Ep. 1679 - Trump NUKES Woke Military Brass
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A man accused of cannibalism and hacking someone to death with an axe has been granted conditional release. President Trump is brutalizing the Democratic Governor of Maine, the Woke Top brass of the military, and the President of Ukraine.
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President Trump is brutalizing the Democrat governor of Maine, the woke top brass of the military, and the president of Ukraine.
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All of which is great news for the people of Maine, for our troops in the military, and oddly enough, even for the president of Ukraine.
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A man accused of cannibalism and hacking someone to death with an axe has been granted conditional release.
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President Trump just hosted an event for the governors of the various states, and he got into a delicious exchange, almost as delicious as a VandyCrisp potato chip, a truly just scrumptious little exchange with the Democrat governor of Maine, Janet Mills.
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It was over Maine's threat not to follow federal law when it comes to keeping men out of women's sports.
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You better do it because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't.
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And by the way, your population, even though it's somewhat liberal, although I did very well there, your population doesn't want men playing.
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So you better comply because otherwise you're not getting any federal funding.
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And enjoy your life after governor because I don't think you'll be in elected politics.
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And what's supposed to be a very nice, happy, diplomatic meeting with all the governors of both parties.
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He says, hey, I heard the governor of Maine is not going to follow federal law.
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So if you if you're not going to follow what we're telling you to do, you're in violation of federal law.
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And then I hope you enjoy your retirement because you're never getting elected again.
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In part, at a 30,000 foot civics view, this is how the government is supposed to work.
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You are supposed to have sometimes a little bit of disagreement between the states and the federal government.
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And in this case, the federal government is totally in the right.
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And so one hopes and expects that Trump will be able to just totally squash this Democrat governor of Maine.
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But the other reason it's really beautiful from a little more practical political level is the vast majority of Americans do not believe men should be competing in women's sports.
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They don't want men forcing themselves into girls' locker rooms.
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They don't want men giving girls concussions when they play volleyball with them or cracking their skulls when they're boxing with them.
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They don't want they know it's ridiculous and they feel it at a visceral level.
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So once again, Trump puts himself on the right side of an 80-20 issue.
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How many Americans are going to watch that exchange and say, I'm with the Democrat governor of Maine?
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Yeah, let those men just go in and brutalize little girls.
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We're not going to have those stupid paper straws anymore.
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Baiting the Democrats to take the side of paper straws, which no one likes, including Democrats.
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He knows, this is really the significance of November.
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He goes, he says, hey, all right, hope everyone's having a good lunch.
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I'm putting you on the spot right now with a national, frankly, international spotlight.
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The best response they can come up with to President Trump's initiative is to call him racist.
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This has been the reflexive Democrat move for 40, 50 years at this point.
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In fact, a big driver of the 2024 election was how much people hate political correctness,
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wokeness, DEI, the kind of embedded racial grievance in our politics.
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He implements getting rid of DEI, this kind of radical leftism, identity politics in our government.
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And then Jim Clyburn, Democrat senator, race hustler par excellence, goes on CNN.
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And he says, you know, all of this anti-DEI stuff, the fact that President Trump just replaced the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
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because that chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, C.Q. Brown, was a big proponent of DEI.
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He said, that's just evidence of Trump's racism.
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Because of his skin color, he has been declared DEI or woke.
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Is that why you think the president has let him go, because he's black?
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As you know, there have been others who have been fired, including Defense Secretary Hegseth has fired other senior military leaders,
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Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Lisa Franchetti, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, General James Slife.
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What is your reaction to those who would say, hold on, there were others who will let go.
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You know that these words that they're throwing around like woke, that's an acronym that they've come up with.
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As I heard somebody say earlier today, they are substituting these acronyms for the N-word.
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Previously, I thought that Clyburn was just a radical leftist.
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I'm not sure that he even knows how to use the English language, which actually bodes well for him,
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There's a difference between an acronym and an initialism.
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I'm being a little pedantic here, and I digress.
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Even CNN, the black lady on CNN says, hold on, you're saying it's the N-word.
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You're saying this, the guy was fired because he's black.
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But Trump also fired an Italian lady and a white guy at the same time.
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So of the three people I'm showing on screen here, only one of them is black.
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Why would you say he's being fired just because he's black?
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And Clyburn doubles down, and he starts making up words,
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and he starts babbling like a child who doesn't never learn the English language.
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It's the same conclusion we've heard from the libs for 40, 50 years.
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If you oppose us in any way, we're going to smear you as racist.
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So, okay, before we get into how that's a stupid tactic, let's just take it on the merits, okay?
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Clyburn says that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, C.Q. Brown,
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was fired not because he is a leftist politically, not because he's woke,
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not because he engages in ugly racial identity politics.
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I'm thinking about how full I am with emotion, not just for George Floyd,
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but the many African-Americans that have suffered the same fate as George Floyd.
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Memo, you said that, you signed on to, that there should be a reduction, essentially,
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We have 5,400, you know, too many white officers.
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These are the kinds of things that we are, as an Air Force, are looking,
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how do we engage with different diverse communities based on race and gender in particular.
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This is actually pretty impressive because we've had a lot of leftists moved up into the top brass in recent years.
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It's one of the reasons morale in the military is so low.
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It's one of the reasons they have recruitment issues.
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It's one of the reasons why Pete Hegseth was put into that position because at least he raises the morale a little bit.
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Trump came in and he said, you know, look, I want to thank the chairman of the Joint Chiefs for his years of service in the military.
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And now we're going to rectify one of the problems of the Biden administration.
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Someone who was passed over for promotion is going to get this promotion.
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He didn't come in and lay the hammer down on this guy, C.Q. Brown.
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He's advancing a despicable, woke ideology, politically correct ideology, whatever you want to call it.
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The American people rejected it overwhelmingly.
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The majority of voters rejected it in November.
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And Jim Clyburn and the Democrats can say, oh, it's because he's black.
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But it doesn't work when Trump gets an historic proportion of the black male vote, almost 50% of Hispanics.
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Meanwhile, speaking of foreign affairs, President Trump has just announced a new deal for Ukraine because, you know, the liberal establishment had been pushing Ukraine and endless military funding and keeping that country to be a meat grinder to kill as many Russians as possible and sacrifice as many Ukrainians as possible.
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But there's really no end in sight to the conflict, and it was just going to go on and on and on and potentially boil over into a regional or even global war.
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You're going to pay us back for the money that we've given you, and you're going to pay us back with mineral rights in Ukraine.
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And that's actually going to be better, not only for the United States, but for Ukraine itself.
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How close are you to striking a minerals deal with Ukraine?
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I think they want it, and they feel good about it.
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But they want it, and it keeps us in that country, and they're very happy about it.
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This should have been signed long before we went in.
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It should have been signed by Biden, but Biden didn't know too much about what he was doing.
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The war should have never happened, number one.
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When it did happen, it could have been settled the first week or two weeks.
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But it should have never happened, and it should have been settled.
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And it could have been settled very easily at the beginning.
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So the libs are saying this is absolutely terrible.
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Trump is trying to secure this minerals deal and extract money out of Ukraine.
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Granted, we've given hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine here.
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So asking for a little something back is, I don't think, immoral or out of the question.
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However, they're saying this is wrong because America, just we give aid to our friends.
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And we support people, and it's never self-interested.
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Now, what they don't seem to understand is incentives.
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I think it's a little bit overstated sometimes on the right how important it is to have a
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businessman as president because you also want a statesman as president.
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You also want someone who gets the big picture historically and militarily and ethically.
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But this would be an area where having a businessman as president is a real advantage because while
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the libs want us to continue writing a blank check to Ukraine ad infinitum with no goal
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in sight, with no real benefit to the United States in sight, Trump is saying, no, hold on.
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If you want us to keep backing Ukraine, you got to give us some skin in the game.
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We live in a democracy, so the people can turn against the war.
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We get sick of war very quickly, and the American people are sick of this war already.
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So if you want us to have any continued involvement in Ukraine and not just give it away to Russia's
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traditional sphere of influence, which it's been in for something like a thousand years
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or more, then you got to give us some stake in it.
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He's saying a mineral deal in Ukraine means, one, the United States is going to invest money
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We're going to invest money in building out this industry, which is good for you.
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Then, because we're going to maybe be making a little bit of money on this, we're going
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We're going to have a reason to stop Russia from going in and just taking over your country.
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It's almost certainly not going to pay for all the hundreds of billions of dollars that
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we've spent on the Ukraine war, which is also fine for Ukraine.
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Ukraine's definitely getting the better end of the bargain here, but you're giving the
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You're aligning incentives in such a way that gives us any reason whatsoever to stick around.
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Now, Zelensky didn't get this right away, because Zelensky is not a great leader.
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So, Zelensky says he was going to reject this deal and blah, blah, blah.
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Ukraine should have been begging for a mineral deal like this, okay?
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This is the best guarantee of support, of U.S. support, that that country has ever had.
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Now, speaking of death and destruction, a man accused of cannibalism and hacking someone
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to death with an ax has just been granted conditional release, coming to a neighborhood near you.
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Connecticut man, accused of all these hideous things, has been granted release according to
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the Connecticut Psychiatry Security Review Board.
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He's currently at Connecticut Valley Hospital in Middletown.
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Smith is accused of hacking a man to death with an ax in Bridgeport and eating part of
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The PSRB said Smith has demonstrated long-term stability, remained engaged in all recommended
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treatments, and consistently followed his care.
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The board granted Tyree Smith's release after a careful review of his clinical progress,
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This is third world stuff to let murderer cannibals out of prison, willy-nilly, no concern
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for the victims or the victims' families, just, oh, it's okay, he's out now.
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And what's funny is, the leftists who promote this stuff, who promote clemency, who campaign
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ardently against the death penalty, even in principle, who want to go soft on crime, and
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They accuse conservatives who want to be a little tougher on crime.
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They accuse us of being kind of third world, medieval, this old tribal system of punishment.
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In the third world, one of the defining features is that the law is not evenly applied.
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It's capricious, criminals run loose, injustice dominates.
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We have all these campaigns based on dubious philosophy and ideology.
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You can literally murder and eat somebody in America.
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And if you fit the right narrative, racially, ideologically, maybe geographically, you'll
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I understand how you get to it in the third world.
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They just don't have enough resources to lock up the criminals.
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We choose not to lock up the criminals, even the murderer cannibals.
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This is the consequence of perverting our justice system to throw retribution out the
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What do we think of when we think of our justice system today?
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And yeah, there's a correctional or rehabilitative aspect to punishment.
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There's also a deterrent aspect to punishment, which we also ignore.
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But the primary purpose of the criminal justice system is to punish people for having done bad
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The primary purpose of the justice system has to be retribution.
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Because one, that is what is most closely connected to justice.
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But furthermore, everyone is in need of a little rehabilitation.
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No, should you be thrown in prison because, you know, you want to reach for that fifth
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You go to prison for breaking the law and you are punished for your crime.
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And hopefully your presence there deters people.
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But you have to recognize that there are good things and bad things.
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And when you do bad things, you are punished for it simply for doing the bad thing.
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And if we, we are now, we are so morally confused in society.
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We're cracking open our border, allowing face-tattooed Satanists to flood our country
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But if we have now reached the point when we don't know, we can't discern the good or
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bad in murder and cannibalism, you know something about our justice system has really, really
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Speaking of the third world, Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett, this is a member of Congress,
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She went on The Breakfast Club show to explain how she is rooting for Canada and Mexico over
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The fact that I'm rooting for Canada and I'm rooting for Mexico a lot is really wild, but
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they are really the ones that are speaking truth to power right now.
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They can see what it is, and they were like, we are not messing with this crazy regime from
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But I'm like, y'all knew who he was when y'all elected him.
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And I'm not just throwing bombs, and I'm not being a cheap partisan here.
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To an actual leftist, identifies, says, I'm on the left, I'm an ideological leftist.
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You ask them, hey, what do you think about the founding of America?
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The first thing they're going to tell you is, this country was founded on stolen land.
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The evil white man, he took the land from the Indians.
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They'll call them Native Americans or something.
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And then this country was built on the backs of slaves.
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The injustice of slavery, which has been practiced everywhere in the world for all of history.
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It was actually practiced here probably less time than just about anywhere else in the entire world.
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But it was built on slavery, and then discrimination, and then sexism, and then homophobia, and then transphobia,
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and nothing ever good ever happened in this country.
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But for the poor, oppressed, marginalized people, who sometimes were able to throw an axe and crack the hellish facade that covers America,
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I don't even think I, we don't need to say any more about that.
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I think even many on the left would agree with that.
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But they, they'll say, no, no, we love America.
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You know, but that, to say you love what America could be, or, you know, the dream of what America might be someday,
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that, that is to say you don't like what America is now.
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When Barack Obama says he wants to fundamentally transform America,
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that is another way of saying he hates America as it is and as it has been.
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And it represents a contempt for one's country.
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And as I've said it many times on the show, liberalism is just screw you, dad.
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And this is related even etymologically, because this contempt for one's country is a contempt for the patria.
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You know, that's the, like patriotic, you know, that's your country.
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It comes from, it comes from the same root as pater, as father.
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They both come from the same thing, and they come from the same contempt.
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I didn't have time, but I really want to get to it.
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This is, this is very much in line with unsurprising news stories.
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Men may be more romantic than women, experts say.
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A question, is it true that men are more romantic than women?
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Yeah, yeah, you don't need, you don't need an article in the Washington Post for that.
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But you don't need studies and experts to tell you things that everyone just knows.
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How many love poems have been written by women?
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How many love ballads have been written by women?
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And I don't know, I guess maybe in our modern culture, because we're so poisoned by feminism
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and the sexual confusion, we think, no, it's kind of like the people who say,
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You know, it just depends on if they meet the same standards.
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Statistically, no woman in the world can beat up any man.
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I know that there are like one or two exceptions maybe,
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and that's what the libs are always going to point to.
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But statistically speaking, no woman can beat up any man.
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Men, you know, hold the boombox outside the girl's window at night, you know,
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It's the same reason that men are funnier than women.
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So we need to, we got to use every tool in our toolbox.
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We're just, it's all of a piece with all of these big headlines based on scientific studies
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and all the experts to tell us things that our grandparents knew intuitively.
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Where's your source that men are more romantic?
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Now, speaking of men and women, there is an actor who I'd never heard of, but apparently
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But he thinks that he's a woman and his name is Hunter James Schaefer.
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He is furious that now under the Trump administration, his passport will identify him as a male.
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Bureau of Consular Affairs has frozen passport applications requesting a gender marker change
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or renewals or new applications with a gender marker deferring from an applicant's gender assigned
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So my initial reaction to this, because our president, you know, is a lot of talk, was
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So now to specify, I my gender markers were first changed in my teens when I first got my driver's
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license and then passports following all have been female since then.
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It's a problem even just the level of national security when when official documents pertaining
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to national security cannot identify a person as a man or a woman or cannot reliably identify
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It's a problem when a woman has her rights violated and is is denied even her own bathroom or even her
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That's a problem that what the left says with the gender ideology is that's not when why is this a
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When you lie, when you infringe on the legitimate rights of people, when you take 890 medals and
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trophies away from hundreds of women across 29 different sports and you take their scholarships
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It's nice for you, you think, but it's a problem for these other people.
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It is living out of accord with reality is a problem.
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It creates many, many problems, myriad problems, uncountable number of problems.
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This is a freaky one because this guy does kind of look like a woman.
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So almost all transvestites and trans identifying people don't really look like the opposite
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I mean, that's actually kind of a problem, too.
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Because you imagine some guy starts dating this guy and he thinks he's dating a woman
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and he thinks he's going to get married and have kids and then he finds out one day,
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Even to that, it's just disordered and wrong, okay?
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And one feels for this guy because apparently this guy got trans when he was like two years
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And if you look at his Wikipedia page, it says, you know, he started expressing his
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feminine, well, it's a she, but, you know, he started expressing his femininity when he
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That means that one or both of his parents were abusive.
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If his parents are leading him to believe that he's the opposite sex as a toddler, they're
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abusive, either through negligence and ignorance or through malice.
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And then, you know, he says, and that's why I got my passport changed to the opposite sex
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Yeah, I have a great deal of pity for this guy.
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That does not give him the right to mess up other people's lives, to mess up our national
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security, to mess up our system of rights and privileges for men and women.
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It doesn't, it's a problem, whether he thinks so or not.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Lynn Nichols, 2847, who says, it's actually refreshing
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The jokes and laughter and smiling faces are such a welcome change from the sourpusses' angry
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I was on two news shows when I was in Washington a few days ago.
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I was on PBS NewsHour, great, great privilege to be invited on there, you know, that don't
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necessarily always invite conservatives on, so I was very grateful to be on.
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And I was on Washington Journal on C-SPAN, which I had been on a number of times, though
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And I was asked about, you know, about Trump, is he an authoritarian, is he, one question
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in particular pertained to him quoting Napoleon.
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Trump is saying things like, you know, long live the king or whatever.
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And I think, oh man, it's okay to laugh a little bit, man.
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He was one of the biggest entertainers in the country for decades, but he was the number
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one rated on network television for like 15 years.
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The guy can tell a joke, whatever you want to say about him.
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Ronald Reagan would begin his meetings and many of his speeches with jokes.
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The angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly, says G.K.
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Now, speaking of Trump calling himself a king, Madonna, the singer, Madonna, she's in the news
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She tweets out, I thought this country was built by Europeans escaping living under the
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rule of a king to establish a new world governed by the people.
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Currently, we have a president who calls himself our king.
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And Trump said, he said, long live the king because Trump tweeted out, he said, I'm ending
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She goes, this is, I thought this country was built by Europeans.
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Because, you know, she didn't think about this, but, and the country was built by Europeans.
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But to say that is to say that white people built the country, which you're not allowed
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to say, because you have to say this country was built first by Native Americans who were
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And then the evil white man brought over the black man and he built the country.
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And the only person who didn't build the country at all is the white man.
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She goes, I thought this country was built by white people.
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All right, I thought this was a multicultural democracy.
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It says they were escaping, living under the rule of a king.
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I just want to, let me just go to Madonna's Wikipedia page.
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So I go, this is the first two sentences on Madonna's Wikipedia page.
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Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress commonly known as the queen of pop.
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She has been recognized for her continual reinvention of her still doing music production, songwriting, and visual presentation.
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I thought this was a country founded by Europeans escaping the intolerable yoke placed on them by a tyrant monarch.
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Or is it just a kind of a tongue-in-cheek little title?
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The biggest part of, I mean, she looks kind of silly here.
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You know, Elvis Presley, he didn't realize this country was built by Europeans seeking to escape the king.
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And Trump, when he makes a little joke, he says, look, I just fixed a traffic problem in New York from the federal government.
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It's like, basically, it's like him getting up and singing that song from 10 years ago.
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You could tell everybody, I'm the man, I'm the man.
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But really, the notable thing that she said here that very few people are picking up on,
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Wokeness, political correctness, racial identity politics is so dead that we're even now permitted to admit
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that places like New Amsterdam and New England were established by Europeans.
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Speaking of the Europeans, President Trump was just asked about the German elections,
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which I'm not even going to really cover all that much.
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The short version of the German elections is that the AFD party, which is called far right,
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even though it's not far right, it's led by a lesbian libertarian who thinks that Hitler was a Marxist.
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So it's like a regular kind of libertarian sort of right-wing party in America.
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They managed to double their support, the AFD, which is impressive.
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The regular old conservatives who are kind of libs won.
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the president was asked what he thought about the German elections.
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And he gave what I thought was a perfect answer.
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What do you expect to happen in the elections on Sunday?
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This attitude is strong from the standpoint of America first and not getting entangled in alliances all over the world.
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But it's actually a strong attitude even from the standpoint of geopolitics.
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Because what Trump is saying here is, hey, we're going to lead.
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I'm not watching the German elections to see if I'm going to get away with being able to do some of the things I want to do.
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Trump is quite involved in different parts of the world.
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He was just able, it seems like he was able, to cut this mineral deal in Ukraine.
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He was the most successful foreign policy president probably of my lifetime.
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And Trump maybe was a better foreign policy president even.
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And because Trump is not an isolationist or whatever the libs want to call him.
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Trump is a realist when it comes to the fact that America is the global empire.
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And as such, he says, yeah, look, we're going to keep doing what we're doing.
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You ought to ask the Germans about the American elections.
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Now, speaking of foreign relations with America, I have news.
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You know me, I'm a tease and I'm running out of time.
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He's the liberal British guy who started out on The Daily Show and then he got his own show.
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And he just, he does, you can't even say that he makes jokes.
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He just reads a headline from American political news and then just is like, what the F?
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You know, in, are you effing kidding or whatever?
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But anyway, he's super annoying and doesn't offer any insight on American politics.
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And he's vowing to stay in America despite President Trump.
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Which actually, that fact tells you something about all of these, all of the hand-wringing over President Trump.
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I'm going to be doing a little crossover with my friend, Mr. Ben Shapiro,
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to talk about a big news story that we actually didn't have time to get to today,
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There are news reports out that Pope Francis is on his deathbed potentially
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and lots of jockeying for position over who the next Pope will be,
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