Ep. 1845 - Democrats Flee From My Senate Testimony
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I am back from Capitol Hill. I had a great time on Capitol Hill yesterday.
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I was invited down by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution,
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Eric Schmidt. I think we're going to have Senator Schmidt joining us a little bit later.
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It was on a very, very important topic and a timely topic, which is political violence.
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We have seen a massive upsurge in political violence. Pew Research just put out a poll
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a week or so ago, said that 85% of Americans think that political violence is getting worse in the
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United States. And even left-wing sources and outlets are admitting that political violence is
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now chiefly a left-wing problem. Political violence on the left has always been underreported.
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Let's establish that off the bat. So my thesis going in is political violence in the United
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States and I guess everywhere is chiefly and pretty much has always chiefly been a left-wing
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problem. The statistics previously made it seem like a right-wing problem. And as I pointed out
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in my testimony, which you can go watch on C-SPAN, I think it's on my YouTube channel as well.
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Well, the way that the statistics arrived at saying that political violence was a right-wing
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problem was by ignoring left-wing violence, ignoring the BLM riots, ignoring the Antifa attacks,
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ignoring attacks on pro-lifers and Christians and all the rest. So anyway, now the numbers
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cannot even be fudged anymore. It's so clear. It's a left-wing problem. Left-wingers who are surveyed,
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much, much more than the right, say that they will justify political violence in the wake of
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Charlie's assassination. This became extremely clear because you had mainstream left-wingers
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who were excusing, minimizing, and even celebrating Charlie's murder.
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I get to Capitol Hill. We walk in. I'm sworn in to testify. A few other people there,
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my friend Chad Wolf, former acting director of or acting secretary of Homeland Security. Some
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other people there too, really good witnesses. And I notice that the Democrats aren't there.
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One or two, the ranking member, Peter Welch. Dick Durbin showed up. But where were the Democrat
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members? Mazie Hirono was supposed to be there. She didn't bother to show up. Adam Schiff? Where's
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Adam Schiff? Adam Schiff has been crying for four years straight over January 6th, supposedly the worst
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attack in our nation's history. Adam Schiff couldn't be bothered to show up to a committee hearing on
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political violence. Tells you a lot about him. I look around, I didn't even see Cory Booker at first.
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Cory Booker, the Thracian senator, Spartacus, he wasn't there. Where was he? Now, eventually he did
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show up. But I thought it was very telling that Senator Booker used up all of his time
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to just kind of babble himself. He didn't want to interview any of the witnesses,
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not even the witnesses that the Democrats had called, much less the Republican witnesses.
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So Cory Booker used up his five minutes, had this to say.
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The only thing that's going to get us out of this condition is for courageous leaders
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in both parties to start standing up and extending grace and self-introspection.
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It's a lot easier when I call out Chuck Schumer's comments
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to make a difference. And God, I wish I'd see more of my colleagues being willing to call out
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the President of the United States for his outrageous comments as well.
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You know, I think Senator Booker made a good point just a moment ago when he said we have to
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self-examine, we have to be introspective. And, you know, I can't help but think of a line today.
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Jay Jones has the vision, commitment, and integrity to keep families safe and make sure
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every Virginian gets a fair shake in the justice system. I'll be working every day to ensure Jay
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wins this race. That's the endorsement of Senator Booker for a man who would seek to be the Attorney
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General of Virginia. This is a man who, if people have not been reading the news, has called for a
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Republican to be murdered, for his children to be murdered, for the children to die in their
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mother's arms in order to persuade the Republican to change his policy views, and a man who says that
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he would urinate on the graves of multiple Republicans. Senator Booker, in this spirit
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of introspection, is standing by this endorsement. So I suppose I would invite, perhaps I should have
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looked because Senator Booker has left the room, and I think I can guess why. Senator Booker, I think,
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It was a jarring moment. It was the most jarring moment of the entire hearing, I think.
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You have Booker, who shows up, he gives this speech. His remarks went on for five minutes.
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He said, we need to sometimes walk back comments that we've made. We need to acknowledge when we
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were wrong. We need to be introspective. And I said, okay, well, great, this is a great opportunity.
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You endorsed a guy who's calling for the murder of Republicans and our kids, and says he's going to
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urinate on the graves of Republicans. Surely you want to withdraw your endorsement, right? Surely you
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don't want this man to be the top law enforcement official in Virginia. There's a Cory Booker-shaped
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hole in the wall. Where'd he go? Hold on, wait, hold on. He's on the other side of Washington,
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D.C. at that point. Completely, completely preposterous. I mean, it was just a farce.
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And I think all the crocodile tears you hear from Democrats or see from Democrats are precisely that,
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completely disingenuous. They try to dredge up January 6th. And when the truth about January 6th
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came out, they had to go mum. So I think, in a way, I think it was politically very wise that
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the Democrats, by and large, didn't show up to the hearing yesterday. Very bad for the country,
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though. You would think this is one political issue we should all agree on. Political violence is bad.
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We should not be hashing out our political differences with blood in the streets.
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Unfortunately, only one party seems to take that seriously. One senator in particular takes it
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seriously. That would be Senator Eric Schmidt, Jr. Senator from Missouri. Speaking of attorneys general,
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former attorney general of Missouri and the author of a book, The Last Line of Defense,
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How to Beat the Left in Court. Senator Schmidt, thank you for coming on the show.
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You know, I'm really, really grateful that you called that hearing yesterday. It's so important.
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Going in, I did not have high expectations for your colleagues on the other side of the aisle that
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they were going to take this issue seriously. But I am glad that we were able to get the facts on the
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table out there for the American people because there's been so much misinformation on the topic
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of political violence. What do you think people need to know? What are the big takeaways?
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I think that if we're going to get on the other side of this, Michael, we have to tell the truth
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about what's really happening. And that was the point of the hearing. Obviously, the impetus
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was the cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk shot him in the throat while he was speaking his mind
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at an event. And that was meant to send a message that was inscribed on the bullets.
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There's a deeply rooted ideology that's being celebrated right now, sort of assassination
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culture on the left. And I think perhaps, you know, the killing and the murder and the
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assassination was chilling. But the reaction from people who are not just sort of like paid
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activists that you see marching around the country with George Soros, you know, cash in their
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pocket. But like teachers and professors, and some of that was exposed yesterday, some of
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their comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination. But you can trace this back.
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And we talked about a little bit. You go back to the weather underground in the 60s and the
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fire bombings that took place. Those people were never really held accountable. Many of them
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were promoted to professorships. Bill Ayers, for example, was celebrated, hosted a fundraiser for
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Barack Obama when he ran for office the first time. And now you're seeing the full culmination
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of this ideology that knows that they can't really win at the ballot box. So they've resorted to
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terrorism. And I think that, like I said, if we're going to be honest, we have to talk about what's
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really going on. This isn't a both sides thing. Just take this into account. Just in the polling,
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we could go through the litany of terror attacks and violence that's come from the left in the last
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year and a half, beginning with President Trump's two attempted assassinations and Charlie Kirk and
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everything in between. But the truth is, 25 percent of those who describe themselves as very liberal
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were willing to tell a pollster, Michael, that political violence is justified. Over half of
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those on the left side of the ledger, 55 percent, believe that it's at least somewhat justifiable
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to kill President Trump. OK, you put that 25 percent number I cited, there's 3 percent of those
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who describe themselves as very conservative would say the same thing. That's within the margin of error of
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zero. But it's also if that's true, it's three percent too many. Right. But don't tell me that
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that's the same thing. That's a huge disparity. And you see it play out, I think, in the conduct of
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so many now who resorted to political violence. Of course. Of course. You know, you mentioned the
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weather underground here. And I thought it was really rich because the Democrats, the only thing
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that they could bring up was January 6th, you know, supposedly the worst attack in our nation's
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history. And I was reminded of a few facts. One, one person was killed in political violence on
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January 6th. There was a military veteran and a Trump supporter who was killed by a trigger happy
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cop. Secondly, there have been many attacks on the US Capitol over the course of history. So even if you
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want to lump in the demonstrations of January 6th, fine. OK, you've got that one. You've got you mentioned
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the weather underground. They blew up a building in the Senate in 1971. You've got 1983,
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the Maoism Armed Resistance Unit, blew up another building in the Senate. You have 1954,
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Puerto Rican radicals shot up the House Gallery, injured five members of Congress.
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You have 1915, a left-wing Harvard professor, not a lot changes, blew up a room in the Senate,
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reception room, because he was protesting capitalism. So, OK, I've got five attacks that I'm
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counting there. One of them involves a silly hat. Four of them involve explosives. All of the explosive
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ones were perpetrated by the left. So even on the one example that they want to cite,
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even there, I think it's clear that the problem comes from the left chiefly. And I don't mean that
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I don't I don't say this just to score political points, but the ranking member, Peter Welch,
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he opened up the hearing and he said, look, we all say political violence is bad, but it's both sides.
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And if you ever suggest it's one side or the other, that's that's unacceptable. This is ironic,
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one, because they've been blaming the right forever based on nothing. But but two,
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how are you supposed to solve the problem if you won't acknowledge where the problem lies?
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Well, there's a few things going on here at the same time. One is they keep citing this study of
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right-wing political violence. And I tried to point out and entered into the record
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how that's been totally debunked. Essentially, they didn't include any violence that stemmed from
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any protests. So take 2020 of all the billions of dollars worth of damage that took place there,
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cops being assaulted, all the things that happened in St. Louis, where I'm from. There was a
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police officer murdered for helping guard the store of his friend in one of those evenings. So they
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don't count any of that stuff. The only one they did count was Charlottesville, any kind of, you know,
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so it's it's absolutely skewed, right? They know that studies are are junk. And so we've now asked for
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the Department of Justice, let's give us a real study because we know what the answer is. This is this is
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the byproduct of an ideology that is by any means necessary. They don't believe in real free speech
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like you and I do. They only believe in that if it works to their benefit. But if it doesn't work
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and they can't convince, the left is willing to resort to violence. We've seen it time and time
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again. I would also point out, in addition to the political violence, they used that as January 6th as
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justification for the worst weaponization of our Department of Justice we've ever seen. The January 6th
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Committee was a predicate to Jack Smith. Three days after President Trump announced he's running for
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president, all these investigations start literally to put their political opponent in prison for the
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rest of his life. That's right. Arctic Frost spied on members of the Senate. I was the chair of the
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Republican Attorneys General Association at the time. They did the same thing there. You think of who
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they tried to sweep up. So you've got the weaponization of government, the whole of government
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against political enemies on the left. And then you also have this political violence now that's taken
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hold, too. So we are, I think, at an inflection point as a country and we're never going to solve
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it if we just say that this is a both sides thing in this moment, because it is not. The facts do not
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bear that out. So we have to have the courage to say this is a real problem on the left. And I don't
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unfortunately, I don't see the kind of, you know, the the reflection that so many talked about
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when it's so obvious. I mean, you pointed out the attorney general candidate in Virginia,
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the Democrat who wanted once wanted to murder the guy's kids, his opponent's kids to teach
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everybody a lesson. I've been an attorney general like you want people in that office who have some
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sort of restraint because there's a lot of things you can do with that kind of power. You're the only
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one who can make a charging decision in many instances. And if that's abused by somebody who,
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you know, doesn't have their bearings, to put it lightly, that's a real problem. But you don't hear
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any Democrat calling for that guy to step down. So this is a deeply rooted problem, Michael,
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on the left. And I don't see their willingness to kind of take that on. And, you know, finally,
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I think Antifa came up a lot in that hearing and rightfully so it's not some ideology, as some
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people have tried to dismiss it as it is a well organized machine that's hell bent on violence,
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murder, and they have safe houses everywhere. So we aim to get at that as well.
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I think it was really important that Republicans brought the receipts on this,
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even just on the point of Antifa. It's not just an idea floating in outer space.
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I can tell you the names of the networks. I can give you the email addresses where people can
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donate through tax-exempt nonprofit organizations to fund organized left-wing terror cells.
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This is a real concrete phenomenon. So anyway, I think it's just really wonderful.
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One, you know, the Trump administration, the White House is designating Antifa as a domestic
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terror organization, is trying to go about and dismantle it. I think it's very, very important
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that you've taken the leadership on Capitol Hill. And at the very least, you know, some Republicans
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have joined in and are going to take this issue seriously because you can't get at the problem
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unless, one, you start actually counting the instances of left-wing terror. You get good data on it.
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You track down where the money is going, where it's flowing, where these terror cells are meeting.
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And then you have the judgment and the courage to actually go and enforce the law and to
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reestablish a political order that does allow us to get along with self-government.
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Senator Schmidt, first of all, everyone needs to go out and get the book,
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The Last Line of Defense, How to Beat the Left in Court. Senator, thank you very much,
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one, for holding that hearing yesterday, and two, for coming on the show.
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Well, thanks for all you do. Thanks for being there yesterday. You were great. Appreciate you.
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Now, speaking of very inflammatory political rhetoric coming from the left, and speaking of
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the left running away from their responsibility, J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, he thinks he's
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going to run for president. He's rich, so he thinks that that's going to allow him to run for
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president. He does not have a snowball's chance in hell, but he's pushing it anyway. He goes on
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Nicole Wallace's show. Nicole Wallace is one of the anchors in MSNBC, one of the most
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unpleasantly left-wing people, I think, in the entire country. J.B. Pritzker had the temerity,
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as did Nicole Wallace for that matter, to say that no one has ever compared President Trump
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to Hitler. I haven't suggested that Donald Trump is Hitler. I wouldn't say that.
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I don't think any Democrat has. The dangers that we saw in, you know, Nazi Germany are
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the dangers that we need to react to now. Well, I think everybody understands that at this
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point, we've got an authoritarian in office. It doesn't take very long to tear apart a
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constitutional republic. Indeed, the Nazis did it in 53 days. That's not the country we live
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and, you know, you shouldn't have to walk around with papers the way that they did in the early
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days of Nazi Germany. I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. I'm watching with a foreboding
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dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the
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Potomac and suggests without facts or findings that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash.
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The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here. How can you possibly compare what happened in Germany
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in World War II to what's going on here in the United States? We're talking about the death of a
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constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that
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you've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders. Does Jamie Pritzker believe
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that we don't have film, that we don't have memory? We might not have memories, but we do have film.
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When you are so loose with the Hitler comparisons that even Jake Tapper tries to rein you in,
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you've gone pretty loose. He thinks he's going to get away with this. Nicole Wallace too. But the thing
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is, you could make one of these compilation clips. That one came from Libs of TikTok. You could make one
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of these compilation clips for basically every single Democrat in the country. These people have spent
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a decade comparing Trump to Hitler. They didn't do that before he said he was going to seriously run
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for office, even though Trump was famous for almost a half century. They didn't do it then.
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Since he became a Republican, decided he was going to run for office, they've all been comparing him
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to Hitler. That's not interesting. We all know that. What's interesting is they're trying to run away
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from it now. Why? They're trying to run away from it now, I think, for the same reason that the
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Democrats barely showed up to that hearing yesterday, for the same reason there was a
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Cory Booker-shaped hole in the wall before the Jay Jones endorsement came up, for the same reason
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that they can't speak about this issue of political violence, because they know that they are responsible
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for it. That's what this is about. At this point, even the cooked BS numbers that don't count left-wing
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protests, that don't count BLM, that don't count Antifa violence, even putting their thumb on the
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scale as much as they can on that, even then, the numbers show that political violence is a left-wing
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problem. And how do you get the very near assassination of Trump, two attempted assassinations
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of Trump, how do you get to this place, is by saying that your opponents are Nazis and Hitler.
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Jay Jones in Virginia said that his Republican opponent was breeding little fascists.
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One justification for why he wanted his opponent's kids to die in their mother's arms.
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To call someone Hitler is to justify that person's assassination. And they know, they see all the
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numbers, they see that they have a big political violence problem, they're going to try to run away
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from it. But they won't acknowledge the problem. If they just came out and they said, you know what,
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we really screwed up. We have justified the assassination of Republicans in this country
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for years by saying that they pose an existential threat to the Republic and by comparing them to
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Hitler. That's on us. Blood is on our hands. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. I'm sorry,
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we're going to turn another leaf. If they did what Cory Booker said in the abstract they should do,
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even though he won't do it himself. If they actually did that, I think they would have a shot
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at moving forward in a sincere, genuine way and maybe persuading some people.
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Say, we'll tone down the rhetoric. But they can't acknowledge that they've done anything wrong.
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And so I think they're in a real bind here. Because people are sick of this. We do not want innocent
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people to be gunned down in the street for debating ideas. Charlie's assassination was a national
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trauma. And people have not gotten over it, nor should they get over it. And I'm not just talking
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about Republicans. I'm talking about people in the middle and on the center left. Because they can see
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a direct line between the Democrats' rhetoric, the Democrats' encouragement of political violence,
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and the actual political violence that occurs. Now they want to have their cake and eat it too.
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They want to encourage the political violence. They want to say that they haven't done anything
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wrong. But they also want to persuade voters. All right, good. We're going to make a Hitler
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compilation video for every Democrat who tries to run away from this. Now, speaking of the apocalyptic
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hyperbolic language of the left, and actually speaking of about faces, big about face from Bill Gates.
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Bill Gates has been one of the horsemen of the apocalypse for many years now. It's the climate
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apocalypse. He's right up there with St. Greta of the Blessed Sailboat, saying that the world is
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going to end in five minutes because of the sun monster. It's happening. Big, big update in Bill
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Three tough truths about climate. I'm not going to read this. This is a very long missive put out by
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Bill Gates with all sorts of charts and whatever, blah, blah, blah. I'll just read you the first
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couple of paragraphs. There is a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this.
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In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around
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us. Just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing
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matters more than limiting the rise in temperature. Put a pause right there. He says there's the doomsday
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view. That is the view that has been pushed by the entire left for 20 years. That is the sole view
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that has been pushed by the Bill Gates's and the AOC's and the King Charles's for that matter,
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and the Al Gore's and the Congress and the media and the academic establishment and the everyone and
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that everyone has. But don't Bill Gates is trying to say, oh, there's a doomsday view. This is just
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one view. No, no, that's the one view. That is the one view that you have all been pushing
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for decades. By some measures, you would say for 50 years, since the 1970s.
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There's a doomsday view that says this, okay? Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong.
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Ooh, ooh, this is a nice little breakfast today. Fortunately for all of us, the view that the left
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has uniformly been promoting on the environment is wrong. So says one of the great spokesmen of this
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view. Although climate change will have serious consequences, particularly for people in the
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poorest countries, it will not lead to humanity's demise. People will be able to live and thrive in
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most places on earth for the foreseeable future. Emissions projections have gone down with the right
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policies, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What? What the H is this about? What is this? Why is Bill Gates
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one of the great promoters of climate hysteria on earth for decades? Why is he saying that they were
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wrong? Is it because he's come to see the light? Is it because he's been persuaded? Maybe he was
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listening to the Michael Knoll show. He said, you know, that devilishly handsome Sicilian,
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he's persuaded me. No, I don't think that's what happened at all. I think what happened is
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the left is making a tactical pivot because time's up. And this is crazy. You know, I hate to say I
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told you so. I think I actually predicted this on the show yesterday, and this had not come out yet.
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Talk, this is like an eerie, uncanny, numinous, Nolstradamus kind of moment.
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Because I said, look, time's up. You have AOC saying the world's going to end in 12 years.
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That was what, like nine years ago or something? Eight years ago. So, okay, we're getting close.
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Then Prince Charles, now King Charles, predicted that the world was going to end like seven years ago.
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Like that was the end. That was going to be the end of the world. That hasn't happened.
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Greta, Greta's moved on. She doesn't care about the climate anymore. Now she cares about the
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Palestinians. Now she wants to eradicate the nation state of Israel. But she still wants to sail the
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boat. The boat is the through line through all of her activism. All these guys, the time is up.
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And so, the libs have to make a little tactical move here. They have to say, okay, everything that
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we've been telling you is going to happen, it's not going to happen. And don't forget,
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the libs told you it was too late. When Al Gore made his stupid movie, the PowerPoint movie that
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won an Oscar that had manifest lies in it, the thesis was, it is almost too late. And then we
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moved past the almost stage. So, it was too late. It's all over. Nothing we can do to change it.
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We're screwed. But then we weren't screwed. Then everything was actually just fine.
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So, they need to make a tactical shift. And they need to say, okay, well, the thing we told you
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was going to happen is not going to happen because of all our great policies. Hold on,
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hold on, hold on. You told me it was already too late. You told me no policies could change anything.
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Now you're claiming that your genius policies of what? Putting that stupid stop feature on cars that
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we all hate? Of what? Just sending all of our trash to China so that we can pretend that we don't
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have trash anymore? Of what? What do we do? Because of all our genius policies,
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we've pushed it off a little bit into the future. So, the world's not going to end immediately.
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It'll end a little bit down the line. What Bill Gates is doing here, and you're going to see the
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whole left shift on this, is they have to recalibrate the issue of climate change.
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Because climate change, whatever that even means, is now and has always been a tool of political
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manipulation. It is a political slogan designed to play on people's anxieties. It is almost entirely
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divorced from natural science. Not entirely, entirely divorced from natural science. There's
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a little touch of it in there, but very, very little. So, the problem for climate change as an
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issue for the Democrats is they've got to calibrate it perfectly. And they screwed this up a little bit
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in the 2000s. If you say it's all too late, we're totally screwed. Well, now you've given up all your
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political leverage. If it's too late, then let's party. Burn some coal, baby. Let's go.
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If they say, well, it's way, way, way in the distant future. The environmental problems will
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be in the year 2800. Then they've also given up all their political leverage. Because now there's
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no impetus to do anything. We'll figure it out down the line. Climate change only works if it is
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dialed in perfectly such that disaster, Armageddon is just, just perfectly on the horizon.
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Not too close, not too far. That's what allows these systems of control.
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And they had that. They had tried to do that starting in the 1970s.
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And they, it was on, but now we've just caught up with the horizon. We've been moving forward.
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So, the only thing that they can do is either admit they were totally wrong or
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push it off, recalibrate, push it just perfectly into the future a little bit further. That's all
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that's going on here. I don't think anyone's learned anything. To me, this is just like the
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Democrats on Capitol Hill. No one's learned anything. No lessons have penetrated into the
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thick brow ridges covering up the purported minds of these people. They're just, they're just changing
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up the rhetoric a little bit. But on none of these issues, whether we're talking about the climate
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hysteria or political violence or anything in between, none of the substance is actually going
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to change on the left. Okay. Now, speaking of evolving leftist rhetoric, this is great.
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Antigate is upon us. Zoran Mamdani, the Muslim communist who is almost certainly going to be the
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next mayor of New York. Unless the betting markets are now shifting a little bit because of Antigate.
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Zoran Mamdani made this claim just a few days ago about 9-11.
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I want to use this moment to speak to the Muslims of New York City.
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Oh, he's so choked up. He's so choked up. I want to speak to the memory of my aunt.
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Oh, he can't even, he just loved his aunt so much.
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Who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
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So, okay. Thesis. The real victims of 9-11 were Muslims who felt a little awkward in New York.
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And as he points to the example, he says, my aunt, she wore a hijab and she stopped taking the subway
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because she felt uncomfortable in her hijab. Okay. So the sleuths on the internet did a little fact
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check. And here we see that his aunt doesn't wear a hijab. His aunt, you know, what is an aunt?
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That's going to be the next Great Matt Walsh movie. What is an aunt? The sister of one's mother or father
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or a great aunt would be the sister of one's grandparents. They look through all the aunts,
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all the aunts they can find. And they find out that the aunt doesn't wear a hijab and doesn't
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live in New York and didn't live in New York anytime around 9-11. The whole thing was totally
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made up. So what does Zoran do? Does Zoran admit that he lied or does he persist?
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Tonight, Friendly Fire returns for episode two. Join me, Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Andrew
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Klavan, and a special appearance from our newest Daily Wire host live 7 p.m. Eastern on Daily
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no script. There's no plan. There's no preparation whatsoever. It is four of the most trusted and
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deal of the decade at dailywire.com slash subscribe. My favorite comment yesterday is from Mila Nelson
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who says, the legitimate jump scare I had when Michael said, Kourtney Kardashian wants you to do
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with her lollipop line of probiotics. Oh yeah. Yeah. We don't need, we don't need to rehash that.
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Zoran says the real victims of 9-11 were Muslims who felt a little awkward sometimes,
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even though actually Americans' perceptions of Islam actually improved after 9-11. How insane is that?
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How insane is that? Our country is so stupidly nice that after 9-11, after Muslims in the name of
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Islam took down two of our buildings, killed 3,000 Americans, and hit the Pentagon. After that,
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we liked Islam more. We took in many more Muslims. Anyway, he says, we became so Islamophobic that my
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aunt felt awkward wearing a hijab on the subway. Then we find out the aunt doesn't wear a hijab,
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didn't live in New York. Here's his correction. I was speaking about my aunt. I was speaking
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about Zerafui, my father's cousin, sadly passed away a few years ago. And for the takeaway from
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my more than 10-minute address about Islamophobia in this race and in this city, to be the question
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of my aunt tells you everything about Andrew Cuomo and his inability to reckon with a crisis of his
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My father's cousin, my aunt. Now, I don't know how they do things in Uganda or Tanzania,
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but in my understanding, it seems like Zoran has a reasonable hold on the English language.
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Your dad's cousin is not your aunt. She's your cousin. You know, you can have first cousins,
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second cousins. You can have a first cousin once removed. That's your father's first cousin.
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You can have, but you don't. I promise you the cousin of your father is not your aunt.
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Even if you call her Zerafui, Zerafui ain't your aunt. But he says it as if there was no
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question. Well, of course, I was talking about my father's cousin, my Zerafui. Why would Andrew
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Cuomo make an issue about this in the race? I said, oh, because you lied. Well, one, because you said
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Muslims were the real victims of 9-11. You did a Norm Macdonald joke seriously, which is insane.
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And it is a disgrace that you could even potentially be the mayor of New York
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quarter century after 9-11. But also because you lied. You made a stupid point that you lied about.
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And now you're talking about Zerafui, who conveniently will not speak for herself here.
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So then he goes on some other show, El Vassilion de la Mañana.
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And he tries to explain to a somewhat skeptical host the real nature of Zerafui.
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I was at the press conference yesterday. They said, can you tell us who your aunt is,
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who you were referring to? I said, yes, this is my aunt. This is my Zerafui. This is my father's
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cousin. And this was her story. So how can you convince New Yorkers if that is the type of person
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that you are? In other words, that you don't tell the truth. Well, it's not a lie. My father's
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cousin is my aunt. That's how I referred to her growing up my whole life, Zerafui.
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And I think to have the takeaway from the New York Post and so many others after I gave a speech
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outside of a mosque for 10 minutes about the Islamophobia we've seen in this race and in our
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politics to be the question of whether or not Zerafui was my aunt. I mean, Zerafui is my aunt.
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I called her my aunt. You know, if my aunt had testicles, she'd be my uncle, I guess. He's doing
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a version of that joke too now. He did the norm joke. Now he's doing that joke. A lady is not
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your aunt simply because you call her that. Look, I'm Italian. We call people uncle and aunt pretty
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loosely, but we don't actually believe it. We don't say, oh, he's my uncle.
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Ah, you know, what if I did this bit? You know, Italians do this all the time. It's like your
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parents' friends. You call Uncle Johnny and so-and-so, Aunt Jackie. But you say, you know,
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after The Sopranos came out, it was a very traumatizing time for Italians. My Uncle Johnny,
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my Uncle Johnny wouldn't even take the subway wearing his velour tracksuit. He wouldn't. He
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felt too ashamed. My uncle, my sweet, beautiful uncle. Oh no, he's my like father's second cousin's
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barber, but he's no, he's my, no, he's no one would say that seriously. You lied. You lied.
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And now you're just repeating this phrase, Zerafui, like you're putting us into a trance.
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Zerafui, gesundheit! Zerafui, excuse me, I'm talking about my aunt. Okay. All right. Zerafui.
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Zerafui. She is my father's cousin and therefore my aunt. And how dare you suggest otherwise? He
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lied. He lied. That's it. But he has learned one thing about being a New Yorker. I can tell
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you this. And for those who do not live in New York, you won't appreciate this. He learned the
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maxim, deny till you die, which is not good. It's not a Christian principle. It's not, I don't
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encourage it. But it is very New Yorker. It's the most New Yorker thing I've seen
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about Zoran Mamdani, is you get caught in a lie and you just straight face it. No, no, no.
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What are you talking about? No, I didn't lie. No, my neighbor is my aunt. No, it doesn't. What
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are you talking about? No, that my uncle is my aunt. No, what are you talking about? Are you crazy?
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It's pure gaslighting. Now, speaking of uncles becoming aunts and things like that,
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there is a key demographic that has just come out for Zoran. It's one that's often overlooked
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by politicians. That is, of course, trans rabbis.
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Hi, Rabbi. Hi, Rabbi. Hi, Rabbi. Hi, Rabbi. Hi, Rabbi. Hi, Rabbi. Hi. We're among the
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thousands of Jewish New Yorkers who've been out door knocking and phone banking to elect
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Zoran Mamdani. We're also rabbis. We know Zoran will fight to make our city affordable and safe
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for our families. And for our neighbors of all faiths and backgrounds. As New Yorkers,
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we're also just people who live here, who don't want to get priced out of this incredible city
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that we call home. We know fellow Jews want to be able to afford housing, transportation and
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child care for their families, too. As Jews, as rabbis, as New Yorkers, we believe that all people
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deserve to thrive. Zoran agrees. But let's get real. This isn't only about belief. It's about action.
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So let's build a flourishing city. Together, let's elect Zoran.
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He's in. He's in, isn't he? I think, you know, I sincerely would never want to make fun of a
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woman's appearance. I think, maybe the producers can correct me if I'm wrong, that one of them is
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not a woman, right? And the kind of irony everyone's pointing to the trans rabbis for
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Zoran. How silly is that? The only one of those four people who might plausibly be an actual rabbi
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is the transsexual. Ladies can't be rabbis. It's like when I have to talk to my Episcopalian
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friends or my Anglican friends. I say, hey, you know, ladies can't be priests. You know that,
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right? And I don't, look, I'm not a Jew, but I'm, I think I know enough about Judaism. I have
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many, many Jewish friends. I am extremely philo-Semitic. Ladies can't be rabbis. So
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oddly enough, the trans, the trans rabbi is, he might be the, he might be the most authoritative
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person up there. Will that push Zoran over? I, hmm. I think he's going to be the next mayor of New
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York, but I think I'm just going to have to go visit my beloved home city of New York less.
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That's, that's too bad. I love New York. New York is great. Turning from Jews to Muslims before we go,
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Nigel Farage had a beautiful, it was kind of nice, nice little, uh, horseshoe. We, we, we begin
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where we, or we end where we began because we'll move from the U.S. Capitol to the British
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Parliament. Nigel Farage absolutely smacks down the liberal Keir Starmer on the topic of Muslim
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immigration. Nigel Farage. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We at Reform, a party that is alive and kicking,
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very much enjoyed your speech on Monday. You seem to be learning a very great deal from
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us. Can I encourage you please to go further as a matter of national security? As a matter
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of national security, over the weekend, an illegal immigrant from Iran who we believe came by
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boat was arrested in the north of England on serious charges of terrorism. Since the speech
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on Monday, 1,000 young, undocumented young males have crossed the English Channel. Does the prime
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minister agree? Now is the time to declare the situation in the English Channel as a national
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security emergency. Yeah. It wasn't my speech. It wasn't. I don't want to do that actually. Thank
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you so much, Nigel. Nigel doubling down. He says, Hey, you've got to stop the mass migration
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into the UK. Now this does represent a little bit of a shift in the way the UK has talked
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about this. You've seen it building since the Brexit, but let's be very clear what, I don't
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want to speak for Nigel. You can hear his own words, but let's be very clear what British
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conservatives are now saying. British conservatives are saying that the UK needs to severely limit
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immigration to England because those people are not English. It's not because of effects
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on the economy. It's not because they've committed some crimes. It's not because of this. It's not
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the argument being made at least by the ordinary English conservative chap is that you need to severely
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restrict immigration into England of non-English people because they are not English. And there's
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nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that. It's okay to have a political identity.
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You don't want there to be cruelty about it. You don't want there to be nastiness or haughtiness about
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it, but it's okay for people to have their own country and their own culture. That's okay. Previously,
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it was very difficult to say that in mainstream Americans, certainly, and even British politics.
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And the reason why is something very strange had happened. America started out as a British colony.
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You had the United Kingdom and you had the American colonies. And then we fought the War of
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Independence. I have a new video out that's being produced by the White House, actually, on the
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American War of Independence. My ancestor, good to go check out on the White House YouTube channel.
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Anyway, we had a War of Independence and over time it flipped. And what's weird is that now America
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is the empire, the global empire. And the UK is kind of a colony of America,
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which means that they take on some of our weird traits. Like, for instance, America,
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especially in the 20th century, came to say that we're multicultural. And we're not any particular
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people. We're just a land of immigrants or something. And it was a plausible argument to
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make in America because America was settled only 400 years ago. It wasn't settled by Tanzanians,
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for instance. But there have been different kinds of people who've come here over the years.
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That isn't really true in the UK. I mean, I guess there was the Norman Conquest in 1066.
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But the Brits are a people. The English come from the Angles.
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So it's very weird to read and hear, as you have in recent years, that the UK is a multicultural,
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multi-ethnic melting pot that has no original stock or something. I remember when I was writing
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Speechless, I remember I would be reading this in all sorts of, hello, hello, where is my bell? No,
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they're asleep on the wheel today. Thank you. I'm glad I woke up Mr. Davies from his nap.
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You know, when I was reading, I was reading these books from the 90s and 2000s on speech
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in the UK. And they say, oh, well, look, other countries of the world are ethnic states,
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unlike America and England. So no, I'm pretty sure England is an ethnic state. At least it used to be.
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That's what's shifted. Now, will that shift in America? Will we, I don't know. But at least in
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the UK, there is a shift. No, no. It's not that these people are bad intrinsically or morally evil.
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It's just, they're not English. And we want England to be English. Is that so much to ask for?
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That's a radical shift, a radical return to how English politics always was. Okay.
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Today is Teehee Tuesday on Wednesday. How weird is that? It's, it's, it's
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Wa-ha-ha-ha Wednesday. I don't know. I don't know what we'll call it to make it alliterative.
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