Ep. 1882 - MASSIVE Somali Daycare Fraud Scheme Exposed In Viral Video
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Somalis are perpetrating even more fraud than you previously thought. An incredible expose by an independent journalist, Nick Shirley, shows that Somalis are running these fake daycares all over, not just in Minnesota, but apparently in other states as well.
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I was going to wait until Monday. I was going to respect the official Daily Wire policy
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and let everyone stay home until Monday. But then a looks maxing meth taking mogger
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told me that right wingers should vote for Gavin Newsom. I was going to just give us all the
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weekend off. But then a Politico analyst proposed shooting right wing journalists who exposed
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Somali fraud in Minnesota. I was going to sit back and relax. But then stranger things made the 80s
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gayer than they already were, which was considerable. So now we're back. It is the
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ninth day of Christmas, and I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Somalis are perpetrating even more fraud than you previously thought.
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An incredible expose by an independent journalist, Nick Shirley, shows that Somalis are running these
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fake daycares all over, not just Minnesota, but apparently in other states as well.
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So when people go, they show up to the daycare. It's just some sloppily dressed Somali man
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who doesn't have any kids, happily doesn't have any kids around him. Anyway, it's all just fake.
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So we'll get into how deep the fraud goes. First though, Merry Christmas, everybody.
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This is always one of my favorite days of the year when we put up the Christmas decorations on
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the Michael Knowles Show set. Actually, it was supposed to be Professor Jacob who put up the
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Christmas decorations. Professor Jacob, despite his family origins as a member of a certain ancient
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nomadic tribe, he was going to have the task of putting up the Christmas decorations, and then he
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didn't. He just didn't at all. And I texted last night and said, hey, we put up the Christmas
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decorations, right? And he texted back, and he's in another state right now just mogging and mewing
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with his girlfriend and doesn't. And he said, no. So poor Mr. Davies had to show up here at the
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crack of dawn with his personal Christmas decorations, but they have to go up because it's Christmas.
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It's Christmas now. And I thought it was very, very strange that there were a number of broadcasters,
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podcasters, TV hosts, radio hosts who put up Christmas decorations before Christmas.
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It doesn't make a lot of sense. They put it up during Advent. Some of them put it up right after
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Thanksgiving. Some people were selling Christmas decorations after Halloween. That doesn't make
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sense to me because Advent is a penitential season when we contemplate the four last things,
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death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Christmas begins on the Feast of the Nativity. And what's
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even weirder is that some people will take down their Christmas decorations immediately following
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the Feast of the Nativity as if Christmas were only one day. If Christmas were only one day,
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let me ask you something. When would the drummers drum? When would you have the five golden rings?
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Christmas can refer to the day of the Feast of the Nativity. Then it can also refer to the octave,
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the liturgical season, the octave of Christmas, eight days. Then it can refer to 12 days ending
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with the Epiphany, like 12th night. But I am a Christmas maxer. I am a season maxing Christmas
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pilled jingle cell. We'll get to that kind of lingo in a moment. I want as much Christmas as
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possible. Modern religion is very different from old religion. Old religion says first you have the
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fast and then the feast. You have Advent and then you have Christmas. Modern religion says first the
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feast and then the hangover. Uh-uh. We are not Christmas disrespecters on this show. We're not
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Advent disrespecters. We put everything in their proper place. And so these decorations will be up
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until February 2nd, at least, at least. Now, speaking of the pills and the cells and the maxing,
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one of the news stories that happened over our little Christmas break here was that I interviewed
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this guy clavicular. I ended up, somehow I was the cause of one of these big news stories.
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There's this guy clavicular. I was very excited to sit down with him. He is a 19 year old. Now I think
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he turned 20 looks maxer, meaning that since the age of 14, this guy had been shooting up testosterone
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and taking hormones and steroids. And he's gone to extreme lengths to improve his looks. He's talked
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about lengthening his, like breaking his legs, even though he's a pretty tall guy already, breaking his
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legs to get taller and smashing his face and getting jaw surgery and all this. And he's just really
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focused on maxing out his looks. So I sit down with this young man and the interview goes viral
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in part because of looks maxing specific exchanges such as this. Are there any downsides to hitting
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yourself in the head with a hammer? No. He looks at me like I'm the stupidest person on earth.
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He's describing taking a hammer, smashing himself in the head. And I said, well, are there any negative
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side effects to that? He says, you know, you do it, it breaks some of your bones down and then they
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grow back bigger and then you look better. I said, are there any downsides to hitting yourself in the
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head with the hammer? Like I have three heads. He looked, he goes, no, dummy. What are you talking
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about? So anyway, fascinating. It was a delight to sit down with him. He is a very, very good
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communicator. He's very funny. He knows what he's doing. He's self-aware, but he's, he also really
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does this stuff. So, you know, I really am concerned about this guy because he really,
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since he was a kid, he got sucked into this vortex on the internet and basically every,
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everything from his ideology comes from the internet. In many ways, it's similar to the
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trans ideology on the left, which, which is a body dysmorphic ideology that comes from the internet.
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This is kind of a right-wing version. So I really am concerned for the kid and I hope things work out
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for him and I hope he doesn't, you know, continue to go like way too far off the rails and only
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prioritize looks and all the rest. But I really enjoyed sitting down with him. The other part that
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went viral though, had nothing to do with looks maxing per se. It was because he, an ostensibly
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young right-wing Trump supporter, endorsed Gavin Newsom. And he endorsed Gavin Newsom because he says
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that Gavin Newsom is sexier than Vice President J.D. Vance.
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It's 2028. I'm voting for Gavin Newsom. You're voting for Gavin Newsom? You can't be that,
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you can't be that subhuman. So you, hold on, you, you, you got, all right, well, this actually is of
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a thread with the whole conversation because you're, you look at these two candidates, you have Gavin
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Newsom, worst governor in the country. We, I think we would all agree, destroyed his state, let its main
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city burn to the ground because of his incompetence, is a personal, uh, complete derelict liar,
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degenerate. Uh, but he is good looking. I'll grant you that he's good looking. Yeah. And it kind of
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looks like Patrick Bateman, American Psycho. And then, and then you have this, uh, vice president
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to President Trump, the transformative right-wing president in our lifetimes, who do you, you support
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Trump or no? Yeah. Okay. So you got, and you got this vice president handpicked by Trump who is
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extremely intelligent, uh, very right-wing. Uh, I, I think he's a pretty good looking guy. I don't know.
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Maybe you, I guess you disagree, but he's all these things, checks all these boxes,
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would have all these great policies. And regardless, you're going to pick the pro mass
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migrant, pro trans, pro murder the babies, pro burn the cities to the ground, pro BLM
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Democrat, because he's skinnier than the conservative vice president.
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100 times over. Yeah. All right. I can't argue with that. It just goes to show like who you are
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as a person. And I think it does. Okay. So he, he says, not only do I predict
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Gavin Newsom will win, which I don't think is backed up by anything, but he says, I would vote
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for him. I, even though I'm on the right, I like, I support Trump. I wish Trump were more right-wing.
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He even explains in the interview, even though I'm on the right, I think that the only thing that
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matters in the world, the thing that certainly matters more than anything else in the world is
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how you look. And because he thinks that, that Gavin Newsom is at least slightly sexier
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than the conservative vice president, he would vote for him, which is totally of a piece with
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the ideology. If the, if the ideology of looks maxing really says the only thing that matters
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in life is not virtue. It's not flourishing. It's not any institutions, family, law and order.
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It's not, it's nothing. It's merely aesthetics. Then if someone is like a pretty boy,
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then you have to support that person. I kind of, I get how that is of a piece.
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So this, this clip went viral. And what's amazing is Gavin Newsom leaned into it,
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which I think ultimately is, is a huge miscalculation. Newsom and his press team leans
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into the clavicular interview and they try to make Newsom look really sexy and everything.
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Uh, I think this is a big mistake though, because one, there's been so much hand wringing in recent
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weeks over this problem that the right has with its extreme young trollish fringe. Does it have a
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Groyper problem? Does it have a reactionary problem? Does it have all this stuff, you know,
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calling the right wingers Nazis and demanding that they disavow. Now you're in a situation where
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one of, if not the single leading candidate for the Democrat nomination in 2028,
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now has the support of this group that we were told was causing all these problems for the right.
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And he's actually courting that group. He's leaning into their memes. So I think this creates
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the opportunity for right wing journalists to now ask Gavin Newsom, do you disavow? Do you disavow
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these, that the support coming from these quarters that you supposedly find objectionable? That's the
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first reason. The second issue though, the reason that I think this meme is a huge miscalculation for
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Gavin Newsom is a little piece of insight that I once got from Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton sitting
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with George Bush explaining one of the real secret advantages that both of those guys have had in
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politics. President Bush in different ways from me, but both of us, me because I tend to look like
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I'm real nice and him because he used to make fun of himself. You always want to be underestimated by
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your adversaries. He consistently benefited by being underestimated. And so did I for totally
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different reasons. So I love it. I love that. I think the whole meme is really smart. Huge
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miscalculation from Newsom who's made miscalculations before because he doesn't know which way he wants
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to run. Is he going to be the moderate who's friends with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon? Is he going
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to be the radical who calls Stephen Miller a fascist and who says he wants to see more trans kids and all
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the rest of it? He doesn't really know. But what he's leaning into right now is that he's a real
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pretty boy. I think that this meme really redounds to the benefit of the vice president. This is why
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J.D. has leaned into the goofy J.D. meme, I think. You know, the one where it makes him look kind of
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short with this big, crazy round head and the curly hair and all. Even though J.D. is a relatively
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pretty slim, very tall guy. Why does he lean into the meme? Because it creates a low expectation,
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which is then surpassed by reality. In this case, Newsom is creating a very high expectation that he can
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never live up to. And when you look at people who win the presidency, just in recent years,
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you got Trump was underestimated as a political novice. There was this ridiculous idea that he
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didn't know anything about politics. It's preposterous in retrospect, but that really
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helped him, I think, in 16. Barack Obama, he was black in a country that was supposedly racist.
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That allowed him to be underestimated. George Bush was supposed to be stupid. He wasn't really. He's
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a very smart guy, George Bush, even if you disagree with him. But he was supposed to be stupid.
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It allowed him to win. Al Gore was better looking than George Bush. He mogged George Bush,
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for instance. But George Bush was underestimated. Go back further, though. Bill Clinton was Bubba,
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real nice guy. Bill Clinton's not a nice guy. That allowed him to be underestimated. Bill Clinton
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was a B-movie actor. Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer from Georgia. Richard Nixon was a loser
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whose political career was over a decade prior. I don't know. It's hard to point to a winner who's
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not underestimated. So if Newsom wants to lean into it, be my guest. I think that's terrific.
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Now, speaking of the Trump administration, the establishment left, the media, the politicians
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are absolutely furious. They're frothing at the mouth because Trump celebrated Christmas. We'll get
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So President Trump, his administration posts these Christmas messages. All the different
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agencies, Merry Christmas, Joy to the World, that kind of thing. The Washington Post immediately
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whines about it. December 26th, second day of Christmas, says officials in President Trump's
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administration posted overtly sectarian messages for Christmas, such as a day to celebrate the
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birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. The messages sharply diverged from a tradition of secular holiday
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messages. Put a pause right here. The most scandalous part of that post from the Washington
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Post is that these top journalists in America don't even know the meaning of the word sectarian.
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The word sectarian, though they want to make it about just diversity of religion, sectarian
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refers specifically to disagreements within the religion. So a sectarian conflict would be a conflict
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between, say, Presbyterians and Methodists, or Catholics and Episcopalians. It's a disagreement
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from within a broadly similar religious framework. What's so funny is that the message celebrating the
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birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ, is the opposite of a sectarian message. That's something that all the
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various flavors of Christianity can agree on. So WAPO, just ignorant, frothing, absolutely full of
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wrath. What are some of the messages? Here's the Department of Labor, which posts a nice little
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picture, Joy to the World. Looks like a Thomas Kinkade poem, Let Earth Receive Her King. It's very
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nice. And there's a journalist from the Free Press, which is supposed to be more reasonable than the
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Washington Post and the New York Times. But it's the Free Press, which is this kind of center-left
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libertarian-ish outlet. This guy, Peter Savodnik, who tweets out, this is grotesque, which coincidentally
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is also the response that Herod had to the nativity. Let Earth receive her king. This is grotesque.
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We need to kill all of the children in Judea. Okay. Bizarre, this is grotesque. The message is joy to
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the world. Let Earth receive her king. And that's a nice message. Not only is that not grotesque,
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that is one of the most beautiful things that is ever, that is the most beautiful thing that's
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ever happened, taken together with the Passion and the Resurrection. But even if you don't believe
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in the religion, isn't it a nice idea? You know, a savior comes down, born as a little baby in
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swaddling clothes to save the whole world. Even if you don't believe in it, though you should,
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isn't that a nice idea? What about that is grotesque? Well, I suspect what he thinks is that
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our government saying anything about religion is grotesque. But as Nick Solheim pointed out,
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great, a great note, just to inject some actual history into the narrative about American history.
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Presidents have been celebrating Christmas for a very, very long time, have been promoting
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Christianity for a very, very long time. He posts an image of a letter from Franklin Roosevelt
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to the armed forces. This is January 26, 1941. This is from Roosevelt, who's a huge lib.
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And he says, as Commander-in-Chief, I take pleasure in commending the reading of the Bible to all who
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serve in the armed forces of the United States. Throughout the centuries, men of many faiths and
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diverse origins have found in the sacred book, words of wisdom, counsel, and inspiration. It is
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a fountain of strength, and now is always an aid in attaining the highest aspirations of the human
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soul. Very sincerely yours, Franklin Roosevelt. Is that grotesque? Is that shocking and horrible and
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grotesque? Is the fact that Christmas is a federal holiday, does that suggest that maybe it's okay for
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the federal government to acknowledge and celebrate Christmas? Christ mass? It's religious, that's
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true, but it's our religion, because we're a Christian country, America, which was founded to
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be a model of Christian charity, founded by people who called themselves pilgrims, who gave thanks to
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God, who put in God we trust on our currency. On and on and on. It wasn't just the journos who were
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upset. Eric Swalwell, maybe the future governor of California. It might somehow get worse after Newsom.
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Eric Swalwell tweets out, may this be the last Christmas we live this nightmare. And it's an image
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of graffiti on concrete. And it's an ice helicopter with lights over the nativity scene.
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Oh, wow. Wow, that's, man, Swalwell, that's deep. Keep spitting that slam poetry. You see,
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it's the nativity scene, the creche, our Lord being born in the manger with ice coming in, as if to say
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that the Holy Family were illegal immigrants, you know, avoiding law and order. And now this is
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especially ironic because the opposite is true. The Holy Family was in Bethlehem in order to comply
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with a government order to register with the government. It's exact, it's amazing with the
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lives when they get this impulse, they feel, they verbally ejaculate some nonsense. And then it
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turns out to completely subvert the argument they were trying to make. This is just like the ice and
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the illegal immigrants. And no, it's actually the opposite. They were, the Holy Family was there to
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comply with a government order to register with the government. And then what happens after the
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nativity? The, the wise men warn them, they say, you know, Herod is going to try to kill the baby.
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And so they flee into Egypt. The thing that the Holy Family was fleeing was not immigration
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enforcement. The thing that the Holy Family was fleeing was infanticide. Immigration enforcement,
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that's the right-wing policy that Eric Swalwell has problems with. Infanticide is a left-wing policy.
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Infanticide is one of the most sacred policies to the political left. They consider it a right,
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the right, the so-called right to abortion. That's what the Holy Family actually fled from.
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Just a, an amazing, if Eric Swalwell didn't exist, we would have to invent him.
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Speaking of Christmas derangement, it wasn't confined to our own country. Politico Europe
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reports, far-right parties are claiming the festive season as their own. It's Christmas.
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Recast, recasting, I promise you, I swear, this is verbatim. Recasting Christmas as a marker of
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Christian civilization that is under threat and positioning themselves as its last line of
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defense against a supposedly hostile secular left. Where would the right get that idea?
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Where would, where would the right get the idea that the secular left,
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the supposedly hostile secular left, would oppose Christmas and Christianity?
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Politico Europe accusing far-right parties of recasting Christmas as a marker of Christian
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civilization. It's in the name. It's like that old clip of Ben. You remember that clip of Ben from
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10 years ago when he's at some school and says, you know, the Boy Scouts, you know, the Boy Scouts,
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listen, gang, the Boy Scouts shouldn't have girls in it. And then some chick says, well,
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where do you get that idea from? Where does it say that? And he's like, it's in the name Boy Scouts,
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gang. This is just, this is just that. Where do you, it's the Politico for Europe, you know,
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where do you get the ideas that Christmas is a Christian holiday? Gang, it's in the name Christmas.
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It's in the name Christmas. The far right. If you think Christmas is Christian, you are now a member
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of the, welcome to the far right. Welcome. I hope you like it. Now, before we get to anything else,
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because I have more from, from Politico, not just this nonsense about Christmas not being Christian,
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but a little, even darker in a way, a Politico senior analyst suggesting that Somalis shoot
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the big reasons we had to come in today. Let's talk about this major, major news story that breaks
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over Christmas, which is that the Somalis have not just been milking some of the welfare programs
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in Minnesota, food stamps or whatever. They have set up a ton of fraudulent businesses,
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notably daycares, that are receiving all of this aid from the state that don't even exist.
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This is a story broken by Nick Shirley. We'll get to the details of it. But
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here's the totally normal response from the liberal media. An independent journalist goes in
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and breaks a story that these people should have been on for years. This has been going on for years
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and years and years. And Josh Gerstein of Politico comes out and says, at some point,
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the amateur effort to knock on doors of home daycares intersects with robust stand your ground
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laws. Stand your ground laws, meaning when people try to invade your home, you can shoot them and you
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won't be prosecuted for that. So he says, this amateur effort to knock on the doors of home daycares,
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but when they say home daycares, by the way, they're just talking about fraud.
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There are Somalis who register daycare centers to get state money in their homes,
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but they don't actually take care of anybody. There is such a thing as home daycare.
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I actually, when I was a kid, my mother worked and I was at a home daycare. I'd go to a lovely
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woman's apartment and she watched some kids and probably wasn't the most totally illicit thing,
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you know, by the tax code, but we would do that. That can exist.
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That is not even happening here. What we're looking at is Somalis just lying. They say we're
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running a daycare. There is no daycare. You go, you show up at some random Somali guy's apartment
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and they don't want to let you in. And so this massive fraud is exposed and the Politico journalist,
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a senior reporter says, actually, when are those Somalis going to start shooting those
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right-wing journalists? Why is he doing this? Why? It's very easy to say, you reporters,
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you don't even know what you're supposed to be doing. You're not even doing your job. You're
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not really investigating the facts. Why would you support this? The reason that the left is very
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nervous and threatened by right-wing independent journalists showing up and exposing this fraud
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is because this fraud serves the left's goals. The left's goals of mass migration,
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to reduce social solidarity, to increase anarchy, which gives a pretext for more
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onerous government regulations that destroy subsidiarity. Importing people specifically
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are much more likely to side with the left and then giving them money in real hard concrete politics,
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not abstract ideological politics, but hard concrete stuff. I give you money. You vote for me.
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I give you more money. This is a reciprocal arrangement between the left and the Somalis,
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who in many ways understand the nuts and bolts of ordinary politics much better than the ideologues
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and the libertarians and the think tankers. That's why. And because there are no real,
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neutral, objective, independent journalists, there are independent journalists who don't work for major
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outlets, but there are no journalists who don't have some preconceived notions that they bring to
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their stories. Because that is totally fake and in many ways an invention of the post-World War II era.
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What you're really looking at here is a guy, Josh Gerstein, who's a left-wing operative
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working for Politico, which is a left-wing communications outlet, propaganda outlet,
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upset that other political operatives have exposed a story that damages the political left.
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That's what you're seeing. You're just seeing a partisan fight playing out.
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Say, I thought you opposed stand your ground laws. I thought you opposed Americans owning guns.
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I thought you, what happened to your principles? Their principle is to win.
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Their principle is for their guys to get more political power, to do stuff, to help them.
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That's their principle. And if you remain confused about this and you think they're really concerned
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with some abstract ideology, some evenly applied rule, you're not gonna make it. I'm sorry,
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you're not gonna make it. So anyway, what did they all uncover? CBS is reporting potentially
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$9 billion of fraud by Somalis in Minnesota. Here is Nick Shirley, this independent journalist
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on YouTube, just going up and talking to the supposed daycare workers.
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They seem to be closed. No one's opening the doors.
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It says it's licensed for 74 children. Right here, state of Minnesota. Where are the kids?
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They got paid $1.26 million in fiscal year 2025. It says they have a capacity for 74 children.
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Where are the kids? Right here, state of Minnesota website.
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I don't know. I was there before. I don't know what's going on there.
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You worked here. Okay, well then you're not of any help.
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Yeah, I would like to see if I can put my son Joey here.
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not only will they not allow the native-born American kid into the daycare,
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They asked the first guy, hey, you worked at the daycare?
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And by the way, it's not only, this guy Nick Shirley broke the story,
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but then Cam Higby goes out in Ohio, same thing happening.
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I was wondering if I could get an application for my son.
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I mention this story because, you know, I frequently say it's always the ones you most expect.
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One aspect of the Somali fraud, daycare, learning center,
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welfare scam story that people seem to have forgotten is,
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That is not only the main thing Somalis are known for,
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the only thing they're known for is being pirates.
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That is maybe the thing that defines Somalis as Somalis.
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And now we all have to be shocked and clutch our pearls.
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And oh my goodness, can you believe we imported the pirate people to America
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If only we had known before we imported the nation of pirates into Minnesota.
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If only we had known, we never would have done it.
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Well, we could have known, but you're not allowed to know.
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Because the way that we would have known is through something called prejudice.
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Prejudice, which can be unjust, but it also can be a very good thing
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Because we don't have enough time and we don't have enough rational faculty
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to logically think through every single thing in the world.
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And so we're going to do it again and again and again.
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But the Somalis, I think, are the clearest example of it.
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And we're going to get rid of the ones who keep committing all these crimes.
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Probably not because of the ideological shifts that would be required.
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maybe it was never a good idea to import the pirate country in.
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Okay, speaking of strange things, that's quite strange, isn't it?
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I mean, very literally, the character who starts out as the real inciting character of the whole show.
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The guy who gets sucked into the underground, upside down, whatever.
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I started out watching it, and it was kind of interesting.
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And it made even less sense than it previously had.
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And in it, this kid, who kind of starts out the whole show, comes out as gay.
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I haven't told any of you this because I don't want you to see me differently.
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And we like that old person smell in Mike's basement.
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And we like biking to Melvalds for malted milkshakes.
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I just, I just, I, I just, I, I, I, I don't like girls.
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A Netflix show where one of the young characters is gay.
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Speaking of prejudice and things you always expect.
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So, so some have pointed out that this is very unrealistic because in the 80s, if you came out as gay, at least one of your buddies would call you a slur, right?
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I mean, they wouldn't all be immediately accepting, right?
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However, I have a totally different take, which is this, is, makes perfect sense to me.
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Not only because Netflix needs to make everything gay and Disney needs to make everything gay and all of the liberal executives need to make everything gay.
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But because homosexuality is linked to childhood trauma.
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Not in all cases, but I'm not saying every gay guy had some childhood trauma, but it is strongly linked to childhood trauma.
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And so childhood trauma can come in many awful forms.
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But certainly, I think if you're sucked into the, into hell by some tentacle monster and held a prisoner and you like frequently like vomit up ash, like demon ash and all, that would constitute a childhood trauma.
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Does that actually, that is one of the most coherent plot lines of Stranger Things.
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There are a lot of plot lines that don't make any sense at all.
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This one's from Pop Rand on how there are just too many plot holes for a decade long farewell.
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Stranger Things season five finale outrage intensifies over rushed and unresolved fates.
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It was a good first season and then it just stopped making sense.
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And there were all these unresolved plot lines.
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And it was just so, by the final episode, I wanted to throw a hammer at the TV.
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But what they really want you to know is it doesn't matter about any of the plot holes being resolved
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because Will is gay, as the actor points out in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
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One of the best queer characters we've ever had.
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This is how you defeat the big, bad, evil monster.
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The whole show is accepting what you thought was your weakness.
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Being who you are is where our power comes from.
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It's really powerful and I'm very moved and touched by that.
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You know, I really, I don't have any, any irrational animus toward anyone who's a little light in the loafers.
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But do we really, now we have to say it's a superpower, it's a positively good thing.
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When we call Netflix groomers, this is what we're accusing them of.
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Netflix, not only tolerating sexual deviancy or recognizing that there is some sexual deviancy, sometimes more, sometimes less throughout history in the world.
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But going out and saying, this is actively a good thing.
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If you want to be just like a normal person, then don't be gay.
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You say, well, no, it is obviously a deviation.
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Or if you do have kids, you have to like buy them from a baby store and commit all sorts of hideous sins by intentionally depriving kids of their natural mothers.
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But there's, you can say, look, vive la de France.
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This is a kind of a strange world and eccentricities can be tolerated.
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And it's like that, you know, yeah, isn't Cole Porter great?
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But to say it's actively good, more plot holes even than the Stranger Things finale, which, again, people, they just imbue these series with too much meaning.
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It's Stranger Things is supposed to be a fun send-up of cheesy 80s sci-fi.
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And in as much as it was that, it was pretty fun.
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And then it tried to take itself too seriously, and it lost me.
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Star Wars is just like a fun, campy, weird movie based on, you know, comic strips from the 1930s, film strips.
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But when you try to make it into something super-duper serious, it doesn't, sorry, it doesn't work.
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Anyway, though, this one, that one plot line, I think, it actually holds up.
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And speaking of homosexuality as a superpower, Zoran Mamdani is appointed a new head of the New York City Fire Department.
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Someone who's never been a fireman, but who is a lesbian.
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So I guess she has superpowers, and she can win.
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Another story I want to get to, one of the porn ladies who slept with a thousand guys in a day, Lily Phillips, not to be confused with the other one, Bonnie Blue.
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Anyway, there's two of them who slept with a thousand guys in a day.
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And one of them has apparently been baptized or re-baptized.
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Or, ah, there's, okay, there's more to this story.
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My favorite comment yesterday, is it from yesterday or is it from a week and a half ago?
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It's from Margaret Mayer 2475, who says, doesn't anyone remember Black Hawk Down?
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No one remembers Black Hawk Down, and we are letting these people in.
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Because we can't, we cannot be so prejudicial as to suggest that the pirate country might commit piracy.
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Finally, we've arrived at my favorite time of the week.
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That's another reason I couldn't miss the Friday show.
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I've got to get to the mailbag sponsored by Pure Talk at puretalk.com slash Knowles, Canada, W-L-A-S.
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I've been listening to your show pretty regularly since 2019, where I found it during my senior year at Berkeley,
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where apparently I was a classmate of Reed Choi, which I didn't know until your Yes or No episode.
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My question is on this motif you have of explaining why things we know are bad are bad, which we have forgotten why they're bad.
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And I have this gut feeling that this thing is bad.
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And I'm talking about these Mr. Beast style YouTube giveaway videos where someone will give away $10,000 or a Lexus or some inordinate amount of money or things to an unsuspecting person and go through this weird sort of perverse gratitude ritual.
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And I know it's just morally undignified in my gut, but I have trouble expressing exactly why.
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You know, I think it is true that it is false charity, but I think it's actually more than that.
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Much like I don't watch Stranger Things, I also don't watch Mr. Beast.
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I know he had that transvestite, the sidekick who like abandoned his family to go be a transvestite.
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And so that raised my eyebrow, but Mr. Beast got rid of him.
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He's going to give away a zillion dollars to whoever.
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In as much as the Mr. Beast money giveaways are a game show, that's fine.
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You know, it's typical entertainment and Mr. Beast is a great entertainer.
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In as much as this is supposed to be real charity, I share your concern that it's probably lacking a little bit.
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When you give to alms, you shouldn't let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, ideally.
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You know, it's better to give anonymously in almost all cases.
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I could see some exceptions, but generally it's better to give anonymously.
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And part of the reason you do this and you don't sound a trumpet before you as you give alms is because charity is supposed to be love of the other person for that person's own sake, ultimately impelled by the love of God.
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And so if you look at the Mr. Beast stuff, he is obviously benefiting immensely.
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Not only his pride or vanity, you know, his reputation, but also he's making a ton of money on these videos.
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So it can do some good in the world, but it would cease to be charity.
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I was reaching out because my wife and I are having issues.
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And she's at the point to where she wants another dog.
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And I'm afraid that if I get a dog that she wants, that I will start resenting her and the dog.
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But if I don't get the dog, she will start to resent me.
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Can you please give me some helpful marriage advice since you always do so good?
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And I ordered your book, Reasons to Vote Democrat.
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I understand the joke, but kind of upset that I got a blank book.
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Thank you so much, Michael, for everything you do.
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You're clearly very scholarly and intellectual, not merely because you're reading my book,
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but because you're asking me the question about the dog.
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And what this means, the reason you're asking me this question is because you know that I don't really like dogs.
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And so you're saying, hey, my wife doesn't want to get a dog or wants to get a dog.
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What I, yeah, if it were me, I wouldn't get a dog.
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But the problem is if I were in your shoes, I could tell my wife, no, we're not getting,
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I want to take it out and walk it and do all this stuff.
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So I really don't get why you don't want to get another dog.
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Is it that you only grudgingly had that dog for 15 years?
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Well, that shows you the real peril of just not being clear with your spouse and not, you
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know, allowing these problems to fester with that.
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Now you've got a 15 year precedent of, well, I liked the dog.
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Now that's, or is it, you just, you're sick of walking the dog.
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I totally would get that sick of feeding the dog, sick of the, just sick of the ripping
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And okay, if that's the case, what you might do is, is speak to your wife, like you would
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speak to your child and say like, well, we can get the dog, but you have to walk the
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Do we have time to get, can we get to at least one more?
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Michael, you said in the past that you would tell European leaders to turn to Christianity
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in the wake of the immigration crisis that they're having in Europe.
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But you look at these religious leaders in America and they are putting out that wonderful
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little video that the Catholic bishops decided to put out, or you're looking at this news
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report of all these religious leaders coming together to condemn Trump in the wake of his
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comments about Somali community in Minneapolis, you know, with these Jewish, Muslim and Christianity,
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Christian leaders coming together to condemn Trump.
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It seems that Christian leaders and religious leaders are some of the worst liberals of all
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I don't see how you can tell these European leaders to turn to them for solutions.
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And this is in part because of a narrative constructed by the left.
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To say I want our government to recognize true religion and its traditional religion, namely
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Christianity, is not to say I want a theocracy.
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The left thinks that if the government in any way acknowledges Christmas, which is a federal
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It's what some people advocated for in the Middle Ages, but many people did not.
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Hierocrats, you know, the religious hierarchy of clerics running the government.
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But, you know, in the Middle Ages, at the height of Christendom, you would have the Holy
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It's not that one of them was Christian and the other wasn't.
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They were both Christian, and they were fighting over how best to apply Christianity to the
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In some cases, they were fighting over literal territories.
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So I'm not suggesting that we need to turn our governments over to religious clerics.
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What I'm saying is we just have to acknowledge that whoever is running our government, the
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civilization must be animated by Christianity, anima, spirit, soul, or it will be animated
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by some foreign thing, and it will become a totally different thing.
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Part of the reason I say if you want our civilization to survive, it has to be Christian is what's the
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Secular liberalism, atheist materialism, those things haven't worked.
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They've led to our civilization literally dying, like we don't have babies anymore.
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Islam, that will make us into a different civilization.
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So it has to be Christianity in order for it to be our civilization, or we'll die out, or we'll
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You have to check out for two months free on all annual plans.
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Oh, if this is an illusion, an echo of a voice that has died, and soon that echo will cease.
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They say he was a king in Dovid, the son of a princess of lost Atlantis.
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They say the future and the past are known to him, that the fire and the wind tell him their secrets, that the magic of the hillfolk and druids come forth at his easy command.
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They say he slew hundreds, hundreds, do you hear, that the world burned and trembled at his wrath?
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The Merlin died long before you and I were born.
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Merlin Emrys has returned to the land of the living.
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Fortigan is gone, Rome is gone, the Saxon is here.
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The Saxon Hengist has assembled the greatest war host ever seen in the Island of the Mighty, and before the summer is through, he means to take the throne.
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And he will have it, if we are too busy squabbling amongst ourselves to take up arms against him, here is your hope, a king will arise to hold all Britain in his hand, a high king, who will be the wonder of the world.
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There'll be no peace in these lands till we are all dust.
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Men of the Island of the Mighty, you stand together, you stand as Britons, you stand as one.
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These brothers are our only hope to stand against it.
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They say Merlin slew seventy men with his own hands.