Ep. 1695 - Libs PANIC as Poll Names AOC the Face of the Democratic Party
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A new CNN poll asked Democrats which politician best reflects the views of their party. With a leadership vacuum among Democrats right now, these kinds of surveys are crucial to figuring out who will lead the Democratic Party in the future. And can you guess who won?
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A new CNN poll asked Democrats which politician best reflects the views of their party.
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With a leadership vacuum among Democrats right now, these kinds of surveys are crucial
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to figuring out who will lead the Democrat party in the future.
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And can you guess who won? Can you guess who won? You're going to have to wait
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until the stinger is over to get the answer. But I'll give you a hint.
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If this poll is accurate, Republicans will rule for a thousand years.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Libs have a new campaign, an official campaign,
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to decolonize Stratford-upon-Avon, the birthplace of William Shakespeare.
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The only way I can think of decolonizing Stratford-upon-Avon is by kicking out all of the Normans.
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CNN poll, so this is a liberal outlet doing a poll of liberals.
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Poll surveying Democrats and Democrat-leading independents.
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Who is the Democrat who best reflects the views of the Democratic Party?
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Don't forget, the Dems just went down in flames in the 2024 elections
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because the party had lost the common sense, moved way too far to the left.
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The Democrat who best reflects the views of the party, have they learned their lesson?
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There are a lot of people, a lot of people listed on the poll,
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so no one gets a majority or anything close to it.
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But the one with the biggest numbers on the board, AOC with 10%,
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Even putting ideology aside for a second, I don't know that Kamala Harris has an ideology.
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I don't know that she thinks about very much of anything other than
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Kamala Harris, one of the least popular politicians in the country.
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Good at advancing herself in politics, bad at convincing people to vote for her.
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She comes next with 9%, followed by, all right, are we going to get a moderate in here?
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We got Bernie Sanders next at 8%, followed by, come on,
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we got to get a moderate in here somewhere, right?
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For the Democrats, 6%, followed by Barack Obama.
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He's still the most left-wing ideological president we've ever had.
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Followed by Jasmine Crockett, that complete lunatic,
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that woman who makes a big spectacle of herself in the House.
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She's pretty new on the scene in terms of her national media presence, at least.
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4%, followed by, then you get to Gavin Newsom, who is trying to position himself as a moderate.
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He is avant-garde when it comes to left-wing social issues.
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He was officiating so-called gay marriages in 2004 as mayor of San Francisco,
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It's crazy to think Nancy Pelosi is now a relative moderate in the Democrat Party.
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Alyssa Slotkin wants to portray herself as a moderate, 2%.
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Chuck Schumer does effectively portray himself as a moderate, 2%.
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So the poll is clear, and it's not just one example,
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or you can't just blame it on charisma or something like that.
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The leftists, the radicals, the generally unpopular people are toward the top of this poll.
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They're the ones that the Democrat base says, yes, that person represents me.
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And the relative moderates and the relatively popular people who can sort of reach across the aisle,
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This is a huge problem for Democrats because the issue, I was just discussing this yesterday with a comedian.
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The issue that dominated the election that the Democrats still haven't come to grips with is transgenderism.
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Or just broadly, because forget, I'm so sick and tired of talking about transgenderism.
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Broadly, it's the notion that the Democrats have lost the common sense,
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which is represented by transgenderism because you're telling people to believe that a man is a woman.
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But it's this notion that the Democrats have just lost the common sense.
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They are totally disconnected from the real problems people have on the ground.
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So that's why you're seeing people like Gavin Newsom launch a podcast where he's inviting on all these big MAGA Republicans,
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MAGA Republicans who were part of the coalition that just won the popular vote,
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trying to move a little bit more toward the center.
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And yet the Democrat base says, yeah, we don't want you.
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Even as elites in the Democrat Party are begging, they're saying, please, we want to win an election in 2028.
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Bill Maher interviewing Josh Shapiro, the relatively moderate Democrat governor of Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania, a crucially important state in the Rust Belt.
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And then the Democrat Party is going to regain the common sense.
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OK, well, the way I see it now, if you're running, and I think you are.
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Or Rahm Emanuel, I think it's going to run, it looks like.
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Our governor here, Gavin Newsom, I think it's going to run.
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And they're all sort of on the same page, which is the Democrats, they're either people who are moving to the center, have moved to the center.
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What I fear is the Democratic primary voter, who doesn't want that kind of person.
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OK, and Bill Maher's prediction, which actually came out before this poll did, Bill Maher's prediction proven totally right.
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He's not going to let us have one of these moderate so-called Democrats, or at the very least charismatic Democrats, who can win over the other side.
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For now, the Democrat primary voter just wants a radical leftist, even more left wing than Newsom, Shapiro, Buttigieg, give me a break, and the rest of them.
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It's kind of trite political analysis to say, you know, well, if you can survive the primary, then you, as a moderate, will have an easier time winning the general election.
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And I suppose that's, there's enough truth to it.
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You tack to the extreme during the primary, you tack to the center during the general.
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This is the lesson that Democrats need to learn if they want to win an election again.
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And I don't, I'm not even afraid to tell it to them.
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I'm not even afraid that, that I'm going to give them the secret because I don't know that they can actually do anything about it.
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The way that the Republicans overcame this problem, how do you, how do you get through the primary, but then have a good enough candidate to get to the general election?
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How do you get those, those are sometimes opposed to one another.
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It's because we had this political genius, Donald Trump, who was able to form a new coalition.
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Trump, when he ran in the GOP primary in 2016, would you call him the most conservative candidate by the conventions of 2016 politics?
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Certainly you would say that Ted Cruz was more conservative than Donald Trump.
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You might say that Rand Paul was more conservative than Donald Trump.
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I'm actually sort of forgetting now who was even running in 2016.
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I think you would say he was more conservative conventionally than Donald Trump.
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And yet Trump dominated the primary because in some ways he signaled that he was more right-wing and just in a different way.
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By shaking up the way the GOP thought about things like tariffs, by shaking up the way the GOP thought about things like foreign policy, by attracting new people to register as Republicans first in the primary, and then he makes it into the general election.
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And on the one hand, he's the most extreme right-wing Republican calling illegal aliens rapists and murderers.
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On the other hand, he's a billionaire from New York who's soft on certain social issues at least and was a Democrat for much of his life.
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How do you make sense of a political party that includes in it Ted Cruz and Bobby Kennedy?
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Well, the way you make sense of it is you say Trump did not just play according to the rules that were tough for Republicans in the 20-teens.
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It was very hard to make it through a primary and then make it through a general election.
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When you're not winning according to the rules, you got to change the rules.
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If their best candidates, this is sad, if their best candidates are people like Gavin Newsom and their base hates Gavin Newsom for bad reasons, not even for the good reasons that you shouldn't like Gavin Newsom.
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If your base want candidates who are definitely going to go down in flames, you need to change your coalition.
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I see no evidence that the Democrats are able to do that.
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Okay, one last point on the Dems going down, and then we'll get to the really important political stories like decolonizing Stratford-upon-Avon.
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But before we move on from the Dems, James Carville, legendary Democrat, political consultant, big Clinton man, the first Clinton, famously said,
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James Carville, he just gave dating advice, not just political advice, dating advice to young progressives.
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He says, the thing that is hampering young progressives in their personal lives, in their romantic lives,
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is the same thing that is affecting them at the political level.
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get over your preening and your moral superiority and be more pragmatic in how you approach life
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and you you'll you end up being a lot happier and you'll actually win an election and therefore you
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can actually do things and you can do some of the things that you want because if you lose
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it doesn't do any good it's just it's about nothing and that was just what i would tell
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so carville famously is married to a republican political consultant mary matlin and they get
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along great and he says yeah we don't really talk about politics very much we talk about other things
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there are other things in our lives i don't i don't look down on her for being a republican she
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doesn't look down on me for being a democrat get over your preening moral superiority and that will
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help you not only to win elections that will help you in your personal life and your romantic life
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so true this gets to a really important political point that even on the right we don't talk about
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enough that is the political virtue of love i'm not just talking about love like you're reading a
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hallmark card i'm talking about love as a political virtue described by the great political philosophers
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aristotle in the nicomachean ethics book 8 chapter 7 writes as friendship appears to be the bond of the
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state and lawgivers seem to set more store by it than they do by justice for to promote concord which
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seems akin to friendship is their chief aim while faction which is enmity is what they are most
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anxious to banish and if men are friends there is no need of justice between them whereas merely to
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be just is not good enough a feeling of friendship is also necessary indeed the highest form of justice
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seems to have an element of friendly feeling in it okay i think that's probably clear enough but
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for those who got lost in some of the translation of aristotle's writing here he's saying you think that
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politics is all about justice and you just have certain you have the laws and the laws are applied
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by some kind of robot automatic process that is blind and just uh we all operate like we're cogs in
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a machine that's not how the state works friendship is the bond of the state love is the bond of the state
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where men are friends and have charity and have love you don't even really need to think that much
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about justice you don't need to get litigious all the time you can you can work it out with a
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handshake deal you don't need to bring the lawyers in all the time and in fact if all your state has
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is lawyers and has no bonds of love and no connections between people then even the law is going to fail
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even justice is going to fail because you won't even have the mutual respect to uphold justice
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crucial insight backed up also by cicero cicero and de officis book one chapter seven of the three
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remaining divisions the most extensive in its application is the principle by which society and
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what we may call its common bonds are maintained of this again there are two divisions justice in
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which is the crowning is the crowning glory of the virtues and on the basis of which men are called
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good men and close akin to justice charity which may also be called kindness or generosity so here
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cicero says much the same thing he places perhaps slightly more emphasis on justice but he says what
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what really matters here in society yes you have your justice but also charity kindness generosity
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you need to without those things you cannot have a society it's the political virtue of love which gets to
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a line i think i was mentioning on the show this week i was mentioning on this show or on some other
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podcast that i was a guest on i was just reading the political philosopher john gray pointing out that
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politics is less like an argument and more like a conversation when you're actually doing politics i'm not
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talking about having some public debate to sway public opinion or to convince people to vote for one
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candidate or the other talking about when you're actually doing politics writing laws putting laws
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into effect getting through the common day-to-day business of the state that is much less like a
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formal argument where you make an argument with perfect crystal clear unassailable logic and then you
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totally vanquish the other side they are cast into the outer darkness and then you get everything you
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want is much less like that it is much more like a conversation where all politics comes
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about is means of compromise and if you want politics to actually work if you want the state
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to actually flourish it's not enough to compromise in a transactional way okay you get this thing that
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i hate and i get this thing that you hate but you have to actually come to some conception of the
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common good and you actually have to love the other person if you if you win an election and then you
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vaporize half of your country you will still be in a worse spot even if half the country are big libs
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big democrats who are wrong about everything if they just go away if you just deport all the
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democrats your country will be weaker your economy will be weaker your your i don't know but will
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will it be weaker do the democrats actually work no they do work they do everything will be weaker
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your polity will be weaker it'll just break down you need to do politics together that's the political
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virtue of love james carville he's not right about much but he is he is very much right about that
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and he understands it very well he puts it into practice in his marriage okay speaking of preening
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and moral superiority shakespeare's birthplace stratford upon avon is is undertaking a campaign
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to decolonize itself this here i've got it it's being reported by the daily mail it's a british paper
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shakespeare's birthplace to be decolonized over fears his success benefits the ideology of white
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the strat the shakespeare birthplace trust owns a bunch of buildings in stratford upon avon it wants
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to quote create a more inclusive museum experience announced it will move away from western perspectives
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after concerns were raised by whom i don't know that shakespeare's ideas were used to advance
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white supremacy ideas it's got to move away from western perspective
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western perspectives which are not only reflected in the work of shakespeare but are in some ways
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created by the work of shakespeare those need to go away in the shakespeare museum and in shakespeare's
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birthplace the trust also said that some of its items within this trust could contain language or
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depictions that are racist sexist or homophobic we got to get rid of those i don't know what those items
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are i assume some of those items are within the text of shakespeare himself within the merchant of
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venice therefore jew though justice be thy plea consider this that in the course of justice none of us
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should see salvation we got to get we got to delete that line in shakespeare right is that anti-semitic
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plenty of sexism in shakespeare you gotta you gotta delete i don't know most of a midsummer night's
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dream you gotta delete what else there is speciesism in uh what's the oh i can't believe the play the
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name of the play is escaping me now but it's got the most famous stage direction in shakespeare
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when the character exits the stage pursued by a bear that's very speciesist i can't believe the name
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of that play escapes me well clearly shakespeare the the classrooms in america have already been
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decolonized of shakespeare because people don't read them anymore and i forget the name of the play
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what does it mean to decolonize stratford upon avon i guess literally right now if you were to
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decolonize these small towns in england you would just be throwing out the muslim pakistanis who are the
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ones who have actually colonized in recent decades but if you want to go back further i guess the way to
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decolonize stratford upon avon would be to throw out the normans who conquered england in 1066
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is that what they mean no they're not talking about getting rid of the pakistanis who run the
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grooming gangs and they're not talking about getting rid of the normans they're talking about getting
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rid of all the white people including the normans but also the saxons and the angles and that's that's
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what they mean when they say they want to decolonize stratford upon avon what they're really saying is
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they want to colonize it to to de-center whiteness in shakespeare's birthplace is to impose some
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outside racial ideology on stratford upon avon which is to say it's to colonize it they want to colonize
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it which people who have been paying attention in recent years know they know that that is what that
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is always about these racial justice programs which sound great in theory in practice are just
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about getting rid of anything that is vaguely european on the basis that all racial identity
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is good except for the racial identity of white people all the contributions of different races are
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good except for the contributions of white people which do not exist or alternately are terrible and
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they want to damage the world they want they want to rip they not only want to rip shakespeare out of
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england they want to rip shakespeare out of shakespeare that is culturally suicidal there's so much
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not a brat this the story is not about the color of anyone's skin however that is i guess tangentially
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related because a professor at brown is to be deported after attending the funeral of a hezbollah
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leader you think you know whatever happened to academic freedom you know whatever whatever
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happened to freedom of speech you can't it is america isn't it you can't even go pay your respects to a dead
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terrorist leader in the middle east anymore by golly whatever happened to my rights this professor's name is
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rasha alouyeh an assistant professor brown university's medical school who has been deported
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to lebanon after attending the funeral of former hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah the department
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of homeland security has commented on this deportation said a visa is a privilege not a right glorifying
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and supporting terrorists who kill americans is grounds for visa issuance to be denied this is common
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sense security so this opens up a big debate are we deporting this person on national security grounds
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or are we deporting this person for his or her i don't know if rasha is a man's name or a woman's
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name and i don't really care that much are we deporting this person on national security grounds or on
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because of this person's opinion that's the big debate here even on on the right certainly on the left
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they're saying these people are being deported for their opinions that guy who used to be a columbia
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graduate student but then graduated and he was just deported because he's pro-palestine and he was
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making a nuisance of himself around new york city it has nothing to do with security or crimes it has
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everything to do with his opinion and some people on the right even are saying well you shouldn't be
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deported for your opinion especially people on the right who don't like israel and who are more
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sympathetic to the palestine liberation cause they say well that person definitely shouldn't be deported for
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his or her opinion but i just want to zoom out for a second take israel out of it take palestine out
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of it take the protests out of it to even take the national security out of it someone who has
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sympathy for the leader of a terror group and who goes to that terror leader's funeral probably does
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raise some red flags for national security but i want you to take that out of it for a second
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we absolutely can and should deport foreigners or prevent them from coming into the country
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for their opinions of course we should i'm not saying we should deport american citizens for their
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opinions if i believed that i would certainly believe we should deport the entire faculty of
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brown university and columbia university and most of the ivy league i'm not saying that not american
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citizens but foreigners who have crazy opinions that are contrary to american opinions and the
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american tradition and the american way of life of course we should deport them for their opinions why
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would we not what's the point of these various visas and this various legal residency status that
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is far short of citizenship the purpose of that is not about any rights that the foreigners have to
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be in america and enjoy the privileges that attend to being in america the purpose of that is to make america
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better it's for us that we allow these people into the country if they are likely to make america worse
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if they hold opinions and do things that are contrary to the way we want to live get them out why would
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we keep them that's insane now republicans don't want to deal with this they just only want to talk
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about the national security grounds for the deportations and maybe those exist but let's be honest here folks
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i think it's actually better to be honest about it tell to tell the whole truth because i think it will
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give us a greater handle on the political order yeah these people should be deported for their opinions
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i don't want radicals leftists islamic revolutionaries i don't want them coming into the country needlessly
00:27:10.540
i've already got to deal with enough of that among american citizens why would i import foreigners to do
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that and give them cushy positions at ivy league universities where they can poison the minds of another
00:27:19.960
generation of americans why would i do that that's crazy well be it all because of their their rights
00:27:25.780
what rights they don't have these rights they're not american citizens well because of the principle
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of absolute freedom of speech i don't that's not real well because of academic freedom academic
00:27:35.740
freedom's fake that's a hoax william f buckley jr launched the conservative movement with a book
00:27:40.340
called god and man at yale these superstitions of academic freedom your your jedi mind tricks don't work
00:27:46.580
on me libs get rid of these people crazy marco rubio was just defending the deportation specifically
00:27:53.940
of mahmoud khalil the former columbia graduate student who just got canned uh on cbs this is on
00:28:00.500
face the nation listen to the line of questioning from cbs's margaret brennan but is there any evidence
00:28:07.740
of a link to terrorism or is it just his point of view yeah they take over i mean do not i mean you
00:28:15.260
should watch the news these guys take over entire buildings they vandalize colleges they shut down
00:28:19.960
i'm asking about the well then you should know justification for the revocation of his visa
00:28:23.420
was there any evidence of material spokesperson was the negotiator on negotiating on behalf of
00:28:28.640
people that took over a campus that vandalize buildings negotiating over what that's a crime in
00:28:33.560
and of itself that they're involved in being the negotiator the spokesperson this that the other
00:28:37.300
we don't want it we don't need these people in our country that we never should have allowed
00:28:40.260
him in in the first place if he had told us i'm going over there and i'm going over there to become
00:28:44.920
the spokesperson and one of the leaders of a movement that's going to turn one of your allegedly
00:28:49.320
elite colleges upside down people can't even go to school library buildings being vandalized we never
00:28:54.860
would have let him in we never would have let him in to begin with that's the right point so i actually
00:29:00.120
have to give margaret brennan credit here because she's asking a legit question she goes is there any
00:29:06.420
evidence you're you're going to deport this guy on the grounds that he's providing material support
00:29:10.740
to terrorism is there any evidence that he really did that and and rubio responds he says this guy
00:29:16.920
was leading protests he was making a big nuisance of himself he was articulating views that are
00:29:22.580
totally contrary to what we want in america and she says yeah yeah but what what about the terrorism
00:29:27.600
thing and then rubio moves he says these people have no right to be here you know it's a privilege
00:29:33.320
to come over to america on these kinds of pieces it's not a right and so her question is legit and
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rubio is admitting without quite doing it explicitly saying no look what he is supporting movements that
00:29:47.180
are associated with terrorism so in that way i guess the claim is real but he doesn't need to be
00:29:51.960
sending ak-47s to hezbollah for us to deport him we never would have let this guy in in the first place
00:29:57.700
if he knew what what a nuisance he was he has no right to be here as of now we can't deport aoc
00:30:04.120
pity that is but we can't she's an american citizen we can't deport bernie sanders we can't deport who's
00:30:13.040
the new one jacklyn crockett is that her name whatever it is we can't deport any of these people
00:30:17.400
but you know what we can deport this wacko who we've invited into america he's he's been a bad guest
00:30:25.480
and we're going to kick him out and that that's the right attitude i think don't stake everything
00:30:30.700
on proving that someone is the next of sama bin laden you don't have to they have no right to be
00:30:35.040
here and we have the our political liberty to determine who comes into our country and who gets
00:30:42.040
to stay here trumps a false individual liberty of foreigners to come to america
00:30:47.140
now speaking of contentious journalism there's a piece in the new york times i don't oh man
00:30:56.240
the new york times had been doing a little bit better they had been since the election they had
00:31:02.800
been a little bit more self-reflective they had been they they ran that piece about the podcast
00:31:09.200
election how the legacy media were losing some of their mojo they ran that piece about how trump
00:31:14.780
might have a point on birthright citizenship actually the wong kim arc decision that established
00:31:20.080
the notion that birthright citizenship from the 14th amendment pertains to a wide swath of american
00:31:27.060
citizens that that maybe then you know as we've applied that to illegal aliens maybe that's not
00:31:32.300
legit the court hasn't distinctively ruled on that we're doing well and then we get this where is it
00:31:40.480
where is it there it is headline this new york times opinion zeynep tufexi
00:31:48.720
we were badly misled about the event that changed our lives that could what what could that be
00:31:57.100
so you know 9-11 is that if you go further back the jfk assassination those those two things have
00:32:05.700
been in the news no no it's not that covid i'm just going to quote a little bit and you don't
00:32:12.880
read the whole article you'll pull your hair out in 2020 when people started speculating that a
00:32:17.660
laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the covid 19 pandemic they were treated like
00:32:23.520
kooks and cranks that's true by whom were they treated like kooks and cranks was it by the daily
00:32:30.980
wire no was it by the blaze no was it by fox news no it was by the new york times you guys treated us
00:32:37.720
like kooks and cranks many public health officials and prominent scientists dismissed the idea as a
00:32:42.440
conspiracy theory insisting that the virus had emerged from animals in a seafood market in wuhan
00:32:46.700
china also bat and pangolin are not seafood so they even get that detail wrong when a non-profit
00:32:52.160
called eco health alliance lost a grant because it was planning to conduct risky research into bat
00:32:55.600
viruses with the wuhan institute of virology research that if conducted with lax safety standards
00:33:00.280
could have resulted in a dangerous pathogen leaking out into the world no fewer than 77
00:33:04.340
nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies lined up to defend the organization so the wuhan research
00:33:10.440
was totally safe and the pandemic was definitely caused by natural transmission it certainly seemed
00:33:14.820
like consensus we have since learned however that to promote the appearance of consensus some
00:33:20.700
officials and scientists hid or understated crucial facts misled at least one reporter conducted
00:33:26.120
campaigns of supposedly independent voices and even compared notes about how to hide their
00:33:30.380
communications in order to keep the public from hearing the whole story as for that wuhan
00:33:34.740
laboratories research the details have since emerged show that safety precautions might have been
00:33:39.900
terrifyingly lax okay yeah i remember this new york times i was there and you guys told me that i was
00:33:46.540
crazy and you guys went along with all of those lying public health officials and you guys
00:33:51.560
unquestioningly listen to the 77 nobel laureates and 31 scientific societies even this excuse here
00:33:56.560
and actually you know even a reporter was misled how could this have happened
00:34:01.240
because you because you didn't do your job well you did do your job which is to be a propaganda
00:34:08.400
arm from the democrat party but the job you think you have that you pretend to have where you're
00:34:12.200
going to speak truth to power and you're not just going to accept propaganda from the established
00:34:16.680
authorities you're going to really you're going to stick it to the man and find out the truth and
00:34:20.600
you didn't do any of that we did i did that i did that you didn't do that new york times i did that
00:34:26.860
on the michael knolls show if you watched the michael knolls show through covid you knew much more about
00:34:31.440
what was really going on in covid than if you read the new york times every day was it where's my
00:34:37.620
pulitzer prize is it so hard this is no false modesty i'm not some shoe leather reporter okay i just
00:34:43.780
have common sense and i'm willing to accept facts when they appear to me you couldn't even do that
00:34:48.340
now you guys can you imagine we were all misled no you misled us i didn't mislead anybody during
00:34:54.580
covid daily wire didn't mislead people the blaze didn't mislead people the independent journalists
00:35:00.100
on the right didn't mislead people you did and then they they still haven't learned this is the crazy
00:35:07.300
part because i think okay maybe they're coming to terms with it five years late but okay they're
00:35:10.600
coming to terms with it no last piece i'll read of this article they actually excuse their
00:35:18.320
incompetency it's not hard to imagine how the attempt to squelch legitimate debate might have
00:35:23.820
started some of the loudest proponents of the lab leak theory weren't just earnestly making inquiries
00:35:29.040
they were acting in terrible faith using debate over pandemic origins to attack legitimate beneficial
00:35:34.700
science to inflame public opinion to get attention for scientists and public health officials
00:35:40.440
circling the wagons and vilifying anyone who dared to dissent might have seemed like a reasonable
00:35:46.420
no it wasn't no it wasn't can you imagine these people who were telling us that we were all wrong
00:35:54.000
during covid they wanted to get attention for their ideas yeah that's called the media that's
00:35:59.520
called doing journalism and these people they they weren't acting in good faith when they told us the
00:36:06.320
truth they were acting in bad faith when they told us the truth how do you know the faith of the
00:36:09.500
people that were that were telling you the truth i'll trust the faith of the people who tell the
00:36:14.300
truth much more than the faith of the people who lie actually you know when all of the public health
00:36:19.700
officials and scientists lied to us maybe it was fair because if they didn't lie to us they would
00:36:23.580
have given credit to people on the right yeah okay so you you've learned nothing you've learned
00:36:29.740
nothing at all you are not what you say you are are you hey new york times are you intrepid shoe
00:36:35.620
leather journalists speaking truth to power or are you youtube commenters this is it is a youtube
00:36:40.960
comment that's what this is this is an after the fact wow that was crazy huh boy didn't see that
00:36:46.420
one coming wow wacky huh that's what this that's what this column is that's what the new york times
00:36:50.480
is saying so what are you are you are you the intrepid shoe leather serious edward r murrow you know
00:36:56.180
even though he was kind of a problem too but that's a historical point for another time are you
00:37:00.820
the real fourth estate doing a great public service to americans or are you just a youtube
00:37:07.940
commenters posting lib comments i think you're the latter okay well if you're the latter then don't
00:37:14.840
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workshop norm's music says bukele basically gave judge bosberg the urkel response did i do that
00:38:45.280
that's great great nice pop culture reference to bukele there who's who's now a u.s contractor to
00:38:54.020
receive our worst criminals and to give him the old salvadoran treatment the old bukele treatment
00:38:59.220
judge says you have to return all these criminals to america we what will we do without the face tattooed
00:39:06.520
gangsters they are our strength they are face tattooed venezuelan criminals rapists and murderers
00:39:13.160
they are our strength what will we do without them you cannot land that plane in el salvador and then
00:39:18.860
bukele comes in too late did i do that oops oopsie speaking of problems from foreigners a french member
00:39:28.400
of parliament has an audacious proposal he wants the french to take the statue of liberty back from
00:39:36.900
america here is what white house press secretary carolina levitt had to say thing different there
00:39:43.260
is now a member of the european parliament from france who does not think the u.s represents the
00:39:48.240
values of the statue of liberty anymore they want the statue of liberty back so is president trump
00:39:54.520
going to send the statue of liberty back to france absolutely not and uh my advice to that unnamed
00:40:02.680
low-level french politician would be to remind them that it's only because of the united states
00:40:08.380
of america that uh the french are not speaking german right now so they should be very grateful
00:40:13.140
uh to our great country take that france you know what we're gonna do we're gonna send you the flag of
00:40:20.360
the french army it's a white handkerchief take that you jerks you're not getting your statue back
00:40:25.600
so good enough answer stupid proposal from the french member of parliament good answer from caroline
00:40:30.960
levitt however i just want to this is going to be controversial
00:40:35.520
i don't love the statue of liberty can i say that i don't love that i like liberty i like true liberty
00:40:43.280
i love america i have a cigar company called mayflower cigars which is you know about the
00:40:47.940
founding of america don't but the statue of liberty what is the statue of liberty what does the
00:40:55.520
statue of liberty symbolize what was it intended to symbolize the statue of liberty look i'm a new
00:41:00.500
yorker okay i grew up in new york which means i've never visited the statue of liberty never
00:41:05.020
visited the empire state building never visited the statue of liberty that's what happens when you
00:41:08.540
grow up in new york but i've i've gone by it on the staten island ferry plenty of times
00:41:12.360
the statue of liberty is a liberal enlightenment symbol that's what it is what does the statue of
00:41:20.540
liberty symbolize statue of liberty symbolize statue of liberty symbolizes enlightenment liberal ideas
00:41:26.440
it was sculpted by a freemason and received by a freemason and it was dedicated by the grandmaster of
00:41:33.280
the new york masons and i'm not knocking the masons look i've got some great friends who are
00:41:38.160
freemasons i'm just pointing out freemasonry is largely an enlightenment era practice and organization
00:41:46.540
that really really reaches its heights of power and social influence during the enlightenment
00:41:53.680
and on top of all that the statue of liberty was given to us by the post-revolution french
00:41:58.840
not even the good french regime the old regime good old king louis who helped us win the american
00:42:04.720
revolution but by those crazy bloodthirsty jacobin radicals who were lopping off people's heads it was
00:42:11.420
that that post-revolution french so if even if they took it back it wouldn't bother me too much
00:42:18.080
but it would bother me a little bit in that what do you do this is a deeper political problem
00:42:22.840
what do you do with things that were intended for one purpose that you don't support namely the
00:42:30.400
promotion of liberalism french enlightenment values you know kinds of all wacky modern ideas
00:42:38.240
what do you do with something that is intended to represent something you don't support but which
00:42:43.620
has come to represent something you do support because now the statue of liberty is a symbol of
00:42:47.780
america whatever it was initially intended to be people think of the statue of liberty there's a copy of
00:42:52.220
the statue of liberty in france you can walk right by it in the the luxembourg garden but we think of
00:42:59.160
america what do you do well i don't think it's a big problem you just recognize that the meaning of the
00:43:04.980
symbols changes you've got to kind of rededicate the symbols and this has happened in our civilization
00:43:09.820
one of the great works of western architecture is the pantheon in rome the pantheon in rome was a
00:43:15.400
pagan temple and then in 609 pope boniface the fourth received permission from the emperor to
00:43:22.240
rededicate the temple to consecrate the temple to saint mary and the martyrs and then it became a church
00:43:30.020
it's okay to do that it's okay to take things that are pagan in this case the statue of liberty
00:43:35.240
is literally a pagan symbol it's the goddess libertas though it's the pagan symbol understood
00:43:41.780
in the revival of classical paganism that came up in the enlightenment so it's got all these liberal
00:43:45.860
enlightenment ideas associated with it but we should just we should i don't know just
00:43:50.540
rededicate it let's take it take that stupid poem off the bottom of it that that the libs always
00:43:56.840
used to justify mass migration ignore the constitution ignore federal statute there's that stupid poem on
00:44:01.320
the bottom that says give me your poor unwashed masses okay that means that the entire world can
00:44:06.540
come into america regardless of the law get rid of that poem and then i i sometimes refer to the
00:44:12.420
statue of liberty as the statue of lib mary it's like in christendom we had statues of mary the holy
00:44:19.060
mother all over the place and then now it's like pagan goddesses and enlightenment symbols but
00:44:23.160
okay that's fine it's a new symbol now represents the american version of liberty very different from
00:44:28.920
the french version of liberty and they don't get it back they wouldn't they the french wouldn't know
00:44:33.480
what to do with american liberty even if we did give it to them all right there's a line that the
00:44:39.060
democrats are advancing now speaking of dishonesty there is a line i've heard this from my lib friends
00:44:44.520
i've heard this from conservatives who are talking to their lib family members and they don't know what
00:44:48.220
to do with this the accusation that president trump is threatening social security have you heard this
00:44:55.680
is saying that president trump and elon and doge are threatening social security they're going to cut
00:45:03.300
your social security benefits granny is going to be thrown off a cliff this is one of the stupidest
00:45:09.740
arguments i have heard from the libs for the entirety of the trump movement going back 10 years now
00:45:16.080
why is that how do we respond to it what are the facts what is trump really doing
00:45:21.540
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