Ep. 1751 - ＂They Spit, We Hit＂： Trump Sends Marines to LA Riots
Summary
Trump is on the side of the National Guard and the Marines in Los Angeles and Gavin Newsom and the Democrats stand with the Mexican flag-waving marauders and Vice President J.D. Vance is memeing a deportation threat at one of the most annoying accounts on Twitter.
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now at dailywire.com slash gift with code DAD40. President Trump is sending not only the National
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Guard, but also the Marines into Los Angeles. Gavin Newsom and the Democrats stand with the Mexican
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flag-waving marauders. And Vice President J.D. Vance is memeing a deportation threat at one of the most
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annoying accounts on Twitter. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Investment Council. Unbelievable stuff coming out of L.A. Unbelievably good. Good as a matter of
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justice. Yes. Really, really good politics. Really brilliant politics. Trump could not have
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possibly scripted this better. And he is scripting it in a way. The funny thing is, Democrats are
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accusing Trump of orchestrating the response to the L.A. deportation riots and even the deportation
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raids to begin with in such a way that it's going to make Republicans look really good and Democrats
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look really bad. And they're actually kind of right about that. That's true. However, the way he's
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doing that is just by doing his job and by doing what the American people elected him to do. But it
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is true that in doing that, it's making him look really good and it's making the Democrats look
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really, really bad. Trump is not only mobilizing the National Guard. Gavin Newsom, governor of California,
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was furious about this. He said, we're going to sue over this. You can't take over the National
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Guard. I get to control the National Guard. Trump is also now activating 700 U.S. Marines
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to protect federal buildings. Don't forget, the federal government owns property in the state
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of California. The federal government has a direct interest in protecting that property and putting
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down the riots. It has an indirect interest, too, because it's the biggest government in the
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country. It's the ultimate, highest government. But also, it's got a direct interest. There's federal
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property there that needs to be protected, and Trump's going to send in the Marines.
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And Newsom is suing over that, too. So you've got the situation where Newsom and the Democrats,
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Newsom, who was trying to make this moderate pivot, Newsom, who's trying to launch his 2028
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presidential campaign, ends up siding with the Mexican flag waivers and the Kefia wearers and the
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looters and the arsonists and the terrorists. And Trump is on the side of the American flag and the
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National Guard and innocent civilians and the U.S. Marines. And it just looks horrible,
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horrible for the Democrats. And Trump's pushing it further. Because what the Democrats are banking
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on is that Trump is going to be too chicken to actually do something to stop the riots.
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What the Democrats are banking on is that if Trump tries to stop the riots, then the violence could
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escalate or it could look like he's suppressing dissent, and that's going to backfire on Trump.
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That's not going to happen. That is not going to happen. And Trump knows it. Trump knows that
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most people in the country are on the side of the innocent people, the civilians, the American
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citizens over the mask wearing, all cops are bad, chanting, Kefia wearing, Mexican flag waving,
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looting terrorists, rioters and miscreants, all of them. Trump knows that. So when he gets these
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threats from the Democrats, what does he do? He comes out, he says, hey, just so you know,
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if you guys keep it up, if you attack our brave National Guardsmen, we're going to fight back.
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And the phrase he's using is, if they spit, we will hit. Because these leftists in the streets
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are spitting on the National Guard, and the National Guard is just supposed to take it.
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And Trump says, no, no, no, I am ordering you as the president. If they do that,
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punch them in their fat, stupid faces. Teach them a lesson that will be edifying for them,
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that will be educational, and that will play very well politically. The exact line,
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if they spit, we will hit. This is a statement from the president of the United States concerning
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the catastrophic Gavin News scum inspired riots going on in Los Angeles. The insurrectionists have
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a tendency to spit in the face of the National Guardsmen slash women and others. These patriots
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are told to accept this. It's just the way life runs, but not in the Trump administration. All
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quotes, all caps rather, if they spit, we will hit. And I promise you they will be hit harder than they
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have ever been hit before. Such disrespect will not be tolerated. This is the right thing to do. As I
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said at the top, this is the right thing to do as a matter of justice. This is actually good for the
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spitters and the marauders and the rioters because it's going to teach them a lesson and they need
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to learn a lesson. They've been very poorly educated up until now. But politically, this is
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brilliant. This is brilliant. Someone made the point, and I don't remember which account it was,
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made the point on Twitter yesterday. I'm sorry that I don't remember because it was a good point.
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You know, the libs have this mythology of the protests of the 60s. Specifically, think about
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Kent State. You remember the student protesters, four of them killed by the National Guard.
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Neil Young wrote that song about it. Four dead in Ohio. Ten soldiers and wah, wah, wah. And the idea
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was that the American public turned against the government, the National Guard, and the establishment,
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the conservatives, because they struck down the four student protesters at Kent State in Ohio.
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But this account, the name of which I forget, pointed out yesterday, the American public was
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so outraged by the National Guard killing those students at Kent State that Richard Nixon went on
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to win 49 states. They were so outraged that they were completely on the side of the National Guard.
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The liberal mythology of people having a groundswell of popular support for these rioters, for these anarchists,
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for in the 60s, it would have been students for a democratic society or the Weather Underground.
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Today, it would be Antifa or some of these left-wing anarchist cells.
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In this battle going on in Los Angeles, the people are on the side of the National Guard
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and they're on the side of the Marines and they're on the side of America over Mexico
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and citizens over illegals and Trump over Newsom.
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So there's actually no political risk here really for Trump,
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Trump who has clarity and courage in the situation.
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When you really look through it, there's no political risk.
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That is not only the right thing to do, that is a complete political winner.
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The public despises these lunatics burning down L.A. right now.
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Furthermore, Trump has said that masks are no longer to be tolerated at these protests.
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because it also helped them during that summer of love of George Floyd.
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The year of our Floyd, when the leftists were burning down the city the last time.
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We got an incompetent governor, Newsom, mayor, who were as usual, very slow.
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Federal permitting is complete, unable to handle the task.
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These radical left protests by instigators and paid troublemakers will not be tolerated.
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From now on, masks will not be allowed to be worn at protests.
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This is a little more subtle, but it's another point to show that Trump,
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I think Trump, when he says things like, we want Greenland, we want Canada,
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a more classical kind of right-wingedism than libertarianism,
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which really begins as a movement out of the left.
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So here again, you see Trump saying, no, no, no.
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I don't want to hear any sob stories about the civil rights of the illegal alien,
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cartel-associating, keffia-wearing, Mexican flag-waving protesters,
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I don't want to hear about your civil rights and your constitutional rights.
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You're going to act like a normal, civilized person.
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Maxine Waters comes out, and she is trying, I think, quite implausibly at this point, to
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advance the line that there is no violence at the demonstrations currently burning down
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Well, I was surprised at the way that the police chief was describing all of this.
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There had been no violence where anybody that was protesting hit anybody, shot anybody,
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And so, he doesn't know what to do, probably, because this is a sanctuary city, and the
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All that he's got to do is call to work with the governor.
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The governor was not even called when he sent in the National Guard.
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I just want to point out, and I'm sure you know this, Congresswoman, there has been some
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Some police officers were assaulted, and some vehicles were damaged in the process.
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So, there has been some violence out there, right?
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Well, the thing about it is, you may have people, one or two or a few people, who will
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If Maxine Waters did not exist, we would have to invent her.
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She's doing a phoner with CNN, and CNN is playing images from the riots while she's on.
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The rioters, the leftists attacking cops, and they're lighting cars on fire, and they're
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And there's Wolf Blitzer, who is trying to defend the Democrat narrative here, but who's
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got, he doesn't want to look like a complete fool.
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So, he goes, uh, well, I mean, you know, like we said, there's a little bit of violence,
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It looks like, you know, you've got EVs exploding throughout Los Angeles.
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At least someone kind of keyed them, didn't they?
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And, uh, oh, yeah, well, maybe one or two people, one or two people.
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This has been going on for like four or five days now.
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She's just a little slower to the game, I guess.
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So, the initial line from basically all of the Democrats was, there's no violence, and
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And they have a deeper problem, the left, because Maxine Waters, good example of this,
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Maxine Waters encouraged violence against Republicans during the first Trump administration.
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Maxine Waters came out there, told her supporters, when you see Republicans in public, you need
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You need to tell them they're not welcome here.
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I mean, she was calling for her supporters to assault Republicans in public and members
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So, Maxine Waters can't then come out and say, well, I think we should be totally peaceful
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Hillary Clinton, during the first Trump admin, said, you can't be civil with Republicans.
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Line after line, you had Democrats calling for differing degrees of violence.
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So, it's not just that, ah, darn, accidentally a few bad apples are messing up our left-wing
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Going back to the origin of the term left in politics in the French Revolution, it's violent.
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If you go all the way back to the origin of that term, it chops off the head of Queen Marie
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Antoinette because it takes some broken eggs to make an omelet.
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Here's the LAPD police chief explaining how the violence not only exists, but is escalating.
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As far as people are worried about the violence that we're seeing, this violence that I've
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It's escalated now since the beginning of this incident.
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What we've seen subsequent to that is getting increasingly worse and more violent.
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Tonight, we had individuals out there shooting commercial-grade fireworks at our officers.
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And by the way, the left does this regularly, too.
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In fact, you might recall when I was at the University of Pittsburgh a year or two ago,
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Back before the conservatives had just completely won on that issue,
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after the liberals thought they had completely won on that issue,
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And a couple of these anarchist leftist Antifa members showed up,
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And that's what the left is doing in L.A. right now.
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We don't need to figure out what's causing this.
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This is just how the left mobilizes in the streets,
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which is why it is so irresponsible that you have not just fringe lunatics,
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He's the Democrat senator from Connecticut, going on television, going on MSNBC,
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As these riots are going on, as these violent demonstrations are going on,
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he says Democrats need to be out in the streets.
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I mean, my first message is to keep it peaceful.
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I mean, obviously, this is a moment where we have to be on the streets all over the country
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to protest what's happening to our immigrant community,
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but more broadly, to protest what's happening to our democracy.
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This is the most corrupt administration in the history of the country,
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and we are going to rise to this moment by being out there on the streets.
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But, you know, ultimately, I think the country sees what Donald Trump is trying to do here.
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Notice the contradiction within the same breath.
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It says we need to be peaceful and we need to be out in the streets.
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They certainly don't go together with the left,
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which gets violent basically every time it takes to the streets.
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You notice Republicans don't take to the streets.
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Right now, we have basically unified government.
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We have the president who was elected with the Electoral College and the popular vote.
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We have the Senate by a little more of a cushion.
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Because taking to the streets is an intrinsically violent or at least threatening action.
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When you take to the streets, you block traffic, for instance.
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And they do it with all kinds of flimsy justifications.
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Taking to the streets, bringing out unruly mobs, is an intrinsically violent action.
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Because the purpose of it is to threaten and intimidate.
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And rather than accept the fact that they lost the election and try again next time.
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When they say, we need to be peaceful, but we need to take to the streets.
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They're saying, we need to be peaceful, and we need to be violent.
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They'll pay some lip service to, don't be violent, don't be violent.
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What they are encouraging their people to do is to get violent.
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Because they think that they're going to cow President Trump into backing down.
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But Trump, because he's a tough guy and he's a New Yorker,
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but also because he is an astute politician, it appears he is not going to back down.
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Not only, I think, because it's the right thing to do,
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but because he knows that he's going to get the political win here.
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The reason the Dems are taking to the streets is because they lost.
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Because people don't like them, and they don't like what they're doing.
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The wonderful defenders of the oppressed and the beleaguered,
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you know, the great diverse cultural enrichers and all the rest of it.
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They've decided that one way they're going to stand up for the poor immigrant communities
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Don't seem like the most orderly civic nationalists.
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And is that a bread store they're going into to steal food for their families?
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I actually can't quite tell exactly what they're looting.
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But I don't think this is for the cause of justice.
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It's a revolutionary ideology that seeks to upend the civil order.
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I mean that at the level of fundamental ideology.
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I think it seeks to oppose God and the transcendent moral order and displace authority all the way down to the family.
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You know, it's kind of F you dad is what leftism comes down to.
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The notion that the individual personal will is not accountable to anybody, anything, and not even accountable to reason.
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And we're going to take the sneakers and we're going to burn down the city.
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We're going to light the cop car on fire and we're going to spit in the face of the cops and nobody's going to tell us boo.
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And the longer this goes on, I think the worse it's going to look for Democrats.
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Moving away from what's going on in Los Angeles, but just one last point on the broader immigration issue.
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I saw the most ridiculous defense of the Mexican flag-waving marauders yesterday.
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It says, oh, this was in response to a post that I made, actually, because I said, you know, look, other immigrant groups have had problems and everything, but they're not currently burning down any major American cities.
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And this guy says, the Irish literally rioted against the Civil War draft in 1863 and lynched black Americans in New York.
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That's how he's got to go back to 1863 to find a counterexample.
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Greek laborers in the West clashed violently with mining companies.
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He says, every group has a 100 years ago when they were poor, marginalized, and or blamed for society's problems.
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It's time integration and a chance to build institutions.
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But let's follow that point to its logical conclusion.
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How did we fix the problems caused by immigrant groups 100 years ago?
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Plenty of immigrant groups have caused a lot of social problems.
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That might be an argument against immigration as something at the heart of national policy.
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Sempre la confusione delle persone fu mal della città or something.
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The broad gist is always the confusion of peoples is the beginning of evil in the city.
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And he compares it to mixing different foods in your stomach.
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So it, and that's an insight that actually goes back to Aristotle.
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So there are always these problems with immigration.
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But let's just take it in the American context.
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We basically stopped all immigration for like 40 years.
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We, there were all these problems in the late 19th, early 20th century with mass migration,
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And we reduced all migration by about 85% for over 40 years.
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Then we had the Hart-Celler Act in the 60s, which created our present immigration problem,
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instituted the policy of mass migration, gave us the social problems we have now.
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You don't, I don't think Mexicans are intrinsically evil or something like that.
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I don't think they're a defective people or anything like that.
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I don't really care for Mexican food, but I do like a lot of the Hispanic inclinations
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Well, probably if you want to integrate people and you need time to do that, probably we need
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to drastically reduce all migration for like half a century, at least.
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If you, if you want the solution we had in the 20th century, how about we do that?
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I, something tells me these libs on Twitter and elsewhere would, would not go along with it.
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Speaking of Twitter and immigration enforcement, it was a great little saga that went on yesterday.
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It involved the vice president of the United States.
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If you're on, if you're on X, you, you might be familiar with this account.
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And he's, he's this guy, his avatar is of an old stuffy conservative white man.
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He's apparently a young Asian man, but that's the avatar.
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So he basically only ever attacks conservatives and he's in principle criticizing us over our fashion,
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but really it's, he's got this political axe to grind.
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So he injects his left-wing politics into every, everything now, but he's, he's got decent enough
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So anyway, he's really, really grading on a lot of conservatives on Twitter.
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However, he admitted yesterday or the day before that he is an illegal immigrant.
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And someone tweets that, doesn't even tag the guy, just tweets that says,
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JD Vance, I know you're reading this and you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever.
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And the vice president responds with that, that gif of Jack Nicholson saying, like, ha ha, yes, yes, nodding his head along.
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First of all, on the substantive point, I've got a proposal for Democrats.
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It's, I'm willing to offer amnesty and indeed citizenship to all estimated 16 million illegal
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aliens in this country, including MS-13 and Trendy Aragua, if we can deport the catty liberal
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Twitter account, the, the, the men's style guy.
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You get amnesty and citizenship for all of the illegals.
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Just let me deport this one super annoying liberal account.
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That's, putting aside the substantive issue, this response tells you a lot about our vice president.
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JD Vance, and many of you have noticed this, I've noticed this for a while.
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JD Vance is more in tune with young conservatives than any politician in the country, either party, maybe any politician in my lifetime.
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I can't think, I'm speaking specifically about young conservatives.
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He's not super duper very way too online, like some people can get where they're just so far down a rabbit hole, they can't speak to normal people in, in regular life.
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But he's online enough to get the trends of where young conservatives are compared to middle-aged or older conservatives.
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And as you look ahead to 2028, that is going to give him an advantage over a lot of the other Republicans who want that job, including some who work in the Trump administration right now.
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Now, this guy has a fluency to move in different circles, which I think is very important in really any politician, but certainly for conservatives, where the conservatives are so divided up.
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You know, the liberals basically are all progressive.
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There are no more blue dog Democrats as there used to be, the more conservative Democrats.
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For the conservatives, though, you've got the foreign policy realists, you've got the more adventurous types, you've got the libertarians, you've got the traditionalists, you've got the free traders, you've got the tariff guys, you've got the meme-y, edgy, more reactionary types, you've got the stodgy, establishment, quasi-liberal types.
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As has been said before, obscure political monikers are the right-wing version of gender pronouns.
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So, one of Trump's great advantages is, he can speak to basically all those groups.
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He can speak to the establishment, he can speak to the edgy guys, he can speak to the youths, he can speak to the older crowd.
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He's fluent, so he's able to bring together a coalition of people who generally don't agree with each other.
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And I don't want to read too much into one meme on Twitter, but J.D. Vance seems to have that skill.
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And especially for someone in a younger generation, as the electorate ages up a little bit, that's impressive.
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And it was funny, and we should deport the menswear guy.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Time for Thought One,
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It seems ironic because Los Angeles is supposed to be the City of Angels,
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And there is a theme in American history because we were founded largely by Puritans and separatists
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who came over on the Mayflower, which is a great cigar brand, by the way.
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Because of that, there is this theme that moves through American history of the shining city on a hill
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that we're going to create in this new innocent virgin land, a new Jerusalem, a heavenly city.
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We're going to be exempted from the corruption of the world, from concupiscence, from the fall.
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We're just this special, totally exceptional thing.
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And that's a theme that runs down the most Puritanical strains of Protestantism.
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That is not really a theme in high church Protestantism or Eastern Orthodoxy or certainly in Catholicism.
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And the minute you think in this world that you're going to create the City of Angels,
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The minute you think you're going to build heaven on earth, you're going to build hell.
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Now, speaking of vice and virtue, there is an infographic going around social media.
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And it's based on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, oddly enough,
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that shows the annual expenditures that each generation is making on booze.
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And so the post goes, Gen Z and alcohol, a fading bond.
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Annual expenditure on alcoholic beverages in the U.S. by generation.
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Millennials, a little bit more, but basically on par with Gen X, $23.5 billion.
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Now, you might say, okay, well, some of Gen Z is still underage.
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And you've seen this from the Gen Z influencers.
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People will say, well, we're not that interested in alcohol anymore.
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There's a kind of teetotaling or apparent teetotaling that goes on with the Zoomers.
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They're reacting maybe against the booziness of the prior generations.
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But I think what drives the rest of the gap is not people who are being super-duper virtuous.
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I think it's being driven by loners and stoners.
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Gen Z, survey after survey shows, is more isolated.
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They're just the peak thus far of a trend that we've seen for decades.
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Ever since Robert Putnam's bowling alone, that people are less social.
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They're not members of civic associations as they used to be.
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Now they don't even really go and hang out much anymore.
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When they hang out with people, it's often virtual.
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Also, one thing that they do alone is smoke pot.
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And I know, hold on, before we, I'm just going to sidestep the whole debate.
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People are going to say, well, actually, marijuana is way better for you than alcohol.
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And have you ever seen a pothead get into a bar fight?
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I'm not even getting into the debate right now over how marijuana is supposedly better than alcohol.
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But I'm not even getting into that debate right now.
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All I'm pointing out is, it's a very different thing to say.
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We're not having alcohol because we're going to go pray all night.
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And we're not having alcohol because we're going to go get blitzed out of our mind on our bong.
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The place the two issues interact is that alcohol is a social lubricant.
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It makes you more sociable, which is good in moderation because man is a social creature.
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So we are most ourselves when we are living in society.
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Pot, marijuana, ganja, the old Peruvian parsley, it makes you less social.
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In my experience, having taken a few puffs now and again, it makes you less social.
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If you're going to have to pick a vice, pick the social one.
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You see this even beyond civic associations, going to bars or whatever.
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Even the fact that Gen Z is dating at lower rates, that it's just, this has not.
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Here I'm being a true conservative and looking at any information about the world and just saying,
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If you got a problem with alcohol, it's good for you not to have alcohol.
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But as this generational trend, I think this is not a good sign.
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That's what Aristotle tells us to be, you know.
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Just to show you that alcohol is not intrinsically evil.
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Turning water into wine for people to celebrate a wedding.
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A wedding, which is when people are social and they get married and they have kids,
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Take it from an elderly man like me, a millennial.
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Okay, speaking of people like me, there's a tennis player.
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I had not heard of her before yesterday, but now I have heard of her.
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She has apparently won the French Open and she's an American.
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And when she was pontificating about her victory, she said she was proud to represent,
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not America, but to represent people in America who look like her.
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That is, she's proud, not for Americans, but for black people.
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And, you know, obviously there's a lot going on in our country right now with things like
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Um, yeah, I'm sure you guys know, but just to be able to be a, and be a representation
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of that and a representation of, um, I guess people that look like me in America who maybe
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don't feel as supported during this time period.
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And so just being that reflection of hope and, and light for those people.
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And I remember, um, you know, after the election, everything, it was kind of felt down period
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And my mom told me like during Riyadh, just try to win the tournament just to give something
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And so that's what I was thinking about today when holding that and then seeing the flags
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And, you know, I, you know, some people may feel some type of way about being patriotic and
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things like that, but I'm definitely patriotic.
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Like I'm proud to be American and I'm proud to represent, you know, the Americans that
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look like me and, and people who kind of support the things that I support.
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I don't think it means what you think it means.
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She says, no, I mean, people feel a certain way about patriotism and I feel that way, you
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I'm proud to represent Americans who look like me, which means you're not proud to be American.
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Maybe you don't feel any kinship to a Nigerian or something, but you, you apparently only
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feel kinship to the Americans who look like you, which is not patriotism.
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Patriotism is love of country, including your countrymen who don't look like you.
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The left, and we've known this for decades at this point, the left is not patriotic.
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The mainstream leftists say that the country is evil and was founded in sin.
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This is founded in this sin that can never be redeemed because there's no, because they
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So there's no redemption for the original sin of slavery or racism or Native American removal
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It's just, it's just, it's just the country's evil and you need a constant revolution to
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try to, to try to fix that in, in, in futility.
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That the America is a force for evil in the world and we really should cede our land and
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And this is not just a case of, look at this crazy, ungrateful young athlete who I've never
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She, I guess, knows how to swing a tennis racket and that's apparently it.
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She's just saying what she's heard from elite and prominent left winger.
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And unfortunately for the Democrats right now, the, the followers are listening.
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And if the, if the protesters, so-called the rioters were smart, the Mexican ones and the
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anarchist ones and the Keffia wearing ones and all of them, if they were smart, they would
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go out there and while they're looting and robbing and setting things on fire and punching
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They can't, they're allergic to the American flag.
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They don't, they, they feel much more represented by the terrorist pride flag, you know, the rainbow
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with the triangle thing and the BLM and whatever.
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They, they feel much more represented by that or by the Palestine flag or by the anarchist
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flag or by any of these other flags than the American flags.
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Which means you now create the scene where the political divide is clear as day for everyone,
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for the normie on main street in Palookaville, which is you have one side of the country
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that doesn't like the country, that doesn't have the interests of the country at heart.
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And you have another side of the country, the Trump side, which does care about the country
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and which wraps itself in the flag and which puts the interests of the United States first
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Which side is going to be more politically popular?
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And if the Democrats want to keep burning down their own cities, that's fine.
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Every second this goes on, it is losing them votes.
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