're moderates in the sense of moderation as a virtue, as a mean between
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I think they're just kind of, those are the weaker candidates.
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Trump upending the recent GOP orthodoxies on free trade and just giving globalist corporations
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Trump, with a little backbone, a little thumos, he was a strong candidate.
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And if Republicans want to win elections in the future, we need to model our candidacies
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There are many anti-Trump Republicans, even today, who believe that we just need to get
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back of being the party that talks like Mitt Romney.
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That think, oh, that Trump, he got lucky a couple times, and oh, that Trump.
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He is as strong a Republican candidate as they've had in even Bob Casey's lifetime.
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And you can't even really compare the two because Reagan was elected before all the mass
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migration, which the Democrats even admit is aiming at demographic shifts to give them
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Ronald Reagan was able to really unify the country before a decades-long process of trying
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to permanently disrupt the potential for unity in the country.
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And even so, Trump wins 46% of Hispanics, one in five black guys, shocking win for a Republican
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It's not possible to do, and it's not even advisable.
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But we want more Donald Trumps and fewer Mitt Romneys.
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Democrats, of course, are still furious at Trump.
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The Chicago mayor, Brandon Johnson, is whining about President Trump's evil plans.
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Your reaction to Homan saying he's going to come after you if you stand in his way.
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Look, the president-elect and the former president of the United States of America,
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Trump, has demonstrated an incredible disdain for people.
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He's also shown a great deal of just evilness towards the Department of the Environment.
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20% of the world's fresh water is right here in the city of Chicago.
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We can build a green, blue economy to create real, sustainable opportunities for people.
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And so he has not just shown animus towards immigrants.
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He has shown a great deal of animus towards working people across the city of Chicago.
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And it is my responsibility and it is my joy to protect all residents of this beloved city.
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Evil or maybe you could say wickedness or evilness is par for the course for the mayor of Chicago.
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You know, we talked about how these days being a Broadway dancer carries more prestige and gravity than being an American politician or even a Supreme Court justice.
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I guess that's true because most actors and Broadway performers can use the English language correctly.
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He's been evil toward the Department of the Environment.
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What's awkward about this claim from the mayor of Chicago is,
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he'd be saying, look, most Americans are still good people.
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But that minority who voted for Trump, they're evil people.
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But now, just because of this fact that Trump won the popular vote,
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not that it matters for the election, that's not how our elections are conducted,
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but he also won the popular vote in addition to the Electoral College.
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The mayor of Chicago, and I think he's typical of a lot of Democrats,
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which is a way of saying most Americans are idiots.
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It's the most charitable country in the history of the world.
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And if the Democrats want to campaign on this, please be my guest.
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But their campaign then is, hey, hey, most of you people who I want to vote for me,
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most of you are dumb, stupid, evil, hateful idiots.
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Please let me know where I can donate to that particular strategy.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from MarcusW210.
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Hearing Michael call Sidney Sweeney a pretty lass was so unexpected to me that I accidentally
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spilled my drink of Jolly Rancher-flavored soda.
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I also really love any time that I can take a kind of stupid story and use it as a flimsy
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excuse to discuss my philosophical hobby horses.
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I would say that's my favorite kind of story to do.
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And the Sidney Sweeney hot or not debate very much checks that box.
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Thank you, Sidney Sweeney, for allowing me to discuss Jean Baudrillard's theory of seduction.
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Speaking of Democrats shooting themselves in the foot, David Hogg.
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He's a guy who gained some modicum of celebrity by making himself a TV fixture after some of
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his classmates were killed in a school shooting.
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David Hogg then turned this into a political career as being a gun control activist.
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Then he got into Harvard purely on his leftist celebrity.
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He does not appear to have quite academically qualified for that admission.
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And now he wants to parlay all of that into a real career in politics by running for vice
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I floated this story a week or two ago when Hogg was suggesting that maybe he wanted a leadership
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I asked if there were any federal maximum donations that I had to be concerned about because how
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Well, now he is outlining a little bit of his campaign for this job.
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He said, today I'm meeting with a group of researchers and activists to discuss how Democrats
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What questions would you be most interested in asking?
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Hogg has so few original ideas that he has to ask you what he should ask activists.
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What he should ask researchers so that he can then get some answers and campaign on those
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I would say if Democrats have a problem with young men, and you said, Michael, lay out every
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single person in the country in order of most likely to help to least likely to help, David
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Hogg would be in the bottom 5% among the very least likely people to help in the country.
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Democrats lost support this election cycle, specifically among black and Hispanic men because
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the black and Hispanic men shifted to the right because the Democrats seemed too far to the left.
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Donald Trump appealed to the black and Hispanic men, and so they shifted to the right.
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And so if you're facing this catastrophic problem as a Democrat, why not hire a whiny,
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Who better to win back the rightward-leaning black and Hispanic men than a whiny,
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I previously endorsed the prospect of David Hogg running.
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I don't know how much I'll match up to, but let's just marshal all of our resources, folks.
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Now, in fairness to David Hogg, other Democrats, even prominent older Democrats,
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Tim Walz just gave this interview in which he was reflecting on his totally failed candidacy.
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He was very nearly a heartbeat away from becoming the second woman president, and he flopped.
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What he can't make sense of is how he lost to a billionaire.
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I thought it was a real flex when the Wall Street Journal pointed out that I might have
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been the least wealthy person to ever run for vice president.
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And I thought that would be something people say, well, this guy knows where we're coming
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How in the world did we lose to a billionaire or a venture capitalist when we were making
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the case of a county attorney and a high school teacher?
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I think the biggest thing for me that I'm searching for is, and this is the one that
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keeps me up at night, is I focused my whole career in focusing on the middle class.
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And it seemed like a lot of the good ideas were coming from the Democrats.
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I still believe that, but apparently in this election, not the majority of Americans did.
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They chose to vote with a billionaire who's talked about not paying overtime, who has a long
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history of not paying his workers, someone who wants to take away the ACA.
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I actually think that Tim Walls is being sincere here.
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He can't figure out why voters would vote for a billionaire when he ran his campaign as
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a working class hero against the billionaires, against the rich, trying to stoke class resentment.
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How is it that these people, virtually none of whom are billionaires, how did they vote for
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The answer is, most voters are not as driven by envy as the Democrats think they are.
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Democrats think that what motivates voters ultimately is envy.
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You see this in a lot of political philosophy, certainly modern political philosophy.
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I was actually having this conversation in Washington, D.C. with a White House reporter
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the other night, who said, you know, all politics comes down to covetousness.
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And I said, that's actually a sparkling insight.
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And at certain eras, that's true in certain periods.
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Envy, at the very least, is a big motivator in politics.
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Dante talks about this avarice as being at the heart of political corruption.
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But Tim Walls has too low an opinion of voters.
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But on this question, why did the voters vote for the billionaire over the politician who
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It's because voters are not as motivated by envy as the Democrats are, or as the Democrats
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Envy really is at the heart of political corruption.
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The left is always trying to gin up class conflict and make politics a matter of private
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interests, just clubbing other people on the head and stealing their stuff.
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You think about the BLM riots, which the Democrats largely supported.
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Kamala Harris actually bailed the rioters out of jail.
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A lot of those BLM riots was people just going in and looting stores.
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It's just stealing stuff, just greed, just envy.
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Okay, yeah, a lot of Democrats are motivated by that.
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Now, the proof that a lot of Democrats are motivated by envy and play on envy in politics
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is coming from not only Senator Elizabeth Warren, Liawatha, but also Bernie Sanders.
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Elizabeth Warren just got in trouble because she was asked about the UnitedHealthcare CEO
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She said, you know, you can only push people so far.
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Elizabeth Warren has tried to portray herself as a working class hero throughout her career.
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So an out-and-out socialist in the Senate, Bernie Sanders, was just asked about Elizabeth Warren's answer.
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This guy gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth.
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And then they start to take matters into their own hands.
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Elizabeth Warren obviously understands killing and murder and shooting somebody in the back
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But what I think has happened in the last few months is that what you have seen rising up is people's anger
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at a health insurance industry which denies people the health care that they desperately need
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while they make billions and billions of dollars in profit.
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Obviously, obviously, Elizabeth Warren does not support violence.
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We never seek to justify the murder of a CEO of a health care company.
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But I think we also have to agree that people were damn right to hate that health care CEO
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and he had it coming, the dirty rotten bastard.
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I was talking the other day to sweet little Alisa.
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And your father's murder, your husband or your father's murder,
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has been a national news story, an international news story.
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And you have prominent Democrats justifying it, excusing it, explaining it away.
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Eventually, if you're too rich and other people are too poor,
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We're going to encourage them to take all your stuff.
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Because we're going to run whole campaigns just grounded in envy.
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No wonder even the Supreme Court justices want to be Broadway stars.
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It's somehow become a much more dignified way of life.
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That's speaking in a realistic way about the degradation of politics.
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