Ep. 1681 - FIRED： Star Wars Will No Longer Be Lame and Gay
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Trump has officially gutted what little power remained of the legacy journalists who parade around the White House. But the cherry on top of the sundae is that, in this case, the media are so incompetent that they actually destroyed their undeserved power themselves.
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President Trump has officially gutted what little power remained of the legacy journalists who
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parade around the White House. That is great news in itself. But the cherry on top of the
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Sunday is that, in this case, the media are so incompetent that they actually destroyed
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their undeserved power themselves. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down at Lucasfilm. The woman who
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destroyed Star Wars. The Jar Jar Binks of Disney executives is stepping down. Many are celebrating.
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shipping. Limited time only, exclusions do apply. It all started because the Associated Press was angry
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that Trump didn't want it in the Oval Office or on Air Force One anymore. So the Associated Press,
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one of the furthest left, least connected to reality, most annoying fake news outlets in the
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world. A news outlet that so perverts language and so powerfully perverts language that it actually
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forces other journalists who don't even necessarily work for the AP to follow its silly rules,
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calling men, women, calling foreigners, Americans, and so on. They were really irritated that President
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Trump didn't invite them to every special super secret gathering of journalists. So they decided
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to sue the Trump White House. And a judge came out and said, look, you want an emergency stop
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on President Trump's ban of the Associated Press from a few different places. But I see no reason
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to do that. You, the Associated Press, have no right to be in the Oval Office whenever you want.
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You have no right to be on Air Force One whenever you want. Where are you talking? Where does that come
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from? And that led the Trump White House to say, hold on, you're right. They don't have any right.
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For too long, the liberal journalists have declared some sort of right to determine who
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is in the press room, who gets access to the president. But they really don't have any right
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to that. We have right to that. We're the White House. We're the ones who determine which journalists
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we meet with. So actually, you know what? Forget about the White House Correspondents Association.
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From now on, the White House press office is determining who gets in and who does not.
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Caroline Levitt, press secretary to the Trump, to the Trump, to the president. Take it away.
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As you all know, for decades, a group of D.C.-based journalists, the White House Correspondents
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Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the president of the United
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States in these most intimate spaces. Not anymore. I am proud to announce that we are going to give the
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power back to the people who read your papers, who watch your television shows, and who listen
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to your radio stations. Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White
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House press team. Legacy outlets who have participated in the press pool for decades will still be
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allowed to join. Fear not. But we will also be offering the privilege to well-deserving outlets
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who have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility. Just like we added a new media
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seat in this briefing room, legacy media outlets who have been here for years will still participate
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in the pool. But new voices are going to be welcomed in as well. When President Trump was in the midst of
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his transition, I said, this is an opportunity not only to reset the relationship between the citizen and the
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state, but to reset the relationship between the citizen and the press. The media, which are supposed to be
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the go-betweens between the people and the government, I said, right now they don't have much audience,
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they've lost a lot of their influence, and they've exposed themselves as being deeply dishonest.
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So on neither count do they fulfill their obligations. The whole point of the White House press
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core, the whole point of the media is to accurately report the news so they can actually convey what's
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going on in the White House to the people, and to ask the questions that the American people care
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about, to accurately reflect what the American people want, but the American people don't want
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what the legacy media are offering. That's why they're tuning them out. That's why even outlets
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like the New York Times and Washington Post admitted that this past election was the podcast election.
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The independent media election. People are tuning out the old establishment media.
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So I said, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. They're down. You got to kick them while they're
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down. You kick them while they're down, not just to be cruel or unjust or something like that.
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You kick them while they're down because they are corrupt. They have taken too much power,
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and part of what the people voted for in November is booting these kind of corrupt people
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out of the room. Love that she's doing that. Great, great stuff from the White House press secretary.
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Caroline Leavitt. And this was elevated even a little bit higher. This was not just a decision
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made by a communications staffer. President Trump addressed this himself from the Oval Office.
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And also on Air Force One, it's really, it's trending on X. People are talking about it.
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Well, we're going to be now calling those shots. As you know, we won that lawsuit right there. See the
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Gulf of America, which is a beautiful name. Most people agree. I don't know. It's, you know, AP has
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been terrible. I think they're radical left. I think they're third-rate reporters. I know the
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specific young lady that works on the account is terrible. She's a radical left lunatic, as far as
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I'm concerned. They don't treat us fairly. That's number one. And number two, they had no right to
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do that. This is the Gulf of America. And if you look at that shoreline, look at that shoreline.
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Look, from Florida, well, most of it is, it's called America. And a vast majority, like,
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big numbers. So I'm just admiring it as I look at it. I'm getting teary-eyed.
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I'm getting teary-eyed. It's so beautiful, the Gulf of America.
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He says, we're calling the shots now. We're calling the shots. The American people elected
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us. The majority of Americans, voters, elected us. They gave us a unified government. They don't
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want you anymore. They don't want the liberal media. They don't want the Democrats. They don't
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want the careerist bureaucrats who are going to undermine the elected people. We're calling the
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shots. He goes, and it's all because of the AP. And as President Trump points out here, it even
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predates the lawsuit. Because you got to ask yourself, well, hold on, why did the AP get kicked
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out of the Oval Office and Air Force One? Oh, it's because the AP refused to refer to the Gulf of
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America as the Gulf of America. The AP manipulates language. They try to control the political order
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by controlling how all the journalists write. They control how all the journalists write by
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trying to insist on left-wing euphemisms. You call foreigners Americans. You call men women.
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You capitalize the B in black people. You lowercase the W in white people, as if to say black people are
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better than white people. Really nasty stuff in there. And the AP, they said, we will not,
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we will not follow this executive order and refer to the Gulf of America as the Gulf of America.
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Trump points out, he says, look, the coastline. Look, it's mostly an American coastline.
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It's the Gulf of America. No, we will not do it. Okay. Well, you just, you pushed it a little too
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far, AP. And now the White House Correspondents Association has no power. The White House is calling
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the shots. And the relationship between the people and the media and the government has been reset.
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Thank you. Thank you, AP. I'm actually grateful to you. Now, speaking of booting people out of
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places, Democrat Representative Pramila Jayapal is furious that President Trump is booting illegal
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aliens out of America. Pramila Jayapal says this is an attack, not only on the rights of people,
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it's an attack on our economy. Because, and you've heard this line before,
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if we kick out the illegal aliens, who's going to pick our grapes?
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We can't let them continue their lies and their distractions. We can't let them deport the millions
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of families across this country who have been doing the work that keeps our economy going every day.
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We can't let them scapegoat and criminalize immigrants who contribute, who are our neighbors,
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our friends, our churchgoers, our community around us that we deeply love. Immigrants are us.
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Immigrants are us. And we all deserve respect and dignity. If you look at the food that's on your
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table, think about who picked it. If you look at your homes, think about who built them. If you look at
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your vulnerable elders and your kids, think about who's taking care of them.
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I don't think illegal aliens are doing any of that for me. Maybe some of my food, although I don't
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know, I got my eggs from my buddy and colleague over here. I actually, so the argument, as far as
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I can tell, the argument from this sitting Democrat representative is that we need a surf class of
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people who are paid off the books and under the minimum wage in order to pick our food and clean
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our toilets, which is an argument you hear from the establishment chamber of commerce Republican class
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and increasingly you hear it from Democrats. We need it. We need a slave class that does not really
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have a lot of political rights in order to give us cheap labor so that we don't need to clean our own
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toilets or go out and pick the grapes and the cotton. Okay. So fine. What is the broad thesis
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from those claims? The broad thesis is putting human rights and dignity and all the rest of it aside
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that illegal aliens are good for the economy. And that just isn't true. Senator Eric Schmidt had a
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great point on this. He says, they aren't coming here to contribute to our economy. They are illegally
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coming here to take from it. And Senator Schmidt has some great charts that he's posted. Here's one
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welfare use based on legal status of the household. And you can see between U.S. born legal immigrant
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and illegal immigrant, you see any welfare, people taking any welfare, 39% U.S. born, 52% legal immigrant.
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That's bad. That actually gets to my point, which is that for my whole life, practically,
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we've been given two options on immigration. The left says we need more illegal immigration. The
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right says we need more legal immigration. But actually, if you look at opinion polls,
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Gallup, Harvard, Harris, most Americans believe we need less immigration overall. And actually,
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when you get down into numbers, most Americans believe we need drastically less immigration,
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legal and illegal. And maybe that's one of the reasons why. 52% legal immigrant households on
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welfare. 59% illegal immigrants. So by far, the illegal immigrants are most likely to make use of
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welfare. Then you get into what specific kinds of welfare. Cash. It actually flips. The lowest is
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still U.S. born. But then the legal immigrants are the most likely, followed by the illegal immigrants.
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Then you go to food. By far, the least likely U.S. born. Then legal immigrants. Then illegal immigrants.
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Medicaid. By far, the lowest U.S. born. Then legal immigrants. Then illegal immigrants.
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Kind of levels out on housing. But there you have it. It's a drain on the economy.
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The Federation for American Immigration Reform, FAIR, estimates that the net annual cost to America
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of illegal immigration is $150.7 billion annually. That's net. So that's taking out. Illegal immigrants
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do contribute something to the economy, but they take stuff out of the economy too. The net is they
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take $150.7 billion. Nate Hockman pointed out on X yesterday that deporting 10 million illegal aliens
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would reduce the national debt by more than $1.3 trillion, which means, as he pointed out quite
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rightly, mass deportations are a fiscally conservative policy. You've heard the libs try
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to argue from human dignity and human rights, and the conservatives can easily knock that down. We can
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say, look, Fusion and Amnesty International point out that 68% of women and girls who cross that border
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illegally are raped or otherwise sexually assaulted on the journey. You think that's good for their
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dignity? You think that's good for their rights? You have to interact with criminal cartels, many of
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them have face tattoos and worship Satan in order to cross that border illegally. You think that's
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good for human rights and dignity? Countries have basic laws. When you violate really basic laws,
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you think that's good even for your dignity, and you think you have a right to that, to violate the
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basic laws of a country? Ridiculous. Get that out of it. Those arguments are stupid. So then the
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libs say, well, no, no, but it's just good for the economy. It's not good for the economy. It is a
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massive drain on the economy. What's the argument for it? Here, I'll tell you the argument for it.
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The argument for it is Democrats get unlimited votes. That's at least their view, and they have
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good reason to think that. Democrats get unlimited votes, and Democrats and Chamber of Commerce
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Republicans get a slave class to pick the grapes and clean the toilets. That's the argument. No human
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dignity factors into that. No human rights factor into that. And overall to the country, no economic
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without overspending. Speaking of immigrants, I got bad news. I teased this at the end of the show
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yesterday. There's a foreigner who's been in our country for a long time. He's super annoying,
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and I really wish the first Trump administration had deported him, but they haven't. And now he's
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vowing to stay in the United States. I speak of leftist British talk show host, John Oliver.
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I mean, it's a suboptimal time in human history, this.
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Oh, and you and you you are a recent citizen. Yes. Congratulations. Thanks very much.
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Thanks. Yeah. How do you feel? How do you feel? Are you still going to stick it out? Are you going
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to head back to England? Oh, no, I'm sticking it out. I'm going I'm going down with the Titanic.
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I'm sticking it out. Yeah. Yeah. And then the year that little dig at his new car, he's a new
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country, right? He's got he's an American citizen. And already it's just poking his country,
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his putative country. Oh, no, I'm going down with the Titanic, this awful ship.
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Suboptimal time in America. Yeah. Yeah. It's really terrible. Everything's bad. Trump's
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Hitler. Mango Mussolini. You know, everything's going to pot. They're all racist and sexist.
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The whole country's terribly evil. So then Colbert, his former colleague at The Daily Show says,
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yeah, OK, so are you going to leave? He goes, oh, no, I'm certainly not going to leave. I've been
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begging to become a citizen of this sweet little lotto ticket for years. Oh, yeah.
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No, this is this is why the arguments you hear from the libs specifically on immigration are so
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preposterous because the libs tell you this country's evil. It's imperialist. It's racist.
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It's sexist. It's phobic. Black men are being ethnic minorities, period, are being chased down in the
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street by racist, murderous, bloodthirsty whites, including law enforcement, just gunning them down
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execution style. No marginalized person is safe. And that's why we must permit all the marginalized
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people to stay in America. Whoa. What? Oh, that was terrible for them. You should be the you should
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be flying the planes to get them out of here. It's so dangerous here. It's so terrible. Everything.
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It's the Titanic. Get them the life rafts. Please get them back to Venezuela. Get them back to
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Colombia. Oh, no, except no one really believes that. No one really believes it's the Titanic.
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No one really believes that it's racist and sexist and blah, blah, blah. Oh, yeah, no,
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I'm definitely going to stay. It's a good deal, man. I'm making a lot of money. Get to do whatever I
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want. Yeah, it's really great. Well, I hate this place. So anyway, now he's a citizen. I guess it's
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going to be harder to deport him. Although, I don't know, there's got to be some tool available
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to the president, right? I don't know. I'm just saying, Tom Homan, look into it. I'm glad you're
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looking into Colony Ridge. I'm glad you're looking into Aurora, Colorado. I'm glad you're deporting
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the face tattooed people. But if you have a moment, Mr. Homan, please look into John Oliver.
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Didn't Obama murdered a U.S. citizen? Didn't he used a drone and zapped an Al Qaeda terrorist who
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was a U.S. citizen? Hey, don't clip me out, Media Matters. I am not suggesting anything
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about drones with John Oliver. You can even put him on a nice, cushy commercial airline.
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I just want him deported, okay? I want to be very, very clear about that. All I'm asking is that you
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deport the liberal talk show host, British gadfly, now U.S. citizen. Now, we've got some better show
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business news. Kathleen Kennedy, the woman who destroyed Star Wars, is reportedly stepping down
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slash K-N-W-L-E-S. Kathleen Kennedy is stepping down at Star Wars. Now, I haven't paid attention to
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the recent Star Wars movies or Disney generally because I am an adult, but one of my producers is
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not an adult. That would, of course, be Professor Jacob, who's a huge Star Wars fan. So he gave me
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just a little refresher on how Kathleen Kennedy has destroyed Star Wars. Disney acquires Star Wars.
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Kathleen Kennedy comes to head it up. She then created a girl boss character, Rey, who was great
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at everything and could beat up men and was just totally unbelievable. You know, Luke Skywalker takes
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multiple movies, like three movies to figure out how to be a Jedi. But this chickie figures it out
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in like two seconds. Then she brought back Emperor Palpatine, which according to my Zoomer associate
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producer, destroys Anakin Skywalker's destiny fulfillment and then lets the chickie, you know,
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kill him. Spoiler alert. Then she put a lesbian kissing scene in the final installment of the trilogy,
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which she also did. She also put like a trans clone trooper in another one of the Star Wars shows.
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She created that show, The Acolyte, which has like a negative 15% score on Rotten Tomatoes and
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everyone hated it. It was super lib and it had communist lesbian witches in it. And it led Star Wars to
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accurately depict the Kennedy tenure at Lucasfilm in a few simple words, make it lame and gay.
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Put another gay, that first woman in it, make it f***ing lame.
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No, what's going on with my stars? No, Kathleen Kennedy.
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We were just discussing ideas of what to do with the new Prince Eric movie.
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Maybe we should go a different route than we did with Indiana Jones.
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Indiana Jones, put a chick in it, make her lame and gay.
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Kathleen Kennedy is down on set right now, ruining the new Bambi movie.
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There you are, Miss Kennedy, the linguine and clam sauce.
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Excuse me, I believe I asked you to put a chick in this and make her gay.
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Yes, the chef was a little confused what you meant by that.
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That means put a chick in the linguine and make her f***ing gay.
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Every single creative idea that came to her, she said, yeah, okay.
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Well, that's a good idea, but I want you to put a chick in it and make her lame and gay.
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It says, if the Kathleen Kennedy era at Lucasfilm is ending,
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its legacy is unfulfilled promises and unfair expectations.
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Is there any way Kennedy's tenure could have succeeded?
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She had one of the most valuable properties in popular culture.
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And all she had to do was not ruin it by forcing leftism down the audience's throat.
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All she had to do was not insist every single time on putting a diverse woman in it and making it lame and gay.
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The prequels, you know, like Jar Jar Binks and Qui-Gon Jinn and all that stuff, those were not exactly Casablanca, okay?
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Those weren't the greatest movies ever, but they did very, very well.
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They just have to not be offensively bad and constantly disconnected from reality, and she couldn't do that.
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This woman, she became the president of Lucasfilm after the Disney acquisition in 2012.
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Okay, you can't even really call her a DEI hire because she co-founded Amblin with Steven Spielberg in 1982, I think it was.
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But she was kind of Spielberg's assistant, and when she finally got the reins herself, she blew it.
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She's not exactly a DEI hire, but she sort of is.
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2012 was peak insufferable millennial era, Obama era, rise of woke identity politics.
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You saw the lag of that in popular culture more like 2016, 2017.
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But it really reached this fever pitch of a groundswell of momentum in about 2012, in the middle of the Obama era.
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And so you get Kennedy at Star Wars, and she's going to make everything lame and gay.
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And then, just as her hiring was a sign of the times, her firing is a sign of the times.
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Kennedy is going out at the same time Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are going out,
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at the same time as the Associated Press is going out of the Oval Office,
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at the same time as the DEI policies are going out of corporate America,
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at the same time as the DEI departments are going out of universities and government agencies.
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It's that Trump gets elected, and the Brits vote for the Brexit,
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and Orban in Hungary is popular and has a lot of power,
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and Maloney gets elected in Italy, and other right-wing parties are rising in Europe,
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even though there's institutional pressure to keep them down.
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I don't really care that much about what happens to the 500th Star Wars movie,
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but I do care what is happening in the culture, and Kennedy leaving is good news.
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Now, speaking of putting a chick in media and making her gay,
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there is an ex-account that went viral yesterday.
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It's an account called Ex Bisexual, who posted this.
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I'm just going to read the posts that went viral.
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Had a straight dude come to my place, and he was so impressed by the simplest things.
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they for real need a mommy to take care of them their whole lives.
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Now, this woman, in her bio, she says she, her, or her pronouns,
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she's at University of California, Santa Barbara, Psych and Brain Sciences.
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This should be a woman who has real insight into psychology and how the brain works.
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A lot of people said, you know, he just said your home is nice.
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She goes, just to clarify, it's nice to compliment someone's home.
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But I'm more speaking on the fact that he was so shocked by very simple household items.
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It just never ceases to amaze me how so many men don't know how to keep a basic home
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if you don't understand that men and women are different.
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When I was living as a bachelor with roommates,
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If we did, it was, someone probably gave it to us,
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and it was probably missing like half the knives.
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and we had laundry hanging around, and we ate pizza all the time.
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Because we didn't have a woman in the apartment.
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If we had a woman in the apartment, it probably would have looked nicer.
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We probably would have had pictures on the walls.
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Laundry probably would have gotten done a little bit.
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Sometimes people on the left, they make fun of me.
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There was a clip of me that went viral where I said,
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I don't know how to use my washing machine in my home.
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I barely know how to turn the thing on and off.
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how so many men don't know how to keep a basic home
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how so many women don't know how to negotiate a contract,
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which is why women actually make less money than men
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is because they don't know how to negotiate a raise,
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or why women don't know how to negotiate to buy a car.
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how women don't even know how to check their own oil.
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my friend Tim Gordon was making this point the other day,
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the moment that you entertain any kind of feminism.
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So you don't have to be chopping your body parts off
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I think men and women can do exactly the same things.
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baking pies and doing the laundry all the time.
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If you, do you really believe men and women are different?
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The question that has everyone talking right now,
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No idea why this is causing so much drama, but fine.
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I faced off against 25 LGBT LMNOP trans activists
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The Joy Reid show is now officially black history.