Ep. 1851 - Zohran Mamdani Stole This Group From Us
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Jennifer Lawrence explains why she doesn t want to talk about politics anymore, and why it s time for Hollywood to get out of the politics business. Plus, a new way to save money on healthcare, and how to save thousands a year on your healthcare bill.
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Conservatives are still reeling from the election losses two nights ago, and it was brutal,
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and we'll get into all the fallout from the people on the ground up to the White House,
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especially the voting demographic that Republicans have ignored that we really need to pay attention
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to. But there is a little good news. Here's just a little sugar for your morning coffee.
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After decade upon decade of inane, insufferable, left-wing babble,
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Hollywood stars are finally promising to shut up about politics. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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Text Michael. Just a little sugar for your coffee, okay? We'll get into all the substantive stuff.
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There are a lot of really important lessons that came out of election night that we're now beginning
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to see in the data. But look, here's a little silver lining, and it's somewhat improbable,
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actually, after the Democrats did so well this time. Hollywood, finally, after so many years of all
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this stupid political babbling, Hollywood says it wants to get out of the politics business.
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And there's a very curious reason why. Here is Jennifer Lawrence explaining her position.
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You have been politically outspoken in the past. In the first Trump administration,
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you know, you had a lot to say. I'm curious how you feel about talking out now.
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I don't really know if I should. I think, like, the first Trump administration was so
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wild, and just how can we let this stand? Like, I felt like I was running around like a chicken with
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my head cut off. But as we've learned, election after election, celebrities do not make a difference
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whatsoever on who people vote for. And so then what am I doing? I'm just sharing my opinion on
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something that's going to just add fuel to a fire that's ripping the country apart.
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Oh, I love this. This is so introspective. Seriously, I'm not mocking her. This is great.
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She said, look, I used to talk about politics all the time. I'd drive myself crazy. And I'm going to
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stop. Not because I don't think it's my place. Not because I just want to go entertain and go,
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you know, dance and sing. And no. I said, I'm going to shut up about it because it's having no effect.
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It used to have an effect. There was a time, including when I was a young boy,
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that politics, or rather celebrities speaking out on politics, even though they didn't know
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anything, George Clooney doesn't know anything about politics. But when they would speak out,
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that would move some voters. And increasingly, that isn't happening.
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The question then that Jennifer Lawrence doesn't answer is why? And I will tell you why.
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Why? The reason why is because we now have celebrities whose entire job it is to talk
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about politics. And that was not always the case. Used to be you'd get, you know, the star of some
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movie or something would be asked about politics in some interview. And he or she would babble about
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it. And it would almost always be for the left. And people would listen. Now, there's just been a
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process of specialization. Maybe this just happens in capitalism. You've seen it happen in academia.
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Used to be you'd have a professor would talk about philosophy, maybe ancient philosophy,
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maybe modern philosophy. But they would teach the general courses or history. They'd cover American
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history. And then over the years, you know this if you've ever been to any kind of university class,
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it becomes so hyper-specialized that the professor says, well, you know, I'm actually,
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I'm the world's leading expert in the history of Aboriginal pygmies in the eastern part of Uganda
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from 1921 to August of 1921. And I'm actually, I'm not the leading expert on that. I'm the leading
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expert on those pygmies who themselves were experts in Indo-Iberian literature,
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about trees. And that's it. And I'm only being slightly hyperbolic.
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They're so hyper-specialized. You see this throughout the university. You see this in
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corporate America. Very few generalists anymore. Very few people who can do lots of different jobs.
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They're people who hyper-specialize on one, not just one department, but one aspect of the department,
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one platform, one task. It's just all these hyper-specialization. That's happened in celebrity even.
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When I was a kid, when many of you were kids, though not the younger audience,
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there were Hollywood celebrities divided between movie stars and TV stars. Movie stars more prestigious.
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And then there were political analysts who were guys who wore, you know, ties. And they would go on
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the handful of news shows. And they would talk about elections. And they would talk about politicians.
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And they would talk about policy. And they would debate all that sort of stuff.
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Now, though, in recent years, and I guess I'm part of it,
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that has given way to a different kind of political influencer.
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Who is not the guy who's obsessing over policy or candidates or even elections?
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Is just someone who, and doesn't even go on the news show, just kind of has his own stream,
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has his own platform, has his own whatever, and talks about kind of weird, abstract stuff.
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And maybe doesn't even concern himself with actual politicians or elections.
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But they're nevertheless political influencers.
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And they're the ones who are offering opinions on any matter of politics.
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And I think basically what happened in the celebrity industry is the movie stories got crowded out from that.
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And this new class of celebrity is not the same thing as George Will and Charles Krauthammer.
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It's got a little bit of the glam of Hollywood.
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It's got a little bit of the lifestyle influencing.
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It's got a little bit of politics, maybe a touch of philosophy, maybe a little religion, though.
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Used to be that the political analysts didn't really talk about religion.
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Now it's got a little bit of that, and it's different.
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She still has her movie job, but she lost her politics job.
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Because we have to get to the election and what to learn from the election
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so that we don't repeat it in the midterms and in 2028.
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So we'll turn to part of that class of inane political babblers.
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She was the girl who went viral for saying that Charlie Kirk was an awful piece of SHIT.
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And no one really on the right had ever heard of her.
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The Democrat leader in the House, Hakeem Jeffries.
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She's part of that class, albeit on the left-wing side of the class.
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So at the Zoran victory rally, she's standing around with Mehdi Hassan,
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Now he's just one of these bomb throwers on the far left and other people.
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And she made the claim that Americans have no culture.
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Okay, so she said this, and her entire side believes this.
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And actually, there are people, even on the squishy part of the right, who believe this.
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Of all the crazy, insane things this woman's ever said,
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The first one is America has no culture except for multiculturalism.
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But America has no culture other than multiculturalism.
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What was the American culture before multiculturalism?
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What about before the discouragement of assimilation?
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Because we invented everything out of the last 100 years that's ever been invented.
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There was no culture of the pilgrims and the Mayflower.
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They were just waiting for someone to arrive from Pakistan to give them tikka masala.
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There was no culture of the founding fathers, the colonial era.
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There was no apple pie and hot dogs and fireworks on the 4th of July.
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The culture of Broadway, the culture of jazz, the culture of baseball, the culture.
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And follow up, crusty old white people need to figure that out.
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Kind of ironic because Miss Welch is white and of a certain age.
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It's not telling us anything about American culture.
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It is telling us about the left and really about the mainstream left.
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That is, I think, the defining feature of the left in America today, if not always, which is a self-hatred and an oikophobia, to use the word of the late, great Sir Roger Scruton, a hatred of home.
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This is why at their rallies, you're hard-pressed to find an American flag.
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It's this purely negative force to say, that is endeavoring to make its description true, to hollow out an American culture, to erase and replace any vestige of what would be American culture, and in so doing, to create a vacuum that actually does fill in with the cultures of the rest of the world.
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And the crusty old white people have to get along with that.
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And this is only a more explicit statement of what the mainstream left has said for years, going back to political science papers on the coalition of the ascendant, on how white people need to just disappear, how they'll decline as the demographic majority.
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You know, this country was 95% white or something, and now we're approaching a place where it's still about 60% white, but it's going to decline below 50% soon enough, if nothing changes.
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The left is openly calling for this and openly celebrating that.
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That explains a little bit of an uptick, especially among younger people, in recognizing that, well, if every other race and every other group gets identity politics, maybe they should have some identity politics too.
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And even beyond the explicitly racial appeal, the suggestion that every culture is great except for the American culture, which doesn't even exist anyway, is going to create a reaction among Americans, patriotic Americans.
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That says, well, hold on, if other people are going to be chauvinists for their culture, maybe I should be a chauvinist for my culture.
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And there are ways that that can be bad and can go off the rails and there are dangers inherent and all of that.
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But those reactions are not wrong in themselves.
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Those reactions are, in fact, the only rational conclusion that you can come to, given these political circumstances.
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And so I think the appropriate way to appeal to that is, one, to acknowledge that that is valid and to ground all of one's reactions to it in the heart of their problem, which is they hate their home and we love our home.
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So that's the way to offer something positive about it.
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He talked about the Ordo Amoris, the hierarchy of love, the order of loves, the Ordo Caritatis.
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And it also prevents people from spinning off the rails and going in all sorts of bad and unjust directions like the left has done.
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You have to acknowledge, no, it is perfectly rational.
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It's perfectly good, especially amid this kind of political environment, to say, no, no, no.
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You might hate your family, your tribe, your people, your whatever.
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You know, and actually it's your hatred of your own and your hatred of yourself leads to all manner of cruelty and hostility and antagonism toward everybody else.
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But my love, a proper love of one's own, my proper love of myself and of my home and my people and my family and everything actually spills over into an appropriate love for other types of people too.
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You know, the reaction since Charlie was murdered has clarified a lot of things.
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And I believe people are beginning to recognize the existential threats that have come from the left, politically existential threats, to America as a political community.
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That's another little silver lining we're learning from the terrible election a couple nights ago.
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We're also learning about one demographic group that we are not speaking to as Republicans.
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They've lost a lot of the electorate across races and sexes and geographic locations.
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But there is one part of the electorate that they are speaking to that Republicans are not speaking to.
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The Muslim communist, who's the mayor of New York, as I told you, I think the Muslim part of his identity is relatively minor.
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I think the communist part, the rote, leftist, millennial part is really, really prominent.
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One line from his speech we didn't talk about yesterday.
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It should send a chill up your spine, and that is on the role of government.
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We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.
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And weirdly enough, the second part of the statement, I think, is even more terrifying than the first part.
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There is no concern too small for the government to care about.
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That's really chilling because a lot of what voters reacted against with woke leftism two, three years ago was the idea that the government was going to come in and say, hey, you are not even allowed to dress your child.
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You're not allowed to call your child by his proper pronouns.
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They've been trying to invade these small concerns for a long time.
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Going back almost 15 years, the Democrats outlawed certain light bulbs, the nice warm light bulbs.
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They outlawed those because the sun monster was going to kill us over the light bulbs, and they made us have these disgusting, flashing, hideous, cold light bulbs filled with mercury, actually, which was bad for the environment, bad for you.
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And happily, we kind of got rid of that, but now then corporate America just came in and got rid of the nice light bulbs, and we have the ugly ones again.
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But obviously, the left has been very concerned with invading all these private spaces.
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The flip side of that is there's no problem too big for the government to solve.
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I think it's meaningless in a country of 320 million people that is actually the global hegemon that spans from one ocean to another ocean.
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I think that's very silly in a country that has military operations around the globe that has something called AFRICOM.
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Okay, we're not going to have a small government.
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And a small government might be a dream of libertarians or anarchists.
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We want a proper government, an appropriate government, a government that knows its own boundaries and limitations.
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So, no, I don't want a federal government that's deciding your light bulbs and telling you to put your little boy in a dress.
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Conservatives tend to believe in federalism, subsidiarity.
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So, you want maybe the state government to have a little bit more of a role in that.
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You want the county government to have a little bit more of a role.
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You want the municipal government to have maybe even more of a role in defining, being closer to these local cultures and helping to shape them.
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I am, I know this is going to be heresy for the libertarians listening.
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How many listeners did I just lose for saying that?
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Because I drive through the neighborhoods without the HOAs, and there's ugly architecture.
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And sometimes they tear down beautiful homes, they put up ugly black cube monstrosities, and they have all stupid sorts of signs.
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In this house, we believe in communism and Islam and the sun monster, whatever.
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You know, they put up, it's just so, it's horrible.
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Whereas, in my HOA, I'm not allowed to do crazy things to my house.
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All the houses in my neighborhood are really beautiful.
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I'm not allowed to have some stupid political sign in my yard.
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Maybe I want to, I don't actually don't even want to put one up, but you know what that means?
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That means my neighbors can't put them up either.
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Helps to maintain, there's, it's a politically mixed neighborhood, but it maintains order, propriety.
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My HOA doesn't come in and tell me what kind of eggs I have to put in my fridge.
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In fact, he wants the government to take over at the grocery stores.
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And he doesn't want you to have your own house.
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He doesn't want you to have your own apartment, but he wants the government to take that over too.
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And then to the first part, when he says, there's no problem too big for government.
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What about like the presence of evil in the world and a fallen, a fallen culture, a fallen society?
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I think original sin is too big for government to solve.
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Every utopian and totalitarian movement throughout history has thought that it could solve that.
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I believe that poverty, generally speaking, is too big a problem for the government to solve.
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But I believe, call me crazy, I think the poor will always be with us.
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I think there are facts of the fallen world that the government cannot fix.
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But communists, and to some degree socialists, and just secular materialists, frankly, liberals
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post-enlightenment, all, if you scratch them deep enough, they agree with that.
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There's no problem, at the very least, there's no problem that a proper political order can't
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And for the right, it's the magical, invisible hand of the free market is going to solve all
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If only we would let the free market grace us with its beneficence.
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There are certain problems that are too big for any government.
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And there are certain issues that are too small for most government.
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Zohra Mamdani is, I believe, who he's told us he was.
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And then Mike Bloomberg kind of maintained it, and then it started to fall apart again.
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And I hate to say I told you so that I was right about this, but it's true.
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But if this guy were some ardent religious Muslim, he would at least recognize that there
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are certain things the government can't quite do.
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There is something of the transcendent out there.
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He got elected because there is one demographic group that he spoke to, that Democrats are
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speaking to, that the Republicans don't speak to, and don't even really want to speak to.
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He's the econ and finance editor for Breitbart.
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Co-author of Breitbart Business Digest, but this actually was in Commonplace.
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My parents lived in Park Slope before I was born, and before it was a really hot neighborhood
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And I lived the first, I don't know, few months or so of my life in Sheepshead Bay,
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way out in the areas that are not so into Zoron, well, more traditional New York areas.
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But Park Slope, Bushwick, Williamsburg, these areas, they love Mamdani.
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And these areas are not populated by the working class.
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They're not populated by, you know, the Yemeni bodega owner or whatever that he was talking
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The Park Slope, Bushwick, Mamdani supporters are not in any meaningful sense working class,
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They belong to a group that has become increasingly central to American politics,
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the downwardly mobile professionals, the overproduced graduates of our university system
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raised to expect middle-class stability and discovering instead that the system has little
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And if the right wants to be serious about building a majoritarian coalition around economic
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renewal, which I thought is what we were all about, I thought that's what a lot of the
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right-wing populism was about, it ought to start by understanding that rage, not mocking it.
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It's the consequence of the snowflake generation.
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We used to talk about the millennial snowflakes who are on college campuses.
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Now they're in their late 20s, their 30s, and they have university degrees.
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And we on the right, we want to make fun of them.
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And we say, oh, you've got some dumb degree in, you know, lesbian dance theory.
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They did not want to become lesbian dance theory teachers.
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They actually went to school to become lawyers or to become middle managers at some corporation
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or to become marketing executives or to work a white-collar job, to become accountants.
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And the life that that used to promise, that they were promised, that they invested a lot
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of money into, or that their parents invested a lot of money into, or more importantly, that
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they took out a lot of money in debt to pay for, it's not paying off.
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That doesn't really exist anymore, as it used to.
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And there's going to be an impulse on the right to say, yeah, well, screw them.
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Okay, that's an important demographic, because that demographic is supposed to be the bourgeois.
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And there are a lot of bougie people in Park Slope and Williamsburg.
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But the bourgeois can be and should be a good right-wing coalition, a good right-wing demographic,
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They're the middle class, the people who want to be in the middle class.
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They're the kind of responsible strivers who just want, you know, the good American life.
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Not the ones, not the ones who are dropping out of Harvard like Mark Zuckerberg and becoming billionaires.
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Or the ones at Stanford like Peter Thiel becoming billionaires, being these, it's not them.
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It's that middle class professional that has been before a very important Republican demographic,
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But Republicans have to speak to their concerns.
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Because if this election the other night, and it's New York, it's different from Peoria and the rest of the country,
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but that demographic is going to become more prominent, not less, in future years.
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That demographic is going to become more angry, not less angry.
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Especially as AI begins to change the labor market, as mass migration continues to change the labor market,
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as global economic shifts, maybe moving toward more of a bipolar world between the U.S. and China,
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And it is just a descriptive fact Republicans need to speak to them and not dismiss their concerns and make that group feel that they are on their side.
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I'm not saying, oh, cry over, you know, the Wellesley graduate.
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But some of you want to say it's the world's smallest violin, but they are going to matter.
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And a Muslim communist won their votes because a communist said, hey, bourgeois, middle class America,
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I'll give you a better deal than the right will.
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Now, about young people, a much more important issue.
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Like, I have a TikTok, I guess, but my team runs it.
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I was turned on to this article, which has gone viral on social media,
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by young Professor Jacob, my associate producer.
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If you could survive this, if your relationship could survive this article going viral on social media,
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What is so embarrassing about having a boyfriend?
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If someone so much as says, my boif on social media, they're muted.
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There's nothing I hate more than following someone for fun,
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only for their content to become my boyfriend-defined suddenly.
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It's probably because for so long, it felt like we've lived in boyfriend land, you know,
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and then it goes on to complain that a woman is only defined by her boyfriend.
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You know, no man defines himself online by his girlfriend,
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and women need to be girl bosses, and blah, blah, blah.
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more recently, there's been a pronounced shift in the way people showcase their relationships online.
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Far from fully hard-launching romantic partners,
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A hand on a steering wheel, clinking glasses at dinner, the back of someone's head.
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Or the more confusing end, you have faces blurred out of wedding pictures,
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with the fiancé conveniently cropped out of all shots.
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Women are obscuring their partner's face when they post,
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as if they want to erase the fact that they exist without actually not posting them.
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And it's not because the women are just selfish and narcissistic on social media.
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We've talked a lot about trad wives in recent years.
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It is not possible to be a trad wife if you are on social media posting selfies on Instagram.
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It's not just that social media makes us all self-centered.
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There's a very practical reason why women don't want to post their boyfriends on social media.
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And it is because boyfriends are temporary and social media is forever.
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It is our modern hookup culture, our modern culture that discourages marriage on IMAX.
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And I think, got to give credit for, I'm on the side of the women here.
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I don't think women should be posting about their boyfriend on social media.
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Because I think these women are not posting about their current boyfriend on social media,
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Because no guy wants to think about the other guys that have dated his girlfriend or his wife.
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I don't care if you've been married for 50 years.
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My grandma and grandpa were married for almost 70 years before my grandpa died.
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If you brought up the guys that would try to date my grandmother when they were broken up a little bit.
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They dated in high school and they broke up a little bit.
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If you brought him up, he could be 90 years old.
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And this is a technological problem or magnification of a social problem.
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You know, in the old days before there was social media, maybe a woman dates a few guys and gets married.
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Even if you delete the picture from social media, it's still like on the internet.
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You should not post pictures of your boyfriend.
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What it's, I think what it's expressing is women would rather get married.
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But they, you should post pictures of your husband.
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A recognition that we shouldn't spill all of these temporary moments of our lives.
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One of the most insidious aspects of the internet, especially social media, is they make permanent things that ought to be fleeting.
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You're taking stupid pictures, posting them online.
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Those are things that might be fun in the moment that you're going to want to forget probably 10 years from now.
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That this is, it's like we got to take the yuppies seriously if we want to beat the mom donnies of the world.
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Three cheers to Vogue and to the Zoomer girls not posting their boyfriend.
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And if you have to post an Instagram picture, that's fine.
00:36:06.820
Speaking of permanent solutions, temporary problems and permanent solutions, President Trump might nuke the filibuster.
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We need to give him a prize for the most comment.
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It just, he said yesterday, New York City, November 5th, 2025, a day that will live in
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It takes a very handsome man to admit when he's wrong.
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It's not that I was, I also was right about this, but I told you.
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I said, we have this amazing new Advent calendar or Advent candle set called the Luke's Adventure
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Three candles and then one differently colored candle for the four weeks of Advent when we
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Actually, you picked up the phone and you called and you yelled at some of our staff members
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You know, Advent will come around next year too.
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This is just a reminder because I have some cool products in the works that I know a lot
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Speaking of permanent solutions, President Trump might nuke the filibuster.
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The filibuster says that a bare majority in the Senate does not get to do whatever it
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And that means that the party that's in power doesn't have total power.
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And it means that the minority party still can do things and block things.
00:40:33.180
And there has been talk from both parties for many years now ramping up that they're
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Get rid of it so a bare majority can do whatever it wants.
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And it's usually the conservatives who say this is a bad idea.
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But the Democrats have pulled back from the brink at times too.
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We've weakened the filibuster for various nominees, judges, whatever.
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It's why the government is shut down right now.
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Why is the government shut down when the Republicans don't want it shut down and the
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Republicans control the White House, the House of Representatives, and the Senate?
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Because there are just enough Democrats there to gum it all up.
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And there are enough Democrats there that with the filibuster, they can't reopen the
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It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do.
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If you don't terminate the filibuster, you'll be in bad shape.
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The way we're going to do it this afternoon is terminate the filibuster.
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A lot of what we've been talking about in recent weeks has to do with timing.
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There are ideologues who want to say that one policy prescription must be true for all time.
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You see this with a lot of people in all factions of the right.
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Because politics is applying eternal principles to constantly changing circumstances.
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And actually, the party was founded on tariffs.
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Does that mean that one side of that argument is always wrong and one side is always right?
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Sometimes our geopolitical adversaries put us in a position where the best course of action
00:42:42.700
to advance the good of the country is a tariff.
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It's prudence, which is the chief political virtue.
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There was a time when I would have said Republicans should not nuke the filibuster.
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Because when the Democrats get back into power, they will nuke it.
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They almost did it last time, except there were, what was it, two?
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It was Manchin and Sinema who basically held it up.
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There was a time when Democrats would not elect a Muslim communist mayor of New York.
00:43:30.540
There was a time when Democrats would not openly celebrate the assassination of a right-wing
00:43:39.820
There's a time that Jay Jones' texts would have eliminated him from the race immediately.
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That time was like five years ago, and now that time is gone.
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So, principled conservatives who have long, rightly, defended the filibuster, I think should
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Because whichever party does nuke the filibuster is going to have a tremendous advantage.
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Whoever does it first has a tremendous advantage.
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And for a while, we could kind of count on the other party not doing it.
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And they've told us that repeatedly for over a month.
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We can either die politically, fighting the last political war, as a lot of conservatives
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That reluctance, that caution, that patience is a good conservative feature, until it's
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I'm with the more in tune parts of the conservative movement that says, guys, we're in a different
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Now, I'm with Cocaine Mitch McConnell, who says, the winners go to Washington, the losers
00:45:07.740
Okay, now, speaking of political hostility, a clip has gone viral from the Shannon Sharp
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podcast of a black guy, I don't know which guy, but some guy, he might be famous, saying
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that he would track down the descendants of the family that bought his ancestors, the white
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We'll get to that tomorrow, because today is Theology Thursday.
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We've got some hardcore Bible trivia to embarrass me.
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