Ep. 1775 - U.S. Accuses Israeli Settlers of an “Act of Terror” Against Christians
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Tensions continue to ramp up between the U.S. and Israel as the US ambassador to Israel condemns a settler attack on Palestinian Christians as an act of terror. President Trump is suing Fox News parent company News Corp for $20 billion. And most important of all, your favorite podcaster appears to have been debanked by one of the largest payment processors in the country.
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Tensions unusually continue to ramp up between the U.S. and Israel as the U.S. ambassador to
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Israel condemns a settler attack on Palestinian Christians as an act of terror. Then, speaking of
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fights between people who are usually allies, President Trump is suing Fox News parent company
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News Corp for $20 billion. But most important of all, your favorite podcaster appears to have been
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debanked by one of the largest payment processors in the country. And you might be next. I'm Michael
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United States and Israel. U.S. and Israel, usually very close allies. Officially, of course, still allies.
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But tensions are mounting. You're seeing a lot of shade getting thrown between the White House
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and the administration broadly and the state of Israel. On the heels of the Israeli attack on the
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only Catholic church in Gaza, which killed three Christians, injured 10, including the priest.
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On the heels of that, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who is extremely pro-Israel,
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Mike Huckabee threatened to accuse Israel of being unwelcoming to Christians because apparently
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evangelical groups in America were having trouble getting visas. On the heels of all of that,
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the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has called a recent Israeli settler attack on a
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Palestinian church in the West Bank an act of terror. This was an attack that ended up with the
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death of a Palestinian American who is apparently a Christian. So Huckabee actually went to visit the
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Christian town of Teba, where Israeli settlers reportedly started a fire near a cemetery in a
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5th century church back on July 8th. Huckabee said, it is an act of terror and it is a crime.
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Those who carry out acts of terror and violence in Teba or anywhere should be found and prosecuted,
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not just reprimanded. That's not enough. A little apology, a little whoopsie-daisy,
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a little slap on the wrist, not enough, according to the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
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They need to be prosecuted for their crimes. The Israeli government has not commented on this
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incident, but has a habit of denouncing these kinds of attacks. I could be saying,
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you got to do more than denounce it. You got to go hard against these people.
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He's asked Israel to, quote, aggressively investigate the killing of this Palestinian
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American who was beaten to death by Israeli settlers in the West Bank. This is a criminal and
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terrorist act. What makes this strange, what makes even my commentary on this strange from last week
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is Huckabee is a big defender of Israel and even of Israeli settlements, according to reporting.
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And yet he says, this is completely outrageous. So I discussed the IDF attack on, I guess it was
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Friday, Thursday or Friday. And I caught a bunch of flack from extremely pro-Israel activists.
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A bunch of flack, I mean, all the crazy insinuations, you're abandoning Israel,
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you don't, you're anti-Semitic or something, completely lunatic stuff. And my reaction to that
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is, if Mike Huckabee and I are the enemies of the state of Israel, then Israel doesn't have any
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friends, doesn't have a single friend on planet Earth. And this is a big problem. These three
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incidents, all in rapid succession, pose a big, big problem for the Israeli government.
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Because what you hear, the typical talking points in propaganda, if you call out the attack on the
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church, which the state of Israel says was accidental, maybe it was accidental, maybe it
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was a mistake, but it was a big mistake. If it was a mistake, it was a big mistake. Actually,
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either way, you would say it was a big mistake. The Latin patriarch in Jerusalem doesn't seem totally
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convinced it was a mistake. The Holy Father has condemned the attack repeatedly and called for peace
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and an end to the war. The typical response, the talking points is, well, you're condemning an
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Israeli attack on a church or you're condemning Israeli settler attacks on a Christian community
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in the West Bank. But why aren't you talking about the Muslim attacks on Christians? And there are some
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people who are pathologically opposed to Israel or who don't like the Jews or something, who don't talk
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about Muslim attacks on Christians. But that ain't me. And that ain't Mike Huckabee. And that ain't a
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lot of the people who are seriously concerned about these attacks in recent days. I think if I had a
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nickel for every time on this show that I've mentioned the battles of Poitiers, Lepanto, and
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Vienna, or any other number of Muslim attacks on Christians going back 1,300 years all the way to
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the present, if I had a nickel for that, I think I could buy a fleet of private jets.
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You think Mike Huckabee hasn't called out Islamic terror against Christians? Give me a break.
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But that doesn't mean that we can't criticize the government of Israel when it is right and just
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to do so. And furthermore, when sometimes people will say, well, why aren't you talking about a
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Syrian attack on Christians or even a Russian attack on Christians in Ukraine? I'd say, first of all,
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we do talk about these things. But even so, we regularly kill Syrians, we the United States.
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We are currently waging a war against Russia, slaughtering the Russian army through our proxy
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in Ukraine. We regularly light up the Middle East and blow up Muslim extremists who persecute
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Christians. The difference here is Israel is our ally. We fund Israel. We fund the Israeli military.
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So it's an apples and oranges comparison. And the United States has every right. The White House,
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reportedly, has every right to be furious over the attack on the church, accidental or otherwise.
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The administration, through its ambassador to Israel, has every right to be furious when a
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Palestinian American is killed in a Christian community by Israeli settlers, has every right to
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do that, especially when we're signing the checks. I don't think that the pro-Israeli side is playing
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this very well. I was looking at a poll last night, CNN poll, so take it with a grain of salt.
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But support for the war in Gaza at this point, people who believe the Israeli actions are totally
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justified, it's like 23%. It's dropped to extreme lows. It's down to 52%, even among Republicans.
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Republicans used to support the state of Israel, 150%. So this is a real problem.
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I think it's a sign of the times. If you have someone who's broadly supportive of the state
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of Israel, like me, someone who has, for decades, like Mike Huckabee, been very, very supportive of
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the state of Israel. If you have the attention of those guys who are saying, hey, you guys are going
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way too far. We need more than apologies. We need solutions here. This is not working out.
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When you have the White House reportedly furious that Israel is going into Syria,
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as the United States is trying to negotiate peace, you are in big trouble. And I think if the Israeli
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government wants to survive and thrive and keep on achieving its strategic objectives,
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it needs to recognize that it's one friend on earth, the United States of America,
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is trying to help it through some criticism. Because if the state of Israel loses serious U.S.
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support, what's it got on the international stage? Not good stuff. You do not want Mike Huckabee
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to be lobbying totally justified rhetorical attacks if you are the Israeli government.
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Not a good sign. Needs a change of strategy. Okay. Speaking of fights between allies,
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President Trump is suing the Wall Street Journal, really the parent company, which is also the
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parent company of Fox News, News Corporation, for $20 billion. Why $20 billion? Because
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the Wall Street Journal just published this supposed letter from President Trump to Jeffrey Epstein.
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It's got a drawing of a lady on it. It's got all these kind of enigmatic phrases. Trump said
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that this was a fake letter and should not be published. Wall Street Journal published it anyway.
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He said, I'm going to sue. A lot of people said, well, look, if this is a really fake letter,
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then he could sue. But if it's not fake and he's just threatening it, maybe he's just trying to
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distract from the news cycle. Well, here you go. He's suing, which means that that opens him up to
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discovery, which means, seems pretty likely it's a fake letter. Pretty strong evidence that it's not
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I appear, your favorite podcast host, appears to have been debanked by Stripe. Stripe is the
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This is a major service. And the way I found out about this was, at this point, eight, nine months
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fixed it. Then in January, it happened again. And I reached out to Stripe and, and X. And I said,
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hey, what happened? My, my payments for my tweets stopped coming through. And Stripe was immediately
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very, very cagey about it. And they said, well, you have to reach out to X because your Stripe account
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only works with X. And this is a crucial part to the story to figuring out why I've, I've been
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deplatformed, debanked from this payment service. Because I have all sorts of business
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interests, different companies, all sorts of stuff, books. This service is only tied to X.
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okay, I reach out to X, but X doesn't really get back to me very much. They said, no, you got to
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back in October about an issue. And so if you want to hear, I said, well, you have the email,
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just tell me what the email. I said, no, no, we're not going to tell you, but you got to talk
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to X. So it was this game of ping pong back and forth for months and months and months. I have,
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I have the receipts for it, of course. And lo and behold, I finally hear from X that the issue is on
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Stripe's end. And they sent me a link to reasons that Stripe might suspend your account. And I'm
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looking through and it's all sorts of stuff, you know, gun running, uh, you know, illicit drugs,
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whatever. I said, okay, none of this is checking out. And then I saw this little portion.
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It said, businesses that engage in, encourage, promote, or celebrate unlawful violence toward
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any group based on race, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, national origin,
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or any other immutable characteristic. Now, uh, well, you know, the right gets accused of this
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all the time. If you think that a man can't be a woman, you're accused of committing an act of
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violence against, uh, some community that even ontologically doesn't even really exist. Uh, because
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this account, it's actually a pretty good case study for this because the account only pertains
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to my use of X, which is a speech platform, a platform to express opinions, not to run guns or
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something like that. Because of that, it would seem quite likely though the payment server won't,
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won't, uh, be forthright about this. It would seem quite likely that I was, that I was debanked
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for my political opinions. I, I suppose political opinions, it could have been my religious opinions.
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There's been a ton of anti-Catholic persecution in recent years, the Biden administration sending
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jackbooted thugs to spy on churches, calling Catholics extremists and, and radicals. So it could
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have been that. I don't know why. Could it be, uh, one opinion that I've expressed that caught a lot
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fact of anthropology, the fact of the Christian faith, the fact, I don't know what it is, but what
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I do know is this story doesn't only pertain to me. Uh, Stripe, the fact that they're being so cagey
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about it suggests to me, they just don't want to admit what is a big political liability. But I know,
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I know that the Republicans are back in town. I know that the Republicans now control the entire
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this payment processor, debanked the Trump campaign back in 2021. So this wouldn't be the first time
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that a conservative or Christian or any other politically incorrect group were debanked based
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on their views. But I know that there are a lot of Republicans back in Washington DC whose job it is
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to look into issues like this. And so if I were Stripe, I would be cagey about this too, but this
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would appear to be a very unjust act that could involve potentially millions and millions of
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Americans. If you are a conservative, if you're a Christian, if you're just a normal person who holds
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normal political views that everyone agreed on until five minutes ago, you are at risk of being
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debanked by the largest payment processor by number of merchants in the entire country.
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And until we get an answer from them, maybe it was just a mistake. You know, everyone likes to,
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oh, it's just a whoopsie daisy. Until we get an answer from them, I don't see how we can conclude
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otherwise. And the very fact that I've waited now, not just six, really more like eight or nine months
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doing everything I could to get an answer on this, I don't think they can accuse us of being hasty or
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rash. And I think that maybe some people in Washington DC are going to have to have a look
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into that because this is a big, big political problem. If normal people are being debanked for
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having normal views, that's a very urgent problem that should probably rise to the attention of the
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people whose job it is to look into it. Okay. Speaking of financial problems, this is really
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crazy. This is much more troubling than my being debanked by Stripe. One in three dinks
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go into debt for their pets. What's a dink? A dink is a person who is dual income, no kids.
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You think of the typical coastal urban millennial couple, you know, they're not ready to have kids.
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They might not even get married, but they, you know, they have their fur babies or something.
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Really crazy story out of USA Today. There was a, let me see, let me see, let me see exactly. I have
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so many crazy stories today. Here we are. Okay. So according to a new Insurify survey,
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68% of dink pet parents say that they've made financial sacrifices to cover essentials for their
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furry friends. That includes, I kid you not, taking a second job, stopping savings contributions,
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so no longer saving any money, and skipping medical care for themselves to pay for their,
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their dogs and cats. Dink couples who were surveyed spent an average of $1,906 per year
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on pets, which is a lot cheaper than raising a kid. According to raising a kid, it's a,
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or according to, to reports of actual parents, it's about 23 grand a year to raise a kid.
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Okay. So 2,000 bucks is a, is a steal, but again, you're getting a dog, not a kid.
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The people surveyed said they would spend up to $5,004 for life-saving treatment and up to $2,835
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per year to care for a pet's chronic health condition. It's a lot of scratch. 34% said they
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worked extra hours or took a second job to cover costs. And 33% said they took on credit card or loan
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debt to pay for their dog. 29% stopped contributing to savings. 24% delayed other paying other bills.
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15% stopped personal medical care. Okay. Now, why, why do they do this? According to the survey,
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39% of these people plan to have children someday. So it's 39% at least aren't planning on remaining
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childless forever and investing all their money in their dogs. 17%, however, said raising kids is too
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expensive ever to have them. 17% of people who go into debt for their, for their chihuahua say that
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kids are too expensive and they're not going to have them. 15% said they never want kids, period.
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And why? Well, 29% say they prefer a lifestyle that allows more freedom.
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They're only, you're free if you go into debt to pay for your poodle, but you're not free if you
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have a beautiful child who you can raise, who will, who will still grow and flourish and might
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take care of you someday. 22% said they need to improve their financial situation before having
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kids. There are many people who feel that way and I totally get it. But only 5% of these people
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cited medical or fertility issues as the reason they don't have kids. So it's easy to look at these
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people and say, look, they can't have kids. They're suffering infertility. The cat or the dog
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is the second best thing. Why be so harsh on them? Because virtually none of them are dinks for that
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reason. Only 5%, 95% are dinks and potentially going into debt for their chihuahuas. Not because
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they're infertile, not because they really want to have kids, but can't. What is this about? You'd have
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to be out of your freaking mind to go into debt for your wiener dog. Why are they doing it? Because
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they have a good impulse and the good impulse is to sacrifice for a creature that they love.
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The problem is the impulse has been fundamentally disordered by our decadent culture. Some people
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seem to think this is really nice and evidence of altruism if you're willing to go into debt for
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your poodle. Not true. Fur babies, the whole fur baby phenomenon, people referring to their pets as
00:23:51.540
children, referring to themselves as parents when they own a dog or a cat, that is not evidence of
00:23:56.960
altruism. That is a fundamentally selfish phenomenon. And you see it a little bit in the numbers here,
00:24:01.620
where they say, eh, you know, it's too expensive to have kids. Eh, I want to have freedom. You know,
00:24:05.360
I want to be able to go to brunch and go on European vacations, and that's too hard with kids.
00:24:10.480
Fur babies are a selfish phenomenon. Having children is a selfless phenomenon.
00:24:17.560
Having children, not only is having children selfless in the sense that you have to sacrifice
00:24:21.040
a lot for your kids, having children is selfless in the sense that it is patriotic. It is your civic
00:24:26.440
duty. You need to close your eyes and think of America, okay, when you're in the process of making
00:24:31.080
a child, because it is your duty to have a country that has children that can perpetuate into the
00:24:35.480
future. It's also wonderful on a personal level and a sublime experience and enriching in every way.
00:24:41.300
But it is also conducive to the common good. You can't have a country if people don't have kids.
00:24:45.740
And a lot of people aren't having kids right now, and they're replacing kids and their natural
00:24:49.820
desires for kids with little chihuahuas that they push around in strollers and they take a second job
00:24:53.900
for. That is selfish. Fur babies are entirely indulgent, self-indulgent, because it gives you a
00:25:02.800
little bit of the feeling of having a kid, a little fraction of an iota. But if you don't
00:25:06.640
have kids, then you don't realize. It gives you a little fraction of an iota of the feeling of having
00:25:10.540
a kid with none of the responsibility. If the dog gets run over by a car, you're going to have a bad
00:25:15.660
weekend, but then you'll be fine. You'll move on. None of the responsibility and none of the payoff.
00:25:21.040
They don't really do anything. People love their dogs. People love their cats. It's kind of nice.
00:25:25.600
They make your household a little more lively, but they don't really do anything beyond that.
00:25:29.840
Having children does something. Having children echoes throughout the ages and the generations
00:25:33.960
makes the country strong. This is a big problem. Not everyone gets to have kids. 5% of these people
00:25:40.960
suffer infertility, and that's a terribly painful thing, and I get it, and they should have their
00:25:44.920
dogs, and they should love their dogs. The 95% who are choosing puppies over kids are screwed up in
00:25:50.880
the head, and they need to go to therapy, and they should probably go to confession, and they need to
00:25:54.800
get their life in order, and then they need to go into the boudoir, and they need to close their eyes
00:25:58.080
and think of England, and they need to close their eyes and think of America, and they need to have
00:26:01.160
kids, and they're going to have a better life for it. Okay. Speaking of disordered behavior, horrible
00:26:05.960
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00:26:12.720
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00:26:18.480
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from a health care provider. Really sad story out of the New York Post.
00:27:52.660
Porn's tragic curse. Kylie Page, seventh X-rated star to die of drug-related causes in the last three
00:28:00.900
years. So Kylie Page is apparently a 28-year-old who's in pornography, found dead in her home. Looks
00:28:09.180
like an overdose, I guess. Or maybe it was suicide. No, no, it was an overdose. In the last three years,
00:28:16.440
at least six female porn actresses have succumbed to the deadly lifestyle, be it direct suicide or
00:28:22.540
indirect suicide through drugs and various poisons. And this is nothing new. You might not have ever
00:28:27.920
heard any of these names or any of these people, but you've heard this story a billion times.
00:28:32.840
Another spate of porn actors and actresses dying. I interviewed a male porn actor. This was a couple
00:28:39.460
years ago now, Josh Broom. And he said, oh yeah, of my, I had 30 some odd friends in the industry,
00:28:44.620
and like 28 of them are dead or something like that. It's a very deadly industry. And so I guess
00:28:51.440
my question is this, you don't need to know anything about this and you should not know anything
00:28:55.920
about this industry to be able to look at that, look at that number, look at those statistics and
00:29:02.780
say, hold on, something is really wrong here. In what other field of work would we tolerate these
00:29:10.100
kinds of numbers without serious regulation? You look at football, one football player gets CTE.
00:29:16.320
All of a sudden you've got massive regulations in professional football, you had all sorts of new
00:29:20.880
gear and protection, and you've got parents calling to ban the sport for kids. Because a handful of
00:29:26.740
football players get their heads knocked around a little bit. In pornography, you have just a constant
00:29:32.120
slew of stories of very young people, people in their twenties dying from suicide and drugs because of
00:29:38.440
this hideous, awful, satanic industry. And yet that industry is basically wholly unregulated.
00:29:45.060
It used to be heavily regulated. It used to be effectively banned because we've had obscenity
00:29:49.400
laws in this country since before the founding of this country. They're still on the books. We
00:29:53.060
could still prosecute people for them. And in fact, the Bush administration, the second Bush
00:29:56.560
administration, the end of its second term, did prosecute a pornographer for obscenity at the federal
00:30:01.840
level. So we could do it. It wouldn't be that hard. There's been bipartisan support in Congress
00:30:06.440
in the 90s and the 2000s with the support of the president to restrict this stuff, struck down by
00:30:13.360
lunatic judges. But how can you, just from a workplace standpoint, just from a labor relations
00:30:19.740
standpoint, how on earth can you allow an industry like this where all the most famous people in it
00:30:26.820
end up killing themselves one way or another? How do you allow that to go on unmolested, pun intended?
00:30:33.260
How do you allow that to go on unregulated? We wouldn't tolerate this in manufacturing.
00:30:38.240
We wouldn't tolerate this in sports. We wouldn't tolerate this in anything.
00:30:42.500
But we tolerate it in this degenerate, disgusting industry that screws up the lives of the people
00:30:49.060
who are in it and, no less, screws up the lives of all the people who use it. It's just pure poison.
00:30:54.420
The fentanyl of glittering images. Crazy stuff. And I think any legislator who is not a complete
00:31:02.760
freak pervert needs to get on this right now. Any federal regulator or state regulator, for that
00:31:08.200
matter, who isn't just a complete pudding-brained pervert needs to get on this right now and heavily
00:31:15.040
regulate this industry and ideally regulate it out of existence. You've seen some good movements on this
00:31:19.580
recently. A lot of states, really just conservative states. The Democrat-run states,
00:31:25.560
seems like they've got an abundance of perversity there in the government, so they don't regulate it.
00:31:30.780
But the conservative states have and have made great strides at eradicating porn from those states.
00:31:37.700
Even just by saying that there has to be age verification so little kids don't look at it.
00:31:42.780
You get the porn companies and say, hold on, you're telling me we have to make sure that little
00:31:47.560
children aren't viewing our product. We'd rather stop doing business in the state altogether,
00:31:51.260
which tells you everything you need to know about those companies.
00:31:54.520
Yeah, let's get on it, guys. We wouldn't tolerate it in any other field, any other industry.
00:32:00.400
Shouldn't tolerate it here. Okay, speaking of threats to health, the White House at the end of
00:32:03.720
last week, I meant to get to this last week, but it's an important story to get to.
00:32:06.620
Not because of the story itself, but because of what it says about
00:32:09.120
the two sides of politics in America. The White House announced that President Trump
00:32:19.740
On another note, I know that many in the media have been speculating about
00:32:23.780
bruising on the president's hand and also swelling in the president's legs. So in the effort of
00:32:29.620
transparency, the president wanted me to share a note from his physician with all of you today.
00:32:34.560
In recent weeks, President Trump noted mild swelling in his lower legs. In keeping with routine medical
00:32:41.140
care and out of an abundance of caution, this concern was thoroughly evaluated by the White
00:32:46.380
House Medical Unit. The president underwent a comprehensive examination, including diagnostic
00:32:52.620
vascular studies. Bilateral lower extremity venous Doppler ultrasounds were performed and revealed
00:33:00.500
chronic venous insufficiency, a benign and common condition, particularly in individuals over the
00:33:07.860
age of 70. Importantly, there was no evidence of deep vein thrombosis or arterial disease. Laboratory
00:33:15.820
testing included a complete blood count, comprehensive metabolic panel, coagulation profile, D-dimer,
00:33:24.000
B-type natriotic peptide, and cardiac biomarkers. All results were within normal limits.
00:33:30.920
Okay, okay, compare this. Obviously, we pray for President Trump's health. Luckily,
00:33:35.840
this is not a serious affliction, but nevertheless, we'll make sure he's very healthy and lives a long
00:33:41.420
time. Compare this to the Biden administration. So President Trump has a little bit of swelling in
00:33:49.140
his legs. That's basically what the issue is. He has a little bit of swelling in his legs.
00:33:53.220
And the White House press secretary comes out after some speculation about people looked,
00:33:56.740
his leg looked a little bigger, says, hey, the president has this vein issue in his legs.
00:34:01.300
It's totally common for people who are over the age of 70, and it's not particularly threatening,
00:34:07.040
but it's being treated right now. Here are all the specifics on it. Here are all the tests that
00:34:10.260
have been run. Here's what it means. Here's what it doesn't mean. Here's everything. It goes on and
00:34:13.960
on and on with all this medical jargon. At a certain point, you say, okay, I got it. I got the,
00:34:16.940
but she wants all of the information out there. Meanwhile, Joe Biden's head had melted,
00:34:22.900
and he was drooling, and he couldn't say his own name when he was president. And the White House
00:34:26.780
physician comes out and says, he's in great shape. He's terrific. No serious health problems
00:34:33.060
whatsoever. We later find out President Biden almost certainly had cancer, known cancer at
00:34:38.280
the time he was president. It is completely implausible that President Biden would be
00:34:42.180
diagnosed with advanced, easily detectable cancer so short after he left the White House.
00:34:49.920
Obviously, that was known when he was president, which is almost certainly why Kevin O'Connor,
00:34:54.800
the White House physician under Biden, pled the fifth against self-incrimination when he was asked
00:34:58.900
whether or not there was a cover-up of Biden's health. Compare those two things.
00:35:04.000
President Trump has a minor leg swelling issue. The White House completely transparent tells you
00:35:08.980
everything you need to know about it. President Biden's head didn't work anymore,
00:35:13.280
and he had cancer. The White House lies. Big, big difference. So refreshing to see this.
00:35:19.240
And it gives us the opportunity to pray for President Trump's health. And we're glad to know that
00:35:23.140
he's got this issue under control, and it's being monitored. And it's a reminder that the
00:35:27.080
president has doctors around him 24-7. So the Biden cover-up is totally implausible, ridiculous,
00:35:33.040
probably smart for that position to plead the fifth so he doesn't go to jail.
00:35:37.560
Absolutely, absolutely the right thing to do. Great, great, great stuff. It's not great that
00:35:43.500
President Trump has a minor health issue, but great stuff that we're seeing this kind of
00:35:46.980
transparency. Okay, now we got to turn to Capitol Hill because there's a Republican on Capitol Hill.
00:35:50.760
No bueno, really bad stuff. You got Republicans win unified government running on mass deportations
00:35:58.220
because of a sequiar of the illegal aliens coming into this country. And what are the liberal
00:36:04.000
Republicans on Capitol Hill do? They take that as an opportunity to demand a mass amnesty of the
00:36:09.260
illegals. You can't expect anything else than for Capitol Hill Republicans to snatch defeat from the
00:36:17.400
Joe as a victory. We'll get to that in one second. First, there's a lot happening in the news right
00:36:21.120
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00:36:51.120
Love how the guy dives under the seat and leaves the woman to fend for herself. Such a gentleman.
00:36:55.200
I suppose this is referring to Coldplaygate, the former CEO of Astronomer. There's an update there.
00:37:01.020
I don't know if we'll have time to get to it, but it's not a long story. The guy who got caught
00:37:04.900
cheating at the Coldplay concert, he's resigned. He's been pushed out of his job. Yes, though,
00:37:09.380
you're right. He dives under, leaves the woman to fend for herself. It's amazing. The man who's
00:37:14.920
cheating on his wife, the mother of his children, with the HR lady at his office, brazenly openly at
00:37:20.680
a concert, turns out he's not the most chivalrous fella in the whole world. Shocking. Shocking. Okay.
00:37:27.280
Turning to Capitol Hill, the Trump administration, the Republicans get elected with the popular vote
00:37:33.620
on mass deportations. Mass deport, not just the face-tattooed gangsters, Abuela and the Gardner.
00:37:39.780
We're talking 11 to 16 million illegal aliens in the country. That's a conservative number.
00:37:44.460
The popular vote, people of all backgrounds, Hispanic, black, women, all these backgrounds,
00:37:51.100
vote. They say, we want to boot these people out of the country. So, of course,
00:37:55.580
Republican Congressman Maria Salazar is pushing for mass amnesty.
00:37:58.900
President Trump, sir, the same God who saved you from death in Pennsylvania one year ago and who put
00:38:09.820
you back in the Oval Office against all odds is the same God Almighty who millions and millions are
00:38:16.720
begging to for some type of dignity, not amnesty. Sir, I believe that you could be for immigration what
00:38:24.060
Lincoln was for slavery and Reagan was for communism. You are a businessman who understands
00:38:29.960
our economy needs a reliable working force in areas where other Americans don't participate.
00:38:36.120
You stopped Iran on its tracks. You stopped China from eating our lunch. You took the economy,
00:38:43.260
economic oxygen away from Maduro and you signed the BBB the day that you said you were going to sign it.
00:38:49.700
Mr. President, you have been called to do this, to fix this 40-year mess with just one signature.
00:38:59.340
Mr. President, you have been called to do this. You remember like six months ago and eight months ago
00:39:06.080
when you got elected running on no amnesty ever and mass deportations and all the people called on you
00:39:13.180
to deport all the illegals. Well, that's why I concluded that you were called on to give all of
00:39:19.660
them amnesty. Does this lady's brain work? Did she pay attention to what happened in November?
00:39:27.640
I am not calling for amnesty. I'm calling for dignity. And dignity entails amnesty, by the way.
00:39:35.820
That's what you have to get the dignity. You have to do all the amnesty, but that's not amnesty.
00:39:39.640
I'm not calling for amnesty. I'm calling for dignity and then amnesty or rather dignity by
00:39:44.960
way of amnesty. Good grief. Good grief. These people, just this woman is awful.
00:39:51.960
This woman is absolutely awful. And any Republicans who associated with her might as well be Democrats.
00:39:58.880
This is just absolutely pathetic. But then you think it's bad enough. This woman's saying God
00:40:04.520
demands that you violate the law, violate your promises to millions of Americans, most of whom
00:40:10.340
voted for you. Not only did she say that you're going to be Lincoln for giving amnesty to a bunch
00:40:16.900
of criminals, millions of criminals is the same thing as freeing the slaves. Now, really laying it on
00:40:24.200
thick. Not only did she say this is about dignity, this is about America and defending America and
00:40:29.840
American values. And how am I going to prove it? By speaking a foreign language.
00:40:55.920
Listen, what I'm discussing on the Dignity Act is entirely about the American interest and
00:41:07.380
defending American values as American as apple pie and Abraham Lincoln. And that's why I'm going
00:41:13.220
to speak a foreign language. I like the Spanish language. It's a fine language. I don't speak it.
00:41:20.420
I speak Italian, touch of French, love Latin. I have no xenophobic hostility toward foreign
00:41:28.260
languages. But just a little bit of political advice. If you're trying to convince Americans
00:41:35.620
of something, at least for now, we'll see if she gets her mass amnesty, I guess the national
00:41:39.220
language could be Spanish. But if she doesn't, when you're trying to convince Americans of something,
00:41:44.940
don't speak a foreign language. What's the matter with you, woman? Good. What an awful,
00:41:49.200
awful congressman. Is she out of her mind? The one smart thing she did here is she tried to flatter
00:41:55.400
Trump into doing this. She decided not to run against Trump, but to say, no, listen, Mr. President,
00:42:02.260
you need to violate all of your campaign promises to the millions and millions of people who voted
00:42:06.920
for you because that's really what they want you to do or whatever. And God wants you to do it,
00:42:11.800
to violate the law and break your promises. But other than that, everything about this is wrong,
00:42:17.540
completely insane. That woman should be thrown out of Congress. What a joke. What a joke.
00:42:23.920
ÂżCĂłmo se dice joke? How do you say joke in Spanish? I don't know. Now, let's turn from the
00:42:29.780
Republicans to the Democrats. Obama has come out of the woodwork to give some advice to his wayward
00:42:36.700
party. And his advice is to toughen up. This comes, reportedly, from a private fundraiser in New
00:42:42.640
Jersey. Obama said that the only way Democrats are going to win is by toughening up. He says,
00:42:48.300
I think it's going to require a little bit less navel gazing and a little less whining and being
00:42:52.460
in the field positions. And it's going to require Democrats to just toughen up. This is according to
00:42:57.760
reporting from CNN remarks exclusively obtained by CNN. You know, don't tell me you're a Democrat,
00:43:03.160
but you're kind of disappointed right now. So you're not doing anything. No. Now is exactly the time
00:43:08.800
that you get in there and do something. Don't say that you care deeply about free speech. Then
00:43:12.820
you're quiet. No. You stand up for free speech when it's hard. When somebody says something that
00:43:18.000
you don't like, but you still say, you know what? That person has a right to speak. What's needed now
00:43:22.700
is courage. I love this. The left, the Obama left talking about the importance of free speech.
00:43:27.400
It's the people who relentlessly tried to censor us and continue to try to censor us. Now,
00:43:32.640
we need to stand for free speech. What is he saying? What he's really saying is
00:43:36.960
all this woke stuff isn't working and you need to toughen up. All the people who are demanding,
00:43:42.180
he's like 10 years late to the party on this, but all the people who were demanding safe spaces and
00:43:46.780
censorship, you need to toughen up kids. You need to get with the program. This isn't playing. The
00:43:50.920
extreme wokeness is not playing. Okay. There are plenty of Democrats who have said this. It's not
00:43:55.620
really resonating in the party. Obviously the party, which is elevating Zoran Mamdani and AOC at the
00:44:00.200
moment, one for mayor of New York, one for president. But I guess the question I have for Obama
00:44:04.680
is who do you think unleashed the wokeness? Who do you think unleashed the heavily racial identity
00:44:14.760
politics that abandons the classical liberalism for the natural conclusion of liberalism, which is
00:44:21.280
this kind of selfish grunting politics of pure personal interest? Who did that? Who was the guy
00:44:30.120
who lit the White House up in rainbows to celebrate the redefinition of marriage from the Supreme Court?
00:44:35.680
Who was the guy who promoted transgenderism? Who was the guy who attacked the Cambridge police
00:44:43.560
because of the Henry Louis Gates affair? Most people probably don't even remember that one.
00:44:47.860
A terrible race baiting from Barack Obama insinuating that the Cambridge police were racist
00:44:52.680
because this lunatic professor was trying to break into his own home and they didn't know who he was.
00:44:56.940
No one knows who this guy is. Who was the guy who said cool clock Ahmed when a kid brought what looked
00:45:05.760
like a bomb into school and in order to grandstand on the supposed terrible crime of Islamophobia
00:45:11.600
decided to make a national issue out of it? It was Obama. Obama's the guy who inaugurated
00:45:18.160
wokeness. He was the first woke president. And now the chickens are coming home to roost, kid. Sorry.
00:45:25.560
Sorry. That's what happens. Totally being hoisted with his own petard. Because here's what he wants.
00:45:32.140
And this is what all the liberals want. Here's what the squish Republicans want too. And they need to
00:45:35.140
take note. What Obama wanted to do was take liberalism this far but no further. That's what
00:45:42.660
he's saying. When he was inaugurated, he said, we got to fundamentally change America. I want to take
00:45:49.640
liberalism much, much further than it's gone before. That's what that phrase meant. She says,
00:45:54.540
I want to take liberalism much, much further. I don't just want to permit homosexuals in the military.
00:45:59.660
I want open transsexuals in the military. I want to light the White House up in rainbows. And I want
00:46:06.800
to redefine marriage. And I don't just want to have a kind of politically correct racial political
00:46:12.560
order. I want radical race baiting all the time. And I'm going to say that some kid Trayvon Martin
00:46:18.500
looks like me. Why? Because he's black. I want to start BLM under my presidency. But I want to only go
00:46:25.600
this far. I don't want to trans the kids. I don't want necessarily race riots all over the streets
00:46:32.820
if it's going to hurt Democrats. I want to take liberalism this far but no further. And it doesn't
00:46:36.920
work. It doesn't work because ideas have a momentum of themselves. And so the example I've
00:46:42.700
used frequently, which is an apt example, I think, is when you begin with feminism, with the premise
00:46:47.340
that men and women are not complementary but identical, when they're interchangeable, they're
00:46:51.740
exactly the same. Anything a man can do, a woman can do, and vice versa. It is inevitable that left
00:46:58.240
to its own progression, you're going to end up with transing the kids. It's inevitable. These men
00:47:04.320
and women are basically the same. Why can't a man become a woman? If it's true, if that's a part of
00:47:07.840
human nature, then why can't it be true for a little kid? Why does it only become true when you
00:47:12.280
turn 18? It doesn't make any sense. And so Obama's trying to do something that's impossible. And
00:47:16.520
unfortunately, there are a lot of Republicans who want to do this too. They say, if only we could get back to
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the 90s. If only we could get back to that halcyon era of extremely advanced liberalism, but that
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wasn't totally woke. Not going to happen. So Democrats are hurting because of this. Republicans
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should not fall for that trap. As I frequently say on the show, we don't want to go back to 2012.
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We want to go back to 1220. Now, you can't actually go in reverse and we want to keep modern
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dentistry or whatever. But we want to rethink the premises that have led us to this insane,
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ugly moment in our political order. Okay. Speaking of, really important story. President Trump
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finally calling on the Washington Redskins and the Cleveland Indians to change their name back.
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Whatever the new stupid name is, like the Washington football team, or I don't know what
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it's called. And the Cleveland Guardians. It's really Cleveland Indians. Trump's taking that on.
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We don't have time to get to it today. We're going to have to get to that tomorrow because
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