Ep. 1743 - Antifa CRASHES Prayer Rally for Children
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As liberals wail that President Trump is stripping billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies away from Harvard University, a Harvard professor has been caught in a scandal emblematic of the era: a celebrated social scientist, one of the most celebrated professors at Harvard, has been fired for manipulating data, for lying, in a study about honesty.
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As liberals whine that President Trump is stripping billions of dollars in taxpayer
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subsidies away from Harvard University, a Harvard professor has been caught in a scandal
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emblematic of the era. A celebrated social scientist, one of the most celebrated professors
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at Harvard, has been fired for manipulating data, for lying, that is, in a study about honesty.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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The timing is just perfect. It all feels providential because providence does govern the course of
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history. And I guess this is just part of that. While Harvard is whining and shrieking and screaming
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because Trump is taking $3 billion in federal subsidies away from a university that has a 50-plus
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billion-dollar endowment, a Harvard professor is fired and stripped of tenure for lying in a study
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about honesty. It's perfect. It's just perfect. This is the first time since 1940 that a Harvard
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professor has been stripped of tenure. What happened? This woman, Francesca Gino, a celebrated
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behavioral scientist at HBS, Harvard Business School, apparently tweaked some data in four
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studies. This is according to reporting by GHB. And she tweaked the data reportedly, allegedly,
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because the data didn't totally back up her hypothesis. This woman has authored 140 scholarly
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papers. This woman has won multiple awards. There were some rumblings a couple years ago about her
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dishonesty. There was evidence accusing four of her papers that had been published between 2012 and
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2020 of using fraudulent data. Even earlier in 2021, there was a study on honesty pledges that was
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definitively retracted due to evidence of data fabrication. A lot of evidence this lady just lied.
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And Harvard, while at the one hand saying, we need all this federal money, even though we have a
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$50 billion plus endowment, we need all these federal subsidies because we stand for truth.
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We stand for science. We are illuminating the human mind. We are leading. And then on the other hand,
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they're having to fire professors for dishonesty, even some of their most celebrated professors.
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Hmm. This woman seems like she really deserves to be fired and stripped of tenure.
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How many others are there? I don't think it's just about this woman. This woman might become a
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scapegoat. But how long have we heard about the replication crisis in the social sciences? I was
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hearing about that 15 years ago, 10, 15 years ago, that there's a replication crisis in the social
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sciences whereby all these papers, scholarly peer reviewed, peer review is a bunch of BS too,
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by the way. Peer review is just when a professor sends a paper around to her professor friends and
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then the professor friends get their graduate students to kind of look at a paper or whatever,
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give it the stamp of approval. But even the peer reviewed papers can't be replicated.
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That is throughout psychology, throughout the social sciences, all the way up to the top
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universities, supposedly top universities. Wow. What do you know? It turns out there's fraud.
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It's funny that there's dishonesty in a study on honesty. I mean, that makes it particularly funny
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and newsworthy. I don't think that this Harvard lady's dishonesty is all that notable.
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In fact, I think this is widespread throughout the academy. It gets back to something we were
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talking about yesterday. We talked about the commencement speech at the University of Maryland.
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These graduates have paid a lot of money for their degrees and they've gone through years of what is
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supposed to be a rigorous education. And their commencement speaker is Kermit the Frog. And I said,
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that shows you the value of a university education today. I support university education in principle.
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I'm one of the few conservatives who defends liberal arts education. I think it can be great. I love the
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university tradition going all the way back to the Middle Ages. But what we have today is not that.
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And that's true at the University of Maryland. And it's true at Harvard. In fact, wow, it's just
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occurring to me. This might've been a little Nostradamus moment. You know, I hate to say I
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told you so. I said, look, we're focusing here on the University of Maryland. I don't think it's much
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better at Harvard. Bam. Immediately there comes a news story that Harvard has to fire one of its top
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professors for dishonesty. This is what you're getting. This is your university today. So why are
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we funding these schools? Why are your taxpayer dollars going to fund these schools when they are
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not properly educating students? So they're failing in their pedagogical mission. And they're not even
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producing replicable scientific studies. They're producing BS and nonsense and manipulating data.
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So they're not even furthering the academic mission of growing human knowledge. And they're not,
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what are they doing? They're creating sinecures for liberal elites to be insulated from you and from
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the consequences of their choices and their lifestyles in reality. That's what they're getting.
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They're getting a cushy club and a perch from which to condescend and express their contempt for most
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Americans. If they want to do that, fine, I guess, whatever. We should not have to pay for that.
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Once again, Trump just picks the perfect enemy. And then he gets all of his political opponents to
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have to defend that really unpopular institution, the indefensible, in this case, Harvard. Now,
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speaking of universities and speaking of the indefensible, Scott Pelley, who's from 60 Minutes on
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CBS, he just gave a commencement at Wake Forest University in Carolina. And this was maybe the most
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tone-deaf commencement address I've ever heard. This made Kermit the Frog look insightful and erudite.
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But in this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack.
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Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack.
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And insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes, and into our private
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thoughts. The fear to speak in America. Power can rewrite history with grotesque faults.
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False narratives. They can make criminals heroes. And heroes criminals. Power can change the
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definition of the words we use to describe reality.
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Is this a Saturday Night Live bit? We'll get to the final point in a moment. Is this a Saturday Night
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Night Live bit? He says, power, this tyrannical, awful power, can rewrite history.
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Oh, you mean like you guys did with the 1619 Project? We journalists are under attack because
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the powers are trying to rewrite history. You mean like the New York Times did with the 1619 Project,
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which said that the American Revolution was fought to defend slavery. A claim so outlandish that even
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left-wing academic historians shot it down. The New York Times kept funding that 1619 Project.
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Is that what you're talking about? You big libs, rewriting American history, toppling statues left and
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right. Power. These powers that threaten us journalists. The power. They have the ability
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to turn criminals into heroes and heroes into criminals. Oh, you mean like St. George Floyd,
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the guys you all marched for and burned the country down for eight months over? I mean,
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like Michael Brown, this criminal who robbed a liquor store and then charged a cop, grabbed at his
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gun. That guy, you rewrote him to become a hero. You guys make heroes out of criminals all the time.
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How have we done that? We want to put the criminals in prison. You guys want to abolish prisons.
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And you want to let the criminals run free. Illegal aliens. Criminals, people who have,
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the one distinctive thing they've ever done in America is commit a crime. You're turning them
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into heroes. You call them dreamers. You mean like that? Well, what you don't understand is we
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journalists who are under threat by the powers that be, we recognize that power can redefine words.
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Do you mean like that thing I wrote a book on called Speechless Controlling Roots,
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Controlling Minds? Thank you very much. You guys, you journalists who, I'm just going to use the AP
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style guide as an example, ban phrases like illegal alien. Not because they're not precise,
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not because they're not accurate, but because they are contrary to your political agenda.
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So now we have to call them what? Undocumented Americans? But that's a lie.
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Okay. Redefine words like woman. And now you redefine woman to mean man sometimes? These
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people, they want to redefine words like babies. You redefine them as clumps of cells and fetuses
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and embryos and blastulas and zygotes. And you mean like that? He is accusing Trump, really,
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and all the conservatives who voted for him, and I guess most Americans, popular vote. You're
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accusing him of exactly what you have done. Not just you liberals, not just you Democrats,
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specifically the liberal journalists on whose behalf he's supposedly speaking. And then you want
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to know the cherry on top. In the same breath, I'm not really making edits here. This goes straight
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from what he's talking about, about all the threats to free speech. He says this.
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Diversity is now described as illegal. Equity is to be shunned. Inclusion is a dirty word.
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He goes from bemoaning. He goes from bemoaning the loss of free speech to defending DEI. DEI,
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which is the justification for censoring speech. I have personally been disinvited from university
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campuses on DEI grounds. Specifically at the universities, DEI is used to shut down speech.
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FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Education, had a study on this come out somewhat
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recently about the way in which DEI restricts speech on campus. It's not just on campus, though.
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It's speech at the office. It's speech in politics. It's speech certainly on social media.
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DEI is used as a way to censor speech. Now, of course, the real fight over speech is not between
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free speech on the one hand and censorship on the other. It's a fight between competing standards
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of norms. But by this guy's own logic, he says we must defend free speech and we must defend the thing
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that restricts free speech. What a freaking joke. What a joke this man has become. What a joke his
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show, 60 Minutes, has become. And also, what a joke the news profession has become.
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Because the libs have been so dishonest, even in this speech. To say nothing of not knowing the
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moment, like, hey, buddy, you're there for the graduates to congratulate them on graduating.
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But unfortunately, they, being American university students in the year of our Lord,
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2025, are receiving degrees from institutions that have lost their credibility. And so it's all just
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a big joke. It's all kind of a big joke. Unfortunately. Unfortunately for the people
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who have paid into it, the taxpayers, the people who have paid their tuition, the people who want to
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have a normal country. Our elites have failed us. They've succeeded at destroying the institutions
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that they had stewardship of. And now they're whining and screaming when the people don't want
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to listen to them anymore. Now, speaking of speech and speaking of left-wing militants,
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Antifa just came in and shut down a prayer rally. No surprise whatsoever. We'll get to that in one
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frontlines, which covered this video. Antifa, is Antifa still around? I guess they are.
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Some Antifa guys tried to blow me up a couple of years ago. They've tried to blow up a lot of
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right-wingers. They seem to either be in jail or just have gone home. They're not getting a lot of
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traction. Well, they showed up to a Mayday USA prayer rally. This was a rally specifically against
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transing the kids. And they're standing on stage, all of these Christian people,
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singing sort of nice, happy, evangelical praise songs. And that was too much for Antifa,
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Hundreds of Christian worshipers flooded Seattle's Cal Anderson Park Saturday afternoon
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to pray for the city and take a stand for traditional family values.
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You will not disrespect the blood of Jesus Christ!
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Especially against transgender ideology targeting children, all part of the Mayday USA revival
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movement sweeping across the nation. And the Lord says, sound the alarm! Sound the alarm!
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But a time of blessing and praise quickly devolved into chaos.
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Far-left activists and Antifa militants tried to disrupt the concert.
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Throwing water balloons at the crowd, menacing attendees, and some activists even tried rushing
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Okay, so nothing surprising here whatsoever. It's even the Antifa guys, to me, it's all tired.
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This trans fight, it's all, it's tired. We fought it, we won. We won, okay?
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And we had that New York Times story on the show yesterday. Triple trending counties,
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counties that have moved toward the Republican Party in each, successively, of the last three
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elections. It's 1,433 counties. It's half the counties in the country almost.
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Number of counties that have triple trended toward Democrats is like 57. It's basically nothing.
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Okay, we won. We won on the trans issue. We've convinced people. We won on the immigration
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issue. We've convinced people. We still need work at instituting those wins, but we won.
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It's over. These guys are a joke. It's over. But they're still expressing their anger.
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And specifically against this prayer rally. I think this really throws it into stark relief,
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because you heard the singing there. It's just kind of like happy, you know,
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relatively anodyne evangelical worship music. This is not exactly deus volt, like, you know,
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crusading to the Holy Land to slay the Saracens, okay? This should be about as inoffensive as it
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gets. And yet these pro-trans, pro-antifa radical leftists really, really hate it. And that should
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not be surprising. The left has always been opposed to the church. That's where the left comes from.
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The term left and right, it comes from the French Revolution, the National Assembly,
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where the Catholics and monarchists sat on the right, and the liberals and Republicans and
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atheists sat on the left. So it's always been about taking down the church. That's what the
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French Revolution was chiefly aimed at, aimed broadly at taking down throne and altar, but with
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special emphasis on altar, the left is always ultimately going to oppose the church. That's
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just the way it is. That's how it's worked for 250 years now, and it's how it's going to work into the
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future. And as our political debates become increasingly, clearly religious, expect those
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attacks to ramp up. For a while, we could say, oh, it's an attack on classical liberalism. Eh,
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not really. Oh, the left, their chief object is to attack the Constitution. Yeah, a little bit,
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not really. It's really what they're after is the church, because what they really hate is not just
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classical liberalism or the Constitution or our country. They hate God, and that's really what
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they're after. And they hate God's representatives on earth, and they hate orderly society, which is good
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and conduces to our natural happiness, as the church helps to lead us toward our supernatural
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happiness. But that's what they're after, okay? And I think our political debates are becoming more
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obviously religious. It's not that they're becoming more religious, because human conflict is always
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ultimately theological, but they're becoming more obviously religious. Joe Rogan is speaking about
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religion, and the new atheism is passé and deader than disco. And we're just in a more religious
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moment. The decline of Christianity has leveled off. It's stopped. Decades-long decline has stopped.
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And so as that happens, expect the attacks from the left to be a little less partisan. Expect the
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debates to be a little less, you know, R versus D. The R is one. The triple trends are all in our
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direction. Expect these debates to become more religious, which ultimately is what they always have
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been. Now, speaking of morality and child abuse, there's a new study out about the abortion drug.
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The abortion drug is not just one way that abortions take place. It now accounts for most abortions.
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On the surface, at least 60% of abortions, I was speaking with a very prominent anti-abortion advocate
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who's really plugged in, and she seems to think that it's over 75% of abortions are now the abortion drug.
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One line that we have heard from the abortion industry and all their lackeys in the Democrat
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Party for years at this point is that the abortion drug is totally safe. In fact, it's safer than
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Tylenol. Here's Dan Goldman, this Democrat member of Congress, parroting this line.
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24 years ago next week, the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of Mifepristone,
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authorizing it as a safe and effective means for women to end a pregnancy through medication.
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In the ensuing two decades, there has been no evidence that it is not effective, nor that it
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is dangerous in any way. It's actually safer than Tylenol.
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It's safer than Tylenol. Safer than Tylenol, we'll tell you. Okay, so there's a study just
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came out from the Charlotte Lozier Institute. It's a peer-reviewed article published in the
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journal Biotech. So we're told that we have to respect peer review. This is peer-reviewed,
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and it shows that that claim is totally bogus. There is no evidence whatsoever that the abortion
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drug is safer for women than Tylenol, and there's a lot of evidence that it's much less safe than
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Tylenol. It's obviously less safe, by the way, for the baby whom it kills. No surprises again here
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that the pro-abortion movement would lie, but it does strike me that the pro-abortion movement
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in particular relies on slogans. Slogans take place all over politics, but the pro-abortion movement in
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particular relies on slogans, and that the slogans in the pro-abortion movement are just
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completely false. They are just lies. Everyone sloganeers, and sometimes they stretch the truth, and
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sometimes it's only a partial view of the truth. But when it comes to the abortion industry,
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they say, my body, my choice. But of course, the controversial aspect of abortion is not the woman's
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body. It's the baby's body, and that's not the woman's body. That's the baby's body.
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When they say, the abortion pill is safer than Tylenol, that's just a lie. It's just completely
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made up. When they say, thousands of women died before Roe v. Wade, annually of abortion, that slogan,
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that's just made up. In fact, Bernard Nathanson, the leader of the pro-abortion movement, who then
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became a pro-life advocate, he was an abortionist himself, he admitted, he said, we just made that
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number out of thin air, the thousands of people, which is totally made up. Back alley abortions and the
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coat hangers and all that. It's just that sort of slogan that this was an epidemic is just totally
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made up. Not in reality. And when we talk about what Scott Pelley is so afraid of, you know,
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the 60 Minutes guy in his commencement speech, he says, people are manipulating language to
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redefine reality. Well, who is most guilty of that? We all use euphemisms to some degree,
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but there's a big difference between saying that an old woman is a woman of a certain age,
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which is true, but a soft truth, rather than saying that she's a young man. That's a lie.
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And when the one political side in particular uses euphemisms to deny and in fact invert the truth,
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when the abortion industry can barely say the word abortion, never says the word baby just about,
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has to constantly be using manipulative language, dishonest language, false language to lie about
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what it's doing. I think it probably shows you that that industry is doing something wrong.
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That political movement is doing something wrong. They're trying to hide something from people. And
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right now the people seem to have caught it. And I think the jig is up. And that's why the Democrats
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are in this terrible, terrible problem right now, which is great news for the country.
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there's some crazy actress lady. I, well, yeah, she's, I want to be as charitable as I can,
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but she sounds kind of crazy when she says stuff like this. I hope that she's more grounded and she
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becomes more grounded over time when she hears my commentary and what she said, because what she
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said is nuts. She was at the Spirit Awards. This is for independent films. And she described how one
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of the things that keeps her up at night is that in Trump's America, 12 year old girls can't get
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abortions. You know, it's very weird to have like a showbiz guy in charge is surreal. I mean, because
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well, I'm, I'm actually pretty horrified by how strategic and effective this whole thing has been.
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And, uh, I think there is a real disconnect in all of the noise around like the individuals that
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are going to be really taking the hits on a individual, like a human basis in the trans
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community, gay community, black community, you know, uh, women, like when I think of the kids or
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like the 12 year old girl that can't get an abortion or something, or, you know, that, that's what
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really like rips me apart. That's what really rips her apart. That a 12 year old can't get an
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abortion in America. That's what rips her apart. The fact that 12 year old girls can't be pressured
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into ripping apart their babies, which of course, by the way, the vast majority of abortions are,
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are not 12 year old girls. The vast, well over 99% of abortions are not women who have in any way
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faced duress or, uh, health issues or anything like that. It's elective abortions. And she says,
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she just, I don't know, America to her is every 12 year old girl in America. We need two cars in
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every garage, a chicken in every pot and an abortion for every 12 year old girl. Ah, that's not my
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America. What she says at the end there is just totally nuts. What's interesting is that what she
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says at the beginning is quite sensible. She says, you know, it's weird to have a showbiz guy
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in the white house. Donald Trump is a showbiz guy. Donald Trump was number one on network TV,
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has dominated tabloids for decades, for like 40 years at this point, has been in movies,
00:29:46.960
has been sung about in pop songs and rap songs. And he's just a big pop culture guy.
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He's a showbiz guy. And she's horrified by how effective he has been. That part is really
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sensible. And more of Hollywood should have picked up on that, but they didn't, which is fine by me.
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He's been very effective and he's effective in large part because he's a showbiz guy,
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because he knows what sells, because he's very good for the ratings, because he speaks to people
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in a popular way. Not just for the graduates of Harvard, who hear Kermit the Frog giving their
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commencement addresses and who study all sorts of irreplicable scientific studies, but who
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nevertheless get jobs in fancy, wealthy enclaves, the only couple dozen, few dozen enclaves that are
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trending Democrat. Rest of the country trends Republican because of how effective he's been.
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Democrats don't seem to be able to learn from that.
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If they were smart, they would try to take some of that juice. If they were smart,
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they'd try to grab some of that mojo. That's what Gavin Newsom was trying to do when he launched
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that podcast and then tried to get a bunch of right-wingers to normalize him. So he says,
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you know, okay, I'm going to sit down with Charlie Kirk. And Charlie Kirk took advantage to nail
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Gavin on a few things. But what was it? Gavin knew that. Gavin knew Charlie was going to take
00:31:06.740
advantage. He said it's worth it because Trump is popular. He won the popular vote. The people around
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Trump clearly know something that I don't know. So I'm going to try to talk to Charlie Kirk, who's
00:31:16.240
famously close to Trump, or Steve Bannon, who is the chief strategist in the White House under Trump
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one. I'm just going to try to get some of their mojo. Whereas the rest of the Democrats insist that
00:31:26.820
50 million Frenchmen must be wrong. It's very effective. According to the polls, Rasmussen has
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just come out, say that 50% of Americans finally say the country is on the right track. That doesn't seem
00:31:38.480
super high, I guess, for a lot of people. This is the first time in Rasmussen's 29-year polling history
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that it has shown that 50% of the country believe that America is on the right track.
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That's compared to 45% who say it's on the wrong track. That's big. And it has become fashionable
00:31:56.220
to say in the last 15 years that America is becoming more and more polarized. Actually,
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I'm not sure that's true anymore. America was becoming more and more polarized.
00:32:08.120
Now I think we're becoming less polarized because the country is just becoming more Republican
00:32:12.860
because of the New York Times survey on the triple trend counties, because Trump won the popular vote,
00:32:19.840
because the Democrats don't even know what they're running on anymore. They're getting blown out of
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the water. The country is becoming less polarized. It's becoming more right-wing. It's becoming more
00:32:29.960
Republican. It's becoming more conservative. Trump, weirdly, shockingly, in the minds of the
00:32:37.520
liberal media, is a unifying figure. Because when you dig in, I'm really taken with the New York Times
00:32:44.100
report, as I think everyone should be. It's great news for us, and the Libs should be pulling their
00:32:49.780
hair out over it. I was talking to sweet little Elisa about it last night. No, I was talking to some
00:32:54.380
of my colleagues around here today about this. I said, well, hold on. Dig into the details. Is it just that
00:32:59.100
he's really gaining among white people? I said, no. According to the Times report, it's like
00:33:04.660
everyone. Everyone seems to be trending more conservative. That's a big win. That's very
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effective. The left should be scared. The smart ones are trying to adapt. The less prudent ones
00:33:20.040
are doubling down. Like Sam Harris, one of the four horsemen of the New Atheist Movement. Sam Harris
00:33:26.340
really not aging well. I'm not saying that physically. It looks perfectly fine. But his
00:33:31.800
ideas are not aging well. That New Atheism is a joke, man. They went from being the really cool,
00:33:36.580
you know, so much smarter than everybody guys, to just being the fedora-tipping Reddit atheists.
00:33:40.860
You know, it's just, that's not, it's cringe. It's lame. It's deader than disco. So his one big idea,
00:33:46.220
if you can call it that, is totally passe. And his political affiliation, which is lib,
00:33:51.960
Democrat, defend Biden, Trump's always awful. If only, if only Trump were taken out.
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I think it's, it's quite possible that he was just, just checked out to a degree that,
00:34:07.320
that I did not suspect at the time. But to, to close the loop on this whole scandal,
00:34:12.180
even that is preferable to me and to, I think, many Democrats than having someone who we consider
00:34:21.320
to be genuinely evil, genuinely 100% purposed to serving himself in the office of the presidency.
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I would rather have a president, I would rather have a president in a coma where the duties of
00:34:35.580
the presidency are executed by a committee of just normal people, right? So that, that's the,
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and that's the choice that many of us believe was before us. And so therefore, not much materially
00:34:49.620
changes once you reveal just how insane and despicable this cover-up of Biden's infirmities
00:34:57.780
But Sam, but how you get there matters. And it would be one thing if those people told the American
00:35:03.580
people, Hey, he's not compost mentis. We're going to take it from here. We know what we're doing.
00:35:08.420
We're fine. But that didn't happen. And I mean, just this.
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It didn't happen though, did it? So I should have mentioned at the top of that, I think you probably
00:35:17.500
intuited it, that he's talking about that the reports have come out that Biden actually wasn't
00:35:22.600
in his right mind. And actually there was a little politburo around him of some top aides and family
00:35:28.820
members, including his corrupt son, Hunter Biden, that were really kind of running the country.
00:35:33.420
And Sam Harris is saying, yeah, but I don't care. I would rather the guy that I want be the face of
00:35:40.400
the government and the government really just be run by a committee of normal people rather than
00:35:44.600
this man that I think is evil, Donald Trump run the country. And in defense of Sam Harris,
00:35:49.980
I get the logic. I would rather a committee of Republicans run the country than a single
00:35:56.740
effective Democrat, certainly. Assuming we're all legal and on the up and up and moral and everything.
00:36:02.980
But the problem here is they didn't have a committee of normal people.
00:36:08.040
They had a committee of people who were totally out of touch with what people wanted,
00:36:12.940
totally out of touch with reality, with what people wanted on immigration, on sexual ethics,
00:36:18.140
on education, on everything. And he says he accuses Trump of just enriching himself or something,
00:36:25.160
turning the government to private interest. That's what Biden did. That's not really what Trump has done.
00:36:30.640
Biden was the one whose son was going around with the open bag to all the most corrupt people around
00:36:35.060
the world taking bribes on behalf of the enrichment of the Biden family. Trump hasn't done that.
00:36:40.920
In as much as Trump's ventures and properties have increased in value over his time in politics,
00:36:46.980
one, he had four years in the wilderness where he was forced to found a technology and media company
00:36:51.160
because he was booted off of the tech and media platforms that he used to speak on. But two,
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he's totally open about it. He's totally transparent about his business interests.
00:37:00.640
He has longstanding decades-old business interests. And he has sacrificed a lot of that for his political
00:37:07.960
service. He hasn't really enriched himself relatively all that much, certainly compared
00:37:12.900
to other guys like Joe Biden. Joe Biden entered the vice presidency with something like $100,000 net worth.
00:37:18.760
Now he's worth many, many millions of dollars. And Hunter Biden, who really should not have made any
00:37:24.000
money at all, has made many, many millions of dollars. A lot of it recorded on his laptop and
00:37:28.640
on video. And according to his texts and emails, he kicked back a lot of it to the big guy, Joe Biden.
00:37:34.520
So it just doesn't play. And it makes these guys look really bad. I guess we shouldn't be surprised
00:37:43.340
that an atheist would be willing to put morality to the side. But that's what he's saying here.
00:37:51.800
He's saying, yeah, I'd rather just kind of, we all pretend, we all just sort of lie about Biden being
00:37:58.060
mentally sufficient. You know, because you're not really, the constitution doesn't let you have
00:38:02.760
government by a committee in the executive branch. It's supposed to be by a president, but we'll all
00:38:06.500
just kind of lie and we'll all pretend and we'll all have this committee run. Well, the committee is not
00:38:11.540
made up of normal people. It's made up of very corrupt people who are out of touch. And I got
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booted out just like a lot of these ideas from the left, the new atheism, this leftism, the coalition
00:38:23.060
of the ascendant, all this stuff has just been booted. My, how quickly things can change.
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yesterday is from Linda LJH1 who says, my husband and I both had drunken parents who fought. My parents
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divorced when I was 11. His stayed married. I envied him for not having to go through a horrible
00:39:04.960
divorce. We both fought like mad to keep our marriage for our kids, and we made it. Thanks
00:39:09.900
be to God. Really beautiful comment. Sorry you both went through bad upbringings, but I hear this
00:39:14.420
sometimes. People will say, we talked about it on the show yesterday. Well, it's better for the kids
00:39:19.840
if the parents divorce, because then the parents will be happy. Better for the parents to divorce
00:39:25.100
than for them to be unhappy in a marriage. That's just not true. It's just not true. There was that
00:39:30.280
study that came out about how parents, first of all, a third of Americans are going to see their
00:39:35.940
parents divorce before they reach adulthood, and how this is now out of UC Merced, how children whose
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parents divorce before they turn five are more likely to face incarceration, poverty, and death.
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There's no surprises there whatsoever. I like how you're saying, look, I grew up, it was a bad
00:39:58.660
marriage, and my husband's parents were in a bad marriage, and mine divorced and his didn't, and I
00:40:03.380
envied him. I think that's the reality of it. If a third of Americans are dealing with that, this is
00:40:08.900
an issue whose reckoning has come. Speaking of Biden being out of it, the reckoning that has come from
00:40:18.460
the media here. Jake Tapper co-authored this book with Alex Thompson about how Biden actually wasn't
00:40:27.100
all there. Lights were on, but no one was home. Something that conservatives said, and we were
00:40:30.920
called liars and deceivers and conspiracy theorists by the liberal media, including people like Jake
00:40:37.000
Tapper, and now he's making all this money on this book, Original Sin. So Alex Thompson, who is an
00:40:42.960
Axios reporter who co-wrote the book with Tapper, he seems to be like a pretty straight shooter.
00:40:46.680
And he is just giving out a lot of details that he's uncovered about the Biden administration,
00:40:53.100
namely that the Biden aides felt justified in doing undemocratic things to stop Trump from being
00:40:59.500
reelected. Well, and it did seem like there's so many people who you would have thought would
00:41:04.280
have access to him who didn't because of this inner circle that really much managed his schedule and
00:41:09.320
his time and his access in a way that didn't give a lot of people one-on-one time with him.
00:41:13.440
In the book, you quote a longtime Biden aide basically admitting he shouldn't be running
00:41:17.680
again. They said to you on page 85, he just had to win and then he could disappear for four years.
00:41:23.140
He'd only have to show proof of life every once in a while. His aides could pick up the slack.
00:41:28.420
Who would have been running the White House in a second Biden term?
00:41:31.780
Well, this person went on to say that when you're voting for a president, you're voting for the aides
00:41:35.400
around him. But these aides were not even Senate confirmed aides. These are a White House aides.
00:41:40.460
These were unelected people. And one of the things that really, I think, comes out in our reporting
00:41:45.360
here is that if you believe, and I think a lot of these people do sincerely believe that Donald Trump
00:41:49.660
was and is an existential threat to democracy, you can rationalize anything, including sometimes doing
00:41:55.060
undemocratic things, which I think is what this person is talking about.
00:41:58.440
And including murder. That's the other part of this that is left unspoken here. But yeah, of course,
00:42:06.120
these guys were willing to do undemocratic things. I mean, the Democratic Party is famous for that.
00:42:10.760
Democrat Party in its own primary has superdelegates, just as one example. They have ways to rig the
00:42:16.600
primary against the desires of voters. Republicans don't have that. Democrats also were caught cheating
00:42:23.380
in the primary between Hillary and Bernie Sanders, giving debate questions to Hillary Clinton ahead
00:42:30.080
of time. So they do this stuff all the time. They're obviously willing to do undemocratic things.
00:42:34.360
Also because the left takes as its enemy the church, and because the left has a little more
00:42:40.700
of a loosey-goosey relationship to morality than many on the right do. Yeah, they're willing to subvert
00:42:47.340
democracy. For sure. But it goes further than that. They say, if you believe that Donald Trump
00:42:55.860
poses an existential threat to democracy and an existential threat to the country, you'd be
00:43:00.120
willing to do some undemocratic things. Yeah, you'd also be willing to kill him, which is really what
00:43:06.020
happened. Because Trump was nearly killed twice. One time it came really, really close because it
00:43:11.020
hit him in the ear and nearly blew his brains out on a stage in Pennsylvania. And the Democrats
00:43:16.500
justified that. They justified that before it happened. Joe Biden justified that when he launched
00:43:21.980
his presidential campaign and said he posed an existential threat to the country. If someone
00:43:25.060
poses an existential threat to you, you are justified in killing that person. That would be
00:43:29.720
self-defense. That was the point of all the rhetoric, an existential threat. Yeah, that the point of that
00:43:37.500
is to create the conditions by which this man either could be taken out through lawfare or could be
00:43:42.440
taken out by a bullet. That's really what it was. And if you have the kind of loosey-goosey morality
00:43:47.600
that the left has embraced in recent years, a consequentialist morality, a utilitarian morality,
00:43:52.660
a morality that says that the ends justify the means, then you can, in your own twisted way,
00:43:58.380
justify any action no matter how immoral. These are people who are willing to kill babies in the womb.
00:44:03.580
Okay? They're willing to do anything. No surprise. And now we have to all pretend to be shocked.
00:44:09.500
There shouldn't be. I guess that's the theme of today's show. No surprises. None of this should
00:44:13.460
be surprising to people who have paid attention. This is why, by the way, when people make predictions
00:44:18.680
about what's going to happen, it's not because they have a crystal ball and can see the future.
00:44:24.180
So people are called prophets sometimes, not because they can predict, this is true even of
00:44:28.980
prophets in the Bible, not necessarily because they can predict the future, but because they can,
00:44:34.040
and my friend, Father George Rutler put this very well, because they can warn of the consequences
00:44:38.820
that will come in the future from denying the truth, that a prophet primarily tells the truth.
00:44:45.560
And the appearance of predicting the future is a derivation of seeing the truth and seeing the
00:44:51.340
consequences of denying the truth. And that's what's happening for the Democrats now. They,
00:44:56.860
in particular, all sides can get a little bit sus in politics, but the Democrats in particular have
00:45:02.640
lied so egregiously, so formally for so long that the chickens are coming home to roost for them.
00:45:10.520
And that's why their ratings are collapsing on their TV networks. That's why people are tuning
00:45:15.220
them out. That's why they're losing elections. That's why the counties are not trending in their
00:45:18.740
direction. They've kept up a lie for a while. Deep philosophical lies, deep anthropological lies
00:45:25.820
about what human nature is. Deep, deep lies about the operation of government, who the effective
00:45:31.180
president is. They've just lied so egregiously, so in your face for so long. They're not going to be
00:45:37.980
able to turn that around overnight. Very happy news. Today's woke Wednesday. The rest of the show
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