Ep. 1896 - He Actually Did It： Trump Set To Get Greenland
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A busy 24 hours for President Trump in Davos as he announces a framework for taking Greenland, establishes a new international body that could replace the UN, and does his very best Asian accent after meeting with Mr. Toyota outside of Davos. Meanwhile, the UK s National Health Service says that cousin marriage can actually be a good thing, and Fernando Mendoza gets even me to care about football.
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had last night for dinner, delivered right to your door. A busy 24 hours for President Trump
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in Davos as he announces a framework for taking Greenland. Establishes a new international body
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that could replace the UN and does his very best Asian accent after meeting Mr. Toyota.
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Outside of Davos, the UK's National Health Service says that cousin marriage
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can actually be a good thing. And Fernando Mendoza gets even me to care about football.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. President Trump stole the show at Davos. We'll get to the highlights.
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There are actually too many clips to get to all of them, but we'll get to the highlights,
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what it means for America and for the world order. However, there was a foil at Davos,
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a very weak, kind of villainous, foolish looking foil. And that would be Gavin Newsom,
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who decided to spend his time babbling about sex fantasies regarding Trump with the Europeans
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So heading into Davos, this is the World Economic Forum. It's all the liberal globalists from all
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around the world, especially run by Europeans. It's in Switzerland. And the big topic is that
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awful, terrible Trump wants to take Greenland and Europe says no. And the French say they're
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going to send an army to defend Greenland. Obviously, I've got the flag of the French army
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right here. And Denmark says, we're going to double the security. We're going to add another dog
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sled. And this is supposed to be the big fight. Trump, you are not getting Greenland.
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This is a threat to NATO. You're threatening a NATO country, Denmark, which for some reason
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controls Greenland. And then the NATO general secretary had this to say about Trump's proposal.
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So statements for me will not add anything here. And when it comes to the Arctic, I think
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President Trump is right. Other leaders in NATO are right. We need to defend the Arctic.
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We know that the sea lanes are opening up. We know that China and Russia are increasingly
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active in the Arctic. There are eight countries bordering on the Arctic. Seven are a member
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of NATO. That's Finland and Sweden and Norway and Denmark, Iceland, Canada and the US. And
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there's only one country bordering on the Arctic outside NATO, and that's Russia. And I would argue
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there is a ninth country, which is China, which is increasingly active in the Arctic region. So
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President Trump and other leaders are right. We have to do more there. We have to protect the Arctic
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against Russian and Chinese influence. And that's exactly what NATO ambassadors decided to do in
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September. We are working on that, making sure that collectively will we defend the Arctic region.
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So much for a threat to NATO. That was the story. That was a story being published
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in the liberal media. Trump's insistence that the US control Greenland is a threat to NATO. It will
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destroy NATO because it's a direct threat from one NATO country, actually the leader of NATO, America,
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on another one, Denmark. Then you have the NATO Secretary General, or General Secretary rather,
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saying, yeah, actually, yeah, we need to defend Greenland from Russia. You got all these NATO
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countries. There's just one who's not in NATO, but also Trump's even right about China aggressing
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the Arctic. So what? What does that mean? Are we splitting off from Europe or are we continuing to
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lead the West? Well, it depends not only who you ask, but when you ask the person. The Finnish
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president, in the span of just 11 minutes, managed to completely flip-flop on the question of whether
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or not Europe can defend itself without America. First is a direct answer to the question of this
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panel, can Europe defend itself? My answer is unequivocally, yes. Without the Americans?
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Well, look- But you're relying on them for these key elements.
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Um, you've said earlier that, um, Europe can defend itself without the Americans. If it comes
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More or less. More or less. Let's, uh- We'll go back to the transcripts. Yeah. More or less.
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But if it- Not- What do you mean, not exactly? That's exactly what you said. That is exactly what
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you said 11 minutes earlier. And the way he's trying to weasel out of it, you even see this in
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the community notes on social media. They'll say, well, no, no, he said Europe can defend itself,
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but he wasn't totally explicit on whether Europe can defend itself without America. Go back to the clip.
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What did he say? Give me just the first one. First is a direct answer to the question of
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this panel. Can Europe defend itself? My answer is unequivocally, yes.
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Without the Americans. Without the Americans. I mean- How?
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Well, look- But you're relying on them. Put a pause right there.
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As a direct answer to your question, can Europe defend itself? Yes. Without the Americans.
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Without the Americans. I mean, he goes on and she's trying to prod because this is so ridiculous.
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So he says that directly. Even without that second part, though, without the Americans.
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The question, can Europe defend itself, implies that it would do so without the Americans.
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That's the meaning of the word itself. On its own. Alone. Without other help.
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And then he's pressed on and he says, well, no, I never really. Hold on. Wait, what?
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What are we told on? I do not speak English. What do you say, sir?
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Because of course, Europe cannot defend itself without the United States.
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Since World War II, the agreement, this is not some secret conspiracy here. This is the open
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agreement is that America will protect Europe. Europe essentially demilitarizes and we protect
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Europe. First during the Cold War and now just generally. By the way, we had to protect Europe
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before the end of the Second World War II. That's how the World War ended. We went in and protected
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Europe. By the way, that's how the First World War ended, too. So it's ridiculous. Of course,
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Europe cannot defend itself without America. Europe is, for all intents and purposes,
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a series of colonies of the United States. Europe's older. Europe gave birth to the United States.
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England, the UK gave birth to the United States. But now we're the big dog. That's just how it works.
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And Trump doesn't want anyone to forget it. Not just the Europeans, but even the snow Mexicans who
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live in America's evil top hat of Canada. Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They
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should be grateful also, but they're not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn't so grateful.
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But they should be grateful to us. Canada, Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that,
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Mark, the next time you make your statements? I love it so much. Trump here does sound a little
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bit tired. You've got to remember, the guy essentially pulled an all-nighter. He flies over
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to Davos. He's in this other country whirlwind tour, just constantly running. Certainly seems more
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sprightly than all the other guys at Davos. But what I love about, you hear a little touch of lethargy
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in the voice. And it makes him sound like Don Corleone. You should be grateful. We never ask
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anything to you. You come here on the day that my daughter is to be married, and you don't even have
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the courtesy to call me godfather. You better remember that I've been very good to you.
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I cannot grant your request, snow Mexicans. You tell me not to take Greenland. That I cannot do.
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I love this because, not just because I'm of a certain, you know, a descendant of the Mezzogiorno
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in America, but because this is the reality. We're the big dogs. It's not the World Economic
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Forum and the United Nations and the liberal international system. Involves a lot of fictions,
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a lot of pretenses, a lot of what they might call noble lies. One of them being that every country
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in the world is basically just the same. You know, we're all basically equal. But that's not
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true. That's not how politics really works. And that's never been true. We've never really
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operated that way. It's just a kind of a lie. And so Trump wants to remind people of the truth.
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And in a way, people are going to, people, myself included, are going to, you know, describe this as
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him talking kind of like a mafioso, like a little Don Corleone. But really, he's speaking like an
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emperor. He's speaking like the leader. I'll put it even more precisely. He's speaking like the leader
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of a great power, which we are. And it's good that he's speaking that way because that is reality.
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And this is a crucial point that a lot of utopians on the left and the right don't want to admit.
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Politics works better when we acknowledge reality, even if there are realities that we don't want to
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admit, whether we're on the left or the right. Even when there are realities that offend our ideology,
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such as the disparity in power between different nations, such as great nations pursuing their
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interests. The left especially doesn't like that. Or whether it's the reality that you can't have
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too much inequality in a democratic nation such as ours. The reality, I'll go even further, that the
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palace is never safe when the cottage is unhappy. That's a political reality that offends, especially
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libertarians and ideological free marketeers on the right. But you got to deal with reality.
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Otherwise, you can have problems. You have revolutions, you have revolts, you're going to,
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you're not going to flourish. So what's that all lead us to? Back to the Greenland point.
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Trump goes in, they say, you're never getting Greenland. You're never getting what you want.
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This is outrageous. It's going to dissolve NATO. It's going to destroy the world.
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What does Trump announce less than 24 hours after being in Davos? We have a framework to get Greenland.
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The USA gets everything we wanted, including especially real national security and international
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security. Well, the deal is going to be put out pretty soon. We'll see. It's right now a little
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bit in progress, but pretty far along. It gets us everything we needed to get.
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Will the U.S. still get Greenland? Will the U.S. still get Greenland, sir?
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What did Mark Root say that convinced you? What did Mark Root say?
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Well, he's a great leader. I think he's fantastic. The Secretary General was representing the other
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side, which is really us too, because, you know, we're a very important member of NATO.
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I've done a lot for NATO. And it's really nice. I mean, it's a deal that everybody's very happy
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Does it still include the United States having ownership of Greenland like you said you wanted?
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It's a long-term deal. It's the ultimate long-term deal. I think it puts everybody in a really
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good position. How long will the deal be, Mr. President?
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Okay, wow, there's a lot here. There's a lot here. This is what I love about Trump's rhetoric,
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is you get all the bombast, all the stuff that gets the views, all the stuff that gets the clicks.
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But then, keep listening. There is a lot of sophistication going on here.
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I say, are you going to get NATO? Or are you going to get Greenland? He says, yeah. Yeah,
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we are. We're getting everything we need. In other words, do we really want Greenland to become the
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51st state? No. Are we really going to have, I've joked about this for days, are we going to have F-35s
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flying over, piloted by Don Rumsfeld, you know, dropping bombs on nuke? No, obviously not.
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But we need to secure Greenland. We need to secure the Arctic from our geopolitical adversaries,
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especially as the prospect of regional or global war increases. And we're the only power that can
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do it. Denmark just can't do it. So we need that control. Who is our, ostensibly our adversary here?
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I guess it's NATO. It's the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, as you heard him reference.
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He says he's sort of on the other side, but he's sort of on our side because we run NATO.
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Guys, come on, let's dispel with this fiction that NATO is just some entity outside of where it's the,
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it's the expansion of the American empire is what it is. NATO was founded in order to
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organize the American empire against Russia, which organized its empire according to the Warsaw Pact.
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And we're going to work it out. Are you going to acquire NATO? Are you going to acquire Greenland?
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Sorry. And he says, it's good. We're going to get what we need. We're going to have the,
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it's not like we need to have it in name. We don't need the 51st state, but we need the control.
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And so it's going to be a long-term deal. What does this mean? We've already occupied and controlled
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Greenland. The last time Denmark couldn't defend it because Denmark got overrun by Hitler. And then
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we had to go beat Hitler to save Europe the first time, the second time, actually. So we are where
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we are, guys. This is the political reality, but it's going to be a long-term deal. Maybe that allows
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Denmark or Europe to save face. How long? And then he gets it in there at the end. Infinite.
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And what is he, he says, guys, don't worry about the details. It's that great description of Trump,
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which is don't take him literally, but take him seriously. He goes, look, what do we really want
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here? We're going to control Greenland. We're just gonna, we're gonna. However, we need to
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gussy that up and describe it to make everyone feel good about it, whatever. Just letting you know,
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we're going to control Greenland. And now NATO comes out and says, yeah, yeah, basically that's
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right. Basically, that's right. So moving from Greenland, Trump then also goes further
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and rewrites potentially the world order by creating an organization that could replace
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the United Nations. The United Nations, the most prominent liberal globalist organization in the
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world. He announces an organization that certainly could replace it at Davos, which is the annual
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Okay. One last point on Greenland. He posted this to Truth Social. And it's another important
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little subtle thing that makes clear Trump's broader political strategy. He says, look,
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had a great productive meeting with the Secretary General of NATO. With respect to Greenland,
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we have this great framework set up. Further information will be made available as discussions
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progress. Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Special Envoy Steve Wyckoff,
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and various others as needed and will be responsible for the negotiations. They'll report to me. Thank
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you. Thank you for your attention to this matter. The key four words here, Vice President J.D. Vance.
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That's the key. Because as Trump is making these huge moves in the world, taking out Maduro and
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Venezuela, everyone has all the memes about Marco Rubio getting all these extra jobs.
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Some of the enemies of the Trump administration have come out and tried to sow discord. This
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administration is working extraordinarily well all together, but they're trying to sow discord.
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They're saying, well, Marco is kind of the face of taking out Maduro because he's the Secretary of
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State. He was working on this. And even just because of presidential protocols, J.D. Vance wasn't in the
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room literally when it took place. Ooh, maybe Marco Rubio will be the nominee in 28,
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even though Rubio has already endorsed J.D. Vance. Maybe Trump is cutting out the Vice President,
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even though Trump has expressed his confidence in him consistently. What this is all about
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from the left is trying to sow division within the Trump administration. And then sometimes when
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you're hearing these rumblings from the right, it's just the usual malcontents who are trying to
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jockey for power who don't like that MAGA beat them even 10 years ago. So what does Trump do?
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Just a few words in there. He goes, yeah, yeah, yeah. We're going to take Greenland. This is the
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next huge foreign policy move from the United States, in many ways, much more significant than
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Venezuela. And who am I going to put in charge of the negotiations? And he goes in, he doesn't cut
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out Rubio. Why would he cut out Rubio? Rubio is amazing. But he just sets it up again. The Vice
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President, I'm putting him in charge of the negotiations, followed by Marco Rubio. In keeping
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with President Trump, what he said months ago on Air Force One, he says, oh, I hope JD and Marco run
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as a ticket. I don't want them to be in opposition. I want them to work together. I hope Marco stays
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Secretary of State forever. JD, Marco, and Steve Witkoff, and, and, and. It's a subtle little bit,
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but it corrects the messaging, makes it very difficult for Trump's enemies on the left to
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so that division and the, and even some of the malcontents on the right. Okay. So turn from
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Greenland to Gaza. And really zoom out from Gaza, look at the entire world order. Trump announces at
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Davos a new organization called the Board of Peace.
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As part of this historic record of major peace initiatives, today we're announcing more details
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regarding the Board of Peace, so important. This board has the chance to be one of the most
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consequential bodies ever created. And it's my enormous honor to serve as its chairman. I was
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very honored when they asked me to do it. We had an idea to do it. Okay, the Board of Peace,
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he's announcing it, he's going to be the chairman. What is the Board of Peace? This sounds like something
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out of a cartoon or a comic book. The Board of Peace, it's so vague. What's it really about?
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Trump explains in the hallway. That's about being concerned, Mr. President,
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about Russia trying to come and take over Greenland. If you're worried that Putin would
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do something like that, why invite him to join your Board of Peace?
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Because we want everybody. We want all nations. We want all nations where people have control,
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people have power. That way we're never going to have a problem. This is the greatest board ever
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assembled. And everybody wants to be on it. But yeah, I have some controversial people on it,
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but these are people that get the job done. These are people that have tremendous influence.
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But all babies on the board, there wouldn't be very much. So he was invited. He's accepted.
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Many people have accepted. I think, I don't know of anybody that hasn't accepted.
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But it's going to be great. I think the Board of Peace will be the most prestigious board ever.
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And it's going to get a lot of work done that the United Nations should have done.
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And we'll work with the United Nations. But the Board of Peace is going to be special.
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We're going to have peace. It started off with Gaza, the Middle East. We've got peace in the
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Middle East. Tremendous peace in the Middle East. Nobody thought that was possible. And that happened
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by taking out the Iran nuclear threat. Without that, it could have never happened.
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Ton of information here from the top. Why would Trump invite Russia,
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which has been our geopolitical adversary, has ICBMs pointed at us? Why would he invite them to be on
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the Board of Peace? Because the Board of Peace is supposed to be a global body.
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If we only invited our friends, it would just be NATO. What would be the point of that? We already
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have one of those. What is the Board of Peace? If we're inviting people like Russia to join it,
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the Board of Peace is an international body that even includes people who have long been enemies
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to try to establish peaceful relations. That sounds a lot like the UN, doesn't it?
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Pretty clear to me, the Board of Peace is a replacement UN. The problem with the UN is not that we have
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an international body that is trying to interpret and enforce international law and establish
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conditions of global peace. That's all the good stuff about the UN. The problem is it doesn't do it.
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The problem is that the UN was founded as a fever dream, as the successor to the League of Nations
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by the feckless leftist Woodrow Wilson, and it's just a liberal nonsense. So we don't like them.
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The UN tries to undermine American power and influence. Forget about them. We're going to
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find the good UN. That's my read on it. I don't have any insider info from the administration. That's
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my read on it. That's what the Board of Peace is. So of course we want to invite Russia.
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Now, Russia has said they might join. It costs a billion bucks to join, but they have one big
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holdup. They say that they can pay their initiation fee using money that was frozen by the United
00:23:33.900
States, by the Biden administration. So they're saying, yeah, we'll pay up, but only with the
00:23:37.480
money you already took from us. But then they say, but you need to support Palestinian statehood,
00:23:42.360
which is something that the UN has called for. And that might be a little bit of a holdup
00:23:47.800
because the United States does not support Palestinian statehood, because the immediate
00:23:54.040
realpolitik, very tangible cause of the Board of Peace is the Israel-Gaza conflict. And why?
00:24:04.060
Because the Israel-Gaza conflict is in many ways, not in all ways, but in many ways, just a proxy for
00:24:09.980
the great power conflict between the United States and Russia, as well as other powers.
00:24:15.540
Because in that conflict between the US and Russia, the state of Israel is seen as an outgrowth,
00:24:23.560
even a colony of the American empire, which it kind of is. And the cause of Palestinian statehood
00:24:28.840
is seen as a proxy or an outgrowth of the cause of Russian power, which it largely is.
00:24:35.640
This is one of the reasons why, as we talk about, not the theological or the philosophical historical,
00:24:44.760
but the realpolitik issues that come into play in the Middle East. This is one of the reasons that
00:24:52.680
Israel becomes such a flashpoint. One of the reasons that the people like Greta Thunberg wears a keffia,
00:24:59.360
one of the reasons that the people who protest Western imperialism and white supremacy and,
00:25:05.380
you know, America and all the rest. One of the reasons that they get so into the Palestinian
00:25:09.840
cause is because it all just involves a common enemy. This is how you get gays for Palestine.
00:25:18.300
And then we all joke in a sophomoric way, we say, well, we should send those gays for Palestine to
00:25:23.860
Gaza. They'll get thrown off a roof in three seconds. Yeah, that's not the point. Yeah,
00:25:28.240
they don't agree on almost anything except their common enemy. So it's no surprise that that's the,
00:25:34.760
that's the sticking point. All the more reason to invite Russia to join. And it looks pretty good.
00:25:41.860
Trump's done a good job at this. You know, what's funny is a lot of Europe doesn't want to join this.
00:25:45.900
The UK has said no. France has said no. Norway has said no, because they want to protect the UN.
00:25:50.440
Ukraine is a likely no. But a lot of the Middle Eastern countries are on board.
00:25:54.980
Israel is on board, though they couldn't show up because Switzerland says they'd arrest them and send
00:25:58.240
Bibi Netanyahu to the ICC, the International Criminal Court. But a lot of the Middle Eastern
00:26:03.680
countries are on board. It's amazing. Trump got Qatar and Israel to the table. And a lot of other
00:26:09.060
Middle Eastern countries, too. And good European leaders like Viktor Orban in Hungary.
00:26:15.080
So it's good. It's impressive. It's a smart way forward. I'm very into it. And if this could
00:26:20.080
replace the UN, all the better. One point on it, though, apparently the United States has invited
00:26:24.320
the Pope to be a part of the Board of Peace, I think that's a bad idea for the Pope to accept.
00:26:29.620
Not that the Pope asks for my advice, but I think it's a bad idea. Because the Pope is not just one
00:26:35.220
national leader among others. He's not going to sit at the table, even with good national political
00:26:41.460
leaders. The Pope's authority is chiefly a spiritual authority. The papal states don't exist anymore.
00:26:50.480
The Pope's temporal authority is quite limited. It's limited to a few blocks in Rome.
00:26:56.560
But his spiritual authority is far greater. It sits far above the musings and ideologies of the
00:27:04.640
various political heads. So I just don't think it makes a lot of sense. I mean, I go back to Dante,
00:27:09.340
when Dante writes in Monarchia on the split between the spiritual power and the temporal power. He says,
00:27:16.540
look, it's not that there's no relation between the two. The political power, though, should be
00:27:20.620
illuminated by spiritual authority. The Pope should be able to provide a kind of illumination
00:27:26.680
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Newsom shows up. Newsom shows up. He has this to say in Davos. This is before
00:29:00.780
President Trump spoke. This is yesterday morning or even the evening before,
00:29:06.600
depending on how you score the time in Europe. This is Gavin Newsom, an American governor,
00:29:15.200
just absolutely trashing the American president on foreign soil.
00:29:20.500
Newsom, do you have a message for Europeans who are concerned about messages from the White
00:29:24.940
House around Greenland this week? Yeah, it's time to buck up. It's time to get serious
00:29:30.820
and stop being complicit. I've seen this in the United States, the supine Congress playing both
00:29:36.760
sides, you know, saying one thing on a text or a tweet, another publicly. People rolling over.
00:29:43.520
I should have brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders. I mean, handing out crowns
00:29:48.900
and handing out, I mean, this is pathetic. Nobel Prizes, they're being given away. I mean,
00:29:53.900
it's just pathetic. Diplomacy with Donald Trump? He's a T-Rex. You mate with him or he devours you.
00:30:01.060
One or the other. And you're speaking about? No, Europeans could be if they continue to
00:30:05.960
look down this path and process. They need to stand tall, stand firm, stand united.
00:30:11.520
Okay, before we get to the sex fantasies, notice from the top how unseemly this is. This would have
00:30:17.920
been disqualifying for an American politician even 20 years ago. This guy shows up and trashes the
00:30:24.280
leader of the United States on foreign soil. That was a big no-no. Some of the Zoomers in the audience
00:30:28.720
won't even remember that. That was a huge no-no. That norm has been totally shattered.
00:30:34.280
But it's unseemly, nevertheless. So he goes there, he trashes not only the American president,
00:30:38.780
he tells America's negotiating adversaries to undermine the US policy.
00:30:46.200
When it comes to whether or not the US will acquire Greenland for the defense of the United
00:30:50.460
States, he says, yeah, you better not give it to America. Yeah, screw America. America shouldn't
00:30:55.780
get what it wants. And by the way, it's not even that it's just a Trump priority. The US has been
00:30:59.860
trying to acquire Greenland since the 19th century. This has been a priority of the United States for
00:31:05.940
purposes of national security since the 19th century, over 150 years ago. We've tried to
00:31:11.780
buy it multiple times throughout the 20th century. This is a longstanding American interest.
00:31:17.780
And this anti-American scum shows up on foreign soil and tells the people that we're negotiating
00:31:24.780
with, hey, don't give America what it wants. Screw America. Disgusting. I mean, really disgusting.
00:31:30.220
I make fun of Newsom, and sometimes I give him credit for being such a slippery, slick politician.
00:31:34.780
But this is deeply unpatriotic. This is treasonous behavior on foreign soil.
00:31:40.280
Now, back to making fun of him. He then starts getting into this weird sex stuff.
00:31:45.120
So first he says, I should have brought knee pads for you people.
00:31:48.720
And there's a way to read that that's somewhat wholesome. And there's a way to read that that is
00:31:52.300
obscene and sexual. And it's unclear. He's such a slippery politician. It's unclear what he's going for at
00:31:58.000
first. Because you need to stand up. You shouldn't be on your knees. Oh, you could be on your knees,
00:32:03.380
you know, bowing before an emperor or something. But then he makes clear that he's implying the
00:32:09.220
obscene sexual connotation. He says, you know, Trump is a T-Rex. You either mate with him or he
00:32:13.900
devours you. First of all, what? We're mixing a lot of metaphors here. I didn't know that that's
00:32:19.940
how T-Rexes interacted with people. I don't think that's terribly characteristic of T-Rexes. I'm not sure
00:32:27.880
that anyone knows that. But when he says, yeah, you know, he's just trying to copulate with you.
00:32:35.000
Then the implication of getting down on your knees, Europeans, is much clearer. So it's gross.
00:32:41.420
It's grotesque. He's a pervert. He's treasonous. It's just disgusting. He's a disgusting person.
00:32:48.400
Then he shows up. He has the audacity to get on stage. So that was just in the hallway. He gets
00:32:54.380
on stage at the World Economic Forum and doubles down. You know, the new Trump signature series
00:33:00.160
knee pads. Yeah, and they are available online. I told you, the last one sold out.
00:33:06.640
And I just wanna sort of- This is a serious moment. It actually,
00:33:10.660
we laugh. Anyway, these are available and in bulk too. But I wanna read you a couple of things the
00:33:17.280
US government has said about you in the last 20- Now notice what he's doing here.
00:33:20.860
He's not just going out and making fun of Trump personally or from the perspective of partisan
00:33:27.060
domestic American politics. Like, hey, I'm selling big dumb Trump hair wigs. Go to Gavin Newsom.com
00:33:34.620
and buy this wig making fun of Trump's hair or something like that. He's selling the knee pads
00:33:40.640
because the joke is he's making fun of Europe for giving America what it wants.
00:33:47.840
It's not just a personality thing. He's not just making a point that is particular to Donald
00:33:55.660
Trump or even the Republican Party. He is mocking Europe for potentially giving to America what it
00:34:05.440
has desired as a matter of national security and grand strategy for 150 years. This is treasonous.
00:34:13.140
I don't think it's really gonna play. Some of the jokes about Trump will play. This though,
00:34:17.740
he looks like Jane Fonda sitting at the anti-aircraft guns pretending to shoot at
00:34:23.260
American airplanes. I mean, this is deeply traitorous, treasonous stuff.
00:34:29.420
And look, it'll play with his base, I guess, because his base hates America.
00:34:33.740
And they don't wave the American flag. They prefer every flag on Earth. The gay flag,
00:34:38.020
the Palestinian flag, the BLM flag. They prefer every flag to the American flag. And they often
00:34:42.560
light the American flag on fire. But is this gonna play with moderates? I thought he was supposed to
00:34:47.580
be the moderate candidate. He's gonna be the new Bill Clinton. I don't think so. Scott Besson comes
00:34:51.800
out, the greatest treasury secretary since Alexander Hamilton. He shows up and just rips into Newsom.
00:34:59.500
I think it's very, very ironic that, you know, Governor Newsom, who strikes me as Patrick Bateman
00:35:09.360
meets Sparkle Beach Ken, may be the only Californian who knows less about economics than Kamala Harris.
00:35:18.040
He's here this week with his billionaire sugar daddy, Alex Soros. And the Davos is the perfect place
00:35:26.280
for a man who, when everyone else was on lockdown, when he was having people arrested for going to
00:35:32.040
church, he was having thousand dollar a night meals at the French laundry. And I'm sure the
00:35:37.440
California people won't forget that. And I can tell my message to Governor Newsom is the Trump
00:35:43.820
administration is coming to California. We are going to crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:35:49.540
You know what I love about Besson? You know what I love about Besson?
00:35:55.280
He's extremely intelligent. He's obviously extremely intelligent, very competent, a very
00:35:59.580
serious financial professional. So his IQ is several standard deviations above the average in
00:36:05.200
Washington, D.C. No doubt about it. But he's also a very witty, tough guy. He's like a tough guy.
00:36:13.880
He's the kind of guy, he's a lot of economists especially are just, you know, ivory tower kind
00:36:19.480
of academic type scholar types who don't, you know, they've never been in a fist fight in their
00:36:23.920
life. Besson, you can imagine him alternately schooling you on economic policy and just punching
00:36:32.900
your head in in a locker or something. He manages both. And he's got this kind of wry wit because he's
00:36:39.160
intelligent. And he turns it on you because he's brutal. He says, yeah, he's Patrick Bateman meets
00:36:45.560
Sparkle Beach Barbie, Sparkle Beach Ken. But this guy, he's a joker because his economic policies are
00:36:52.300
even worse than Kamala Harris. And then he explains what he's achieving at the World Economic Forum.
00:36:58.280
Notice here, totally different situation from the governor of some state going and attacking the
00:37:03.800
president of the United States on foreign soil and undermining longstanding American grand
00:37:08.360
strategy on foreign soil. All he does, he, he's a little tough, but this is a minor politician in
00:37:14.540
America, smacks him for his looks and moves on. It's appropriate, it's brutal, it's effective. And
00:37:21.300
Newsom clutches his pearls. The Treasury Secretary described you as Patrick Bateman meets Sparkle Beach
00:37:29.620
Ken, the White House communications director. That was the U.S. Secretary of Treasury.
00:37:36.680
I have a couple more and then, and then you can respond. The White House communications
00:37:40.380
director called you Gavin Newsom. Newsom? And an official White House account,
00:37:46.560
you know, federal government account described you with a, I'd say very online sexual slur that
00:37:51.680
people here probably don't want to hear at 830 in the morning. And you're in some sense responding
00:37:55.500
in kind and so forth. Fight fire with fire. Do you think? Yeah, we gotta fight fire with fire. So
00:38:01.480
here he even, he contradicts himself. Because first of all, this is the guy who rolls up making
00:38:08.240
fellatio jokes about the president of the United States on foreign soil. This is a guy who obviously
00:38:14.380
is sick in the head when it comes to sex stuff. He's the guy who said he wants to see more trans kids.
00:38:18.600
I think the very online sexual slur there, I was like, what slur is he saying? Is it,
00:38:24.800
you know, the word for cigarettes in Britain? Is it homo? Is it, what's he saying? I realized,
00:38:30.060
oh, I think it's groomer. But he is a groomer. Newsom is a groomer. He says, I want to see more
00:38:34.700
trans kids, literally, verbatim. You're a groomer if you want to see more trans kids.
00:38:40.660
So that's all true. And so he clutches his pearls at first. Can you believe the secretary would call me
00:38:46.340
Patrick Bateman and Sparkle Beach Canada? Bro, you rolled up to Davos making fellatio jokes about
00:38:52.400
the president. And so then the interviewer says, well, hold on. You've been doing that too
00:38:59.440
in a more egregious way. And then Newsom gets very serious. Well, fight fire with fire. Well,
00:39:04.000
hold on. Is it appropriate or is it inappropriate? Is it seemly or is it unseemly? This is Newsom's
00:39:10.340
big political problem. He doesn't know who he is. This is always Newsom's problem.
00:39:14.120
One day, Monday morning, Newsom wants to be the moderate. Bill Clinton, new Democrat,
00:39:20.420
friends with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon. Tuesday, he's calling Stephen Miller a fascist
00:39:25.080
and calling for more trans kids. He doesn't know what he wants to. He's flipping back and forth
00:39:28.760
because he's not really anything. He doesn't really believe in anything. He's an empty suit and some
00:39:35.240
pomade. But it's not going to sell. At some point, he's going to have to pick a lane.
00:39:41.980
It's somebody who's going to have to pick a lane if he wants that nomination. Now,
00:39:45.780
speaking of weird sex stuff, the UK has just done something of a flip-flop. The UK National
00:39:50.800
Health Service has just proclaimed that marrying your cousin is actually a good thing.
00:39:55.180
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What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God?
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Merlin, I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
00:40:50.280
You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul.
00:41:06.220
There is a new power at work in the world. I've seen it.
00:41:32.800
Faith to Britain never rests in the hands of the great light.
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How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
00:42:01.120
So cling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.
00:42:27.120
My favorite comment from yesterday is from the Don Palumbo.
00:42:29.560
It says, I've been really wondering why the Christmas decorations are still up.
00:42:37.200
Why would I, I don't think, is it February, Professor, are you there?
00:43:01.940
Because some people mistakenly, they think that Christmas occurs during Advent.
00:43:10.220
Advent is the awaiting, the coming of, we anticipate the coming of Christmas.
00:43:15.700
And Christmas happens, and it lasts in church for eight days, the octave of Christmas.
00:43:21.460
It lasts in Christmas carols for 12 days, when my true love gives to me all sorts of fun things.
00:43:26.760
And then it lasts traditionally until candlemas.
00:43:33.760
We want to start putting our Christmas decorations up at Halloween these days.
00:43:39.980
And by the way, it may, I just want, I know I've belabored this point many times.
00:43:42.920
It makes sense to put your decorations up later, obviously.
00:43:48.560
First the fast and then the feast, not first the feast and then the hangover.
00:43:52.080
Christmas begins on the 25th, so that's when we put our Christmas decorations up.
00:43:56.220
But even beyond that, we think, at least I do, I think of Christmas decorations with the snow and the fun and the winter.
00:44:03.720
So why would we put it up in November or even October in some cases and take it down, sometimes before the first snow even hits?
00:44:19.420
We turn now to weird sex stuff in the UK, which has just announced this.
00:44:26.380
Britain's National Health Service says marriage and procreation between first cousins can be beneficial,
00:44:37.200
New documents show that the NHS guidance to midwives states 15% of cousin couples have children that are affected by genetic conditions,
00:44:47.400
compared to just 3% of children born to unrelated parents.
00:44:52.080
However, the guidelines then go on to describe the benefits of cousin marriages,
00:44:57.240
saying it can provide financial and social security and generate collective social capital.
00:45:03.240
Sickle cell disease, cystic fibrosis, and muscular dystrophy are some of the genetic issues more common among the children of closely related parents.
00:45:13.840
So the downsides is your kids are much, much, much more susceptible to a whole host of genetic problems.
00:45:21.620
But the upside is, at least you've known each other a long time, and you know the in-laws, because it's your aunt and uncle.
00:45:35.020
The downside is your kid is going to have a ton of problems.
00:45:38.920
The upside is we won't offend the Pakistanis who have taken over our country.
00:45:42.940
But that's really what this is about, because upwards of half of Pakistanis in some migrant communities marry their cousins.
00:45:50.980
That's a cultural tradition that we in the West got rid of.
00:45:54.940
And we got rid of it because the Catholic Church told us to in the 11th century.
00:46:00.820
Cousin marriage has been a norm for all of history everywhere.
00:46:03.540
But we got rid of it for all sorts of reasons, but one of the consequences is our just genetic population has been a lot healthier because of that.
00:46:16.220
So the church in the 11th century says, hey, you've got to stop marrying your cousins.
00:46:22.080
And then this is formally declared, more formally declared at the Fourth Lateran Council.
00:46:28.120
And that endured for a very, very long time until, guess who?
00:46:32.860
Speaking of the UK and weird sex stuff, guess who first upended the ban on cousin marriage?
00:46:44.960
It was one of the worst men ever to live and one of the main causes of the collapse of Western civilization.
00:47:14.620
He was a weird sex freak in that he decided to destroy Western Christendom because he really, really wanted to have a divorce.
00:47:21.020
And Christianity universally understood up until that very moment said, you can't get divorced.
00:47:28.120
Now, some people who are baptized Christians say you can get divorced.
00:47:31.020
But the longstanding tradition of the church and the understanding of our Lord's words in the gospel and the authoritative voice of the successors of the apostles is you can't get divorced.
00:47:42.480
And Henry VIII said, I would rather destroy Christendom than not get divorced.
00:47:49.760
Is this like how the moment you start to weaken sexual mores, it's not that you just stop.
00:47:57.300
You're going to say, okay, we're going to redefine marriage and then we're just going to stop right there.
00:48:00.420
The minute you do that, then you get a whole host of other sexual degeneracy, like the throuples and all the rest of it.
00:48:11.120
And obviously, this recent announcement is pure politics.
00:48:13.740
They're not even trying to make a scientific or medical case for it.
00:48:16.740
They say, oh, it leads to some social benefits.
00:48:19.260
Like you get to hang out with your aunt and uncle more often, I guess.
00:48:29.040
It was then helped along by mass migration, was accelerated by the Pakistanis, and it's going to lead to lots more problems in the UK.
00:48:40.360
The physical problems afflicting the UK population will no longer just be the teeth.
00:48:46.340
Okay, before we go, I move from the UK back to America, still to matters of religion, though.
00:48:56.560
People have been coming up to me to talk about Fernando Mendoza for a while now, and I don't, I had no idea what they were talking about.
00:49:05.160
And they're talking about Indiana and this and the SEC and this and a priest and this, and I have no idea.
00:49:14.680
First of all, I'm not the biggest athlete in the world, as I think some of you know.
00:49:23.420
And I do like them particularly in as much as I like baseball, specifically New York Yankees baseball.
00:49:28.860
Other than that, though, I don't, I don't know.
00:49:31.940
I'm friends with some professional football players, but, and they're great guys, but I don't know anything about, I don't, I just don't know.
00:49:41.360
You want me to pretend that I'm some giga chat athlete?
00:49:45.120
But anyway, Fernando Mendoza has managed to get even me to care about football.
00:49:55.040
And he's super duper Catholic and has priests like bless the field and he goes to daily mass.
00:50:02.740
I would say my family is a very Catholic family and to have them as roll bottles and to see how they always, you know, circle back to their faith and how much, you know, God and Jesus has done in their lives.
00:50:14.740
And mine, especially this season is this season is the season I've gotten the closest to the most religious I've ever been.
00:50:21.040
And I think it's also been reflected by the success and really not the success, but also the platform to also praise God and to praise Jesus Christ.
00:50:28.780
And I would say this is a big part of myself and my identity.
00:50:32.580
And, you know, really just got to think the man upstairs.
00:50:38.240
Now, football players for a long time have been like, y'all, glory to God.
00:50:40.940
You know, they do like a point up in the sky during the end zone dance and everything.
00:50:44.520
But the way this kid's talking about it is way cooler, much more specific.
00:50:48.660
You can see humility and just kind of lightness radiates out of the kid.
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But the reason I find this politically relevant, one, you know, look, I hope this evangelizes people.
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But politically, too, people misunderstand something.
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I think a lot of people look at this kid and they think of religion as an aspect of his life.
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We tend to think of religion as something that makes you better at what you're really out there for.
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You know, oh, maybe his religion really makes him a better football player.
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Maybe you being really religious makes you a better lawyer or doctor or dishwasher or I don't know, whatever it is.
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It's not that religion is some interesting aspect of his life that helps the football stuff.
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It's that him being a great athlete is for the religious stuff.
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He is doing everything that he does in his life, including be really good at football, for religion.
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We tend to put the cart before the horse, but that's what it's for.
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As a matter of reason, I don't care if you're a skeptic or you're an atheist or whatever.
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We don't like to think about that in our modern life.
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We don't even like to have funerals anymore, and we like to hide the dying and the dead away from us.
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That fact is crucial when you're coming to conclusions about what your life is about.
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Because if your life is about making a lot of money or getting really famous or being really good at football, if that's ultimately what your life is about, you will fail.
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Your fame will dissipate, and someone will be better at football than you.
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Or football will disappear, so people will stop playing football in 200 years.
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So if that's what your life is for, you're going to be a failure.
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The reason that we can even think about these things is because we are hylomorphic.
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Or it's all fake, and God doesn't exist, and heaven's not real, and hell's not real, and you're just going to take a dirt nap, and then, I don't know, I guess you'll be a hedonist or something.
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And we can know the existence of God with certainty from the natural world, using human reason.
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It's kind of like, most people spend their whole day trying to avoid thinking about death.
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And people take pills for that, and they go to useless therapy for that, and they do yoga, or I don't know, whatever it is.
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We're a very anxious society, and it comes from the fear of death that we don't want to face.
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You should wake up every single day thinking about the fact that you will die.
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If you wake up and you say, hey, I'm going to die.
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I'm going to die at some point, and it's probably going to involve some suffering, and it's going to make people sad, and it's, but I will die.
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From everything from how I eat breakfast, to how I do my job, to how I treat my wife and kids, to how I say my prayers before bed maybe, to how I, it all has to be in service of my ultimate aim.
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If it's not, again, I'm not like being saccharine and Bible thumping here.
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If the things that you do are not in service of your ultimate aim, which is to know God, to serve him in this world, and to be with him forever.
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If it's not in service of your, which, show me, what's the alternative?
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If you don't like that, if you don't like that answer, what's the alternative?
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If what you do is not in service of your ultimate aim, you're just wasting your time.
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That's what that kid is telling us in a delightful way, in not so many words, at this football press conference.
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You can check out for two months free on all annual plans.
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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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You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul.
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Faith of Britain never rests in the hands of the great life.
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How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield?
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So cling to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.