Ep. 1735 - Is The Pope Black？
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The Catholic Church has a new Pope. And he's not just a little bit black. He's also a Catholic Cardinal. Is the Pope Black? And what does that have to do with race? Well, as it turns out, the Pope has a lot in common with President Trump.
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Is the Pope black? It's not really an issue that Catholics care about. Catholic means universal.
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The Catholic Church spans the whole globe. We venerate saints of all sorts of backgrounds.
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We venerate a guy named St. Moses the Black and have for about 1,700 years. Race is not a big
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issue for the Catholic Church, but it is a big issue for secular liberals whose opinions of the
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new Pope are now changing in real time based entirely on whether or not the Holy Father
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is an octoroon. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. The libs really hate Afrikaners, the white South African farmers.
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They really hate them. There's a prominent TikToker who's threatening to murder them if they come here,
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even the mainstream libs on TV. They just really, they really don't like the white people in South
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There are very few occasions in 2025 when one can use the word octoroon. But I guess in day eight of
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talking about the new Pope, the Libs are making us talk about that because they've discovered that
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the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, might be slightly black. And this is changing the Libs opinion of
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the Pope from skeptical or negative to good. There's one other thing that's also very interesting
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to me because President Trump, as you remember, called Haiti a certain type of country. As it turns
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out, our new American Pope has Haitian and black roots. So we actually have a black Pope.
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Apparently, it's like chef's kiss for me. So apparently, both of his maternal grandparents
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are described as black, Haitian, or mulatto in several census documents. And on their marriage
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license, his birth, the grandfather's birthplace is Haiti, listed as Haiti. Her birthplace is listed
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as born in New Orleans. They were identified as people of color. But in 1920, when they migrated to
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Chicago, the census reflected their race as white.
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You couldn't script this. They say, so, you know, the Pope, I mean, whatever, I don't really know about
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the Catholic faith or what he believes or his views on social issues or LGBT or this. But I found out
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he has a single drop of black blood in him. So now I love him because I hate white people and I love
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black people. So now I like the Pope. You're telling me, hold on, you're telling me that the Holy
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Father, Pope Leo, can wear traditional vestments, can speak in Latin, can sing the Regina Celi at the
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Vatican, can oppose LGBTism and all the other kinds of social ideologies that the Catholic Church has
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always opposed. He can do all of those things. And he just has to be slightly swarthy. Deal.
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Where do I sign? I'm in. That sounds great to me, man. The other irony, of course, is that in this
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papal conclave, the cardinal that many, if not most of the conservatives were pulling for to become the
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next Pope, is Cardinal Sarah, who is quite black. He's not just a little bit black. He's a lot,
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he's all the way black because he was one of the most, is one of the most traditional cardinals and
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is just an all around great guy. It's really curious to me. It's not curious to me that the
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left is reducing religion down to something relatively superficial like race. That is par for
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the course. It is curious to me that all of these secular liberals care about who the Pope is.
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Isn't that kind of weird? Shouldn't, sweet little Elisa was making this point to me last night.
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Shouldn't all these women on The View, none of whom appear to practice Catholicism or any religion,
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shouldn't they all just think the Pope is a crazy person? The Pope who is claiming this special role
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from God where he, and he wears all of these interesting clothes and he claims a kind of
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universal spiritual authority. Shouldn't the libs on The View think this guy's a total lunatic?
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Why are they so concerned with it? Why does everyone care about the Pope?
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Why has the Pope been the main thing that everyone's been talking about for at least a week now?
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One of the main things people have been talking about for many, many centuries now.
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What's that about? No other religion has that. Judaism doesn't have that. Protestantism doesn't
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have that. Eastern Orthodoxy doesn't have that. Hinduism doesn't have that. Buddhism doesn't have
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that. Buddhism sort of has the Dalai Lama, but he's not like the Pope. He's not this totally unifying
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figure. And a lot of what he does is just kind of vague humanitarianism and, I don't know,
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waving his Rolex in commercials or something. No other group has this. It's just the Catholic
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Church. Almost as if the Pope is the vigor of Christ and a deliberate sign of unity of the one
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holy Catholic and apostolic church. Almost. I don't know. And everyone cares about that and recognizes
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that to some level, even the ladies on The View. I don't know. I don't know. Anyway, so enough about
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the Pope. One additional quick point on religion. Joe Rogan just had a great episode in which
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Joe was mocking atheists and atheists' condescension to religious people.
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That there's always been something. Wouldn't it be crazy if there wasn't something at one point in
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time? That seems even crazier than there always has been something. Because if it's just something,
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if it's just the nature of everything, there is always something, right?
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It couldn't be nothing. And then all of a sudden, everything. That seems...
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Because what started that? What kicked that off?
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That's McKenna's great line. Terrence McKenna had a great line about the difference between
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science and religion is that science only asks you for one miracle. I want you to believe in one
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It's a great line. It's because it really is true. And it's funny because people would be
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incredulous about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but yet they're convinced that the entire
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universe was smaller than the head of a pen. And for no reason than anybody's adequately explained
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I love this take. And Joe Rogan is very, very good at this. He's got a little bit of the
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Norm MacDonald trick, which is he speaks in a way that's so down to earth, that's so simple
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to understand. He kind of seems just like a regular guy, but he's expressing ideas often
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that are actually pretty complex. He's saying, yeah, science, you know, the difference between
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science and religion, it only asks you to believe in one miracle.
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But it's still a miracle. How are you supposed to explain how everything came from nothing
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or came from this infinitesimally small singularity? How are you going to, yeah, I don't know,
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bro. I'm sticking with Jesus. What a great line. What I love so much about this exchange
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is, well, I love the ideas. I like that the ideas are getting out there, but really what
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distinguishes this exchange is the vibe shift. Some of you listening out there, you Zoomers and
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you Gen Alpha, you're not going to remember what the millennials and the Gen X and the boomers
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are going to remember, which is that 20 years ago, for the past really, for most of the past
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25, 30 years, atheists were the cool, preening, condescending, like hip, smart guys, and religious
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people were the butt of the joke. And then that totally flipped. And the way it flipped now is you
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get Joe Rogan and be like, yeah, so your explanation, atheists, is totally stupid. It's
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like the dumbest thing I've ever heard. You make yourselves look like a joke. You're completely
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ridiculous. I'm sticking with Jesus. Jesus makes more sense. That's the killer line right there.
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You come out of the 2000s where you have Christopher Hitchens and Bill Maher was part of this and
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Richard Dawkins said, well, you know, I don't believe in a flying spaghetti monster, as if anyone
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believes in that. I don't believe in a man with a beard in the sky. And you think, no, you're a
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pyromaniac in a field of straw men, to quote George Will. All of this condescension, and now that's
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flipped. And Joe Rogan, I think actually your explanation, it's totally unsatisfying. I'm sticking
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with Jesus. Jesus makes more sense. It's the vibe shift that you get out of the meme of atheists,
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not being these really smart, posh, free-thinking, rational people, but the meme of atheists as
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unkempt, unhygienic, fedora-tipping Reddit-using losers. That's the vibe shift. I'm not even talking
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about the substance of the arguments, even though all of the evidence is on the side of the religious
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people. None of the evidence is on the side of the atheists. But I'm not even talking about that.
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I'm talking about the vibe shift. The same kind of vibe shift that 20 years ago would have had a
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person who identifies as a Republican be the butt of jokes, the stupid person, the bigoted person,
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the person without any friends, the person who's angry all the time. Total vibe shift. Now we're the
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cool guys. We got one of the biggest pop culture stars in the world is our president. All the cool
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guys are on the Trump team now. All the scolds and the angry people and the self-serious people and the
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weirdos. They're the left now. Just complete, complete vibe shift. It has to do with the
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the libs have become so morally confused, so politically confused, they are now quibbling
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over the definition of genocide on CNN. You know, there's this initiative from the Trump White House
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to say, all right, we've taken in zillions of refugees in recent years. The vast majority of
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them are not actually refugees. They're economic migrants from Latin America whom the Democrats
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have imported, contrary to the law, because they think that they're going to give the Democrats an
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electoral majority permanently. So now we're looking around the world, and there actually is a group of
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people that is being persecuted by its government, by its countrymen, being raped and killed en masse,
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and that is the white people in South Africa, the Afrikaners. So we're going to let a small number
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of them in. I think it's something like 58 or 59 people at the moment. The largest number we would
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let in is something like 70,000 who have applied. We're talking about 50, 60 people right now.
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And the Democrats on CNN are so opposed to letting in a handful, a few dozen white people from South
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Africa, that they are now trying to redefine genocide.
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I'm sure there's been violence against one side of the world.
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There has been violence against one side of the world.
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Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. I want to make a point.
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So we need to be really, really clear about that, because if you look at the violence-
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No, I would say that, actually, because if you look at what genocide is, it is very specific
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that you're trying to get rid of a people, a whole group of people.
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There is violence in South Africa. They've had a very big uptick in violence, but black people
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have seen the brunt of that violence, not just white Africans.
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Okay. I just want you to know violence does not equal genocide. No one claimed that violence
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equals genocide. The claim was that white South Africans face a legitimate threat of genocide,
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not because people are violent in Johannesburg, but because the two leading parties in South Africa,
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two of the biggest political parties in the country, regularly chant, kill the bower, kill the farmer,
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shoot to kill, gat, gat, gat. That's why. It's not even just the violence that actually occurs,
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though there is a lot of it. It is that there is a program at the highest levels of the South African
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political order to kill the white farmers because they're white. That's why. Well,
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I don't know. Does that really, does that really qualify as genocide? Hey folks, I'm old enough to
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remember when the liberal media, when these kinds of people accused me of genocide because I said that
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men shouldn't go into the women's bathroom. You remember that a few years ago, two, three years ago,
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I gave a speech at CPAC. I said, for the good of everyone, you got to stop letting fellas into the
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girls' bathroom. It's not good for the guys who are sexually confused. It's not good for the girls.
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It's not good for anybody. I was accused of genocide by the human rights campaign, the LGBT,
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the Gay Stapo organization. I was accused of genocide by The Daily Beast, very prominent
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left-wing magazine. I was accused of genocide by Rolling Stone, very prominent left-wing magazine.
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I was accused of genocide. What was the other outlet? Oh, the UK Independent. I was accused of genocide.
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It was just the first four that popped up on Google when I searched it up. So say that fellas
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shouldn't go into the ladies' bathroom. You're committing a genocide. Call to exterminate all
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the white people in South Africa. Shoot to kill, kill the Boer, get, get, get. Not genocide, really?
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I mean, when you really think about the wording, are we sure? These are the same people. These are the
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same people making this argument. And it's not just the CNN panel. It is the libs almost uniformly.
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Don Lemon going off on how accepting even a handful of white South Africans as legitimate refugees
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This South African farmer bull, which is the most blatantly obvious racist ever. It is blatantly
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obvious the way that we treat white South Africans who, by the way, for the most part,
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and I am generalizing here. Some of the wealthiest people are well-to-do people in the country.
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They speak their language. They own most of the land and the property. And somehow they're being
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granted a fast track to become Americans while they're trying to cut down on immigration from
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other countries. You know, you get that from where? From the brown people.
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Okay. So Joe Biden can take in millions of Democrats over the last 10 years, take in millions of people
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that they call refugees who are not refugees pretty much the whole time. They're not,
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they're economic migrants. But as long as they're at least a little bit dusky, you know,
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just have a touch swarthy. Totally fine. That's good. We have to, it's actually our obligation
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because, you know, what do we mean by refugee? I mean, if you don't have a Lamborghini, you're kind
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of a refugee, right? I mean, it's, they might not be actually persecuted, but they need to come here.
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They're refugees. If you, if you disapprove of that, you're a horrible person.
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White people who, even if some of them do have some money, are being raped and murdered
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and targeted by their government, that's not going to work for us. You take in 10 million
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brown people. That's good. That's wonderful. That's great. You take in like three or four
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dozen white people. No, that's terribly racist. It's awful. You can't do it. So clear here that
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Don Lemon either has or is pretending to have a true animosity toward white people. Don Lemon used
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to, in the early days of his career at CNN, he used to seem more reasonable and moderate.
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He wasn't one of these race hustlers. And then, I don't know, CNN broke him or they forced him to
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take on that character. And now he's going all the way. Saying one should take in an unlimited number
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of brown people as refugees, even if they are not refugees, but one should not even take in 50 white
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people. That 50 is too much. Al Sharpton on MSNBC, same thing. So we're bringing in white Afrikaners
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who we don't know if they're criminal. We don't know what they went through in the legal process
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in South Africa. Hold on, hold on. We're bringing in Afrikaners. We don't know if they're criminal.
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Now, they are being vetted. But even consider the broader context of this. Al Sharpton, who is
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perfectly fine with millions of unvetted people who are by definition criminals crossing the border
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illegally and doing so with the help of cartels, some of the worst criminals on earth, that's totally
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fine. But the white Afrikaners who are being vetted, who are coming here legally through a refugee
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program, one of them might have committed a crime that was never registered in South Africa. And so
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because we're so tough on crime now, we got to keep them out. Millions of actual criminals,
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by definition criminals, that's totally fine. He just hates white people. That's it. Or even if
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they don't have a personal hatred of white people, which I think they do, but even if they don't,
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they at least think what they've been telling us for years, which is they think that brown people
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are going to be more likely to vote for Democrats, so they want the brown people. And they think white
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people are going to be more likely to vote for Republicans, and they don't want the white people.
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Because of that. And that's a little complicated because Trump has actually done much better with
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Hispanic and black voters. But nevertheless, the broad trends still hold. So I guess that's it.
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It's either that or they just go all the way and they hate white people. Because what is going on
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in South Africa is the threat of genocide. It actually has nothing to do with the actual rates
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of rape and murder, though rapes and murders of white South Africans do take place and take place
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extensively. The reason that they face a threat of genocide is because their biggest political
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This would be as if you had Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg walking out at a
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political rally saying, shoot the Republicans, shoot them in their head, watch them bleed out on the
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ground. Or even if you took it out of a political context or an ideological context, you say, go out
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and behead the redheads, shoot them all, eat their brains. But it's instead of just some random weirdo
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on TikTok, it's like one of the leaders of the Democrat Party. That's what white people are looking
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at in South Africa. If that ain't genocide, I know the libs are really into redefining words. I wrote a
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whole book on it, actually. It's called Speechless. But thank you. But if that's not the threat of
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genocide, what is? Can someone please define it for me? I have many more thoughts. All right. But
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Africans. Mr. Davies made the point before the show, the liberals in America might possibly hate
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the white South Africans even more than they hate innocent little babies who were conceived
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unintentionally. They really don't like these people. A prominent liberal TikToker, her name is
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your favorite corporate auntie. She has over 100,000 followers on TikTok. She threatened to
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murder the white South African refugees if they make it here.
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Good morning. This is for the South Africans who are going to be entering the United States. This is
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just a public service announcement. I just wanted to make you aware that the black people who were
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who were studying apartheid. We're grandmas and grandpas now, and we have the era of Gen Z.
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One more thing. I also want to let you know that our president, he has secret service and you will not.
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Um, I also want to tell you that, um, black people over here are empowered.
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This one, these are just public service announcements.
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When you get here, sit your ass down and don't touch nothing.
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Because you don't have secret service. Okay. Now have the day you deserve.
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All right. Well, glad to see, glad to see this. If for no other reason, Dan,
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we have finally found one group of migrants, one group of marginalized people that the left does not
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like. Finally, it's taken decades. We found it. It's, uh, white people. Okay. All right. That's fine.
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Speaking of violence, President Trump has just inked a $142 billion arms deal in Saudi Arabia.
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This is, I believe, the biggest arms deal ever in history. This is part of a broader $600 billion
00:25:53.780
deal with Saudi Arabia that Trump signed at the start of his Middle East tour. Now,
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the deal with Saudi Arabia is going to irritate another power in the Middle East. That would be
00:26:05.780
Iran. And this was not lost on Trump. Trump made this point explicitly. He said,
00:26:10.740
if Iran rejects an olive branch, we will have no choice but to inflict massive maximum pressure,
00:26:18.500
drive Iranian exports to zero, and take all action required to stop the regime from having a nuclear
00:26:24.100
weapon. Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. As you know, Saudi Arabia and Iran don't get along
00:26:31.300
that well. But you know who does get along well with Iran? Qatar. But Trump just yesterday and the
00:26:38.340
day before was talking about how excited he is to receive a free jet that can be used as Air Force One
00:26:44.020
from the Qatari royal family. So hold on. I was just told two days ago that Trump is a stooge for Iran.
00:26:50.580
Iran. Now I'm being told that Trump is antagonizing Iran because he's inking the biggest arms deal
00:26:57.380
ever in history with Saudi Arabia. Before that, I was told that Trump is betraying Israel. He's turned
00:27:04.260
his back on the state of Israel. But before that, I was told that Trump is a total stooge for the state
00:27:08.900
of Israel, even as a town named after himself there. What is going on? This is the true meaning of America
00:27:20.100
first. This is what Trump means by America first. Maybe it's not what everybody means by America
00:27:24.980
first, going back to Charles Lindbergh or any time in the hundred years since then. But this is what
00:27:30.820
Trump means by America first. America first is not, as its critics would deride it, isolationism.
00:27:39.780
Trump is not an isolationist. Trump personally has properties all over the world and has for 20 years
00:27:46.100
or more. America first does not mean isolationism as the critics would have it.
00:27:51.860
America first does not mean hyper nationalism. In some ways, Trump is an imperialist in many ways.
00:27:58.240
He wants to acquire Greenland. He wants to acquire Canada. He wants to take back the Panama Canal.
00:28:02.580
He wants, he has a global vision. He recognizes that America has interests. This is what America
00:28:07.280
first means to Trump, in my humble and correct opinion. America first means pursuing the American
00:28:14.360
interest, even when it conflicts with the interests of allies. America first means not being beholden
00:28:24.280
to any of America's partners around the world. It doesn't mean not having partners around the world.
00:28:30.140
We have great partners. We have great alliances. We have great alliances with Saudi Arabia and the state
00:28:35.220
of Israel, for instance, just to use these two examples. But we can also work with Qatar and we
00:28:40.200
can also extend an olive branch to Iran. We can even extend an olive branch to Kim Jong-un, for goodness
00:28:44.800
sakes. We don't need to constantly be at the throat of Vladimir Putin, but we can stand strong against
00:28:49.360
Vladimir Putin when we like it. It means pursuing America's interest and not being totally beholden to
00:28:55.600
the interests of another nation. It is what George Washington told us to do. Washington and Thomas
00:29:01.240
Jefferson, for that matter, to avoid entangling alliances. Not to avoid alliances, not to avoid
00:29:07.220
working with people. The American Revolution would not have been won without an alliance with France.
00:29:13.040
The old regime of France, not the head-chopping, liberal, crazy, radical regime that soon followed.
00:29:19.460
You need some alliances. You need to recognize that there is a global vision. We do all live on one
00:29:25.240
one earth. But you need to avoid those entangling alliances that will force you to compromise your
00:29:31.720
own national interest in order to follow along with the line of some supposed ally.
00:29:38.660
Is Trump on the side of the Qataris or on the side of the Israelis? Is he on the side of the
00:29:44.340
Iranians or on the side of the Saudi Arabians? He's on the side of America. This actually reminds me of a
00:29:50.080
great clip from John Bolton. I know John Bolton has fallen out of favor on the American right,
00:29:54.540
certainly with Trump supporters. But there's a great line of his decades prior where he's speaking
00:29:59.980
at the UN. And he says, there is no such thing as United Nations. There is the international
00:30:05.040
community and there is the interest of the United States. And sometimes those things intersect and
00:30:09.940
we're happy to work together when they do. But we're going to pursue the interest of the United
00:30:13.180
States. And frankly, you could obliterate three floors of the UN building in New York.
00:30:18.360
Wouldn't make a lick of difference. Certainly not to us. That is Trump's vision.
00:30:22.680
Now, speaking of deals, Joe Biden is considering a $30 million book deal. A publisher wants to pay
00:30:32.760
Joe Biden $30 million to write a book. I'm sorry I didn't warn you to pull over before I told you
00:30:38.940
that. Because Joe Biden at this point almost certainly cannot write his own name. Joe Biden
00:30:45.000
might not remember what his name is, but he's going to take $30 million to write a book. Obviously,
00:30:51.640
he's not going to write a book. Maybe his wife would write the book. She is a doctor after all.
00:30:57.700
Maybe they just hire a ghostwriter. He's not going to write the book. Who's going to write it? What's
00:31:01.040
the point of a book, the political memoir of this guy who's been in politics for 50 years,
00:31:06.700
the tell-all, his family's quite corrupt, people are interested in his family's corruption. What's
00:31:10.820
the point if he's not going to write it? It's just a payoff. It's a payoff for doing his part,
00:31:15.980
being a Democrat, punching the clock every day, finally getting out of the race. This is his
00:31:20.440
This is his version of the Barack Obama $20 million Netflix deal. Republicans don't get
00:31:26.140
$20 million Netflix deals. Liberal politicians do. It's part of the patronage system that allows
00:31:31.620
the Democrat machine to continue to operate. All right, you're going to leave office now,
00:31:37.560
but don't worry. We'll get you on the back end. Don't worry. Thanks for doing your part.
00:31:42.420
Joe Biden couldn't write his own stuff 40 years ago. He had to get out of the 1988 presidential race
00:31:46.360
because he couldn't write his own speeches. You're telling me now at age 150 when he's been
00:31:50.540
in dementia for 10 years, you think now he's going to write a book? I don't think so. This is, as we
00:31:55.000
often see, a payoff to loyal Democrats. Democrats are more or less admitting this already. Democrats
00:32:01.540
have come out, spurred on by a book that Jake Tapper wrote, to explain how Joe Biden really was losing
00:32:10.580
his marbles in the White House. And there was a massive cover-up. Here is NBC News reporting on
00:32:16.700
just how bad Joe Biden was looking in his final months in the White House. According to an excerpt
00:32:23.860
from the new book obtained by NBC News, it was, quote, obvious to many at a fundraiser last summer
00:32:29.580
that then-President Biden did not know who George Clooney was, even though they were longtime acquaintances
00:32:35.740
in Clooney as one of the most famous men in the world. The book, by journalists Jake Tapper and Alex
00:32:41.120
Thompson, goes on to say former President Obama, who was also at the event, had to hop in and finish
00:32:46.840
sentences for Biden during photo ops. In separate excerpts, the authors write that Biden would forget
00:32:52.760
the names of longtime aides and that there were internal discussions about putting the president in
00:32:58.400
a wheelchair in a second term. Okay, so Jake Tapper, one of the most prominent liberal journalists,
00:33:03.460
writes this book. Wow, you know, Joe Biden really was totally in the throes of dementia. He couldn't
00:33:08.160
recognize the people around him. He couldn't recognize some of the most famous people in the
00:33:11.220
world who have helped him for many years. And wow, that's so interesting to get that book in 2025.
00:33:17.640
But do you remember back when Joe Biden was still the Democrat nominee during the presidential race?
00:33:23.980
Do you remember what the NBC News Corporation was saying then? We're talking about the same news
00:33:29.820
corporation. We turn from Lester Holt on NBC to Joe Scarborough on MSNBC. Here's what they were
00:33:35.500
saying when it counted. But comparing that guy's mental state, I've said it for years now, he's
00:33:44.800
cogent. But I undersold him when I said he was cogent. He's far beyond cogent. In fact, I think he's
00:33:53.260
better than he's ever been intellectually, analytically, because he's been around for 50 years.
00:34:03.320
And, you know, I don't know if people know this or not. Biden used to be a hothead.
00:34:08.540
Sometimes that Irishman would get in front of the reasoning. Sometimes he would say things he didn't
00:34:13.800
want to say. This is and I don't you know what? I don't really start your tape right now because
00:34:22.100
I'm about to tell you the truth and F you if you can't handle the truth. This version of Biden
00:34:30.800
intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever. Not a close second. And I've known him for years.
00:34:39.400
The Brzezinski's have known him for 50 years. If it weren't the truth, I wouldn't say it.
00:34:50.040
Yeah, he was drooling and they were going to throw him in a wheelchair and he couldn't
00:34:54.320
recognize his closest aides. And he didn't know who George Clooney was. Not only one of the most
00:34:58.640
famous movie stars in the world, but also a top Democrat supporter. But back when it counted,
00:35:05.700
we are always the best Biden ever. What are you talking about?
00:35:09.340
I'm glad that Jake Tapper is trying to sell some books because it's just a reminder.
00:35:15.220
The liberal media will sometimes tell you the truth when it no longer matters. Sometimes.
00:35:20.740
They will never tell you the truth when the truth is contrary to their political interests
00:35:25.800
when it counts. That will never, ever happen. I might have to buy a copy of Jake Tapper's book
00:35:32.400
because the book might as well be titled Never Believe Us Ever. We are scheming liars.
00:35:37.580
We have no credibility. You should never under any circumstances believe us by Jake Tapper.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Michael Shuey06, who writes,
00:36:49.280
saying LGBTQ plus Catholic is like saying conservative Democrat. That is truer perhaps
00:36:54.880
even than you intend it to be. It's like that in as much as, while technically possible,
00:37:01.540
it's mostly incoherent. There used to be conservative Democrats. Even in recent memory,
00:37:07.460
you still had Joe Manchin. It's not that it was totally impossible, but it just didn't make a lot
00:37:13.280
of sense. Same goes for LGBT LMNOP Catholic. You could have had that identity at some point.
00:37:20.960
You could have that predilection or whatever. But it doesn't make any sense. If you're going to
00:37:26.260
embrace the LGBT LMNOP identity, then go do that. Go do that and accept all of the various pagan or
00:37:33.800
Gnostic ideas that go along with it, which are contradicted by the Catholic faith. Or if you're
00:37:38.020
going to be Catholic, then ditch the LGBT LMNOP identity. But don't be Joe Manchin. Come on,
00:37:43.920
man. Make some sense. Pick a side. Don't be lukewarm. Speaking of young people, I don't know the
00:37:51.820
future of the Democrat Party. We got to pour one out. I'm going to pour you. I'm going to pour a
00:37:56.940
little tiny, just a little bit, just a little. I don't want to mess up my desk too much. I'm going
00:38:01.520
to pour a little one out for David Hogg. David Hogg, the former future of the Democrat Party,
00:38:10.660
currently the vice chairman of the Democrat Party. He's getting pushed out by his party.
00:38:14.980
David Hogg, you will recall, first came to political prominence when he took the opportunity
00:38:20.180
of a school shooting at his high school to go on every cable news channel possible and recite
00:38:25.280
left-wing talking points about gun rights. And this helped to launch him to Harvard, even though
00:38:30.480
academically, he didn't appear to be totally qualified for that. And then that helped launch
00:38:34.440
him into Democrat politics. He moved on from his putative issue, the single issue of back guns,
00:38:41.040
to the future of the Democrat Party. And he actually got himself elected vice chairman of the DNC,
00:38:46.140
but he's been a disaster in that role already. And he's threatening to upend party precedent by
00:38:52.860
spending 20 million bucks to primary Democrats. The party organization is not really supposed to get
00:38:56.980
involved in primaries. It's supposed to get involved in the general elections to beat the
00:38:59.920
Republicans. So the Democrats are going to throw him out. It reveals an irony of the Democrat Party,
00:39:06.200
which close observers have noticed for many years now, which is that it is much less Democratic
00:39:11.260
than the Republican Party. The Democrat Party has all sorts of mechanisms to undermine the will of
00:39:17.120
its own constituents. Things like superdelegates that could override the will of voters during primaries.
00:39:22.600
Things like these mechanisms here to void the election of David Hogg, to boot him out because
00:39:27.200
he's such a disaster. Now, I'm not even knocking the Democrats for this. I don't think that it would
00:39:31.320
be better for them if they were more Democratic and gave more power to the people because their
00:39:34.860
people are totally crazy, especially the party activists. I don't mean everyone who's ever
00:39:38.880
identified as a Democrat is totally crazy, but I mean the real party activists are nuts, man,
00:39:43.720
and they lost the popular vote and they lost the common sense. So you don't want those people
00:39:47.740
to have more control over your party because then you're never going to win an election again. So it's
00:39:50.620
very much in the party's interest to be able to control the insane impulses of its radical base.
00:39:58.240
But this reveals another aspect of the Democrats in 2025. Namely, they just want to destroy stuff.
00:40:07.100
David Hogg is a problem for the Democrats, but he's a microcosm of the Democrats' bigger problem,
00:40:13.280
which is that the Democrats just want to destroy stuff. David Hogg gets himself elected
00:40:18.400
to the Democrat Party. He can advance a vision of the whole party, one of the two major parties in
00:40:24.740
the U.S. and probably the more powerful party over the last century. And what does he do? He decides
00:40:31.460
he's going to attack Democrats and he's going to tear down the party establishment and he's going to go
00:40:36.080
after the elected Democrats and he's going to just destroy stuff. That's a problem for the party and
00:40:41.040
their right to throw them out. But that's America's problem with the Democrats. The Democrats just want
00:40:47.480
to destroy stuff. They want to tear down statues of the men who built our country. They want to tear
00:40:54.220
down our history. They want to tear down our self-confidence. They want to tear down the
00:40:59.660
ballasts of our economy. They want to tear down our borders and our walls. They want to tear down our
00:41:04.580
families. They want to tear down the definition of marriage. They want to tear down our babies and
00:41:08.860
slaughter them in the womb. They want to just destroy stuff.
00:41:11.480
and they don't have anything to replace it with.
00:41:18.020
So the feeling of revulsion that the Democrat Party is feeling toward one of its own,
00:41:27.320
But the Democrat Party, if you recognize, that's the same revulsion,
00:41:30.940
that's the same rational revulsion that we feel against elected Democrats
00:41:35.040
because we realize that they present a threat to the whole political order.
00:41:41.660
And look, there is a time for destroying stuff,
00:41:43.700
but they don't seem to have anything to replace it with.
00:41:46.820
They want to tear down George Washington, but who are they going to replace him with?
00:41:55.740
It's just criticism and destruction and corrosion all the way down.
00:42:03.120
So just as the party wants to protect itself from David Hogg,
00:42:05.760
we want to protect ourselves from elected Democrats.
00:42:11.140
Speaking of young people, really, really excellent news.
00:42:15.240
Much too late, but we'll take the win where we can get it.
00:42:18.880
One of the most notorious late-term abortionists is closing up shop,
00:42:26.840
So you know how the Democrats tell you late-term abortion doesn't happen?
00:42:32.800
You can take the word of a late-term abortionist.
00:42:42.180
I figured he was shutting down because he's an old man.
00:42:48.360
but closing is one of the most painful decisions of my life.
00:42:50.880
Mr. Hearn, Dr. Hearn, does not kill babies who are 3 days old, 10 days old, 2 weeks old,
00:43:05.180
This guy pretty much only kills babies who are 28 weeks old and older.
00:43:10.900
These are babies who easily could live outside the womb.
00:43:14.860
These are babies who, if they were delivered and given up for adoption,
00:43:17.760
they would live, they'd go on to live perfectly happy lives.
00:43:21.300
And Dr. Hearn's raison d'etre is to go into work every day and murder those babies
00:43:30.220
who that those two facts shouldn't affect our understanding of their human dignity,
00:43:40.560
Hearn estimates that at least half and sometimes more of the women who come to him
00:43:45.380
are not doing so because they face a health threat by continuing to have the baby.
00:43:49.640
They're not doing so even because their children are diagnosed with Down syndrome or something.
00:43:59.540
But even further, we shouldn't be killing retarded people.
00:44:05.360
And that is the mainstream view of Democrats that we should murder retarded people
00:44:09.080
or people who have any kind of intellectual disability.
00:44:11.640
And they would yell at me for using the word retarded.
00:44:15.240
They would say it's wrong to say the word retarded,
00:44:18.040
but it is good to murder people for being retarded.
00:44:22.740
I'm not, even if you're not using the word in an insulting way,
00:44:27.160
They would say, no, no, it's wrong to eat, to use this word in any technical sense.
00:44:32.380
Now, this guy says that this late-term abortionist says
00:44:37.760
the majority of the late-term abortions that he performs,
00:44:44.440
It's just women who want to murder their perfectly healthy grown kids.
00:44:48.100
They just want to murder them because they're psychos.
00:44:54.200
This guy who, not to put too fine a point on it,
00:45:03.100
ah, you know, I really wanted a girl, not a boy.
00:45:23.760
for the expense of late-term abortions, 10,000 bucks,
00:45:27.560
usually not covered by insurance, I should say.
00:45:33.180
Is it just because the economy's had a downturn?
00:45:34.900
This guy's been performing abortions for decades.
00:45:37.680
He said it's because donations are also decreasing.
00:46:23.120
he should spend the rest of his life in prison.