Ep. 1648 - Newsom & Bass Share Blame For FIRE DISASTER—Here’s Why
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Summary
As Los Angeles burns to the ground, at least 1,000 buildings destroyed and at least 5 dead so far, this is the message Governor Gavin Newsom had for his constituents: "The water has run out. I was trying to fire a firefighter in this block last night, and they left because there was no water in the hydrants."
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As Los Angeles burns to the ground, at least 1,000 buildings destroyed, at least five people
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dead so far, this is the message that Governor Gavin Newsom had for his constituents.
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Obviously, Palisades ran out last night in the hydrants.
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I was trying to fire a firefighter in this block.
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They left because there was no water in the hydrant here.
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I mean, just when you have a system where it's not dissimilar to what we've seen in
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other extraordinarily large-scale fires, whether it be pipe, electricity, or whether it just
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I mean, those hydrants are typical for two or three fires, maybe one fire.
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But again, that's going to be determined by the local.
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One week ago, that man thought that he was going to be the next president of the United
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Now he's the governor whose most populous city is burning to the ground and whose only
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response is that the locals will have to figure it out.
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President Trump is blaming Gavin Newsom for the fires in Los Angeles.
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Trump writes, Governor Gavin Newsom refused to sign the water restoration declaration put
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before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water from excess rain and snow
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melt from the north to flow daily into parts of California, including the areas that
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are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way.
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He wanted to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt by giving it less water.
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Didn't work, but didn't care about the people of California.
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I will demand that this incompetent governor allow beautiful, clean, fresh water to flow
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On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, no firefighting planes.
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Newsom was asked about President Trump's response.
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I hate to even ask this question, but the president-elect chose to attack you, blame you
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I mean, it's, you know, people are literally fleeing.
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I have a lot of thoughts and I know what I want to say.
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I stood next to a president of the United States of America today and I was proud to be
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And he had the backs of every single person in this community.
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He didn't play politics, didn't try to divide any of us.
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Trump politicized the fires in 2018 and 2019 and even earlier this year or last year, 2024,
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when he warned Gavin Newsom repeatedly, sometimes to his face in person, that these fires would happen
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if Newsom didn't change his policies and Newsom did nothing.
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It would be one thing if no one could see this coming.
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It would be one thing if no one had suggested various policies, simple policies that would have mitigated the fires,
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like getting proper water, like funding the fire department, like clearing away brush and having proper forest management,
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like dealing with homeless people who frequently, though perhaps not in this case,
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but frequently start the fires in California and so on and so forth.
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It'd be one thing if no one had predicted this or if people had predicted these fires but didn't have any solutions for it.
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Here's President Trump, 2019, talking to Gavin Newsom about this very problem.
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You know, the floors of the forest is very important.
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You look at other countries where they do it differently and it's a whole different story.
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I was with the president of Finland and he said we have a much different, we're a forest nation.
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And they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things and they don't have any problem.
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So I know everybody's looking at that to that end and it's going to work out.
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Later on in 2019, President Trump said billions of dollars are sent to the state of California
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for forest fires that with proper forest management would never happen unless they get their act
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It's a disgraceful situation in lives and money.
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Even earlier than that, in 2018, President Trump said there is no reason for these massive,
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deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor.
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Billions of dollars are given each year with so many lives lost all because of gross
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Time and time again for years, President Trump was pointing this out.
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Then clear as day, also 2019 on Twitter, November 3rd, 2019 on Twitter, then Twitter before it
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was X, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom's done a terrible job of forest management.
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I told him from the first day we met that he must clean his forest floors regardless of
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what his bosses, the environmentalists demand of him must also do burns and cut fire stoppers.
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So you got suggestion, suggestion, suggestion, new aspect of a suggestion, new aspect.
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Every year as the fires range and California burns, it's the same thing.
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And then he comes to the federal government for money.
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You don't see close to the level of burn in other states, but our teams are working well
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Even as recently as this election season, President Trump goes on Joe Rogan and he explains this
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It's not just that President Trump occasionally makes a stray comment about forest fires in
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This is one issue that he has been hammering for years consistently in detail with specificity
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You know, in Los Angeles, you can't get proper amounts of water.
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And you might have a house in Beverly Hills and they're actually thinking about rationing
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I was in the farm court country with some of the congressmen who were driving up a highway
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and I say, how come all this land is so barren?
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But I said, but there's always that little corner that's so green and beautiful.
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It's got a natural flow from Canada all the way up north of water.
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And in order to protect a tiny little fish, the water up north gets routed into the Pacific
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Sometimes they say with Trump that there's a tweet for everything, that this guy has a
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The years prior to some event kicking off in politics, he'll have made a tweet about it.
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Well, in this case, it's what, half a dozen tweets, a dozen tweets, and repeated TV interviews
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We haven't even gotten into the local politicians in Los Angeles, one of whom wasn't even on
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Trump wears a hat now that says Trump was right about everything.
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One, people are treating Trump as the president.
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People are already treating Trump as the president.
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He's not going to be inaugurated until, what day is it?
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No one really thinks Biden is running the country.
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It seems like no one's running the state of California.
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All of these suggestions, the mayor of Los Angeles goes to Africa.
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Second political observation, Gavin Newsom's presidential bid.
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The only reason I say it's not quite dead is because Democrats are nuts and political memories are short.
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And there is a world in which four years from now, people forget about the most devastating fire in the history of Los Angeles.
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This is a colossal, historic failure for the chief executive of this state.
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The most populous city burns to the ground because of his policy failures in large part.
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Now, one week ago, one week ago, that man thought he was going to be the president of the United States.
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I thought he was the strongest candidate in the Democrat field.
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And in fact, I still think he was the strongest candidate in the Democrat field.
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And the bill for Gavin Newsom's terrible policies just came due in a tragic, horrific way.
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And that means that from a political standpoint, 2028 is wide open on the Democrat side.
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Democrats don't want to accept any blame for the many policies articulated clearly by the top Republican politicians
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for years that led to these totally predictable fires.
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Bernie Sanders says, 80,000 people told to evacuate, blazes 0% contained, eight months since the area has seen rain.
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Donald Trump must treat this like the existential crisis it is.
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Senator Bernie Sanders, socialist from Vermont, seems to think President Trump is the current president.
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Donald Trump must treat this like the crisis it is.
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I thought we've had Democrat governance for the last four years.
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In fact, I thought we've had Democrat governance for 12 out of the last 16 years.
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Why haven't you treated climate change like the existential crisis that it is?
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Or if you have, why are there fires in California?
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You guys have been in control three quarters of the time for the last 16 years.
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This is like when the Democrats complain about health care.
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When they exalt and celebrate the kid who murdered the health care CEO.
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They say, well, it's because health care is just so awful in America.
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I thought that was the whole point of Obamacare.
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Joe Biden stands there next to Obama and says, this is a big effing deal, man.
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We fixed health care for once and for all in America.
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Health care is in a sorrier state than it was before Obamacare.
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Democrats have been running the show for 12 of the last 16 years.
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You have to treat this like an existential crisis.
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But they haven't produced any results on the environment.
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And obviously, the sun monster is not to blame for the fires in California.
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Climate change is the leftist version of the dog ate my homework.
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Climate change is the leftist version of that guy at your company.
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You know that guy at your company who's got an excuse for everything?
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Hey, how come that thing that you're responsible for, why didn't that happen?
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But then actually, the power went out on this computer.
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That's what climate change fulfills in politics.
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It can't be the defunding of the fire departments.
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It can't be the total neglect by local politicians.
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It can't be letting homeless people camp out in dry brush.
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It's got to be Zeus throwing down lightning from Mount Olympus.
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Certainly has nothing to do with the policies enacted by the politicians who've been running
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Karen Bass, who was an actual member of a communist organization as a young adult.
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Karen Bass, who was a member of Congress, who then became mayor of LA.
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She hasn't been around LA during these fires because she decided to go take a little vacation
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So she goes over to Africa, taxpayer subsidized to go for the inauguration of a Ghanaian politician,
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She makes a phone call or two, but finally, this is so cataclysmic, she had to fly back.
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And here's the help that she is offering the residents of Los Angeles.
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Here's, don't worry, the mayor is back in charge.
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And if you're worried about your property and your life and your family and your whole community,
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Right now, if you need help, emergency information, resources, and shelter is available.
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Los Angeles together is how we will get through this.
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If you need help, if you need any support in Los Angeles, go to URL.
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They couldn't, the speechwriter couldn't even put the website in there.
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You know, a thousand homes have burned so far, about a thousand buildings.
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I'm here to give you this really important advice.
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Trying to blame these fires on everything, but what actually caused them.
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The firefighters who are doing their very best, doing heroic work.
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The first responders who are doing their very best, doing heroic work.
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The firefighters can't work if there's no water.
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And the firefighters are not responsible for there being water.
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Karen Bass is responsible for the city working.
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And if they have to be bothered to come back to the cities that they run while the cities burn to the ground, they're not even going to give you a website to go to.
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They're not even going to read their remarks before they give them.
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The liberal establishment, which has had the privilege of ruling our country for decades, and that has been ruling these left-wing cities for even longer, the liberal establishment is just checked out.
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They're just not fulfilling the basic functions of their jobs.
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They don't feel any need to answer for their failures.
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Meanwhile, CNN, the liberal establishment in TV, is still insisting that the problem is Trump, the threat to the country is Trump, and that the GOP, the Republican Party itself, should have rejected Trump.
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I mean, shouldn't your party have just rejected him, just flat-out rejected him, from Kevin McCarthy to Mitch McConnell to the whole lot of them?
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How could your party let him be the nominee again?
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Your job, GOP establishment, you were supposed to stop Trump.
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Why would you nominate the guy who won you the popular vote for the first time in 20 years?
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Why would you nominate the guy who won the election in an electoral landslide?
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Because his campaign is so attractive that it pulls over one in five black voters,
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and most women 45 and older, and most married women,
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and 40% of women even under 30, and almost half of Hispanics,
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and huge coal, and the Rust Belt, and the Sun Belt, and everybody?
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I thought the Democrats were supposed to champion democracy and power to the people,
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and no, but you can't, the GOP's not allowed to have popular politicians.
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Come on, Republican establishment, you guys are supposed to be the gatekeepers.
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You're supposed to be the junior partner in the governing project of America,
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which is led by Democrats, it's led by the liberals,
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and neither the leading party, the Democrats, nor the junior partner,
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the squish Republicans, are ever supposed to give the people what they want.
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to just keep moving along with the liberal status quo,
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which now is literally burning parts of our country to the ground.
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And it's not just LA, it's not just the fire with the Santa Ana winds.
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The liberal establishment burned Minnesota to the ground during George Floyd,
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Speaking of President Trump's proposals, President Trump wants Greenland.
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And the libs are pretending that he's really kooky and eccentric,
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that this proposal to annex Greenland is out of left field.
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In fact, the U.S. State Department has been trying to acquire Greenland for 150 years now or more.
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President Trump suggested it in the first term.
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The European Union, actually French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barreau,
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told a radio station just yesterday that he considers Greenland to be a territory of the European Union.
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He said that the French government's position is that it is, quote,
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out of the question that the European Union could let other nations of the world, whoever they may be, attack its sovereign borders.
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And this is a really funny response to Trump's proposal.
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Because it's not Greenland coming out and saying, hey, we have our independence.
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It's Europe saying, hey, America, get your hands off our territory.
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Greenland's much closer to America than it is to Europe.
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But Greenland is ruled by Denmark, by this tiny little country in Europe.
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So the whole argument is, Greenland, in our enlightened liberal age, full of independence and autonomy,
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Greenland is certainly not going to be taken over by the United States.
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Um, I don't think that's a persuasive argument.
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I don't think Denmark has a particularly strong case to rule Greenland.
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The people of Greenland don't want to be ruled by the European Union or Denmark.
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And if we want it, I think it's pretty well within our sphere of influence to exert a little bit of control over Greenland.
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The EU's argument is, you can't have Greenland.
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If you want to play that game, if you want to make that argument, well, then what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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Europe doesn't exist today without the United States.
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For all intents and purposes, Europe doesn't have a military.
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When the European militaries do anything, they do it at the direction of the United States.
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After the Second World War, we said, look, we're going to provide all of your military's defense, just about.
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And you're not going to have military so that your continent doesn't erupt in war again.
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But you're going to basically just be vassals of the United States.
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That's what Europe has been since the Second World War.
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So now you're going to get a little big for your britches.
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You're going to say, hey, America, you don't get to do what you want to do.
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You might say this is a bad system of world order.
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You might say that this is wrong or this is contrary to your interests.
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It reminds me of comments that John Bolton made many years ago, decades ago, at the United Nations.
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I know that John Bolton is not as popular today as he used to be.
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But here is Ambassador Bolton not even so much advocating a particular world order
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The point that I want to leave with you in this very brief presentation is where I started.
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There is an international community that occasionally can be led by the only real power left in the world,
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and that's the United States, when it suits our interests, and when we can get others to go along.
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The secretariat building in New York has 38 stories.
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If you lost 10 stories today, it would make a bit of difference.
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This kind of mindless creation of the United Nations as something different
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than what it's in the United States' interest to do isn't going to sell here or anywhere else.
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The United States makes the U.N. work when it wants it to work.
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And that is exactly the way it should be because the only question,
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the only question for the United States is what's in our national interest.
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And if you don't like that, I'm sorry, but that is the fact.
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You might not even like John Bolton anymore, but he's pretty clear there and I think pretty persuasive.
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Even if you think there ought to be a more robust kind of United Nations,
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or even if you think that Europe ought to provide its own military defense or whatever,
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that's just what he's describing, certainly when he was describing it, is just true.
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Now we have rising threats from China and other powers, but that's just a fact.
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If the United States does not acquire Greenland, it will not be because the French foreign minister whines about it.
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The French foreign minister and one euro fifty will get you a cup of café au lait.
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Some countries are not merely complaining about Trump's proposals, but they're countering President Trump's proposals.
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President Trump suggested that Canada should be the 51st state, as Monsieur Trudeau was ending his political career.
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Well, a member of parliament in Canada has just proposed countering what Trump wants with Canada's acquiring California and Oregon and Washington.
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Yeah, but maybe California would like to be the 11th province.
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But I actually really like her commentary there because she's dropping the facade that we so often see with liberalism and globalism and the liberal world order.
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She's dropping the pretense that borders are permanently fixed, that nations don't have interests, that the interests of nations and nations themselves don't change over time.
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That history has come to an end, liberalism has won, and will remain in the Elysian fields of 1994 forever.
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Even in her little joke, she goes, oh, you want to take Canada?
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You don't get Canada, but maybe we're going to go in and take California.
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Would be fitting given the policies that have governed California, the failed liberal policies, much like we've seen in Canada.
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To which, of course, America would respond, okay, lady, sure.
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You know, lead your troops to conquer California.
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Because the beneficiaries of the pretense that the history has ended and borders are permanently fixed are the weak countries.
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That's not an argument for countries to go in and invade their neighbors.
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That's not a defense of someone like Vladimir Putin.
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But the observation that borders are never permanently fixed is just an observation about how politics works.
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And as that happens, borders are going to change.
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The very fact that people move, the very fact that people migrate, shows you why borders necessarily are going to change.
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The comments from this wacky Canadian MP serve as an acceleration of a return to normal geopolitics, which is what you're seeing.
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After the Second World War, we had all sorts of fictions.
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We pretended that there's this thing called the United Nations, which John Bolton was just making fun of.
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We pretended that liberalism had won and there would be no more ideological struggles.
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We pretended that history and culture and ethnic conflict no longer exists.
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We pretended a lot of things that just haven't been proven true.
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And now, as the mists of that post-war consensus begin to evaporate, we're returning to normal.
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We're returning to a politics where strength matters.
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A politics where we at least acknowledge that strength matters, which is why you need to have a strong country, which is why you need to make sure you make your country great again.
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Now, speaking of a return to normal politics, Elon Musk has gotten into a lot of trouble because he's reinstating standards on Twitter.
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There were all these leftist standards on Twitter.
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And then Elon Musk buys Twitter, largely because the Babylon Bee was kicked off.
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And then he comes in and he says, hey, algorithm tweak coming soon to promote more informational entertaining content.
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Our goal is to maximize unregretted user seconds.
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Too much negativity is being pushed that technically grows user time, but not unregretted user time.
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We're also looking on ways for you to adjust the content feed dynamically so you can have what you want at any given moment.
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Some people, on the right in particular, are furious at this change.
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Here's Steve Bannon invading against Elon Musk in pretty brutal terms.
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The danger of the guy, it's total, this is the CCP, this is a social credit score.
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He can't take, because of the, I don't know, the autism or where he's on the spectrum, he's clearly not.
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He's got the maturity of an 11-year-old, you can tell that.
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Okay, I agree with Steve Bannon on a whole lot of things, but I think he's dead wrong here.
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When he says what Elon is doing is, is a Chinese social credit score.
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It's, it's a conservative social credit score, or it's a libertarian social credit score, or it's an American social credit score.
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It's, it procedurally bears some resemblance to things that not just the Chinese have done, but that every country in the world has done, including America's, because we've had plenty of speech standards for our whole history.
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In China, you have to toe the party line of the CCP.
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But the standards on X are going to be rather different from the party line of the CCP.
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Just like the standards in your school, or your company, or your social club, or your home, or the bowling alley, or the restaurant, are all going to differ.
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Elon says, look, we're going to, we're going to try to make this Twitter a nice place to be.
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Elon Musk, though he's getting all of this hate right now, Elon Musk understands free speech better than his critics do.
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Because Elon Musk understands that there is no such thing as total free speech in the abstract.
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And Elon Musk recognizes that the battle over speech is not a battle between free speech and censorship.
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It's a battle between competing sets of standards and norms.
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There will always be speech that is off limits.
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America has always, at least in principle, held that there's no right to obscenity, or fraud, or threats, or libel, or any other number of forms of speech.
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And then at a cultural level, we've always discouraged impoliteness, okay?
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The first precept of the natural law is good is to be pursued and evil avoided.
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The left says evil is to be pursued and good is to be avoided.
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Some people say those are the same because you're pursuing some things and avoiding others.
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What matters are the substantive differences here.
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And so the question for Elon is, what is going to give us a positive experience on Twitter?
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The question for conservative politicians is, what is going to give us a positive experience in our country?
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What is going to, to use a more classical phrase, advance the common good?
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My favorite comment yesterday is from JoeBiden915.
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If Tony can be called Tina, the Gulf of Mexico can be called the Gulf of America.
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The Gulf of Mexico can be called the Gulf of America, even if Tony can't be called Tina.
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Speaking of standards, this is a story up in New York.
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Metro North, a Metro North rider, this is the commuter train there,
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has been stabbed in the chest after complaining about loud music on a guy's phone.
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So, there's this guy, Abdul Malik Little, 46 years old.
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We're talking about a 45-year-old, 46-year-old.
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And he took exception when a 31-year-old fellow rider complained about the noise.
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It's all, you know, he has the right to his day in court.
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If you've been in New York, if you've ridden the subway, or in this case, this is a commuter train.
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There's going to be a guy who's sitting there, who's dressed inappropriately, who looks like he's got problems,
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who starts playing music really, really loudly on his phone.
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Just waiting for someone to say anything about it.
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Very uncivilized people who should not be permitted into polite society.
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And usually people ignore it because the cops are not allowed to do their jobs in New York.
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And if you ever stand up to any of the bad guys on the trains, you could find yourself like Daniel Penny,
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fighting to stay out of jail for the rest of your life or worse.
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But this guy, he politely asks Abdul Malik Little, allegedly, to turn his music down.
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So this guy, allegedly, stabs him in the chest.
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So as he's stumbling off the train, he identifies the guy to the police.
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This is not some place far flung out in Brooklyn or Queens in some bad neighborhood.
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This is the commuter train in Grand Central, what is supposed to be the safest, most mainstream touristy part of New York City, just about.
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Think of everything that had to go wrong for that to happen.
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A lot of people who aren't as familiar with New York, they're going to say,
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Okay, if you're walking around some dodgy part of Brooklyn at 2 o'clock in the morning wearing a pink polo shirt with your collar popped, wearing a big gold Rolex, and you get mugged, okay, that's to be expected.
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But you're riding a commuter train at Grand Central, Midtown East, really nice part of town, and some degenerate is playing music loudly on his phone.
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Criminals and psychos had to be allowed on the streets.
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The conductors on the trains had to not enforce standards that existed.
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Understandably so, because they don't want to get stabbed.
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They know the cops are not allowed to do their jobs to have their backs.
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And if they interfere too much, they might be called racists and have their lives ruined and go to jail.
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And then the tough bystanders, the ones who are manly, who are willing to put these people in their place, had to be convinced not to intervene because they don't want to end up like Daniel Penny.
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To say nothing of, this guy, the alleged perpetrator here, had to be raised terribly, had to be permitted to get away with brutal animalistic behavior for most of his life that would convince him that it's okay to behave this way.
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But I made the point yesterday on the show with regard to the fires in Los Angeles.
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Lots of little rot will take place over years, maybe over decades.
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Speaking of society spinning out of control, and speaking of Hollywood, John Cryer, who is one of the stars of Two and a Half Men, John Cryer, who was just on the Bill Maher show, even today in the year of our Lord, 2024, 2025, defending, trancing the kids.
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But don't pretend there isn't also a default setting.
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And you can't rewrite the world so that every baby is just a jump ball.
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And if it's not, we'll deal with that in a compassionate way.
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I mean, the idea that I would, as a child, would have had to have dealt with something like this.
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Well, again, the people that go through it don't say, this is the life I want.
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No parent wants to be in the midst of those choices.
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Some kids these days actually just do want to be trans.
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There are some kids, especially, why is it like so much more prevalent like here than Indiana?
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Yeah, there's a societal suppression, but it's like left-handedism.
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Being left-handed was suppressed for thousands of years amongst human beings.
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But once they, it was, you know, apparently in the 30s, scientists basically said, there's
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no, there's no, left-handedness doesn't actually do anything bad.
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People just stopped training themselves to be right-handed.
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And this is a, this is a, you know, this has happened societally before.
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And that's the, that's the closest analog that I can think of.
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Chopping your kid's genitals off, it's kind of like letting a left-handed kid swing the
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Bill Maher, who is a liberal, he says, look, I don't know, it just seems to me, come on,
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you know, in some cases, even maybe someone's not male or female.
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He's even, he's even going far enough to, to, he's going halfway to the trans ideology,
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but that's not enough for John Cryer, who says, no, no, no, we just disagree, Bill.
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And sometimes you need to cast straight little kids.
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You need to turn little kids into Unix so that you can post pictures of it on social
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media and get likes from other perverts and weirdos.
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I mentioned a few days ago, I'm sick of the trans story.
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We are well on our way to eradicating transgenderism from public life entirely, which will be for
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the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who've fallen prey
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If we never have to talk about transgenderism again, that they will be too soon.
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And yet here we are talking about transgenderism, not to talk about the issue itself.
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I think, I think the 2024 election proved that it's over.
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I guess it's really, the only reason I want to talk about the story is because it shows
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They're playing the same old song that has been rejected by new audiences.
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A, an ancillary point here, just something a little, but it's worth taking note of.
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It's interesting that Bill Maher takes the Lord's name in vain.
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He is a member of two groups who you would expect not to use the Lord's name in any way.
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It is bad always to take the Lord's name in vain.
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But there is a silver lining in that storm cloud, which is, it, it shows that Bill Maher
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is viewing the world at least in some way through a Christian lens.
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He is Jewish, at least ethnically Jewish, but he's viewing the world because we all, because
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we all kind of view the world through a Christian lens.
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Certainly in the West, we all, even if we want to deny it, even if we want to say, I reject
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And it turns out that the new atheists, you know, a few viral clips of Christopher Hitchens
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in the mid-2000s is not sufficient to destroy our civilization and the bedrock of civilization
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Now, I'm very excited to have a guest on this show that I wanted to have on two days ago,
00:47:10.200
but the technological problems of the universe prevented us from doing that.
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That is Aaron Hawley to discuss one of the most important issues that President Trump
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I've often said that gender-affirming care is health care, it is mental health care,
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and it can actually be suicide prevention care.
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I think I'm going to take some medicine so I can kind of, like, transform into a boy, get surgery.
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After the surgery, I didn't really feel any better.
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When it stopped being a thing for adults, and it started to be a, let's teach this to kids.
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What they're talking about is hormonal therapy or sex reassignment surgery on children.
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I thought fixing me externally would fix me internally.
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The fact that the state thinks that they're more important and have a better say in what
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happens to your child over the actual parent's opinion is egregious.
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Big money makers for hospitals, for physicians.
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This is a weaponized use of a parent's sympathy and caring and concern by the left to destroy
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Let's tell kids that maybe they can be the opposite sex.
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It is an evil thing to tell children that happiness lies on the other side of puberty blockers