Ep. 1871 - The Left & Right Rally Behind Jasmine Crockett's Low IQ Campaign
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In our divided political climate, it seems like Democrats and Republicans can never agree on anything. But rising star Democrat Jasmin Crockett may have, for the first time in decades, brought Democrats and Republican together in perfect agreement with the official launch for her US Senate campaign.
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In our divided political climate, it seems like Democrats and Republicans can never agree on
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anything. But rising star Democrat Congressman Jasmine Crockett may have, for the first time
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in decades, brought Democrats and Republicans together in perfect agreement with the official
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launch for her US Senate campaign. Here is the ad. How about this new one they have,
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their new star, Crockett? How about her? She's the new star of the Democrat Party, Jasmine Crockett.
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They're in big trouble. But you have this woman, Crockett. She's a very low IQ person.
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I watched her speak the other day. She's definitely a low IQ person. Crockett. Oh, man. Oh, man.
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She's a very low IQ person. Somebody said the other day, she's one of the leaders of the party.
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I think you got to be kidding. Now they're going to rely on Crockett. Crockett's going to bring him
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back. Crockett, Crockett for US Senate. This is it. This is it. We've reached the apotheosis of
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politics, the end of history, the ultimate synthesis between alternating theses and antitheses.
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She's an idiot. She's a star. I'm a star and an idiot. It is political messaging. So bold.
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She might win. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Controversial, provocateur, live streamer, Nick Fuentes
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faced off with Piers Morgan yesterday on Piers Morgan's show. It had a ton of live viewers.
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It got a ton of reaction. Everybody's talking about this interview. And now some people are
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claiming that all that talk and all those views are actually fake. And they're being
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astroturf from overseas by hostile interests. And we'll dig in a little bit to the interview.
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We'll dig in a little bit to the study that purports to show that it's not really popular.
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Funds are distributed by Ultimus Fund Distributors, LLC. Jasmine Crockett, just to put a button on this,
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this ad is great. For those of you who are only listening, it's her, and she's just, she's in
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profile. She's just standing there, and you hear all these lines, Trump just saying, man, she's an
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idiot, huh? Man, that woman is low IQ. It's crazy. But they're saying she's the leader of the party,
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but she's really dumb. But maybe she's the leader of the party. And then she just slowly turns,
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and smiles, like an idiot or like a genius. And you don't quite know. That's the ambiguity in the
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ad. I think it's a great ad. I think it's a great launch video. I mean that without any irony
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whatsoever. It's great. Why is it great? It's great because she gets what politics in America
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is about right now. And that's one word, five letters, Trump. Politics in America has been about
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Trump for a decade. And some people try to say, it's not really about Trump. It's about this issue,
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and it's about that issue, and it's not really. It is about Trump. Trump's the biggest political
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star. He was the biggest TV star. Before that, he's been a star for 40 years. And she knows that.
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And so rather than run away from that, she leans into it. Rather than try to undermine that,
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rather than launch her ad making fun of Trump, say, she leans in. She says, no, look, he dominates
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American politics. He won the popular vote in 2024. Obviously, a lot of people like him.
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And I'm going to use him to talk about me because he's talking about me.
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And if the biggest political star of a decade or more, really more than that, though he's been
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the man since he announced for president in 2015, the big star says that I'm the next big star.
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And that's good for me. And one of Trump's secrets is everyone called him an idiot. But
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it turns out he's not an idiot. Turns out he's actually very good at being president.
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Turns out he's good at the domestic policy. He's good at the foreign policy. He's a lot better than
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anybody thought he is. He's better at electoral politics. He's only the second guy in American
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history to get elected to a non-consecutive second term. So one of his key advantages is being
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called an idiot and then proving people wrong. Well, what did Trump do? He called her an idiot.
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So you get it in his own words. She turns, she smiles at this.
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Makes her an underdog. It manages expectations. It catches attention because this is not the kind
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of ad you're supposed to put out there. She's running for Senate in Texas. Compare her to the
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last two candidates they've had running for Senate in Texas. Who are those guys? Colin Allred.
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Remember him? Colin Allred, who tried to be a moderate. He pretended
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to be a moderate. And then Ted Cruz knocked him out with that commercial where Colin Allred was a
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football player and he tackles a little girl. The Colin Allred character tackles a little girl
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because he made it about men and women's sports. So the supposed moderate who's trying to win over
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the Republican sports, he gets blown out of the water. Same thing. Remember Beto? I'm Beto.
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He's skateboarding around the Waterburger parking lot. Him too. He was trying to be a moderate. I'm
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trying to be the next John F. Kennedy. And he just, there was no place for him. He got destroyed
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by Ted Cruz. So the Democrats are saying, we got to run a moderate in Texas. We got to run someone
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who seems Republican, even if they support the Democrat policies. Well, that hasn't worked.
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You've gotten a little closer than some people expected, but you don't want to,
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it doesn't matter how close you get. It doesn't matter if you lose by a tenth of a percentage point.
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If you lose, you lose. The winners make policy, the losers go home.
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So Jasmine Crockett is going to come out. She hasn't made this argument explicitly yet,
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but she will, which is, hey, you've tried this one strategy. It hasn't worked. So you got to go
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with me. You've tried the guys who seem kind of like white bread and milquetoast and that hasn't
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worked. So try me. I code switch. I'm provocative. I'm vulgar. I appeal to the lowest common denominator.
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Try me. Why not? The other one hasn't worked. Try me. I think she's a good politician. I've long
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said this about AOC. When all the Republicans are just making fun of AOC, what an idiot. Ha ha ha.
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This is such a joke. I said, hey, guys, whatever. I'm not saying she's a Rhodes Scholar, but she's
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pretty good at her job. Same thing's true of Jasmine Crockett. Okay. Speaking of more bold
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political messaging, the Department of Homeland Security has a great Christmas message.
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They've come out to say that illegal aliens need to go ho, ho, home. The message posted it to social
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media and it's the police with their Santa hats on in front of Christmas trees with little Christmas
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lights on their police shields sending the illegals home. Do we have the video? They put a wreath on the
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Humvee. It's really nice. And the libs are furious. How dare you? Even the squishes in the Republican
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party. How dare you? How dare you make light of this at Christmas time? How could you? How could you?
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So that obviously they're always going to complain about this kind of provocative, flamboyant messaging
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that's coming from the DHS, from the Trump administration. But you're also hearing complaints
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from some people on the right. You're hearing complaints from Trump's right.
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In as much as there are people, some of whom voted for Trump, some of whom sought to undermine
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Trump, but they call themselves on the right. And they'll say, well, Trump isn't deporting enough
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people. The problem with this kind of provocative messaging is not the actual cruelty that it reflects.
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It's that it doesn't reflect enough cruelty. So basically, the Trump administration is pulling
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a bait and switch. They promised you mass deportations. They didn't give you mass deportations.
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Now they're just giving you provocative, fun messaging to make you feel good emotionally,
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but not actually delivered. That's the criticism from the right. And it's kind of bogus.
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It's kind of bogus when you look at the real numbers. Because some people say, oh, Trump's only
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deported 300,000, 400,000 people. That isn't true, first of all. The official number of formal
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deportations is 527,000 as of last month. But that doesn't tell you anywhere near the whole story.
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Because the majority of people, illegal aliens who have left this country over the Trump
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administration over the last 11 months, have self-deported. Some of them have self-deported
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using an app, a smaller number of self-deported using an app where the government incentivizes
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them, says, we'll pay you a thousand bucks when we geolocate you down in your country of origin.
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But many, many more have just left because they don't want to get raided by ICE, because they don't
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want to be arrested, because they don't want to sit in prison, because they don't want to go down to
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Bukele's torture chamber in El Salvador. At least that's how it's described by the liberal media.
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It's as though they're going to send them down to a concentration camp in El Salvador.
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By the way, El Salvador has promoted that image. They frog march those face-tattooed MS-13 gangsters
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around to make it seem scary as all get out. They do that for a reason, too. It's the same reason
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that you have the ho-ho-ho post from the DHS. And that is to encourage people to get in line
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themselves, because it's much more efficient as a matter of cost, as a matter of federal resources,
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like personnel resources. It's much more efficient if people start following the law of their own
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accord, with some encouragement maybe from the PR campaigns. It's much more efficient if people
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self-deport. So the official government number for self-deports is over three times the formal
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deportation number. It's 1.6 million self-deports just this year. Other organizations have looked at
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this. Some people have lower numbers, but they're all pretty impressive.
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The lowest reports say it's between 500,000 and 700,000. Okay, so that means that you're getting
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100% more deportations than the official government numbers show you through self-deportation.
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And why do you get the self-deports? Because you have this relentless PR campaign saying that we're
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going to go kick your door and arrest your granny and send her to a concentration camp in El Salvador.
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That serves a strategic purpose, a strategic purpose to encourage self-deportation. I think
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this criticism, supposedly from the right of the Trump administration, it's really weak stuff. I think
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it's from people who got it wrong, who said that Trump wasn't going to do what he said he was going
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to do. And then he did end up substantially doing what he said he was going to do. And now it's a kind
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of cope for that. But no, it's and it curiously apes the exact criticism you're getting from the
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left. The Trump administration shouldn't message this way. It's cruel. It's over the top. It's
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provocative. Yeah, but it works. It works. And it's, by the way, it works to advance the cause of
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humanity in these deportations. Because it's a lot better for these people to just go home of their
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own accord than it is for Tom Homan to kick in their door, grab them by the ankles and throw them
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into prison in El Salvador. Okay. Much, much more effective political messaging than the old kind
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Republican Senator John Curtis is a senator from Utah. Most people don't really know a lot of
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senators. Isn't that funny? You know, this is one of the most exclusive clubs in the world,
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and yet a lot of people are going to say, John Curtis, who's that guy? Never heard of it. I know Mike Lee.
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Mike Lee. Rock-ribbed Mike Lee. I know that's senator from Utah. I remember Mitt Romney. Squish
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Mitt Romney. I guess he's gone. Okay, so John Curtis, Republican Senator from Utah, goes on CNN,
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not a good sign. And he has this to say about what Americans should do when we wake up.
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Control anybody but me, right? And the best thing I can do is set my example. And I think all of us
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need to wake up every morning, look in the mirror, and say, what are we doing? What am I doing
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specifically today to make this country a better country, to make all of our immigrants feel more
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welcome? That's what we've always had. And I think if more of us would do that, it would matter less
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what individuals said. Right. But as you know, he's not just an individual. He's the president of the
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United States calling an entire community garbage. So what is going on in Utah? There are some great
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guys in Utah. I mentioned Mike Lee. Mike Lee, rock-ribbed, plugged in, hardcore, gets it.
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Gets it. Responsive to the base. Serious guy. But then, what on earth? You get the kind of the
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Romney types. You get this. First thing you do in the morning is you wake up. You say,
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how can we make the face-tattooed Trendy Aragua cartel members feel a little more welcome today?
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That's what we've always done. What? I wake up in the morning. First thing I think is,
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oh, shoot, I got to write my show. Uh-oh. Why did I snooze so many times? I got to write my show.
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Second thing I think is, I wonder what Elise is making for breakfast.
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Ooh, I hope. Did she buy a ham steak yesterday? I think she bought a ham steak. Man,
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I hope I get ham steak and my eggs and cheese. That'll be really. Third thing I think,
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I need to go make my espresso. I'm feeling a little bit groggy. Fourth thing I think,
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what was that thing that I dreamt about? It's kind of funny, isn't it? You wake up and then you
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have this vivid dream and then you kind of forget your dream. Somewhere around the 10 billionth thing
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I think about is how can we make all of the illegal aliens feel better today?
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Long before I think about that, I think, how can we make the illegal aliens feel worse today so
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they leave and go home? What on earth? He says, this is how it's always been in America.
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A reminder, and we'll get to the way that history is written and rewritten,
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just the natural course of history momentarily. But a reminder for much of, if not most of American
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history, we have not been particularly welcoming to migrants. When the country was founded,
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first of all, even before the official founding of the country, this place was settled by very
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tightly knit communities who not only didn't welcome newcomers openly, but who frequently
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kicked out members. I think of poor Anne Hutchinson in her Puritan religious community here in New
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England, when she embraced a view considered heretic, it actually was heretical, but considered
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heretical by her community. And she was banished and had to go to New York where she got murdered by
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Indians. And we now have the Hutchinson Parkway near the spot of her murder. What I remember people
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banishing, there was a poet in one of the Puritan communities. I guess, I actually think it was
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Plymouth Colony. There was a poet who was a little bit bawdy. He would write about women in a kind of a
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bawdy way. He was banished to an island. He wasn't even allowed to stay in the colony. He was banished
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to an island to wait for a ship from England to pick him up. Then after the founding era, we severely
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restricted immigration until, I don't know, about the middle of the 19th century. We started to let some
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people in, and then we were very mean to them. We were very rough on the immigrants from Germany,
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later from Ireland. We were very rough on the immigrants from China. Cut that one off pretty
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quick. Tough on the Italians, tough on the Jews. Then in the 1920s, we just stopped it, basically.
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We severely restricted immigration all the way until the mid-60s. So this story, America's a nation
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of immigrants, that is not true. That is totally made up. And beyond that, the idea that we were always
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welcoming to immigrants is completely preposterous. That is not the story of America.
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Anyway, this is the line. It would have been crazy to hear this line even 10 years ago.
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But we did hear it, though. And to hear it today, after the Trump revolution, you think,
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it's this kind of talk that necessitated the rise of Trump. Because that kind of talk is crazy.
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And Trump was a corrective to that. And does he get it right all the time? No,
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he's gotten it right, I don't know, 99.3% of the time, probably. But obviously,
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he's a human being. People get stuff wrong. But that's why Trump happened. And a lot of the old
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guard couldn't get it when Trump happened. Totally, totally insane. Okay, speaking of provocative
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rhetoric, there was a showdown yesterday on Piers Morgan's show. It was between the very controversial,
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very, very provocateur, right-wing streamer, Nick Fuentes and Piers Morgan. And there's been this
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kind of game for a long time. No one wanted to have Fuentes on their platforms because he was saying
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very extreme things that people found very offensive. In most cases, rightly found very,
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very offensive. And so they didn't want to have him on. And then slowly, people have been
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having him on. So one guy has him on, and then they say, oh, he got a lot of views. All right,
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the next guy has him. Well, that guy got a lot of views. Then the next guy. And it becomes this
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very tempting thing for broadcasters to say, well, I want to get those cool views. And so
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they start to have him on. And Piers Morgan comes in, and he said, look, people are doing softball
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interviews. I want to do a hardball interview. And so they have this interview, and I thought it was
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very, very interesting. Piers asked a lot of very good questions, and I thought Fuentes answered them
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very, very astutely, very shrewdly. I mean, this is a very impressive political operator.
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There's no question about that. Now the reaction is, it's all fake. So the New York Post has this
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world news exclusive based on a new report that has just come out, supposedly, that says that
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Fuentes' following, his apparent popularity is an illusion. The headline is Fuentes may be racist,
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but he relies on Nigeria and India to fuel his popularity online. Says the white supremacist,
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Nick Fuentes doesn't seem to mind benefiting from bot farms in Pakistan, India, and Nigeria promoting
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his content. The post has learned. This is based on a report, a study, supposedly, from the Network
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Contagion Research Institute, which is a nonprofit that purports to study extremism on the internet.
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Okay. You have some people on one side saying Fuentes is entirely organic. It's a creed to occur from the
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voice of the people. He's the voice of his generation, and it's all totally organic.
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Then you have some people on the other side saying, no, the Fuentes phenomenon, it's completely fake.
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It's astroturfed. None of it is real. These are not the droids you're looking for. Pay no attention to
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the man behind the curtain. It's just forget about it. The thing you think you're seeing is not true.
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Don't believe your lying eyes. I guess, as is often the case on these sorts of issues,
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I have the third and probably least popular view, but it's obviously the correct view, which is one,
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yes, of course, there is a major foreign interest in exacerbating divisions within the ruling political
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coalition. The ruling political coalition now, believe it or not, Mirabile Dictu, is on the right.
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The Republicans have a unified government. We have the White House, we have the House, we have the Senate,
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and we have the Supreme Court. And the president won the popular vote for the first time in 20 years as a
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Republican. So right now, the right way, the conservative movement, the right wing coalition is the ruling
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political movement for now. We'll see how long that lasts. And so obviously, forget about this moment.
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It is eternally true. It is perennially true, I should say, that there is a foreign interest
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from our adversaries in trying to create divisions within the ruling coalition.
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Our adversaries have been doing this for many, many decades. And we do know that a lot of stuff
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on social media is bot farmed. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, sure, sure. However, the thing that the people
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who say it's all an illusion, it's all fake, and you're not really seeing what you're seeing,
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the thing that they get wrong, is they don't understand how these foreign campaigns work.
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The way that a foreign interference campaign works is not by just inventing a problem.
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It's not by just creating popularity with a magic wand. The way that these campaigns work
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is by exploiting fissures that already exist. That's the only way they work. Think about the most
00:22:48.660
prominent example of this in the last hundred years was the Soviet Union exploiting racial divisions in
00:22:54.080
the 1960s. The Soviet Union was behind a lot of so-called civil rights groups. A lot of the black
00:23:01.020
power groups, a lot of the radical leftist groups, the Soviet Union was backing them.
00:23:06.880
The reason it worked, however, is that there were those racial fissures and subsequent ideological
00:23:13.580
fissures within America already. The Soviet Union might have been able to make them more pronounced,
00:23:19.540
might have made them much worse, but they didn't invent them out of whole cloth. I think that's
00:23:25.220
what's going on here. The people who say that this phenomenon is, it's all bots, it's all just foreign
00:23:31.340
ops, it's all just engagement farming. That is pure cope, man. That is head in the sand copium to make
00:23:38.640
people feel better. That is not true. Likewise, likewise, the people who are saying that there's
00:23:44.300
no foreign interference whatsoever, I mean, I think that's totally naive and ridiculous and
00:23:48.760
contrary to everything we've seen from our adversaries in history. But let's get back to
00:23:52.560
the first one. That is cope. The reason that if there is such a foreign interference op can work
00:24:01.200
is because there are fissures already within the Republican Party, within the conservative coalition.
00:24:06.300
Fissures on foreign policy. Fissures on foreign alliances. Fissures on economics. Fissures especially
00:24:14.800
on migration. That is all real. And there are incentives for foreign actors to try to push it
00:24:23.040
in ways that are going to be deleterious to the ruling coalition. Yeah, of course. But those fissures
00:24:28.040
already exist. That is what is being hashed out. People always talk about the conservative civil war.
00:24:32.780
Perennially, there is a conservative civil war. So, you know, you get 100 right-wingers in a room.
00:24:37.200
They will find the one thing they all disagree on and try to kill each other over it. However,
00:24:41.360
sometimes it gets hotter. Sometimes it gets colder. We're in one of those hotter periods right now.
00:24:45.740
That is real. If it is the case, and again, I haven't read this NCRI study. I don't know if it's
00:24:52.420
legit. I don't know if it's not legit. I don't know if it's somewhat legit. If it is the case that
00:24:57.880
there is a serious foreign interference op right now, that is all the more reason to take seriously
00:25:03.640
that there are real fissures on the right. They have to be hashed out. This is urgent. This is
00:25:08.880
urgent, especially as we get to the midterms and most especially when we look at 2028 because of
00:25:14.260
what we were talking about at the top of the show, which is that American politics for 10 years has
00:25:17.980
been about one thing, five letters, Trump. That's what it's been about. Trump is about to exit the stage.
00:25:25.060
That is also why people are taking advantage right now. The fact that Charlie Kirk was assassinated
00:25:30.460
is also why people are taking advantage right now to exacerbate these divisions, to try to,
00:25:34.880
in many ways, to try to undermine Trump, but to undermine this whole conservative coalition.
00:25:38.880
It's jockeying for power. Okay, and that is going to be hashed out. And we can say, no,
00:25:46.620
it's not real. La, la, la, la, la. You can't, but give me a break.
00:25:49.440
I will not, that will not redound to, to the benefit of the people who are ignoring it. Okay.
00:25:54.820
Speaking of live streamers, a gunman supposedly, reportedly, I should say, opened fire at Tim
00:26:00.800
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Someone's apparently trying to shoot Tim Poole.
00:29:11.420
Last night, a vehicle approached our property and opened fire.
00:29:16.240
Our security team is reviewing the incident and will be relaying the report to appropriate law
00:29:20.380
enforcement. This is the price we pay for speaking out against evil.
00:29:24.460
My immediate thoughts is someone was trying to scare us, but we have a security gate and
00:29:27.940
armed guards, and it's possible this deterred something more serious.
00:29:32.640
Scary stuff. I know that Tim has been SWATed before. That's when people call in a fake police
00:29:38.740
report and get the SWAT team out there. And to SWAT someone is really attempted murder.
00:29:44.260
It's attempted murder by cop. When you, when you file a false, false police report and you get
00:29:49.680
people in there, you know, maybe just kick in the door, start shooting. So I know that's happened
00:29:54.540
to Tim before. And this incident sounds like it was just some lunatic comes up and starts shooting.
00:30:01.000
Why Tim? Because a lot of people are asking, why Tim? Why does this keep happening to him?
00:30:06.100
One, there's a geographic reason because he lives in the middle of nowhere.
00:30:09.380
So when I do, you know, I love doing Tim's show, but it's kind of annoying to get to because you have
00:30:13.840
to fly into DC and you have to drive like 150 hours into the Hills Have Eyes, you know, into the boonies
00:30:19.640
to get to his compound. So what that means is there aren't a ton of security cameras everywhere.
00:30:25.200
What that means is there aren't a ton of cops everywhere. It makes him a little bit of an
00:30:28.560
easier target. But I don't think that's all of it. Because the question, why are people shooting
00:30:34.080
at Tim Pool is similar to the question, why did a leftist murder Charlie Kirk? Why? Why target Charlie?
00:30:46.380
A lot of, when, when Charlie was murdered, a lot of us start, look, we've, we've all had death threats.
00:30:51.260
We've all had death threats from the, a similar profile. You know, if, I mean, obviously, I guess
00:30:56.380
the investigation is still going on or the prosecution of, of Charlie's alleged murderer,
00:31:00.520
but, you know, he certainly fits the profile. Politically leftist, into a bunch of weird sex
00:31:07.260
stuff, radicalized online. That is the, that is the type of person that has threatened to kill a lot
00:31:12.900
of us before. And in some cases has tried to. Why Charlie? He was the most moderate of all of us.
00:31:21.260
That was what a lot of people said. Why Charlie? He was the mainstream one. He was the nice one.
00:31:25.140
He was the one who just wanted to talk it out. Why don't they go generally after the more provocative,
00:31:30.740
angrier kind of guys? And it seems to me it's because Charlie was very, very effective.
00:31:37.700
It was because Charlie was able to hold together a coalition. He wasn't always just picking fights
00:31:42.800
at people and trying to be a shock jock and stir the pot. You know, he, Charlie was actually
00:31:46.480
building something and he built something very, very impressive. That was a real threat.
00:31:51.260
To the left's political hegemony. He got, I mean, Susie Wiles, the chief of staff to the
00:31:56.600
president said that Charlie made the winning difference in 2024. I think that's why they
00:32:02.360
go after people like Charlie and in a different way, in his own way, Tim Poole is the same way
00:32:07.360
because Tim is not some rock ribbed right wing conservative. He's not some Catholic integralist
00:32:12.100
or something like that. You know, Tim was on the left and now he's kind of center, right.
00:32:16.780
And he brings on people who have some liberal views and people, a lot of people who have
00:32:21.520
conservative views and he kind of hashes it out. And he speaks to people who are much more in the
00:32:26.460
liberal, some people who are a little bit more on the left. The fact that, look, Charlie was a
00:32:33.880
conservative through and through. He was, I think, I used to say he was bred in a Petri dish at the RNC.
00:32:39.380
He was really built, tailor made for Republican politics. Tim is not that way. And I think that's
00:32:46.340
a little jarring for a lot of us. They were, they did achieve some similar ends, but that's a little
00:32:53.160
jarring because what that means is it's really anyone in politics now. It's really anyone in
00:33:00.040
politics as a target. The, you know, occasionally you get one of the really extreme guys, he'll be
00:33:07.200
targeted. But, you know, like Richard Spencer gets punched in the face. Remember that seven,
00:33:11.620
eight years ago, Richard Spencer comes out. Yes, I am a white nationalist, just identitarian.
00:33:16.520
Someone punches him in the face. And then the establishment media cheered that on.
00:33:19.920
Cheering on political violence, probably one of the ways we ended up in the situation we're in.
00:33:23.920
President Trump, very nearly murdered. And then there was another attempt on his life.
00:33:29.780
Charlie, obviously successfully murdered. Tim Poole, shots at his house. Could be anyone. Why?
00:33:37.200
The reason that just about anyone in politics, and especially the effective people, are being
00:33:41.180
targeted is because the whole political order is now seen as untrustworthy. Part of the reason that
00:33:47.680
you're seeing the festering of a lot of much more extreme views or in alternately kind of conspiracy
00:33:54.480
theory views, you can't trust anything, a neo-gnostic understanding of politics that everything you see
00:34:00.600
isn't real. And you actually need to be initiated into the secret knowledge. And then you'll understand
00:34:05.640
how the political order really works, totally contrary to everything that your senses tell you.
00:34:10.340
The reason there's a rise in that is totally understandable. It's that the whole political
00:34:15.240
order is seen as untrustworthy. It doesn't mean that the whole political order is untrustworthy.
00:34:20.020
It can be the case that there are very bad people in the political order, like Dr. Fauci.
00:34:24.340
And there are very good people in the political order. And they're kind of duking it out. And they're
00:34:27.600
wrestling for control. And it's a little bit more normal than some would have you believe.
00:34:31.240
But it is certainly the case. The whole thing is seen as untrustworthy. And so these are the
00:34:35.800
problems you're going to get. And it's going to get worse. It's like the old line about the
00:34:41.480
conservative optimist and the conservative pessimist. The conservative pessimist says
00:34:45.440
things can't get worse. The conservative optimist says, yes, they can. They can. And they will.
00:34:50.940
The notion that a centrist live streamer in a beanie is having his house shot up on the reg,
00:34:57.820
the notion that Charlie Kirk could be murdered for discussing basic stuff in a respectful way at a
00:35:04.600
college campus, that bodes very, very poorly for the political order. And you are going to see the
00:35:11.220
rise of very bad stuff. Real extremes. Senator Jasmine Crockett is on the table. You will, to quote
00:35:20.220
Nikola Tesla, to paraphrase him at least, you will live to see horrors beyond your wildest imagination.
00:35:26.920
How's that? How's that for a happy note? Look, we got more to get to because there is some good
00:35:32.080
news. There is some good news in the admission of horror. And we're getting that out of the
00:35:35.500
transgender industry. This holiday season, take me with you. Download the Daily Wire Plus app right
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00:35:56.700
comment yesterday. It's from Falcon Library, who says, don't you remember those brave Somalis at the
00:36:01.360
Alamo? Bramila Jayapal's line. Somalis built America. Oh, yes, of course. You remember, I think it was
00:36:10.500
Mogatu Ahmed Bogadishu, who famously said at Bunker Hill, don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes.
00:36:17.460
Don't shoot till you see the whites of their eyes. Gushy, gushy, gushy, Han Solo. I remember that
00:36:25.400
line, certainly. My second favorite comment yesterday was from someone who said, Somalians
00:36:29.600
built America. Somalians didn't even build Somalia. It's not a country, Somalia. It hasn't
00:36:36.040
been a country in like 34 years. Yeah. But they built America, didn't they? They came on the
00:36:42.300
Mayflower. Don't you remember that line of the Mayflower Compact? Gushy, gushy, gushy. Okay, speaking of our
00:36:51.460
untrustworthy political order, WPATH. WPATH is the professional, supposedly professional association
00:36:59.260
for transgender health. And it is this organization that is the source of a lot of citations for the
00:37:07.260
pro-trans stuff in scientific literature and in governments. And WPATH is totally bogus. It is a
00:37:16.720
bogus, political, ideological activist organization that psyoped people into believing in transgenderism.
00:37:25.960
So you'd have these doctors come out and say, hey, we got to chop your kids' genitals off.
00:37:30.540
Or what? And then the pro-trans lobby said, no one's actually chopping kids' genitals off. We'll get to
00:37:35.040
that in a moment. They say, hey, we need to put your kid in affirmation therapy. And you got to
00:37:39.260
call your kid by the wrong pronouns. And you got to put your kid maybe on puberty blockers. And then
00:37:42.720
maybe later on hormones. And then once he's an adult, maybe we can chop his genitals off.
00:37:46.780
And the parents would say, you sure? They say, yeah, if you don't do that, he's going to kill
00:37:50.080
himself. Would you rather have a living daughter or a dead son? And then they would say, you sure?
00:37:54.620
That seems kind of, I don't, that doesn't seem right to me. They say, no, it's in the science.
00:37:58.460
Look at the science. Look at the citations. And then when you look at the citations,
00:38:01.400
it's this organization, WPATH. WPATH, which previously argued that they're not actually
00:38:06.440
performing the transgender surgeries on little kids. It was all fake. This is all just totally
00:38:11.340
settled science. Well, anyway, the free press has uncovered some clips, some footage from WPATH
00:38:17.600
in which WPATH is admitting, yeah, you know what? Actually, I know we said otherwise, but yeah,
00:38:26.880
We are doing procedures here where we don't have outcome data. So for a vaginoplasty, for
00:38:35.620
a phalloplasty, there is long-term outcome data of what the pros, the cons, the psychological
00:38:40.460
impact, the sexual functioning impact is. For these newer procedures, we don't have that
00:38:44.800
outcome. So unless you want to go to individual ethics boards in each hospital to get ethics
00:38:50.780
permission to do those surgeries because they're on the edge of the field of medicine, you need
00:38:57.140
to have a mechanism around you to support you. Otherwise, you could be vulnerable.
00:39:00.120
Because I feel like we're all just winging it, you know, and which is okay. You're winging
00:39:06.160
it too. But maybe we can just like wing it together, you know, like publicly in a space
00:39:11.800
where we can share the ideas of how we're winging it.
00:39:14.560
So not only do they admit, I encourage you all to check out the excellent article from
00:39:23.060
the pre-press. We're all just winging it, what the gender doctors say in private and footage
00:39:26.300
obtained exclusively by the pre-press. Gender doctors acknowledge they perform life-altering
00:39:29.240
procedures on vulnerable youth with no supportive evidence, and they're proud of it. Not only are
00:39:35.060
they saying, yeah, these young people are having this stuff done. They're coming out, they're
00:39:38.360
saying we don't have any evidence that it works. And actually, as I've mentioned before
00:39:42.680
in debates and speeches, in 2019, we got the largest data set ever on the transgender procedures,
00:39:50.880
surgical and hormonal. And there was an analysis that looked at the outcomes. Did it improve
00:39:58.080
anxiety, depression, suicidality? Largest data set we have on this showed there is no evidence
00:40:04.140
that it improved the outcomes on any of those fronts. Furthermore, there is evidence that the
00:40:09.480
trans procedures made anxiety worse. It actually left the patients worse off than they were before
00:40:15.140
they started. So there's no evidence that any of this stuff works. And previously, when a conservative
00:40:21.260
would say that, the Libs would say, no, well, you got to look at the science. You got to look at the
00:40:25.660
science. Point to the science. And when they talk about the science, they're talking about WPATH.
00:40:30.280
They're talking about the most prominent pro-trans organization in the world. What does WPATH say?
00:40:34.560
We are doing procedures here where we don't have outcome data. So unless you want to go to individual
00:40:40.200
ethics boards in each hospital to get ethics permission to do those surgeries because they're
00:40:43.180
on the edge of the field of medicine, which they obviously should do. That's why ethics boards exist
00:40:47.740
in the first place. But you obviously should, they say, look, well, look, unless we want to have to like
00:40:52.600
deal with ethics, we need to have a mechanism to support you. Otherwise, you can't do these ridiculous
00:40:58.860
procedures that have no evidence for them. Then another member stands up, says, I feel like we're
00:41:04.940
all just winging it, you know? And then what? The doctor's on the panel and he goes, yeah. He raises
00:41:09.320
his hands. Uh-huh. Yeah, that's right. We're winging it. I feel like we're winging it, which is okay.
00:41:14.360
You're winging it too. And maybe we can just like wing it together. This article, it goes on to talk
00:41:19.380
about nullification surgery for teenagers. You know what nullification surgery is? It's when a teenager
00:41:24.320
comes, an 18-year-old comes in and says, I'm asexual. I'm not transsexual. I'm not pansexual.
00:41:28.680
I'm not the opposite sex. I'm not, I'm asexual. And I want you to cut off my genitals and not
00:41:34.700
replace them with anything. Not even create the simulacrum of the opposite sex's genitals.
00:41:38.440
Just, I want to look like a Barbie doll. And they'll do it. The winging it doctors will do it.
00:41:46.520
The winging it doctors who don't talk to the ethics boards, they'll do it.
00:41:51.000
I mention all of this not to rehash the trans issue. We won the trans issue. That's yesterday's
00:41:55.800
news. It was good. Took a long time to win it. You know, some of us were
00:41:58.520
fighting that issue for a long time. Matt Walsh made a whole movie about it.
00:42:03.180
But the reason I bring it up is the same reason I brought up, I bring up the COVID backs. The
00:42:09.540
whole reason I bring up a lot of these issues that seemed like they were settled five years ago.
00:42:14.020
Because you never get credit for being right. You were right. You were right about transgenderism.
00:42:20.560
You were right about the whole thing. You. Not just me. Not just Matt Walsh. Not just some other
00:42:28.040
podcaster or writer or thinker. Not just you were right. Because you knew that it was fake.
00:42:34.360
You knew it was ridiculous. You knew it didn't really help people. You knew it had to be eradicated
00:42:39.580
from public life entirely. You knew that they were performing the trans surgeries on young people.
00:42:44.200
You knew that there was no evidence for it. You knew that the supposedly scientific institutions
00:42:49.760
that were always being cited were full of it. And you were called an idiot the whole time.
00:42:55.040
And you were right about everything. You were right about everything. Okay.
00:43:00.700
Okay. Real important stuff going on, folks. Speaking of medicine. The HHS is getting rid
00:43:08.100
of the hep B vaccine for newborns. There's this thing now. The HHS, the government's been trying
00:43:14.220
to get you to shoot up your newborn with a hepatitis B vaccine. I remember I said, hey, you know,
00:43:17.480
I don't think my newborn is going to go hit any brothels or like shoot up heroin anytime soon.
00:43:21.620
Why does he need a hep B vaccine? And the actual answer was, well, she tells my wife, well,
00:43:27.460
actually, I mean, your husband might've cheated on you. Excuse me?
00:43:31.160
What? Hold on. What? Yeah. Well, we mandate it for all children or we recommend it for all
00:43:37.680
children in America because you never know if your husband is an adulterer. What? So we'll get to
00:43:44.620
that. They just flipped on that. A marvelous presidential message yesterday on the Feast of
00:43:48.480
the Immaculate Conception. Huge, huge Supreme Court arguments over potentially expanding
00:43:54.900
presidential power, which would be a good thing. The liberals and the libertarians totally wrong on
00:43:58.200
that. And the Islamic Society of Philly wants to chop off your body parts. There's so much I want
00:44:02.120
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00:44:09.200
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All of this is an illusion. An echo of a voice that has died. And soon that echo will cease.
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They say that Merlin is mad. They say he was a king in Dovid, the son of a princess of
00:45:12.680
lost Atlantis. They say the future and the past are known to him. That the fire and the wind
00:45:20.980
tell him their secrets. That the magic of the hillfolk and druids come forth at his easy command.
00:45:29.460
They say he slew hundreds. Hundreds, do you hear? That the world burned and trembled at his wrath.
00:45:41.620
The Merlin died long before you and I were born.
00:45:45.380
Merlin is gone. Rome is gone. The Saxon is here.
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The Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the Island of the Mighty. And before the summer is through, he means to take the throne.
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And he will have it. If we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him, here is
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There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.
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Men of the Island of the Mighty, you stand together. You stand as Britons. You stand as one.
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A great darkness is falling upon this land. These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.
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They say Merlin slew 70 men with his own hands.
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I'm not an audience but help people in Britain.
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gun vorher if you don't afford to catch up on people'sıld 1080.
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We call back birstellen and substitute for men.