Ep. 1873 - Erika Kirk Addresses Assassination Conspiracies
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Erica Kirk breaks her silence in responding to conspiracy theories around the assassination of her husband. Three months to the day after he was murdered, the U.S. seizes a Venezuelan oil tanker in the prelude to our next regime change war. Marco Rubio banishes woke fonts from the State Department.
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Erica Kirk breaks her silence in responding to conspiracy theories
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around the assassination of her husband three months to the day after he was murdered.
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The U.S. seizes a Venezuelan oil tanker in the prelude to our next regime change war.
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And Marco Rubio, this is really big and no one's appreciating this.
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Marco Rubio banishes woke fonts from the State Department.
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First, the most viral clip that was going around yesterday, really powerful stuff from Erica
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Kirk, Erica, Charlie's widow, who is making the rounds right now because Charlie just had
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A lot of people are asking, why is Erica Kirk going around on TV?
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Yesterday was the third, not anniversary, it was the third month since Charlie was assassinated.
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The reason is that Charlie had a book coming out, and this will be his final book.
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But you just think with this poor woman, everything she's dealing with, she's grieving the death of
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her husband, the assassination of her husband, right at Christmastime, which is very difficult.
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She and Charlie, of course, were very much in the public eye.
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So she's leading now this organization that is Charlie's life's work and his legacy, and
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she's dealing with all of the public scrutiny that comes with that.
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And on top of it, because Charlie did a million things, Charlie had a book coming out.
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Some people said, why don't they delay the release of the book?
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And the way publishing works is, you plan the release of a book 18 months or two years
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And I also don't see why they would delay the book.
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You know, it's going to be only less and less pertinent the further out you get from it.
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I guess the one reason that you would delay the release of the book would be because no
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You always have to promote a book when it comes out.
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And this woman, amid everything, goes out and has the strength, the fortitude to go out
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You know, Charlie had a lot of those qualities too.
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So anyway, she goes on Outnumbered on Harris Faulkner's show on Fox News.
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And she's asked about a lot of the conspiracy theories that have cropped up since Charlie
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Talk to me about this part of the conspiracies that are out there, this disturbing part that
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We will be building the most beautiful memorial for my husband at Turning Point USA, and it
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will be for the world to see, and it will be spectacular, and it will have basically museum
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Can my babies have one thing where we hold it sacred, where my husband is laid to rest,
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where I don't have to be worried about some secular revolutionary coming and destroying my
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husband's grave while my daughter is sitting there praying?
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Yes, he was Charlie Kirk to the world, and I know so many people love my husband, and I
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And I want to be able to have one thing left that is sacred to our family, to my in-laws,
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And the point she's hitting on is key here, and I think a lot of people don't really appreciate
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But they're people, and her kids are people, and Charlie's friends are people.
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And I think for a lot of stuff that you see flying around on Twitter or message boards
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or social media, a lot of people don't recognize that.
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But to most people, Charlie is a bunch of pixels on a screen.
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And Erica Kirk is a bunch of pixels on a screen.
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Not to say there aren't, obviously, there are plenty of questions about the assassination
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There are all sorts of questions about who else knew.
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Were they trying to cover themselves when they had that text message set released?
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But this is a woman who had a real husband, who has real kids.
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And she says, look, we're public and everything, but I just want to have some things be kind
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And I remember a couple of years ago, I was giving some speech, and people asked about
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the perennial drama among conservative politicians and talkers and everything, and this person
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and that person, and you disavow, and this and that, and all this stuff.
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And I said, you know, guys, I get why this is interesting and scintillating, kind of entertaining
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I said, but for the players that you're talking about, these are real people to me.
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To me, they're real people in flesh and blood that I actually know, and I'm friends with,
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And so they'll say, you know, why don't you, I mean, gosh, this has been going on for years
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I say, why don't you call out this person for, you know, I don't know, adopting this
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left-wing view or this kind of liberal behavior or this, that, or the other thing.
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And I said, you know, I talk to these people off camera too.
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And it's this very, very human kind of creed de coeur from Erica, who's saying, hey, guys,
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The fact that we want to have like private memorials too, there was a very public memorial,
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we want to have private things too, is so that some lunatic secular revolutionary, as
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she says, doesn't come down and attack the memorial.
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So that this, you know, this might be entertainment to some of you.
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This might be kind of a fun game in your head, you know, who killed Kennedy.
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The fact that she's able to go out and do this, she's, she's, you know, maintained, I think,
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a lot of dignity and quiet resolve on, on this issue.
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The fact that she's able to do that is very impressive.
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The right was so unified when Charlie was assassinated.
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Charlie goes out there, the most prominent promoter of civil dialogue on the American right.
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He's going out in these unsecure locations, just having open conversations with people,
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letting people come up and ask him whatever questions.
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Everybody knew, everybody knew that there was a security risk there.
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And Charlie had gotten plenty of death threats.
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Anyone on the, especially on the right who speaks in public life gets death threats,
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And as Charlie is talking about the transgender issue where the, the trans identifying people
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have been much, much more violent from firsthand experience and from the data, I guess too.
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Uh, the pro trans crowd, the LGBT crowd, this guy, I guess was a furry who was dating a trans furry
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or whatever goes out as Charlie's talking about that and kills him.
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You know, the right was, it was, it was just so clear.
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However, I think a lot of us could, not a lot, some of us could anticipate what would happen.
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You know, there was this immediate response, which said, you know what?
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You tried to strike Charlie down, but we're going to come back stronger than ever.
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And you've awakened a beast and we're going to be more unified than ever.
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We could win elections and cultural battles and hegemony in the country.
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We, all those things could happen, but the assassination will not help that happen because
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of the very sad conclusion that no one wanted to admit after Charlie was assassinated, which
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That's the really hard fact is assassinations really work actually.
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Maybe not forever, maybe not, but they really can work.
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And the other part that people were missing as they talked about Charlie is a masterful
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Charlie's most important skill and asset was that he held the coalition together.
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It's one reason that they would try to kill Charlie.
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All of, all of these political battles that we've been fighting for years and years and
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years, all these leftists who are threatening a bunch of the talkers, Charlie was holding
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the coalition together and that creates a vacuum.
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So when people predicted, oh, there'll be all this unity on the right, are you sure?
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Because they killed the guy who was largely, really more than anybody else holding the
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And of course, three months, it's been three months.
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It feels like it's been three years, doesn't it?
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I gave a speech where Charlie and I were supposed to do an event together in Minneapolis, 12 days
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And at that moment, there was a real bit of unity.
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But without his strength, his leadership within that organization, within the conservative
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movement, then a lot of division and chaos ensued.
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It seems to me that the person who still has that capacity, that vision, that ability
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He really, especially he was so close with Charlie.
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I mean, even, even given all of that, it's a real knock.
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And I think the task for all of us now is to not let them win in the long run.
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You know, do not, don't give Charlie's killer the satisfaction.
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Don't give the political left, which opposed Charlie.
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And, you know, he had critics all over the place.
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But specifically the political left, which really was organized to get him.
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The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
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U.S. seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
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Well, most of the Venezuelan oil goes to China, usually through intermediaries, but that's
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So they're sending oil to China, one of our geopolitical adversaries.
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U.S. has imposed sanctions on the tanker for what Washington said was involvement in Iranian
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Venezuela has had to deeply discount its crude to its main binder, China, because of
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growing competition with sanctioned oil from Russia and Iran.
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We have a major military buildup in and around Venezuela.
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If this were some regime change war in the Middle East, I don't think anybody on the right
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Trump has more grace when it comes to foreign policy because he's been better at it than any
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And the U.S. has dominated the Western Hemisphere for over 200 years.
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We have the Monroe Doctrine to say that foreign powers can't interfere in the Western Hemisphere.
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So if some of our geopolitical adversaries are interfering, we're going to pay attention.
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I just looked up, just a brief little history of U.S. interventions in Latin America, going back to 1910, 1915.
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We have intervened, led coups, supported coups, supported oustings of leaders in Nicaragua, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic again, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, El Salvador, Grenada, Nicaragua again, Panama, Haiti.
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So maybe we're going to add Venezuela again to that list.
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Well, the takeaway is the U.S. has decided Maduro has to go, and they can do it the easy way or the hard way.
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And they're just incrementally ramping up the pressure on Maduro.
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Then they have built up a major military presence around there.
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Then reportedly, the White House calls and says, hey, man, you got to go.
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We'll let you go now if you leave peacefully, but otherwise it's going to get tough.
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Venezuela can't survive five seconds if we seriously interrupt their oil exporting.
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We talked about this in the war in Gaza and Israel.
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Is there a good cause for the United States to go to war in Venezuela?
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But to me, the deeper question is not, is this war just?
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Was it Bismarck who said that war is the extension of politics by other means?
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Nicaragua, Haiti, D.R., Guatemala, Bolivia, Brazil, D.R.
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It's not like we're going to send in the Marines or something.
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We're going to occupy Venezuela and make it safe for democracy.
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Probably, if I were a gambler man, what I would say is the way that we would oust Maduro and Venezuela is the same way we've ousted unsympathetic leaders throughout our history with Venezuela.
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But in order for that to make sense, you have to recognize that America is closer to an empire than a nation state.
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And for that to make sense, you have to recognize that when President Trump says America first, he's not talking about isolation.
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When he talks about America first, he talks about buying Greenland from Denmark.
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He talks about invading Canada because he doesn't like the cut of their jibs on their mooses.
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When he's talking about America first, he's talking about pushing people around to our adversaries and driving hard deals and making our allies pony up and get in line.
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And he's talking about a strongman kind of America first.
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We're going to prioritize our interests everywhere, not just within the confines of our borders.
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I think they're going to be a little bit confused because what happens in politics is you have facts on the ground that reflect to some degree ideas that get turned, concentrated into slogans.
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No war for oil would be an example of one during the Bush years in Iraq.
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And then we get hoisted on the petard of our slogans because the slogans can never comprehend the totality of the political reality.
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So a good example of this is five, ten years ago, the right decided we were going to embrace free speech in an absolute sense.
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Free speech absolutism was a left-wing issue in the 1960s.
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And it was BS even then because it was just a bunch of leftist terrorists in some cases and leftist activists who said we need total free speech.
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And on this supposedly liberal principle, they destroyed the old conservative norms.
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Then they got power and they implemented their own left-wing norms.
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And then we, because we wanted to crack the left-wing norms and the PC culture, woke culture, we came in.
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We said, no, we're the free speech absolutists.
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But then we get hoisted on that petard too because every society needs standards.
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There's not going to be no more war this side of the second coming.
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The big reason I think that a lot of people on the right adopted the no more war slogan is because you had these liberal globalist wars to neocon wars to spread Madisonian democracy throughout the world and usher in the end of history.
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I think this would be another issue where I think the right will become divided.
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That the unity that we had has been cracked because of the removal, the forceful removal of certain figures, because of the eventual removal of Donald Trump, who is looking ahead at the end of his second term.
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And because of changing political circumstances, because we're going to be trying to apply the logic of 20 years in Afghanistan to interventions in Latin America, which is as American as apple pie.
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Speaking of the State Department, a very, very exciting turn of events, and no one's paying enough attention to it.
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Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, has totally destroyed woke fonts with facts and tradition in Times New Roman.
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The story is, New York Times is so angry about it.
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At State Department, a typeface falls victim in the war against woke.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden era move to the sans serif typeface.
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Wasteful, casting the return to Times New Roman as part of a push to stamp out diversity efforts.
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It was apparently a Republican op to get Jasmine Crockett to run for Senate in Texas, and it totally worked.
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So, when we were a good civilized country, the State Department used good, traditional Times New Roman font.
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It's a default font before the libs got their hands on everything.
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And it's a serif font, meaning it's got these little adornments, these little feet and stuff on the font.
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You know, this would be like a lame sans serif font, like a three-year-old can draw.
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Well, for a long time, we used the serif font, Times New Roman.
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And then, Blinken in 2023, at the urging of his DEI office, I kid you not, at the State
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Department, changes it from that nice, good, conservative Times New Roman to that lame,
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There is not an ounce of hyperbole in my statement.
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It tries to make everything clinical and sterile and flat and minimalist.
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It's like those dumb cube houses that the libs keep building and their drab clothing and
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their desire to eliminate all pizzazz from life to turn the sexes into one just androgynous,
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Beautiful serif font like, oh, where do I begin?
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You want to go into a church that looks like you're in a dentist's office,
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or you want to go into a church that looks like Notre Dame de Paris?
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Three, what is more conducive to the human spirit?
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Previously, we said adornments, nice, beautiful stuff, detail, particularity.
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Our God is a particular God who becomes a particular man in a particular place.
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Okay, countries are distinguished one from another by particularity.
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I know it seems like it doesn't matter to a lot of people.
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You know, it's kind of like the same people who didn't care about wokeness and pieces.
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Words are how we communicate and govern each other.
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If you use the gender pronouns, you're implicitly endorsing the gender ideology.
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If it didn't matter, if the font didn't matter, why did the State Department DEI office make
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such a big deal out of switching it to the lame, lib, sterile, gay, sans-serif font?
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It's always like, oh, what's the big deal about men using women's bathroom?
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We are returning to tradition and Times New Roman.
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Mr. Davies is going to yank my microphone off me if I talk about fonts any longer.
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Speaking of DEI, Jasmine Crockett is running for Senate.
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She's the new wild, crazy, maybe not the sharpest tool in the shed, but she gets a lot of attention.
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And she said she was actively considering running for Senate in Texas.
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And the problem with this is she's not that likable.
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She doesn't seem to be the brightest crayon in the box.
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And even the Democrats are a little worried that she's going to get wrecked by John Cornyn, the Republican in Texas.
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Here is Jake Tapper, a liberal in good standing on CNN, raising some issues.
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Saying, hey, Jasmine, how are you going to get over these terrible things you've said with the voters?
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Let me ask you about a quote that you've made that has some Democrats worried about your ability to win statewide.
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In a December 2024 Vanity Fair profile, you talked about quotes.
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And I'm going to read a lot of the quotes just to put it in the context.
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Quote, all the complexities within the Latino community.
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The immigration thing has always been something that has perplexed me about this community.
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It's basically like, I fought to get here, but I left y'all where I left y'all.
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If I wanted to be with y'all, I would stay with y'all.
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Instead of y'all, it almost reminds me of what people would talk about when they would talk about kind of like slave mentality and the hate that some slaves would have for themselves.
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It's almost like a slave mentality that they have.
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Now, about the time that that was published last year, around a million Latino voters in Texas were voting for Trump.
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No, and that's not what that said at all, to be clear.
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It did not say that every Latino has that type of mentality.
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No, no, but slave, the ones that vote for people who believe in strong or Trump's immigration policies.
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So I don't believe that the people that voted for Trump believe in what they're actually getting.
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So Jake Tapper says, hey, here is verbatim exactly what you said.
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And she goes, mm-hmm, that's not what I said, though.
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Well, it is because I'm reading your exact words verbatim.
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That thing that you would just read, and that doesn't say what you said it says.
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Well, no, I'm Jake Tapper, and I can read, actually.
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And maybe some people can't today, but I can, and that is what you said.
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You said, a million voters in Texas who you need to win are slaves because they're idiots and they hate themselves.
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Look, the point that she's making is actually a pretty standard left-wing talking point,
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which is that women, black people, Hispanics, immigrants, anyone that they consider their property and their coalition,
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any of them who vote for the other party, for the conservatives, they're slaves, they're self-hating, they're dopes, they're rubes.
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That line, they suffer, they labor under a false consciousness.
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Now, they usually have the good sense not to say it about their own voters,
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their own constituents whose votes they need to win.
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Jasmine Crockett's a little rough around the edges.
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So, and Jake Tapper asks, how are you supposed to win over the votes of some of them?
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Look, some of these Hispanics are clearly, Republicans are not going to vote for you,
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So, some of them are moderate or maybe even left-wing voters who might vote for a Democrat,
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but just crossed over and voted for a Republican.
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I mean, I did, but yeah, they're not, but it's bad because they don't,
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According to excellent reporting from Notice, N-O-T-U-S,
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the National Republican Senatorial Committee recruited Jasmine Crockett to run for Senate as a Democrat.
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National Republicans propped up Jasmine Crockett to push her into a Senate run.
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The NRSC started including Crockett's name in polling and conducted a sustained effort to get
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Crockett, the Republican Party's preferred candidate to run against, into the race.
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Ted Cruz, who already won re-election against Colin Allred last year,
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Cornyn's running for re-election, and he's fine, but he's not the strongest Republican out there.
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Cornyn was caught in the middle of a bruising three-way Republican primary.
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People were concerned it would weaken the eventual nominee.
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So, the NRSC, the Republican Senate Committee, puts out a poll back in July.
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And they've got, you know, the Democrat names who were running,
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but they included Jasmine Crockett's name in there.
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No one was talking about Jasmine Crockett running for Senate.
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Jasmine Crockett had not expressed any desire to run for Senate.
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Said, when we got the results, we were like, okay, we got to disseminate this far and wide.
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So, they put her in the poll, and they amplified those polls.
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And they're now taking credit for helping, quote,
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orchestrate the pylon of these polling numbers to really drive that news cycle.
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And the narrative that Jasmine Crockett was surging in Texas, it turns out that she's not.
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Her office was being flooded with phone calls urging her to run.
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And so, now they're saying, look, this is great.
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We got this total Looney Tunes, and we're going to run against her.
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And then Cornyn's going to win, and we're all good, right?
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Good on the NRSC staffers for doing some clever politics.
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However, are we sure that's going to work in the end?
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Because what it reminds me of is 2016, when the Democrats were dancing.
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And he was laughing when Trump got the nomination.
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It was even before he got the nom, but he was looking good.
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He goes, your party is being held hostage by this madman.
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Do you remember who encouraged President Trump to run for president?
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This is a big story broken by the Washington Post.
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That before he formally declared for the White House,
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Donald Trump had a secret conversation with one of America's best-known politicians.
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Who Trump aides confirmed talked to the Donald about how to better relate to the Republican base
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and how to get more involved in Republican politics without the aides, say,
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specifically suggesting that Trump run, which Trump then decided to do.
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And it's not that Clinton said, Donald, hey, buddy, you really got to run right now.
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But he called, and in that subtle bubble kind of ways, you got to get more involved.
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You really, it might be a good idea, you know, Donald.
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Meanwhile, his wife is the presumptive nominee.
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And the husband, who's one of the greatest politicians of his generation, says, you know what I'm going to do?
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I'm going to recruit Donald Trump to run as a Republican.
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By golly, could you imagine if he got the nomination, all the better.
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And so when I look at this, I get what the Republican staffers are saying.
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They're saying, Jasmine Crockett sounds like an idiot.
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I think, because people listen and they hear her when she really turns up this minstrel show that she does.
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She goes out and she really turns up what people perceive as Ebonics.
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She goes, mm-hmm, you know what that is, honey.
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She's talking to like a black crowd and she's really pandering with this stereotypically black voice.
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And I tell them what they is doing is, uh-uh, uh-uh, doo-ba-doo-ba-doo-doo-doo.
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You know, it's like a show on UPN in the 90s or something.
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But then you listen to other interviews of her when she's not just pandering to an audience.
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She sounds totally normal and she knows how to use the English language well.
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And furthermore, I remember we all made this mistake with AOC.
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And we all thought 2018, look at this total lunatic.
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She can't, she's got her foot in her mouth every day.
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I remember even Cocaine Mitch McConnell came out when she proposed the Green New Deal.
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He said, I think that every single senator on the Democratic side needs to vote for this.
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I can't wait to bring the Green New Deal up for a vote immediately.
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Now the Green New Deal is mainstream Democrat policy.
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And AOC is not just a plausible Senate candidate in New York could take Chuck Schumer's job.
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She's one of the most plausible presidential candidates in 2028.
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Jasmine Crockett is much smarter than people think she is.
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Jasmine Crockett's much smarter than most people think she is.
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I don't want to be sitting here saying, wow, Senator Crockett, boy, Democrat from Texas.
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Man, maybe we shouldn't have encouraged her to run.
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Now, speaking of President Trump, there Jasmine was talking about Trump's migration policy and all these self-hating Hispanics.
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I want to tell you about Theo G. Skyking, 6107, who says, welcome home, my dear Nubian brother from Michigan with love.
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I mentioned yesterday when I heard this proposal from Jasmine Crockett that black people not pay any taxes.
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I said, look, the Sicilians are basically African, okay, so power, sister, brother.
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President Trump has expounded on his new immigration policy.
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Don't forget, there was this earth-shattering, maybe I'm slightly exaggerating, but not by a lot, change in the Trump immigration policy.
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Previously, his view had been, destroy illegal immigration, but we want more legal immigration.
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Sometimes he said, we want more legal immigration than ever.
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In other words, the problem with our immigration system is just a procedural problem.
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Now, look, at the time that he was promoting that, I think that was probably the politically salient view.
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I think where the base is now, where a lot of, maybe where most Americans are now, is we want to drastically reduce all migration.
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Now, can we make distinctions between where, you know, this Somali fraud scandal in Minnesota has started to open up that conversation too.
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Previously, you had to talk about migration like it was all the same.
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We've had Englishmen coming to America for over 400 years.
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And a pirate shows up from Somalia to rape and murder and steal our welfare.
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Yes, John David Shattenworth IV and Jabba the Hutt, Gishi Gushi Gashi Han Solo.
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Some cultures fit in here, like the English, for instance, because America comes from England.
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And I say, why is it we only take people from whole countries, right?
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Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden?
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But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right?
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The only thing they're good at is going after ships.
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This is how we used to talk about immigration before the 1965 Hart-Celler Act.
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Used to say, okay, we want to restrict immigration, all immigration, including legal immigration.
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And if we're going to take migrants, we want them to be from countries that are going to help us.
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We want them to be the kind of people who can assimilate from places that are assimilable.
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But if you don't believe the stuff we believe in, and if you haven't been raised in the institutions that are similar to our institutions,
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and you don't do the kind of stuff that contributes to our economy and society,
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and you don't, if you just don't fit in, then we don't really want you to come.
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We didn't have Somalis in this country in any meaningful sense until the 90s, okay?
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We had like zero, we had statistically zero Somalis in America until after 1991.
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What's really funny about the distinction that's irritated the Libs, he says, why not put nice places like Norway?
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Is that the Libs, until very recently, were always talking up how great the Scandinavian countries are.
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The Libs, when they were more focused on economics, on promoting socialism,
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they would say socialism works so well in Scandinavia.
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Why is it that Scandinavia works so well and socialism, more socialistic policy?
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They actually caused a lot of economic problems there.
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But one reason that socialism, to some degree, a big welfare state worked better in Scandinavia
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is because they had a completely homogenous population.
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That was the part you weren't really allowed to say.
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Furthermore, you don't need to have some lengthy argument to prove Trump's point right
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because all of the Somali, not just Somalis, but all of the people from the Middle East and Africa
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Scandinavia also didn't have any of those people until very recently.
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And now they're being flooded with those people.
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And their crime and their rapes have gone absolutely through the roof.
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So when he says, why don't we have people from nice countries like Norway and not bad countries
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like Somalia, his premise is obviously true because all the people from countries around
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Somalia are trying to go to Norway, and none of the people from the countries around Norway
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There's something about those Scandinavian countries where things are nice there.
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So yeah, we want to bring more of the people who live in a nice way, and we don't want
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Speaking of this cultural enrichment, I do have to get to this video.
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It's an old video, but it's going viral again as this issue of Muslim enclaves is really kicking
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This is from 2019, the Islamic Society of Philadelphia.
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The young girls, some little girls will defend, we'll sacrifice our souls without hesitation,
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we will chop off their heads, and we will liberate the sorrowful and exalted Al-Aqsa Mas,
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we'll lead the army of Allah fulfilling his promise, we will subject them to eternal torture,
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rebels, rebels, rebels, all these little kids, rebels, rebels, one ummah, glorious steeds will
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lead us into paths leading to Al-Aqsa Mas, the blood of martyrs protects us, paradise needs
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real men, we've got some boys in there too, some girls, some boys, from the Islamic Society
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of Philadelphia, not Gaza or the West Bank or Syria, that was from Philadelphia, and I don't
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Frankly, Margaret, I just don't want them here.
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Margaret, I don't care, I just don't want them here.
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Now, there are people who come from Muslim countries who can assimilate.
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Again, it's got to be small numbers, but there are people who, there are plenty of people who can.
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1400 years now, sometimes more successfully than others,
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the only way that they assimilate is to the degree to which they give up Islam.
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Christians assimilate to cultures, and frankly, the more Christian they are, the better they
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Jews assimilate to cultures, they've been assimilating to cultures for 1700 years.
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Buddhists assimilate to cultures because they're pretty chill, they're pretty lo-fi.
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the only begotten Son of God, who bridges the gap
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Okay, speaking of violent criminals, there's a story
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I really want to get to, I think I have to get to it tomorrow,
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Now everyone's upset, they're on the teenager's side
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totally right. We'll get to that. Also, HHS just
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