Ep. 1891 - The Real Reason Trump Plans to Conquer Greenland
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Trump meets with the Danish Prime Minister over his plans to annex Greenland. Meanwhile, the chaos and scandals in Minnesota go from bad to worse as illegal immigrants and their supporters attack federal agents, and a federal agent accidentally shoots one of them in the leg.
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President Trump met yesterday with the Danish prime minister at the White House over Trump's
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plans to annex Greenland. Meanwhile, the chaos and scandals in Minnesota go from bad to worse
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as illegal aliens and their supporters attack federal agents, federal agents shooting one of
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them in the leg. We'll get into all the specifics. But I think I've finally figured out President
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Trump's obsession with acquiring Greenland. Everyone thinks it's about national security
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or Arctic shipping lanes or minerals and deterring China and Russia. But it occurred to me yesterday,
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this morning, actually, the biggest flashpoint of domestic conflict right now is occurring. Why?
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Because foreign criminals invaded and conquered our quasi-Arctic state, formerly populated by
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amiable Scandinavians. So once we get the big island to the Northeast, we can either round up
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all the immigrants and send them there, or we can just rename Greenland, New Minnesota,
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start over again, and we're back to where we were 20 years ago, making America great again.
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Before we get to new Minnesota, it's amazing. New Minnesota is going to be great because we're
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going to say, look, we messed up. We used to have nice Scandinavians in Minnesota and then the
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Scandinavians stopped being nice and then they invited in a ton of Somalis and now everything's
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terrible. And so what we're going to do is we're just, we're going to say, you know what, whatever,
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it's over. Cut our losses. The Somalis and the Venezuelans and the black bloc terrorists can have,
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the Antifa. They can have Minnesota, but we're just going to start over. We got new Scandinavians
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and we're going to keep them nice. They got to stay nice there. And I think they will. I think
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we'll be very nice to them. But before we get to new Minnesota, I want to talk about old Minnesota
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where things are getting from going from bad to worse. Rioters now are breaking into federal vehicles
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and stealing weapons. Do we have the video? This is care of Nick Sorter.
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So here you see the libs have been trying to tell us that, you know, it's just nice,
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caring, suburban moms who are trying to stop the terrible ice. This isn't suburban moms.
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These are masked up black bloc agents, you know, wearing Antifa style masks, in some cases face
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tattooed gangsters. One of the face tattooed looks like Hispanic gangsters actually stole a rifle out
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of a federal vehicle that he broke into. This is, it was always dangerous when people were downplaying
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the risks. Now it's real dangerous. And so what the feds have to do here is make an example and
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there's no alternative. This is in fact what the liberals did after January 6th. The difference
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on January 6th, of course, is that these were not armed anarchists who really hurt anyone seriously.
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The only person who was killed in political violence on January 6th, of course, was a Trump
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supporter who was killed by a trigger happy cop. But what happened? What did the feds do? They went in
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for months. I spoke to US marshals after January 6th. Months and months later, they were still tracking
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down every single sweet little granny who showed up to take a selfie. So we can get these people,
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the federal government can do it. I trust that the Trump administration is doing that now.
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So in many ways, I'm not even trying to convince the Trump administration. I think the White House
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gets it. I think the people who are in charge of the deportations and law enforcement get it.
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But Republicans need to get this generally. Conservatives need to get this generally.
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We were talking, especially after Charlie Kirk was murdered, we were talking about organized
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left-wing terror, Antifa, Black Bloc, the kinds of people who set off an explosive when I was
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speaking at the University of Pittsburgh, the kind of people who have been leading a lot of the anarchy,
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not just in recent years, but frankly, going all the way back to the 1920s in the United States.
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And they're now challenging the administration. They're challenging the regime in many ways.
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Are you guys serious or do we control these streets now?
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And so if there were any question, the federal government can round these people up.
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We saw it on January 6th, and they need to. Not even just as a matter of justice,
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but as a matter of political legitimacy. If you don't round these people up like the animals they
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are and make examples of them Bukele style, then you're only going to get more violence.
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You're only going to get more political challenges. You're only going to get more bad optics.
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The only way out right now is through. Meanwhile, I guess as evidence of that read
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of things, an ICE agent was ambushed again. And so an ICE agent, Homeland Security put this out
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just yesterday. Yesterday evening, 6.50 p.m. Central Time, the federal law enforcement officers
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were conducting a traffic stop to round up the illegal aliens. And there's an illegal alien from
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Venezuela who tried to evade arrest. He fled the scene. He's driving his car erratically.
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Where have we heard this before? Crashed into a parked vehicle. Where have we heard this before?
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He then gets out of the car, flees on foot. So these poor ICE agents are going. They have a
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thankless job. They go, very important job, necessary job, but thankless. They go on foot,
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try to get this guy. And then the Venezuelan illegal starts attacking the officer.
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So they're trying to get this guy down on the ground. What happens?
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Two people come out of a nearby apartment, ambush ICE. Now it's unclear. Were those guys
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Venezuelans? Were they illegal aliens? Or were they just deluded lily-white Minnesotan leftists
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who decided they were going to go attack ICE one day? Kind of like the lady who was killed.
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I don't think she intended to be a domestic terrorist, but she drove her SUV into a cop.
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Things can spin out of control quickly. In any case, the poor ICE agents
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now getting ambushed. They take out shovels. They start beating this guy with a shovel.
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And so luckily, happily, the ICE agent was able to get his gun out and shoot the Venezuelan.
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And the part that might even make the liberals acquiesce to this is he shot him in the leg.
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This is a massive struggle. This guy's getting ambushed, getting hit with shovels,
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and he shoots the guy, but he doesn't shoot to stop, which is what law enforcement is trained to
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do. In the melee, in the struggle, he shoots him and he shoots him in the leg. This is always what
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the left says. Why did you have to shoot to kill the suspect? Why not just shoot him in the leg?
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What, you know, these people who have no idea how firearms work, have no idea how law enforcement
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works. They say, why did you have to shoot him? Why didn't you just shoot the gun out of his hand?
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But actually, in this case, they did shoot him in the leg. Lucky for the Venezuelan,
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he deserved much worse. But luckily, he stopped him. It seems that the suspects are in custody now.
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You're going to get more of this. There are two options right now. The two options are bring down
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an iron fist from the federal government. The full force of the law, round these people up,
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Bukele style, as I previously mentioned, or allow them to keep obstructing justice,
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stopping law enforcement, stopping traffic, ambushing cops, in some cases fleeing. And then
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the cops are going to have to start shooting just to defend their own lives. And then you're going to
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let it spin more and more out of control. And sooner than many people think, you're going to have
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an anarchic situation. Those are the only two options. And I think most reasonable people,
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if you think about it for more than two seconds, realize the best thing you can do,
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certainly for the protection of law and order, certainly for the enforcement of the laws,
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but also for the illegals, also even for the good of the anarchists.
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You need to bring down an iron fist on these people. Meanwhile, very subversive politicians,
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notably Tim Walls, who is almost certainly a criminal. He's under investigation now
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relating to the Somali fraud scandal, but who is one of the very worst, just most disgusting
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politicians in the country. He comes out and he just tries to fan the flames.
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Federal government is raining down upon our communities. Two to three thousand armed agents
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of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota. Armed, masked, under-trained ICE agents
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are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live.
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Wow. Wow. I would never accuse Tim Walls of intelligence. Most people would not.
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But this isn't him just being a knucklehead. He says that ICE agents are deployed to go hunt down
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neighbors of color. This is an overt effort to create a race war from Tim, from old nice, happy
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Tim Walls. That's not what ICE does. ICE goes and arrests illegal aliens who shouldn't be in this
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country, who even 20 years ago, both parties uniformly agreed need to be deported.
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Now he's saying, no, no, no, it's, it's because these, he's implying it's white supremacist cops
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going to round up neighbors of color. Hey, if you're a black guy whose family's been American
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for a long time, ICE ain't coming for you. If you're a Hispanic who speaks English well, who
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doesn't live in these sorts of enclaves with illegal aliens, who, ICE ain't coming for you.
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This is really bad. Tim Walls was presented to the nation in this role that he was cast for,
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which was to, to be the running mate to this woman of color running for president. And so his role
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was to be the dopey white guy, the dope, I'm the dopey white guy who doesn't, I don't season my
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chicken. And then, you know, Kamala Harris says, where'd the flavor come from? It was an actual
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exchange between Kamala Harris and Tim Walls. How do you, where's the, where do you get the flavor?
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Oh, I actually don't like any flavor at all. I only eat tuna sandwiches every, for every single meal.
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And that was his role, was to just be this big dopey white idiot, you know, to play Homer Simpson
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on the national stage. But he's much worse than that. That was actually deceitful.
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I'm not, I'm not saying the guy's a Rhodes Scholar. He certainly is not.
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But he knows what he's doing here. This is very subversive stuff.
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This after Tim Walls called for an insurrection, this after Tim Walls gave a press conference
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in which he said that he was bringing up the Minnesota National Guard to oppose federal
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troops, which is literally insurrection. Ironic after the Democrats mouthed off about the January
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6th, you know, supposed insurrection for years. In any case, I think the federal government needs
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to bring the hammer down on this guy too. You know, it's not just the Antifa people stealing
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the rifles and it's not just the women in their SUVs trying to run over law enforcement. It's not
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even just the illegal aliens. They got to bring the hammer down on this guy too.
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We need to restore order. I said it after the leftists celebrated the assassination of Charlie.
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I said it after the survey showed that the left increasingly supported political violence.
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A lot of people said, we just need to restore the free marketplace of ideas and double down. I said,
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no, no, before you can have that, you need to restore order. Marketplaces require order.
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Flourishing cities like Minneapolis once was, or Minnesota states, or polities, nations need order.
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You're not going to get order with Tim Walz walking around. You need that guy. If he's going to be
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walking around, he needs to be walking around in an orange jumpsuit is what he needs. He should not
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be walking around the governor's mansion. Now, there's actually been an injection of reason and
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common sense in all of this. And then we can get, we'll move on to Capitol Hill and maybe even to
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New Minnesota over in Greenland, which you might acquire soon. But the most reasonable voice to
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come out of Minnesota recently is actually the father-in-law of the woman who was killed by the
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Okay. Renee Good. She's the woman who was killed by the ICE officer as she plowed her car into him.
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CNN calls this guy. It's a little confusing because Renee Good is now sort of infamously
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a lesbian because it was her lesbian partner who said, drive, baby, drive, drive, before she drove
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into the agent. It was her lesbian partner who said, this is my fault. Why do the guns have bullets?
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This is my fault. I told her to come down here. So she's perceived as a lesbian, but she has a kid
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and she has a kid because she previously had a husband and the husband died. And so this is her
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father-in-law, the father of Renee Good's late husband. Here's what he had to say on CNN.
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Nothing about charges or anything like that, just an investigation into what happened
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in terms of the ICE agents' actions. But they were, according to the prosecutors resigning today,
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pressuring them to investigate Renee's actions and Becca, her wife's actions. How do you feel
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about all that? Well, you know, I'm not blaming anybody. I mean, it's a hard situation all the way
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around. It's hard for the, you know, for everybody involved. I mean, the ICE agent, you know, at first,
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I didn't see the footage where, you know, he was actually, you know, he was actually being ran. I mean,
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I seen the bump of the car hitting, you know, hitting his legs. And so in a, you know, in a flash
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like that, it's, it's hard to say how you would react. From my understanding that he had been
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through that before, maybe dragged or something. And so, you know, like I said, it's just, it's just
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a hard situation for everybody. You know, Becca, you know, it's, it's, she's a great person as well.
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I mean, you know, I don't have any many enemies. I love everybody. And, and that's what the Bible
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tells us, love our neighbors as we love ourselves. But, you know, uh, I think there's some bad choices
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and the word says for the wrath of God will come up on the children of disobedience. And, you know,
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it's, it's, uh, I don't blame us. I don't blame Rebecca. I don't blame Renee. I just, you know,
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I just wish that, you know, if, if we're walking in the spirit of God, I don't think she would have
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been there. Unbelievably, beautifully put. So gracious, so charitable and spot on. He says,
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look, I don't, I don't blame Rebecca. Rebecca, who's the lesbian partner who blames herself.
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It's my fault. It's my fault. I, I told her to come down here. Drive, baby, drive, drive. He says,
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I don't blame Rebecca. I don't blame Renee. I don't blame law enforcement. He says, I, I,
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just think that there were some bad choices. And if they had been following the spirit of God,
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she wouldn't have been down there. There you have it. There you have it. She wouldn't have been down
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there. That's the problem. You don't have a right to block traffic. You certainly don't have a right
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to obstruct law enforcement. You definitely shouldn't, uh, defy orders from law enforcement
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when you yourself are breaking the law and you definitely shouldn't drive your SUV into a cop.
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She would be alive if not for that. That is a, a beautifully way to put, beautiful way to put it.
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And it really clarifies everything. You have the left-wing narrative, which is completely insane.
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You have the, the left-wing narrative is she was doing nothing wrong. She had every right to either,
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you know, she didn't hit the cop or she had every right to hit the cop or she wasn't really,
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you know, just the cops are the Nazis and the Venezuelan criminals and the Somali criminals
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are, I don't know, innocent little doves. So the left-wing narrative is totally crazy.
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The right-wing narrative is sometimes overstated. The right-wing narrative, generally the right-wing
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narrative is right, which is that she broke the law. She nearly killed a cop and he shot her in the
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face because he rightly perceived an imminent threat to his life. But sometimes it's overstated if we were to
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say she's a terrorist or something. I don't think she was a terrorist. She might've kind of
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functioned as a terrorist, but I don't think she was intentionally a terrorist.
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That can be overstated. He gives the Christian view.
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Yeah. We, this is a pity. This is real sad. And, you know, people made bad choices and they
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were sometimes led into those bad choices by smaller bad choices. And, but if we were following,
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if we're all being honest, if we're all being honest, if you were following the spirit of God,
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you wouldn't have been there. You wouldn't have been there. So, so true. Okay. Now,
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speaking of ignoring the spirit of God, we turn to Capitol Hill, the libs. I mentioned this yesterday.
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I said over at the Supreme Court, I said, if the libs just can't let the trans topic go away,
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they can't, they got clobbered on it last November. They've been clobbered on it for years. The right,
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including us in particular, have been hammering them on it. We totally won on the issue.
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And the libs just can't let it go. So they're bringing this case to the Supreme Court to defend
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boys and girls sports. And, and now there was this hearing on Capitol Hill
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over the, the abortion drug. This is amid the Supreme Court hearing the transgender case and
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Josh Hawley, one, one of the best ever to do it. Josh Hawley grilling one of these witnesses,
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Dr. Verma on the question that has dominated our politics for the past five years.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, since you bring it up, why don't we just start there? Dr. Verma,
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I wasn't sure I understood your answer to Senator Moody a moment ago. Do you think that men can get
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pregnant? I hesitated there because I wasn't sure where the conversation was going or what the goal
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was. I mean, I do take care of patients with different identities. I take care of many women.
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I take care of people with different identities. Put a pause. So this, can men get pregnant? This is
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a version of what is a woman? This is a version of define a woman. This is a version of can men
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become women? This is, this question, this should be a layup. This should be a layup for the left right
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now. They just, they should just say, get away from, no, men cannot become pregnant.
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Just say that. And they could even try to weasel their way out of it and say, well,
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it's actually trans women who get pregnant or trans men or what this or that, but they could
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just try to weasel their way out because they, this issue is the biggest loser that they have had
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in my lifetime. Maybe it's a bigger loser even than flood the country with foreign criminals.
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This is the biggest loser they've had in my lifetime. Any reasonable liberal operative,
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any lib on Capitol Hill testifying or in this would just would get out of it,
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So that's where I paused. I think, um, yeah, I wasn't sure where you were going with that.
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Well, the, the goal is, is the truth. So can men get pregnant?
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Again, the reason I paused there is I, I'm not really sure what the goal of the question.
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The goal is just to establish a biological reality. You just said a moment ago that
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science and evidence should control, not politics. So let's just test that proposition.
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I take care of people with many identities, but, um,
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I take care of many women that can get pregnant. I do take care of people that don't identify as women.
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Let me just, let me just remind you of you testified to a moment ago.
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Science and evidence should control, not politics.
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So should, can men get pregnant? You're a doctor, I think.
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I totally agree. Science and evidence should guide medicine.
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Do science and evidence tell us that men can get pregnant? Biological men. Can they get pregnant?
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I also think yes, no questions like this are a political tool.
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No, yes, no questions are about the truth, doctor. Let's not make a mockery of this proceeding.
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Oh, it's so beautiful. It's beautiful in a number of ways. One,
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Hawley is just so good at this. He's so good. Oh, let me, you know, he's got the serious face on,
00:23:31.820
and then he asks just a crystal clear question that he knows is going to grind his opponent into the
00:23:36.160
ground. He's so good at it, but it's, it's a layup too. This is a layup. We've all done,
00:23:42.040
we've all done some version of this for years. I said five years. It's actually been longer than
00:23:46.060
five years. It's been at least six or seven years. And the libs haven't learned anything.
00:23:54.660
They can't, they can't give it up. You know why they can't give it up? Because even though they
00:24:01.060
know that the trans issue is just absolute political poison for them, it is the inescapable
00:24:07.200
conclusion of their whole political project. Sometimes we're a little too modest about,
00:24:14.080
about what we think of transgenderism. Sometimes we're a little too modest and we say, well,
00:24:20.060
this is just the natural outgrowth of gay marriage or the natural outgrowth of gay rights or the
00:24:24.660
natural natural outgrowth of feminism, all of which say that men and women are basically the same.
00:24:30.780
But the reason that Republicans keep hammering, conservatives keep hammering this and the
00:24:36.540
left can't give it up, goes deeper. It's not just because it's a weird issue and, you know,
00:24:40.780
kind of titillating as a cultural matter. It's because it goes down to the whole liberal project
00:24:46.260
of maximizing individual autonomy. That's the whole liberal project going back to classical liberalism,
00:24:54.520
going back centuries. The, the seed of liberalism says, I am primarily an individual and I will have
00:25:03.440
control over everything. I will control everything, my own destiny. I will control my own polity,
00:25:11.280
my traditions. I will control religion. I will control morality. I will control everything.
00:25:16.880
I will control, I will have so much control that I will liberate myself from my very body.
00:25:23.540
That's the culmination of it. It took centuries to get here. First, we had to liberate ourselves
00:25:30.000
from the king. Then we had to liberate ourselves from the church. Then we had to liberate ourselves
00:25:34.580
from our families, liberalization of divorce laws. Then we had to liberate ourselves from
00:25:40.180
the facts of history. We have massive, massive revision to history. Then we had to liberate
00:25:45.540
ourselves from our country. You see this collapse of patriotism. Then we had to liberate ourselves
00:25:50.720
from the traditional moral order. You see that especially in the sex stuff. And now we have to
00:25:56.520
liberate ourselves from our own bodies. You have, you have to do it. Liberalism isn't complete until
00:26:03.540
you do that. And it's interesting. It wouldn't be an episode without mentioning St. Thomas Aquinas.
00:26:08.660
Thomas Aquinas points out that the heresy particular to transgenderism, namely that the body has nothing
00:26:16.780
to do with what we really are, that the body is even bad. And that, which is, which is intrinsic to
00:26:21.960
transgenderism, the idea that I'm born a man, but I'm really a woman. And so the maleness of my body
00:26:28.120
is actually evil, that matter is evil. This is an ancient heresy. It goes back to the beginning.
00:26:34.400
It goes under the name of docetism or Gnosticism, Albigensianism. There are lots of versions of this
00:26:43.100
kind of heresy. Curious that St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the most intelligent people to ever live,
00:26:47.780
says that these kinds of heresies are the very worst of all the heresies because the central fact
00:26:55.320
of Christianity, the turning point of history is the incarnation. It's that the word became flesh
00:27:03.920
and dwelt among us. And so it's no surprise that liberalism, which is in many ways an inversion or
00:27:09.400
perversion of Christianity, would take as its apotheosis the very worst heresy. Liberalism,
00:27:17.440
which is in many ways just a kind of collection of heresies. The culmination of liberalism is
00:27:21.100
actually the very worst heresy. Okay. Now that hearing on Capitol Hill, speaking of the flesh,
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preborn.com slash Knowles. Speaking of body issues, Oprah Winfrey, in a transgender outfit herself,
00:28:51.940
wearing a suit and tie, at least a jacket and a tie, goes on The View to explain a new discovery she's
00:28:58.460
made about her own body. Oprah, for those who are young in the audience, you might not remember this,
00:29:02.520
Oprah used to be fat. And then she'd be fat, then she'd be skinny, then she'd be fat again.
00:29:06.640
She had big body problems. And she says that now, in her later years, she's come to discover
00:29:14.460
the real cause of her fatness. It is not that she became fat because she ate too much.
00:29:22.600
No, no, no. She ate too much because even when she was skinny, she was fat.
00:29:30.380
All these years, I thought I was overeating. I was standing there with all the food noise,
00:29:35.580
what I ate, what I should eat, how many calories was that? How long is it going to take? I thought
00:29:39.380
that that was because of me and my fault. Now I understand that if you carry the obesity gene,
00:29:46.520
if that is what you have, that is what makes you overeat. You don't overeat and become obese.
00:29:53.580
Obesity causes you to overeat. Obesity causes you to have all of that food noise. And what the GLP-1s
00:30:01.160
have done for me, and I know a number of other people, is to quiet that noise.
00:30:07.460
Food noise. What is food? One of the great tasks of living in the modern world is to just try to
00:30:15.020
translate this new jargon into common sense terms that we've all known forever. Food noise. What
00:30:21.160
is food noise? Do you know what it is? It's appetite. It's food. Gosh, my food noise is really up right
00:30:30.420
now, honey. When are the steaks done? So she says that she has an appetite because she has
00:30:40.100
obesity. She has genetic obesity or something like that. I looked this up. I was curious. I said,
00:30:46.080
maybe she's right. I looked up. I said, who are the fattest people on earth? When you just close
00:30:49.880
your eyes, you think of the fattest people as a people, not individuals, but people. It's Polynesians,
00:30:55.540
right? It's like you picture the big fat Samoan or like Israel Kamahuka Wakawele. I'm mispronouncing
00:31:00.340
that a little bit. You know, the ukulele player. These are famously giant people. And I said,
00:31:05.260
are they just genetically fat? I looked into it and they do have certain genetic features
00:31:10.300
that store fat more efficiently or burn energy in a more efficient way. And so they do have a
00:31:18.600
predisposition to obesity. But even they, the fattest peoples on earth cannot blame genetics for
00:31:27.220
the majority of their fatness. Genetics plays a minor role. You know why they're fat? Because they
00:31:32.560
eat a lot. That's what it is. And because people have appetites and your appetite can grow sometimes
00:31:38.160
when you habituate yourself to eating a lot. That's called a gluttony. Or your appetite can be
00:31:45.360
held in check. When you cultivate the virtue of keeping it in check, that's called temperance.
00:31:50.840
And we can try to, we can make up new euphemisms like food noise and obesity actually makes you fat
00:31:57.940
and this and that. But it's not going to change the fact. What Oprah's doing here is trying to
00:32:02.180
defend taking these new drugs, the Ozempic and the related drugs. Oh, look, I just had a young man
00:32:07.600
come on the show, Clavicular, and talk about why he takes these kinds of drugs. And they have really
00:32:12.420
negative effects. And I think they're all symptoms of body dysmorphia at best or of just trying to
00:32:20.740
cheat and take shortcuts and perpetuate vice at worst. But if you're going to do it, which I don't
00:32:28.600
recommend, then at least be honest about why you're doing it. Because Oprah doesn't want to control her
00:32:34.440
appetites. So you have to externalize everything. It's never about me. It's never about my own
00:32:42.300
habits. It's never about something that I can do. It's always external. And it's a kind of an irony
00:32:49.020
because this goes hand in hand with liberalism as well. On the one hand, we want to take, we want to
00:32:55.060
assume more and more control for ourselves so much so that we can control when we give birth. We can
00:33:01.500
control when we die. We can control what sex we are. We can control these characteristics, you know,
00:33:08.020
even that we're born with. We can control all of that. On the one hand, we make ourselves into gods.
00:33:13.920
But then on the other hand, we deny that we have any control over anything, including whether or not
00:33:17.260
we pick up the third cupcake. It's this amazing paradox. When it's convenient for us, we have so
00:33:23.400
much control that we are practically God. But when it's inconvenient for us, we have no control over
00:33:28.480
anything at all. We just have food noise and invisible obesity that's going to make us fat.
00:33:34.880
Oh, no. If only I could stop my hand from picking up that pork chop. It's a little incoherent. It's a
00:33:42.520
little contradictory, isn't it? Speaking of women politics, is video going viral? I just, I love it.
00:33:48.060
Some people are getting really angry about it. I'm not angry. I love it. I think it's great. It's a
00:33:52.160
harpy screeching at an ICE officer. Take it away. You just pick them up, put them in a truck?
00:34:00.220
Is that what you do? Are you proud of yourself for doing this? Are you absolutely proud?
00:34:08.160
Thank you for calling. Thank you for calling. Are you proud of this?
00:34:12.420
So it's this awful woman who's screeching at the ICE agent. And finally, this goes on for a while.
00:34:22.020
I only showed you a short bit of it. And then finally, his partner gets out of the car and says,
00:34:24.440
thank you for calling the ICE hotline. Thank you. And then they get back in the truck.
00:34:28.300
These should be campaign ads. These are really good. The libs right now think that the ICE raids
00:34:33.540
are good for them, that they're going to play these raids and it's going to help them in the
00:34:36.560
midterms. I'm not so sure, especially as the left continues to now try to run over law enforcement,
00:34:42.820
especially as you see these foreign criminals who are stealing rifles and causing riots. I don't know
00:34:46.740
that that helps them. But this in particular, I'm just going to assume that's a white lady. I don't
00:34:52.060
know. She sounds white. And if I'm right about that, this is the perfect campaign ad because no one
00:35:00.100
likes these kinds of ladies, these harpies. And specifically, fair or unfair, they don't like the
00:35:04.740
white harpies. Do you know why? The right doesn't like them because these women hector and hectoring
00:35:11.940
is really annoying. They're just nagging, hectoring, very annoying creatures that need to improve.
00:35:21.360
They need to be educated and husbanded and improve. But as they are, they're very annoying.
00:35:28.120
But the left doesn't like them either. Because even though the left has no problem with ladies
00:35:33.420
hectoring men, they don't like white ladies. That's the one racial slur that everyone feels
00:35:38.880
that we can use is the slur Karen. Karen refers specifically to white women, white women who we
00:35:44.880
don't like. So you find this, say it's fair, say it's unfair, say it's racist, say it's just,
00:35:52.820
it is what it is. Nagging, hectoring white harpies are probably the least sympathetic figure
00:36:01.200
in the country. And they're the star of the Minnesota riots. It's not the Venezuelans,
00:36:09.120
it's not the Somalis, it's not even ICE. It's this type of woman. It's not going to work. That's
00:36:14.280
why this incident with Renee Good, that's why the left tried to make this into George Floyd 2.0.
00:36:21.200
There are riots and some unrest in Minneapolis, but it's not really happening. You're not really
00:36:26.560
seeing those nationwide riots, but that's why. So the Libs want to give us more of these videos.
00:36:32.020
Great. Run them as campaign ads on network TV and social media, which is where most people are
00:36:37.040
watching anyway. I don't think that helps the Dems in November. Okay. Speaking of unpleasant white
00:36:43.100
women, actually the same group, we turn back to New York where Sia Weaver, the tenant director for
00:36:48.400
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My favorite comment yesterday from Noah U6200, who says, is the Civil Rights Act becoming based?
00:37:31.380
Yes, it is. It is. This is my point. The Trump administration comes out and says, hey,
00:37:36.560
we have the Civil Rights Act on the books. If you have been fired on the basis of your race,
00:37:40.780
if you've been discriminated against on the basis of your race, please file a complaint.
00:37:44.780
Now, we've heard that for decades, but it was always, if you're black and you didn't get a job
00:37:51.820
and you think it's because you're black, or even if you don't think it's because you're black,
00:37:54.540
but you can pretend you think it's because you're black and maybe you get the job,
00:37:57.800
file a complaint. Or if you're Hispanic, or if you're this, that. But don't do it if you're a
00:38:02.940
white person. And because the Civil Rights Act is supposed to end unjust racial discrimination,
00:38:07.620
but what it really does is just discriminate against white people and to some degree Asian
00:38:11.880
people. And so the Trump administration called the bluff and said, we'll use it the way it says
00:38:17.020
it's supposed to be used, not the way it's practically used. That's what we got to do.
00:38:21.220
That's the thesis. We need, we live in a political order. And so rather than just whine about pie in the
00:38:26.980
sky, we're going to repeal the Civil Rights Act. That's not going to happen.
00:38:30.400
Just use it in a just way. Use it as it perhaps is supposed to be used. We're not going to get rid
00:38:35.780
of the administrative state. We've been building the administrative state since the early days of
00:38:39.120
the 20th century. It went into effect under Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s. We're not
00:38:43.880
getting rid of it. So let's just use it to our advantage. Let's wield, that's what we got to do.
00:38:49.900
You got to engage in political reality. Okay, back to those unpleasant women. Here's
00:38:53.960
Sia Weaver describing the big problem for rent justice.
00:38:59.800
I think that United States public policy has done a really, really, really good job of pitting
00:39:05.300
cash for homeowners and working class homeowners and middle class homeowners against renters.
00:39:10.960
And we need to figure out how to navigate that as organizers. It's really, it's really quite
00:39:16.160
difficult, right? Because like, yes, Blackstone is a bigger and worse target than like,
00:39:21.780
you know, Mrs. Smith, who owns 15 buildings, but Mrs. Smith, who owns 15 buildings still like,
00:39:29.200
kind of sucks and has a lot more stability than renters. And there's more of them than there
00:39:35.860
are of the Blackstones. And so it's just like this challenging dynamic that white middle class
00:39:42.620
homeowners are a huge problem for a rent of justice movement.
00:39:46.860
Print it, print it, put it on TV. Love this. Love her. Put her on the payroll. I don't care.
00:39:55.180
The Michael Knowles show payroll, the Daily Wire payroll, payroll, the Republican Party payroll. I
00:39:59.620
love her. I love her. If she didn't exist, we'd have to invent her ourselves. She's straight out of
00:40:06.040
central casting. White middle class homeowners are the problem. I want that to be the Democrats slogan
00:40:13.880
for the midterms. White middle class homeowners are the problem. And I want it to come from her,
00:40:21.840
a hectoring, unsympathetic white woman. Because again, I like white women. I don't use the slur,
00:40:31.000
Karen. I find that unfair. I think white women are great some of the time. Maybe not that one,
00:40:36.840
but that's just a cultural fact. That's the least sympathetic group. She proves it because she says,
00:40:45.840
you know, and these landlords, these people who own apartments, they're awful. I mean,
00:40:52.280
Mrs. Smith, she sucks. Notice she says Mrs. Smith. That's a white name. She doesn't say Mrs. Laquisha.
00:40:58.220
She doesn't say Mrs. Gonzalez. She says Mrs. Smith. It's funny because we're talking about New York now,
00:41:02.780
New York rent rentals. Well, the attorney general of New York is under a fraud investigation
00:41:10.800
because she owns an apartment building and she lied about it. She defrauded a financial institution
00:41:18.180
because she is running an apartment building like a scummy fraudster. Her name's Letitia James. She
00:41:26.060
ain't Mrs. Smith. But it doesn't matter because the villain in this narrative for the left and to
00:41:32.720
some degree the right are these white harpies. And so that's just a political reality. And if you think,
00:41:40.520
if a political party thinks that they're going to win on telling the majority of the population
00:41:44.840
that we need to take their houses away, sign me up, man. Sign me. Where do I donate to the
00:41:51.580
Sea Weaver campaign? Now, speaking of homes, President Trump, this is a story from a few
00:41:57.000
days ago, but I have to get to it. It's very important. President Trump says he's going to
00:42:03.020
ban institutional investors from buying single family homes. This is President Trump posting to
00:42:07.720
Truth Social. For a very long time, buying and owning a home was considered the pinnacle of the
00:42:12.300
American dream. It was the reward for working hard and doing the right thing. But now because of the
00:42:16.620
record high inflation caused by Joe Biden and the Democrats in Congress, that American dream is
00:42:20.120
out of reach for far too many young people, I'm immediately taking steps to ban large institutional
00:42:24.500
investors from buying more single family homes. And I will be calling on Congress to codify it.
00:42:28.780
People live in homes, not corporations. I love this. And the establishment Republicans and maybe some
00:42:35.260
of the libertarians, they're going to hate this. But I love this. This is smart populist economics.
00:42:42.060
And you're going to hear, oh, are you going to hear from the squishy side? They're going to say,
00:42:47.100
actually, this is a corporations or people. To some degree, that's true. And actually,
00:42:52.480
you know, BlackRock has every right to buy up all the single family homes. And actually,
00:42:56.440
this could be really bad for the housing market. And actually, actually, actually, actually,
00:42:59.240
actually. And we conservatives, we and our principles need to let BlackRock scoop up all
00:43:02.960
the homes. No, my friend. No. All we care about as conservatives is just stopping the government
00:43:10.560
from doing things. No, no, no. This is actually a beautiful kind of issue because it unites the more
00:43:17.880
populist types, the more, say, traditional conservatives like me with some of the most
00:43:24.460
prominent libertarians. Who was it who said that we conservatives do not merely oppose monopoly in
00:43:31.520
government, but monopoly, unaccountable power of all kinds? It was Barry Goldwater in conscience of a
00:43:39.940
conservative. That was the libertarian presidential candidate par excellence. This is the kind of
00:43:45.340
thing that can actually unite the party. It's where most conservatives are, I think. And it's a big
00:43:50.640
issue. At the height of COVID, almost 5% of homes were purchased by these large institutional investors.
00:44:00.120
If you look at certain cities, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Charlotte, and elsewhere,
00:44:04.200
15% or more of rental homes are owned by these large institutional investors.
00:44:13.660
The institutional investors are not the biggest driver of the housing costs. They're really not.
00:44:17.880
It's a smaller portion, but they drive it a little bit. You know what the bigger portion is?
00:44:22.320
Mass migration. That's what does it. Mass migration is accounted for, is accountable for
00:44:28.140
60% of rental increases around the country and 100% in New York and California. Rents went down four
00:44:35.720
months in a row after Trump began implementing the deportations. Coincidence? I think not.
00:44:42.420
Really important thing. We should applaud. This is it. This is sensitive, accountable government. I love it.
00:44:48.960
So much more. Oh, man. What are you talking about? They say I'm over time for my show today. I have so much
00:44:56.920
more to get to. I want to get to great news about the economy. I want to get to New Minnesota. I want
00:45:02.960
to get to our conquest of Greenland. Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld flying F-35s, you know, dropping freedom
00:45:09.420
seeds over Greenland. The Danish colonists will greet us as liberators. I want to get to all that.
00:45:16.740
That's my tease. We got to get to it tomorrow. Today's Theology Thursday. The rest of the show
00:45:20.280
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for two months free on all annual plans. What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
00:45:49.400
Merlin, I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
00:46:01.220
All men know of the great Taliesin. You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul.
00:46:11.880
I know what the bull god offered you. I was offered the same. And?
00:46:20.520
There is a new power at work in the world. I've seen it.
00:46:47.080
Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.
00:47:07.660
How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
00:47:15.420
So cling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.