Ep. 1646 - Lib DISASTER： Trudeau Resigns as Prime Minister
Summary
While Congress was certifying Donald Trump as our next president, the Liberal Prime Minister of America s Evil Top Hat, Justin Trudeau, was resigning. Spoiler alert: This is unrelated. Plus, a couple Antifa terrorists who tried to kill me in Pittsburgh just got sentenced in federal court.
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While Congress was certifying Donald Trump as our next president,
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the liberal prime minister of America's evil top hat, Justin Trudeau, was resigning.
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Plus, this is unrelated, a couple Antifa terrorists who tried to blow me up in Pittsburgh
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The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.
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Mr. Trudeau up in America's evil top hat is finally leaving office as the top politician
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Over the holidays, I've also had a chance to reflect and have had long talks with my family
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Throughout the course of my career, any success I have personally achieved has been because
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So last night over dinner, I told my kids about the decision that I'm sharing with you today.
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I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader
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through a robust nationwide competitive process.
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For the first time since 1959, a Castro is no longer running a country in the Western Hemisphere.
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That was at least my first take, but then I was corrected because apparently Xiomara Castro
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I actually have one unpopular opinion about the overall excellent news that Castro is,
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that was a Freudian slip, that Trudeau is stepping down.
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I think there is a chance that Justin Trudeau is in fact Pierre Trudeau's son and is in fact
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not the love child of Trudeau's mother and Fidel Castro.
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I'm not saying it is likely that Justin is Pierre Trudeau's son, but I think there is
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a chance that Justin Trudeau is not the son of a Cuban dictator.
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What I know for certain though, is that this awful leader of Canada is about to leave office.
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And the reason he's leaving office is because Trump won.
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The decision to resign on January 6th, the worst day in the history of the world, and the day
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yesterday when Trump's election was certified, that's no coincidence.
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Trudeau is not resigning because he went down to Mar-a-Lago to beg Donald Trump for leniency
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And that's, he's resigning because he's been in office a long time.
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This brand of liberalism, the, the Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau, millennial kind of liberalism
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has been around for a long time now and it's over.
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2016 was the beginning of the end for that brand of liberalism.
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The re-election of Donald Trump to a non-consecutive second term, coupled with Brexit, coupled with
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the election of George Maloney in Italy, coupled with the victories of Viktor Orban in Hungary,
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coupled with the rise of right-wing parties in France and Germany and Spain, hopefully
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All of that is to say, the Trudeau stuff, it's done, okay?
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It's not that Trudeau is resigning because he got into a fight with Donald Trump, but
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Trump won and Trump signifies something, a shift in global politics, certainly in the
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He's, he's also an active player in that shift and Trudeau's time is finished.
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The, the whole class of Obama liberals in geopolitics, their time is over.
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So Trump is wasting no time here, suggesting that while Canada undergoes this political
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change, they might consider just being annexed by the United States.
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Many people in Canada love being the 51st state.
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The United States can no longer suffer the massive trade deficits and subsidies that Canada
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If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no tariffs, taxes would go way down, and
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they would be totally secure from the threat of the Russian and Chinese ships that are constantly
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People are going to say, oh, Trump is being silly here.
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Some people call the independence of Canada, Washington's biggest mistake.
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Had George Washington just kept on pressing, we could have held Canada.
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They're totally dependent on the United States.
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So just notice a theme to President Trump's transition.
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Yes, we're talking about taxes and all the rest of it.
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But there's a big focus here on foreign affairs and also on expansion.
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Trump is talking about retaking the Panama Canal.
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We gave it away for some reason, like 40 years ago, and we should take it back.
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It's crazy that we don't have the Panama Canal.
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The Greenland proposal, that's a good proposal.
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Greenland doesn't even want to be ruled by Denmark.
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And then Canada is probably a little bit more of a stretch.
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And you'd have to integrate a number of people who are like Justin Trudeau.
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Probably we'd have to learn a little French, un petit peu.
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The liberal mind, the liberal Westphalian UN mind
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pretends that every nation of the world is exactly the same.
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But we're all just nations, and we all get a seat at the United Nations.
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When I call Canada America's evil top hat, I am like 3% joking.
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So if they're totally dependent on us anyway, I don't know.
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Why don't we, I'm not saying we make them a state.
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Why don't we make them like Puerto Rico or Guam or something?
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In every joke, there's always a little bit of truth.
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Now, at the same time that all this was happening up in the top hat,
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in the United States, President Trump's victory in 2024 was being certified
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by the U.S. Congress, specifically by the woman that he defeated, Kamala Harris.
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The votes for President of the United States are as follows.
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Donald J. Trump of the state of Florida has received 312 votes.
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Kamala Harris of the state of California has received 226 votes.
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Kamala Harris is the first woman of color to ever certify her own election laws
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I think she was looking for a different mark in history,
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She's not the first vice president to certify his own laws.
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But she's the first Indian and black Afro-Caribbean woman
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There were no tiny little insurrections like, you know,
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when the Horn Hat guy got a private tour of the Capitol by Capitol Police.
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like the many, many other leftist attacks that have included explosives
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when President Trump was elected the first time.
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The left is going to lick its wounds and regroup.
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Now that President Trump is officially the president-elect,
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We don't have the direct words of the president.
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I take everything that people report about President Trump
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that President Trump is open to talking about the dreamers
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The dreamers are the people who are brought over
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those are three great ways to talk about the dreamers.
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And that's the only way I want to talk about the dreamers right now.
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these poor kids who are brought over through no fault of their own.
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The dreamer is a euphemism cooked up by Barack Obama and the left.
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That then became law through an unconstitutional executive order,
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giving amnesty to people who were brought over to the United States as minors,
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These are people who are maybe 43, 44 years old right now.
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Should they be the first on the list to be deported?
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They don't have much connection to their country of origin.
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I don't want to hear a word about amnesty for DACA or dreamers,
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or how I hear this from some people who have no idea what they're talking about.
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the dreamers are more American than many American citizens.
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That only makes sense if America is not a country.
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Then someone in Timbuktu could be more American than a descendant of the pilgrims.
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I don't want to hear a word about that until we deport all the criminals until we secure the border until we deport the people who came over as economic migrants,
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as adults until we deport tens of millions of people.
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I don't want to hear peep about we need to give amnesty to the dreamers.
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We would deport the vast majority of these people.
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And then you'd get to some hard cases of people who have been here since they were two months old and they're very American and they vote Republican.
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We can't grant you amnesty because that would create a perverse incentive that would exacerbate the trouble at the border.
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It would give millions more people reason to break our laws.
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We'll just continue the status quo as it's been.
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but we're not going to single you out to deport you,
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but we're not going to create perverse incentives.
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very small number of people who were brought over as infants and yada yada.
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The problem is the Democrats won't let us do that.
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The Democrats won't let us do that because the minute they come back into power,
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they're going to give blanket amnesty to all of these people and they're going to put them on a pathway to citizenship and they're going to give them the right to vote.
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And they're going to do this because they think it's going to give them a permanent electoral majority and a very well might.
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I would be willing to grant a little clemency, have a little mercy, give a little grace.
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And unfortunately, the Swiss Republicans aren't going to let us do it either because the Swiss Republicans are going to say,
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Illegal aliens are not multiples more likely to vote for Democrats.
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Cultures are not allowed to have cohesion and we're not allowed to encourage assimilation.
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We have to give amnesty and citizenship to foreign nationals who are brought over here,
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encouraged by cynical Democrats to give them the win.
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Because those squishes are thrilled to be the court jesters in the kingdom of liberalism
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and the minority partner in the American political project, which is run by liberal Democrats.
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That's why I don't want to hear it out of the Republicans.
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It's a ridiculous euphemism cooked up by the left to rig the immigration debate.
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But don't even mention these people until you've deported millions and millions of foreign
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Now, speaking of people who should not be walking around the U.S., there's good news and
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When I was at the University of Pittsburgh at a speaking event about two, not quite two
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These are two anarchists who are serious anarchists, like members of an anarchist cell.
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Like this guy, Brian DePippa, was held up at airports twice because they found explosive
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And then, of course, they just let him through.
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These guys showed up to my speaking event to blow me up.
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And then when they couldn't get at me because the cops did a very good job at the University
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of Pittsburgh, the protesters lit the street on fire, burned me in effigy.
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And then these people threw an explosive at the building as I was walking on stage and
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didn't hit me, didn't do damage to the building.
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But it did very seriously injure a female police officer.
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Well, these people probably wouldn't have even been brought up on charges, except that
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there happened to be a federal law enforcement agent in the audience.
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And what's funny is after this whole event, I was approached by federal law enforcement.
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They asked to speak to me about what went down.
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And I didn't speak to them because I said, you know, the FBI has just been caught spying
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on Catholics, specifically traditional Catholics, has been caught going after pro-lifers, showing
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up, arresting pro-lifers in front of their seven kids, has been caught setting up the
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Trump administration to take down the administration and try to put Mike Flynn in jail.
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I said, you know, I just don't trust federal law enforcement right now.
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As a conservative, as a Catholic, as a pro-lifer, I checked three boxes.
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But I have to give a great deal of credit to that federal law enforcement agent who pursued
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this case, who really went to bat for us, who wanted justice for the police officer,
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for the conservative students who brought me to campus, for Intercollegiate Studies Institute,
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And he pursued this, and charges were brought, federal charges, against these two anarchists.
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The one guy, the husband, got a meager five years in jail, and the wife got out of jail
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She got off with probation and some community service.
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These anarchists, these terrorists, left a female police officer bedridden for up to 20
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She lost a ton of pay because she couldn't work.
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She lost probably $50,000 or more in wages, but also just couldn't move.
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She'll never do her hobbies as she previously did.
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She'll probably never work in the same way that she did before.
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You don't throw an explosive at someone's face unless you mean to do serious damage.
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A federal law enforcement agent does a great job really going to bat, trying to get some
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These anarchist terrorists show up to my speaking event, they throw an explosive in the face
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of a cop, the cop who was standing in between the terrorists and the students and me and
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The explosion caused me to fall back, she said.
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Brian DePippa is a homegrown terrorist who had every intention of hurting someone that
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And for that, the judge sentences this guy to a measly five years in prison and lets his
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wife off the hook, three years probation, 80 hours community service.
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So, the judge in this case, and this is according to reporting from, what is it, the Tribune?
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The judge in this case, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune, says that the couple, with no criminal
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history, seemed to be good people, quote, trying to do the right thing most of the time.
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It's clear to me, this is Judge Ranjan, I sense some regret.
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I'm nauseated reading that take from the judge.
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The couple with no criminal history, no criminal history.
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These people are known members of an anarchist cell.
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They were stopped at an airport twice because they had explosive residue.
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You mean he's never been convicted for a crime before?
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As the prosecutor pointed out, these terrorists have expressed no remorse.
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The female cop has accepted, or has decided to extend forgiveness and grace to the terrorists.
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But as the prosecutor pointed out, he said, this is crazy.
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Even the judge here has to say, a line was crossed.
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Are you pulling out your crystal ball to try to divine regret?
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Either they've expressed remorse or they haven't.
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In fact, the anarchists who support them raised a bunch of money, said, free them.
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And this couple seems to think they've done nothing wrong.
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You know, you guys are just a good, wholesome couple of anarchists who build bombs in your
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free time and who sometimes get through TSA with explosives on your body.
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But you're, you know, you're trying to do the good thing.
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It's just sometimes people matter more than principle.
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The principles that they hold are terrorism, anarchy, trying to kill civilians, maiming
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I guess the judge agrees with those principles.
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Look, the principles, your principles are good.
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But sometimes you got to think about the people.
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Okay, and I want you to do a little community service.
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And then, Mr. DePepa, you're going to spend three seconds in prison.
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And then you can go back out and try to kill conservatives.
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And you can set off explosives when right-wingers go to university campuses and say things you
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Kudos to federal law enforcement here, to the agents.
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Thank you to the prosecutors who did their best, I guess.
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Now, speaking of transgenderism, which was the topic of my speech at, of my talk, rather,
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The ACLU and Ellen Page, now known as Elliot Page, have a message leading into 2025.
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It's a message you heard in 2023, and in 2022, and in 2021, and probably in 2020.
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2018, I think I gave a campus tour called Men Are Not Women and Other Uncomfortable Truths.
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You've heard this message a long time from the left.
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My message to my younger self would just be, like, you know who you are, you know, and
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I felt it very strongly, and it was all of these external forces and noises that pushed
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and pulled and made me sort of lose track of who I was.
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And so, I guess, to my younger self, I'd say, you know, that discomfort and that pain you're
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And to just keep going on the journey of embracing who you truly are, and that's what's going
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Transgenderism is going to lead you to happiness.
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I guess that's what, I guess she's saying if you embrace a trans identity, that's going
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Identifying as trans dramatically increases your risks of anxiety, depression, suicide.
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It's just, it is the surest way to be miserable.
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And it's because it's a particularly extreme form of living contrary to reality.
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And when you live in opposition to reality, you're going to be unhappy.
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And I guess that's a good thing heading into 2025.
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This whole campaign from the ACLU and Ellen Page, be trans, it'll make you happy, live your
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If I never have to talk about transgenderism for the rest of my life, it'll be too soon.
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But the left is still, they're still trying to push it a little bit.
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I think the weakness of this kind of a campaign proves that.
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I think the 2024 election in many ways proves that.
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One of the big issues, even with the bad economy and migration and foreign policy and we're on the
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the brink of World War III, one of the big issues that drove centrists and people on the center
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left to vote for Trump this time was that the left proved its poor judgment, the absurdity of
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its ideology, by insisting that men can become women and forcing that absurdity on little children.
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I think that was a big driver of people to the polls.
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I was speaking to a priest friend of mine not so long ago, and he pointed out,
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his father, Benedict Keeley, a wonderful English priest who works,
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he's been on the show before, he works to help persecute Christians in the Middle East.
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He said there have been three big questions in the life of the church.
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You think about the debates in the early church over who Christ is,
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the Aryan controversy or Marcionism or these questions of who is God, who is Christ, who
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Then there's another crisis that crops up in the 16th century.
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This is the question that was brought about by the Protestant Revolution.
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Is the church just something floating in outer space?
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Or is the church a tangible body with members that has a traceable history?
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And now we're in a third stage, which is, what is man?
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Even beyond the question of sex, are we merely our bodies?
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Are we merely our spirits and our bodies have nothing to do with who we are?
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Are we the sort of thing that can be uploaded to a cloud or plugged into a machine?
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What is man, even beyond this question about our organic nature, is a political question.
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And this has been a reckoning since the so-called Enlightenment and political modernism, which
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Or is man, as classical thinkers believed, more of a social creature?
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Are we going to turn ourselves, as Yuval Harari suggests, into homo deus?
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We're going to create the new form of humanity?
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Or is man a creature made in the image and likeness of God?
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And so the first part of that, the opening salvo was, you know, what is a woman?
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But the questions that await us are far deeper.
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And will force us to rethink a lot of the comfortable conclusions we've arrived at in recent centuries.
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Now, speaking of our brave new world, a story I promised I'd get to.
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The Bill Gates Foundation has funded research at Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands
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To turn mosquitoes into little vaccinators who can flit around the air and vaccinate people potentially against their will
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But a study published late last month in the New England Journal of Medicine
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has shown that they now have an effective way of using mosquitoes to inject human beings with various vaccines.
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But possibly other payloads as well in the future.
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So, on the one hand, people are saying, hold on, Bill Gates is going to inject me with a vaccine?
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I'm not going to be able to even know about it.
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On the other hand, though, just to keep an open mind, it might make some sense in certain places.
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I'm not totally opposed to the Bill Gates weaponizing mosquitoes to inject people with vaccines.
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Because, if I just look at Nigeria, 13% of deaths per year in Nigeria are from malaria.
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I'm talking about almost 200,000 people per year.
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If the government could protect people against that, that would be a good thing.
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If they could do it while allaying ethical concerns.
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If they could do that in a way that wouldn't cause more harm than good.
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We're not talking about the COVID vaccine here.
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We're not talking about some really controversial vaccine.
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The malaria vaccine, for instance, is not produced or even developed using cells from aborted bases.
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That was one of the big ethical concerns with the COVID vaccine.
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Is that to mandate the COVID vaccine is to mandate that people cooperate with evil, even in a distant way.
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Because the COVID vaccines were developed and in some cases produced using cells from aborted babies.
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So, the question over a scientific advancement like this, I don't think is totally black and white.
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If you are just a hardcore libertarian or individual ideologue, you would say, yeah, it is black and white.
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But, if you take politics a little bit more classically than all that, then you have to take it seriously.
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The question then you have to ask yourself is not merely about procedure, but about substance.
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Or do they, like our present liberal elites, not have any serious sense of ethics?
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It's going to matter less whether the government does something or doesn't do something.
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It's going to matter more what kind of government we have.
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That's a deeper, nuanced conversation that our modern political age has no patience for.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Gavin Bailey Tanner.
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It says, Michael's favorite thinkers, number one, St. Thomas Aquinas, and number two, Norm MacDonald.
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I was going to joke and say maybe not in that order, but no, it is in that order.
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Aquinas, and then Norm can vie with Dante and Aristotle for the second place.
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They're back, and I'm going to be back too, you dirty sheep.
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India has become the first country to reinstate COVID restrictions as a new virus out of China begins to spread.
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There is an alarm over a mystery illness, HMPV, which has symptoms similar to COVID.
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And the Indian state of Karnataka is taking precautionary measures.
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The virus has symptoms related to human metanomovirus.
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And authorities are encouraging mask wearing in crowded locales after seeing three cases of this respiratory ailment.
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So, I am calling for a complete and total ban of China until they stop poisoning the world every few years.
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I want a complete and total shutdown of China until we figure out what the heck is going on.
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Why do they keep poisoning the globe like every three years?
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You know, wasn't Asia responsible for the Black Death, too?
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I'm calling for a complete and total shutdown of Asia until we figure out what's going on.
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But we live in a globalized world where everyone travels all the time and we all trade all the time.
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The downside is the whole world gets poisoned every, like, three years.
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I'm apropos of billionaires like Bill Gates or whatever, all these people controlling our politics.
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The Washington Post cartoonist, Anne Telmeis, has just quit the paper.
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She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist.
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She has quit the paper because she wanted to run a cartoon attacking the owner of the paper, Jeff Bezos.
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My job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable.
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For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job, the critical job of political cartoons.
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Now, Telmeis said to NPR, I'm very used to being edited.
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I've never, ever, since I've worked for the Post in 2008, been not allowed to comment on certain topics by having cartoons killed.
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We have to have the freedom to say what we want to say.
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Now, the Washington Post says that her story isn't true.
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The editorial page editor, David Shipley, said he respects Telmeis' contributions to the Post, but he says, not every editorial judgment is a reflection of a malign force.
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He says, my decision to spike the cartoon was guided by the fact that we had just published a column on the same topic as the cartoon and had already scheduled another column, this one a satire, for publication.
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He's saying, I'm not shutting down the opinion.
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Even if this cartoon was spiked for insulting Jeff Bezos, that is perfectly reasonable.
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The paper has been critical of Amazon, has done all sorts of things that I'm sure Jeff Bezos wouldn't like, but he's the owner.
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The president of the United States works for somebody.
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It doesn't mean that you always have to agree with that person on everything.
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It doesn't mean that you always have to be in lockstep.
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You know, the Washington Post, the Washington Post publishes things that irritate Jeff Bezos, that are contrary to Jeff Bezos' interests all the time.
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Here at the Daily Wire, we all disagree with each other.
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I say things on my show that the owners of the Daily Wire disagree with, very publicly disagree with, all the time.
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And we always, we bicker about it, and we do it on camera, we do it off camera, we've done it for years, we're all friends.
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But, if I said something that we're, if I said, you know, the Daily Wire is a terrible place, and it's an awful institution, and all the people involved are evil and terrible, they would have every right to say, no, don't say that.
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And, in fact, the deeper political point I want to make is, America has the right to do that, too.
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We have the right to guardrails around public speech.
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That's the, that's the thesis of my book, Speechless.
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There's a big, thank you, I was a little late in the new year.
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There, there's a, there's a big debate right now, because Elon Musk has changed the algorithm at Twitter, at X.
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Elon Musk has now said, we're going to prioritize certain content over others according to standards and norms.
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A lot of free speech absolutists echoing the language of liberals, they're saying, this is terrible.
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We have the right to set certain norms and standards.
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And if you don't like it, you can go take a hike.
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Or people who hate America, they can go leave America.
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I am so pleased, speaking of freedom, I'm so pleased to have Aaron Hawley of the Alliance Defending Freedom on the show.
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