Ep. 1892 - BREAKING： France Prepares For WAR If Trump Invades Greenland
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As tensions over Greenland ramp up between the United States and Denmark, French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will be sending French troops to the Arctic Island to participate in joint military exercises with Denmark. One day after France offered Denmark military help, Danish leaders met with the White House to discuss how and when they would hand over Greenland.
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As tensions over Greenland ramp up between the United States and Denmark, French President
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Emmanuel Macron has announced that he will be sending French troops to the Arctic Island
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to participate in joint military exercises with Denmark.
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Now, as longtime viewers of this show know, I am something of a Francophile,
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and not just when it comes to Francisco. France has magnificent art, architecture,
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literature, food. But one area where for at least a century now, France has not particularly excelled
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is military conflict. I actually keep the flag of the French army in my desk in case my nose starts
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running during the show. This is why it is absolutely fitting that one day after France
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offered Denmark military help, Danish leaders met with the White House to discuss how and when they
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would just hand over Greenland. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Leftists in Minneapolis are now harassing normal-looking white guys,
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A-R-M-R-A dot com slash K-N-O-W-L-E-S. An amazing series of events. Trump says we want Greenland.
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This goes back to the State Department policy since the 19th century. The US has wanted Greenland for
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a long time. Now it seems strategically urgent. Very, very important. And so Trump says we want
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Greenland. Denmark says you'll get it over our cold, dead Scandinavian bodies. We're keeping
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our colony. We're keeping our overseas territory of Greenland. There's no way you're gonna take it
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from us. We're gonna defend it. We have friends, Trump. We have friends, and we're gonna defend
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Greenland. And then they're waiting for their friends to come. And all they get is Emmanuel
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Macron. Stomach goes, do not worry, Denmark. Do not worry. We are here. You have the entire
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might of the French army behind you. And then Denmark says, all right, on second thought,
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Trump, what are your terms? How much are you gonna give us? It's yours. Don't worry. It's yours.
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What exactly happened here? Well, we're not quite sure. The New York Times is confused as ever.
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What did the White House and Denmark agree to on Greenland? It depends whom you ask.
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The White House and Denmark contradicted each other in public about what they had agreed to this week
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as President Trump continued to demand US ownership of Greenland. What Trump says is, look,
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we don't want it so that we can open up McDonald's there. There are no inhabitants.
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We want it because it's strategically important in the Arctic with regard to Arctic shipping lanes,
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with regard to some resources, but also just as a way to secure the Western Hemisphere as part of a
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broader retrenchment in the Western Hemisphere. Because Russia and China are aggressing on Greenland.
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They want to get a strategic foothold. We don't want that to happen. And so, sorry, Denmark,
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you're not able to protect Greenland. We have to do it. Denmark says, yes, we can protect Greenland.
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We're not, you know, I can't rely on Denmark being able to fend themselves off. You know,
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they were talking about they put an extra dog, and they were serious about this. They put an extra
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dog sled there last month. They entered a second dog sled. That's not going to do the trick.
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So we all listen to this. We all laugh. Oh, ha, ha, ha. What does it mean? What is Denmark defending
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Greenland? It means they're going to add a dog sled, right? But then something tuned me in. He said,
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I'm serious. And sometimes when he says he's serious, he's joking. And when he says he's serious,
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it just doubles the joke. But I googled this one. It turns out he's right. The Danish defense
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of Greenland is based in no small part on dog sled teams with, you know, apparently very well
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trained troops. And look, it's the Arctic. So I guess dog sled, look, people have been using dog
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sleds around the Arctic for a long time, but that's it. The serious S-I-R-I-U-S and very,
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very serious S-E-R-I-O-U-S dog sled team is the Danish idea of defending Greenland. Trump is being
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serious about it when he says, guys, we can't rely on the dog sleds. Okay, we are the United
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States. The way that this is being spun up by Europe, which doesn't want to lose Greenland,
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and spun up by the enemies of the administration and the left broadly is that, you know, this is a
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violation of NATO. Denmark is a NATO ally and Trump is threatening to take their territory. First,
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he's trying to buy their territory. He's working a deal out here. But second, this is a violation of
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NATO. What do you think NATO is? What do you think NATO is? NATO is the American empire.
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NATO sprung up after the Second World War for one reason, because of the Cold War.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization sprung up as the American empire in opposition to the Warsaw
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Pact, which was the Soviet empire. That's NATO's meaning comes from the Cold War. The Cold War has
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been over for over 30 years. So what is NATO now? NATO is just the military holdover part of the
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American empire. So we like our NATO allies. We defend them. We are their military. You're welcome.
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But let's not pretend this is something other than it is. This is an outgrowth of the American
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empire. And I could even understand the criticism if the United States was saying, you know what,
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Denmark, we're going to invade your country. We're going to take your stuff. We're going to bring over
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your beautiful Danish Scandinavian ladies. We want them. This is going to be like, you know,
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the Romans with the Sabine women. We're just going to plunder your resources. That's not what's going on
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in Denmark. If Denmark were seriously able to secure Greenland against major powers, not minor little
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powers like Denmark, which, you know, hasn't been all that strong since Hamlet died. If they could
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really secure Greenland and the Western hemisphere against Russia and China, that would be one thing,
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but they can't. So we're saying, hey, we don't want it. No offense, but you guys have dog sleds.
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We have the only military on earth that can seriously project force anywhere. So we're
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good job. Thanks. Hey, no hard feelings, but we're going to kind of take over now. Cool. Cool. Okay,
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cool. Now, as a matter of American policy, as I said, we've wanted this for like 150 years and we've
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viewed it as strategically important for 150 years. If we acquire Greenland in a real way,
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it's like, you know, snow Puerto Rico or something that would expand the size of the United States by
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22%. This would be a major expansion. This would be similar to the acquisition of Alaska,
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similar to the growth of American territories after the Spanish American war, but bigger really. I mean,
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it's a 22% expansion. It's quite a legacy for Trump. And some people are accusing Trump. They're
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saying Trump just wants to be a really important guy. He just wants to go down in the history books.
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He just, yeah, that's, I'm sure he does want that. But why does he want that? He wants that because
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he wants to make America great again. He wants America to be stronger. And this is another one of
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these instances that could confound this, I think, false dichotomy between the isolationists and the
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neocons or whatever, where Trump is going to say, no, no, we're not going to engage in ideological
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abstract wars overseas to make Afghanistan a democracy or something. But also we're not just
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going to retreat and surrender and get weak and small. You know what? We're going to grow. We're
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going to expand. When was the last time we expanded the territory of the United States?
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That would be big. And it would be a signal to people that America is on the move again. We're
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strong again. We're growing. Not in like crazy, abstract, ideological, liberal, bushy kind of ways,
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but in hardcore, like, hey, Russia, China, get out. We're going to, don't test us. You think we're
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an empire on the decline. You want to test that theory? Okay. Now at home, it seems like we're on the
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decline because we have domestic chaos. One of the strange facts about the Trump administration,
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the second Trump administration is it's proving that it's easier to depose foreign dictators than
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it is to depose domestic insurrectionists like Tim Walz in Minnesota or Jacob Fry, the mayor of
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Minneapolis. It's actually easier to make huge moves overseas because there all that is required,
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at least in the short term as presidential authority. Whereas at home, the rot runs very
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deep and it's much harder to make sweeping change. So now, because of this anarchy that has been allowed
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to and encouraged to fester by the left, you have, you have libs walking around Minneapolis,
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stopping random, nice, like white dads and demanding that they prove that they're not ice.
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Like I said, I don't have to do this. I'm happy to do this. That's all. We just got to stop this.
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So he's got a lot of camera equipment. I think we can say this isn't ice.
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Yeah, I'm not. I tried to tell the first lady that nobody believes me. That's all I can do is tell you.
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I already, listen, first of all, I don't, I'm not doing that, but I'm kind. I'm, you know,
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I respect what you are doing. Yeah. No, no, no. I really appreciate what you guys are doing.
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I just don't understand my job. I don't know how to do this. Man, this is pathetic.
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Were you here yesterday? Yeah. Yes, he was here yesterday. I can testify that. I didn't recognize
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when he took him out. No, I appreciate what I'm saying. Oh, my goodness. I'm not here to help you.
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No, I hate the fact that you're in a vehicle like this. I get it. But with all due respect,
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everybody, I can't help you. This is so pathetic. Well, you can. He's going to rent something else.
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I mean, if you're part of the media, that's not how it works.
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This is, this is that scene from Breaking Bad. This is Walter trying to, trying to negotiate with
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the drug dealers who are about to kill his brother-in-law. This is, he thinks he can
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reason with them. Brother-in-law says, what are you talking about? They made up their mind 10 minutes
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ago. This, I had two TV scenes came to mind, actually. I was thinking of that scene from Breaking
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Bad after watching this, this viral clip out of Minnesota. And then I thought of the scene from
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Always Sunny in Philadelphia where Frank says, he goes, yeah, they started coming up to me and I
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didn't know what they wanted. So I started blasting. I just started, and which I certainly don't
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encourage, but two, two different approaches to this situation. This guy thinks that these people
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are being reasonable. These, this band of leftists, he's saying, and they're not, they're not,
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you know, black-masked Antifa terrorists. They just look like dopey, annoying, what's the word I'm
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looking for? The word escapes me. Just awful kind of white 20-somethings. They walk up insolent.
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That's the word I'm looking for. They're insolent white 20-somethings. Walk up and say,
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prove that you're not ice. He says, okay, all right, I'll show you the back of my SUV,
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but I don't, I don't have to do this, but I just, and I support you guys. I support you going around
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to random middle-aged white guys and demanding that they prove they're not law enforcement,
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which by the way, if they were law enforcement, they would have no right to do that.
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If they were law enforcement, law enforcement should arrest these kids even for asking this
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question because they're obviously obstructing law enforcement and criminal investigations.
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But this is, this is what you get when ICE doesn't enforce the law. This is what you get when state
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and local authorities don't enforce the law. But this is what you get. All of a sudden you get
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these bands of vigilantes going around singling out this guy. Why are they singling him out?
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Because they seriously think he's law enforcement. Maybe they do. They're singling him out on the basis
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of his race, sex, and age. Because they don't like middle-aged white guys. That's what they're
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doing. Okay. And this dope is just going around saying, oh, well, all right. Now, listen, I respect
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what you're doing. Okay. And I don't need to do this, but I respect it. And please don't,
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please don't gang up on me. And luckily the gang that's doing it here is just as dopey as the guy.
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So, you know, they don't really seem to pose as much of a threat. Maybe,
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but we've seen these kinds of left-wing gangs commit lots of violence. And we've seen even
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the bourgeois middle-class white liberals justify that violence and express that in a lot of social
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scientific surveys. That's what you get. You want to see it get a little more violent?
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Look at the high school protest organized by the Minnesota schools protest at the Minnesota Capitol.
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So first of all, if you went back 15, 20 years and said, hey, this is Minnesota, no one would believe
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you. I'm seeing a lot of headscarves. I'm seeing ice out. Here we go. I'm seeing a lot. It doesn't
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look like Minnesota 20, 25 years ago. It looks more like Mogadishu, which is why they're calling
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Minneapolis now Snogadishu. This is Snogadishu. But you're getting a bunch of high school kids
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encouraged to go to this by their teachers, by their schools, just beating each other up,
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just getting into a playground scrap or a gang war somewhere in the middle of those two things.
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All because why? What do those two scenes have in common? All because
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people oppose law enforcement. So you really have two options here. What the left wants you to believe
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is you can either have law enforcement or paradise. You can either have these cops who are sometimes
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they got to beat people up. Sometimes they got to arrest people. Sometimes they have to deport
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people. These awful cops. And if we didn't have the cops, we'd have paradise. We'd all live together
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in harmony singing Kumbaya. I know the left is nuts, but there are squishes who believe this.
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There are centrists who believe this, at least implicitly. And what I'm telling you is that's not
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the alternative. The alternative to ICE is that. The alternative to ICE best case scenario is super
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annoying white 20-something liberals harassing middle-aged white guys saying, show me your
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truck. Let me prove you're not in ICE. That's best case scenario. Worst case scenario is Snogadishu gang
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war. Melees, brawls, vigilante violence. Those are the options. Anybody who has even a modicum of reason
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would have to conclude the most just, most conducive to the common good solution here is for ICE to
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bring the hammer down. And for local law enforcement, which Minnesota won't allow them to do, but for
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local law enforcement to arrest the criminals and stop the chaos. Instead, they want to promote it.
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One last point. One last point on Minneapolis specifically. We thank Frontlines here powered
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by TPUSA a video of a leftist after he had been agitating. He had been aggressing on the law
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enforcement officers, getting him his face, obstructing law enforcement. And law enforcement
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showing great restraint did not just shoot the guy. Instead, he pepper sprayed him. And here's the
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reaction. Maybe I shouldn't laugh, but maybe I should. Part of the reason I'm laughing is because
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that guy's not dead. That guy could be dead too. When you obstruct law enforcement, when you get up
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in the face of cops, when you threaten cops, you could end up dead and you would deserve it.
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So the fact that all that happened is he got pepper sprayed and then just seemed shocked by it.
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That is actually delightful. That's good for him. That just taught him a lesson that could save his
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life someday. That's good. That could help his soul. Because it's the same reaction in a much funnier
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way than the tragic reaction we saw after Renee Good was shot. Renee Good runs her car into a cop.
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The cop shoots her. And then the lesbian partner says, why did the guns have real bullets?
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She didn't know. They didn't know. They think this is pretend. They think this is all playtime.
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They thought they could get away with this stuff. They thought you can hit a cop without consequences
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or obstruct law enforcement or protect criminals without consequences. Why did the guns have real
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bullets? Why does the pepper spray sting? That's what that guy is implicitly screaming.
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He's there. He's getting in the cop's face. Cops zaps him with pepper spray. Why does the pepper
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spray sting? Why does the pepper spray sting? Why do the guns have bullets? Why do men have testicles?
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These are the questions the left is asking. Why do elections have consequences?
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Why do nations have borders? Basic question. Why does the United States have a military?
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Why have we had relative world peace? These are the questions the left is asking.
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They're asking, wait a second. Why is reality the way it is? Because they didn't know it. Because
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they've divorced themselves from reality. At very visceral levels. Like I didn't know guns have bullets.
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All the way to the more fundamental stuff. Why are men and women different? They don't know.
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And we have to teach them. We have to teach them. Affirming the left in their delusions
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that you can just break the law without consequence. That guns don't have bullets. That
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men don't have anatomical features. Whatever it is. The nations don't have borders. It only makes
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things worse. This is good stuff. Be thankful for the pepper spray. The next thing you're getting
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hit with is going to be a lot worse. By the way, ICE has shown massive restraint. There's this
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Huffington Post guy. What's his name? Philip Lewis. He's posting. He says, ICE is terrorizing
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neighborhoods. And he used the sauciest pictures he could find. Look at ICE terrorizing neighborhoods.
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And what are the pictures? It's of an ICE agent scanning some Hispanic looking guy's face.
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Frame your face. Just trying to figure out if he is an illegal, if he has a criminal record, whatever.
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The guy's totally calm. The ICE agent is totally calm. The guy's totally calm. Does that guy look
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terrorized to you? Look at him. If you're only listening, I'll just describe it. He's just a
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Hispanic looking guy who's just mouth is flat, eyebrows flat. Just, okay. Hey, whatever. Cop,
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just totally fine. We have another one. Even this one's a little more feisty. The cop uses the window
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breaker. I guess the guy was resisting. And even here, this is supposed to be ICE terrorizing
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civilians. The guy in the car looks totally unfazed as if he expected it, as if he's looking for an
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altercation. And even here, even with shattered glass, ICE doesn't seem to be terrorizing anybody.
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That guy doesn't look terrorized. The Huffington Post used these pictures as an own, as a, oh,
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look at the bad, terrible optics for the Trump administration. I don't know. This is what people
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voted for as far as I'm concerned. This is what, we didn't vote for, you know, the Gestapo to go
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slaughter people or something. No one voted for that. But that's not what we're getting.
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What I voted for is mass deportations. And you know what? That's what most people voted for too.
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Trump won the popular vote campaigning on mass deportations. And we want to be orderly about it.
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And we don't want to be needlessly cruel about it. But we want these people out. They have no right to
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be here. They're causing a lot of problems. They're undermining the rule of law in myriad other ways.
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And they got to go. That's what most people voted for. The Hispanic guy sitting in the car,
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having his face scanned by the cop in a perfectly polite interaction. That is exactly what people
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voted for. The libs want to publicize this stuff. Be my guest, man. Be my guest. You're only going to
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make the numbers go up. Now, I want to move away from the ICE and the immigration for a second. I want
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to get to an economic issue because even some conservatives, they're missing the boat. They're
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missing the point. The squishes and the more establishment types, they're missing the point
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on excellent Trump policies like capping credit card interest rates for one year, an anti-usury
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the making. This is the Pendragon cycle, Rise of the Merlin. It's coming out Thursday, January 22nd.
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I love everything about this because this kind of movie, this kind of series, I should say,
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is a deeply conservative product. Sometimes conservatives get taken away on all sorts of
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abstractions or like Ayn Rand or whatever. This is so deeply Christian, Western, profound. It's
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My favorite comedy is, I didn't pick this. The producers picked this. We'll see if it's my favorite.
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Me and my girlfriend were at your bar fight last night on Broadway. Okay, it is my favorite.
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Me and my girlfriend were at your bar fight last night on Broadway. Thank you for a great event,
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USA. I love it. Actually, this ties right in because we did, as the commenter mentions,
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we had this bar fight, two episodes of Bar Fight actually filmed a couple days ago.
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Some people ask, when's it going to come out? The wait is over. Tomorrow, 5 p.m. Eastern,
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Saturday release, brand new episode of Bar Fight, featuring our first ever returning guest,
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Adam Mockler, and Lauren Peretra. Check out this teaser.
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In the same way that I hit people driving out of a Walmart parking lot?
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I don't support violence, but some of you guys have never had your ass kicked,
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Listen, I've almost gotten hit by a deranged retail...
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You guys are like, yee-haw, for, like, not feeding babies.
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I'm delighted to be joined by our two esteemed guests,
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You guys are quite literally taking an 80-20 position on this.
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Because they've been lied to about what happened.
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If you want a job where you can go terrorize, ISIS is for you.
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Our second guest, marketing and influencer sensation.
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Watch a full episode right now on the Michael Knowles YouTube channel.
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But if you're watching or listening to it live, it's coming out soon.
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It's coming out tomorrow for the Uncensored ad-free version,
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the place I strongly recommend you go check it out, Daily War+.
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Trump is banning institutional investors from buying single-family homes.
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I touched on this yesterday, but I didn't touch on why I think he's doing this.
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One, because Trump ran on a more populist economics.
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This is another one of these paradoxes of Trump that people don't seem to really understand.
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They say, I thought he was running against any new wars.
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He is offering a third option when it comes to foreign policy.
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He's offering a third option between this conservative isolationism, libertarian isolationism, really,
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and liberal internationalism, interventionism, bombing the whole world for Madisonian democracy.
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He offers this third option, which is conservative imperialism.
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And depending on how you count it, for like 220 years.
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And an undisputed empire since the Second World War.
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And so you know what we're going to do, though?
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Instead of just overextending ourselves and bungling things,
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we're going to focus on targets that are closer to home,
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that have cascading effects throughout the rest of the world,
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that are based on more realistic political principles and resources and geography.
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You have the libertarian or alternately kind of big business chamber of commerce types
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who say, we just need to let the free market operate and, you know, come what may.
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And we just need to let corporations do whatever they want.
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And then you have the leftists who say, we need to abolish private property.
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And, you know, you got that lady in New York under Momdani now saying,
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we especially need to steal homes from white people.
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And we're going to embrace the warmth of collectivism against rugged individualism or whatever.
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Because there is a third option, which is an authentically conservative,
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dare I say, even authentically Christian kind of economics.
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Which is, we recognize the good of private property.
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We recognize even largely the right of private property.
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There's a lot to say about, people mean different things when they say the right to private property.
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But it is within the Christian tradition to discuss the right to private property.
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But also within the framework of recognizing that we are a social creature.
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We have political society in order to conduce to the common good.
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We do not put the cart, in other words, before the horse.
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We do not put the dog sled before the dogs in Greenland.
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And so, when you look at the housing market, you say, okay, what's it for?
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What's the single family home housing market for?
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And when the institutional investors come in and they corner certain markets, and they come in with a lot more power and a lot more capital, in some ways seemingly monopolistic, and then they corner the market and they jack up the rent prices, that's not really good.
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You know, and frankly, you know, speaking of this third way, here's a way to reconcile the left and even a libertarian like Barry Goldwater, who in conscience of a conservative points out, our enemy is not only monopolistic government power.
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Because people, especially young people, need to be able to have homes because that helps them to start families, which we need.
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This also follows politically after President Trump got in a little hot water because he said he was asked about fixing the housing problem for young people.
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And he said he couldn't do it because it might hurt the housing values of old homeowners.
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On housing, you talked in your address last night about housing.
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Are you still considering a national emergency over housing?
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You know, I have two, there's two thoughts on housing.
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You have a lot of people have housing that because we have such a strong time and such a strong market there, houses are very valuable.
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It's a big part of their net worth, their house.
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I don't want to knock those numbers down because I want them to continue to have a big value for their house.
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At the same time, I want to make it possible for young people out there and other people to buy housing.
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In other words, you create a lot of housing all of a sudden and it drives the housing prices down.
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And so I want to take care of the people that have houses, that have a value to the house that they never thought possible, that have sort of made them wealthy and happy.
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And especially in their later years, got to be careful with that.
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At the same time, I want to make it possible for people to go buy houses.
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He's not even just using rhetoric to advance one point or another.
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He's saying, look, yeah, I want to make it easier for young people to buy houses.
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But it's kind of hard because there's just a conflict here.
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If I flood the market with housing, then I'm going to destroy the values of the boomers.
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So there's this conflict here between the boomers and the millennials and the zoomers.
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And some would just say, well, screw the zoomers.
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You know, we just want to keep our housing values up.
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But actually, forget about the justice of that.
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Millennials and zoomers were almost half of all eligible voters in 2024.
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2028, you can't just write off the millennials and the zoomers.
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Now, the Democrats still have a youth advantage.
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They still have an advantage with young voters.
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You don't want to throw the boomers overboard either or the Gen X overboard either because they're your more reliable voters.
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And this is why, bringing it back to the broader economic point, ideologues want these pure abstract economic ideologies to govern the country.
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Either, you know, I don't know, just Austrian school libertarianism or communism or something in New York.
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Even when it comes to economic matters, this is not a pure science.
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Because government, politics, is the art of the real, the art of the possible, the art of the second best, the art of making deals.
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That's why when Trump does these things, he talks about tariffs, but then he also, you know, gives tax cuts.
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In some ways, he sounds like a regular old Reagan or Bush Republican.
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Because he's trying to dance a very difficult dance, walk a very fine line, and govern with prudence, which is the chief political virtue.
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On that point, though, I should point out, despite what you're hearing from the doomers on the right and, of course, the critics on the left, the economy is doing very well right now.
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Economic growth was the strongest in two years in Q3, 4.3%.
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GDP, IMF is looking ahead at the U.S. economy this year, thinks that it's looking very good.
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It's actually ticked down a little bit since November.
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Real wage growth is beating inflation by at least a point, maybe more.
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Stock markets hit all-time highs, 15.3% growth in Trump's first year.
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Doesn't mean there aren't particular challenges for particular people.
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Why did rents, why did rental prices go down four months in a row, year over year?
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Might it have something to do with the singular policy of this administration, which is the mass deportations?
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The hardcore get it, but squishes need to understand this.
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The mass deportations are not just about cruelty or because we don't like brown people or something.
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Inflation, wage suppression, drugs, low-trust in institutions, not having enough housing, crime, on and on and on and on and on.
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I'm reviewing the bar fight episode for tomorrow.
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But you say, oh, no, I got to do other work for the other show that we're producing.
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Just because of that, I don't care if we run late today.
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I love this clip because it actually relates to what I just did.
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The question is, how do you pronounce certain words?
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And he's gone viral because this guy who's, I guess he's a streamer.
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He was looking up word, and he's reading, and he finds a word he doesn't know, and then
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Spontane, spontane, spontane, how do I pronounce that?
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Oftentimes, when I don't know what a word is pronounced, I get to look at how it's pronounced
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He does this with more words, and then people are making fun of him.
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They're saying, this guy, oh, he's trying to read books, but he doesn't know what the
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And this dumb idiot, he's looking up words when he runs into a word he doesn't know.
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I love that clip, and I love that this guy had the courage to just admit when he doesn't
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I probably have a larger than average vocabulary.
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Maybe we'll talk about it in a work from home Wednesday.
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We'll talk about it because it comes from a poem, or it was used in a poem.
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That's how you get a larger than average vocabulary.
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We live in an age that is so prideful, that is so, I don't know, so anxious.
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So we don't want to admit when we don't know something.
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The only way you're going to learn things is when you admit you don't know anything.
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She doesn't exactly have stable relationships, and I, well, don't really have relationships.
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She argues that it is healthy for girls to go out on girls' nights and have their boyfriends pick them up.
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I argue that cannot end well and is a recipe for disaster.
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I argue explicitly going out without your significant other is not trustworthy behavior, nor is that wife material.
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That's not, well, she might be wife material, but that behavior is not good.
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I get girls going over to some girl's house and having pillow fights or whatever they do.
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Or, you know, sitting around and drinking Shepley and gossiping or whatever.
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I get girls, I sort of even get girls going out to brunch together, sort of.
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Not saying I would encourage it, but I get that girl's brunch, maybe.
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Girls going out to the club or the bar alone when they have boyfriends.
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You know what a thing is in large part by what it is for.
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You know, the Leftist Tears Tumblr is for drinking the Leftist Tears.
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It's not for, you know, discussing Proust, is it?
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No, it's for guys and girls meeting each other.
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Why do you, also, girls, like when guys hang out, how much is this?
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This is going to get me in trouble, but it's just a fact.
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Men and women have very, friendships in very different ways.
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They have more relationships and acquaintances, but all women hate each other.
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And any man who's ever spent any time around them knows this.
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Whereas men can beat each other up and they probably have fewer friends, but they tend to have deeper friendships.
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So, like, the guys go and hang out and they, I don't know, they sit around and they drink and they smoke and they talk about the Roman Empire or something.
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And so I get, but even now, I wouldn't say that guys should ditch their girlfriends and they all go out to the club, you know, on a Saturday night either.
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That's for when you don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend.
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Michael, libtard Democrats keep saying that President Trump bombed Venezuela illegally.
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They're going to go up to him and do their Barney Fife impersonation and yell, citizens arrest, citizens arrest.
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Of all the people who ever write in or especially call into the show, you are one of my favorites.
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They're going to get a little pepper spray if they're lucky.
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First off, just want to say thank you for delivering the truth every day.
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I'm actually from the younger side of your audience, and I was hoping you can answer a question for a project of mine.
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My question is, if you could give two pieces of advice to your 16-year-old self, what would they be and why?
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I would give one piece of advice, and it would be keep the faith.
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I would have called myself an atheist at age 13, and that persisted in some form for about 10 years.
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I was 23 years old when I reverted to the faith, really.
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I started to at least acknowledge that God probably exists around 18 or 19, but that was it.
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And all my problems and all my wayward youth, boys will be boys, staying up too late, chasing too many girls, not being all that diligent, all of that really stems from that error.
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What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
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I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
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Vader Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.
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How many lives must be lost before you accept the power
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Circling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.