Ep. 1742 - British Mom JAILED After Supposed “Racist” Post
Summary
A British mother is serving a 2.5 year jail sentence in the U.K. over a supposedly racist tweet. That is not exactly a man-bites-dog story. We ve known for years now that the UK regularly tramples the speech rights of its citizens and prioritizes foreigners over its own citizens. What is newsworthy about this particular case is that President Trump and his team are telling the prime minister to knock it off or else.
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A British mother is currently serving a two-and-a-half-year jail sentence in the U.K. over a supposedly racist tweet.
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We have known for years now that the U.K. regularly tramples the speech rights of its citizens
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and prioritizes foreigners over its own citizens.
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What is newsworthy about this particular case is that President Trump and his team
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are telling the U.K.'s liberal prime minister to knock it off or else.
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Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, has been slapped or pushed or shoved in the face
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Now, there have been many questions about Brigitte in recent months, and I actually think this
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A woman is in jail for 31 months, for two and a half years, more than two and a half
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A 17-year-old boy of Rwandan descent murdered a bunch of little British girls and seriously
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And then this woman, Lucy Connolly, tweets out, mass deportation now, set fire to all
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the effing hotels full of, I'm going to clean up the language a little bit, full of the jerks
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While you're at it, take the treacherous government politicians with them.
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I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure.
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So, the key to this tweet is the phrase, for all I care.
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Because you could say, well, the woman ordered people, incited violence.
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She said, go down and burn all the migrant hotels.
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She said, set fire at all the effing hotels, for all I care.
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Which modifies that statement and clearly implies you can go burn down all the hotels, for all
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If she were saying, go burn down these hotels, she would be implying that she cares.
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She would care for you to do this thing that she's instructing you to do.
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That's not what the phrase, for all I care, implies.
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The phrase, for all I care, says, you can do this.
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Interestingly, the Southport killings were carried out not by a migrant, but by a descendant
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He's not, you know, British people, or English people, rather, are the descendants of the
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This kid is British broadly, I guess, but he's Rwandan.
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But she says, look, if that makes me racist, so be it.
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Should you go to jail for two and a half years over a racist tweet?
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The State Department under Trump is saying that it is monitoring the case of Lucy Connelly.
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Vance brought this up in front of Keir Starmer, the liberal prime minister of the UK.
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I said what I said, which is that we do have, of course, a special relationship with our
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friends in the UK and also with some of our European allies.
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But we also know that there have been infringements on free speech that actually affect not just
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the British, of course, what the British do in their own country is up to them, but also
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affect American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens.
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So that is something that we'll talk about today at lunch.
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Well, we've had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom and it will
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Well, no, I mean, certainly we wouldn't want to reach across US citizens and we don't.
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But in relation to free speech in the UK, I'm very proud of our history there.
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And Starmer says, shoot, he's making us look bad.
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Well, you know, we've had free speech in the UK for a very long time.
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But Keir Straum is saying, yeah, we defend our free speech rights.
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I mean, sure, we'll arrest you for praying in your head outside an abortion clinic.
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You're not allowed to pray inside your head outside an abortion clinic.
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You're not allowed to tweet that you object to the wholesale slaughter of little girls with
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Totally ridiculous, given the UK's clampdown, not just on free speech broadly, which, as
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you know, and as I write in my book, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, is a nebulous
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concept in the abstract because you got to get down in the nitty gritty.
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Speech from people who have nothing to say is worthless.
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There's no substantive meaning to that kind of free speech.
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And really what the UK does is clamp down on good speech, or at the very least defensible
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speech of its citizens, and defend the speech of people who are doing very bad things.
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And also highlighting a contradiction within the lib paradigm, the globalist paradigm.
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He said, you hear Keir Starmer, we wouldn't want to infringe on the American system.
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We wouldn't want to stick our nose in your business.
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I thought we all lived in an interconnected global world.
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I thought that was the big objection to Trump, is that Trump brought up this, the N-word
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Not that one, and not nuclear, as President Trump mentioned, but national.
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Now, nationalism, Trump brought that up, the globalists said, this is terrible, we're all
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an interconnected world, we all give up some of our sovereignty to international institutions,
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to big financial institutions, we all sing kumbaya, we all have something to say about
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But hold on, okay, well, we want to criticize the way that you're jailing a British woman
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for a perfectly understandable, at least, response to the mass killing, killings which
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are not totally disconnected from the problem of mass migration, which is probably the chief
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gripe that the nationalists have against the globalists.
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Then all of a sudden, you're ardent nationalists, and you say, get out of our business.
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I don't think so, bust, you're not going to work.
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The globalists cannot have it both ways, and Starmer knows it, okay?
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In fact, I don't mean to be too harsh on Keir Starmer, because Keir Starmer, to me, is
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the bellwether here of where global politics is moving, and it's clearly moving to the right.
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Keir Starmer, I played this on the show last week.
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Keir Starmer, super-duper lib UK prime minister, a guy who denies that there is any concrete
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identity, even to the English people, famously did that on a podcast with Constantine Kislin.
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Keir Starmer just came out against mass migration.
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But either way, they give shape to our values, guide us towards our rights, of course, but
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also our responsibilities, the obligations we owe to each other.
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Now, in a diverse nation like ours, and I celebrate that, these rules become even more important.
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Without them, we risk becoming an island of strangers.
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Whoa, super-duper lib globalist Keir saying that if we continue to have mass migration,
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the barely questioned policy of not only the left, but also the right in the UK and throughout
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the West for the past 30 years, if we continue to have that, we'll become an island of strangers.
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More than Donald Trump, that guy sounds like an immigration restrictionist.
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Because the New York Times just has a major, really, really interesting piece out about the
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It's rare that I say there's a piece you have to read in the New York Times.
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This is from Shane Goldmacher, national political correspondent in the New York Times.
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He says, one of the clearest ways to see how Trump has transformed the political landscape
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is to look at what we're calling triple-trending counties, those that have steadily marched
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And there's just one little graph, one little infographic that shows it all.
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These are counties that started to move in either direction, for the Republicans or the
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Democrats in 2016, then kept going in that direction in 2020, then kept going in that
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Even though we say Trump won in 16, we say Trump lost in 20, we say Trump won in 2024.
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These counties kept moving in the direction of the Republicans and alternatively in the
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For geographically, about 60% of the country, it's moving red.
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You see a handful of tiny little pockets of the blue.
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But if you were to overlay that with the red, the whole country just about is moving Republican.
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And not just for one election cycle, for three successive election cycles, including one
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Takeaways from, you don't actually have to read the New York Times, though it's a
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As you can see, there are a handful of counties that are moving in the Democrat direction consistently
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Democrats, I'm just quoting directly from the piece.
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Democrats are gaining ground in a small sliver of the best educated enclaves.
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We'll get to what best educated means in a moment.
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All told, Mr. Trump has increased the Republican Party's share of the presidential vote in each
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election he's been on the ballot in close to half the counties of America.
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1,433 counties in all, according to the New York Times.
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It is a staggering political achievement, especially considering that Mr. Trump was defeated in the
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I think I'm allowed to suggest this now on YouTube, since we have all of these data,
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including being reported by the New York Times, that the country has moved consistently and
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decisively to the right from the beginning of the Trump political era all the way through the end.
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And there are all these counties that continue, what, 1,433 counties, about half the country
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Is it possible that maybe the 2020 election wasn't totally on the up and up?
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I'm just saying, is it possible that the way to explain Joe Biden's supposed victory in 2020
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is, is it possible that that victory is better explained by the fact that Democrats in the
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weeks before that election changed all of the election rules and violated state constitutions
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in some cases and put unsecured ballot drop boxes, in some cases illegally far away from
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county clerk offices, and in some cases didn't really seem to permit oversight of the ballot
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counting, and in some cases took days and even longer to count all the ballots?
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Is it possible that totally changing all the rules of the election to make it less secure
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in every single way might better explain the Biden victory than just a sudden shift in political
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Because according to the New York Times, there was no such shift.
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Specifically, the country continued to move toward Trump the whole time.
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Democrats have steadily expanded their vote share in those three elections in only 57 of
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The scale of Mr. Trump's expanding support is striking, while roughly 8.1 million Americans
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of voting age live in triple-trending Democrat counties, so 8.1 million Americans of voting
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age live in the counties that have moved steadily to the Dems, 42.7 million live in Republican
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Five times as many, more than five times as many live in the Republican ones.
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We are not currently in the position we were in in 2016.
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This is not, oh, we just got to defeat the libs on some of the arguments and we got to
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This is, this is why, by the way, you, you see this reflected not only in electoral politics,
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you see this in political media, you see this in the intellectual circles.
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We don't have to go out there anymore and have the really facile arguments in front of
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the millions of people on YouTube and on TV to, to totally own the libs.
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We don't actually have to do that right now because we won.
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The 13th amendment has effectively been abolished.
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What are we going to do with the popular support that we have won?
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The New York Times points out there's this tiny sliver of the country that still trends
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It is, their words, the party's sparse areas of growth are concentrated almost exclusively
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in America's wealthiest and most educated pockets.
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Now, even that is not fair because what do you mean most educated?
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There's a student at the University of Connecticut right now who graduated.
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She is now suing her high school, uh, uh, school district because she graduated with
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She's currently a student at the University of Connecticut, a prominent state school.
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She can't read the university degree in itself means nothing.
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Harvard students, supposedly among the best universities in the country, Harvard students
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The, the university, America's oldest university had to institute a remedial math course because
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the supposed creme de la creme of American students can't do basic algebra.
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University education in principle is good and I encourage it.
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I'm one of the only conservatives who actually does encourage it, but I'm right about that.
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But in practice, the university education today is meaningless.
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And certainly the graduate degrees, the master's degree, all these people get master's degrees
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PhDs even, PhDs used to be, at least that was a little rigorous.
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It's still, it's still an okay indicator that you can at least spell your name.
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To me, what this report tells is, it's not about the best educated, most brilliant, most
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They're the Democrats and all the, all the unwashed idiot hoi polloi.
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The crucial factor is not brilliance, but satisfaction with the status quo.
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If you have graduated from colleges, universities, especially the elite universities, if you have
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graduate degrees, all this, what that says is, you are cool with the status quo.
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The system in which you are succeeding according to the rules established by our super-duper liberal
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Most people, the system is not working for them, at least in their perception.
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There are more than eight times as many people saying the system is not working for me, as there are people
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who say the system is great, I'm trending Democrat for 10 years.
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I was going back to book six of the Aeneid by Virgil.
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I'm preparing a speech because I'm going to Hungary later this week for CPAC Hungary.
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There's a great line there that Aeneas is told.
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Aeneas wants to go down and talk to his dead father.
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And Aeneas is told, you know, the road down to the underworld is easy.
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That's where you'll need all the favor of the gods to get back up.
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It's easy for civilizations to come crumbling down.
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And it's even relatively easy for people to realize that the civilization has come crumbling down.
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That's all the normies, all the people in the middle, the ones who have moved to the right in recent years.
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Shoot, man, these liberal policies have really screwed up my country.
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But the AP admitting that U.S. children of divorce do much worse in life than the kids of married parents, a mommy and a daddy joined together in matrimony forever.
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U.S. children of divorce have reduced earnings, increased chances of teen pregnancy, and jail.
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The Associated Press, which, you know, this wire service is now reporting to ABC News,
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all the big lib outlets, admitting U.S. children of divorce have reduced earnings, study says.
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Increased chance of teen pregnancy and incarceration.
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but it's specifically focusing in on kids whose parents divorce when they are five years old or younger.
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They have a statistically significant lower earnings and increased chances of teen pregnancy,
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This is a study out of the University of California, Merced.
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The way that the researchers are explaining this is because divorce at a young age is typically tied to loss of financial resources,
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a decline in neighborhood quality tied to a loss in financial resources,
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and missing parental involvement because of distance or even just because of an increased workload required to make up for the lost income.
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They say that accounts for 25% to 60% of the impact divorce has on children's outcomes.
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Now, that means there's 40% to 75% that's not explained by purely economic factors,
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which we all know is explained by social factors, moral factors, basic anthropological factors.
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Almost a third of American children live through their parents divorcing before they reach adulthood, according to the study.
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The millennials were the first real generation to have to live through the divorce of their parents.
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Gen Alpha, to a lesser degree, is dealing with that.
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But in part, the slightly lower divorce rate now is just explained by the much lower marriage rate.
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So fewer people are getting married in the first place, and we've redefined marriage.
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So there are all these fake kinds of marriages, like two fellows and two chicks and all the rest of it.
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For most of human history, divorce was understood pretty much universally to be bad.
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Even in places that permitted divorce, divorce was permitted as the consequence of a bad thing.
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In fact, you hear our Lord, when he's explaining in great detail what marriage really means.
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He says, yes, Moses allowed you to divorce because of the hardness of your hearts, but from the beginning it was not so.
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Everywhere, not just even in Christian civilization, but everywhere, divorce was understood to be basically bad.
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Then, starting in the 1960s, in our neck of the woods, peaking in the 1980s and 90s, we convinced ourselves that divorce was good.
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And we would hear these stupid lines, like, oh no, it's actually better for the kids to be raised where the parents aren't fighting all the time.
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You know, it's actually, it's really better for the kids, for their parents to get divorced, because then, you know, their parents will be happy.
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First of all, the parents won't be happy once they're divorced, because there's no such thing as divorce.
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You're just in a very bad marriage, effectively, which is a Christian insight.
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And three, if you're saying, well, the alternative is, you know, either the kids can grow up in a broken home,
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or they can grow up in this home where the parents are yelling at each other all the time and fighting.
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How about you just not yell at each other all the time?
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How about you act like civilized people and be normal?
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It's a very famous bit, but you probably can't do it on the show.
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It's where he talks about the difference between black people and ninjas.
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We had the Kanye West song a couple weeks ago, so we'll say.
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And he says, you know, one thing I hate about this particular group of people, he goes,
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is when they say, you know, they say things like, you know, I take care of my kids.
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You don't get a pat on the head for doing things you're supposed to.
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Well, is it better to have a broken home than to have parents fighting all the time?
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Everyone, pretty much everywhere, for all of history, understood that divorce is bad.
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And sometimes it's been tolerated, but it's been understood to be a not ideal thing.
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Then from the 60s to the 90s, early 2000s, we convinced ourselves that divorce is good.
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It should be expanded and liberalized in the law.
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That divorce, actually, man, what does marriage even mean, you know?
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If marriage isn't all that significant, you know, man, it's like, whatever, you do you.
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You follow your bliss, man, blah, blah, blah, whatever.
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And now we're realizing that actually everyone for all of history until the 1960s was right.
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And I think that's what we're going through on a lot of issues.
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I think that's what we're going through on migration.
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You want to know what people have thought about migration for all of history?
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Go read anyone who basically universally says, yeah, you got to watch out for when you have a bunch of foreigners in your country because it's going to create dissensions and social problems.
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Then, about the 1960s, we said, no, no, if you don't support your whole country being invaded by foreigners, even against your will, you're bigoted and bad.
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And now we're realizing that people of every race are saying, actually, you know, that's not good to have just unfettered entry of foreigners into our country.
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Something just happened in the middle to late 20th century.
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And now we're realizing that the gods of the copybook headings are still there.
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We're realizing that things that we always understood to be true are still true.
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Now, speaking of longstanding traditions and truths, a small point, you know, because of the holiday filming of the show, I was forced to take off for the holiday yesterday, even though I would have forced my whole staff to come in.
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Vice President J.D. Vance got in some hot water with some people.
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Because when he flew out to meet the new pope, first American pope, he shook the pope's hand and did not kiss the ring.
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It's a picture of the pope shaking hands with J.D. Vance.
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And many people are going to look at that and say, well, there's nothing all that strange about that, except that J.D. is a Catholic.
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And Catholics, generally speaking, when they meet the pope, they're supposed to kiss the ring of the pope.
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Now, I knew exactly what was going on the second I saw this.
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Here is the vice president explaining why he shook the pope's hand.
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I believe that he, meaning Pope Leo, was actually the shepherd of 1.4 billion Catholics.
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And so there are things like bowing before him, kissing the ring, that are signs of respect for a spiritual father.
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But on the world stage, I'm not there as J.D. Vance, a Catholic parishioner.
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I'm there as the vice president of the United States and the leader of the president's delegation to the pope's inaugural mass.
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Some of the protocols about how I respond to the Holy Father were much different than how I might respond to the Holy Father.
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How you might respond to the Holy Father purely in your capacity as a citizen.
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So I knew this was his explanation the minute that I saw him shake the hand.
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Some people, even if they did understand that, they're giving J.D. a lot of grief over this.
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It's as if to say that people are discovering for the first time that there is a tension between the modern world order and Christian civilization.
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Because he's here as a representative of the United States, a country that historically has not been all that friendly to Catholics.
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And it was founded in a kind of an anti-Catholic way, though actually at a deeper level, I think the country was founded on the principles articulated by people like St. Thomas Aquinas.
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And Alexi de Tocqueville thinks in America will trend Catholic or atheist over time.
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But I think it was Arthur Schlesinger said anti-Catholicism is the deepest-rooted American prejudice.
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And so J.D. is saying, yeah, well, as the vice president of the United States, I didn't kiss the ring.
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Because you know, had he kissed the ring, he would have had all this kind of anti-Catholic nonsense in all of the headlines.
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And so it was a little bit of damned if you do, damned if you don't interaction.
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But I would just point out here, going all the way back to 1795, we have an oath of allegiance in the United States for people to become naturalized American citizens.
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The oath of allegiance reads, I hereby declare on oath that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince potent at state or solitude.
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Sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen.
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One could argue that the oath of allegiance prohibits Catholics from being American citizens.
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I know this has been resolved in a way that does not prohibit Catholics.
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But I'm just pointing out, the vice president is dealing with political tensions that he is inheriting.
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OK, and I think that some people who defend tradition and order and hierarchy and faith and everything, they don't want to take yes for an answer.
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A lot of conservatives, we sometimes we insist upon clutching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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We have the first ever practicing Catholic American vice president.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Asclepius Press, who writes,
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When I was a minor, I was groomed into delinquency by the PSL.
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I'm not surprised to hear a member became violent.
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I will confess, when I first read this comment, I thought PSL referred to pumpkin spice latte.
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And I couldn't, so I was groomed, I said, I was nearly groomed into delinquency by pumpkin spice lattes, too.
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But no, it refers to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which is the party that the alleged shooter who murdered the Israeli diplomats in D.C., that young couple, one of them is a Christian, at least, that he was a member of.
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So, yes, there are radical groups that can groom you into delinquency.
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It's true, and we need to clamp down on those groups.
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As far as I'm concerned, get me another Joe McCarthy.
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But you can be groomed into delinquency by pumpkin spice lattes, too.
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It was getting a zillion views on social media.
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It's amazing how these UFOs are always caught on really grainy, weird footage.
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I mean, it's very difficult to detect fakes these days because of AI and because of deep fakes.
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It's not doing any of the weird stuff like the 90-degree turns or anything like that that we hear about from the tic-tacs and some of the testimony from Air Force pilots.
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Wait, I'm trying to look and see if there's Bigfoot cropping out of the bushes behind it.
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And the picture looks like the fakest thing I've ever seen in my whole life.
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It looks like a soccer ball with some weird Sumerian text on it and weird.
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Looks like it was chiseled by a butter knife at home.
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There are a lot of hoaxes of this sort in Latin America.
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So in a piece about this from Newsweek, Julia Mossbridge, who is, she's a PhD.
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She's sort of a random PhD that was picked by Newsweek to be interviewed for this.
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She says, bugosphere, that's what they're calling this thing.
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It says, I think that governments need to think more about the psychosocial positive aspects of these kind of mysteries.
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Because self-transcendence is often ignored as a motivating factor in people's behavior.
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When people start focusing on something that's bigger than us, it really powerfully changes behavior for the better.
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It seems to me we could use the mystery and the humility that UAP produced.
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They changed it because UFOs sound kooky because they are.
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So they had to change it to unidentified aerial phenomena, but it's the same kooky thing.
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We could use that as a way to bring countries together that are currently not together.
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So this tells me the whole thing is just extremely fake.
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And what her good insight tells me is that all the UFO stuff, all the ET stuff, is just fake religion.
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And it's fake religion made by people who view religion as fake and therefore don't know what religion is.
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They think that religion is just a helpful social tool to bring people together and get them to cooperate.
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There's no, it's not, religion is not real, okay?
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But it's a helpful tool to convince idiots to do what we want and to cooperate and not kill each other.
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So then if you're going to create a fake religion, that's the attitude that you're going to have going in.
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And your fake religion is not going to work either.
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As I have said for many years now, aliens are angels and demons for libs.
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We're seeing all sorts of replacement religions.
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AI, AI is becoming a kind of god for libs and for secularists.
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Because real religion, by the way, real religion can get people to behave in a good way because of morality and because of our accountability to God and because of divine grace.
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But it doesn't necessarily get us all to be kumbaya.
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I believe in the universal church with jurisdiction over the whole earth, the head of which is the representative of Christ himself.
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Christianity is not just about an artificial peace.
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Christianity also comes with a sword and divides mother from son and divides brother from sister.
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And because of the truth, Christianity does bring peace and does bring unity around the truth.
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Not around some artifice, not around some social construct, some merely social construct, as the libs would have religion.
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It's got to be around the truth or it's nothing.
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So you'll see people say, well, look, we used to have a religious society and things went better.
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Now we don't have a religious society and people are losing their minds.
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So we need some of the mystery and humility that UAP produce in people.
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Chesterton said that the world does not suffer from lack of wonders, but from lack of wonder.
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The only way that that will be real and sustainable is before the true God.
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Speaking of little green men, Kermit the Frog just gave the commencement address at the University of Maryland.
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Dreams are how we figure out where we want to go.
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And I know that even though you're about to throw your caps in the air, good luck finding them again.
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I know that you will stay connected to your families, your friends, and your dreams.
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All these kids, laughy, clappy, smiling at Kermit the Frog.
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It leaves you with exactly the same intellectual capacity you had when you were three years old.
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When you were watching Sesame Street and The Muppets when you were three years old, you've not grown at all.
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You could have a degree from a major state university.
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It will leave you exactly the same as you were before.
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Now, Michael, Jim Henson, the creator of The Muppets, he's a graduate of the University of Maryland.
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If Jim Henson were giving the commencement speech, that would probably not be great either.
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But it'd be vastly superior to a cartoon puppet frog.
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If I were a graduate of the University of Maryland after that, I would demand a refund.
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You can't really say it's all that much better at Harvard, as President Trump pointed out, when he just ramped up his war on Harvard.
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Look, part of the problem with Harvard is that there are about 31 percent, almost 31 percent of foreigners coming to Harvard.
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We give them billions of dollars, which is ridiculous.
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We do grants, which we're probably not going to be doing much grants anymore to Harvard.
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But there are 31 percent, but they refuse to tell us who the people are.
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Now, a lot of the foreign students we wouldn't have a problem with.
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I'm not going to have a problem with foreign students, but it shouldn't be 31 percent.
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It's too much because we have Americans that want to go there and to other places, and they can't go there because you have 31 percent foreign.
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Now, no foreign government contributes money to Harvard.
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Number one, number two, we want a list of those foreign students, and we'll find out whether or not they're OK.
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And then the other thing is they're very anti-Semitic.
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Everybody knows they're anti-Semitic, and that's got to stop immediately.
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But for those who haven't quite figured it out yet, Trump is demanding that the Democrats defend Harvard.
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Trump is very good at getting his enemies to defend the indefensible.
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So Trump will go out and make his enemies defend paper straws.
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He goes out, he says, ah, we're banning paper straws.
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He makes the Democrats defend paper straws, all the trans stuff.
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Everyone knows a fella shouldn't be in the girl's bathroom and locker room.
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Democrats have a problem identified by the New York Times, which is that they only appeal to wealthy people from elite institutions.
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And most Americans view them as totally out of touch and uncaring about their problems.
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He puts the Democrats in a spot where they have to defend Harvard.
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Harvard, the icon of out of touch, elite, rich, coastal.
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And he's going to sprinkle on a little defense of anti-Semites in there.
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He says, okay, hey, Democrats, here's what we're going to do for the midterms.
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We're going to have you defend Harvard University.
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We're going to have you defend 31% foreigners coming to this country and being subsidized by Americans, most of whom don't even go to college or don't even graduate from college.
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And we're going to have you defend anti-Semites.
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And you know what the Democrats are going to do because they can't win for losing?
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They're going to say, ah, sounds great, Donald.
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Okay, just briefly before we go, Emmanuel Macron, we're speaking of foreigners anyway.
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I have to get to Emmanuel Macron, president of France, caught on camera, getting slapped, pushed, shoved, scratched by his wife on an airplane.
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That's not a slap for those of you who are only listening.
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And you see these hands of his wife, hands push his face away.
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Now he starts walking down first in front of his wife.
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The French government has said this was just a playful little shove.
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It doesn't look like they're all guffawing and smacking their knee.
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It looks really bad because he's so shocked when he sees the cameras.
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However, my big takeaway, and I haven't seen anyone have this analysis, even though it's
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obviously the correct one, is that this is the strongest evidence yet that Brigitte Macron
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I know there have been some questions about the first lady of France, so we're not getting
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We're not, I don't know, I'm not, I've never really been persuaded by that.
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But listen, if you are wondering, look, there's something weird with the marriage.
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She's like a zillion years older than him and was preying on him when he was a teenage
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But regardless, we're going to put that aside for a second.
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It's whatever weird dynamic in their weird French marriage, this is the French, let's
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not forget, not known exactly for their sexual propriety and orderliness.
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Whatever you think about, I, that looked like the shove of a woman to me, okay?