Ep. 1759 - Doomers Dismayed, Plan Trusters Vindicated…Again
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After panicans screeched about President Trump betraying MAGA by going to war with Iran, President Trump still has not gone to war. And now that he s made a major announcement about Iran, the doomers and the panicans once again look ridiculous.
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Several days after panicans screeched about President Trump's betraying MAGA by going to
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war with Iran, President Trump still has not gone to war with Iran. And now that he's made
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a major announcement about Iran, the doomers and the panicans once again look ridiculous,
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and the rest of us who remained calm are once again vindicated. How much I hate to say,
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still has not gone to war with Iran. He was asked directly by a reporter, are you going to strike
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Iran? And he laughed. He said, yeah, yeah, I'm going to tell you that. Yeah, yeah. Hey guys,
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he's talking to guys behind him in hard hats. Hey guys, get a load of this one. Hey, yeah. Oh,
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I'm definitely going to tell you. He goes, here's my answer. Maybe I will, and maybe I won't.
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So now we're getting a more formal official answer from the White House, from Press Secretary
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Caroline Levitt, who had this to say on the president's decision.
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Now, regarding the ongoing situation in Iran, I know there has been a lot of speculation amongst
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all of you in the media regarding the president's decision-making and whether or not the United
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States will be directly involved. In light of that news, I have a message directly from
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the president, and I quote, based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations
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that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether
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or not to go within the next two weeks. That's a quote directly from the president for all of
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you today. Okay, I have my formal announcement of what's going to happen. I'll tell you maybe in
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like two weeks, maybe. Again, I love it. I love the uncertainty here. So what he's saying is not that
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Iran is going to get a two-week reprieve. That's how some people on social media were interpreting
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this. That's clearly not what she's saying. What she's saying is the Iranians have two weeks
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at most to give up their nuclear program. That's what Trump is saying. When Trump says total
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surrender, I don't think he's talking about regime change. I don't think he's talking about the
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Ayatollah turning himself in and getting handcuffed. I think he's saying, give up your entire nuclear
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program and we'll let you live and we'll move on. And you have at most two weeks. You had 60 days.
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You didn't make a deal in 60 days. So we killed all of your, sorry, the Israelis with maybe a little
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help from the United States. Killed all of your top guys and your nuclear negotiators. Okay, so now
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we're going to get some new people in there. I'm giving you a little reprieve one more time,
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but it's two weeks at most. So the way that Caroline Levitt has phrased this,
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Trump could strike at any time, but he's still giving the opportunity for negotiation.
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So the question then is, why is Trump urging caution? And there's an article from The Guardian out
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that I think gets to it a little bit. Now, again, you never know. Obviously,
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there are leaks coming out of the White House. You never know to trust the leakers. But
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the headline is, Trump caution on Iran strike linked to doubts over bunker buster bomb,
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officials say. So the United States involvement, beyond just shooting down some missiles that are
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aimed at Israel, beyond just providing broader support, the Americans getting really actively
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involved, would have to do with bunker buster bombs. So there's one big nuclear facility
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that the Israelis don't have the capacity to destroy. So they want the United States to fly
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B-2s or something right over there and just drop bunker busters on the targets. So the problem is,
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according to this reporting, the bunker buster wouldn't get it done. If the so-called bunker buster
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bomb were guaranteed to destroy the critical uranium enrichment facility at Fordow, then Trump would
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maybe consider doing it. However, this according to the reporting from The Guardian, the effectiveness
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of GBU-57s has been a topic of deep contention at the Pentagon since the start of President Trump's
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term. According to two defense officials who were briefed that perhaps only a tactical nuclear weapon
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could be capable of destroying Fordow because of how deeply it is located.
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So now we're talking about escalation. This would be the third time ever that a nuclear weapon has
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been used on the battlefield. And it would be the third time the United States has used one. So we
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have not, since World War II, crossed that line. Even though conventional weapons can cause more damage
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than nuclear weapons in certain cases, we just haven't done that. And there's a major risk to using a
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tactical nuclear weapon. Even if it would get the job done, it would eliminate Iran's nuclear program.
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The unintended consequences of that could be massive. It could lead to a nuclear arms race
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around the region, all around the world. It would just radically change the rules of war.
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Everyone has thus far, including all of the nuclear states, including all of the nasty nuclear states,
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like Pakistan and North Korea, we've all agreed we're just not going to go there
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since World War II. This would totally change war. So I think Trump is smart. According to this
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reporting, Trump is not considering using a tactical nuclear weapon on Fordow. And the possibility was
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not presented by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in meetings
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in the White House Situation Room. But the defense officials who received the briefing were told that
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using conventional bombs, even as part of a wider strike package of several GBU-57s, would not penetrate
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deep enough underground. And that is, and that it would only do enough damage to collapse the tunnels
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and bury it under rubble. So it would cause a big problem for Iran's nuclear program,
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but it wouldn't end it. And so I think what we're seeing here in this two-week,
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up to two-week reprieve for the Iranians to negotiate, what we're seeing here is the U.S.
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interest and the Israeli interest diverge. The Israeli interest from the beginning has been
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regime change. And there are plenty of people in America who want regime change in Iran too.
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But that's what Israel is after. The reason this war is happening now is not because Iran is five
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seconds away from a nuclear bomb. We've been hearing that since the 80s. And sometimes they've
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gotten closer than others. And the Israelis and the Americans have done a good job setting that back.
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But that's not why. The reason why is that the attack on Iran is the apotheosis of the war in Gaza,
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which began when Hamas invaded Israel on October 7th, 2023. So at that point, Israel says, okay,
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you got all of these little tentacles. You got Hamas, you got Hezbollah, you've got the Houthis,
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and they're all just the tentacles from Iran. So we're going to go in, we're going to cut off the
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head. I think that is the strategic objective for Israel. And so, okay, the Gaza war is finally
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wrapping up. There's not very much more to do there, even though Hamas still has hostages. So
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you know what? We're going all the way. We want regime change in Iran. That I think is not the
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American objective. I don't think America's chief aim here is regime change. Sure, we've helped the
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Shah over the years or the crown prince, Risa Pahlavi. Sure, we don't like the Ayatollah. Sure,
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the Ayatollah chance death to America. But we're a little skeptical of regime change.
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So I think if the US could get Iran to denuclearize and keep the Mullahs in charge,
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Trump would take it, I think. I'm not speaking for him, but that would be my guess.
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Whereas I don't think Israel would like to take that deal. I think Israel needs to go all the way.
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In fact, I think Israel cares more about regime change even than the nuclear program.
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So what's going to happen? Well, we've got some updates here from Israel that I think backs up
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my thesis, which is that the Ayatollah has bombed an Israeli hospital. The Ayatollah bombed a hospital
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yesterday, the day before. And Israel has responded and said, okay, guys got to die. Khamenei has to die.
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According to the Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, Ali Khamenei can no longer be permitted to
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exist. What a phrase. I'm going to start using that for my enemies. Oh, yes.
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Johnny, he can no longer be permitted to exist, I'm afraid. Khamenei openly declares that he wants
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Israel destroyed. He personally gives the order to fire on hospitals. He considers the destruction of
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the state of Israel to be a goal. Such a man can no longer be allowed to exist.
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Now, I think here, I get it from the Israeli perspective. I totally get it. I just think
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the order of events is backwards here. I don't think that the reason Israel is now saying we
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got to kill the Ayatollah is because the Ayatollah fired on a hospital, hideous as that is.
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Israel had already decided it wanted to kill the Ayatollah. I don't think it needed any convincing.
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I don't think it was an attack on a hospital. That's a fine excuse for it. It's a fine
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justification or causes belly. But the reason Israel wants to kill the Ayatollah
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is because the Ayatollah poses an existential threat to Israel. That's what it's about.
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goal from the strategic objectives of the United States. And we're going to have two weeks now to
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Ilhan Omar has nasty comments about the country. She has said on Democracy Now!, some fringe show,
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she has said that America is becoming one of the worst countries in the world.
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I mean, I grew up in a dictatorship. And I don't even remember ever witnessing anything like that.
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To have a democracy, a pecan of hope for the world to now be turned into one of the, you know,
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one of the worst countries where the military are in our streets without any regard for people's
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constitutional rights. While our president is spending millions of dollars prompting himself
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up like a failed dictator with a military parade. It is really shocking.
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It's really, really shocking. One of the worst countries in the world.
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She obviously doesn't believe that because her family came over here and they were so
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jubilant when they came to America, the whole family that she actually married one of her family
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members, her brother, allegedly. So I don't know, they seemed very, very excited when they came here.
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And she's had a career in not only in America, but in the American government.
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She, however, is expressing one of the big problems for the Democrats heading into next year,
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which is that we're heading into the bicesquicentennial, one of my favorite words.
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The bicesquicentennial, the 250th anniversary birthday of America.
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Okay. And it's going to be very hard for Democrats because over the course of my lifetime,
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Democrats have transformed from a party that says, look, we love America. We're patriotic.
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I mean, you know, we criticize America all the time, but we wrap it in the American flag. You know,
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we're dissent is patriotic. They've gone from that, which is hiding their contempt for the country
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behind the American flag to a kind of naked contempt for America and for the American flag,
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such that when they're having riots in the streets, they won't even wave the American flag.
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They'll wave the Mexican flag like they did in LA. So that's going to be a big problem
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because politics 101 is wrap yourself in the flag. Okay. People love their countries. Patriotism is,
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is a part of human nature, really. It's an extension of the love that you have for your own family
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is the love for your country. And the Democrats don't love their country. And so you've got a sitting
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member of Congress, a pretty prominent sitting member of Congress saying America is becoming one
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of the worst countries in the world. That's, that's a shocking statement. And it, it, it's even more
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modest than her true belief, I think, which is that America always has been one of the worst countries
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in the world. And I think it's what Democrats will say openly, if you get a drink into them or you
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prod them long enough, they'll say, yeah, the country's founded on slavery and it's evil. And they
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genocided the native Americans and they're horrible to women. And they oppressed the, the long
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hidden LGBT people who have only received their freedom in the last like six minutes. And, you
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know, it's just a horrible, oppressive, terrible place. Now, what's funny is they say that out of
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one side of their mouth, then out of the other side, they say, and that's why you need to open
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up all the borders and let all the foreign people come here. It's such a terrible, awful, horrific,
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oppressive place. That's why you got to let all the foreigners come here. Why, why would you,
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you should close all the borders so that they are not subject to this horrible place. One of the worst
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countries on earth. They never quite resolve that, but they, they are consistent in their stated
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contempt for the country. It's going to, going to make a big problem for Democrats next year. And so
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there were some people saying, well, why is Trump making such a big deal about the 250th? Why does
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he like the military parades? Why is he making such a big deal about America's birthday? I think for
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him, why does he just put a gigantic, he put this huge flagpole up on the South lawn of the White
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House, this gigantic flagpole. I don't even know how big it is. I think it scrapes against the moon.
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You know, as the, as the moon circles the earth. Why does he do that? I think in part,
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because he has a legitimate, instinctive love for the country. He hugs, when he hugs the flag and
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kisses the flag on the campaign trail, I think it's sincere. But, but also there is a political
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payoff here that, that Republicans can exploit, especially right now in a way we couldn't a
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quarter century ago, which is that the people love the flag. We love the flag. Democrats openly hate
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the flag. Wave the flag. Wave the flag. That is like the easiest way you, you can pry votes away
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from the Democrats and will be very helpful, especially in a midterm election year, like
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we're going to have next year. Okay. Now, speaking of aliens, we turn from all the illegal aliens who
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are coming to the worst country in the world, supposedly, to the aliens in outer space.
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The European space agency says that humans will be living in space oases on Mars in 15 years.
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This according to the Daily Mail, but it's not just the Daily Mail. If we're just some British
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tabloid, I'd say, well, that's ridiculous. No, no, it's the ESA. The European NASA has come out and
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said, we will be living on Mars in space oases in 15 years. And I have a prediction. No, we won't.
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That won't happen. Bookmark this show. Save this show in your calendar. Just a link to it in,
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in 2040. And I want you to come back to this and look up. And if we are not living on Mars,
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then you can tell your boy a thing that I hate to hear, which is that I was right.
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It's not going to happen. Furthermore, we should not want to. Why do you want to live on Mars?
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Mars isn't pleasant. Earth is very pleasant, almost like it was a world created for us.
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It's really nice. And all of the other planets that we've ever observed anywhere suck. They're
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terrible. You wouldn't want to live there. They're not for you, man. This is like that meme. It's like
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men will do anything to avoid going to therapy. It's like human beings will do anything but avoid
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thanking God for creating the stars and the firmament and the beautiful earth. You know,
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it's Psalm 8. We'll do anything to avoid just like being normal and accepting reality.
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We will even go to an uninhabitable, dusty, red planet without any water. And we'll live in a
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test tube, maybe, in our fantasies, best case scenario. So stupid. Why do you want to go to Mars?
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I don't want to go to Mars. It's not that I don't like exploring. I've traveled all around the world.
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One of my main men is Christopher Columbus, exploring new lands to spread the gospel for a
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purpose, not just for a fun vacation, but to spread the gospel, which was one of Columbus's goals,
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to get rich, which was one of Columbus's goals, but to get rich even for a purpose,
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according to the historian Carol Delaney, to get rich to fund another crusade,
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another religious purpose. Okay, I get all that. That's awesome. I'm all for that, man.
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But to just go to Mars and live in a much less pleasant place just because, that's stupid.
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That's modern exploration. I'm not into it. I know this is a really unpopular view. What about
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the spirit of exploration? Yeah, exploration is supposed to be for a purpose, and the purpose
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has to correspond to your human nature. Well, we just want to go play in the red dust. Why?
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Why? Exploration is for something. Everything you do should be for something.
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And Earth is for us, and that's good. That's good, man. Good grief. We're so unpatriotic now
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that not only do we not have any special love of our country, we no longer even have a special love
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of our planet. Well, anyway, it's a moot point because we're not living there in 15 years.
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How much money does the European Space Agency want to bet me? I'm kind of frugal,
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but I'll bet a lot of money on it. Not seeing it happen. Okay, speaking of the difference
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The crooked Fox News polls got the election wrong. I won by much more than they said I would
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and have been biased against me for years. They were always wrong and negative. It's why MAGA
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hates Fox News. Whoa, big escalation now. Big escalation in the war against Fox.
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MAGA hates Fox News. And I love this parenthetical. It's why MAGA hates Fox News,
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even though their anchors are great. Because you'd have to say, hold on, MAGA hates Fox News. You've
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staffed like half your administration with Fox TV hosts. What do you mean MAGA hates Fox News?
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No, no, no. He's drawing a distinction between the news corporation and the anchors whom he likes and
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is friends with. It's why MAGA hates Fox News, even though their anchors are great. This has gone on for
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years, but they never changed. The incompetent polling company that does their work, now a new
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Fox News poll comes out this morning, giving me a little more than 50% of the border, and yet the
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border is miraculously perfect. Nobody was able to come in last month. This is true. Nobody came in.
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The border crisis was completely fictional. Joe Biden just let them in. When Joe Biden said,
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I need a new law to fix the border, that was not true. You don't need a new law. Trump didn't need a
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new law. Trump stopped the illegal crossings completely. Completely. So Trump's saying,
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I have this amazing border policy. I proved everyone wrong. It could not be more perfect.
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And Fox's poll is saying that I've only got a little more than 50% approval at the border.
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He said, 60,000 people came in with Sleepy Joe in the same month last year. I hate fake pollsters.
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One of the worst, but Fox will never change their discredited pollster. That was one Trump post.
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And then right afterward, Trump posts this from Greg Kelly's show, which is on Newsmax,
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on his true social page. What are you kidding me? 56% approval in a brand new Rasmussen poll for
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President Trump. 56% of the American people think he's doing a great job. That is a landslide.
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Clip goes on. And that's overall approval. It's not even just approval on the border.
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So why does Trump post this? I'll tell you. Trump's critics on the left and his sneering,
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condescending critics on the right will say it's because he's so vain. Oh, this man. He just wants
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to look at himself in a mirror all day. He's so vain and egotistical. He just cares about the poll
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numbers more than about actual policy. No. I'm not saying Trump doesn't have an ego or vanity or
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anything, but that is not vanity. The reason Trump obsesses over the polls is because Trump is a media
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guy, top of network TV for 15 years, tabloid fixture for 40 years or more at this point.
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Trump obsesses about the polls because as a media mogul, President Trump understands the relation
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between perception and reality. President Trump recognizes that not only does, not even primarily,
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does reality influence perception, but perception can create reality. So if you have
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polls coming out saying Trump is doing a great job and everyone's happy, all of a sudden people
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are going to speak openly about that. I'll give you, I'll give you an example of this. That's really
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concrete. Trump wins the popular vote this year. Trump wins the, or last year, Trump wins the popular
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vote. Everything changes. All of a sudden you are allowed to talk about how you support Trump.
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You are encouraged in some ways to talk about how you support Trump. The corporations start dropping
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all the DEI stuff. They drop pride month. Pride month is, pride month is deader than disco.
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Everything changes. And I think it wasn't just the electoral college. It was the popular vote.
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Two weeks prior, two weeks before the election, you were not really allowed to talk about how much you
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like Trump. You really couldn't wear that MAGA hat to a bar down the street. You
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certainly couldn't talk about your Trump support at the water cooler. You had to kind of hide it
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because you felt, yikes, I'm totally under siege. I could be punished by the HR department and DEI.
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And we got to get ready for pride month and all that. But the minute that people said, hold on,
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wait, most people are like me. Oh, wait, hold on. My view, which I thought was the minority view
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that I thought I was going to be punished for. That's what most people think. Oh, forget about that,
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man. Let's go. Party on. Where's my MAGA hat? Let me put that on my head. Perception can help to
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create political realities. So he obsesses over the polls, not in a vain way, but in a very practical
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way. Because he realizes that if the perception is that Trump is mainstream, Trump is popular,
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people like what he's doing, he can get more of his agenda done. It's not, say what you will about
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the guy. That is not vain. Okay. So then how's he looking? How's he looking with the electorate?
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Well, Greg Kelly mentioned that Rasmussen poll there. Rasmussen says that Trump now has,
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this is according to Breitbart reporting, that Trump has majority support from blacks and Hispanics.
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Now, I don't know if that, I'm a little skeptical of majority black support. It might just mean that
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combined he has majority support. But according to the Breitbart reporting for June 8th to 12th,
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Rasmussen surveying 1,772 likely voters, found that Trump has 53% job approval rating,
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which is very good, which includes 54% approval from black voters. I don't really believe that
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number. I think that has to be an error in the analysis. It's because black voters are just so
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overwhelmingly Democrat. But 53% from Hispanic voters, that checks out. White voters, about the
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same. Total of 59% of men approve of the job Trump is doing compared to 49% of women.
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Even 49% of women is pretty good. How about on immigration? According to Economist and YouGov,
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so not just Rasmussen, which is a right-leaning poll firm, but Rasmussen has a good record.
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Economist, YouGov shows that Trump has a 4% positive approval on immigration, 49% approved,
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45% disapproved. That's quite good. That also coincides with the morning consult survey,
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shows majority of voters, 51% approve Trump's handling of immigration.
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What this shows you is, Trump has a good political gut, which is something that I've said for a long
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time. He's obviously reshaped the conservative movement to bring in more Hispanics, to bring in
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more black people, to bring in more women, to bring in more labor, pro-labor, blue-collar crowd.
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He's just reshaped the thing. And so when thorny issues come up, like the war in Iran, where he's got
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to reconcile irreconcilable factions, the war hawks and the doves, where when issues come up like
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trade, where he's got to reconcile irreconcilable factions, like the protectionists and the free
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traders, it's why I've given him a little grace on it. And that's why I think J.D. Vance was so
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smart when he tweeted out his take on the Iran war, which is, look, we don't want Iran to have
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a nuclear weapon. We're also really skeptical of getting bogged down in wars in the Middle East.
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And I think Trump has earned a little bit of trust on this kind of issue. That's all I've
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said. I'm not saying put all your trust in princes or anything like that. I'm just saying
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the guy, numbers don't lie, man. The numbers don't lie. And the guy is putting big numbers
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up on the board. So maybe he's got a good political gut. Maybe, you know, the 10 millionth
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time people say the walls are closing in, he's totally done now. There's no way he can get
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out of this one. Maybe he's going to get out of this one again, would be my guess.
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Okay. Speaking of numbers, speaking of big numbers, the call her daddy podcast gal is
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weighing in on a girl's body counts, weighing in on promiscuity and how that affects relationships
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My boyfriend has a very big issue with my past. He found my list of people I have been with
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and he was passed. He actually broke up with me initially, but after a while we got back together
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the issue now is I feel like he is constantly making judgmental comments about me being easy
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or having a high body count. He always says he's just kidding, but how can I get him to
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stop caring that I was with guys before him? I feel like every single girl has a list of
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the guys she's ever been with. Like how fun. I remember the men that have been inside of
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me and I have a husband and that's okay. This sounds like a really insecure or possessive
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man. We've all lived. We've all had a good time. And if anything, everyone we've been
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with prior to has helped us become the person we are today. I think your answer next time
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he says that if you were just being catty is like, what's your point? I was so easy.
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What's your point? Do you not want to be with me anymore? He's like, well, no, I'm just saying
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like I'm really shocked. Like how easy you were. What's your point? What's your point? Are
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you trying to put me down right now? Or do you want me to get upset? Do you want me to
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defend myself? Like you let me know what what's your point? What do you want me to do? You
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want me to leave? You want me to call them? Do you want me to detail everyone for you?
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Do you want me to pretend you're the first person I've ever had sex with? Like, what do
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you want? What will make you feel better? You little boy.
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What do you want? If I were that guy, what I would want is for her to admit that she did
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something wrong that hurt me, that hurt him, you know, the guy, the boyfriend or the husband
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in this situation. And just acknowledge that. That's what I would want if I were that guy.
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She says, what is he sounds like a really possessive guy. If you don't want a possessive
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guy, why are you married? What was the point? If you don't, if you don't want your husband
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to feel a bit possessive of you, why are you getting married? Marriage involves possession,
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involves belonging one to another. Why would you even be in a in a relationship? You know,
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why would you even date someone in an exclusive way if you don't want to be possessive?
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Being exclusive means and entails being a little possessive. She did something wrong.
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Why is the guy making the snide comments? He shouldn't do that either.
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But the reason he's doing that is because he's hurt. He's hurt because she did something wrong
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to him, maybe before she even met him. But when a woman is promiscuous, she is doing,
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she is harming, she is injuring her future husband. Just a fact. And it's going to cause him pain.
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Even if she hasn't met him yet. Because it's painful to think of the woman you love having done
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things with other guys. It's painful. Any guy in the world will tell you that. And so, whatever,
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you know, we all do bad things. And you can move on. And it's whatever. It's this culture that we're
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in. And we accept that, you know, there are fallen aspects of the world and we try to do better.
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But you need to acknowledge it. That's the issue. The reason the insecure boyfriend keeps making the
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snide remarks is because you won't acknowledge that you did something wrong. It was wrong for you to
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sleep around. And you should acknowledge it, that it was wrong. And you should, I don't know,
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maybe say you're sorry. Even if you don't, at least acknowledge it. Man, I shouldn't have done
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that. That was bad, huh? Man, I'm glad I'm better now. I'm glad I've turned my life around. Because
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part of the insecurity for that guy is, well, hold on. If she didn't think there was anything
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wrong with that, who knows? Maybe you should do it again. I'm investing my life into this woman.
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But she didn't treat herself with the value and the dignity that I treat her. There seems to be a
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mismatch in price here. Who's right? Who's wrong? Yeah, I've really changed, honey. And, you know,
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I did bad things when I was young, but I've changed. And I've become a more dignified,
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serious person now. And I'm actually worthy of the love that you've given to me. And maybe I wasn't
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then, you know? And anyway, I'm sorry. That's it. But the woman can't face it because she's
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drunk on feminism, which is only going to make the problem worse. And then the guy's going to
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behave in a feminist way too. Not acting like a man, acting like a little snide girl. Make these
00:35:22.700
little snide comments, these little jokes. But, you know, jokes always have a little element of truth
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to them. That's it. That's it. And she can help him get over it, but you've got to acknowledge
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reality. You just have to acknowledge reality at the very least. I'm not sure that they can do this.
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Okay, there's so much more. So much more to get. There's actually one more thing I want to get to
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before the mailbag today. And that's the stupid commercial that Eric Swalwell, but you can always
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count on Eric Swalwell, Democrat member of Congress. He briefly ran for president, as you'll recall.
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He's best known for having allegedly dated a Chinese spy and for his alleged flatulence on television.
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Here is the commercial that he just posted that the Democrats are going to run on through the
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I'm your Republican congressman. Now that we're in charge, we're rounding up illegals.
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But don't worry. When she's in prison in El Salvador,
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So, for those of you who are only listening, not watching,
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it's this really hot chick, you know, with her boyfriend, whatever,
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First of all, the people who are being deported don't look like her.
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They look more like face-tattooed Satan-worshipping men who are in gangs.
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So, they don't look like this really hot, basically white...
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You wouldn't even think she was Hispanic or anything,
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but regardless, then, you know, the Tom Homan character,
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the Republican character comes and takes her away.
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And the killer for this kind of commercial is...
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Whatever the real version of the thing being depicted
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And that's the part that the Democrats haven't adjusted to.
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Mass deportations are a mainstream majority political issue.
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And so, they're going to keep making these silly commercials.
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And the Eric Swalwells of the world can keep posting them.
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can talk about how America's the worst country in the world
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Democrats can wave Mexican flags and whine and complain
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And we'll see you at the ballot box in the midterms.
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There's a lot happening in the world right now.
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And there's only one place you're going to get it.
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from the most trusted voices in conservative media.
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Investigative journalism that cuts through the narrative.
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Michael, you're pretty good at extracting positives
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It's not really my approach to a lot of issues.
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Here's what Trump could be thinking on one side.
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Here's what part of the conservative movement is saying.
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Here's why it's a difficult issue for the president,
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I took two highly scientific polls on my X account
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and said, hey, should we allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon?
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I'm going to, you know, I'm not going to just scream
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until I'm red in the face over this policy or that policy.
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looks like Trump has arrived at a very good position.
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Did a bunch of homosexuals in the 1980s contract AIDS?
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Does the pronunciation of these individual letters in an acronym,
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not depend upon the pronunciation of the letters
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in the individual words that make up the acronym?