Ep. 1797 - Everyone Is Mad That Trump Wants to Go to Heaven
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Another day, another reason fanatics are furious at President Trump. Today s non-traversy, I kid you not, is that Trump wants to end a war because he wants to save lives because of his desire to go to heaven. That s why everyone s mad at him.
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Another day, another reason fanatics are furious at President Trump.
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Today's non-traversy, I kid you not, is that Trump wants to end a war
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because he wants to save lives because he wants to go to heaven.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Gavin Newsom wants to distinguish himself among the field of mediocrities
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in the Democrat 2028 presidential primary, and he is doing so by attempting to roast Trump
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First, though, this is the greatest non-traversy.
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We hate Trump because he said this, because he did that.
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We hate Trump because he called Rosie O'Donnell ugly or whatever.
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We hate Trump because all these reasons, all that for 10 years, for 10 years, all the
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now they hate Trump because he wants to end a war, because he wants to save lives, because
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he wants to go to heaven, as he explained when he called into Fox and Friends yesterday.
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We're losing Russian and Ukrainian, mostly soldiers.
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Some people, as missiles hit wrong spots or get lobbed into cities like Kiev and towns.
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But, you know, if I can save 7000 people a week from being killed, I think that's a pretty
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But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons.
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Of of all of the things to attack a politician for this, this will never be topped.
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Attacking a president because he wants to go to heaven.
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Now, some people said, well, he's just joking around.
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Caroline Levitt was asked in the briefing room yesterday, was Trump just joking around?
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I know the president said on Fox News this morning that he's partially seeking peace in
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Was he joking or is there spiritual motivation behind his peace deals here?
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I think the president wants to get to heaven, as I hope we all do in this room as well.
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Oh, was that Daily Wire's very own Mary Margaret Olihan?
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There are two groups attacking him for this, and both attacks are really funny.
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The funnier attacks are from the liberals who are upset that Trump is talking about heaven.
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Look at this crazy person talking about heaven.
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You know, there was a time not so long ago when political leaders spoke of eternal things.
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I know it's hard to believe in our stupid, modern, degraded age, but there was a time
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when political leaders talked about things like morality, felt that they were accountable
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to a power higher than themselves, actually believed in God and religion, took seriously
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the human person and the eternal soul and justice.
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When political calculations were not merely based on temporal personal self-interest, but
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it actually included things like, I don't know, considering the commandments, considered
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the Sermon on the Mount, blessed are the peacemakers.
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The other group that is attacking Trump is extreme Protestants.
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You know, I love my Protestant friends, and it's not far from every Protestant attacking him,
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but there's some people, some really ideological people who are saying, well, President Trump
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is presenting a false gospel because he's suggesting that you could be saved by works.
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This was not a theological treatise from the president.
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He was saying, I want to end a war because that would be good, and it would save people,
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and blessed are the peacemakers, and I want to go to heaven, and I want it.
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The Pelagian heresy, which says that we do not have original sin, which says that we earn
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our salvation, we can deserve our place in heaven, that was condemned.
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That was condemned at the Council of Carthage in A.D. 418.
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I don't think that President Trump is a neo-Neo-Pelagian resurrecting this ancient heresy.
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I think that President Trump is expressing a pretty basic, broadly Christian intuition because
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He says, I want to end the war and save lives because I want to go to heaven because I don't
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think I'm top of the list for getting into heaven.
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And that last part is the one that no one's talking about, but that's the most important
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part because that's the expression of humility.
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He's, I think I'm the bottom of the totem pole.
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And when I, and I've said this for years, I've said, Trump is a humble guy and none of
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you get it because none of you know how comedy and you don't know how to talk like a New
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And so when, when the libs would say, he's so arrogant, he's so narcissistic, he's so
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I said, I actually think there's a kind of humility to him.
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Like when he was asked if he was going to have a beer in Ireland or a beer on St.
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Patrick's day, he said, no, I don't drink beer.
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I'm probably the only president ever who doesn't drink beer.
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No, it's actually not necessarily in the American interest to save lives.
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That's the party's, the liberal grand strategists who have been talking about how important it
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People like Joe Biden, people like Mitt Romney who said, well, this is a great way to degrade
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the Russian military and we don't have to sacrifice any American lives to do it.
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They are articulating the grand strategy that keeping this meat grinder moving in Ukraine
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And Trump says, yeah, but 7,000 people a week are dying.
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I don't want that because I want to go to heaven.
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I think that I'm the bottom of the totem pole now.
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And I think that if I can, in my power, do any good whatsoever and cooperate with what
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I think God is demanding of me, I think it might help.
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Not to sound like a preacher here, like a Bible thumper, but I am recalling a verse.
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I think it's what James 2.24, which is man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
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The phrase faith alone appears exactly one time in the Bible, and it's in James 2.24,
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and it says a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
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Now, this is a little bit confusing, of course, because we don't earn our salvation, and Pelagianism
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is heretical, and the initial justification that comes to us is purely from God.
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We do absolutely nothing to earn that, but that's not the whole story, because then we
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James goes on to tell us that faith without works is dead.
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What he is telling us, what God is telling us, inspiring the authors of the Bible, is that
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What our Lord tells us in the Gospel of St. Matthew is that a man will be judged according
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That doesn't mean that he is not totally in need of God's grace, but it means that it looks
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You know, it's like we can't ever take yes for an answer.
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We have, for the first, maybe the first time in my life, a president openly expressed
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a longing to be with God, expressing profound humility in, I think, a sincere way, trying
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to end wars, which is exceedingly rare at the Oval Office in my lifetime, and saying
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He's saying, I don't deserve heaven, and I want to be with God.
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What does it mean to say I want to go to heaven?
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Those are the three least objectionable things I've ever heard out of the Oval Office, and
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people find a way to complain about it, not just the libs, but even sometimes people
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I think we could all use a little dose of humility.
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And in fact, we could learn a lesson or two in humility from President Trump.
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He had the meeting on Friday in Alaska with Vladimir Putin.
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He rushes home, and then he calls the leaders of all of Europe together and Zelensky and
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And then they all have a meeting at the White House.
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And there's a photo that's come out of this meeting that tells you everything about the
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It is Trump sitting behind the resolute desk, and then the leaders of all these European
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And Zelensky in Eastern Europe, all sitting like they're Trump's assistants, all sitting
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there like you've got the deputy director of such and such agency, and like you've got
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They don't look like the heads of sovereign states.
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They look like people who are getting their marching orders from Trump, and that is the
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That has been the Western world order since World War II.
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And you got Zelensky there because Zelensky doesn't really matter all that much.
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But this is a war between the West, led by Trump, led by America, and Russia.
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And Ukraine is just the battleground for that, and Ukraine is just a proxy for that.
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And Trump is marshalling the leaders of Europe, so-called, who are really vassals for this
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And I mention all of this not to even say that I recommend it.
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I have plenty of thoughts on empire versus nation.
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Trump's critics and some of his supporters have misunderstood his political vision for
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We've been hearing the N-word constantly for 10 years, applied to Trump.
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And I, for one, do think that empire is a more natural form of political order.
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I think it's an inescapable form of political order.
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I think it is the providential form of political order.
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Our Lord is incarnate during the Augustan age in the Roman Empire, which claims jurisdiction
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over the whole earth, which is significant, actually, for the meaning of salvation, the
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But that's a digression and a topic for another time.
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That's why he is, because he has that clear political vision, that's why he's able to
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And that's why he's able to deal directly with Putin.
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Putin said at the summit, he confirmed what Trump has said for years.
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He said, this war would not have broken out had Trump been president.
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Then it laid dormant when Trump was in his first term.
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And then it exploded again when Biden was president.
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Because, and this is another thing that maybe you wouldn't have believed 10 years ago, because
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Trump understands the dynamics of the world order in the year of our Lord, 2025 and 2016
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and every year in between, better than all the geniuses who went to all the think tanks
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with all of the degrees in international relations.
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That image in the Oval Office, that's the West.
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I think about this sometimes, speaking of life and death.
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You know, I've mentioned before, my mother died when I was in high school.
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And we were close, you know, grew up in New York.
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And sometimes you think when a loved one dies, you know, a long time, you think, wow, if
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that person came back, what would I tell them today?
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But the two things I would have to tell my mother before I say, hey, this happened and
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that, and look at my beautiful family and look at this great part of my life and look
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The things that I would have to rush to tell her, having grown up as a New Yorker in the
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90s and the 2000s, I say, you're not going to believe this one.
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You know, two things you're not going to believe.
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I said, no, but the crazy part is he became president and he's good at it.
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That, let's say, oh, by the way, I got married.
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I have all these kids, you know, I started this company, I have this show, I have whatever,
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And even in that image, there's, you can see up in the corner is Reagan is looking down.
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Reagan seems to be looking down with a smile on his face in that, in that Oval Office image.
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Okay, speaking of security threats, I talked yesterday on the show about this trucker,
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this illegal alien trucker who killed three people because he made an illegal U-turn.
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This semi-truck driver who killed three people while making an illegal U-turn in Florida
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was given an English language proficiency test.
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You will not be surprised to know that he failed.
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Federal investigators also tested him to see if he could read highway traffic signs.
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You will not be surprised to find out he failed.
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He only accurately identified one in four highway traffic signs,
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and he only correctly answered two out of 12 verbal questions.
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So, what people are going to say, whenever they see an illegal alien commit a crime,
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or, you know, kill someone in a terrible apparent accident, they'll say, well, you know, look,
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that happens, but statistically, they're really no worse than legal immigrants or native-born Americans.
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The reason that he killed those people, likely, is because he couldn't read the signs and because he couldn't speak English.
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And the reason that that was true is because he's an illegal alien.
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Immigrants struggle with these things generally, but you guys, you Democrats,
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flooded the country with illegal aliens, and then you didn't require anything of them.
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That would be the minimum that you could require, and you didn't do that.
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And so, not to belabor the point, three people are dead because Joe Biden opened the border,
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and Barack Obama opened the border, and even some Republicans opened the border.
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It's not just one administration exactly, but three real Americans are dead.
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And the likelihood of them dying was radically increased because you let people in who can't read
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And then you gave them commercial driver's licenses.
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And you try to make some argument, and you say, well, statistically, he's no more likely.
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Statistically, he is more likely to use welfare resources and to commit certain crimes.
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But even beyond that, three particular Americans, not statistics, three particular Americans are dead
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because of this particular guy that you particularly let in
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And they're going to flee accountability on the left.
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It would have been sad enough, but it's so much sadder because it's all so predictable.
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But I don't want to call him a rabbi because there are many rabbis that I like.
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And I don't want to besmirch their honor by making them associate with Shmuley Boteik.
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Shmuley Boteik, he's this attention seeker who I think he's also a sex toy vendor.
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And anyway, he took to the Times of Israel to talk about my new series,
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The Pope and the Fuhrer, The Secret Vatican Files of World War II,
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I appreciate all of you for letting me rub it in Matt and Ben's face
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that my show is doing better than all the other stuff right now.
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Anyway, the show tells the real story of the venerable Pius XII,
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who has been slandered and maligned as being complicit in the Nazi atrocities,
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Anyway, we have the facts, and so we present the reality of it.
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And Shmuley Boteik is accusing me, Ben Shapiro,
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desecrating the six million and rehabilitating a Nazi collaborator.
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And he's calling Pope Pius XII the Nazi collaborator.
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Now, no one has ever accused Shmuley Boteik of being informed.
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He is one of the most proudly ignorant people I've ever come across.
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But though he is frequently wrong, he is absolutely never in doubt.
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And he is always happy for the opportunity to leapfrog off of the attention
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that other people are getting to try to get some attention for himself.
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So he's written this absolutely preposterous, incoherent piece in the Times of Israel.
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I'm just going to throw out a few facts here about this Nazi collaborator,
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Hitler wrote to Francisco Franco and said that Pope Pius XII was his personal enemy.
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De Fuhrer says that the pope was his personal enemy.
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Next fact, Pope Pius XII personally saved, well, many, many people,
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but specifically we're talking about Jews here, personally put 800 Jews in Castel Gandolfo,
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the papal vacation spot, in order to hide them from the Nazis.
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Personally was able to save huge numbers of Jews just around Rome.
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And through his efforts, which were often clandestine and were done in silence,
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is responsible, I think the consensus number is for saving the lives of some 860,000 Jews
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Okay, final point, the chief rabbi of Rome at the end of World War II,
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the chief rabbi of Rome converted to Catholicism.
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Do you know what name he took when he was baptized and became a Catholic?
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Not just to Christians, not just to the whole world, but specifically also to Jews.
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And so anyway, I guess if you like, you can read Shmuley Boteak's babbling nonsense
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But more important, you should go watch the Pope and the Fuhrer.
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It's a great antidote to Shmuley Boteak syndrome.
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The antidote being that you fill your head with facts and reality.
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President Trump, he has earned the ire of the left.
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They're really upset because he wants to go to heaven.
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They're really upset because he wants to save people's lives.
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And then the other reasons, a secondary reason that they're upset is because he wants to improve
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the Smithsonian, you know, the series of museums, art, history, culture.
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So Trump writes, the museums throughout Washington, but all over our country are essentially the last
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The Smithsonian is out of control where everything discussed is how horrible our country is,
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how bad slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been.
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Nothing about success, nothing about brightness, nothing about the future.
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We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the museums
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and start the exact same process that has been done with colleges and universities,
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This country cannot be woke because woke is broke.
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We have the hottest country in the world, and we want people to talk about it, including our museums.
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The part that the left is seizing on to attack Trump is when he says that the Smithsonian's out of control
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where everything discussed is dot, dot, dot, how bad slavery was, dot, dot, dot.
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And they're saying, you don't, you're upset because the museums say that slavery was bad?
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The operative word for our increasingly illiterate friends.
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Trump's issue, I don't wish to presume to speak for the president, but I will.
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The issue is not that a museum in some exhibition on slavery mentions that slavery is bad.
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I don't think people really need to be told that, but the issue is not that it sort of just mentions that.
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The issue is that everything the museums say about our country is that we're bad, is that we're stupid, is that we're evil,
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is that we have an original sin called slavery.
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That's the whole focus, is all the errors in American history, all of the moral failings.
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Because when we look at our country, I mean, slavery is actually a perfect example of this.
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We had slavery in America for a vanishingly short period of time, and then we sacrificed 600,000 Americans to end it.
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Slavery still exists today in Africa and the Middle East and East Asia and like everywhere, basically, outside of the West.
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All the Muslim pirates that have been enslaving people since that religion has existed, they all get a pass.
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We don't get, in fact, not only do we not get a pass, that is our defining feature.
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He says, you know, our museums are really telling a really slanted story.
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And then the Libs will say, well, our museums need to tell the truth.
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Yeah, okay, but there are different ways to tell the truth, right?
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The museums are not currently telling the truth.
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If the museums are saying America's evil, which is what our schools say, and it's what our museums say, and it's what our cultural exhibits say and have for decades.
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What museums and centers of art and culture do is they tell stories, and the story is false.
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And Trump was just elected on an important narrative, which is to make America great again, and he won the popular vote.
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And so he's going in, and he's telling that story as we enter the bicesquicentennial, the 250th anniversary of America, when we want to rearticulate our story, remind ourselves of who we are, maybe reimagine that story, reconceptualize that, reset that story.
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And I guess I would ask the libs who are whining about this.
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And it's a story that Virgil wrote for Augustus, for the Augustan age, to reimagine, as Rome was rapidly changing, to tell a story of Rome that would then give Rome an identity.
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And the left knows this, which is why the left has sought to demoralize us, communists during the Cold War, speaking of Russia, and then our own internal enemies have sought to demoralize us for decades.
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Now, speaking of a changing cultural landscape, this is, where's my champagne?
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I didn't ask for any of the producers, but I'll yell at him anyway.
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Because MSNBC, the liberal cable channel, the openly liberal cable channel, CNN, like, pretends
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Well, what the company is saying is, it's because MSNBC was spun off of NBC Universal.
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And so, you know, it just naturally, they were going to lose the NBC from their name.
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It's just, this is just a kind of clerical issue.
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Because MSNBC has already undergone structural and investment change.
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When MSNBC started, it was a partnership between NBC and Microsoft.
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But then they merged together and you get MSNBC.
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There was no fear of brand confusion at the time.
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MSNBC could have been spun off of NBC Universal and kept the name MSNBC.
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Just like it kept the MS and the MSN in 05 and 12.
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It could have done that if the brand were not completely toxic.
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Changing the name is not primarily because of some corporate spinoff and it's no longer associated with NBC Universal.
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The Joy Reads of the world and the Chris Hayes of the world and the Al Sharptons of the world and even a touch, the Rachel Maddow's of the world, though I have a great deal of sympathy for my doppelganger.
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That is, Professor, are you bringing, did you bring me?
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We are such a decadent, we are such an absolutely decadent company that we just keep tiny little bottles of, it's not quite champagne, but it's decent Prosecco.
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Are we going to, are we pouring one out for my doppelganger, Rachel Maddow?
00:33:57.320
Folks, do you know what the number one piece of content, all content on the Daily Wire Plus app and dailywire.com is this week?
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I'll tell you what, it's not Ben Shapiro's latest series.
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It's not one of Matt Walsh's blockbuster movies.
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It is, in fact, my docu-series on Pope Pius XII.
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It's called The Pope and the Fuhrer of the Secret Vatican Files of World War II.
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I so love that a 20th century pope is the top content on Daily Wire, beating all the other guys.
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Immediately after today's show, I implore every single one of you to go watch episodes one and two.
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Because I want to beat Shapiro and Walsh at their own game.
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And nothing, nothing would delight me more than my new four-part series, The Pope and the Fuhrer, staying on top of the most watched entertainment on Daily Wire Plus.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from, it's kind of nice, a little mimosa in the morning.
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My favorite comment is from Samantha Ross in 4216.
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It says, Junior Prom Michael Knowles looks like he should be singing,
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I couldn't tell if initially that was an Italian joke.
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Or, okay, it was, I didn't know if it was like, shaboom, shaboom.
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I did, I looked, I definitely looked a little more greaser when I was a kid.
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The wasp sartorial inclinations took over a little bit later.
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Gavin Newsom really, really wants to be the Democrat nominee for president in 2028.
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And he's right now looking at a wide field, but a shallow field.
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AOC is actually the strongest in that field so far.
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He says, this is my chance, but I'm a white man, straight, in the current Democrat field.
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It would help him in the general, but it would hurt him in the primary.
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And, oh, by the way, I'm like the worst governor in America ever.
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So, he was a very liberal mayor of San Francisco.
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Let LA burn to the ground on his watch because of his policies.
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The way he is trying to distinguish himself is by trolling Trump, you know, by being really bad.
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Bela, I think he's probably writing Belarus, but this is sort of a, despite the constant negative press,
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Covfefe situation, he started to post it, and then he just, whatever, he just posted it,
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Newsom responds, all caps, Donald Tiny Hands has written his autobiography this morning.
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Unfortunately, low IQ, he spelled it wrong, beta.
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Soon you will be fired, beta, because of my perfect, beautiful maps.
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Thank you for your attention to this matter, GCN.
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Gavin Newsom, I don't know what his middle name is.
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The account has posted some that are kind of funny.
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They did one of, like, Tucker Carlson and the ghost or angel of Hulk Hogan praying over Newsom.
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Still didn't totally, but that was, like, somewhat interesting, somewhat funny.
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The ones where it's just Newsom, and this is an actual Newsom press office account.
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The one where it's just Newsom doing the Trump shtick, it doesn't totally hit.
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It's getting people to talk about it, so in that way, I guess it's helping Newsom to distinguish himself.
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It reminds me of when Rubio in 16 tried to do the Donald Trump bit.
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Because you don't want tab cola when you can get the real thing, you know, when you can get the real Coca-Cola classic.
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The reason it also doesn't work for Newsom is because it makes it all about Trump.
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You know, right now, Newsom could say in the Democrat field, look, I'm the big dog.
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All these other ones, other than maybe AOC, all these other ones are really weak compared to me.
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So I'm just going to present myself as the alpha and the real presidential guy.
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But by just trolling Trump, attempting to troll Trump like this, he's basically just saying, I'm like a reply guy to Trump.
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He actually is diminishing himself and making Trump the main character.
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And he's just this sort of ancillary character, this like 80s movie villain.
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I also think the other problem for Newsom right now, he's trying to distinguish himself quite early.
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You know, we're six, seven months into the first year of Trump's second term.
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You don't want to peak too soon in a presidential primary.
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And peaking too soon has hurt other candidates.
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He was the guy that all the smart money was on.
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And had he peaked a little bit later, who knows?
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Maybe Trump was just like an avalanche that was going to take over that primary.
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But had he peaked a little bit later, he would have done well.
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He should not have been the first guy out of the primary.
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So the fact that he's peaking early, I don't know.
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If anything, the person that I think should be happiest about these stupid posts is AOC.
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You don't become the main act by turning yourself into a heckler.
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Speaking of curious uses of language, the Cambridge Dictionary is adding new words.
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They've added 6,000 new words, but the ones that are making the rounds right now, broligarchy.
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DeLulu is that, you know that like demon doll that people have?
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Hey, okay, you can respond, but you're a millennial.
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I want to talk to a based Zoomer, like a Giga Chad mogging Zoomer.
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And I think it means it's like a particular kind of fit, like an appearance that day.
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I can barely hear you because you talk like a Zoomer and you do a half a decibel when you speak.
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But you're clearly not enough of a Giga-based super mogger because that's what it says.
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But I don't want to talk about luke or DeLulu or Broligarchy.
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I want to talk about a word that they added that some people are celebrating I think is a bad sign.
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They added the word trad wife to the dictionary.
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It's a portmanteau of traditional and wife, trad wife.
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It doesn't take a hip Zoomer to figure that one out.
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I think it's bad that they added this to the dictionary.
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In the same way that adding the word cis man would be bad.
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It shows you how it's been basically eliminated from public life entirely.
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The whole preposterous ideology at every level.
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Because three years ago, everyone was talking about cis man.
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As Norm MacDonald put it, he said it's a term to marginalize normal people.
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So it would be bad to add that because the word should just be man.
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Like a trad wife is just what we used to call a wife.
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It's like a woman who keeps a home, deals with the home economy, raises children, puts on a dress every now and again, cooks dinner.
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Now we have to have a special term because the word that we now use for wife, when we refer to wives, that could also refer to people who behave like husbands.
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It shows you how normal language has been perverted, which is one of the chief ways that the left advances its cultural agenda.
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Okay, speaking of changes, I have a big story that I'm going to tease it.
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Now, President Trump is trying to eliminate mail-in ballots before the midterm elections.
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And this, perhaps more than anything, could swing the midterms in our favor.
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This is very, very important and I think it's possible.
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But I won't tell you how yet because that's a tease.
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