Ep. 1734 - New Pope Snubs Rainbow Flag
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Trump is slashing prescription drug prices. Qatar is offering the president luxury jets. The Episcopalians want white people to die in Africa. There s a lot going on, but before we get to any of it, I just need us to savor this video of the new Pope, Leo XIV, snubbing a rainbow flag yesterday.
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Trump is slashing prescription drug prices. Qatar is offering the president luxury jets.
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The Episcopalians want white people to die in Africa. There's a lot going on.
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But before we get to any of it, I just need us to savor this video
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of the new pope, Leo XIV, snubbing a rainbow flag yesterday.
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Here is the Holy Father. He's walking in, greeting crowds of people.
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He's facing his left side, and then he turns to his right side and he's greeting people
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just as there's a rainbow flag. And then right when he gets past the rainbow flag,
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then he turns back to the left side. Now, technically, I don't think that was even
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the LGBT LMNOP flag. I think that was an Italian peace flag. But the public certainly would have
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confused it for the LGBT flag. And the pope refused to engage with it. Which, taken with the pope's
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choice of name, vestments, use of the Latin language, liturgy, etc., etc.,
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it is making me feel dangerously optimistic. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. We have the second Democrat presidential campaign out of the cycle.
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The first one was the one that AOC aired. It's not officially presidential campaign ads,
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President Trump made big news yesterday with a major policy initiative. He signed an executive
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order about it, but he really raised eyebrows when he announced the policy initiative by talking about
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his super fat friend. I mean, I'll tell you a story. A friend of mine who's a businessman, very, very,
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very top guy. Most of you would have heard of him. A highly neurotic, brilliant businessman,
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seriously overweight. And he takes the fat, the fat shot drug. And he called me up and he said,
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uh, president, he calls me, he used to call me Donald. Now he calls me president. So that's nice
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respect. But he's a rough guy, smart guy. Very successful, very rich. I wouldn't even know how
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we would know this, but because he's got comments. He said, president, could I ask you a question?
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What? I'm in London and I just paid for this damn fat drug I take. I said, it's not working.
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They said, he said, I just paid $88. And in New York, I pay $1,300. What the hell is going on?
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Okay. So the upshot of this story is, uh, drug prices in America are high relative to the rest
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of the world. That's the option. That's the thing that Trump is trying to convey here and is conveying
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very successfully. He could have just said drug prices in America are higher than they are in the
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rest of the world. But instead he says, I have a friend, very, very fat friend. He's successful,
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rich, but fat. How fat is he? Oh, he's so fat. He's so fat. His mama said, so he's got this really
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fat friend, you know, and he calls me, he says, Hey president. That's what he called him. The
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president. I don't know if you knew that. Anyway, it's like a Norm Macdonald shaggy dog joke.
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This is like a Rodney Dangerfield bit. You know, I'll know my doctor, Dr. Vinnie Wombats.
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And then he says, yeah, yeah. Hey president, you know, I'd take the fat shot. Excuse me. I got
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to interrupt. It's not working. Why? Why say all of this to introduce an executive order to bring
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down drug prices, to call attention to a simple fact that drug prices are higher in America than
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they are in the rest of the world. Because it gets your attention, because it humanizes the issue.
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Because it, it, it turns policy wonkery into a, an image of real world problems.
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All the Republicans before Trump, they go out, well, I think it's very important. We need to
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reduce the cost of pharmaceutical drugs. Pharmaceutical drugs in the United States can
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cost sometimes 80, a hundred percent, sometimes four or 500 percent more than they cost in other
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developed nations. And so what we're going to do is boring. Who cares? Because I got this friend.
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He's so fat. Oh boy. He's so fat. How fat is he? Faith's so fat. He's got moons orbiting around him.
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I tell you, I got this friend. So then he gets to the actual executive order. The executive order
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says that the pharmaceutical prices, pharmaceutical companies must reduce prices 30 to 80 percent in
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the United States. How's Trump going to do this? Is this just communism? Is this just a command and
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control economy? Well, hold on. Let's get into the specifics. Trump says, I will be instituting a
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most favored nation's policy whereby the United States will pay the same price as the nation that
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pays the lowest price anywhere in the world. Our country will finally be treated fairly and our
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citizens' healthcare costs will be reduced by numbers never even thought before. So I love this
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language, most favored nation status. Because we apply this moniker to different nations around
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the world for all sorts of different policy initiatives. But Trump is saying, wait, why are
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we giving other countries more favorable policies than we give to ourselves? Shouldn't we be the most
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favored nation of our own nation? We can favor other nations too over and above others, but we should
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be the most favored nation of our own nation. Shouldn't we? He says, big pharma will either abide by this
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principle voluntarily or we'll use the power of the federal government to ensure that we are paying the
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same price as other countries to accelerate these price restrictions and reductions. So big pharma is going
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to cut prices for American customers or we're going to use the government to smash those companies into
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dirt. Now, how much higher are the prices in America? President Trump yesterday said that some drugs in the
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U.S. cost 10 times more than they do in other countries. And according to ABC News reporting, this
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executive order follows Trump's long held view that the U.S. is subsidizing other countries and not
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getting enough in return. So not just on drugs, but on trade, on all sorts of things, on the military.
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So what do we make of that claim? That's just true. I mean, I remember studying politics in college and
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totally banal, anodyne, middle of the road kind of people, many of whom don't even like Trump, were
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teaching me that the United States subsidizes the cost of drugs everywhere in the world. Because we
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pay for all the research and development, and then the other guys get to freeload on all of the
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costs that we pay. So is this a just use of government? Is this just communism and command
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and control? And is this going to, is this smack in our nose to spite our face? Is this going to hurt
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us in the long run? Not necessarily. Because the plan does not pressure big pharma just to eat the
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costs. This is not just a Barack Obama, left-wing, Democrat kind of initiative that tries to pretend
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that you can pull money out of nowhere. This executive order is going to force other countries
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to eat the costs. So it's not, it's not this pie in the sky utopian, we can just money appear, make
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money appear out of nowhere. It's saying, no, no, we're going to make money appear out of the other
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countries. We're going to stop subsidizing the other countries. Their costs are going to go up,
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our costs are going to go down. We're generous, we've been very generous to people all around the
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world, but maybe we've been a little bit too generous. Maybe we've been a little bit prodigal,
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okay? And we need to, we need to pull it in a little bit. In principle, that is totally different
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from the left-wing, commie, command and control, utopian, we'll just bring all the prices down and there
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won't have to be any costs to offset that. No, there will be, and the costs will be borne by
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We'll work out after this. It's fine. Speaking of President Trump saving money,
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biggest supposed controversy of the week. Qatar is offering President Trump, well,
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is offering the government of the United States, I should say, a luxury jet to be the new Air Force
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One temporarily because Boeing has taken a really, really long time, way longer than we expected,
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building the new Air Force Ones. This, we are told, is egregiously corrupt. You're hearing this
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even by people within the broader MAGA world, even some people who have supported Trump. Now,
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I think the reason that a lot of people are criticizing this is not so much because it's a
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plane as because it's coming from Qatar. Because a lot of people don't like Qatar because Qatar
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sponsors all sorts of bad things around the world. And sometimes Qatar is enemies with nations that
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other people like and nations that we're allied with. And they don't want us to have alliances
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with Qatar. And they want to play this country off that country, off this country, off that country.
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And it's all a big geopolitical game. And it's not really about the plane. However, there is a
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legitimate question. I don't think it's much of a concern, but it's a legitimate question about
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the propriety of the United States government accepting a big gift from a foreign country.
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Does that come with strings attached? Is this Qatar buying influence? Is this corrupt?
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The way the deal would work here is the plane would be Air Force One. So the US would kind of
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refit it, slap some new paint on it, make it Air Force One. And then before the end of President
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Trump's term, the plane would be donated to the Trump presidential library. So now the alarm bells
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are really going off. We were saying this is corrupt. Trump's just giving himself a luxury
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private jet worth hundreds of millions of dollars or more. Here's Trump's take on it.
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Mr. President, what do you say to people who view that luxury jet as a personal gift to you?
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Only ABC. Well, a few of you would. Let me tell you, you should be embarrassed asking that question.
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They're giving us a free jet. I could say, no, no, no, don't give us, I want to pay you a billion
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or 400 million or whatever it is. Or I could say, thank you very much. You know, there was an old
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golfer named Sam Snead. Did you ever hear of him? He won 82 tournaments. He was a great golfer.
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And he had a motto. When they give you a putt, you say, thank you very much. You pick up your
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ball and you walk to the next hole. A lot of people are stupid. They say, no, no, I insist on
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putting it. And then they put it and they miss it. And their partner gets angry at him. You know what?
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Remember that Sam Snead, when they give you a putt, you pick it up and you walk to the next hole and you
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That's great advice. That is some of the best political advice I've heard Trump give. You know,
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I think Trump has done a tremendous job in both of his terms as president. He's done a tremendous job
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reshaping the Republican Party. Sometimes when he's articulating what he's doing,
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it's less persuasive than when he's just doing what he's doing. But there, I think he's articulating
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it absolutely perfectly. It says you people, you're wringing your hands over this free plane.
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You know, when you're on the course and someone gives you a putt, say thank you and move on.
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Just move on. What's the fear here? Well, the fear for some people is that Qatar is going to buy
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influence with Trump. Will it? I don't know if that's true. Because look at how Trump works
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with his enemies and with his friends. I'm talking on the geopolitical stage. I'm talking about people
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like Xi Jinping. I'm talking about people like Zelensky. I'm talking about people like Netanyahu.
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I'm talking about Vladimir Putin. I'm talking about Kim Jong-un. I'm talking about all of these
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people. Trump, he has enemies. He has friends. And then sometimes he's really nice to some of his
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enemies, tries to get a deal done. He calls Kim Jong-un a fat rocket man who's got a little button that
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doesn't work. And he's really mean to him. And then he goes out and has an in-person meeting.
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He's really tight with Netanyahu in Israel. He's got a town named after him in Israel.
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And then when Israel's not doing what Trump wants him to do, Israel goes on its own.
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He's polite and respectful to Putin. Then he cuts a minerals deal in Ukraine,
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drives Putin up a wall because it means that the United States is going to continue to back Ukraine.
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I don't think you can really buy Trump off with a private jet. In fact, I don't think Donald Trump
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needs a private jet. He's been flying on a, what, a 747 for his entire adult life. I think
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the guy's got money. All right. And then furthermore, there's this claim that, well,
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Trump is going to keep the plane after he leaves office. And that's the height of corruption.
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He's not going to keep the plane when he leaves office. The plane will be donated to the Trump
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presidential library, just like happened at the Ronald Reagan presidential library.
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There's an Air Force One in the Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley. If you haven't been,
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I strongly recommend you go. It's very cool. You can go on tours. It's a big, beautiful
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presidential library. It's, as Trump pointed out, it's one of the reasons that the library is so
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successful. What do you, do you think that Trump, just at a very practical level, Qatar gives the
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United States a plane worth, by the way, upwards of $2 billion. Trump actually undersold it there.
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It's not that it's really worth $2 billion, but it's worth it to us because we pay almost $2 billion
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per Air Force One jet made by Boeing, even though it takes way too long to make it.
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So we, the United States gets $2 billion essentially for free. They slap the pant all over it. It says
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Air Force One on it now. That Air Force One is then donated to the Trump presidential library. Do you
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think Donald Trump is going to be privately flying around on a plane that is Air Force One?
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He can't do that. That's not going to happen. They're going to park it at the library and make it a
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big attraction and make the library a big success. I just can't get riled up about this. I understand
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why some people are getting riled up. They're getting riled up because they hate Qatar, and they
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don't want Qatar to have influence. They want other countries to have influence, but not Qatar. Okay,
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fair enough. That's fine. We're all playing different geopolitical games if we prefer this
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alliance and not that alliance. We want to cozy up to Saudi Arabia. No, we want to cozy up to Iran.
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No, we actually want to appease this guy or that guy. Whatever. I get it. But please do not
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relieve yourself on my leg and tell me it's raining. Please don't tell me this is about
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the U.S. government getting a free airplane. It's clearly not about that. Now, speaking of foreign
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affairs, Trump has just announced a marvelous policy through his deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller,
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to accept refugees. You'd say, hold on, haven't we accepted enough refugees? No, no, not the kind of
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refugees that the Democrats talk about. Not the economic migrants who are abusing our refugee
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system by claiming political persecution where there is none. No, no, we're talking about
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Afrikaners in South Africa. These are the white people who are targeted by their government,
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the government which chants, kill the boa, kill the fama, shoot to kill, shoot, shoot, shoot.
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These are people who are actually fleeing murder and rape. Small number of people.
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Trump is going to admit them. And Stephen Miller articulates why.
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But what's happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program
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was created. This is persecution based on a protected characteristic, in this case, race.
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So this is race based persecution. The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global
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poverty. And historically, it has been used that way. Wherever there's global poverty or
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wherever there's dysfunctional governments, then the U.S. refugee program comes in, swoops
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people up, relocates them to America, and you have multi-generational problems. Even into
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the second and third generation, you have endemic poverty, you have crime issues, you have integration
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issues. The U.S. refugee program in America has been a catastrophic failure. I mean, if you
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look, for example, at the Twin Cities area, just in terms of markers of educational outcomes, in terms
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of public safety, in terms of welfare use, I mean, it's been a complete public policy failure. And so
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this is an example of the president returning the refugee program to what it was intended to be used
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as. So simple enough, right? He's saying, no, no, it's not that the United States is opposed to
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taking in refugees. We take in a lot of them. It's just that the program has been abused to classify
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economic migrants as refugees, and they're not that. The point of the refugee program is to help
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people who are seriously being persecuted in a systematic way by their government to get them out
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of those countries and give them a chance in small numbers. Okay, this totally checks the boxes.
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But there's this big problem. The Afrikaners are white. That's the big problem. And the Libs don't
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want to come right out and say it, but the Libs only want to take in brown immigrants. They don't
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want to take in white immigrants. And they even only want to take in brown refugees. They don't
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want to take in white refugees. The white refugees can be murdered. They can be raped. They can be
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slaughtered. That's totally fine. White people bad, brown people good. Two legs bad, four legs good.
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That's what they are saying. Some are saying it more explicitly than others, including the Episcopal
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Church. The preeminent mainline Protestant Church in America, WASP, Old Blue Blood Central,
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the Episcopal Church, would rather stop helping refugees entirely than have to help white refugees
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from South Africa. According to Sean W. Rowe, the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church,
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quote, just over two weeks ago, the federal government informed Episcopal Migration Ministries
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that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South
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Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees. In light of our church's steadfast
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commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of
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South Africa, we are not able to take this step. Accordingly, we have determined that by the end of
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the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S.
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government. How many people are we talking about here? 49 people. Not 49 million. Not 49,000.
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49 Afrikaners whose lives are threatened, who face rape and murder in South Africa, landed at Dulles
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Airport. And the Episcopal Church would rather stop helping all refugees than be forced to help
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even 49 white people threatened with murder. What's the total number in South Africa? 70,000 people.
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70,000 people applying for refugee resettlement. How many do we take in per year? We take in millions
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and millions of foreign nationals per year. Most of them illegal. That has stopped now under Trump.
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But under Biden, millions of illegals per year, unvetted, run by the drug cartels, murderers,
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rapists, drug dealers, fentanyl peddlers. But 49 people, at most 70,000 white people from South
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Africa facing murder. Sorry, that's too much. The left just hates white people.
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What other conclusion am I supposed to come to? I think it's as simple as that.
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They just hate white people. They hate white people. All this talk about the rights of the
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migrants and the refugees and the international treaties that allow people to seek asylum.
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It's all fake. It's all bunk. They don't believe a word of it. They just hate white people.
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I shouldn't laugh. It's really sad. But at least we know the terms of the game here.
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And I'm not even just talking about the political operative libs who think that they're going to get
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more in the long run electorally out of a Guatemalan immigrant than out of a South African
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immigrant. I'm not even just talking about the cold hard political operators. I'm talking about the
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left-wing NGOs and the organizations that purport to be churches that run migration services. The
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Episcopalian church just hates white people. Funny because the Episcopalian church is whiter than
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the freshly driven snow, so it's a bunch of self-hating white people. But that's it. That's
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all it comes down to. I think the next hymn, the next recessional you're going to hear at your
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Episcopalian service. They go, Paul, please rise for the recessional. Kill the boy. Shoot to kill.
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Shoot, shoot, shoot. Really disturbing stuff. If not so horrifying, it would be hilarious.
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Americans for Americans. Speaking of immigration, the Nashville mayor, mayor of my own town,
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Freddie O'Connell, is whining about federal immigration enforcement operations going on here
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This is a tough moment, and I am heartbroken that today many of our neighbors in Nashville
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are experiencing fear over family separation rather than the safety we all deserve. The trauma
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inflicted on families is long-lasting, and I'm doing everything in my power consistent with
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applicable law to protect anyone who calls Nashville home. What's clear today is that people who do not
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share our values of safety and community have the authority to cause deep community harms.
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Immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility. MMPD officers are not ICE. What's clear is that
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federal and state authorities are intent on enforcing immigration law. Their approach is not our
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understanding of what a Nashville for all of us looks like, and we're grateful to our community
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partners who make all of our residents feel welcome.
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We'll be launching a new fund called the Belonger Fund.
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What's clear is that some people don't really care. They don't share our view of keeping Nashville
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safe. So they're going to arrest all these criminals. Now, we think the way you keep Nashville
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safe is by having the criminals running amok. But Trump and the federal government, they think the
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way that you keep the city safe is by arresting the criminals. So I guess it's just a difference
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Yeah, I guess it is. I guess it is. But he's right that Nashville has absolutely no authority to stop
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this. And in some ways, I think he's speaking in this, you know, downer kind of way because he wants
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to save face with his liberal voting base while recognizing from the broader electoral trends show
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most people want the mass deportations. That's what they voted for.
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This is, and you know, I mean, it's really, we have no authority here.
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This government is just intent on enforcing immigration law.
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You remember when we were told that democracy is sacred and no one is above the law and this is a
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nation of laws, not a nation of men. Remember when the libs were prattling on about that?
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And now they're whining, they're complaining on the brink of tears because the government has the
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temerity to enforce the law. Now, this is sad. It actually is sad. Because there are going to be
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some people who are rounded up by ICE who are very sympathetic people. I keep joking that the people
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ICE is going after right now are face tattooed Satan worshiping gangsters. That is true. But there could
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come a time when the ICE raids go after just illegal aliens, people who came here illegally, so they did
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commit a pretty serious crime, but they don't rob liquor stores and they don't murder and they don't
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rape and they don't pillage. They're just kind of minding their own business, but they're here
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illegally. And some of them are going to be sympathetic figures. And it's actually okay to
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feel sad for some of them when they get deported or when they have the misfortune of living next to
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MS-13 or something. So they get lumped in with them too and they're deported. That is sad.
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It is sad that Democrats put them in this position. It is sad that Democrats at the local level,
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mayors of cities all the way up to Joe Biden as president, Kamala Harris as vice president.
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It's sad that they encouraged these people to come into America illegally, put them in a precarious
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position because the Democrats believed with justification that doing so would give them
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a permanent electoral majority. It's sad that now those people are facing the consequences of the
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thing the Democrats encouraged them to do. That's it. I feel sorry for them. I do.
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Well, what do you want me to do? What do you want me to do about it?
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I'm not, I didn't do that. I didn't encourage you to come here. I didn't encourage you to break the
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law. I didn't insinuate that the law would not be enforced against you. I didn't try to override
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the constitution with things like executive amnesty. I didn't do any of that. The Democrats did that.
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You're upset about the deportations? Blame them. They're the ones who did it. They're the ones who
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created the problem. We're the ones fixing the problem. Now, speaking of Democrat presidents,
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we have the second Democrat presidential campaign out of the cycle. The first one was from AOC.
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The second one airing on NBC News, some local affiliate in California. Look at this familiar
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face. It's school backpacks. In a few months, it'll be Christmas toys. These tariffs punish families
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and risk ending America's run as the world's greatest economy. Take it from California. We're the ones
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leading it. We're the ones leading it. Californiafacts.com. Now, this is not technically a
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presidential campaign ad. This is the governor of California who raised a bunch of money, got a bunch
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of money out of the state to effectively kickstart a presidential campaign, though in principle it was
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just to defend California against the predations of the federal government under Trump. It's really
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just a way to kickstart his campaign. He is airing this ad for two reasons. To carve out turf and to
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reserve donor money in the eventual presidential race. That's really what it's about. He doesn't need
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to raise awareness about California. He's not fighting any particular lawsuit with the Trump
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administration right now. This is about carving out some turf and keeping donor money on the side until
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he announces a PAC or a campaign so that he can accept that money. But the race has already started.
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That's what AOC was doing, too. And actually, we played Jasmine Crockett, the new AOC. We played her
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on the show yesterday saying that the Democrat donors were already really, really excited about
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a certain white boy, not a woman, not a person of color. And they're obviously talking about Gavin
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Newsom. Now, Newsom having this space right now does not necessarily bode well for him. I remember I was
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having dinner with a very successful Democrat back in 2016. And he said, Michael, all the smart money
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is on Jeb Bush. I don't think so. Oh, yeah, Michael, all the really rich donors, they got their money on
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Jeb. Obviously, it did not work out very well. But right now, Gavin Newsom is carving out that space.
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Sometimes it works, as in the case of Mitt Romney, who was the front runner basically for the entire
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2012 race. Sometimes it doesn't work like Jeb Bush. But it's on. Right now, the race is between Gavin
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Newsom and AOC. Many others will join in. Now, speaking of incoherence, there is a story just
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popped up in Sky News. It says, could AI translate animal sounds into words? Tech experts hope so.
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The proposed system hopes to use AI to recognize a pet's emotional state and then translate it into
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It was the producers. So if it's a bad one, blame them. But if it's a good one,
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thank me for having trained them. This is from Blood Splatter Artist, who says,
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Pope's unearthed comments alarm LGBT Catholics. It's like saying his comments alarm adulterous Catholics.
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That's true. Yeah, it's exactly like that. His comments alarm alternately sinful or heretical
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Catholics. Yeah, well, who knew? Who knew, man? Okay, can you talk to your cat? Are you about to be
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able to talk to your cat? A Chinese tech company has revealed it is exploring whether it's possible
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to use AI to translate animal sounds into human language. It's not. Spoiler alert, it's not.
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You see these articles pop up a fair bit, and especially with this new rise of AI, this new
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technological revolution. It's really, you got to give credit where credit's due.
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Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, much maligned and mostly rightly so, did call the moment
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that we're living in a fourth industrial revolution. The first industrial revolution was, you know, the
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mechanization of industry. Then you added to that the assembly line, electricity. Then you added to
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that another industrial revolution, the third industrial revolution of data. And now we're in
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the fourth industrial revolution, which is AI, quantum computing, and the melding of biology and
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technology. We're all going to get chips in our head, that kind of stuff. So it does appear that
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we're in that moment. In fact, tying this all the way back to the first story of the day,
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the new Pope, Pope Leo XIV, says that he chose the name Leo in part because we appear to be living
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through another industrial revolution. And just as Leo XIII, his predecessor, addressed the problems
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faced by mankind by the first industrial revolution, so too he's going to help us understand these.
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Well, just as with all of the big technological revolutions, certain people are developing
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utopian visions because they don't understand how human nature really works.
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No amount of AI will allow you to talk to your cat because your cat is not capable of language.
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And notice here the little sleight of hand in the description. The proposed system hopes to use AI
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to recognize a pet's emotional state and then translate it into language. But language does
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not merely communicate emotional states. If language, not language, but sounds can communicate
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emotional states. For instance, if I'm really happy, I might sound like this.
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If I'm really upset, I might sound like this. That's not language. That's grunting. That's screaming.
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That's crying. That's shouting. It's not language. Animals can already do that.
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Language is this. Language is, in the Baca, Euripides tells us that if you talk sense to a fool,
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he'll call you foolish. That's language. Language is, justice means giving to each what he deserves.
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That's language. Language communicates through signs and symbols, rational ideas. Animals cannot do that.
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You can outfit them with every computer on earth. The most super-duper Grok 4.0 AI. They will not be
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able to do that. That's not what they do. So the best that this kind of thing could propose,
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or could really achieve, rather, is to say that it will translate a pet's emotional state so that
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when the pet goes, the AI will pop out and say, I'm angry or I'm sad. But that's a translation in the
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sense that you're actually totally transforming what's really going on in the minds of your pet.
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But this is also part of the real impulse of the fourth industrial revolution, the AI age,
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which is to make ourselves into gods. Most clearly articulated by Yuval Harari,
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the left-wing writer, maybe most famous for talking about this, who wrote a book called Homo Deus,
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God-man. We will transcend Homo sapiens, we'll become God, and we'll give our dumb creatures even
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the ability to speak. Ain't going to happen, Buster. Not how it works. Now, speaking of conversations,
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the U.S. and China appear to be on the brink of a trade deal. So last week, Scott Besson floated that
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just coincidentally, the U.S. and China were going to sit down and try to work out this trade issue
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that has caused global markets to be convulsing for weeks. The world has been coming to the U.S.,
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and China has been the missing piece. I was going to be in Switzerland to negotiate with the Swiss.
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Turns out the Chinese team is traveling through Europe, and they will be in Switzerland also. So
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we will meet on Saturday and Sunday. And, you know, look, we have shared interest that this isn't
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sustainable, as I said before, especially on the Chinese side. And, you know, 145%, 125% is the
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equivalent of an embargo. We don't want to decouple. What we want is fair trade.
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So it's clear. Besson couldn't be clear. He says, no, no, no, we don't want to decouple. We don't want
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an endless trade war. We don't want the markets going up and down forever. We just want
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a better trade deal. Now news reports are out that the talks went pretty well,
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and the U.S. and China are going to be announcing a trade deal very shortly.
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I don't know the details of it. I know that you're going to have partisans fighting over
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who won the trade war. Yeah, Trump really forced Xi Jinping to the table, and now we got a better deal
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for the American people. That's going to be one side. The other side is going to say, ah, Trump backed
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away from most of what he was asking for. And actually, it was all useless because the evaporation
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of wealth in a short period of time, we didn't really get that many concessions out. The whole
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thing would have been better if we hadn't done anything in the first place. All right.
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Fine. Duke it out. I don't care. That's the usual kind of partisan bickering.
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Politically speaking, what matters about this is if a trade deal is done and satisfactory and the
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markets like it and everything goes back to a new normal, that means that the market volatility very
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likely will be a dead issue. The fact that markets have been roiled since Trump's liberation day in
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the beginning of all these tariffs has caused a market correction. That's true. But everyone expected
00:40:45.320
a market correction before Trump got elected. Everyone thought the market was overvalued to
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begin with. Everyone was expecting some kind of downturn, if not an outright recession, which
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certainly would hurt Trump and the Republicans in the midterm elections and maybe in the 2020
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presidential election. So the political analysis on all this is it is entirely possible, assuming this
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trade deal gets worked out and the markets like it, that the market volatility will be a dead issue
00:41:13.280
in six months. If that is the case, what are the Democrats going to run on?
00:41:22.600
What is the big issue for the midterm elections? Immigration? No, everyone loves Trump's immigration
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policy. The economy? If the market volatility is a dead issue, then I'm going to run on that one.
00:41:38.180
Healthcare? That was always a big one for Democrats. Maybe that, oh, except Trump is
00:41:41.180
bringing down drug prices 30 to 80% by forcing big pharma to force other countries to stop getting
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a free ride. Will it be foreign affairs? The American people seem to prefer Trump's approach
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to the big conflicts, Ukraine and Russia, Israel, Gaza, than they do to the Democrats. So what are they
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going to run on? You know what they're going to run on? They're going to run on Trump accepted an
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airplane on behalf of the US government from Qatar or whatever. What are they going to run on? They
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have nothing. They have absolutely nothing. That could be a very good sign. I know there's going to
00:42:24.560
be all sorts of, but what about the economics of it? What about the substance of the trade? Yeah,
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I'm just looking at it politically. Looking at this politically,
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the White House has played its hand almost perfectly. A good position to be in. That's not
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bad at all. So we can all whine, but no, but actually, but if you think about it, no, but why
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this isn't, Mitt Romney wouldn't approve of that. Yeah, whatever. See ya. Doesn't matter. We're
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looking pretty. As of now, as I said at the top of the show, I know it's very untrad, very
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unconservative to not constantly believe that the world is about to collapse. But as of right now,
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I'm feeling dangerously optimistic. Today's Teeheehee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now.
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