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A Somali girl has gone viral for her argument as to why Somalis should not be deported from America. And most people are excoriating the poor little girl and her argument. But I had exactly the opposite reaction. The fact that a recent arrival is so fluently regurgitating this typically leftist slogan is the clearest evidence yet that Somalis might in fact be able to assimilate to American culture.
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A Somali girl has gone viral for her argument as to why Somalis should not be deported from
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America. Support everyone because people deserve to be here because we shouldn't be illegal when
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this is literally stolen land. And most people are excoriating the poor little girl and her
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argument. I had exactly the opposite reaction. The fact that a recent arrival is so fluently
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regurgitating this typically leftist anti-American slogan is the clearest evidence yet that Somalis
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might in fact be able to assimilate to American culture. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael
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989898. That sweet little Somali girl did not learn that argument from Abdul Ahmed Abdi Muhammad.
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That little Somali girl learned the argument that America is stolen land from some white liberal
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teacher. Okay, you know I'm a little tough on the migrants. I think we need to deport zillions of
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people and stop taking them in, and we actually need to distinguish between different countries
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that are more or less assimilable. I am a very hardline immigration restrictionist,
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but we got to be fair here. It was not the Somalis who taught this girl that argument.
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It was some lib, probably old stock, maybe comes from the Mayflower white person in America who
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taught that argument that actually America's stolen land, and actually that's why we have to give it all
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the way to the, which brings us to one of the hardest facts of migration right now. The chief
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argument against mass migration is that we don't assimilate anymore. We have had the largest movement
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of people in recorded history into the United States in the last 60, 70 years. We have the highest
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percentage foreign born in the United States that we've ever had. So that's a problem just in itself.
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That's very hard for polities. People have recognized it going back to antiquity.
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On top of that, we now discourage assimilation. Used to be when you had the first waves of migrants.
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For a lot of American history, we didn't really take migrants, but for some of it, in the 19th
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century, we took Germans, then Irish, then Italians, then Jews, then some Eastern European,
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a more Southern European, and then eventually after the 1960s, we started taking in the rest of the
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world. But in the early part, the 19th and early 20th century, we were tough on the migrants,
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and so we forced them to assimilate. And we wouldn't employ them otherwise. We would send
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them back if we could. We were tough on them. And now we're not. Now, in fact, we say you should not
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assimilate because our culture is so evil and terrible, and we don't want to erase your culture,
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and we don't want to appropriate your culture. And we don't want to be a melting pot. We want to be a
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salad bowl or whatever. So that's the chief problem. But there's an added problem, which is
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we also don't want them to assimilate to this culture because we currently live in a culture
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that tears down statues of George Washington and General Lee and Abraham Lincoln that says America
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is an evil, terrible place. It says we suck and we're on stolen land. So we want them to assimilate
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because if they don't assimilate, they're foreigners who have very little to do with us.
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But we also don't want them to assimilate because the dominant culture of the last 60 years has been
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horrible and has itself made our country terrible. So tough luck on the migrants, but they're kind of
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damned if they do, damned if they don't. And it's a little bit on us, but in any case, we don't want
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it. Nobody wants a little Somali girl. I don't care how young and cute she is. Nobody wants a little
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Somali girl coming to America and saying, your country is stolen land. This is stolen land.
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Give me more welfare fraud. We don't want it. Now, some people in America have a different view.
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Mayor Wu of Boston has really reshaped my view of American history. And look, we got some American
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revolution ancestors in the line. We obviously go back to the Mayflower, which is a great cigar company.
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And so I thought I knew a lot about the history of New England. But it turns out that you cannot
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talk about any achievement in Boston without talking about the Somalis.
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You cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had in safety, jobs and economic
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development, in education without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up.
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We are proud and we are grateful for our Somali community and for our Somali American neighbors.
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Boston and the country are clear that hate has no place in our society. We will use
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every attack to actually strengthen and expand the services available to empower and work alongside
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our community members who are already doing so much good in the world and setting an example
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for the rest of the country. They set the example from the beginning. You can't talk about any
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achievement of Boston. You cannot talk about the history of Boston without talking about the
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Somalis, right? I mean, who could forget the midnight ride of Paul Abdi Ahmed Mohammed Revere
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when he was galloping along with the Saracens through the streets of Boston yelling,
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oh, la, la, la, la, la, the British, la, la, la, la, la, la. Who could forget that?
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Who could forget? Who could forget the Boston Ambulo party when the colonials dressed up in
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tribal attire and poured that Somali stew that poor Jacob Fry in Minnesota had to choke down the
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other day with a smile on his face? They just poured all of that delicious stew into the harbor.
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Don't you remember that? How could you forget? It's not just Mayor Wu. Who was it? Someone else the
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other day, we covered it on the show, said Pramila Jayapal. It was Pramila Jayapal,
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the Democrat Congress lady, who said that you can't talk about the history of America without
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talking about Somalis. They built this country. Somalis built this country. There were statistically
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zero Somalis in America before 1992, okay? There were none. There were statistically none.
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There were dozens who came over in the early 20th century, and then a few more students came over
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in the 70s, 60s. But it was really not until Somalia failed as a state again in the early 1990s that we
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had Somalis come over here. They have nothing to do with American history. They have nothing to do with
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America. And we are being told to our face, total straight face from Mayor Wu of Boston and from
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Pramila Jayapal in Congress, that Somalis are as American as apple pie, as ambulo pie.
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I don't mean to just beat up on the Somalis, though they have nothing to do with American history,
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other than very, very recent history when they have defrauded us.
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The only contribution that Somalis have ever made to America is fraud, like massive, massive fraud.
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But it's not just the Somalis. Haitian immigrants too, it turns out, in Massachusetts.
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Massachusetts. Another, you know, bit of Massachusetts history here. We've talked about
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the Umbulo Tea Party. Now we will move on to the $7 million in snap fraud, thanks to the Haitians.
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Today, we are announcing federal charges against two men, Antonio Bonner and Saul Elisme,
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for large-scale snap benefit trafficking, a scheme that turned a program designed to feed families
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into a multimillion-dollar criminal enterprise. One legitimate supermarket in the same area as
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these stores redeems approximately $80,000 in snap benefits per month. Over the last 20 months,
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the Gisuela Variety Store was redeeming between three and six times that amount monthly, with
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nowhere near the space, inventory, customers, or infrastructure to support it. The Sal Mache Mix-A store
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redeemed over $120,000 in snap benefits in the last six months. Simply put, there is no plausible way
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snap eligible food could have been purchased from these stores for this long. Yet, these two stores
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are alleged to have illicitly trafficked nearly $7 million in snap benefits. The fraud was shocking
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and glaring. I guess it's shocking, but it's not surprising. It's shocking because of the audacity,
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but it's not surprising because this always happens. These migrant groups come over and they defraud us.
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They just keep doing it. And we keep learning that the scale of the fraud,
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the enormity of the fraud is higher and higher than we thought. And then we're shocked again.
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At what point do we stop being shocked? I think there was a big turning point with this government
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shutdown. In many ways, I think it was similar to the turning point of COVID. In as much as Democrats
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loved COVID. They loved COVID because it allowed them to shut down the government, exert much more
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government control and rewrite the election laws. So it gave them an advantage in the 2020 election.
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We're learning more about that too. We'll see if we have time to get to that story. But it helped
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them. It allowed them to tighten their grip over the institutions that they controlled. And crucially,
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it allowed them to rewrite the election laws in battleground states, in some cases unconstitutionally,
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to give them an advantage in an election that otherwise they were probably going to lose.
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Now, the downside of COVID for them though, was that COVID, for instance, sent the kids home from
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school and created remote learning. And as a result of remote learning, parents finally were
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able to see the nonsense that their kids were being taught in school because it was now mediated by a
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computer screen. And what happened? As a result of that, there were massive demands for education
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reform. There was a huge spike in homeschooling, people moving out of the public school system.
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So in the end, I think it kind of hurt the Democrats. That's how I feel about this shutdown.
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The Libs shut down the government a month or two ago, longest government shutdown in history. And
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then they just conceded. They totally surrendered. It achieved nothing. It was entirely on them.
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And they did it because they were trying to shift the conversation. Trump had too many wins.
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They realized that the only hard issue that they were winning on was healthcare. And so they tried
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to shut down the government and make it about healthcare. But that kind of hurt them too,
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because then the Republicans came out and said, well, you're just shutting down the government
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because you want to give illegals healthcare. You want to give illegals more access to welfare
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programs. And the Democrats didn't have a good answer. Initially, they said illegals don't have
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access to healthcare or welfare programs. But then as the shutdown went on, the Democrats started saying,
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well, if the Republicans won't reopen the government soon, these poor undocumented migrants
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won't have healthcare, won't have food. You say, wait a second. Although you told me that wasn't
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happening. Now you're saying the reason we have to reopen the government, fund the government is
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because of the thing that you said wasn't happening. But if you expand it beyond just the
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undocumented, that is illegal aliens to migrants generally, previously, the Democrats had told us,
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oh, they don't use welfare systems. They contribute to the economy. They're a net boon for the economy.
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And then all of a sudden we realized, no, it turns out certainly in specific migrant communities,
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60% of them are on welfare or more. So actually they're just a total net negative
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to the economy, even if you want to make a purely economic argument.
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And then finally, broadly, when we were looking specifically on SNAP, which used to be called food
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stamps, we noticed that there is just massive, massive dependence and fraud. Not even dependence like
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a poor young mother needs it to feed her kids. Like just fraud, just Haitian, Somali, even native
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born fraud. In some states, 10% of the population is on food stamps. That shows you that there's
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something seriously wrong with the economy or with the food stamp program. And the economy right now
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is relatively strong. So there's obviously a lot of fraud going on here. I think it's going to hurt
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them. I think it's tuned a lot of people in to say, wow, gosh, why is housing so expensive?
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Well, two thirds of rent prices have been driven up by migrants. Why is food so expensive? Might it
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be because there's just massive fraud taking government subsidies to inflate the price of
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food? Wow. Huh? Maybe actually the points that the Democrats are giving us, maybe they're actually
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the problem. So it's leading to a lot of people saying, a lot of this comes down to mass migration
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and we need an immigration moratorium. Huge number just came out of TPUSA. We'll get to
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your trust, and God bless America. So we're all back from AmericaFest, most of which was podcasters
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fighting with each other. But there was some more concrete political organizing going on, and at the
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end of it, there were straw polls. Who do you want to be your nominee in 2028? What do you think of this
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issue? What do you think of that issue? Before we get to who they want to be their nominee, important
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issue poll. The TPSA straw poll shows that 90% of attendees support a full immigration moratorium.
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We need to stop migration into the United States. Illegal, legal, all of it. We're full. We got too
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many. People aren't assimilating. We got to stop it. Now, the libs are going to say this is un-American
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because we're a nation of immigrants. This phrase, nation of immigrants, didn't even appear in America
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until the middle to late 20th century. It's a revisionist history. We are not a nation of immigrants.
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We're a nation originally of settlers, and then we had basically no immigration, very, very little
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immigration until parts of the 19th century when we had very restricted immigration. And then even
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that was too onerous and burdensome. So by the early 20th century, we essentially cut off all
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immigration until the latter part of the 20th century, and then we flooded the country with
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extremely foreign people. But the real history of America is not that we're a nation of immigrants.
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We did not consider ourselves to be that way for much of American history. And now, it's not just
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the attendees at TPSA, which is a pretty good sample of the Republican base. 30,000 people
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completely sold out. They would have had 100,000 people there had they had more tickets.
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These are people who are activists, but who are normies. They're not fringe. They're not extreme.
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They are Charlie Kirk conservatives. And they're saying, we need a full moratorium.
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So much so that you got Chip Roy here, conservative Republican in Congress,
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who's introduced the PAUSE Act to implement a moratorium.
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I've introduced legislation called the PAUSE Act to pause immigration.
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And to pause it until we get our hands around all of the problems that are currently plaguing
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our immigration system. The abuse of birthright citizenship.
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To have profit-centered ways to create American citizens by people coming here.
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Coming across the Rio Grande, having children, making citizens that then can use American resources,
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our hospitals, our schools, our legal system, our welfare.
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We continue to allow a broken visa system to have extended family members be brought into the United States
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H-1B program has been exploited and abused now for years and must be abolished or massively reformed.
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So, okay, look, I love all of this. I think this is great. Good on Chip. I'm a big fan of Chip Roy.
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And I think in the 90s, people talked about an immigration moratorium, but it was really a fringe issue.
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Then it basically disappeared from Republican politics. Then people have floated it in more recent years.
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Now it's becoming a mainstream issue. The Overton window is shifting on it.
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However, I think we need to go even further. Can I offer that? Can I offer? I know, look,
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I want to take the win that the Overton window has shifted, but I think we need to go a little further.
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I'll just show you how the Overton window shifted and where it needs to go.
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When I was a kid, the only two views you could hold on immigration were you want more legal and illegal immigration
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or only more legal immigration. But, you know, it's got to be legal. It can't be illegal.
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They have to fill out the right forms. But you always want more migration.
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Then it shifted to we need to restrict not only illegal immigration, but also legal immigration.
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So a shift away from just the procedure to the substance of immigration.
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Now it's shifting a little more. It's just a subset of that idea, which is we need a full moratorium on all immigration.
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No one comes in, which practically is not possible.
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But you could dramatically reduce it to almost nothing, kind of like the 1924 Act.
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But we're still avoiding one of the big issues, which is not the quantitative issue, but the qualitative issue.
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Even when we talk about an immigration moratorium, we get to avoid the really icky issue that people don't want to talk about,
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but which is obviously relevant, which is what kind of immigrants do we mean?
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Is there a difference between an immigrant from merry old England and an immigrant from Somalia?
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Now, actually, maybe not because both of their names would be Mohammed.
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But like 30 years ago, there would be a big difference.
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One would be old John Smith, you know, who's got the traditions of Parliament and Magna Carta
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and the great kings going all the way back to the Battle of Hastings and this kind of shared history that we have.
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And Somalia, which has almost nothing in common with us.
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But that part you're still not really allowed to talk about.
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That part still seems a little icky or racist-y or something like that.
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I don't think it is, but that's the part they don't want to talk about.
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And I think that's the part we have to talk about.
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Because the 1924 Immigration Act did talk about that.
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And the 1924 Immigration Act just coincidentally happened to coincide with the greatest period of strength ever in America.
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The Immigration Act from 1924 up until 1965, that was the period, right?
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That coincided with other things too, though they might have been related.
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Or strength heading into the Second World War, the early successes in the Cold War.
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However, we need to focus on the kinds of people that are more likely to assimilate.
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And that's what we did for literally all of American history until the 1965 Part Seller Act.
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And then we were told that we're an evil, terrible, racist country.
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I don't know, kind of all the arguments that that little Somali girl regurgitated.
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We're a stolen land, it's awful, we're terrible, we need to let in.
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And specifically the Third World, not just immigrants from the UK or Southern Europe or Eastern Europe.
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It's hard enough to assimilate Germans and Italians.
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It was legitimately hard to assimilate Italians and Germans and Jews and Eastern Europeans.
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And they're pretty close, they're very similar to the founding stock of the country.
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And it was hard to assimilate them, some of my ancestors.
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It is a bazillion times harder to assimilate people who have a different language, a radically different language, a different culture, a different institutions, a different religion, different habits, different almost everything.
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Yeah, okay, we can call it an immigration moratorium.
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But we're not going to get anywhere if we don't talk about the specifics.
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What kind of cultures are more easily assimilable, what are less assimilable?
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Every serious statesman who's addressed this issue has talked about this.
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And I think even the hardcore restrictionists, they don't want to be totally honest.
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Well, you know, we're all just kind of the same.
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Traditions, culture, heritage, lineage, stock, religion, all these things really matter.
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Okay, now speaking of the TPUSA straw poll, there is a clear answer on who the TPUSA base wants to be the president.
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Who does TPSA, the membership, want to be the president in 2028?
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Followed by about 2.5% of the vote, Ron DeSantis.
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Followed by 1 or so percent of the vote, Ted Cruz.
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Followed by 3%, someone else, write-in required.
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It's J.D., which I've called from the beginning.
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Ron DeSantis, I think, is a tremendous governor.
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I'm kind of miffed at his statement about the Robert E. Lee statue the other day.
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Because of his particular political strengths, I think he in particular speaks to the political
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moment, and he has a special skill at speaking to young people.
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But it's not even necessarily just about him personally.
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We are living in an almost unprecedented political moment in American history because we have a
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president who has a non-consecutive second term, which means that when Trump picked J.D.
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to be his running mate, he was effectively crowning him to be the heir.
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Because when you run for president, you're aiming at two terms.
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And because this one was interrupted and President Trump is term limited by the Constitution,
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by the 22nd Amendment, which I'll point out, Ronald Reagan campaigned vigorously to repeal.
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And so he essentially, really no matter what Trump says, he crowned him when he picked him in 2024.
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Marco Rubio, who's the number two guy by a country mile,
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Marco Rubio has come out and told Vanity Fair he doubles down.
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Of his own personal and political ambitions, telling Vanity Fair last week,
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if J.D. Vance runs for president, he's going to be our nominee,
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and I'll be one of the first people to support him.
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Very rarely do you see in Washington politics somebody who does something like this.
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Yeah, really remarkable, kind of the setting aside of personal ambition.
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And arguably, these two men, J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio, would probably be among the top contenders.
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However, I love this reaction from the correspondents on Fox News.
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They say, wow, it's so rare to see people set aside personal ambition.
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Nobody puts aside personal ambition willingly in Washington, D.C.
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Marco Rubio has been running for president, certainly since 2016, and he was making waves in 2012.
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This is not about just voluntarily setting aside personal ambition because, you know, that's just,
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But that's Rubio, I think, more acknowledging reality.
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If he's serious that he really wants to remain secretary of state, it would be wild for him
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to be secretary of state across, say, three presidential terms.
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Not only because, as you know, I'm a great admirer of the vice president.
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It's because of the stark contrast between what we saw on the TPUSA stage during All of
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America Fest and what we're seeing in the polling numbers, what we're seeing within the
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On the TPUSA stage, it was everyone sniping at each other and trying to excise people from
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the conservative movement and to vie for position.
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And perhaps for perfectly fine, principled moral reasons.
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And then I look at the base and I look at the government and it's not division.
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It's division among the podcasters and the commentators and the writers and the think
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It's like every man's on his own team, it seems, and wants to boot everyone else out
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But then among the base and among the actual politicos, the people that we're going to
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nominate and vote for, there's more unity than I've seen maybe in my lifetime.
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Okay, you've got, what is it, 80, sorry, 82.5% support for Donald Trump.
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You actually have J.D. Vance, who's the VP, who was senator from Ohio, who wrote an interesting
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That guy has more unified Republican support than Donald Trump, the man who won the popular
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vote as a Republican for the first time in 20 years.
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And I gave a speech on this at Belmont Abbey, anticipating some of the fights in the so-called
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right-wing civil war, which is mostly a phenomenon of podcasting and commentators and think tanks.
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It is not primarily a phenomenon of hard politics, electoral politics.
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And I pointed out, I said, look, there are all these divisions and all of these isms and
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ideologies, some of them perfectly justifiable, and some of the antagonism is justifiable.
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But I just want to point out, who do we all support for president?
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Let's just use the example of the people Charlie invited to the event.
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And who are we basically all going to support next time?
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It needs to serve the American national interest.
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And what do we all, we all, weirdly, when it comes to policy, we all kind of agree.
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When it comes to politicians, we all kind of agree.
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All the division takes place in this meta-political space of the commentators.
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Amid all this report of division, I feel pretty good about that unity.
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Now, speaking of impressive, albeit more unsettling unity,
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have you read about the throuple, the gay throuple in the Wall Street Journal?
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We're going to have to talk about it, though, I'm afraid.
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Now, this is establishment, a newspaper, stodgy.
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Headline, one throuple had three separate design tastes.
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After buying a plain vanilla box, a Chicago trio brought in an interior designer
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who blended their aesthetics and added elements like a moody den for socializing
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Am I reading Playgirl or am I reading the Wall Street Journal?
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Today, my favorite comment yesterday, it's from the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music.
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But this one, and I did see the name this time, and it wasn't even close.
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And the headline in response to Disney, or the comment in response to Disney,
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I'm dreaming of a white Santa, just like the one I used to know.
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When corporate strategist David Goberdiel and pharmacist Ryan Tungate
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they never intended to open their relationship, let alone their home, to a third partner.
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We're one sentence in, and it's already nauseating.
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But when they met consultant Michael Cowell, 35,
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through mutual friends in the summer of 2018, things took an unexpected turn.
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Can you imagine homosexual men would have multiple partners?
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So anyway, it's this whole thing about how three gay guys live together.
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If the story were about that, I would understand.
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Well, you wouldn't cover it because that sort of happens.
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But it's not unusual, necessarily, within that community.
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It's just like, wow, can you believe this is what they do?
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And one of them wanted the dining room to be eating room red.
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And can you imagine the other wanted forest green?
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In other words, the point of the story is to normalize throuple.
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I've used the word throuple because it's kind of a funny neologism.
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We can't, don't, we can't, and we certainly can't normalize gay throuples.
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I guess you see in history, in pagan societies, even in the Old Testament, though it's not recommended,
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But the gay throuple thing, that's especially, and I don't even want to normalize the other throuple.
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I guess that's the clip for Media Matters today, but it's fine.
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It should be the clip because people need to hear this.
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Someone asked, at AmericaFest actually, someone was asking about sodomy laws.
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Goes back to, well, the legalization or the constitutional ban on laws prohibiting homosexuals.
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Sodomy goes back to Lawrence v. Texas, a case about 20 years ago at the Supreme Court,
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which found, over the objections of Antonin Scalia and the court's conservatives,
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that there is a secret constitutional right to homosexual sodomy.
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Written presumably in Invisible Ink, somewhere between Articles 2 and 3.
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I don't know exactly where it is, but that right is in there, apparently.
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And Scalia's argument was, look, whether you enjoy homosexual sodomy or you disapprove of it,
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The idea that there were still these laws on the books as late as 2003, say.
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But I think it's also because they don't understand the purpose that these laws served.
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Many such laws, not just pertaining to this particular vice, but to other vices as well.
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People think that, you know, these poor perpetrators were getting their heads lopped off
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for committing crimes that many of us don't think are very serious all the time.
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There were not purity police going around door to door to try to arrest Paul Lind, say.
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We don't have much of a tradition of that in America.
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We don't really have any tradition of that in America.
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The purpose that the laws served was to set a standard,
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even if it was through a legal mechanism that was generally not enforced.
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And the standard said, not that two fellas can't, you know,
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It's not that, you know, Paul Lind can't appear on Hollywood squares.
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It's that we're not going to put up with gay throuples in our newspapers.
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That's the purpose of these laws that set standards and norms.
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It's to say, hey, here's a standard of society.
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We will tolerate some deviation from it, but make no mistake about the standard.
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I was talking to Jonathan Pajot about this some years ago.
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And he pointed out, you know, weird stuff has always existed in society.
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And in medieval manuscripts, there's all sorts of weird stuff along the edges.
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On cathedrals, on the outside of the cathedrals, there's all this weird stuff.
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Gargoyles and weird little kind of elfish-looking creatures.
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And even in the manuscripts, sometimes they got weird, like, you know, a giant phallus
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Why do they, why, even in the high Middle Ages, you know, the high point of Christendom,
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Christian culture, why do they have all this weird deviant stuff on the outside?
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And the reason is because you don't want it in the center.
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But you need to make sure that the weird stuff is considered weird.
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You don't want the gargoyle with the gigantic phallus and 17 horns in the center of the altar.
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And right now what we've done, by removing even the nod to standards in this behavior,
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we have moved that which generally exists on the edges in the periphery.
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And most people don't like it, which is why Republicans campaigned so effectively
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That's eunuchs, transgenderism, transvestitism.
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I mean, for goodness sakes, Nero, Emperor Nero.
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He castrated one of his slaves and dressed him up to look like the wife that Nero had murdered
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Which, by the way, that is the example of gay marriage in antiquity.
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So not like when people say gay marriage has been around forever.
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But you got to kind of keep it on the edges, okay?
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Speaking of the new normal, Rick Wilson, who was some hack, cynical, Republican campaign
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operative, just a kind of scummy political creature.
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Rick Wilson decided that his business was drying up during the Trump era, so he flipped teams.
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Political hatchet men are not necessarily always known for their loyalty and deep moral principles.
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And as we look ahead to the end of President Trump's second term, after 10 years of Trump
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dominating American politics, 10 years to get his act together, to take a deep breath,
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this is what Rick Wilson had to say about Trump.
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My better angels, when Trump dies, are going to be out on the streets setting off fireworks.
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It's going to sound like a Baghdad wedding around here.
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He deserves nothing but our hatred, our loathing, our approbation, our dismissal.
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Donald Trump's grave will reek of ammonia for a million years.
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He is the most hated president in our lifetimes.
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But I promise you, karma is a magnificent, sculpted bitch.
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And as you pass down into the gates of hell, people will, the last sound you'll hear is
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the laughter and cheering of Americans as you disappear from this world.
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Whether it's spontaneous, whether it's extemporaneous, or whether it's pre-written.
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You'll die, and I'll be so happy when you die, and then I'll celebrate you.
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He says, Trump's the least popular president in however many years.
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President Trump is the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years.
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President Trump built a new coalition in American politics that won increasing numbers of black
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people and Hispanic people and 46% of the Hispanic vote, of women, of even women under
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And they'll be so happy when you die, and I'll be happy when you die.
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And I'm reminded that the fruits of the spirit are an important measure of people, on the
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People who say that they're religious, people who are openly irreligious.
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But I try not to go blue, because it's not good to do that.
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And it's bad, and it makes you worse when you do that too much.
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And I don't know, when you see someone using vile, vulgar language, constantly vituperative,
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How many kind of silly, multi-syllabic words can I use in this description?
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It says that maybe something's gone a little bit rotten in that person.
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And maybe that person, rather than focusing their animus on some outside object or person,
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maybe ought to, I don't know, go to confession.
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I don't know, maybe ought to have a little introspection, maybe pray, maybe take stock
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No one listens to that guy and says, ah, yes, this is a serious, balanced person.
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By the way, before we go, because I know that, you know, we've got a lot of great programming
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for over Christmas and New Year, but it's the last, like, hard news I'm going to be giving
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Answer Rick Wilson with what Nancy Pelosi just had to say.
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Because looking ahead to 2026, the Democrats are really hopeful that they're going to retake
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And if they retake the Congress, they can impeach Trump for the third time.
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And here's Nancy Pelosi, who was the Democrat leader in the House for, I think, 246 of America's
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Here's what Nancy Pelosi had to say about impeaching Trump in 26 and 27.
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Just to make sure I understand you, this should not be the agenda of Democrats for this
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And our founders knew that there could be a rogue president.
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And that's why they put impeachment in the Constitution.
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They didn't know there'd be a rogue president at the same time, a rogue Senate that didn't
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That's bipartisan in the Senate, but it wasn't enough.
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So, Speaker Pelosi, do you think that Democrats should impeach Donald Trump when they take
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Well, what you need a legal predicate for impeachment.
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Now she also realizes because they didn't really have a legal predicate last time.
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I think she just realizes this is a political loser.
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But in any case, however we get it, you heard it straight from the horse's mouth.
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It's some, it's at least some part of the horse.
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You heard it straight from that part of the horse.
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There is no basis for Democrats to impeach Trump.
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That's nice, nice news heading into the new year.
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What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
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I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
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Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.
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How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
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Circling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.