Ep. 1832 - New Evidence： LA Fires May Have Been Left-Wing Terrorism
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As authorities begin to take a closer look at left-wing terrorism, which Democrats have spent years telling us does not exist, the sheer scope of it is shocking, even to those of us who ve seen it firsthand. Now, even events that we had previously attributed to nature seem connected, with an arrest yesterday making us ask, were the LA fires left wing terrorism too?
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As authorities begin to take a closer look at left-wing terrorism, which Democrats have spent
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years telling us does not exist, the sheer scope of it is shocking, even to those of us who've seen
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it firsthand. Now, even events that we had previously attributed to nature seem connected,
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with an arrest yesterday making us ask, were the LA fires left-wing terrorism too?
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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cigarette behind my ear? Go, you know, roll dice behind the high school gym? Okay. There are more
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serious issues to talk about, like left-wing terror. Now, obviously, in recent weeks, we've been talking
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a lot about left-wing terror. The left has been covering up the left-wing terror, pretending it
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does not exist. And yet, we're seeing incidents after incidents. We're also seeing the left broadly
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defend political violence. But when you apply a little bit of scrutiny, when you take that closer eye,
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you see that even events that had previously been considered politically neutral or even that had
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been attributed to nature might have this tie-in. Remember the LA fires, the fires that burned down
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one of America's major cities? The left blamed it on climate change, of course. They blame every,
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they stub their toe in the morning, they say it's climate change. But even the right had blamed it on
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political mismanagement. And there was a lot of political mismanagement. Gavin Newsom was warned by
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Donald Trump years ago that he wasn't taking proper efforts to clean up the wildlife, to clean up the
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grass. He wasn't maintaining the environment of California enough. He was mismanaging the water.
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He was allowing water to run off into the Pacific to save the precious Delta smelt. Meanwhile, the
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reservoirs, fire hydrants were not being supplied with water that would be necessary in the case of
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forest fires, which were frequent in California. So anyway, that's where the blame was. Now the FBI
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is upending both of those narratives and saying, no, no, no. The fires were started intentionally
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by an apparent left winger. So here are the facts. I don't want to get too ahead of our skis here,
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but the facts are the Palisades fire burned up 23,400 acres. The Palisades fire burned down almost
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6,800 structures, many, many homes, a dozen people died. They're now saying, according to a report from
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the DC reporter, they're now saying that this guy, this random guy started the fires.
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Uh, this guy, if you look him up, he was living in Los Angeles, not employed. He, his income was
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something like $2 or something. He donated $1 to Joe Biden because you know, political donations are
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made public. So again, that's being reported right now. It's, it's unclear. This is all, all breaking.
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This guy, uh, allegedly looked up a bunch of stuff about, about, uh, fires. He allegedly generated AI
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images of cities burning and he searched this question. Can you be at fault for a fire if your
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cigarette starts it? Now the, the search makes you think, well, it could have been that this guy was
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just up in the Hollywood Hills and he was smoking and he accidentally lit the fire and then he was
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trying to cover his tracks. That happened one time. I actually, one time I was visiting LA early,
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early on, I was smoking a cigar up by the Hollywood sign and people were screaming at me and I thought
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they were just anti-smoking fanatics, but no, they realized, uh, that my ash could set the entire city
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ablaze. I didn't know that at the time. So anyway, I understood that maybe this guy just had the bad
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luck and the negligence to do that. No, no, no. If you look at the images, he clearly, he clearly
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thought about this more consciously. It looks like he was a fire bug. Looks like he was, well, pretty
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clearly he was on the left. If he was a Joe Biden donor. Now those two events might not be connected.
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The, the arson searches and the fact that he donated to Democrats, it might, it could be the
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case that his politics had nothing to do with the arson, but yet again, we're seeing left-wing people
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introducing lots of disorder into society. Obviously in the case of Antifa or an assassin or, uh, any of
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these groups that ransacked the crisis pregnancy centers, uh, you know, they're the, the link
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between the ideology and the political violence and disorders is very tight. In this case, I don't
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mean, they might be looser, but, but again, how many incidents that the mass migration, the illegal
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immigration, the gangs in our cities, that's all pretty closely related to left-wing ideology.
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Even if it's not direct, even if the trend de Aragua gangster is, is not, you know, a leftist
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with a coexist bumper sticker on his car, he is introduced into the community because of the
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left. There's the left introducing the disorder, all the weird sex stuff. It might not be consciously
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ideological, but all the weird sex stuff is being promoted in our communities because of left-wing
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ideology. This guy, this weirdo fire bug, I don't, if the facts that are being reported are accurate,
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then the LA fire is started because of, um, a disturbed leftist. And at a certain point,
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you just have to ask how much more of this are we going to tolerate? Because the, uh, the argument
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in recent weeks from the classically liberal right has been, we just need more debate. We need more
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openness. We need less censorship. We need more. We just need to double and triple down on liberalism,
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albeit of the classical variety. And my argument has been, no, no, no, we need to circumscribe.
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We need to suppress certain evil behaviors and disordered ideologies. We need to actually
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discourage those things because leftism is creating a lot of problems and we need to stop
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promoting it. We need to stop treating it neutrally or with a laissez-faire hand. We need to suppress
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certain aberrant behaviors, like for example, the weird gender sex stuff and certain evil ideologies
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like anarchism, like communism, the ideologies associated with Antifa. We need to actively suppress
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them. We did that for much of American history. Then we stopped. Then we, I don't know,
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but then we started to worship at the idol of the invisible hand. But how many more times?
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How much more are we going to deal with? Now, Gavin Newsom, some of the Democrats are trying to
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distance themselves. Gavin Newsom tweets out, today's arrest of a 29-year-old Florida resident,
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Jonathan Rindernacht, marks an important step toward uncovering how the horrific Palisades fire began
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and bringing closure to the thousands of Californians whose lives were upended.
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You see this? You see this little sleight of hand here? He's a 29-year-old Florida resident.
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Technically, that's true. What Gavin Newsom is not pointing out here is he was a California
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resident when he allegedly started the fires. What he's not pointing out is he fled to Florida
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after he committed his crime. He's trying to make him look like a Florida resident because
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Newsom's foil has been Ron DeSantis in Florida. Remember they had that debate? It was the undercard
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debate in the 2016 presidential election. There's the Florida way, that's the Republican way for the
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country, in the states, and there's the Democrat way, the California way. It's like, oh, he's a
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Florida resident trying to insinuate that the guy's a Republican because Florida has switched from being
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a swing state into being a pretty solidly Republican state. But that isn't true. When the guy allegedly lit
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the fires, he was a Californian. He was one of Gavin Newsom's own constituents, which just adds another
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layer to the political negligence of Gavin Newsom. He didn't deal with the brush. He didn't deal with
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the water. And he didn't deal with the homeless who do start a lot of fires. And he didn't deal
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with this lunatic. Failure after failure after failure. But they're doing nothing to fix it.
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They're doing absolutely nothing to fix it. And you're seeing this not just at the level of the
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office holders. You're seeing this throughout the left, the thinkers such as they are, the communicators,
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Hassan Piker. Do you know him? He's a, what is he? He's like 30-something streamer. He's a leftist.
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He is pretty popular. He just got in trouble, not for something he said ideologically, but because
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he apparently put a shock collar on his dog and then hours into one of his streams, the dog decided
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to move and stretch his legs a little and he shocked the poor little dog underneath his desk.
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You can be on a mountain in the middle of Norway and get better internet than Los Angeles, California.
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And this is just like a moment of anger. This is a moment of anger for like something that is just so
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routine, so silly, such a first world problem, but it is emblematic of all of America's much more
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consequential violence. Okay. It's the same reason as to why America, Kaya, please just go, just stop.
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Jesus Christ. What are you doing? You're being such a baby.
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It's just, you're making her stressed. I, I, I, she just literally is, is so incredibly spoiled from
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my mom. Okay. So for those of you who are only listening, he, the dog gets up to just move around
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a little bit. I guess the dog is used as a prop on his show. And then he reaches on his desk
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somewhere. And as he reaches, he does something and then dog yelps and people have concluded the
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sleuths online have concluded. He's got a shock collar and he's torturing the poor dog for trying
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to get up during his hours and hours of blabbing. This guy, he, I've said it for years. This guy is
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the left. He is the young left in that way. I'm very grateful for him. He checks every single box.
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Callous as can be prone to violence, hates America. As he opens, he opened those first
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line of the video because I hate this country so much. This country is so terrible. It's the
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worst ever. And what's funny is he says, I can't even get good internet in Los Angeles.
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That's to which I would say, uh, you know, my internet's pretty good in Tennessee. I don't know.
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Maybe that's more of a LA problem. Of course his answer is we need to make all of America like LA.
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Well, now you're, I don't know. You're in the city that isn't functioning very well. My city's
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working really great. Anyway, people are horrified by this. They're not horrified by all the other
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things he's ever said. They're horrified that he would shock his little dog. They're wondering,
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could he possibly do this? He's supposed to be this compassionate, sympathetic, left winger,
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bleeding heart. Could, is it possible that he would shock a dog? I remember after Charlie was
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assassinated, a clip of his started going viral again in which he said that he wanted the streets to
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run red and be soaked in the blood of capitalists. I think he would shock a dog. Yeah. I think if
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you want the wholesale slaughter of half the country and you call for that publicly and you
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don't back down and you don't regret it, I think you would be willing to shock a little doggy. Yeah.
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I think you would. Now, some people don't actually. It's kind of funny because people often point out
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that Hitler really loved dogs. And so sometimes there are, and there are, I don't just mean to
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point to Hitler. I mean like the whole animal welfare, PETA, environmentalist left. These are
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people who almost to a man support slaughtering babies and abortion. But if you don't put your
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little poodle in a stroller on the street, so it's little paws. Don't have to step on the curb.
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You know, you're a genocidal maniac. You're just awful. So these are, yes, there are people who
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have really screwed up priorities and they love animals and hate people. I always say I'm a people
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person. But I wouldn't want to, I don't care for dogs. I don't care for cats. I don't really care
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for pets. I'm a people person. I don't want to torture them. I wouldn't put a shot collar on them
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and zap them every time they don't act like props in the back of my show. And then what does he do?
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He immediately plays the victim, right? He zaps the poor little dog for getting up,
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allegedly. And then he says, why'd you make me do that? Man, this is like a caricature out of a
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Lifetime movie. This is every Lifetime movie, right? The big evil guy comes in, like viciously
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beats a woman. And then what does the abuser say? Why'd you make me do that? You just make me so angry.
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This is awful. I just, I hate, I hate how angry I am. And the reason I mentioned this is not merely
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to beat up on his son, Piker, who deserves it. And he obviously should be excluded from polite
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society, not for the dog thing, but for all the comments about the people and he should not be
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platformed and all the rest of it. But he says something really interesting. He says, ah, so angry.
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I'm so angry. And it's just these little things, but it's emblematic of, I was like, yes,
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it is emblematic because it's emblematic of everything that's wrong with this country that
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sucks. I think, no, no, no, you're all, you're so close. Your anger is emblematic of the left's
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broader resentment, pride, envy, and wrath and all the other deadly sins too. But your anger,
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it's not that you are angry because the dog getting up and stretching his legs is emblematic
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of all of the evils of this terrible country where the internet supposedly doesn't work.
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It's that your anger is emblematic of a character flaw on the left, but it is representative.
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I don't have to recite the statistics, but they've been coming out over the past three weeks. The left
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is overwhelmingly much, much more likely to support political violence than the right is.
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Shockingly so. Eight times more among very, very liberal people compared to very conservative
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people. 30% almost of young liberals say political violence can be justified. They celebrated the
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murder of Charlie. Yeah. This is who they are. What do they say? They say, I want the streets to
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run red in the blood of my enemies. Stephen Bonnell, another lib streamer, he comes out, he says,
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Republicans need to fear for their lives. They need to think they're going to be murdered when they
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go to events. We need more of that. So yeah, this is who they are. And so what are you going to
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do? I guess the lesson we can learn from Hassan Piker here is maybe we need a little shock collar.
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You know, what's the just use of the shock collar? The just use of the shock collar is to train a dog
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who is misbehaving and get the dog to behave. What Hassan Piker has done that's wrong here is not use
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a shock collar. It's that he is punishing the dog for perfectly reasonable behaviors. The dog should be
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allowed to get up and move around. He's a dog. He doesn't need to be a prop in your show.
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If the dog were biting the neighbor, then you'd use the shock collar.
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If the dog were running away, if the dog were shooting people, if the dog were threatening
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political violence against an entire community, then you should shock the dog. That's what we need
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to do. Not through the use of private violence, but through the use of state power. These guys
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aren't getting any better. The assassination of Charlie was not this come to Jesus moment.
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Literally, I wish it were a come to Jesus moment for them. For a lot of other people, it is. But
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for the left, it's not. They're doubling down. They're saying, yeah, we are going to commit
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violence. And yeah, these guys did have it coming. Yeah, it's actually a good thing.
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Many of them were celebrating. And so if they're not going to get any better, you have to create
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incentives for them to get better and you need to punish them when they don't.
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And so in the case of someone like Hassan Piker, he should be excluded. He should be de-platformed.
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And conservatives who have any say in this should de-platform him. He should be kicked off Twitter.
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I don't know if he is on Twitter. He should be kicked off of Twitter. He should be kicked off
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of YouTube for the things that he has said. I know that the free speech absolutists aren't going to
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like that, but there are limits to free speech in the First Amendment, in the American political
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tradition, precisely because those limits are necessary to defend the free marketplace of ideas.
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And if you go out and you say, I want the streets to run red in the blood of conservatives simply for
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having their opinions, having a particular political view, you need to be excluded from the free
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marketplace of ideas. So we'll see. We got to put the shock collar on Hassan. Okay. Not literally.
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He would do it literally probably to all of us and worse, but we need to put a political shock
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collar on the left or it's going to get worse. It's going to get a lot worse. And don't say you
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weren't warned. Okay. Speaking of deranged California Democrats, Katie Porter, man. She's
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another one. She's emblematic. It's the word of the day. That's an emblem too. That's an emblematic
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jacket. Katie Porter is representative of her party. She is the perfect candidate for governor
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a little better. Just because you're wrong about something doesn't mean it's not. That's convenient.
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You know what? You should get out of my country. They want more deportations. I'm also joined
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one of the most reasonable people ever to appear on Jubilee. That would be Cecilia Wray.
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You can watch now the Michael Knowles YouTube channel and Daily Wire Plus. Katie Porter,
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Democrat member of Congress running for governor of California. She sits down with CBS News. This is a
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broadcast news network. Generally liberal. I think they do a good job. I think they've been
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fair, especially recently, but they're a liberal network. She couldn't handle a question from a
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journalist at an historically liberal news network.
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What do you say to the 40 percent of California voters who you'll need in order to win who voted
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for Trump? How would I need them in order to win, man? Well, unless you think you're going to get
00:24:06.320
60 percent of the vote. You think you'll get 60 percent. Everybody who did not vote for Trump
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will vote for you. That's what you're saying. In a general election? Yes. If it is me versus a
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Republican, I think that I will win the people who did not vote for Trump. What if it's you versus
00:24:17.880
another Democrat? I don't intend that to be the case. So how do you not intend that to be the case?
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Are you going to ask them not to run? No, I'm saying I'm going to build the support. I have
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the support already in terms of name recognition. And so I'm going to do the very best I can to make
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sure that we get through this primary in a really strong position. But let me be clear with you.
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I represented Orange County. I represented a purple area. I have stood on my own two feet and won
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Republican votes before. That's not something every candidate in this race can say. If you're from a
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deep blue area, if you're from L.A. or you're from Oakland, you don't have an experience.
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You just said you don't need those Trump voters. You asked me if I needed them to win.
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I feel like this isn't necessarily argumentative. What is your question?
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The question is the same thing I asked everybody, that this is being called
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the empowering voters to stop Trump's power grab. Every other candidate has answered this
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question. This is not. I said I support it. So the question is, what do you say to the 40%
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of voters who voted for Trump? Oh, I'm happy to say that. It's the do you need them to win
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part that I don't understand. I'm happy to answer the question as you haven't written and I'll answer
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it. And we've also asked the other candidates, do you think you need any of those 40% of California
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voters to win? And you're saying, no, you don't. No, I'm saying I'm going to try to win every vote I
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can. And what I'm saying to you is that. Well, to those voters. Okay. So you, I don't want to
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keep doing this. I'm going to call it. Thank you. Okay. Pause it. Pause it. Okay. So crazy behavior
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from her. First of all, she clearly was prepped for certain questions, right? She says, well,
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ask the question as it's written and maybe I'll answer it. You ask the question as it's written,
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which the journalist did. That makes me wonder, I don't know this definitively.
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Did Katie Porter's team demand the questions ahead of time? Meaning, well, I'm not even going
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to go into a CBS news interview without knowing the questions ahead of time. And then if the
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reporter deviated from the question by a word or two, or maybe not even just ask the question as
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it was with a followup, she says, I got to get out of here. But Katie Porter is mocking this question.
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And she's so frustrated by this question. This is a very good question. She says, okay,
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it's a 60, 40 state. What are you going to do about the 40%? Are you going to try to win any of them
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over? She goes, I don't need them to win. 60% are Democrats. But the point is, you can't just
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rely on all of those people showing up. Any political campaign is going to try to get support
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from the other side. There's always Democrats for Reagan, Democrats for Bush, Democrats for Trump.
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Yeah, there's always that stuff. And on top of that, there is a possibility that there will be
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another Democrat in the race. So if there's another Democrat in the race, now you're really going to
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need some Republican support. It's not like there are only 3% Republicans in California.
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There are a lot of Republicans. It's a Democrat state, but there are a lot of Republicans.
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And Katie Porter says, I don't need them. I don't need them, but I'm really good at winning
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their votes, but I don't want to win their votes. So it's totally reasonable for the journalist to
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say, well, hold on, just what is your strategy? And even at the slightest pushback from a liberal news
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network, this woman says, I'm out of here. I'm done. I don't want to do this anymore.
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Why? Because the Democrats are so unfamiliar with being challenged in any way.
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For Republicans, we can go on the conservative news networks, and sometimes we get pushback.
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For the libs, they generally don't go on the conservative news networks, and they're used
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to getting softballs from all of the other liberal outlets, the newspapers and the websites and the
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podcasts and the TV networks. She's so prickly about it. She can't take the heat. This is one way in
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which being protected by a liberal network, not a TV network, but a political network, being protected
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by this fortress of institutional liberalism can actually weaken you. Because when there are some
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chinks in the armor there, when some of the walls of the fort start coming down, when Republicans win
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the popular vote and the Congress and the Senate and have the Supreme Court and then start to wield
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power in a way that makes the liberal institutions come along a little bit more in big tech and in the
00:28:00.940
media, then they're totally vulnerable. How's this woman going to be governor of California?
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She can't handle a question from a friendly news network. Keep going.
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Nope, not like this. I'm not. Not with seven follow-ups to every single question you ask.
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I don't care. I don't care. I want to have a pleasant, positive conversation, which you asked me
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I want to have a pleasant conversation. I'm running for governor because I want to have
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a pleasant time. Why won't you let me have a nice time? You didn't even offer me an iced tea.
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You're running for, you know, you're running for governor. You're in politics, right? You know,
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you're not, this is not a day at the spa, but she thinks it is. The entitlement from this woman is
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magnificent. But between her and Jay Jones, we'll try to get to him a little bit later.
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He's the AG candidate in Virginia who fantasized about murdering a Republican and the Republican's
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kids. Yeah. Between these two, man, Democrats are going to have a rough, a rough couple of years,
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aren't they? If these two are the face of the party and they're going to have a rough couple
00:29:06.080
of years because these two are not outliers. That's what the past three weeks have shown us.
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It's not just some fringe lunatic who supports political violence. It's the presumptive AG,
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attorney general, top law enforcement official in California, in Virginia. It's not just some
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crazy snowflake on a college campus with crazy hair who's entitled and bratty and can't answer
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a question and screams at people. It's the presumptive governor of the state of California.
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This is the Democrat party. This is so brutal to them because it's accurate. Keep going.
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...on this list. And if every question, you're going to make up a follow-up question,
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then we're never going to get there. And we're just going to circle around.
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I am investigating reporters. I've never had to do this before. Ever.
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You've never had to have a conversation? No, she's never has.
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What part of, I'm me, I'm running for governor because I'm a leader. So I am going to make...
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So you're not going to answer questions from reporters? Okay, why don't we go through?
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I will continue to ask follow-up questions because that's my job as a journalist.
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But I will go through and ask me. If you don't want to answer, you don't want to answer.
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So nearly every legislator... I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you.
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I'm not going to... If there are follow-up questions...
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Lady, look, I don't know this investigative reporter.
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CBS, I find, is relatively fair compared to the other networks.
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And even a hint of fairness, and in this case, very serious professionalism.
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The reporter says, hey, you know, that's my job.
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Oh, you thought I'm just a shell and a propagandist for you.
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I can't... I have to ask you at least some mild questions.
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This is like the grown-up Greta Thunberg speech at the UN.
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Katie Porter was raised in a political environment in which mainstream media journalists don't ask them questions.
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And if they ask them questions, it's what flavor ice cream do you like?
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And now, because the political environment has changed, and because Republicans have won a unified government, but not just that, because Republicans have, basically for the first time in my lifetime, actually wielded political power to bring real pressure on the left.
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Not just in government, but in the cultural institutions.
00:31:56.020
Trump has actually put pressure on big tech and on the media, and he's revoked press passes, and he's going after some of his political enemies who have broken the law.
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Because they're getting a little bit tough, and they're dealing not just in wishy-washy procedural norms of liberalism, but actual substantive goods.
00:32:23.220
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My favorite comment yesterday is from already dead 6539, who says the illegal immigrants have been dividing America more than any other time since the Civil War.
00:33:05.280
The illegal aliens are the immediate cause, I guess, of the division, but they're not really the problem.
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I don't mean to downplay the issue of foreign nationals en masse coming into a country and not assimilating,
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but they're a symptom of a bigger problem because they were let in by somebody.
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And the group that is really causing the division is not some Venezuelan peasant.
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It's the American leftist who lets them in, who so hates his country, who so neglects the common good and only cares about private interest,
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I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either.
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I would love to continue to ask these questions so that we can show our viewers what every candidate feels about every one of these issues that they care about.
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We're going to do an entire story just on the responses to that question.
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And if I ask everybody the same follow-up question.
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I don't want to have an unhappy experience with you either, Sally.
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But you can't take all your clothes off in the middle of class and start, you know, throwing toys at the wall.
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Oh, I just don't want to, I just want to do it.
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Now, we're getting some corroborating evidence here.
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The New York Post is reporting that Katie Porter's ex-husband, this is according to court documents,
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Katie Porter's ex-husband says that she once scalded him with a pot of boiling potatoes.
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I think she's got a little bit of a temper issue.
00:34:47.700
She's setting up a shot for some kind of meeting or TV news hit.
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I wanted to tell you that that's actually incorrect.
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It's that if we don't need the commitments, I do the Paris climate report.
00:35:15.580
This makes Bill O'Reilly look like a Rastafarian man.
00:35:28.060
And why was the staff member in the shot, by the way?
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This, it's, you know, look, this is a real test of character.
00:35:42.420
You can tell just about everything about a person's character by how they treat waiters.
00:35:53.120
You can, an extension of that is you can tell everything about a person's character by how they treat their staff and their colleagues.
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You need, you need 10 seconds of data and you can tell what kind of person this is.
00:36:07.280
But then the, the pièce de résistance, and then we'll move on, is when Katie Porter apparently defended pedophilia on C-SPAN.
00:36:18.960
You know, this allegation of groomer and pedophile, it is alleging that a person is criminal somehow and engaged in criminal acts merely because of, of their identity.
00:36:29.720
Um, their sexual orientation, their gender identity.
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Pedophilia is a sexual orientation and gender identity, according to Katie Porter.
00:36:44.940
Once again, the reason this is so devastating to Democrats is not because she's some freak.
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But she's not unrepresentative of the rest of the freaks on the left.
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The logical conclusion of the LGBT ideology about innate sexual desires and the impossibility of merely mental crimes.
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You know, whatever you do in your own mind, it can't possibly be sinful or aberrant in any way.
00:37:16.180
And the consequence of all of that is, well, yeah, if someone has some aberrant desire, even one as horrifying as pedophilia, you couldn't, uh, cast dispersions on that in itself.
00:37:30.360
Maybe they can't act on it, but, but I don't know, in some cases, maybe they can.
00:37:34.100
Some of these California Democrats, let's never forget Scott Wiener.
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When he was state senator in California, his big political accomplishments were, uh, reducing punishments for pederasts, for grown men who, uh, molest teen boys, and, uh, also for reducing the punishment for knowingly giving someone HIV.
00:37:50.500
So, you know, these guys do have really, really freaky, consequential sexual, uh, legislation, but it's also just in the ideology.
00:38:01.040
The, the side that's, that's eight times as likely as the other side to support political violence is probably going to be a little mean to the staff.
00:38:10.640
The side that believes that elections are only legitimate when they win.
00:38:14.680
Yeah, they're going to act a little entitled to journalists when journalists ask anything at all.
00:38:24.960
We've seen that really clearly over the last three weeks.
00:38:26.960
Why are they becoming so particularly irate now?
00:38:35.380
They don't have a, they don't have a foothold really in the federal government.
00:38:38.640
They're the minority even in the House of Representatives.
00:38:40.200
So from that, that standpoint, they could shut down the government temporarily, but otherwise they can't do anything.
00:38:45.800
And they've lost 10% of the youth vote between 2020 and 2024.
00:38:49.200
And they're losing black men and they're losing women, even young women, women under 40, and they're losing Hispanics.
00:38:54.100
And they're losing, man, this is really bad for them.
00:38:56.820
And they're not going to go down without a fight.
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And when I say they're not going to go down without a fight, I don't mean that they're going to campaign harder.
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And they're going to say that the streets should run red with the blood of their enemies.
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They won't even disavow the attorney general candidate who calls for all of those things explicitly.
00:39:19.120
Here's Tim Kaine, the former future second female president of the United States.
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Tim Kaine, running away from reporters, asked about Jay Jones in Virginia.
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What do you, do you think you should drop out of this race after those comments?
00:39:44.180
I've known Jay Jones for 25 years, and those comments are very much out of character for him.
00:39:49.180
So if I put the comments, which are clearly beyond the pale, against knowing this guy for 25 years, I'm still a supporter of Jay Jones.
00:40:05.360
Because he's walking, he's trying to avoid the question.
00:40:07.320
I don't want to answer the question, don't want to answer.
00:40:13.060
And he turns, he says, the comments are indefensible.
00:40:15.240
I don't support murdering Republicans and their kids.
00:40:18.780
But I do support it because I won't withdraw my endorsement of Jay Jones.
00:40:27.200
Some Democrats, many Democrats won't even say that there's anything wrong with his words.
00:40:32.320
Because many Democrats explicitly support political violence and agree with Jay Jones that you and your kids should be murdered.
00:40:38.320
Some who have a little bit more political sense and maybe a conscience, but at least political sense.
00:40:44.200
They say, well, these comments are completely indefensible, but I'm still going to support Jay Jones.
00:40:50.080
So practically speaking, they're still supporting that.
00:40:58.740
No, maybe they're in character because he said it apparently repeatedly.
00:41:07.420
Are you going to follow your party in this direction?
00:41:11.320
And Tim Kaine, he says, yeah, nope, I'm with the guy who wants to murder the Republicans and their kids.
00:41:19.620
A scandal over text messages in which he, the Democrat, said that the GOP speaker of the House of Delegates should get two bullets to the head for how he paid tribute to a former moderate Democratic lawmaker who died.
00:41:41.180
Well, that's up to the people, the leaders in Virginia.
00:41:47.800
What I understand is they say that on balance, he's the better person to be attorney general.
00:41:54.680
But I wish there would be enough fuss of all the times that people have said they were going to put a bullet in my head right in public.
00:42:00.660
Ah, so he said he wants to murder a Republican opponent and his children.
00:42:08.960
And this is coming out after a leftist actually did murder the most prominent civil debater in the entire country.
00:42:15.580
And after my party justified, minimized, and even celebrated it.
00:42:20.820
But he's still not a Republican, at least, so I have to support him.
00:42:27.780
Better to have a Democrat who would murder half the country and their kids.
00:42:46.980
Many of Nancy Pelosi's colleagues who are not from Virginia are endorsing in this race.
00:42:52.320
Cory Booker up in the Senate is endorsing Virginia.
00:43:02.040
Why are we talking about the real left-wing violence against Republicans that is actually happening when we could talk about imaginary right-wing violence against me?
00:43:18.100
With your eyes, you're seeing all these leftists murdering Republicans and talking about how they want to murder Republicans and celebrating the murder of Republicans.
00:43:24.000
But really, secretly, super-duper secretly, most of the political violence is from the right.
00:43:41.660
CNN's Erin Burnett has just come out and not merely defended Jay Jones or Tim Kaine or Nancy Pelosi.
00:43:55.100
And Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security actually took that further.
00:43:58.300
This network of Antifa is just as sophisticated as MS-13, as TDA, as ISIS, as Hezbollah, as Hamas, as all of them.
00:44:14.260
Hamas has just been engaged in a two-year war that we just announced the first stage of a peace plan to a few moments ago.
00:44:23.620
And obviously, I'm not going to sit here and defend anybody who considers themselves part of an Antifa movement such that it is.
00:44:31.960
Such that it is is the operative part of that sentence.
00:44:33.920
Antifa is far from a major sophisticated terror organization like Hezbollah, Hamas, or ISIS.
00:44:39.620
In fact, it's not even like far-right groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, which have had national leaders, unlike Antifa.
00:44:48.680
And according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, compared to right-wing extremists, Antifa-linked violence is rare and limited.
00:44:55.980
Yeah, according to Antifa.com, Antifa doesn't commit any crimes.
00:45:01.460
Yeah, so actually, it's not a big deal, first of all, to her point.
00:45:05.760
She says, Antifa, oh, Antifa, you can't compare Antifa to Hamas and Hezbollah and ISIS.
00:45:12.860
Antifa is a much greater danger to Americans than Hamas and Hezbollah and ISIS.
00:45:21.500
Because Hamas and Hezbollah and ISIS, all very bad guys.
00:45:26.080
We've been fighting jihadis for a long time, about 1,400 years now.
00:45:29.220
But generally speaking, when they threaten Americans, it's in the Middle East.
00:45:34.700
They threaten us here on the homeland sometimes, no doubt about it.
00:45:40.920
And while ISIS threatens the United States, as any geopolitical adversary might, Antifa threatens our whole political order.
00:45:51.600
Antifa threatens to bring about not merely a war against the United States nations to fight wars, but a civil war.
00:45:57.980
Antifa, they don't, they're barely even an organization.
00:46:04.040
I mean, yeah, they have uniforms and flags and a common name and a common set of beliefs.
00:46:09.460
And they meet up in cells, often in bookshops, and they carry out fairly sophisticated acts of terror regularly.
00:46:19.580
Like the Proud Boys, you know when like Gavin McGinnis would hang out with dudes and tell jokes and wave American flags?
00:46:25.560
That was a much greater threat to America than the Antifa militants who constantly set off bombs, shoot people, threaten to murder us, and are defended by CNN.
00:46:38.560
Frankly, this has been going on even since before Antifa became a cohesive brand identity, which was after the Second World War.
00:46:44.340
But going back to 1919, 1920, you had anarchist and communist bombings in America from the radical left against immigration restrictionists and law enforcement and business leaders sound familiar?
00:46:56.760
All the way up through the 60s, 70s, 80s, all the way up to the present.
00:47:03.780
This is the point I made yesterday on the show.
00:47:18.580
I'm all for hanging out with the libs and trying to talk it out and being tough, but not, you know, being civilized.
00:47:31.200
But for the political order, if you, if you have very prominent voices and institutions, as in the case of CNN, defending domestic terrorism, defending the murder of half the country.
00:47:46.220
If you have the top law enforcement official in Virginia doing that with the entire Democratic Party behind him, he doesn't lose a single endorsement.
00:47:51.100
When you have that kind of situation, there's no kumbaya.
00:47:58.680
There's more private violence, which is what the left is giving us, and which is, generally speaking, unjust.
00:48:04.960
And the state violence is the civil authority coming in and arresting the bad guys and suppressing them.
00:48:09.440
And in some cases, the civil institutions, deplatforming people and circumscribing what can be said and argued in a just and prudent way.
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