Ep. 1806 - Trump Blows Up a Boat Full of Venezuelans
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Summary
Jasmin Crockett is the new AOC. She's hip, edgy, and she has a new accent. And she's a Democratic congresswoman from Texas. Today's episode of I Am Politics is a mashup of all three of those things.
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These are questions that take cultures thousands of years to answer.
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President Trump blows up a boat full of Venezuelan drug runners.
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And Democrat Jasmine Crockett adopts a new Ebonics accent.
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Okay, actually the biggest story I want to get to, but there's so much to talk about.
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But my favorite one of all is from Jasmine Crockett.
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She's the new young Congress lady, Democrat, edgy, throwing haymakers.
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Well, Jasmine Crockett, if you haven't heard of her before, she, as of two weeks ago, in
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Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Dallas, thank you so much and welcome back
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So let's talk about this redistricting battle here in Texas that has certainly reverberated
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I think that you're going to see Texas ram it through because that's what Texas does with
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And when I say the members, I mean even the Republican members.
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This map was not created by the Republicans in the House.
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And so this is a map that was sent down from up in D.C. somewhere.
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I don't think that they're actually going to win five seats.
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It doesn't actually matter what she's talking about.
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Not totally the received pronunciation of the king's English, but she just she's just
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Yesterday, Jasmine Crockett went viral for speaking a little differently.
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Maybe because these people, they are crazy because they always talk about how Christian
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Yeah, I don't know how many of them on that side are getting divorced because they getting
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caught up sleeping with their co-workers, staffers, interns, all the things.
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I'm telling you, and the wives is being messy and petty.
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I'm like, oh, that's got to be true because your lawyer would know that they're going to
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If this is just the scene from Airplane, you know, this scene from Airplane where the guys
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are talking jive and then the white lady walks up and she has to translate the jive from
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That's just that's just what what Jasmine Crockett did.
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Well, yes, the Republicans are redistricting, and I find that really, really abhorrent.
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And we are going to work very hard to stop that and impede their progress.
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You know what I was talking about, jive turkey?
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You see, in the first one, she sounds like a legislator, and in the second clip, she sounds
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like she's auditioning for Tyler Perry's Big Medea's House 15, also to play all of the
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And just like they all would make fun of Hillary Clinton, when Hillary Clinton would go out
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and talk like a regular Methodist Wesleyan graduate one day and then go out and say, you
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I've been to the mountaintop when she's speaking to a black audience and people would make fun
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This is one of the chief skills of a politician.
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I hate to defend Jasmine Crockett here, and I'll make fun of her again in a second.
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But on this point, at least, what Jasmine Crockett is doing is just a clunky, exaggerated
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version of her job, of what a politician is supposed to do.
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What a politician is supposed to do is be able to speak to disparate groups and bring them
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together to form a coalition to gain political power and then effect political change.
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That's what a politician does, especially in a Democratic country.
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The difference is Trump is much less clunky about it and seems much more authentic because
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Trump can go in and speak to a room of billionaire, multi-billionaire industrialists.
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He can go speak to a room of like wacko, weirdo, Silicon Valley tech zillionaires.
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And he can also go speak to a bunch of construction workers and blue-collar workers and people who've
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And he can speak to all of them using the same voice, the total, regular, normal Donald
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But he is appealing to them in different ways by offering different policies, by giving
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But what he's doing is basically what Jasmine Crockett does, too.
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We say, man, this is really degrading for our country because it's not even just that she's
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She's changing the way that she uses the English language, meaning she says, I is talking about
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and they is saying, and it's this degraded patois, this contrived patois creole type language
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Because in a country such as ours, one of the fears, one of the fears of the framers of
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the Constitution is that we would degrade from being a united country, albeit with diverse
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localities, into just an assemblage of factions, each vying for their own interests that can
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barely speak to one another with no concern for the common good, merely interested in their
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If we don't have a common language, if we don't commonly know how to make nouns and verbs
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agree, then we're in a really bad spot because we can't speak to each other.
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And if you can't speak to each other in self-government, then you can't persuade one another.
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And if you can't persuade one another, then you can't actually govern.
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And it's almost worse with Jasmine Crockett because she knows that the phrase they is is
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not correct, but she's choosing to say it anyway, which is really bad.
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It's a kind of, it's not just even a natural degradation that comes with taking democratization
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to its extreme, it's, it's, it's intentional, it's contrived, it's, it's really, really bad.
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The inescapable conclusion is that something has happened to our political order that has
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And, and the reality is, if, if you can't use the English language even somewhat properly,
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I'm not saying you don't get a word wrong every day, but if you, if you don't have a
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grasp on the English language, you should not be involved in government.
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You should not, you should not be, you shouldn't vote.
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You know, they always say you have to all vote.
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The most important thing is that everyone, but not really.
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If you don't know anything, if you're not, if you're not capable of, of even the most
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basic competencies that, that would be an expected of an adult, then you shouldn't vote.
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But, but if, if we are simultaneously demanding this mass democratization to the point that
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people like Nancy Pelosi want to lower the voting age, lower the voting age to 16, then you're,
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you're going to get to a spot where in order to appeal to the greater number of people who
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have been brought into, to a constant act of participation in the democracy, you'd have
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That has been a fear of people in democratic governments forever.
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Everyone's making fun of this clip of Jasmine Crockett because it kind of sounds like she's
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She can speak English in a perfectly normal way.
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She thinks it's to her political benefit not to.
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Speaking of people who don't speak English very well, a group of Venezuelan drug runners
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just got blown up, exploded off the face of the earth by President Trump.
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Another clip that went viral, but puts a little more of a smile on your face than Jasmine Crockett
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There's a boat from Venezuela run by Trende Aragua, a vicious, vicious gang, now designated
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And then you're looking at this boat through what looks like a military scope.
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Okay, if you're only listening to it now, it explodes and it catches fire and then you
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Trump then tweeted about this and he said, earlier this morning on my orders, U.S. military
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forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Trende Aragua narco-terrorists in
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Trende Aragua is a designated foreign terrorist organization operating under the control of the
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Nicolas Maduro, of Nicolas Maduro, leader of Venezuela, responsible for mass murder, drug
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trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States
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The strike occurred while the terrorists were at sea in international waters, transporting
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illegal narcotics heading to the United States.
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The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action.
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Please let this serve as a notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the
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Followed by 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 exclamation points.
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One, you have, what, 75,000 to 100,000 Americans poisoned every year by fentanyl, just by fentanyl.
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We're not talking about any of the other drugs.
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And they were headed to the United States to do more damage to the American people.
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So it is very, very good that President Trump blew them up.
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It's also very, very good that President Trump aired this video and posted about it and put 11 exclamation points afterward, just for emphasis.
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And it shows you what military strikes themselves are for.
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It really all comes down to this question, what's it for?
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And even here, it's kind of jarring to hear this kind of language when it comes to drug runners in Latin America.
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Because we only hear these phrases, kinetic strike, killed in action, terrorists.
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We think about jihadis when we hear those words.
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We think about people in the Middle East and we see videos from Afghanistan or Iraq or something.
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It's very jarring for us to see videos from Venezuela or from international waters headed to the United States.
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The U.S. military is conducting operations here in the Western Hemisphere.
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They're supposed to be on the other side of the world in some sandpit fighting wars of empire in the Middle East.
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The U.S. military can do a lot of things, including secure the global order, even in places on the other side of the world.
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But what it's most immediately for, what it's most directly for is protecting our country.
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If we are not protecting our country from the mass poisoning that groups like Trendy Aragor are bringing in, if we're not protecting the borders of our country, well, we're not protecting our country at all.
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That's the shift, actually, from our political order over the last quarter century to Trump, to this kind of new thing that we're in, is we would always think about defending America just on the other side of the globe.
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Trump's saying, hey, how about we try to defend our country here first?
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Let's just, I'm not saying we can't do it on the other side of the globe.
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Let's just, let's just figure out if we can, like, have a border.
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Let's just maybe stop the mass poisoning of our people first, and then we'll go think about Iraq or whatever.
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But Trump's post actually gets to an even deeper point about what military strikes are for, what war is for.
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I know it sounds, people are so used to reading some quotes from George Orwell that they think that sounds Orwellian.
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They think that sounds crazy to say that war is for peace.
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When we talk about just war, there are just wars and unjust wars.
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To have a just war, part of having a just war, is aiming at peace.
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That strike yesterday was definitely justified.
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And that's what I really love about him posting this.
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And the last line there, he goes, just take notice, everyone.
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Hey, all these other guys right south of our border.
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And we're going to blow you off of the earth without any warning whatsoever other than this
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Because that video alone will reduce the number of drugs and people who are being smuggled into
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I mean, you've seen it already to date, even before this video, that new migration into the
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United States, new illegal migration has dropped essentially to zero.
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None of the stuff Joe Biden and the Democrats were demanding.
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Don't come into the country and you won't get exploded.
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And I'd love to see the Democrats object to it.
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No, you can't deploy U.S. military resources to protect our country.
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No, you need to send them to the other side of the world.
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How dare you blew up the poor trend of Aragua narco terrorists.
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Won't somebody please think of the narco terrorists?
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Now, speaking of President Trump and death, President Trump yesterday addressed something
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that, you know, certainly should have been top of mind, namely his own death, which supposedly
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Something completely different, but about a big viral social media trend over the weekend.
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How did you find out over the weekend that you were dead?
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1.3 million user engagements as of Saturday morning about your demise.
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You know, I have heard it's sort of crazy, but last week I did numerous news conferences,
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They went very well, like this is going very well.
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And they said, there must be something wrong with him.
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And nobody ever said there was ever anything wrong with him.
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And we know he wasn't in the greatest of shape.
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Now, you knew I did an interview that lasted for about an hour and a half with somebody.
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And everybody saw that was on one of your competitors.
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The guy, I have not been up close and personal with Trump often.
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But I've been in the same room as that guy like three times or something ever.
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And I was really up close for the first time just a week or two ago.
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And it's so apparent he has much, much more energy than the people around him.
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Even his haters, if they're being honest, they know that.
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And back under Biden, even Biden's biggest supporters knew that this guy had pudding in his brains.
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So now you're just wish casting, wishing that I'm dead.
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Now, Trump said something even funnier over the past few days.
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This one, it actually didn't go as viral as I expected it to, but it's really, really funny.
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President Trump was doing an interview with The Daily Caller's Reagan Reese.
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And he did this compliment sandwich where he said, Israel's really great.
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And in the middle, he said, you know, Israel used to control our Congress.
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Sure enough, on the top of the blade, here's a sticker just as she described it.
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at least for some period of time, when a person is clinically dead, they're still conscious.
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When you have these, not just near-death experiences, but even just broader, numinous experience,
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Speaking of holy things, we turn to the holy land.
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Because President Trump, he was doing an interview, great, great interview from Reagan Rees at the Daily Caller.
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And wide-ranging, really good questions, really good answers from Trump.
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And he had this to say, I'm going to read it verbatim.
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Israel is amazing because, you know, I have good support from Israel.
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Look, nobody has done more for Israel than I have, including the recent attacks on Iran, with Iran, wiping that thing out.
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We, that plane, wiped them out like nobody ever saw before.
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You know, we got back and CNN was trying to say, well, maybe it wasn't complete, and it turned out totally complete beyond complete.
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In the very first part, he goes, I love Israel.
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I've done more for Israel than anyone, including the attacks on Iran.
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So he's saying here, it's like, look, I love Israel.
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Usually what they say is, this is totally for us, and Israel might benefit, but it's totally for us.
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He's saying, no, no, no, Israel really wants us to.
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And look, the entire world benefits from Iran not getting a nuclear weapon.
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But Israel most immediately benefits from it, because Israel is the sworn and immediate enemy of Iran, and Israel's a lot closer to Iran than the United States is.
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He goes, I've done so much for Israel, like that bomb strike on Iran.
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It wasn't just Israel, but already he's opening that up.
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He sounds like both the most pro-Israel and the most anti-Israel person.
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If you go back 20 years, I mean, I will tell you, Israel had the strongest lobby in Congress of anything or body, and of any company or corporation or state that I've seen.
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He goes, there is a time they had the strongest lobby of anyone, any company, any state, any anything.
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If you wanted to be a politician, you could not speak badly.
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But today, you know, you have AOC plus three, and you have all these lunatics, and they've really, they've changed it.
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But if you go back 15 years, probably that's when it started, right?
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And now they don't, you know, I'm a little surprised to see that.
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You know, October 7th was a truly horrible day because I've seen the pictures.
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And it's not even amazing because of what he's saying about the state of Israel.
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That's, the state of Israel happens to be the subject of this amazing display of rhetorical and political skill, which is what I'm most interested in.
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I'm somewhat interested in the state of Israel and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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I'm certainly interested in the Holy Land and the Holy Sites and American, I am somewhat.
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But to me, it's the skill of this whole thing because it's like, who said it?
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The most pro-Israel guy ever who has a town in Israel named after him or the person who most hates Israel or Greta Thunberg or Hamas or someone like that.
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It was, Israel has total control over Congress.
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Or no, it was Trump who has a town named after him in Israel.
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They had, look, they had total control over Congress.
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So, on the one hand, he says, oh yeah, Israel had an insane amount of control.
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They would fly all the politicians out to Israel.
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Which means that, the skill here is, he can defang a political issue.
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So, no, should people take this very seriously, the Israeli influence in America?
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I mean, you should be aware of all the lobbies on Capitol Hill.
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But what he says is, you know, they had a lot of control.
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So, the people who have these really fantastical views of, you know, the state of Israel just
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pulling the puppet strings on America and American democracy being a total illusion, whatever.
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Look at how members of Congress have responded.
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You now have pretty overtly anti-Israel members of Congress, certainly on the Democrat side,
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where that's become more or less the mainstream position.
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Even on the Republican side, where support for Israel was even higher.
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He goes, yeah, yeah, no, they had it, but they don't anymore.
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Which means that they don't have some kind of hegemonic lock on America.
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Which means that the truly fanatical, frothing Israel haters, they weren't right.
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But also the people who say that Israel has no influence on American foreign policy,
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they're not right either, because the Israel lobby was really, really strong.
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It is an amazing ability to cut through this issue,
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grant premises to two sides who seem totally opposed,
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even maintain support from your foreign ally Israel,
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while essentially threatening your foreign ally Israel and saying,
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yo, you got to get with the program because support in America is totally dropping,
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and Congress hates you, and I'm the only one who's protecting you now,
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And in the context of what he is substantively saying,
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Because what he's saying here is, man, 10, 15 years ago,
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you couldn't say anything negative about Israel.
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Because I'm really popular, and you're not popular anymore,
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and Congress hates your guts, and they're the bad cop.
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And I'm willing to say that you had a lot of influence.
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establish a coalition, establish some consensus,
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Now, speaking of control, there were eight people killed in Chicago over the weekend.
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Fifty-eight people were injured, were shot in Chicago over the weekend.
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So President Trump has announced from the Oval Office that he's going to Chicago.
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The regular military, which we're willing to do, we have to.
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And after we do this, we'll go to another location and we'll make it safe also.
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We're going to make our cities very, very safe.
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You have an incompetent mayor, grossly incompetent.
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And we'll straighten that one out probably next.
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And the people in Chicago, Mr. Vice President, are screaming for us to come.
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African-American ladies, beautiful ladies, are saying,
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So for those of you only listening, he's wearing a hat.
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It looks like a MAGA hat, but it says Trump was right about everything.
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He's sitting, no tie, the vice president, no tie,
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sitting in the Oval Office wearing a red hat that says Trump was right about everything,
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saying that he's going to invade the city of Chicago.
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And J.D. Vance in the back, sir, of course, of course, they're screaming.
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And the person who's not laughing is the governor of Illinois, who is now opposing this and who is making an argument that it is going to persuade the Democrats and the libs and the squishes and the weaklings in the Republican Party.
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Because Trump is showing you something, not just about how the political structure of the country works, from the federal government to the states to the localities.
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He's showing, he's actually giving a lesson in morality.
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As you know, this year, we're celebrating a decade of the Daily Wire, not by looking back, but by launching what's next.
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First up, Monday, for the first time in years, we're bringing in brand new Daily Wire talent with the premiere of the Isabel Brown Show.
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Next Wednesday night, the main event, Friendly Fire.
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All of us getting together to do what friends do, argue, debate, punch each other, maybe smoke a few Mayflower cigars.
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Do not miss the premiere, because Inside Friendly Fire is where we're dropping the good stuff.
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New series, new projects, huge announcements, surprises we've been holding back until now.
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It's okay, I get it, because they thought, in the 60s, they thought Paul McCartney was dead.
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It's fine, it's innocuous, totally inoffensive, but not funny.
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Had this to say to Trump's threat to go in and restore order to Chicago.
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I refuse to play a reality game show with Donald Trump again.
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What I want are the federal dollars that have been promised to Illinois and Chicago for violence prevention programs that have proven to work.
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That is money that Illinois taxpayers send to the federal government, and it's an insult to any and every citizen to suggest that any governor should have to beg the president of any political party for resources owed their people.
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I'd like to ask a question of my own, and it's one the press should be asking as well.
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When did we become a country where it's okay for the U.S. president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want?
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Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
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Okay, man, my first take is just, wow, man, this guy is so much more boring than Trump.
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He's so much more or less compelling and persuasive.
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I have that on the mind because of Jasmine Crockett's little dance routine from the top of the show.
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He then says, you know, we send tax money to the federal government, and we want to get it back on our terms, not on the federal government's terms, and that's our right or whatever.
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When you're demanding federal resources, you've got to play ball with the federal government.
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You've sent them to the federal government, and the states do get federal dollars in certain ways, but you have no right to that.
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He says, we don't want you to come in here and clean up Chicago.
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And if we don't want it, that's that, and you can't do it because we don't want it.
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Sometimes you've got to eat your broccoli, and sometimes you've got to listen to your father.
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There are limits on what your father can tell you to do.
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But a lot of the time, on important matters, you have to listen to your father, and you have to eat your broccoli.
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And it doesn't matter whether you want to or not, you little child.
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This, what J.B. Pritzker is articulating is the consent-based morality, not just consent-based, the consent-exclusive morality, which says that good and bad, right and wrong, is determined strictly by whether or not I want it.
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And what Trump is saying is, no, no, no, we can't have 58 people getting shot in a major American city over a single weekend.
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We can't have eight people murdered in a single American city over the weekend.
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I don't even care what you want, residents of Chicago.
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Now, Trump is couching his going into Chicago by saying, look, they're all begging for it.
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Beautiful black women want me to come to Chicago.
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It's not the wishing that justifies the federal government coming in to restore order to Chicago.
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It's kind of like that Norm MacDonald bit about Bill Cosby.
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People say that Bill Cosby's hypocrisy was the worst part.
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That was the worst part of what Bill Cosby did.
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It's not the willing that justifies these kinds of actions.
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Federal government carries out a number of functions, and one of the functions of the
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federal government is filling in when the states cannot control their territories, and
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when the state is there for when the cities cannot control their territories.
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When the cities and states fail, as Governor Pritzker is pointing out, the federal government
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has not only a right, but a responsibility to intervene.
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And no one gives a damn what J.D. Pritzker thinks about it.
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If J.D. Pritzker, if his opinion really mattered, he would probably have done his job, huh?
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If J.D. Pritzker had the sort of judgment and opinion that mattered, he would be the
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But because he failed, I especially don't care what he has to say about this.
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And Trump is, it would be easier if the Illinois authorities invited the federal government.
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Trump said that in the cabinet meeting last week.
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Now, speaking of burning things down and liberal disorder, Burning Man has just concluded.
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I didn't realize how long Burning Man has been going on.
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Burning Man is when all these hippies go to the desert and do a bunch of drugs and have
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sex with each other for a few days in the end of summer.
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And then they light effigies on fire and engage in bizarre pagan rituals.
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So I thought this thing had been going on for, I don't know, 20 years or something.
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The event brings some 70,000 to 80,000 people to the desert and they all do stuff they shouldn't
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So something going viral out of Burning Man, I've never been, you'll be surprised to hear,
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is that the famous orgy dome, which is what it sounds like, it's just, it's a dome they
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build in the desert and then people go and have orgies in it.
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You can check it out in the Daily Mail or on TikTok.
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It should be like, another turning point across.
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Oh, the sweet, sweet memories we made in the orgy dome.
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Anyway, a wonderful gust of wind took that one down.
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But the orgies were not the most depraved thing to take place.
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ABC News reports, there is a homicide investigation going on because Pershing County Sheriff's Office
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responded to reports on Saturday night of a man lying in a pool of blood.
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While the effigy was burning and everyone was worshiping this bizarre burning idol, there
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was a guy lying in blood who is now investigating as having been murdered.
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I mean, I know what it is because I can look at it.
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But I didn't know what they said it was, what the founders, what the party goers say it was.
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And they say that it is an event focused on community, art, self-expression, self-reliance.
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It's just this hippie, commie thing where it's just all about us and all about our self-expression.
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You can go with your wife to the orgy dome and pretend you're not married.
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It's just this description is really perfect because it reminds you that Burning Man is
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It's not new in the sense that it's been going on since 1986, but it's not even new in 1986.
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All these, I have some millennial friends and associates who have been to Burning Man.
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Wow, we've just discovered something really cool, man.
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You don't understand what it's like to go to the desert and just go to the orgy dome and burn a giant,
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Actually, this is the kind of thing that's been going on a lot longer than 1986.
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This is the kind of thing that's been going on since antiquity.
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This is exactly what every ancient pagan Bacchanal was.
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This is exactly what the Israelites were doing in the desert with the golden calf.
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I know if the last time you read the story of the golden calf, you know, Moses goes up the mountain
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and the Israelites just instantly start worshiping an idol.
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Well, if the last time you read your Bible or heard the story was when you were a kid,
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you'd probably think that what they were doing was they built a golden idol
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and then they were just kind of bowing down in front of it or something.
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They were doing like weird sex stuff and they were doing weird, violent, gross, abusive things.
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And they were, I don't know that they had any drugs, but if they had the kind of stuff
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that was furnishing Burning Man, you know, I don't know, tabs of acid or whatever,
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And were worshiping an idol like the people at Burning Man.
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This is what every crazy pagan festival has always been.
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And the people who go there are probably not the kind of people you want to emulate.
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And the society that that leads to is probably not the society you want to live in.
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And if you want an alternative, as I think increasingly people do,
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then you got to turn away from the Burning Man.
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And you got to turn away even from the constituent parts of the Burning Man.
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The orgy tents and all the drugs and the communism.
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Community art, self-expression, and self-reliance.
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Notice the only word that's repeated here is self.
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That's really what all pagan festivals come down to.
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Giving free reign to selfish desires rather than doing what you're supposed to do.
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And we need a few more gusts of wind to tear down the rest of the orgy domes.
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He has a check out for two months free on all annual plans.