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00:01:26.000Don Lemon of CNN fame, of CNN infamy, former CNN journalist Don Lemon, who recently went viral for conspiring with a mob to invade a church during a worship service, has just been arrested by the federal government.
00:01:45.000We will get to that wonderful story momentarily.
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00:03:03.000And I wasn't sure, you know, look, I'm obviously a supporter of the administration, big Trump supporter.
00:03:08.000I say they get it right 99.7% of the time.
00:03:12.000There have been a few things where I've said, ah, I don't agree with that or that's not quite right.
00:03:15.000I did not think they were going to do it.
00:03:18.000I feared that the administration thought, look, we have a, we have these ringleaders dead to rights on the Minnesota invading a church, screaming in the faces of kids, violating the face act.
00:03:34.000Don Lemon is going to claim some kind of journalist exemption, first amendment protection and pretend that he was merely a reporter covering the event rather than one of the conspirers of the event.
00:03:48.000And so I thought the feds had said, you know what, never mind.
00:03:56.000According to Lemon's attorney, Abby Lowell, he was arrested and said, quote, the first amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.
00:04:09.000There is no more important time for people like Don Lemon to be doing this work, to be doing this work.
00:04:44.000He's saying, yes, I conspired with this mob.
00:04:47.000Yes, I busted into a church and interrupted the church service in violation of federal law, namely the FACE Act, which really only exists to protect abortion clinics.
00:04:56.000But to get it passed, the liberals had to concede that it would also protect churches.
00:05:00.000I'm going to, I'm going to do all those things, but I'm going to hold a camera while I do it.
00:05:06.000It'd be like saying, you know, you, you load up your gun, you go over to your enemy's house, you, you pull out the weapon, point it to his head.
00:05:29.000Well, you can't arrest me for murder because I was a journalist while I murdered that guy.
00:05:35.000You don't get to, you don't get to, uh, burgle a house, but as long as you film it or, you know, like write an article about it afterward, it's okay.
00:05:44.000No, you, you can be a journalist, I guess, if you really want to be, but, uh, you don't, that doesn't give you license to commit a bunch of crimes.
00:05:52.000Don Lemon committed a crime by all available evidence, allegedly reportedly allegedly by all the evidence we have from his own words.
00:06:01.000Remember he was with that group of people.
00:06:25.000Very important because this is all just little tests that what the Democrats in the government and in the media are doing right now.
00:06:35.000And in the street, some of these activist types, what they're doing is they're behaving like a little toddler who's testing daddy's limits.
00:08:17.000Let's not forget pro-life grannies have been thrown in the clink for months and years for violations of the FACE Act because they were praying outside of abortion clinics.
00:08:30.000Demonstrating peaceably at abortion clinics.
00:08:33.000What Don Lemon did is a thousand times worse.
00:08:36.000And if the pro-life granny is going to rot for years in the prison, I want Don Lemon to rot twice as long.
00:11:16.000Maybe all of those things are plausible in the context of the Democrat Party today, though, which I read the statistics yesterday.
00:11:24.000Largely, in some cases, half the party or more supports political violence, wishes Trump had been assassinated, wishes the assassin hadn't missed, thinks that political violence could be justified against conservatives, maybe excused or justified or celebrated Charlie Kirk's assassination.
00:11:41.000In that world, you've got to take this very, very seriously.
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00:14:34.000So he justifies it by saying this is what the Israelis did to the Nazis, which makes perfect sense because the libs have been calling all of us anyone to the right of Hillary Clinton Nazis for many, many years.
00:14:49.000But notice here, he's not just saying we're going to to imprison the president, Donald Trump, that it's itself was a complete upending of the political order of precedent, a total destabilization of our political order.
00:18:14.000Now, just to give us a hint of what happens if we ever lose elections.
00:18:19.000Here's Pramila Jayapal, one of my favorite members on the other side in the House, describing what the Democrats will do if they get the gavel.
00:18:28.000We really need to, as soon as we get the gavels back, we have to dismantle DHS and ICE and CBP.
00:18:41.000And we have to reconstruct them to what they really should be doing.
00:18:46.000Remember, don't let people tell you that these are agencies that have always existed and they need to exist.
00:20:53.000They brought in 3 million illegals a year.
00:20:56.000They're now protesting in the streets, getting their lemmings killed, encouraging them to obstruct law enforcement, to protect face tattooed rapists from Venezuela, and fraudster Somalis.
00:21:09.000They want to abolish ICE because they want to abolish immigration enforcement, which is as radical a proposal as we've ever had.
00:23:10.000He is anti-police, wants to abolish all these law enforcement agencies.
00:23:15.000He's appeared on Democracy Now! to explain why body cams on cops are terrible.
00:23:24.000They said in the wake of Michael Brown, we'll market it to low information, people in the public, to well-meaning liberal people.
00:23:31.000We'll market it as accountability and transparency.
00:23:34.000And so they totally shifted and then they were able to get hundreds of millions of dollars toward their goal of outfitting every single cop in the United States with a mobile surveillance camera that the police control.
00:23:45.000They control when it's on, when it's off, what it captures, when something is captured, it's released to the public.
00:23:51.000So if the police capture, let's say, an undocumented immigrant committing some crime, that's out on Fox News and the New York Post within hours.
00:23:59.000But if they capture the police doing something horrific, the public may never see that video.
00:24:06.000And as I write in the Copaganda book, and it's really critical to understand exactly how it happens,
00:24:11.000not only do they not reduce police violence, but they have been an essential propaganda tool in convincing so many well-meaning people across our society
00:24:21.000that the authorities care about police violence, that they want accountability, that they're doing something, right?
00:24:26.000And it distracts people from the core important kinds of changes that we need, which is to reduce the size and power of these bureaucracies.
00:26:23.000I mean, just in case you don't believe me, if you don't remember CNN, this is a clip from CNN, Barack Obama, right out of the horse's mouth.
00:26:32.000I'm going to be proposing some new community policing initiatives that will significantly expand funding and training for local law enforcement, including up to 50,000 additional body-worn cameras for law enforcement agencies.
00:26:50.000So the sincere liberals really believed that more transparency would help their argument.
00:26:57.000Because it would show people the reality of the situation and they believed the reality of the situation was going to buttress their side of the argument, not the conservative side.
00:27:08.000Mind you, this is the party that thinks boys can be girls.
00:27:12.000Mind you, this is the party that thinks babies aren't really babies.
00:27:15.000They thought that reality was going to back them up.
00:27:21.000They came out, they put the body camera, and it turns out the criminals are just awful.
00:27:27.000And 999,999 times out of a million, the criminals who get beat up or shot while they're being arrested are getting exactly what they deserve.
00:27:44.000And the cops usually are showing restraint, even in those cases.
00:28:24.000It means hacking away at the skin and flesh and meat of a person's foreskin to construct a mutant grotesque phallus to create the simulacrum of an appendage of the opposite sex.
00:28:38.000The reality of it is anxiety, depression, suicidality, sterility, and early death.
00:29:54.000Immigration, the reality of immigration is that the people who are coming to this country, generally, not ideal.
00:30:02.000The way they talk about it, they're all dreaming, wonderful future engineers and doctors who want to salute the flag and shoot off fireworks on the 4th of July.
00:30:13.000The reality is face-tattooed rapists, human traffickers, and drug dealers.
00:30:53.000Look, the polling shows that people, even though they overwhelmingly support mass deportations, it seems like they kind of want people out of Minnesota too.
00:31:21.000One, because the victims here, the people who have been shot, justifiably, are white.
00:31:27.000Had they been black, it might be a different story, but they're white, so it doesn't work.
00:31:30.000At a deeper level, though, do you know why the House Democrat leadership wisely is telling their constituents, their members, not to go to Minnesota, not to own this issue?
00:31:40.000Because most people support mass deportations, that's why.
00:31:45.000Because we've seen the visibility of what immigration means.
00:32:12.000Before we get into mailbag, speaking of migration, there's a great story out from the AP.
00:32:18.000Mass migration to Northern Europe has not changed Winter Olympics teams.
00:32:24.000This is really, there's been mass migration, Sweden, Norway, Denmark.
00:32:28.000And yet, there's a scandal, because you're not seeing enough Somalis and Eritreans on the snowboarding team.
00:32:37.000Immigration from Africa and the Middle East is changing the demographics of Europe's top winter sports countries.
00:32:43.000But that hasn't really translated to their largely white rosters heading to the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
00:32:49.000For instance, Team Sweden is almost entirely made up of ethnically Swedish athletes, which is hardly a reflection of the country's diversity, as Sweden has welcomed historic numbers of asylum seekers in recent decades.
00:33:00.000Experts point to social, financial, and geographical barriers, and believe there needs to be a big cultural shift for anything to change.
00:33:07.000Experts also believe that more needs to be done by winter sports to improve accessibility, specifically for immigrants and underserved communities.
00:33:15.000So, quick question, why? Why does that happen? The problem that the AP has is that the Swedish Olympics team is full of Swedes.
00:33:28.000Now, one might be tempted to extrapolate and say, yeah, shouldn't Sweden be full of Swedes?
00:33:34.000Hold on, why are we just narrowing our question to the Olympics team? Why are there all these non-Swedes in Sweden?
00:33:41.000However, let's just focus on the team, and then the type of Olympics, the Winter Olympics, and then the sports.
00:33:48.000In my understanding of geography and history, Afghanis are not great skiers, I think.
00:34:00.000I don't think Somalis are the best snowboarders in the world.
00:34:04.000So, they don't do those things. And maybe they could, but they don't.
00:34:09.000My bigger question is, why do they have to? Why do they have to?
00:34:22.000She said that her favorite photo of her daughter, do we have this clip of Amy Klobuchar, her favorite photo?
00:34:27.000It doesn't matter, I'll just tell you what she said.
00:34:29.000She said, my favorite photo of my daughter is one where she's surrounded by Somalis.
00:34:33.000I said, why? Like, I don't, I don't, we've been beaten up on Somalis a lot recently, and with good reason.
00:34:39.000But I'm not saying, they're children of God, right?
00:34:42.000You know, like, I don't, I don't have anything in particular against the Somalis, other than all the fraud and the piracy and the terrorism.
00:34:48.000But why would that be your favorite photo of your daughter?
00:35:13.000Why does the AP have to make this whole little documentary report saying, you know, many experts are saying that Sweden needs to get a bunch more Africans on their ski team.
00:42:30.000And so a little bit of my Rizzler advice here is, look, if you're coming back in the picture and something's materially changed and you realize you made a mistake or whatever, you can be instrumental in that.
00:42:43.000But you've got to walk a very, very difficult balance.
00:42:46.000You've got to seem like a giga chad who is interested, intentional, tough guy, you know, all that.
00:42:56.000You got to seem like a man, confident.
00:43:18.000In the Ars Amaturia by Ovid, the art of love, Ovid is talking, he talks about, you know, how to get over breakups, how to, you know, you get rid of all the portraits you have of the girl and you, you know, you don't.
00:43:36.000You behave in a way that, you know, creates that kind of distance.
00:43:42.000So you have to do both of those things.
00:43:44.000I know that those seem like they're at odds.
00:44:36.000So I was just at a local Republican Party event in my neighborhood the other day, and a woman expressed to me her concern that the unpopularity of the ice raids in Minneapolis could cost us in terms of statewide races, including our ability to potentially take the governorship back from the DFL.
00:44:56.000I am curious if you think that this is true, and if so, how should we politically act on this here in Minnesota?
00:45:02.000Thank you, as always, for your wisdom.
00:45:27.000And I'm simply not expert enough at the political dynamics going on in Minnesota.
00:45:31.000But I could see it being the case that for a Minnesota Republican to win, you got to play things a little differently than a national Republican.
00:46:03.000Enough normie Minnesotans who are outside of the Twin Cities area might be so scandalized by what's going on by the leftist violence that they come out in bigger numbers.
00:46:11.000But otherwise, yeah, we probably the more realistic thing to hope for is Republicans don't do as well in Minnesota.
00:46:34.000Michael, I'm a Gen Z man trying to navigate this modern dating world.
00:46:38.000One fear I have stems from the comment section of a TikTok I saw in the video.
00:46:41.000In the video, a girl said on her wedding day, if that one guy who didn't treat her right shows up and is ready to commit, she will leave and go with him.
00:46:49.000There were thousands of girls in the comments saying it was relatable.
00:46:53.000I am scared any girl I meet will have outstanding feelings for another man, more so than their feelings for me.
00:46:58.000Should I only date a girl with no dating sexual history?
00:47:03.000That would probably make things easier for you.
00:47:05.000You know, a little hard to do these days, just given modern dating dynamics and social and sexual mores.
00:47:12.000But yeah, I mean, that'd be good, I guess, but it's a little tricky.
00:47:15.000Really here, I think even beyond the sluttiness of it all, which is, that's what you're asking about specifically, but it's really more, I think, about time.
00:47:26.000I think it's really more about time, when the girl, I haven't seen the TikTok though, I've heard tell of this, this thing going viral of, you know, it's my wedding day.
00:47:34.000But if that one guy, the one who got away from all those years ago, if he showed back up and said he changed his ways, I'd go with him in a minute.
00:47:41.000Ah, you know, there's nothing like your first, I guess.
00:47:46.000And it shows another aspect of modern dating culture, which is we delay everything.
00:47:52.000So you get married a lot later, people have a lot more partners, not just sexual partners, but even just romantic partners generally.
00:48:16.000And there's something real nice about that.
00:48:19.000You know, and modernity tells us that these long standing bonds, in some cases, unchosen bonds, or, you know, bonds that come about from your happenstance, the time, the tradition, that, you know, just that kind of growing together, that that's not really valuable.
00:48:38.000Really, you need to grow entirely on your own and become an independent individual.
00:48:43.000And then when you're 38, you can meet someone who's also an individual, and then that'll be better than marrying your high school sweetheart.
00:48:51.000And maybe there are some advantages to that, but I don't see a lot.
00:48:56.000Because as you grow, it's like your bones.
00:48:59.000When your bones are young, they're kind of nimble, and they grow, and they move, and they change.
00:49:03.000And when they're old, they harden, they ossify.
00:49:06.000And so, and it's hard to bend, as you have to bend when you're in a relationship, when you're married.
00:49:13.000But you have to, yeah, you do have to bend when you're married, and that's kind of like, you know, procreation, and we don't need to get into that.
00:49:19.000Like, you have to bend emotionally and personally.
00:49:22.000And it's harder to do that when you're a more hardened, ossified person.
00:49:27.000So, I think the idea of this nostalgia, this longing for all, if only my high school or college boyfriend showed up on my wedding day, I'd go run to him or something.
00:49:38.000And it's this longing for something that is lost and irretrievably lost in modern culture, which is, I wish my spouse and I had real shared experience.
00:49:48.000You know, I wish we really, we came up together.
00:49:51.000I wish, you know, and that seems kind of gone.
00:49:54.000So, I wouldn't worry so much about the nitty gritty particulars if your girlfriend dated a guy or something before.
00:50:04.000That's not so much it, I think it's more the time, the experience, the growing together, I think.
00:50:10.000But I don't know, you got to make sure though, you don't want a gal who's going to leave you at the altar.
00:50:14.000That's, some of these, some women are really are fickle.