Ep. 174 - We Live In Supremely Good Times
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Ben Shapiro, Andrew Klavan, and the God King, Jeremy Boring, join host Michael Knowles to celebrate Independence Day, and to look back on our country s birth and look ahead to its future. Subscribe today using our podcast s promo code "UPLEVEL" to receive 20% off your first pack!
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Digital key allows me to lock and unlock the doors,
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using my smartphone or smartwatch as a key fob.
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it is with a heavy heart that I report that San Francisco,
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on Christian bakers and abortionists and Somalian travelers.
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but a difficult day nonetheless for left-wingers.
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We will analyze this supremely good times that we're living in,
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and give three cheers for Donald Trump and Cocaine Mitch.
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We're going to analyze everything from there to the end of liberalism,
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why infant baptism is a violation of human rights,
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God King Jeremy Boring will host a new edition of Daily Wire backstage
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Subscribers will even be able to write in live questions
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We could probably go to watch that because that doesn't even begin to capture
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the deluge of leftist tears that are pouring out today.
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We could have probably watched the whole movie, Deep Impact, and it wouldn't have quite gotten
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For those of you, I suppose, who were listening, you know what that was.
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To begin, three cheers for Donald Trump and cocaine Mitch McConnell.
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Cocaine Mitch, that's the only way I'm going to refer to him from now on.
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Barack Obama tried to pressure everybody to put his left-wing justice on the Supreme Court,
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And cocaine Mitch said, nope, you're a lame duck president.
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We're going to wait for the next guy to come around.
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And by the way, people thought, oh, it's going to be Hillary.
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This is, you're robbing Obama of his ability as a president.
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Never mind that Joe Biden advocated exactly the same thing when George Bush was president.
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We're not going to take any of your court nominees.
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And I got to tell you, folks, he walks like a turtle.
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He Mitch McConnell, you know, conservatives get frustrated with Mitch McConnell because he probably isn't like a rock ribbed conservative ideologue.
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I don't really know that he has these hard line conservative political philosophy.
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When he first ran for the Senate in the 1640s, he was a moderate.
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But what he's really, really good at is politics.
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And right now it is politically advantageous to be conservative.
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And he is one of the most effective people at enacting conservative public policy in this country.
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And and we can thank him for this court appointment.
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He said, you know, the winners make policy and the losers go home.
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And this is to some of his conservative critics.
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And President Trump for nominating all of the Trump critics on the right.
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They said, oh, Trump will never nominate an originalist.
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He gave us a great originalist judge in the vein of Antonin Scalia, whom he replaced.
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So right now, the Drudge Report especially, but a lot of conservative outlets,
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they're focusing on how the Supreme Court upheld the travel ban, the President Trump's travel ban.
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I mean, this is not, the left is calling it a Muslim ban.
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But you'll notice that most Muslims in the world can still travel to the United States as often as they want.
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This is a ban from these terror-ridden countries that don't have proper vetting procedures.
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So we just don't know who's coming in and who's coming out.
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Poor vetting has destroyed Europe in the last 10 years.
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And it's caused some trouble in the United States, too.
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It's a policy that the Obama administration pursued as well.
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Well, they're calling it the Muslim ban because they're just so upset.
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But I got to tell you, other cases are more important.
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So it's true, the Supreme Court gave us a win here.
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But it's much more important that the Supreme Court upheld three other cases within the last couple weeks.
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The first one, 73-year-old Baronelle Stutzman, Washington State florist who had served her gay friend and customer for a decade, I think.
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And then he said that he wanted her to arrange flowers and flower arrangements for his gay wedding ceremony.
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And she said, oh, well, that violates my religious beliefs.
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So I don't want to participate and give my artistic endeavors to participate in something that I consider immoral.
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And then this guy's worse half, not his better half, but his worse half, insisted that they bring suit and sue this woman out of house and home and just destroy her life and livelihood.
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Fortunately, the Supreme Court came around and vacated the ruling that held her in violation of the law.
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This is a big win for religious liberty in this country.
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You know, the left is really hypocritical on this point, right?
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Because that guy, what's his name, the Spider-Man guy who was on Broadway and Angels in America, Andrew Garfield, he comes out and he says, come on, let's just bake a cake for everybody.
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Hey, shouldn't we just bake a cake for everybody?
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And then all of a sudden it's, yeah, we're going to kick Sarah Sanders out of our restaurant.
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Yeah, that'll show you that at least the Supreme Court here is saying, if you have religious beliefs, you don't have to violate them.
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Another similar case, this came out a little while ago, is Jack Phillips.
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Doesn't want to cater gay weddings and doesn't want to participate in them with his services.
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And the Supreme Court found that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated his rights and discriminated against Jack Phillips.
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You know, this country was founded on religious liberty.
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Even if you're an atheist, even if you're agnostic or you don't really care, that is essential to the fabric of the United States.
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This place was founded by people who all they wanted was religious liberty.
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The pilgrims who came over here from Leiden and the United Kingdom, they wanted to be able to practice their religion freely.
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It's woven into the fabric of the United States.
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It appears again and again throughout U.S. history.
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Ann Coulter once gave me this advice back when she was talking to a group of students who were, you know, you know that fashionable thing where you're socially liberal but fiscally conservative.
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That's like the first step on becoming a conservative.
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She said, look, even if you are in favor of abortion, if two candidates are offering to lower your taxes, and one of them is pro-life and one of them is pro-abortion, vote for the candidate who's pro-life.
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And what she meant by that is there's a coherent political philosophy and political philosophies that are on the right side of the aisle.
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Even if you don't really care, you don't go to church, you don't whatever, it's woven into the fabric of the United States.
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And to oppose religious liberty is ultimately a left-wing position.
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I know you want to be fashionable or something.
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Even if it's in violation of the Constitution, I like, don't fall for that trap.
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That's a trap of the left, and the Supreme Court has given us another day of freedom, which is a big win.
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Then probably the best one of all is in California, my own state.
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I just had to go and, you know, right now, basically, if you've ever owned a firearm in your life,
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the California state is going to tie you up and put you to the Grand Inquisition.
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It's not great for conservatives out here, but we've just got a major win,
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which is that the Supreme Court says that California law, the FACT Act, is not constitutional.
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So the case was the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates versus Becerra, the Attorney General of California.
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And the question at play is whether this California law is legit.
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This law that says that crisis pregnancy centers and pro-life and non-abortion providing health clinics have to advertise abortion.
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The FACT Act says if you are a pro-life Catholic, whatever, pregnancy center, you have to say,
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hey, you can go get an abortion, go get an abortion.
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And the Supreme Court found, Justice Clarence Thomas, I think, wrote the opinion of the court,
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that this is in violation of the First Amendment.
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All of that before we get to the one that everybody's tweeting about.
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And the one that everybody's tweeting about is this travel ban.
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The Supreme Court's decision today reverses the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision.
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The Ninth Circuit, you know, left of Lenin, the pretty left-wing court.
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Keith Ellison, the vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, not some wacko, not even just some congressman, not some activist on the street.
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The U.S. Supreme Court just ratified Donald Trump's total and complete shutdown of Muslim entry into the United States.
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You know, people from, Muslims can come into the country.
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If you're from Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela, or Yemen, then it's going to be a little tougher for you to come into the country.
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Because there aren't vetting procedures in those countries right now.
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Because they're basically all failed states to come into the country.
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Now, I notice a few things about those countries that are on the travel.
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One of the heads of the Democrat Party is saying it's a total and complete shutdown of Muslims in the United States.
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Does North Korea have a huge Muslim population?
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Is Venezuela like a hotbed of radical Islamic activity?
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And, you know, by the way, this first came about with the Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015.
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They were identifying countries like this to have restrictions on their travel.
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You can't have somebody coming over from a failed state and legitimately protect your country.
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Now what Keith Ellison is saying is that it's all Gorsuch's fault.
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He just gets paid what a federal judge gets paid.
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But then he, Keith Ellison, you know, he's the first Muslim elected to Congress.
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And he compared this ruling to Plessy versus Ferguson or the Dred Scott decision.
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All the upholding, you know, destroying black people's civil rights, you know.
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After 9-11, Keith Ellison compared George W. Bush to Hitler.
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This guy has a history of making these insane statements.
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But right now, a lot of the left is going along with this.
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Oh, this Muslim ban, they don't know anything about this ruling.
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They don't know anything about the history of this policy.
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Right now, even the people in the commentariat on the left, who are the ones who are supposed
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to be, like, normal about this and have some context.
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Now, the theft of Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat is legitimately the greatest heist
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Now, I need to, the theft of Merrick Garland's seat.
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Merrick Garland was first nominated and then, you know, we booted him because Trump got elected
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I've got to ask, because I, not five minutes ago, the left was telling me that the 2016
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election was the greatest heist in the history of the world.
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And before that, they told me the 2000 election was the greatest heist in the history of the
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And basically, whenever something happens that they don't like, they tell me that it's
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the greatest heist in the history of the world.
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The stolen, see, I got to tell you, Matthew Iglesias, don't you make me play that Joe Biden
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It was played so much where Joe Biden said, this president is a lame duck and we're not
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going to deal with any of his Supreme Court nominees.
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I'm going to make a whole episode of that clip if you keep this up.
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David Axelrod came out, he tweeted, he said, as one after another, five, four rulings of
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the Supreme Court on voting rights, abortion rights, the travel ban and more are announced.
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The full meaning of the Senate majority leader's unconscionable, nearly year-long blockade
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against the nomination of Judge Merrick Garland is manifest.
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David, don't you make me play that Joe Biden clip.
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And one thing that's worth pointing out here is that I don't think the Merrick Garland,
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Neil Gorsuch issue would have changed this decision at all.
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Well, perhaps it would have changed a decision on the abortion case in California.
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Maybe it would have changed the decision on the florist or on the baker.
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I mean, there are certainly the, it is pretty bizarre that there are four left-wing judges
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who say, yeah, we've got to compel you to participate in gay weddings.
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We're going to compel you to advertise for abortion clinics.
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But on this issue of whether the Trump federal agencies can restrict travel from certain
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dangerous places, I'm pretty sure Merrick Garland would have gone along with the majority
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Ronald Rotunda, who is a Chapman University professor of law, he wrote, I don't think Merrick
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I think he's deferential to executive power, to the power of the executive branch and the agencies
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He spelled this out in, I think, the 80s at a Harvard Law Review article.
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Akhil Amar wrote about this and talked about this long before Trump came around.
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Merrick Garland, this is a fairly open and shut case.
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I don't think this is a big, it's become a big political issue because it's been misrepresented
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But it actually isn't one of these, you know, touch button issues.
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The New York Times, the New York Times used to be a newspaper, as Andrew Klavan points out,
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and they are now investing money creating these short little cartoon videos, like Cartoon
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Here is what the New York Times, as all of these public policies are up for discussion,
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This is what the New York Times is spending its time producing and showing to its readers.
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Do you have a relationship with Vladimir Putin?
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And I think he's done a very brilliant and amazing job.
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He's put himself really as, you know, a lot of people would say he's put himself at the
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If you can't see what's going on on the screen, it's this cartoon of a shirtless Vladimir Putin
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They're riding together on a unicorn with rainbows going around.
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And now you can see their tongues are, I can't even describe this as graphic as it is.
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They're twirling around one another, their tongues in their open mouths as they kiss.
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And Donald Trump then cuts back to him and he's sitting on his bed making kissy faces,
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That's with a shirtless picture of Vladimir Putin on the wall.
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This isn't something that appeared in the New York Times.
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And this gay obsession is really bizarre and pretty ironic.
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So you've probably noticed this over the past couple of years.
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All of the left is obsessed with Mike Pence and Donald Trump and gay stuff.
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This started because Mike Pence, you know, however many years ago,
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said he might support some law that as part of it gave certain funds to certain therapy programs
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for people who were suffering from sexual confusion.
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And they turned this into Mike Pence wants to electrocute gay people.
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And obviously the culture right now is obsessed with gay sex.
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You've seen the pride weeks over the last, or the pride parades over the past couple of weeks.
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Not North Korea, not foreign wars, not the economy, not entitlement programs,
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not marginal tax rates, not health care, just gay sex.
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That's the only thing that anybody can talk about.
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That has become the sacrament and the idol to the left.
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But the irony here is that in this video, the New York Times is criticizing Donald Trump.
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They're insulting and they're attacking Donald Trump.
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This isn't just a sort of saying, oh, I don't really like his travel ban.
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This is saying, we hate this guy and we're going to make him look like a big, fat, naked blob.
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But the way that they insult him, the part that they think this is the best attack we can make on Donald Trump,
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These are the same people telling us it's great to be gay and gay is beautiful and gay is wonderful and gay is good.
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And then on the other hand, they're saying, yeah, you know how we're really going to insult Donald Trump?
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Like you do in second grade, like school kids do when they're like eight years old.
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I don't know that they understand the irony of that, but that this is the attack and it's so gross and so small
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because the New York Times, which used to have some prestige, I don't really know why,
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They put good words together, they had good writers.
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It's now basically become the Occupy Democrats Facebook page.
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There is no real difference anymore between the New York Times and the Occupy Democrats Facebook page.
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It's just, they spent who knows how much money producing a video over a minute long with all this illustration,
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all, you know, totally animated video to call Trump gay.
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Meanwhile, on the, back in reality, the attacks that Maxine Waters called for on Republicans are already happening.
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So, uh, Maxine Waters says, yeah, you're going to go out, I want Democrats to go out whenever you see a Republican,
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whenever you see a conservative in the street, I want you to get right in their face, scream at them,
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scare them, physically intimidate them, terrorize them, go to their homes at night, scare their families,
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Uh, there was a huge mob of, of protesters and rioters outside of Stephen Miller's apartment,
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Uh, there's a camp out now in Portland, Oregon of, uh, of Occupy ICE demonstrators.
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So the immigration enforcement, there's a camp out.
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They're going to occupy this whole, this whole area.
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And it brings up this question, are we headed for a civil war?
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And I say this with a straight face because major figures are suggesting it.
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Steve King, uh, from, uh, Iowa, I think he's from, he's just come out and said, we're headed
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We're, we've got Harper's Ferries coming up and after Harper's Ferries, Fort Sumter.
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Harper's Ferry was the raid, uh, on John Brown in 1859.
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And then, uh, Fort Sumter was when the, the civil war began, 4.30 in the morning, April 12th,
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1861, uh, when the, the South basically started firing on a national army stronghold at Fort Sumter.
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I think that the right considers the Democrats kind of, uh, useful idiots as they've always
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been useful idiots for Lenin and Stalin and all the bad people on earth.
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Now they're useful idiots for, uh, you know, for, uh, Venezuela, for Cuba, for all of our
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Steve Schmidt, the former Republican, Republican, who's now a big Democrat, he's, he's basically
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saying the dictator regimes in Venezuela and Cuba, they're better than the United States.
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They've always been useful idiots, but that's what the right thinks of the left.
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And the left thinks that the right are evil, vicious, sick, psychopath monsters.
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It's why the Nazi comparisons are all over the place.
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I mean, uh, Steve King, part of his evidence for this is that there's a Occupy weirdo rally
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That if that, if, if they were sitting down as a, like, if like families were sitting down
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having a tea party and playing cricket, that would be the, that would be the stranger thing
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I don't think, first of all, the right has all of the guns in this country, but I don't
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I think they're just behaving like petulant children.
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Petulant children can be really annoying and they can be destructive for sure, but they
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don't pose an actual threat or an existential threat.
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They're just going to mess things up and drawing crayon all over the wall, but they just don't
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They're just sitting there kind of weak and I don't see us heading for civil war.
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I think, unfortunately, our culture is too decadent for civil war.
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I guess that's a good effect of a decadent culture is that you're not really going to
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But we're just too accustomed to luxury and, and sitting around and getting whatever we
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And we're just, I don't, I don't actually think we're there.
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At this point, they're the party of talking points.
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You know, uh, the, the, the obsession with the 2016 election was stolen.
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This, the Senate or the judicial seat was stolen.
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But then you ask them, just like I asked Tom Arnold on the show, said, what's your evidence?
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Uh, that, that is basically a good thing, I think, for the, the ascendant, uh, right.
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Because right now we can say they're be, they're behaving like crazy people.
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They behave like crazy people and everything goes well.
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All the public policy that we want is happening.
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I think conservatives always want to catastrophize things.
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I think we're going to look back on this time in history like a, like a Carly Simon song.
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We're going to be there and you're going to say, you know, anticipation is making me wait.
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We're going to look back and we're going to say, stay right here because these are the good old days.
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You know, these are the good old days right now.
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We're making these huge political wins, huge victories for American liberty, religious liberty,
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founding constitutional liberty that we thought were impossible two years ago.
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I hope you're not going to miss it because you're going to look back in 10 years and say,
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These, we should take the wins while we can get them.
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Donald Glover, Childish Gambino, that guy who made that stupid music video is being accused
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And I also want to talk about the ends of liberalism, the philosophical end of liberalism,
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which is saying that infant baptism is a violation of human rights.
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And that changing a baby's diaper requires consent.
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These are serious things that major figures on the left, in some cases, are talking about.
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Before we do, I have to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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If you can tune in for that excellent backstage hangout we're going to have with Jordan Peterson,
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You're going to want to ask questions in the mailbag.
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You're going to want to see me, the Andrew Klavan show, the Ben Shapiro show, the conversation.
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You just need this, guys, because these are the good old days.
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And you're going to be bloated and floating in the good old days if you don't get your leftist here's tumbler.
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It's wet and salty out there, the Michael Knowles Show.
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So Donald Glover is getting sued for plagiarism.
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And it was like, America's really bad and we just, all we do is kill people and it's racist.
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And it, you know, it turns black people into just minstrel show puppets.
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And it's just, and America's really bad and wah, wah, wah.
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So he's being accused of plagiarism by people who listen to another song by Jace Hartley.
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What, the first one is Childish Gambino, This Is America.
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The second one is Jace Hartley, American Pharaoh.
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And Donald Glover, who also goes by Childish Gambino, he's like the worst thief ever because
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he kept part of the name of the original in the name of his song.
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So without attribution, without acknowledging that it was obviously influenced by, in a good
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This is America by Donald Glover, Childish Gambino.
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This is America song is all about how America is just a place of theft.
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It's a place of oppression, stolen labor, stolen property.
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Taking things at the foot of a, at the barrel of a gun.
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I don't, maybe, maybe I'm not giving him enough credit.
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Maybe this is a real piece of meta art, you know, is like really art about art and
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And now Jace Hartley has been very nice about this.
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He said, Harley said that this is, you know, he's proud that it influenced the song and
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he would have liked a little shout out, but that's okay, whatever.
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I don't know that Donald Glover is actually going to have to pay anything out.
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And it's really hard not to be influenced by other music, especially when the music is
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The fact that this music is so bad is actually part of the reason why it's hard not to steal.
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So, you know, other musicians, this happens all the time.
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Musicians hear a ton of music, then they write something and they don't even realize they're
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George Harrison did this on the song, My Sweet Lord.
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He, uh, he basically, uh, he took, he was obviously influenced by the song, He's So Fine
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by the Chiffons, or he seems to have been influenced by it.
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And by the way, those two songs are way more different than American Pharaoh and This Is
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Those two songs, you know, My Sweet Lord has guitars and piano and it's got, it's got
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So they sound kind of similar, but, you know, there are little differences.
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So when you strip, you know, if, uh, Childish Gambino had stolen the beat, the rhythm of it,
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but he had changed the melody and the harmony, then you'd say, okay, whatever, that's fine.
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He's been influenced, but he's building on something.
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Because there's very minimal music in the rest of the song.
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Uh, I, I get great joy out of this, this, uh, thing.
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It's bad news for the culture because our art really has decayed.
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I talked about this a little in the mailbag, uh, last week, but since World War I, there
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Uh, this is an idea that Jacques Barsin talks about in From Dawn to Decadence.
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Sometimes after the First World War, all art becomes destructive or, or deconstructive,
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or, uh, it just mocks what happened in the past.
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But in any case, it's just working on what's already there and making it worse,
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either by parody or by, uh, playing around, removing pieces, or by knocking the whole thing
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I mean, you're just, or the, the opposite of fruits of that.
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You're seeing the, the rinds and the cores and the rot of that in, uh, in American Pharaoh
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You're, you're, you're lucky, uh, Donald Glover, that you have an American criminal justice system
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and that Jace Harley isn't just going to go out and beat you because you clearly took his song.
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Uh, before we go, we've got a couple minutes left here.
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This is a thing, you know, this is a normal way to end the show.
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There is a story out now that Mary McAleese, Mary McAleese from Ireland, she was a former
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She was president from 1997 to 2011 presiding over the total decay and destruction of a
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She said that infant baptism is a violation of human rights.
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For those, uh, in the audience who are, who don't practice infant baptism, uh, you know,
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infant baptism is practiced by the Catholics and the Lutherans and the Anglicans, uh, Methodists,
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Presbyterians, at least, uh, probably a few others.
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And it's, uh, been practiced for, uh, oh, now 2,000 years.
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And, you know, you put, uh, you, you baptize, uh, little babies into Christ and that's to give
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them grace, you know, and endow them with, with grace.
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And, uh, this is apparently a violation of human rights.
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And I'm not saying leftism, I'm not saying nihilism or subjectivism or whatever, like
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all these things that we usually say, liberalism from classical liberalism all the way to the
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She said, infant conscripts who are held to lifelong obligations of obedience.
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You can't impose, really, obedience, obligations on people who are only two weeks old.
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And you can't say to them at seven or eight or 14 or 19, here is what you contracted.
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Raising your children in religion is child abuse.
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Because you see these themes that are, that come from the beginning of liberalism in the
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16th century, the modern era of emancipation and individualism coming to insane, absurd
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Uh, you know, uh, St. Paul describes, uh, baptism as replacing circumcision, which happens to
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This is the new, you used to circumcise your babies.
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He says, uh, for the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off,
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everyone whom the Lord, uh, our God calls to him.
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There, that you, you can, uh, even if someone isn't at the age of reason or isn't able to
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reason himself into making a formal decision to go to church, it can be done for them.
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People who are mentally retarded, this can be done for them.
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People who are little babies, this can be done for them.
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But even on the right now, in certain, uh, versions of Christianity, there's this idea
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that you have to make the conscious choice as a conscious individual to free and emancipate
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yourself from the bonds of sin and go and, uh, engage yourself as an individual in the
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This, uh, also comes to fruition when, uh, activists say that when you change a baby's
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Here's a, here's an activist with silly hair talking about that just a while ago.
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But if you leave a space and wait for body language and wait to make eye contact, then
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you're letting that child know that their response matters.
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This is the end of, of individualism and emancipation.
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You know, now on college campuses, I think you, whenever you're going to pick up a girl
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at a party, you have to have a notary public by you so they can notarize the consent.
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It's usually about a four or 500 page contract that you have to sign before you can buy somebody
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a drink or kiss them on the cheek or so, you know, say, would you like to go back to
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So we have total proof and the notaries over here.
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It's all this, this obsession with the individual, the individual choice, the individual determination,
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the individual emancipating himself from the society, from the culture, from the strictures
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You know, in the modern era, the last 500 years, that's all we've focused on.
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I had Jason Stapleton from that, his libertarian show came on and he said, I own my body, but
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That's just a, that's the myth that you're choosing, uh, to begin your political philosophy
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You didn't come up with the idea for your body.
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You, you got it through an act of abundant grace.
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And, uh, when, uh, the modern era has tried to forget that or tried to erase that or tried
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And, uh, it did that through liberalism, but liberalism has an end.
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And, uh, therefore I think we have to rethink some of our initial assumptions and, uh, that
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way we won't end up asking our little babies if they consent to have their diapers changed
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or, you know, be brought up by the UN Human Rights Commission because we want to baptize
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We've got some really crazy guests coming up soon.
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And I mean like crazy in the really good way, not like the bouncing off the walls kind
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Uh, come back tomorrow, get your mailbag questions in so we can answer them on Thursday.
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