Ep. 1817 - GOOD RIDDANCE： Jimmy Kimmel Off Air Over Charlie Kirk Lies
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Jimmy Kimmel lied to his audience, and now he's out of a job. Michael calls out the White House, and President Trump's reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk. Plus, a new app that helps you build your credit, and more.
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After Charlie Kirk's death, Jimmy Kimmel misled his viewers by telling them,
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based on nothing and in direct contradiction of all available evidence,
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that Charlie was murdered by one of his own political allies.
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We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize
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this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they
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can to score political points from it. In between the finger pointing, there was
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grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism.
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But on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this.
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My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. May I ask, sir, personally,
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how are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir?
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I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks?
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They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House,
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which is something they've been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years.
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Yes. He's at the fourth stage of grief, construction.
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Demolition, construction. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. You get it? Charlie Kirk was assassinated for having
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open debate. And so, and that is, it's, it's, it's funny. It's funny. It's funny. Trump's reaction
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is funny, is anyway. The weak punchline is not really the problem here. The problem is that first
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part, when he says, ah, you know, those right-wingers, they were trying, they were spinning so hard to
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pretend like, like Charlie was assassinated by some, anyone who wasn't one of their own.
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The shooter engraved far left-wing messages on the bullets that he used to kill Charlie Kirk.
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And then he confessed, allegedly, everything that he did to his trans-furry boyfriend.
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Don't think he was a Berkey and conservative. It was a lie. It was a lie that Jimmy told his
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audience. That was a few days ago. As of last night, Jimmy Kimmel doesn't have a job.
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This is a great move by ABC. And it follows many other very wise personnel decisions by major
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corporations this week in response to the many employees across the country who have minimized,
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and even in some cases celebrated, the assassination of a young man who only ever tried to talk it out.
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If the message was not clear already, it should be clear as day to everyone on the left by now.
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Now, we have had enough, and the consequences will continue until behavior improves.
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Jimmy Kimmel was not fired merely for a bad joke.
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Jimmy Kimmel was not fired merely because of pressure from the federal government,
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Jimmy Kimmel hasn't even permanently been fired yet.
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If you had an employee who mocked the assassination of a political debater
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merely for stating his opinion and hearing out the other side,
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if you ran any corporation anywhere in the country and you had an employee who did that,
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it would be the right thing to do to fire that employee.
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For all of the reasons that we've been discussing all week,
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because that would be an example of the thought that stops thought.
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That would be the kind of thing that would obstruct the operation of your business because
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you'd have all of your other employees sitting next to this person in the cubicle wondering
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if that person were taking the steps to murder them.
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You can't run a hospital in which the nurses are credibly suspected of trying to kill the patients.
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You can't run a restaurant if the customers think that the servers and the kitchen staff are trying to poison them.
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You can't have a country with open debate and the free exchange of ideas
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when some people in that marketplace of ideas are actively trying to murder the other people.
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So if you were in any other company, you would be wise to fire Jimmy Kimmel just for that.
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Jimmy Kimmel was fired for advancing a lie in contravention of all available evidence
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immediately after a major national trauma and tragedy.
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And he was not fired because of government pressure.
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He was fired because of the wise decision of ABC, though that was done in concert with federal regulators
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looking into the misdeed that Jimmy Kimmel committed.
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Here we have Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC, speaking on Benny Johnson's show.
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But frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.
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These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel.
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Or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC.
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Again, there's actions that we can take on licensed broadcasters.
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And frankly, I think that it's really sort of past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves
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push back on Comcast and Disney and say, listen, we are going to preempt.
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We are not going to run Kimmel anymore until you straighten this out.
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Because we, we licensed broadcaster, are running the possibility of fines or licensed revocations from the FCC
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if we continue to run content that ends up being a pattern of news distortion.
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And here you're going to lose some libertarians and here you're going to lose some squishy types.
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But you shouldn't because what they're going to say is, well, ABC News is a private corporation
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and ABC News should have the right to let its comedians go on TV and lie and make jokes in poor taste.
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The joke in poor taste is a little bit of a red herring.
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Because these news networks are not merely private corporations.
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They have a purpose, which is, in the case of news, to tell the truth, to inform the public.
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That's why the government supports them in their mission.
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When those news broadcasters are contradicting the truth, obscuring the truth, undermining the truth,
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the government has not only a right but a responsibility to hold them to account.
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They only receive their licenses to inform the public.
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An honest mistake here or there, okay, that's understandable.
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But to go out after a clear political assassination by a very, very clear assassin
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and to flip the story on its head, to tell the opposite of the truth,
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merely to score political points or to pander to your left-wing political base, that is unacceptable.
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And so Brendan Carr says we can do this the easy way or the hard way.
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And ABC chose the easy way, it seems, and indefinitely suspended Kimmel.
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Pace, libertarians and squishes, the hard way is not, you know, Mussolini showing in
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and beating his enemies into submission with a billy club.
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The hard way is regulating these industries as they are intended to be regulated.
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The hard way is the government simply doing its basic job.
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Explain to me, if this is out of line, what the FCC exists for in the first place.
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Brian Stelter, the former CNN journalist, I don't know who he's working for now, if anyone.
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He's another one who felt the consequences of his bad work.
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He tweeted out, he says, I asked FCC Chair Brendan Carr if he had any new comment
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now that ABC has pulled Jimmy Kimmel's show, and he sent me this gif.
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And it's the office doing the raise the roof symbol.
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The consequences will continue until behavior improves.
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This national trauma, not merely the assassination of Charlie Kirk, actually more so the reaction
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to the assassination of Charlie Kirk from people in elite media, from professionals, from educators,
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The reaction to Charlie's murder, the minimization of it, and in some cases, the celebration of it,
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That's the second national trauma on top of the first one, watching this emblem of civil debate
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It's that second national trauma that has impelled, I think, some of the reaction here.
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Because it's a recognition by half the country that the other half, large numbers of people,
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including normal people in the other half, want to murder us.
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We cannot have an open marketplace of ideas that way.
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In order to achieve that under these conditions, we must reestablish order.
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And order, in this case, means suppressing the people who are undermining the whole system.
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For example, the kind of people who celebrate the murder of an innocent man.
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The rejoinder to this that you're going to hear from some libertarians and some squishes
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is that we should have let the free market do its work.
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And so his ratings were going to drop, and he was going to be fired eventually anyway.
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Why would we make him a political martyr when he was going to go away anyway?
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I believe that that point of view, I understand it.
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I think that point of view makes the same laissez-faire error that is made by the people
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who oppose the firings generally of those who celebrate murder.
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It's this laissez-faire error that doesn't merely appreciate the efficiency of free markets,
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for instance, that doesn't merely appreciate the truth that can come about as a matter of
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open debate, but that actually makes an idol out of those things, that makes an idol out
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of the so-called invisible hand, the invisible hand of the free market, which is really just
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I think it makes that error because we've tried that for decades.
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The left comes into power, wields power in a heavy-handed and unjust way, and then we
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respond by winning elections and not wielding power at all in neither a just nor an unjust
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We just don't wield power at all because what we say following this argument is, well, we
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don't want to do anything because if we do something that will set the precedent for Democrats
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to do something against us in the future, and heaven forfend, we have that.
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We are not going to address current real social problems and injustices because of some
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hypothetical injustice that might occur in the future that is actually already occurring
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I see no evidence that no matter how low the ratings got, ABC was going to cancel Jimmy
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And I see a lot of evidence that the lies, the fraud, the deceit that is being perpetuated
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by these people, not to say the wrath that is ginned up by those who celebrate the murder
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of Charlie Kirk, the immense damage done to the so-called free marketplace of ideas by the
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I see real problems occurring right now, and we need to do something to stop those in accordance
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with justice and in the advance of the common good.
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Your invisible hand, your providence for atheists is not always going to save you.
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That's magical thinking with very, very little evidence.
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And conservatives have not had, it's not that conservatives have always lacked a moral
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What they lack is fortitude, which is the prerequisite of all the other virtues.
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We will keep this up in a circumscribed, just, prudent way in advance of the common good.
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We will keep this up until the behavior improves.
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President Trump has just posted to Truth Social that he will be categorizing Antifa as
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I want to get his words exactly right because this is a little bit confusing.
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He says, I am pleased to inform our many USA patriots that I am designating Antifa, all
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I will also be strongly recommending that those funding Antifa be thoroughly investigated in
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accordance with the highest legal standards and practices.
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I was just speaking to my father yesterday, catching up on everything, and I mentioned this.
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I said, you know, something concrete that I really hope comes out of this is that the
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federal government actually moves in to dismantle left-wing terror organizations, the most notable
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I said, because it's the same problem as the people who think that the shooter was a Republican.
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It's the same problem as the people who listen to the Jimmy Kimmels and the news networks and
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There's a person in federal prison right now because he worked with Antifa to try to blow
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I'm surprised he is in prison because often left-wing violence goes unrecognized and left-wing
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It's a collective of anarchists and communists.
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In fact, the Antifa operative who's in federal prison for trying to attack me was caught multiple
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times with explosive material on him going through TSA and allowed to board the plane anyway.
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We're not talking about some nerds who read Das Kapital and talk about how much they love
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We're talking about terrorists, people who train and build bombs to murder conservatives
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Now, they're anarchists, so it's not the most tightly run organization, but it is organized.
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It is recognizable as a group with a collective identity, and it needs to be dismantled.
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And its members need to be ruthlessly prosecuted and suppressed.
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There's a problem, though, which is that when we're talking about foreign terrorists like
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Al-Qaeda or Trendyaragua, for that matter, we can bring the full weight of U.S. military
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That is not true for domestic organized crime generally.
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You don't send in the 101st Airborne to take down the mafia or to take down the Ku Klux Klan
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That said, we have taken down the mafia, and we have taken down the Ku Klux Klan, and we
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The way you have to do it is a little bit different, though.
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So, President Trump here points to one way that it can happen, which is these guys do
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They get money through various NGOs, trickled down from various extremely wealthy left-wing
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The sources of the money need to be investigated.
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And, where appropriate, they need to be punished.
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There's a prospect of racketeering charges against these left-wing groups.
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That's the way that the government took down the mob.
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Furthermore, you could revoke the tax-exempt status of the liberal nonprofits and NGOs that
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Furthermore, you could put informants into these groups and bring conspiracy charges against
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these people when they plan a tax on conservatives.
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There are many mechanisms available to the government to take these people down.
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I am extraordinarily gratified to see that the Trump administration is taking this seriously.
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When it was just Antifa showing up and making a ruckus outside of conservative speaker events
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on campus 10 years ago, I guess people look the other way.
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When it was just Antifa burning people in effigy on the streets or defacing monuments
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or maybe occasionally punching some conservatives, shoving some conservatives, shutting down some
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conservative event, I guess people look the other way.
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Left-wing ideologues have assassinated the most prominent emblem of civil debate on the right.
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Add on top of that, the large-scale support for political violence from the left against
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the right reflected not only in the media, not only on social media, but also in the public
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opinion polls we've seen, for example, from YouGov in recent days, something fundamentally
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A couple days ago, the Republicans voted to get tougher on crime in Washington, D.C.
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It is under the control of Congress, ultimately.
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And the Congress voted on a bill to get tough on crime in D.C.
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We're not talking about Xi Jinping's prison camps.
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We're talking about a bill that would, for instance, require people who are ages 18 to
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The bill would simply require adults ages 18 to 24 when they commit crimes to be charged as adults.
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Now, you're probably saying, well, what's happening now?
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What's happening now is that in Washington, D.C., some gangster can go rape a woman, steal a car, and murder an entire family.
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And if he's 24 years old, he could be charged as a minor in principle because 18 to 24-year-olds can be charged as minors.
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Now, slightly more controversially, the bill would lower the age at which someone can be charged as an adult for first-degree murder, sexual assault, armed robbery, or assault to, in some cases, 14.
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Now, this, some people might say, well, 14-year-olds, they're so young.
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Well, the problem is when you look at rates of crime in D.C., teenagers as young as 14, and specifically black teenagers, are committing these very, very serious crimes at very, very high rates.
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And if they're merely charged as minors, you can't do anything about the problem.
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It's a terribly unfortunate situation, but there are two paths forward, two options.
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You can either ignore the problem and allow more people to be raped and assaulted and robbed and murdered in the hopes that the invisible hand of the free market or something will fix that problem in the end, eventually, through, I don't know, cultural changes or increased standards of living or something.
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What do you think is going to help fix the problem?
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Look the other way, bury your head in the sand and hope for the best, or use the police to arrest the criminals and hold them to greater accountability?
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Every Republican in Congress voted to advance this.
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Thomas Massey, probably the chief political enemy of Donald Trump within the Republican Party these days.
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But Thomas Massey, who has, in recent months, really opposed Trump, supposedly on principled grounds.
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I have nothing against Thomas Massey, personally.
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And his defenders are going to say, well, he's so principled.
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And so, I guess his principled libertarian argument is that you shouldn't try teenagers as adults.
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You should, if you want to prosecute them, you should increase the penalties for teenagers.
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But let's just say that his views are principled.
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I think a lot of Massey's behavior is driven by the fact that Trump is his political enemy.
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And he wants to gun after him before he's thrown out of office.
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But let's just say, I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Let's say that this vote came from his principles.
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In that case, the problem is that his principles are wrong.
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Having principles and $1.50 will get you a cup of coffee if your principles are useless.
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And unfortunately, we've seen this with a handful of other members of Congress and even of the Senate.
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They're so concerned with appearing politically pure that they never do anything.
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They never do anything to advance the cause of good.
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And sometimes they side with the bad guys to undermine good and advance evil based on principles.
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That's not a good principle because the chief political principle is prudence.
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Not at the exclusion of justice and courage, temperance, and all the other stuff.
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But in this case, if your principles are leading you to vote against a bill to get a little tougher on crime in D.C.,
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which has descended into third world chaos, I think you ought to rethink your principles.
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But then I don't share those principles because I'm not a libertarian.
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Speaking of principles, the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, has just come out swinging against wealth inequality.
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Now, you know, the terms left and right are relatively modern terms compared to the history of the church.
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The terms left and right in politics are 230 years old.
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The atheists and the libs sat on the left side of the National Assembly.
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The monarchists and the Christians sat on the right side.
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So sometimes popes seem like they're a little bit on the left.
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Even Pope Francis, who was notably more liberal than many of his predecessors,
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on the one hand, he would talk about climate change.
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And then on the next breath, he would say that gay marriage is a machination of the father of lies
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that seeks to deceive and confuse the children of God.
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On the one hand, he would promote mass migration.
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On the other hand, he would say that transgenderism is a lie and that abortion is like hiring a hitman.
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But in this case, especially with Pope Leo XIV appearing much more traditional,
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much more like a normal pope, I'm really gratified by the early days of his pontificate,
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But there are going to be some people who say, okay, well, here comes the left-wing stuff.
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Here's the pope complaining about wealth inequality.
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I can't wait for President Trump and the American conservatives to shoot that nonsense down.
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Pope Leo the other day in the interview criticized the fact that some CEOs make hundreds of times
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He's supposed to smack down the pope for bringing up a problem brought about by wealth inequality.
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His direct words were, yesterday the news said that Elon Musk is going to be the first trillionaire
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If that is the only thing that has value anymore, then we're in big trouble.
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He says there's a problem if what we primarily value is money, if that's all that we value,
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Pope John Paul II said this in Centesimus Annus, which is an encyclical to celebrate 100 years
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of Rerum Novarum, which was an encyclical by Pope Leo XIII, from whom Pope Leo XIV took
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And in it, the popes criticized socialism immensely, criticized communism.
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In Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul II says that free markets are the most efficient way
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to allocate goods and services around an economy.
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But we are not merely a political order and political community serving an economy.
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We like the forces that move about in market economies.
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We don't make an idol out of the invisible hand.
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We don't flip our society on its head to say that we are not merely citizens who benefit
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from markets, but rather we are slaves to the all-knowing, all-powerful free market.
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And Pope Leo is pointing out there are corrosive effects to massive wealth inequality.
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To the individual, to the individual accruing massive wealth, divorced from the political
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Avarice being the beginning of ills in the city forever.
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And it makes us consider ourselves simply as individuals with private interests rather than
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as social creatures in pursuit of the common good who benefit from the common good.
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I said this about Trump when Trump was talking about sending in the troops to go fix the cities.
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I said, the libertarians and the individualists and the chamber of commerce Republicans, they're
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I'm going to be here in my nice red rural area.
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We have a right to those cities to some degree.
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And it tells a lot of your countrymen who maybe don't have all the resources, the financial
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It tells them, hey, we're going to go live in our gated communities where we don't have
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to deal with crime, where we can send our kids to good schools.
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And if your families die from fentanyl and gangster bullets, that's too bad.
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We're not going to be two nations of haves and have-nots.
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So one nation conservatism is a phrase from the British politician, Benjamin Disraeli,
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.
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This is why you have to have a sense of community, a sense of belonging.
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You have to have care, emotional and spiritual care, and also some material care from the
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privileged classes, from the blessed classes, from the hardworking, fortunate classes,
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however you want to call them, to the people who haven't done quite as well for any multitude
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You don't want to increase resentment among people against the wealthy.
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Are they decided by the invisible hand of the free market?
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Okay, speaking of religion, horrifying scene from Dearborn, Michigan.
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One that if this is aired, if this is seen by every voter in the country, Democrats are
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For over a week, we've paused advertisements and any appeals for Daily Wire memberships to
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focus on the only thing that matters in this moment, remembering and honoring the legacy
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Yet, even without being asked, you showed up for us, watching, commenting, sharing, and
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You reminded us once again why we are not alone in this fight and that we will not be silenced
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and that together we will keep building the future.
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You are what makes America great and inspires us to continue the work that we do every day.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Satirical Siren.
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I never thought I'd see an actual applicable, give us Barabbas moment in my lifetime.
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I don't know exactly what this is in reference to.
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It might be in reference to Luigi Mangione when the judge in New York said that he was
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going to drop the top two charges against Luigi and there was a crowd outside the courthouse
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For Luigi Mangione, a cold-blooded murderer, a guy who murdered an executive in cold blood
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simply because he didn't like the executive's ideology, putative ideology.
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It's not even clear what the executive believed.
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Really because of the murderer's ideology, which was one of resentment and envy.
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He didn't like that the executive had some money.
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But I guess it's my favorite comment because I'm surprised by that statement.
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I never thought we'd see a give us Barabbas moment in our lifetimes.
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Give us Barabbas is what the crowd of Jews shouts to Pontius Pilate when Pilate offers
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as a matter of clemency to give the crowd either Jesus, an innocent man, or Barabbas,
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Every people's does it because the Jews are the type of human nature.
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In the Old Testament, Barabbas means son of the father.
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Jesus Christ is the true son of the true father, the God of all creation.
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And of course, the people want the false, carnal, material, terrestrial son concerned with merely
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political temporal revolution rather than the true son of the true father whose revolution
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conquers death and gives us eternal life in the true kingdom which is in heaven.
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I would be shocked if the crowd outside the courthouse lamented the injustice.
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That's just not how it works, especially in the political realm, which is governed by
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principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places, especially when it comes down
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In Dearborn, Michigan, which is now a Muslim town.
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In Dearborn, Michigan, the mayor and the council decided that they were going to name a street
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Now, Hezbollah is a terror organization that has attacked, not merely our allies, but has
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A Dearborn, Michigan resident, just a normal looking white guy, shows up to the council and
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says that this doesn't seem like a really good idea.
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The mayor of Dearborn, Abdullah Hamoud, says that that resident is not welcome in Dearborn.
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I mean, Hezbollah, you know, bombed the embassy in Beirut, including many Americans.
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And although you live here, I want you to know as mayor, you are not welcome here.
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And the day you move out of the city will be the day that I launch a parade celebrating
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the fact that you moved out of the city, because you are not somebody who believes in coexistence.
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You don't believe in tolerance, which is why you need to leave this city.
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You object to honoring a man whose organization murdered Americans.
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I said at the top of the show that the consequences will increase until behavior improves.
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I think the recognition of America's fundamentally Christian identity is going to increase too.
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I think the demands for immigration restriction and deportations are going to increase too.
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I think Republican victories are going to increase too if that clip and others like it
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are played in the lead up to the midterm elections.
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And the inescapable conclusion, if your brain hasn't totally turned to mush, is, how did we get here?
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Let me just, I'm just observing that political situation.
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A Muslim mayor of a town tries to rename a street after a terror organization that has murdered Americans.
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An ordinary American resident of the town shows up and objects, and the Muslim mayor says,
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if you don't support Hezbollah, you're not welcome here.
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Whatever we did to get to this point, we got to undo it.
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That's what any ordinary person would conclude.
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And so then they start thinking, well, what got us to this point?
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Mass migration, religious indifferentism that tells us that all religions are basically the same.
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This language of phobias that suggests that it's irrational to object to certain ideologies and heresies.
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The notion that religion has nothing to do with public life, I think the Muslim residents of Dearborn have just thrown that out.
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The notion that anyone can be an American just by virtue of coming here and maybe passing a test, all those things get thrown out.
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The notion that diversity is our strength, is that, is Dearborn stronger today than it was 30 years ago?
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All of those things are going to be thrown out.
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Remember, I said, leading up to 2023, 2024 call-up, there was this steady advance of the LGBT movement,
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which reached its apotheosis in the transing of little kids, in castrating little kids,
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shortening their lives, giving them bone problems, pretending that little boys were little girls as young as elementary school.
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And it's, on the campaign trail, Republicans ran on that, and they won on that issue.
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I said, what the left is going to be desperate to do now is to, to stop the, the boomerang going in the other direction.
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Because that idea that led to transing the kids started with feminism in the 1970s,
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which said men and women are basically the same, which led to the LGBT movement,
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which said that men and women are basically the same, which led inevitably to redefining marriage,
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So why, why are two men any different than a man and a woman?
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Which led to the transgender ideology of men and women are, are basically the same,
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Because if a man can really be a woman, if you can be born in the wrong body,
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then that would be true from the moment of your birth, and then little kids could be trans.
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You see, those ideas inevitably lead, under the weight of their own illogic, to that final point.
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And once you realize that the final conclusion is absurd,
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then you start going back in the other direction.
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And you say, wow, hold on, we, we've made a lot of errors along the way.
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And it's very difficult to stop that momentum in the other direction,
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The same thing is going to be true on immigration, on religious indifferentism,
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The same thing is going to be true when it comes to standards and the free marketplace of ideas
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And we need to take concrete actions very quickly to remedy the many errors that led to that moment.
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The many errors that they can't just dismiss, that they can't just brush under the rug,
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that they can't just say, well, it was just some kook, some lunatic.
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It was the American left, people who identify as very liberal,
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being eight times as likely as people who are very conservative
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to celebrate the death of their political opponents.
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It was the outpouring of minimization and celebration of Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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It was the lies that were told on the networks that are licensed by the government.
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It was your coworker who was happy that Charlie Kirk was killed for merely stating the things that all of you believe.
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That probably was stating a more moderate version of the things that many of you believe.
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That's a change, and that's created a reaction moving back in the opposite direction, which is very, very good.
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I have much more to say, because on this topic of immigration, oh, good grief, Jasmine Crockett, the new AOC,
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is now comparing ICE immigration enforcement to slave patrols, which is exactly the opposite of what they are.
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We will get to that tomorrow, because now it's time for the Membrum Segmentum.