Ep. 1729 - Make Alcatraz Great Again
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Just when you think the liberal media have hit rock bottom, they offer sympathetic interviews to murderous, drug-peddling, cartel-running terrorists. I mean, according to the Trump administration, you are a terrorist. What do you make of that?
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Just when you think the liberal media have hit rock bottom,
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just when you think they can't possibly go any lower,
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they offer sympathetic interviews to murderous fentanyl-peddling cartel-running terrorists.
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He says he produces fentanyl for the Sinaloa cartel.
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I mean, according to the Trump administration, you are a terrorist.
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I mean, the cartels have been labeled a foreign terrorist organization.
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My respect to Donald Trump, if he's watching this.
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According to him, he's looking out for his people.
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But the problem is that the consumers are in the United States.
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There is a lot of violence playing out on these streets here at the moment every day, right?
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Do you have any sense of remorse over your role and your involvement in this group?
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The most striking part of this interview is how relatively reasonable the cartel guy sounds.
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But the most reasonable people on the issue of cartels, drugs, and mass migration are Trump and the people who voted for him because they want to kick them all out of our country and arrest them and stop them from doing bad things.
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The second most reasonable people in this conversation are the cartel members.
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Coming in at a distant third in terms of reasonableness are the liberal media who are reporting on it all.
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Just a little bit of whatever wisdom I can muster.
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You don't always have to take the side of the bad guy.
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You don't always have to take the side of the bad guy to the exclusion of the side of the good guy.
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I actually understand the impulse to feel some sympathy for the bad guy.
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The understanding that when we sin, it's because we're slaves to sin.
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And the more we sin, the more we become slaves.
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Even if we want to escape it, we can't quite escape it.
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The first people you should feel sorry for are the victims of this cartel-running, terrorist, drug-dealing monster.
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The first people you should feel sorry for are the people that he's killed directly with guns.
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The second people you should feel sorry for are the people he's killed with drugs, like fentanyl.
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The third group of people you should feel sorry for are the families of the victims, of the people.
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People who have died from the guns and the fentanyl.
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Then there's the fourth group of people, the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, somewhere way down the list.
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You know, this is something we've talked about a lot yesterday on the show.
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We've talked about a number of times over the years.
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Liberalism, it's not that it gets everything totally wrong.
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It's just that it perverts and distorts things.
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So in the traditional, classical, Christian way of viewing things,
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you feel really bad for the victim and you even feel bad for the perpetrator.
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With liberalism, which perverts and even inverts everything, you only feel bad for the perpetrator and you don't feel bad for the victim.
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When, to use the example from yesterday, the big racial conflict that's been cropping up, when a black teenager murders a white teenager, you just give half a million dollars to the black teenager.
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The white kid has to have done something wrong just by being white.
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Yeah, because he's the oppressor and the black kid's the oppressed.
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They have nothing else to do but murder people and deal fentanyl.
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It seems like there are other things you can do besides murder people and deal fentanyl.
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But no, no, we, it has, they have to be the victims.
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And the Americans whose families are being killed by these monsters, they have to be in the wrong somehow because of American colonialism or because of their whiteness or because of whatever.
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You get complete injustice and you don't get Christian charity.
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It's just the worst of all worlds, which is the side, of course, that the liberal media are on.
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The CNN reporter seems skeptical that the Trump admin has classified these people as terrorists.
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Terrorism specifically is when you target civilians to achieve political ends.
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So a guy who murders someone on the street, even if he murders 100 people on the street, if he just wants to murder them, that's not terrorism.
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Or a guy who shoots uniformed military officers, that could be very evil, but it's not terrorism.
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It's when you target civilians to achieve political ends.
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The cartels are in a little bit of a murky ground.
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They're obviously political entities and they do target civilians.
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They're not attempting some kind of coup d'etat usually.
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So I'm all for Trump using whatever resources are at his disposal in any way that is even slightly plausible to go after the cartels.
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But then again, you've got to ask yourself, why are the libs hemming and hawing over this question?
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You can deal with the 75,000 Americans every year who are being murdered by fentanyl.
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You can deal with the 11 to 16 million foreigners who are not supposed to be in this country, who are in our country because these cartels control the border on the one hand.
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Or you can hem and haw over the precise meaning of terrorism and stay up at night tossing and turning in your bed because you don't know if some face-tattooed Satan-worshipping gangster was really drawn into the gangster life to buy a loaf of bread for his family.
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For me, I'm more on the side of the Americans and the border and the 75,000 people a year dying.
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I guess that's why I don't work for the liberal media.
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Now, speaking of migration, Trump's Department of Homeland Security has just offered a novel solution to the aforementioned mass migration problem.
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Remember, we have conservative estimates 11 to 16 million foreign nationals here illegally.
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DHS is offering $1,000 per illegal to just leave, to self-deport.
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Christy Noem, secretary of DHS, comes out and says,
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If you're here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest, and most cost-effective way to leave the United States and avoid arrest.
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DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP home app.
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We're so glued to our phones that even the illegal aliens are going to use their phones to get their Venmo payments to leave.
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Migrants will get the stipend once the app shows that they're in their country of origin.
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First of all, it shows you some of the realities of illegal immigration, which is the libs tell us that these poor illegals, they have nothing.
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They're just pleading for a bowl of porridge from this wealthy country.
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And you nasty Republicans don't want to give it to them.
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In reality, illegal aliens are on tons of welfare programs.
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They're much more likely to be on welfare programs than native-born Americans.
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The ones who are affiliated with the cartels do have a decent amount of money.
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And so if they have smartphones, they can download the CBP app.
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If they're not really starving, then you might need to increase the payout.
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But there's a little stick, which is the $1,000.
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And then, or sorry, there's the carrot, which is the $1,000.
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And then the stick is, DHS is going to roll in, shove you on a plane, send you to a gulag
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on El Salvador, and then Bukele is going to take care of you.
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What would you rather have, $1,000 and a smartphone or a naive Bukele coming around with the whip
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And that's $11 trillion to deport all of the illegals.
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That would be roughly 40% of US GDP in one year.
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And obviously, this wouldn't happen over the course of just one year.
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But GDP might actually diminish if you start deporting millions of foreigners.
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It just goes to show you the scope of the problem.
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When you factor in DHS officers, multiple DHS officers, vehicles, gasoline, bureaucrats,
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the processing, court fees, airfare, these big planes that are flying in El Salvador.
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When you factor in all of that, the cost to deport each illegal alien is certainly much
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So here, Trump is just trying to save some money.
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He's giving the illegals an opportunity to do the right thing and to be compensated a
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But for the libs and the squishy Republicans who come out and say, this is ridiculous.
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Well, yeah, right, that just shows you the scope of the problem.
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That just shows you the enormity of the problem that you all let happen.
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Such that now, the most cost-efficient way to fix your mess is to spend 40% of GDP to bribe
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Trump, not only on this issue, but on many issues, is coming up with novel solutions that
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neither Democrats nor Republicans have proposed in the past, which is probably why neither
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the Democrats nor Republicans have solved these major issues.
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But don't blame him for trying to fix your mess.
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You probably shouldn't have let in all those foreigners.
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You probably shouldn't have rolled out the red carpet for them because of your cynical
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Speaking of the DHS officers, there is a video going viral.
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But he apparently was on some immigration raid, and he lit a cigar after he finished arresting all of these illegals.
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And he's just standing outside his car, puts a cigar in his teeth.
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He starts taking a few puffs, hanging out with his buddy there.
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I know a lot of people were really upset and bothered by it.
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I'm really disturbed because that man is here in my town, and he's not smoking a Mayflower cigar.
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But this brave DHS officer, risking his life doing a patriotic service for America here in my town,
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and he has to smoke, presumably, an inferior quality cigar after doing this great patriotic service.
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So if anyone knows this guy, don't dox him, first of all.
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Don't post his data online or anything like that.
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But if anyone knows who this brave officer is, message it to me privately.
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We need to get that man a box of Mayflower cigars so that on the next raid, he can light up the best cigar in the United States.
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Speaking of law and order, President Trump has made another big announcement on the justice front.
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He is going to reopen Alcatraz, the most famous, most infamous prison probably in the United States.
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For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders,
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the dregs of society, who will never contribute anything other than misery and suffering.
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When we were a more serious nation in times past, we did not hesitate to lock up the most dangerous criminals
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and keep them far away from anyone they could harm.
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No longer will we tolerate these serial offenders who spread filth, bloodshed, and mayhem on our streets.
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Back when Trump did the Make America Great Again hat, I said, this man has poetic diction,
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and people thought I was being hyperbolic or whatever.
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They spread filth, bloodshed, and mayhem on our streets that is so much more evocative,
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that is so much more politically powerful than anything that the mainstream Dems or the,
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even the radical Dems, because they're not very good at the English language.
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And certainly then the squish Republicans know how to do.
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But this is why today I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice,
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FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt Alcatraz
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to house America's most ruthless and violent offenders.
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We will no longer be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and judges.
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They're afraid to do their job and allow us to remove criminals who came into our country illegally.
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The reopening of Alcatraz will serve as a symbol of law, order, and justice.
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And not just because it seems so over the top and extreme.
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I mean, Alcatraz is like the American Elba or St. Helena or something.
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It's where we banish the most notorious criminals.
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Then it closed down, not for any reason other than it was just expensive.
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And I guess the salt water from the sea had corroded some of the building.
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But people seem to think that the criminals were able to escape from Alcatraz.
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Some people, they were able to escape in the sense that a handful of criminals were able to get out
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But they all drowned or were shot along the way or apprehended when they reached the shore.
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You know, you'd have to put a little money in it, fix some of the salt corrosion.
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One, it's good to use things for what they're for.
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One of the big problems we have in America and in our whole civilization right now
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is we no longer use things for what they're for.
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It used to be a civilization, now it's a museum.
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But even here, how many churches in America have become coffeehouses or bookstores or whatever?
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How many churches in Europe have become mosques?
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There's something that feels very wrong about that.
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When you take something and transform it and use it against its original purpose.
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It's better to have kids than to have dogs and pretend that the dogs are kids.
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Marriages were for having children and as a secondary matter for the mutual support of the spouses.
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Now marriages are for, what, splitting the rent and going on vacation and eating brunch?
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We don't know what it's, and so all of these things lose their coherence.
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Our whole society loses its coherence when you don't use the thing for what it's for.
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So that's a long and probably needlessly philosophical way to say, I think we should use prisons to be prisons.
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But then the second reason that it's good that Trump is reopening Alcatraz is it shows a rethinking of our criminal justice problem.
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For decades, we have heard from the left and from libertarians on the right that America has an over-incarceration problem.
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We have many people being murdered, not just by guns and knives and direct killings, but as I mentioned earlier, 75,000 Americans per year being poisoned by fentanyl, by the criminals who control our entire border and who flood our country with millions of other criminals.
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So what the libs and the squishes want to do is they want to close prisons.
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The extreme left wants to abolish prisons altogether, as Rashida Tlaib and the rest of the squad suggested over the past five, six years.
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And in fact, we are going to reopen America's most notorious prison.
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And we're going to put more criminals in there.
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When the crime rates diminish, that's when you could start talking about over-incarceration.
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For right now, though, we have under-incarceration.
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A fundamental shift in how we even approach criminal justice.
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It should not be, how do we get these people out?
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No, it's, how do we get more people into the prisons?
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And how do we make sure that we surround them by sharks so they never try to swim out?
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Speaking of bad guys and the squad in Congress,
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J.D. Vance just called attention to an old video of Ilhan Omar.
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It's a little while ago now, when Ilhan Omar was first coming onto the scene in politics.
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J.D. Vance just pulled this back up, and his comment on it was,
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this isn't just sick, it's actually genocidal language.
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What's the video? What did she say? Here it is.
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I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country,
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because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.
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We should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.
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The actual leading cause of death in America is heart disease.
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And it's not even causing most of the deaths, it's causing about 20% of all deaths.
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So the plurality, I guess, but it's not, it ain't white men.
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White men, we don't have really firm figures on this,
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also because the Bureau of Justice Statistics kind of cooks the numbers a little bit.
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But white men commit, at most, 46 to 47% of the murders in the country.
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And the category of white men, for some reason now, includes lots of Hispanics.
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So even that number is a little silly, but let's say it's, at most, 46 to 47% of the murders in the country.
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White people are 60% of the population, but they commit 46 to 47% of the murders.
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At least 18 to 19% of the murders in the country are committed by Hispanic men.
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At least 33 to 34% of the murders are committed by black men.
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Obviously, Hispanic men, much smaller proportion of the population than white men.
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Black men, a much smaller proportion of the population still.
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She's saying, well, you think that black men commit a disproportionate number of violent crimes.
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But actually, I'm going to say that white men are really bad.
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It's based on a very, very tenuous grasp of statistics and actually just outright deception.
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But what you, but I'm saying white men are bad.
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I fly through the statistics on this from heart disease to murder because she doesn't really care.
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Well, she does it in a dishonest way that just isn't even close to a reflection of the real circumstances.
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But there is a way to bring up statistics in a cruel and unproductive way, which is to say, you know, black men are a small percent of the population and they commit most of the crimes.
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Those black men, those, you know, and you start, I don't know, you start saying racial slurs or something like that.
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That's not, there's another way to say, hey, you know, black men are a relatively small number of the population and yet they disproportionately commit crimes.
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And so we should try to fix that, shouldn't we?
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And we should try to, when they commit those crimes, we should take that very seriously and imprison them for a long time and try to reform them.
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We should try to stop them from committing crimes in the first place because it's really bad for black women and for these communities, black communities and mixed race communities.
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And it's obviously bad for the victims, but it's bad for the perpetrators too because we can feel bad for the perpetrators, but only in a proper order of our sympathies with the victims being first.
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And, you know, we have a responsibility to organization, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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You're citing the same statistic in both cases.
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It's exactly what we were talking about yesterday on this whole racial question of the woman who called the kid the N-word because the kid was stealing from her toddler and then the accused Somali pedophile filmed her and harassed her and then the woman raised half a million bucks.
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What's the difference on all of these racial issues?
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If you have charity or you don't have charity, totally different things.
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Do you think she's bringing up a false statistic that white men are the leading cause of death in America because she wants to solve any problems, even an imaginary problem like the one she's making up here?
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Well, actually, you know, white men are really bad.
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Okay, Ilhan, you've expressed your contempt for white men.
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Can serious people start trying to conduct politics?
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Speaking of unpleasant Democrat women, President Trump has just called out the new rising star.
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Rashida Tlaib and that other one, Ayanna Pressley, they were always kind of the junior members.
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The George Harrison and the Ringo Starr, respectively, of the squad.
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He didn't even have good sense enough in that same interview to say something as simple as, yes, I will follow the Constitution.
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You know, the thing that actually derived from the oath that he was supposed to take.
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And he supposedly took an oath, which there's a lot of people that point out that he never put his hand on the Bible, even though he acts as if he could somehow be the Pope.
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But nevertheless, that oath specifically says that you will defend the Constitution.
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I actually am going to try to track what she said.
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So first, of course, first part of the clip, Trump points out she might not have a very high IQ.
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Something as simple as, yes, I will follow the Constitution.
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You know, the thing that actually derived from the oath that he was supposed to take.
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And he supposedly took an oath, which there's a lot of people that point out that he never put his hand on the Bible, even though he acts as if he could somehow be the Pope.
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But nevertheless, that oath specifically says that he will defend.
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He wants to be the Bible, and he wants to be the Pope.
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And he's, I think she might have proved his point.
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The Constitution derives from the oath he took to defend the Constitution.
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I don't think that's how derivation, anyway, anyway, enough.
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No one has ever accused Jasmine Crockett of brain surgery.
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Trump is calling her out because he's really good at TV.
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He was the top of the ratings in network television.
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So he knows she makes great TV, and she's the perfect Democrat foil.
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It's like you took AOC, and then you concentrated her down even more.
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This woman makes AOC sound like a university professor.
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You get this Democrat who doesn't know anything, who sounds like she barely has a grasp on the English
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And so when Trump calls out a Democrat, especially if he picks a fight with a Democrat,
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I mean, in fairness, she's been fighting with him before he ever knew her name.
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But Trump knows that if he gives her that spotlight, that's where all the attention is going to go.
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Because she is not likable, and she is not articulate, and she doesn't really seem to know anything at all.
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Which means Republicans should be thrilled about this.
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This, I am now voting, you know, we were talking about maybe the Democrats kicking out David Hogg,
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one of the least likable Democrats in the country, who is now the Democrat vice chairman.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from AtDeaconCarter3459, who says,
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Some are more serious than others, but you have to recognize there is such a thing as to.
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You don't want to call anyone that, and you certainly don't want to call a kid that, but
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I thought, what is an obscure racial group that I would be willing to offend for half a
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I think the woman's now raised something like $700,000.
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Would I be willing to offend the Albanians to get a beach house?
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They should, would I be willing, what's a Tibetan slur?
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If I could raise $700,000 on it, I would have to strongly consider it.
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Speaking of Democrat strategy, the new Democrat narrative is launched.
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You probably haven't even noticed it yet, but this is going to work its way, not just
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through the Jasmine Crockett's of the world, but through the mainstream establishment Democrat
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outlets, New York Times, Washington Post, all the rest.
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The narrative is that President Trump is enriching himself.
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He's sending his kids around the world to raise money on his political influence, and
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Here it is in the New York Times just yesterday.
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Trump's son's deals on three continents directly benefit the president.
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Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump spent the last two weeks traveling the world and announcing
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A contest of sorts has played out across Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.
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In recent days, as President Trump's two older sons have pursued a blitz of family money-making
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ventures capitalizing on their father's name and power, each seemingly trying to outdo the
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It is a rush to cash in that involves billions of dollars with few precedents in American history.
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They're trying to turn Don Jr. into the new Hunter Biden.
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And people who are shallow in their analysis are going to buy it.
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That's why it's a narrative that they're willing to try out on their mainstream outlets.
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The Trump organization has existed with business interests around the world for a very, very long
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In 2015, before Trump became president or ran for president, the Trump organization had properties
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built or underway in, of course, lots of parts of the United States and Scotland, Canada,
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Panama, Dubai, Turkey, India, Azerbaijan, Brazil, and South Korea.
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That wasn't Trump cashing in after he was president, after he was elected president, even after he ran for
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That was Trump just being Trump, being a successful businessman.
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Donald Trump Jr. has worked for the Trump organization for something like 24, 25 years.
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Don Jr. worked for the Trump organization for 15 years before Trump got elected the first time.
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The reason that Hunter Biden taking money from all of these corrupt governments around the world was a big
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scandal is because Hunter Biden didn't have any skills.
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So when Hunter Biden is paid a million dollars from the Ukrainian natural gas state-owned conglomerate,
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that's a scandal because Hunter Biden doesn't know anything about natural gas.
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He's, he was a drug addict who took money to try so that this corrupt government in Ukraine could buy
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the influence of his father was then the vice president.
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It, it would not have been a scandal had Hunter Biden actually been a businessman with business
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deals and relationships that predated his father's entry into politics.
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That wouldn't have been possible because Joe Biden has been a senator since before he was legally
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The Trump organization's international interests long predated Trump's entry into politics.
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So what the libs could try to argue now is, well, yeah, but it's, he, he should have divested
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First of all, how, how is Trump going to divest from Trump?
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It's, it's built on his reputation, his charisma, his skills.
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So you can't, you can't quite, it's not quite like Dick Cheney.
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You know, selling his shares of Halliburton or something like that.
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He could, Trump could practically try to lose, or in principle, lose every interest he has
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So really what the libs are arguing, I'm trying to be as sympathetic to their argument
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Really what they're arguing is we should never have a businessman as president.
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Because businessmen build up business interests and a business reputation over the decades.
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And often they have their family members, their children take on the family business,
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and we just shouldn't have businessmen in politics.
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The American people intentionally elected a businessman to high political office because
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Because we've had feckless political operatives and bureaucrats running the show for a long
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So Trump runs for office on being a businessman.
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Mitt Romney ran for office on being a businessman.
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The big pitch for Mitt Romney at the RNC that year was that Romney knows about business,
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and we need a businessman in office to clean up the government.
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Calvin Coolidge said 100 years ago that the business of America is business.
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So the libs can make that argument all they want.
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But this comparison between Trump and Biden is just completely preposterous.
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A successful business continuing to have business interests as it has for 40, 50 years is not
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the same as some crook, crackhead, failed lawyer going around with a money bag when his dad is
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the vice president so he can shake down foreign governments for bribes.
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And the irony, of course, is the New York Times would not have wanted to investigate Joe Biden
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or Hunter Biden for obvious corruption, and yet they go after Trump for having totally
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transparent business interests that the American people knew when they elected him with the
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Speaking of parents and their children, there's a disturbing story.
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Disturbing story out of the Financial Times, the rise of single parents by choice.
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Single parents have been around for a long time.
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Some of us, some of our best friends were raised by single parents.
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Navigating work and family brings particular pressures for those deciding to have children
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First paragraph, they call it the five to midnight thing, says Annabelle Deering, senior legal
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As she turned 39, Deering, then single, realized time was running out to have a child.
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And she says, you know, I was busy, busy, I was working, I had my career, I played hard,
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But, you know, I never felt like I had a purpose.
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The number of single patients undertaking fertility treatments, including IVF and donor insemination
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in the UK, rose from 305 in 1999 to 4,660 in 2022, according to the data from the Human
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This is not a good way to start out being a parent.
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Everything that article is describing, I know people.
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We all know people like this because our culture has told women to prioritize career
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and have promiscuous sex and don't take relationships seriously and definitely don't get married
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They say, you know, the casual sex and the brunches and working in the widget factory for
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And then I'm going to have a kid and I'm going to intentionally create a child with the
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This is the worst, worst possible way to start out as a parent.
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Because you are beginning your journey as a parent by prioritizing your own desires over
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Right at the beginning, if you start out this way, you are starting out being a parent from
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Doesn't mean you can't try to make the best of a bad situation, but this is the worst possible
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It is the fundamental distinction between classical and liberal society.
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The classical society, we were talking about it earlier in the show.
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The classical society knows what things are from their natures and knows their natures
00:44:10.460
So the classical society, put it even more simply, classical society is ordered toward the good
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of the child, the good of the family, the good of the community, the ultimate good.
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That's true even in pagan societies to varying degrees.
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Liberal society makes you a God, makes the individual a God.
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Well, I don't, God can create without any human interaction at all.
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In the ordinary course of things, if you want to create a child, you need a member of the
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And ideally you get married for life and then you do that thing the married couples do and
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But that doesn't, that means that I'm dependent on someone.
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That means that I don't have full use of my autonomy.
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So if I want to be God, or if I need, if I want to flatter myself into pretending that I'm God,
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then I'm not going to go find another person and engage in the compromises and even sometimes
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the suffering that goes along with living as a political animal.
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I'm just going to go take whatever money I've earned at the widget factory.
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I'm going to spend all of it at the baby store.
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I'm going to buy some guy's sperm, some pervert degenerate guy's sperm.
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I'm going to buy it and then I'm going to create a kid and the kid's going to suffer
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because he's, he was created never to know his father, but I might finally feel a purpose.
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Really bad for the kids, but I don't even just bring up the story as a, as a kind of
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church lady, you know, won't somebody please think of the children.
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I mean, I just won't, won't somebody think of anything at all.
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