Ep. 1746 - “I'm Not Gay No More” - Pop Star Ends Pride Month
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Actress Jojo Siwa came out of the closet four years ago and declared that she s a lesbian. But today, she s dating a guy, and the guy looks like a guy. So how is that possible? And why is she not a lesbian?
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I need someone to explain to me how Jojo Siwa is not today a lesbian. Jojo Siwa is an actress
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and a singer, apparently. I'm not well acquainted with her work, but she's quite famous.
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And four years ago, she came out of the closet and declared that she's a lesbian.
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But today, she's dating a guy. And the guy looks like a guy. He's not even one of these margin
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cases. So how is that possible? Did she stop being a lesbian? Because I was told,
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I was reliably informed that that is impossible. The LGBT ideologues told me that sexual orientation
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is immutable. So was she just wrong when she identified as a lesbian four years ago?
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Because I was told, I was reliably informed that that's impossible too. The LGBT ideologues say
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a person cannot be wrong about her sexual identity. That a person's sexual identity
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is whatever she says it is. And you can't question it. But also, it can't change.
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So how, I repeat, how is Jojo Siwa not today a lesbian? The LGBT movement cannot explain it.
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Any way it tries to, it is going to contradict one of its own principles.
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Which is why, I think, that aforementioned LGBT movement is cratering in popularity.
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It is collapsing under the weight of its own incoherence. And now, on the first day of Pride
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Month, one of its top celebrity promoters has decided to switch teams. I'm Michael Knowles.
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Welcome back to the show. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is revoking the visas of foreign,
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days. This is really tough. You're getting a little bit of corporate pride. Some brands are
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posting, but then they're immediately downplaying the rainbow stuff. You've got a prominent LGBT
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actress, singer, lady who's leaving the team, going straight, dating a guy who just looks like a guy.
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And in Boise, you have Pride being canceled. At least the Pride kickoff being canceled because of
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low attendance. Here you go. Got it right here. KTVB.com reports Boise Pride cancels June kickoff
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event due to low attendance despite strong online support. And that's the key here, I think,
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politically. Organizers said the initiative aimed to increase visibility and create additional
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opportunities for celebration throughout Pride season, but apparently no one wants to go. I think
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that's true. I think we reached peak gay sometime in, what would you say, 2019 or so?
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And as I predicted, it started to unravel. Once you start pulling on the trans kids,
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it's difficult to stop the momentum of unraveling the whole LGBT LMNOP movement because it all partakes
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of the same false anthropology. And that includes feminism too. The false understanding of human
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nature, once you start unraveling that little knot, it just keeps going. But to me, the politically most
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important part here is this apparent contradiction in the headline. Boise Pride cancels June kickoff
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event due to low attendance despite strong online support. In other words, there is a chasm between
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the real world and the internet. And we try to remind ourselves this. We say Twitter isn't real life. And we
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say, you know, don't believe everything you read on the internet. But people get confused. They get pulled
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into rabbit holes. They get pulled into distraction on the internet. Devil loves distraction. And it
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confuses us about what is really going on in reality. I'm not sure if that'll be true tomorrow
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or the next day or the next day. But at least as of today, Boise Pride's cancellation shows us there
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is a distinction between what is being said on the internet and what is going on in real life. The
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internet is still super gay and trans and weird and everything. And real life is not. It is
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increasingly less so. I think that's true with a lot of political issues though. Things that people
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focus on all the time on the internet, that still is not really necessarily what moves people's
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heartstrings in the real world. Positions that people take on various issues on the internet,
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I don't think are exactly reflective of people in the real world. I think this is borne out by public
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polling. I think this is borne out by elections. And in this case of LGBT pride, it's a really good
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sign. The internet can be all rainbows, but reality, people just aren't showing up. Now,
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speaking of reproductive parts, Michelle Obama has made a curious claim. She just argued on a podcast
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that reproduction is the least important part of a woman's reproductive system.
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But women's reproductive health is about our life. It's about this whole complicated reproductive
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system that does the least of what it does is produce life. It's a very important thing that it
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does. But you only produce life if the machine that's producing it, if you want to whittle us down to
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a machine, if the machine is functioning in a healthy, streamlined kind of way. But there is no
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discussion or apparent connection between the two. There's no connection. Why would you ever think
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there's a connection between the reproductive system and reproduction? Where'd you get that crazy
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idea? Reproduction is the least of what the reproductive system does. What would you ask? Why is it called
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the reproductive system? I don't know. I don't know. I thought it was because that's what it's for.
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But I kind of see what she's saying. And the philosophical errors she's making, I kind of see
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how she fell into them. Because from a certain vantage, reproduction is the least thing that the
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reproductive system does, inasmuch as people aren't constantly pregnant. Now, let's say a woman has,
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these days, a woman maybe has one kid. In the old days, maybe a woman has four or five kids.
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Could be six or seven kids. But let's say today a woman has one to three kids on average.
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That means that for the vast majority of her life, her reproductive system is not actively
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creating another person. So from that vantage, you'd say, well, that's the least thing that the
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reproductive system does. But what if I asked you about a guitar? What is a guitar mostly,
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what does a guitar do? What's the nature of a guitar? What's the essence of a guitar? You would
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say, well, it's to create music. But no, I'd say, nah, nah, create music. That's the least
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thing that my guitar does. Most of the time, my guitar is sitting in its case.
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Well, yeah, I guess that's true. Just from in terms of time, the guitar is mostly sitting in
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its case. But what a guitar essentially is, is a musical instrument. That's what it's for.
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It's not for sitting in the case, even though that's what it does most of the time.
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It's for making music. And a woman's reproductive system is for making babies. And we know things
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by what they are for. And everything is for something. And that is a fact that we forget
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in the modern world. We get very philosophically confused, which is why we ignore what things are
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for. And we use all sorts of things for things that they're not for at all. A very relevant topic
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during Pride Month. But we need to get back to the old sturdy way of understanding things. Because
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without that old sturdy way of understanding things, the world doesn't make any sense. And we don't
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know what we're doing. And we don't know what we are for. And we don't know what life is for. We
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don't know what political communities are for. And we suffer existential ennui. And we get depressed.
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And we overdose on drugs and kill ourselves. If taken to its logical conclusion, that's how dark it
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gets. We need to get back to asking, what are things for? We need to remember, everything is for
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something. Nothing is for nothing. Things are known by what they are for. And we should use those things
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for what they are for. So when we ask ourselves, what is the country for? The libs would say,
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it's whatever we want it to be. And it doesn't have to be for anything. It's just whatever we
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want. There's not even any such thing as a country, man. But I would say, no, a country is for the
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common good of its citizens. Okay. Well, if you have the lib view, you understand how we get open
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borders and knocking down our history and crime on our streets and letting the criminals out of
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prison. And you understand, if you don't have a sense of what the country is for, you see how you
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get there. If you know what the country is for, the common good of the citizens, all of a sudden,
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all the other political issues fall into place. I know there are a lot of people in politics who say,
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I only want to focus on action. I don't want to focus on philosophy. I don't want to focus on
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principles. I don't want to focus on this abstract stuff. But if you get, if you go wrong in the
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first principles, you're going to go wrong in myriad other ways all the way down the line.
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If we cannot understand, if the former first lady of the United States, first lady,
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can't understand that the reproductive system is for reproduction, that there's at least a connection
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between the two, then we are suffering from a serious crisis of ignorance. We are suffering
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from a serious political crisis. We need to get right or we're going to go wrong in everything
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I got bad news for all the short kings out there. Tinder is implementing a height filter. Yes.
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I'm sorry. I'm sorry, fellas. Well, I actually have some good news. I think there's a silver lining
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here. It's being reported. I happily have never been on Tinder. I'm not saying that to brag. I'm
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very happy about it. But sweet little Elise and I, you know, we were dating before dating apps really
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became a thing. So I never had to deal with them. Tinder is now making it tougher for all the
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all the Napoleons of the world out there because they're going to let users set height preferences.
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Now, right now, it's only Tinder gold and premium subscribers. People pay for Tinder. That's
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interesting. It's the higher tiers that can access this feature. And it's more a preference,
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according to the company, than a hard filter. But still, it's going to whittle down the pool.
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So should the short kings despair? You're not going to be able to even have the opportunity
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to demonstrate your riz on a Tinder chat because the women are just going to filter you out in the
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first place. No. Short kings, have no fear. Stay strong. According to the CDC, just 14.5% of men
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are at least six feet tall. What's the average height? The average height is like 5'9 or something
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like that. 5'8, 5'9. So it's not, it's only 14.5% of men who are six feet tall. Now, I looked not only
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at the CDC, but the FDC, which is something that Mr. Davies turned me on to. It's called the female
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delusion calculator. And you can set all these parameters for like, I want a guy who's six foot
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three and makes $150,000 a year and does this and went to a top school and blah, blah, whatever,
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you know, and you set it and you figure out just what tiny percentage of the population actually
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matches all these women's delusional criteria. So according to the CDC, just 14.5% of men are six
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feet tall. According to the FDC, under 11.5% of men are six feet tall when you add in the filters
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that they have to be between the ages of 20 and 40 and unmarried. This is really the unmarried thing
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I think that does it. So what does that mean for the guys who are under whatever, 6'1 or whatever
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the women are going to set as their filters? What does that mean for those fellas on Tinder? It means
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you're going to go through a little bumpy road, but reality will set in eventually because
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even if the women on these apps are delusional about their dating prospects, reality gets the final
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say. Reality always gets the final say. This is the great conservative consolation. Reality
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reasserts itself in the end. So you might, you're going to get fewer matches if Tinder implements
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this policy. It's probably better not to meet your future spouse on Tinder. I understand that's
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just how people date today. So I'm not exactly knocking it. I've seen marriages come out of
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Tinder. I get it. But maybe this is an opportunity to go out there, try to meet, try to meet people
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the old fashioned way. We got a lot of old fashioned stuff coming back. Don't we? Pride month is out
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in clothing. You get more classic cuts of clothing or back in. The gods of the copy book headings are
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returning. Okay. And so maybe you could meet people the old fashioned way, but in any case, hold strong
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short kings, you will, you'll get your Tinder matches again soon enough. Now, speaking of making
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children, speaking, speaking of the next generation, Bobby Kennedy Jr. has just made good on a promise
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that he made to me personally. When I was interviewing him at the white house a month ago, six weeks ago,
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something like that. I asked secretary Kennedy, I said, Hey, I know we're not supposed to talk about
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this or whatever, but, uh, is anything going to change about vaccine policy on your watch? You've
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been very anti-vaccine for much of your public career. Now you're in government, the government's
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super pro vaccine. You've got a lot of political forces. Are you going to change anything? And his
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exact words to me were, everything's going to change. Everything's going to change. Then we waited,
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we waited, nothing really changed. Well, now secretary Kennedy has made good on that promise.
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Hi, everybody. I'm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., your HHS secretary. And I'm here today with NIH Director
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty McCary. I couldn't be more pleased to announce
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that as of today, the COVID vaccine for healthy children and healthy pregnant women has been
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removed from the CDC recommended immunization schedule. Last year, the Biden administration
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urged healthy children to get yet another COVID shot despite the lack of any clinical data
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to support the repeat booster strategy in children. That ends today. It's common sense and it's good
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science. There's no evidence healthy kids need it today. And most countries have stopped recommending
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it for children. We're now one step closer to realizing President Trump's promise to make America
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healthy again. This is a great sign. It was always completely insane to give this untested shot,
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this barely tested shot to pregnant women and little kids. It was completely insane. It was always
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contrary to any scientific fact that we knew about COVID. But the reason this is a great sign politically
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is, it shows that Kennedy is really willing to take on entrenched interests. It was unclear, you know,
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people, they run on one thing, they have a whole public life saying one thing, but the minute they
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get into power, and it's not even all their fault, the minute that they see the great forces that they're
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up against, usually they change their tune. Usually they say, look, I got to kind of go along to get
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along if I'm going to get anything done here. Kennedy is signaling, no, I am going to take on
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one of the toughest entrenched interests in Washington, the pharmaceutical industry on one
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Because this is impressive stuff. You wouldn't, even I was skeptical that we would see Bobby Kennedy
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It's just putting the substantive matter of the vaccines aside for a second. It's the political
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courage it takes to actually make good on a thing you've been promising and campaigning on for years.
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That is very impressive. Now, speaking of things that came from Wuhan, Secretary of State Marco
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio just tweeted out, the U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students,
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including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.
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This is probably long overdue. There are a lot of Chinese students at U.S. universities,
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especially the top universities, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford. There's a lot of Chinese
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students, a lot of foreign students generally. What did Harvard say in their new class? It's
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something like 31% foreign students. But a lot of them are Chinese, and we have a hostile relationship
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with the Chinese at the moment, a largely hostile one. And we know that the Chinese have a lot of
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spies in the United States, and this is a really easy way to get spies in. I was speaking with a
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spy on the Michael Ann series, Jack Barsky, former Soviet spy who lived in the United States for many
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years, many decades, actually. And I said, has spying changed much from when you were a spy in the Cold
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War to today? And he said, oh yeah, it's changed a lot. You don't really need to have these
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illegal alien spies like we used to because you can just send kids to the universities.
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Now they'll just go to Harvard or something like that. So Rubio is saying, all right,
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we're going to revoke these visas for good reason because it's a national security matter.
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Part of a broader strategy to, one, clamp down on foreign countries preying on our country and
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taking advantage of us. Two, clamping down on foreigners being in our country, period,
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because we have massive cultural problems caused by an influx of foreigners. And three,
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clamping down on the universities is a particularly weak point for our political order because it's
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where radical ideologies come in. It's where radical sexual behaviors come in and racial hostilities
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crop up and apparently where spies come to. So it's all really smart stuff. To play devil's advocate
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here. The argument against rescinding the visas is that foreign students going to our elite
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universities is one way that America maintains cultural hegemony around the world because of
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our soft power. We bring in the top students from all around the world. We educate them at our
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most elite institutions. Then we send them out to do what we taught them to do. And this is a great
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way that America, as the global empire, can flex its muscle without actually having to send the
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Praetorian guard to enforce its policies all around the world. I get that idea in theory.
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I get the argument even of the globalists in theory, which is that America has interests.
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We want to enforce them all around the world. The problem is what we are actually teaching these
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people, the supposed interests that we are actually defending, no longer serve the United States.
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Maybe they used to, they don't today. Because what are these foreigners being taught when they come
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to Harvard? They're being taught that America's terrible. They're being taught that it was founded
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by white men and evil racists and terrible sexists and phobes of all sorts. They're being taught that
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America's empire should be dismantled. They're being taught that America owes something to everyone
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around the world. They're being taught things that are contrary to American power. Well, the globalists
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who get America entangled in everything around the world, it'd be one thing if that were serving
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America's interests. But all it ever seems to do is bleed us dry, throw open our borders, undermine
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our country, undermine the common good. That's the problem. It's kind of like, I was explaining this
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once to a member of my family about how, I was talking about religion and politics. And this
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member of my family is a little more secular, all the rest. And he said, well, Michael, the way you're
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talking about Christianity and politics, you sound like the Taliban. I said, no, no, no, I'm not like
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the Taliban. The Taliban are Muslims. In other words, the problem with the Taliban is not that they
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believe that there's a connection between morality and religion and politics. The problem with the
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Taliban is they have the wrong morality and religion. Same thing here. The problem with the
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globalists is not that they think that America should flex its muscles all around the world.
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Donald Trump wants to annex Greenland and Canada and Panama again. Okay. So it's not that America has
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interests around the globe and we're going to assert our interests. The problem with the globalists is
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the kind of stuff they want to implement. That's the problem. And so when Rubio says, all right,
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we're done with this. This isn't working for us. I think he's totally right. Speaking of the Trump
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administration and kids, Speaker Mike Johnson, this story is more than a few days old, but it's really
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important to drive home because you're going to see a lot of stupid talking points from the left in
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the coming days about how Trump wants to cut health care for children and for poor people and he's
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cutting Medicaid, whatever. Here is Mike Johnson on what he's discovered about Medicaid.
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I've said the same. We are not cutting Medicaid in this package. There's a lot of misinformation out
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there about this, Jake. The numbers of Americans who are affected are those that are entwined in our
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work to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse. And what do I mean by that? You got more than 1.4
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million illegal aliens on Medicaid. Medicaid is not intended for non-U.S. citizens. It's intended
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for the most vulnerable populations of Americans, which is pregnant women and young single mothers,
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the disabled, the elderly. They are protected in what we're doing because we're preserving the
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resources for those who need it most. You're talking about 4.8 million able-bodied workers,
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young men, for example, who are on Medicaid and not working. They are choosing not to
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work when they can. That is called fraud. They are cheating the system. When you root out those
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kinds of abuses, you save the resources that are so desperately needed by the people who
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deserve it and need it most. That's what we're doing. 1.4 million illegal aliens on Medicaid,
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a program that is designed only for American citizens and specifically only the most vulnerable
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American citizens. That's a problem. So when you say, well, the new Trump bill might end up cutting
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healthcare for all these people. Hold on. It's not cutting healthcare from anyone. It is correcting
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the way that laws are being enforced to how they're supposed to be enforced. It is correcting a wrong
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that currently exists in this country. Namely, that the government is violating the law by offering
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certain resources to people who explicitly are not supposed to have them.
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But this shows you another deeper pernicious problem with illegal immigration. Namely,
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we're not going to let people die on the streets. Far from. We're not going to let people die on the
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streets. We're going to do our best not to let people die on the streets. And we're going to,
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we're going to, we're not going to let people go hungry. We're not going to let people go without
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clothes. We're not going to. So when, when you have millions and millions of foreign peasants
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welcomed into this country, contrary to the law by Democrats, even if it's against the law,
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we're going to give them healthcare and we're going to give that, we're going to give them a
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lot of great stuff. And you want to do it too. And we all, at some level, even though we know it's
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wrong in principle, at a, at a human level and at the level of charity, we're a very charitable
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country. We're going to do that. So the way to avoid that, the way to avoid further corrupting the
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law and our political order is not to break the law in the first place, not to throw open our
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borders and invite foreign criminals into our country in the first place as the Democrats have
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done. That's the issue. The, the other point on illegal immigration that I want to remind people
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of right now so that you're not complaining in two months or six months or a year is, I want to
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remind you and the Republicans need to do a better job of reminding people this. Everything in life
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has a cost. I think there's some people out there, even on the right, who believe that when we deport
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11 million illegal aliens, that's just going to make things uniformly better. That's going to make
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things so much better. And there's going to be all upside and no downside. That is not true.
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Everything in life comes with a cost. So we are now quite conscious of the costs of illegal
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immigration, namely American citizens, young girls getting raped and murdered left and right,
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and the drugs and the fentanyl killing 75,000 people a year, and the cartels getting their clutches
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into America and the press two for English and all the terrible stuff that's come along with mass
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migration. We know that, but there have been benefits too. That's, and, and certainly benefits
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to certain groups and elites, but, but also benefits to people generally. By bringing in millions and
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millions of illegal aliens, we have imported a class of slave to, at the very least, indentured labor
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that, that we don't have to pay a lot of money to. So that brings costs down. Costs of things like
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house cleaning, getting your lawn mowed, getting your grapes picked. It reduces labor costs. That
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really happened. You could say, well, that's bad. We're just importing a bunch of quasi-slave labor.
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Yeah, that's what they're doing. But people are enjoying those lower costs. When you deport 11
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million people, your costs are going to go up. That's true. One of the downsides of, of importing
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that cheap labor market is it's reduced wages for blue collar workers in America. That's true.
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True. But other people have benefited from the prices going down because the labor has decreased.
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Prices are going to go up. There is always a cost to everything. There is going to be some kind of
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balance. Okay. And so we need to be aware of that going in because the present situation is
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unsustainable. Part of the reason we've imported millions and millions of people is because Americans
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aren't having babies anymore. But one of the reasons Americans aren't having babies anymore
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is because we're importing millions and millions of people. And that's tightened up the labor market
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and it's made our streets less safe. And it's, it's, it's made housing more expensive and it's
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discouraged people from having kids. But also one of the reasons that we have mass migration in the
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first place is because people aren't having kids because they're using condoms and not getting
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married and engaging in selfish behaviors that are unrelated to mass migration and everything in
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life has a cost. That's what we have to remember. Because one thing I fear is that when the costs of
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deportations kick in, if the deportations ever really ramp up, when the costs kick in, people are going to
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get cold feet and they're going to want to reverse it. Know what you're getting going into it.
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Everything in life has a cost. And right now it seems to me the costs of mass migration are simply
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too high. I think we're going to lose our country. So increasing the cost of grapes and getting your
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lawn mowed and your house cleaned, I think is a worthwhile trade-off for having a country, having a
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coherent country that is oriented toward the common good, that makes sense, that is a real people.
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I think it's worth it. But don't think Trump is going to go in and wave a magic wand. You don't
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wave a magic wand. We didn't elect him to wave a magic wand. We elected him to do hard things that
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other people are too cowardly and weak to do. But you got to let him do it. You got to be aware of
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Okay. My favorite comment yesterday is from Luisa Johanna Petruska, 3654, who says,
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I knew with a name like that, I knew this would be the first line. As a Hungarian,
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I love that you asked Orban those questions. I'm glad our small nation is getting so much
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recognition lately. Would have loved to meet you. Maybe someday, big fan. Oh, thank you very much.
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It's very kind. I was really touched, actually, by how many listeners to the show there are in
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Hungary and Europe more broadly. That was great. I sometimes, even though I know the show has a
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global reach, I sometimes just think of it as it's, you know, it's mostly Americans, but there
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are a lot of people from all over Europe who listen. So I appreciate that. And I definitely
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appreciate Hungary. You know, Orban, it's a very serious man. That's a very thoughtful man
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who has led the way on a lot of these questions, especially migration. A lot of people don't know
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this. Hungary has effectively zero migration. Not zero illegal immigration, zero migration, period.
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And Hungary is a coherent country where, I was saying this to a colleague of mine,
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I could walk around Budapest at three o'clock in the morning in my boxer shorts with five gold
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Rolexes on each wrist. No one would look sideways at me, okay? That is a safe place. It's a great place
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to be. It's a flourishing community, given that it is a small country. Doesn't mean there aren't
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problems there, problems in all these countries, but it's very impressive. And we could learn a
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lesson or two from Hungary, no question about it. Now, speaking of the Trump administration taking
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on entrenched interests, speaking of Harvard, we were talking about Harvard a little bit earlier,
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President Trump is ramping up his war on Harvard University.
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And Harvard has to understand, the last thing I want to do is hurt them. They're hurting themselves.
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They're fighting. You know, Colombia has been really, and they were very, very bad what they've
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done. They're very anti-Semitic and lots of other things. But they're working with us on finding a
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solution. And, you know, they're taking off that hot seat. But Harvard wants to fight. They want to show
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how smart they are. And they're getting their ass kicked. Thank you very much, everybody.
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Oh, even that line. I love how he opens it. He says, look, I'm not trying to hurt Harvard.
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I'm not being vindictive or something like that. I'm just, I'm saying, help me help you.
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But Harvard won't do it. They want to show everyone how smart they are. And they're getting their
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A-double-S kicked. Okay. Good night, everybody. That was it. That was the sign-off from the stand-up
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bit. That was the sign-off from the late night show. That is Trump being a showbiz professional
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to the way he ended that little set all the way back to casting his perfect enemy, Harvard University.
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Trump is so good, not only at doing the show, but at casting the show. He's very good at casting.
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And he casts as the villain in this little show, Harvard. What a perfect enemy for this moment.
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A populist moment where the GOP has become the party of the middle class and the working class.
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That wasn't true in my lifetime all the time. When I was a kid, the Republicans were the party of rich
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Uncle Pennybags. Democrats were the party of the working man. That has flipped. Now, Republicans are
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the party of your average Joe. And so what does that mean? Your perfect enemy is going to be Harvard.
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And Trump's going to remind you of why Harvard's the perfect enemy, because they're going to show
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everyone how smart they are. Oh, they think they're smarter than you. They think they're better than
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you. Well, guess what? We're kicking their derriere. That's what we're doing. So right. So right. And
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Harvard is a good enemy because Harvard legitimately produces
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many, if not most of the elite Democrat politicians, business leaders, deep state
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apparatchik, NGO leaders, professors. Harvard produces some of the top powerful leftists in
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the country. So if you have this power center just churning out powerful leftists and you're a
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conservative politician, you got to go after them. And there are plenty of good justifications for going
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after them. Trump mentioned the anti-Semitism, the fact that Harvard permitted Jewish students to
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be harassed by frothing, keffia-wearing Muslims. But there are plenty of people who don't care about
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Israel, don't care about the Jews, don't care. It's just not a top issue for them at all. And frankly, I don't
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even think that's the chief reason to go after Harvard. Harvard also, Harvard has not only expressed a
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hatred of Jews, but also a hatred of white people, men, Christians, America, the truth, God, reason,
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you know, the list goes on and on. And Harvard has been effective at producing these leftists.
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So it makes perfect sense to go after Harvard and to use any excuse you can to do it. Even when those
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excuses are legitimately good justification. Perfect casting, perfect casting for the midterms and
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perfect casting for 2028 too. Hey guys, who do you want to vote for? Trump or Harvard?
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Hey, average Joe, whose side are you on? Do you want to be on the side of the Harvard faculty lounge
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that sneers and looks down at you all the time, calls you deplorable and irredeemable? Or of Trump,
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that guy who says that you're great and wants to help you and wants you to be rich and successful
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and have a good family? Which one? Who do you think? Even Bill Maher, who is still a lib. I know
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there are many conservatives who say, you know, Bill Maher is really on our side now. I don't
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really view it that way, but he's an interesting guy and he's still a lib and he's a decent bellwether
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for a certain kind of voter. And Bill Maher says, yeah, Trump's Harvard policy is great.
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Trump has declared full-scale war on Harvard. And like so many things he does,
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there's a kernel of a good idea there. I mean, I've been on Harvard long before he was.
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No. It's because Harvard is a factory in a lot of ways that produces smirking faces. Okay.
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Harvard is an a-hole factory in a lot of ways that produces smirking F faces.
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Show me the lie. Show me. Fact check. 10,000% true. And Bill Maher, you know, I thought Bill
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Maher was Jewish. I don't know why I thought that. Maybe because he talks kind of like a New Yorker,
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L.A. He's an atheist. He's kind of a lib. I don't know why, but apparently he was raised Catholic.
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He might have a little bit of ethnic Jewish ancestry, but I don't know. Apparently he was
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Catholic. Now he's an atheist. And he's definitely a big lib and then kind of a libertarian.
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And he's a, but so even he, even a guy who's pretty different from Trump in most ways, he says,
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man, I support that Trump policy. Bill Maher is not the only one saying it. Gavin Newsom,
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the fact that Gavin Newsom launched that podcast and the first guests he invites on are people
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very close to Trump and tries to make buddies with them and tries to appeal to them.
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Shows you Gavin Newsom's thinking, shoot, man, I should be more like Trump.
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I should get on board with Trump. Some of Trump's policies are probably pretty smart.
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Trump has attacked Newsom personally many times. He says, shoot, I got to be more like Trump. You
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know why? You know why? Because Trump won the popular vote. And Democrats got so shook by that.
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They said, yikes, man, we got it. Trump is mainstream. Mass deportations, mainstream.
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Kicking out Chinese university students, mainstream. Mainstream position, majority position.
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Attacking Harvard university, mainstream. So what are they going to do? Are the Democrats going to
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follow the Bill Maher route, the, the Gavin Newsom route and try to be more like Trump? Or are they
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going to, are they going to double down on being the thing that they have even often admitted is one
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of their big weaknesses, namely appealing to the Harvard faculty lounge? Trump has set this trap for
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them. And most of them, as far as I can tell, they're going with Harvard. Okay, good luck.
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Fine by me. Even CNN is admitting that the people hate Democrats.
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This is how Americans sort of see the parties, which party is better described as the party with
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strong leaders. Look at this. Wow. 16% of Americans say Democrats, 40% say that of the Republican
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party. Now, overall, no party's doing great. Lots of Americans say neither of these qualities apply to
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either party. But look at how much worse off the Democrats are. A party that gets things done.
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Only 19% of Americans say that about the Democrats. 36% say it about the Republicans. In fact,
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the only place that the Democrats are numerically head, party of the middle class. This is basically
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a tie, though. Yeah. 34% say that of Democrats. 32% say that of Republicans. You see red here
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is a place that Donald Trump improved his performance from 16 to 20 to 24. Now, he lost some of these
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counties. He didn't win all of them. But you see how much more red there is than blue.
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Now, even, it's funny, even as CNN is admitting that the Democrats are just totally cooked,
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even there, there's a little bit of dishonesty. Because you see in the map,
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the basic color of the map is a kind of a blue. But it's not really showing. This is based on the
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same kind of triple trend data that was in that New York Times report. And so, the guy is saying,
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he's like, look, most of this is red. There's a ton of red. There's very little blue.
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But even still, CNN is trying to suggest that most of the country or half the country is blue. But
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that doesn't really show that. Where the enthusiasm is, where the counties are moving,
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even if the counties didn't officially go one way or the other in any discrete election,
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the momentum of the country is almost entirely for the Republicans.
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It's the old Trump tweet, despite the constant negative press, go fefe, despite all the headlines
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you're saying, Trump's Iran policy, Ukraine policy, immigration policy, people, blah, blah, blah.
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Yeah. Nah, man. The public opinion polls show, the people are still broadly on Trump's side.
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And basically, no one is on the Democrat side. And what are the Democrats doing about this? This
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is going to be my little tease. This will be my tease into Tee Hee Hee Tuesday, because this is
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pretty hilarious. There's a big Democrat activist, a woman, Olivia Juliana, who is saying, look, we need
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to appeal to men. We lost, like, all the men. We lost all these different races of men. This is bad.
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And we've got to appeal to men. And the way we're going to appeal to men is by recognizing that most guys
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are pro-abortion, pro-LGBT, and pro-BLM. Can I get a fact check on that, fellas? Okay, great. And
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that's your strategy? Good. Appeal to the Harvard Faculty Lounge and gay black baby killers. Say that
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that is the only good kind of man and all the... Do that, please. Be my guest. See you at the midterms.
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