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The government shutdown is coming to an end. Democrats might split with Chuck Schumer over the shutdown, Jimmy Kimmel s wife splits with her family over Donald Trump, and a woman who split with her boyfriend wants to sue him for stealing the best years of her life.
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Democrats might split with Chuck Schumer over the shutdown.
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Jimmy Kimmel's wife splits with her family over Donald Trump.
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And a 34-year-old woman who split with her boyfriend
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wants to sue him for stealing the best years of her life.
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Eight Senate Democrats went over with the Republicans.
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They did it because Trump was threatening to nuke the filibuster.
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And I know there were squishy Republicans who said,
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The reason that the eight Democrats moved over to the Republican side
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is because Donald Trump threatened to nuke the filibuster
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I made an argument at the live show with Megyn Kelly that the time has come.
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but politics is about applying eternal principles to changing circumstances.
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And the circumstances are such that if that government shutdown
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had gone on for one more day, it was time to do it.
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And the Democrats still will probably want to nuke the filibuster
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So the Democrats' hands were really forced here.
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And now they look terrible because they didn't really achieve anything.
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They changed the political conversation away from crime in the cities, for instance,
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It didn't achieve any of the political ends that they were promising to achieve.
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Add on to that, it was the longest government shutdown ever, 41 days, 42 days and counting.
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They said, we're not going to reopen the government until Republicans give us more subsidies for our
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And there will be political consequences for that.
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But you are now seeing widespread calls for Chuck Schumer to step down as the Democrat leader in
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Ro Khanna, who is a relatively serious Democrat congressman.
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I'm grading on a curve because I don't think they're a really serious Democrat congressman.
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But relative to the rest of the party, Ro Khanna is a pretty serious figure.
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He comes out, he says, Senator Schumer is no longer effective and should be replaced.
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If you can't lead the fight to stop health care premiums from skyrocketing for Americans,
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You know, he's still keeping a straight face on this.
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Government shutdown was about improving health care for Americans,
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even though the health care policy that failed was the Obamacare policy.
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So there's no reason to believe the Democrats would do any better this time.
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In any case, he says, Schumer promised that this is what was going to happen.
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And even politically, it largely failed because the public blamed Democrats for the shutdown,
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Gavin Newsom, one of the front runners for 2028 on the Democrat side.
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Then you get Chris Murphy, Democrat in the Senate.
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Here is how he told his constituents that the shutdown was likely going to end.
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The vote hasn't closed, but it looks like eight Democrats have joined Republicans to
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vote for a temporary reopening of the government for about two months,
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but a bill with no protections to stop the coming health care disaster in this country
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nor any provisions to meaningfully stop Trump's corruption and his illegality.
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I've been working throughout the past few weeks to try to prevent this moment.
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Why is a member of the United States Senate sitting there on camera whining about his feel-feels?
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First of all, why is he sitting there without a jacket on,
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his rumpled little shirt, his tie askew, his button undone at the top,
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which my button's undone at the top too, but I'm not wearing a tie.
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Sitting there, guys, I've been working so hard.
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And I remember reading this and I said, this is repulsive in a political leader.
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Who are, he tweets out, he goes, hey, I just got home.
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I'm going to go live on Instagram in a few minutes to say why I voted no on some bill.
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Actually, it was, it was actually over basically the same issue, a government funding bill.
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This is degrading to the US Senate, which has already been degraded quite a lot in recent years.
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I don't, you're politically, you're a grown man.
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Forget that you're politically, you're a grown man.
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Sit up straight, button your shirt, pull up your tie, put a jacket on and stop whining about,
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I don't want to hear about, oh, your emotions are kind of hurt because I was going to try to do something in my job and I'm a failure.
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But I think he is voicing the view of the Democrat Party, which is we failed.
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And at least guys like Ro Khanna and Gavin Newsom have the dignity to be angry about it instead of just depressed and sad and squishy.
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And that failure might have political consequences.
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And broadly speaking, what you're seeing is a generational shift.
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The Senate leaders, the House leaders, Nancy Pelosi just announced that she was going to retire after more than 60 years in politics.
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You're seeing a new generation of Democrats rise up, and they're much more radical.
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You have the Muslim communist in New York, who's now the mayor.
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You have, of course, AOC and Jasmine Crockett and Ilhan Omar, and the list goes on and on and on.
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What you are seeing in this shutdown is not just one more political battle, usual kind of stuff, in this case, a tactical loss for the Democrats.
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What you are seeing is a political party that is completely exasperated, completely exhausted.
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The government shutdown itself was a desperate Hail Mary pass.
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They were losing on every issue other than health care.
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They were a little bit above water on health care.
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So they said, okay, let's shut down the government, try to shift the conversation to health care.
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They shifted the conversation away from some of their failures like crime in the cities.
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But people are not really talking about health care in as much as they are.
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They're largely blaming the Democrats because it was the Democrats' health care law that failed.
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And when the party gets exhausted, they get desperate.
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And that's how you see things like political violence in the streets, the justification of political violence, calls for a shift in the leadership of the party.
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Chuck Schumer, even if he doesn't step down as minority leader in the Senate, he could lose a Senate seat to AOC next go around if AOC herself doesn't run for president.
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There is also a lot of turmoil on the Republican side.
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You're seeing a spike in the perennial Republican civil war between the more traditional conservatives and the neoconservatives, between a generational fight, the younger conservatives and the older conservatives.
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But that hasn't led to an exhausted party because you have vitality in the leadership of Trump.
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And even though Trump is of a certain age, the guy's got more energy than just about anyone.
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He exhausts the much younger reporters and staffers around him.
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And you have vitality in J.D. Vance, who accommodates new ideas, who promotes new ideas within the party, responds to changing circumstances, but also is able to maintain some moderation and cohesion, bring other people along, keep that coalition together.
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So the Republican Party is much healthier right now.
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There are dangers, but it's much healthier right now than the Democrats who are ready to politically decapitate their leadership.
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All of this is leading rank-and-file Dems of various profiles, private citizens and also public figures, to pull their hair out, to whine and cry on TV, to even sever relationships with their families, as we see with Jimmy Kimmel and his apparently unbalanced wife.
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Jimmy Kimmel's wife has just spilled the tea on how she and her husband have had to cut ties.
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They have chosen to cut ties with their family.
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That's right before Thanksgiving, right before Christmas.
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Because some of their family members voted for Donald Trump.
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There's like a little bit of sympathy I have for people in my family that I feel are kind of being deliberately misinformed every day.
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They are deliberately being misinformed every day and they believe it.
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But it hurts me so much because of the personal relationship I now have where my husband is out there fighting this man.
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And to me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family.
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And I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people in my family because of it.
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It's like this is not just Republican versus Democrat for me anymore.
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I feel like I'm kind of in constant conflict and I'm angry all the time, which isn't healthy.
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And he continues to make a mistake because he's not husbanding his wife.
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What she is saying is not just some fringe, crazy Hollywood wife nonsense.
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What she is saying, I think, typifies the Democrat Party right now.
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Okay, so I have some sympathy for the conservatives because they're being misinformed all the time.
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She says, well, yeah, they're being misinformed.
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Jimmy Kimmel came out on his show the day after Charlie Kirk was murdered.
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And he strongly insinuated that the killer was a MAGA Republican.
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He's a gay guy who wrote Catch This Fascist on the Bullet and who, in his own writing, explained his far-left motivations for murdering Charlie, the most prominent promoter of civil debate on the American right.
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Jimmy Kimmel comes out on his show, says, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a MAGA Republican.
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And Jimmy Kimmel has the audacity to say, these conservatives are being misinformed.
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If they're being misinformed, they're being misinformed by you, not that any of them are watching your stupid show.
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And she says, yeah, it's just, it's just, you know, some of them, they voted for Trump.
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I think the Democrats, I think the left broadly feels this way.
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You have severed relationships with your family.
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You have disowned your family because some of them voted for the president, the man who won not only the electoral vote, but the popular vote.
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Because some of your family members voted for the man that most Americans voted for, in one of the two major political parties in the United States for 170 years, you have severed relationships with your family.
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Well, she says, it's because it just kind of felt like if you're voting for Trump, you're voting against me and my husband and my family.
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I hear this from libs, especially the ones who love to make some random identity group the central part of who they are.
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They say, well, if you vote for me, or rather, if you vote for Trump, you're voting against trans rights.
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You're voting against black rights or Mexican rights or I don't know, whatever.
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Never mind that Trump won an historically high number of the black vote and black male vote and of Hispanics.
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But for the Kimmels, this is exaggerated because they're public figures.
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She's saying, look, my husband is in a very public fight with Donald Trump.
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So it's not just, you know, you voted against me by voting for Trump because I'm a private citizen.
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And so if you side with Trump, you're siding against my husband in this big public fight, even though my husband doesn't hold office.
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Even there, I'm reminded that James Carville and Mary Matlin are married.
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Do you know that some of the younger listeners will not remember this?
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James Carville was the chief strategist of Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign.
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Mary Matlin was a top aide to George H.W. Bush.
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They met during the campaign, and they got married.
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They're one of the strongest marriages in all of politics.
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Not only two people whose views are diametrically opposed, but two people who actually ran presidential campaigns against each other.
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It's not just the fact that some of her family is on the other side.
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They refuse to get along with more than half the country.
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We don't disinvite them from Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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But for any of the Democrats watching this show, I know there are plenty of Democrats and liberals who watch this show.
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It would probably behoove you to at least consider the possibility that all that anger you feel, all that constant frustration, the impulse to divorce your family,
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your family who raised you, who loves you, who is nice to you, the fact that you feel that all of a sudden and that you're starting to do that and you're the one whose behavior is changing, that might be a you problem.
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And maybe the ultimate cause of your anger is not Trump.
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Maybe you're a little too self-obsessed if you think that casting a presidential ballot is about you or your husband or whatever.
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And maybe you need to recognize you have a big problem.
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Maybe you need to ask for God's help and cooperate with his grace.
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Not just to Mrs. Kimmel, though I would appreciate if someone would send this to her too.
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But it's to all the Democrats, many of whom are feeling this way.
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Very liberal people, eight times as likely to justify political violence as very conservative people.
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26% of young liberals justifying political violence.
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Within a political party, what had been the major political party in the United States, that is exhausted, that is exasperated, that doesn't know what it believes on any issue, that doesn't have any leaders, that doesn't have a presidential frontrunner for the first time in a quarter century, that doesn't know where to go from here.
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Rather than just get angrier and angrier and angrier and become more and more irrational and maybe even get violent, rather than do that, maybe just take a breather and recognize maybe something is wrong with you.
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And maybe turn to the people who have cared for you and who loved you, maybe your family that you want to disown, and ask them for a little bit of help.
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That's just my thought, in the spirit of Thanksgiving, which is coming up.
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This is not just about this woman writing into the telegraph.
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I know plenty of women who feel this way, who have been dating, and clock's ticking, and they get to a certain age, and they say, oh my goodness, time's running out to get married to have kids.
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And I've been dating this guy forever, but he was a total schlub, and he either left me, or he doesn't want to get married, or he doesn't want to have kids.
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He tells me that he feels at 38 as though he still has a decade of enjoying his lifestyle, empowering through with his career, and is not ready for marriage and children.
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He's got to do more drugs and work a little more and go to more nightclubs, and then he'll be ready.
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He knows that marriage and children have become a priority for me, so he's off.
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They've dated for 10 years, but he just has more exploring to do.
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You know, he just wants to prioritize him, and so he's out.
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Here I am at 34, eggs twitching, ready for the marriage and parenthood stage of life, but unexpectedly single and emotionally devastated.
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I am tipping into the furious phase of the grief cycle because I feel as though he owes me big time, and I want him to pay.
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The woman then goes on to explain that she also made career sacrifices to prioritize her ex-boyfriend.
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You know, he had career ambitions, and she let her career take a backseat for her ex-boyfriend.
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Totally normal thing to do if you're a wife and it's for your husband.
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A little bit of a worse idea if you guys are not married and you're just shacking up.
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But they had verbally agreed that he would be the chief breadwinner when they had children.
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But, you know, it was a verbal agreement, nothing on paper, no marriage certificate.
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You know, sometimes people say, oh, who needs a piece of paper?
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So, she concludes, now I feel like these compromises have left me vulnerable and I'm seeking compensation.
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Surely, he should have some responsibility for helping me mitigate the damage to our plans caused by his change of heart and broken promises.
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She never should have dated this guy for 10 years.
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She never should have thought that 34 is the time to start thinking about if you want to settle down and have kids.
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Because she should have thought about that when she started dating him at age 24, frankly.
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And, obviously, she has no legal recourse here.
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But I feel for her also because in the old days, you would have said, look, now she has no legal recourse.
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But if they had been married, they actually would have had a contract.
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And if he broke that contract, she would be able to take him to the cleaners.
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But actually, divorce has been liberalized over the last 60 years.
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And most of the people who initiate the divorces are women.
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So I guess the feminists feel like that's a victory.
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But in this case, if the guy had just left her, she could have challenged the divorce.
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She could have refused to give him a divorce in the old days.
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She could have forced him to stay in the marriage.
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Or, verily, she could have taken him for a lot of money.
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So now, you know, it's easy to say, well, they just should have gotten married.
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And then if he decided to leave, she would have had some legal options.
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But frankly, with no fault divorce, you don't really have as many options.
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It is degraded marriage to the point that marriage is kind of like being boyfriend and girlfriend.
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And so is it any wonder that people think that being boyfriend and girlfriend is basically the same thing as marriage?
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And she's tragically finding out how very different those things are.
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And you're going to hear this from people on the right.
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I know there are going to be people on the right, not just on the left, not just the feminists.
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There will be people on the right who say, she's a grown woman.
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She doesn't get to take him to the cleaners for this.
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Women are either adults with agency or they're not.
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So no one owes you anything for the decisions you freely made.
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I know that there's a kind of red pill bro contingent that says, oh, these women.
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Either women are accountable grown adults or they're not.
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Some people who misunderstand things are going to accuse me of being a little bit lib or like a little bit feminist.
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Because I am largely on the woman's side in this case.
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But I promise you, the reason that I'm largely on the woman's side in this case has nothing to do with feminism.
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And I think it's the red pill bros who really share the same view as the feminists ultimately.
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I think it's the red pill bros who say men and women are exactly the same.
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And so men and women need to be held to exactly the same standards when it comes to decision making, accountability, relationships.
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They need to be held to the exact same standards.
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It's the view that says that men and women are exactly the same.
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This line, someone says, accountability matters.
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Yeah, I know you followed this guy around for a while and he used you and then left you high and dry.
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It reminded me of that great line from the movie As Good As It Gets, the Jack Nicholson line.
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Jack Nicholson plays a writer and he's asked by this woman, fangirling, I'm all gaga over him, says, how do you write women so well?
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I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
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The Red Pill bros don't take this woman's side because a lot of them actually hate women.
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They actually just like don't really like women.
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I am taking the woman's side because I really like women.
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It's the kind of Red Pill bro reaction that says, this woman needs to be accountable because men and women are exactly the same.
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They need to be held to exactly the same standard.
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And me, someone who loves women, my explanation is now men and women are not the same.
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And they can't really be held to the same standards because women are not as reasonable and accountable.
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But women are not as reasonable and accountable.
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That's why it's one of the most famous movie lines of the last 30 years.
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When I was a kid, I was brought up to be told it's not okay to hit a woman.
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The liberals, weirdly enough, were raised to think that it is okay to hit a woman.
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So much so that now you have liberal politicians literally arguing in deliberations over laws
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that it is okay for men to punch women in boxing, in UFC.
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And I think that men have a responsibility to lead their households.
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And I think that when a man leads a woman on for 10 years, yeah, there's really nothing
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It's why we should discourage adultery and hookup culture and all these other things.
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It's why we need a serious definition of marriage.
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It's why we need to get rid of excuses like no-fault divorce that in many ways render the
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It's why we need to make sure that, it's why we need to overrule Obergefell, for instance,
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and remind everyone that marriage involves both men and women.
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It's kind of like the essential nature of marriage.
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Do you think men and women are the same or not?
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If you think they're different, then you have to behave that way.
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And the irony of ironies is that we're told if you really love women, you have to treat
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And yet I notice it is the most practically misogynistic people in the country who argue
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It's the ones who want to force giant dudes into your little girl's changing room and allow
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Those are the ones who, these people who hate women, or even people on the right who like
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They're the ones saying men and women are the same, treat them the same.
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And the people who love women, who actually love women, they're the ones who are acknowledging
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I'm on the, she shouldn't, she's not going to get money from, she shouldn't freeze her
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I feel for her and she shouldn't do morally dubious or immoral things.
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But I feel for her, and if we love women and we want to make them happier, we got to acknowledge
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There's that study came out of Yale, I think it was 2008, the paradox of declining female
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Since feminism, women's happiness has declined in absolute terms and relative to the happiness
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Okay, speaking of marriage, big update on the Supreme Court, whether or not they're going
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Sal Saguev N3S, who said,
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Senator Schumer never makes the same mistake twice.
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He makes it five or six times, just to be sure.
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Actually, the comment just said Senator Kennedy.
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I said, no, Senator John Kennedy, who has the best one-liners of anybody in the U.S.
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Turning from the Senate to the Supreme Court, I mentioned yesterday on the show that on Friday,
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the Supreme Court deliberated over whether or not they were going to hear an appeal from
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this woman, Kim Davis, who is a county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
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This would be a case that could trigger the overruling of Obergefell, which created a
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And I said, look, the court is probably not going to hear this case.
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Right now, there's still too much popular support.
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There's 54% popular support for same-sex marriage in the U.S.
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But that number has declined, and it will continue to decline.
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Whether or not they hear this case this time, they will hear it eventually, and they will
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They will overrule Obergefell eventually, because it's totally contrary to nature.
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So the Supreme Court decided shortly after my show came out to reject this appeal, to overturn
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I also mentioned on the show yesterday that it took almost 50 years for Roe v. Wade to be
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Because the Roe v. Wade decision, followed up by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which undermined
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the reasoning of Roe v. Wade, but upheld the object of it, which was a national license
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to abortion, supposedly in the Constitution, that was just ridiculous.
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It was ridiculous on moral grounds, natural law grounds.
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It was ridiculous, and it was contrary to reality.
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And there's certainly no right to it in the Constitution.
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Do you think when Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and John Jay are writing The Federalist,
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do you think in the back of their minds was the notion that two fellas were going to go get a
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marriage certificate and then go to the baby store and buy kids, create designer babies?
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The notion of same-sex marriage, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ran against it in 2008.
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The only reason it exists is because Senator, sorry, Justice Kennedy, there's so many Kennedys
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Justice Kennedy, Anthony Kennedy, in Obergefell, decided to write some romantic poetry and say
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that there is a secret right to intimacy in the Constitution, a right that I have not seen
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But even if there were such a right, Antonin Scalia beautifully wrote in his dissent, he said,
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even if there were a right to intimacy in the Constitution, marriage restricts rather than
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expands the right to intimacy, ask the nearest hippie.
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These politics are shifting very quickly because the Democrat Party is completely exhausted,
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And the right is in the midst of a civil war to figure out what its future is going to be.
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Now, speaking of weird sex stuff, Nike has hired a non-binary furry to sell athletic wear
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What happened to, they hired someone, what's this guy's name?
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Sonic, it's like a Sonic the Hedgehog kind of thing.
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But anyway, it's some weird looking dude sitting in a gamer chair with a big creepy sex mask on
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And then really, really short shorts, only slightly covering his big, fat, hairy, disgusting legs.
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I don't mean to body shame, but all men should cover up.
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And I don't want to see your gross, hairy legs.
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However, I guess I will break with all my fellow conservatives in that I get why Nike did this.
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Nike did this because Nike's business has been failing relative to its competitors,
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So Nike had to do something to change its fortunes.
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And one way it was going to do that was lean into the gamer community, like video games.
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You think of Nike as being about sports, go outside, touch grass, run around, throw a ball.
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They were leaning into digital sports, video games.
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And video game culture is super creepy and weird.
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I don't have much first-hand experience of video game culture.
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I just know from what I read and what I hear, it's weird.
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It's some like giga chad who puts on, you know, his uniform and throws the ball.
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It's the exemplar of healthy, normal American culture.
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That they're just in like really good shape, great health, with a really hot girlfriend,
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And so Nike said, all right, well, we're going to try to get into video games to try to help
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And if we want to get into video games, we're not going to go get the giga chad to be our
00:41:21.580
We're going to go get some weird sex freak, a non-binary.
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That's, it's in a way it's a smart business decision.
00:41:37.700
The bigger problem is not bringing weird sex stuff into Nike.
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The bigger problem is combining e-sports with real sports.
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They both have the word sports in it, I guess, but they're totally different things.
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And actual athletes and actual would-be athletes and actual hobbyists and guys who just like
00:42:01.440
to throw a football every so often are not going to want to be associated with weird
00:42:10.540
There is a, there is a cultural disconnect, not between the furries and the gamers.
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If I'm not saying most gamers are furries, but I think most furries are gamers.
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Most, it's not that all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles.
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And trying to combine that with giga chats doesn't make any sense.
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And so in, in the long run, it probably will hurt Nike.
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It's like, it was just, they were just being a little too clever by half.
00:42:41.540
Now, speaking of go woke, go broke, I don't know if people still watch South Park.
00:42:46.700
Well, people do because they've had record high ratings this season.
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I watched South Park from episode one, the second airing of episode one in 1998 or whenever it was.
00:42:59.240
So I haven't seen South Park in a while, but I've always found it to be funny.
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But this year, they went really hard after Trump.
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And I watched one episode of it just to see it.
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And it was, it was pretty funny, but they went really hard after Trump.
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That, after, even in the 90s, they always had this kind of libertarian streak.
00:43:22.280
They would make fun of conservatives sometimes, but they would really go after the left.
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You know, I think it was Matt Stone said, look, we hate conservatives, but we really effing hate liberals.
00:43:33.600
And so this season, they went really, really hard after the right.
00:43:39.140
Trey Parker said, it's not that we got all political.
00:43:46.420
Because many seasons, they don't even really lean into political news, but this time they did.
00:43:50.760
And Trey Parker's saying, no, it's not that we like got triggered and got all political like Jimmy Kimmel's wife.
00:43:56.620
It's just that now everyone's just talking about politics all the time.
00:44:04.720
Matt Stone said that the reason they went after Trump is because criticizing Trump started to feel taboo.
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And what South Park is all about is breaking taboos, for better and worse.
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And for most of the last 25 years, the taboos have all been set by the left.
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And so if you wanted to transgress the taboos, you were mostly making fun of the left.
00:44:28.640
He said, now it started to feel like criticizing Trump was taboo.
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Matt Stone said, Trey and I are attracted to that like flies to honey.
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I know some conservatives were going after South Park for this.
00:44:48.080
South Park famously parodied Charlie Kirk before he died, of course.
00:44:53.420
And some conservatives went after them for that.
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I think he changed his profile picture on social media to Cartman as Charlie Kirk.
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And a lot of conservatives have really enjoyed South Park over the years.
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So I don't, I know some conservatives don't like that.
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This actually brings us right back to our first story about the shutdown and where the Democrats are.
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It is a great sign for conservatives that Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going after Trump
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because they feel that's where the taboos are, because that's where they feel that's where the
00:45:31.280
mainstream culture is, because that's where they feel that's where the regime is.
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Because that means that conservatives have very serious political control and cultural control
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That means that right now, the Republican Party has problems.
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There's always a civil war, but it's really getting hot right now.
00:45:56.840
And they're trying to figure out what the future is, what happens after Trump.
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Can J.D. Vance continue to lead this coalition?
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Do we have to kick people out, blah, blah, blah.
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And yes, they elected their Muslim communists in New York.
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They don't know what they believe about any, what do they believe about tariffs?
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They might not have a leader in the Senate pretty soon.
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When South Park skewers you, that is a good sign.
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