Ep. 1909 - The Supposedly ＂Racist＂ Trump Post Explained in 5 Minutes
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Summary
On Day 4 of the Faux Outrage, President Trump posts a supposedly racist meme about Barack and Michelle Obama. Is this evidence of election fraud? Or is this proof that only 99% of people hate Trump because he's a racist?
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More American Olympians criticize America. Vice President J.D. Vance becomes the highest ranking
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US official ever to visit the first Christian country in the world. And we enter day four
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of faux outrage over President Trump's posting a supposedly racist meme
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about Barack Obama. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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the most important news story according to the libs and the centrists and even the squish
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Republicans. And that of course is President Trump's, see if you can follow me, President
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Trump's posting a video to Truth Social about election fraud that at the very end for like a
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second or two, auto scrolls to another video, which is a meme that had Barack and Michelle Obama
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had their heads placed on gorillas. Did you follow that? Did you follow where you're supposed to be
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outraged? I know it's a little distant. I know, and also by the way, President Trump took down the
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video and said a staffer posted it, which is pretty likely. That you're supposed to be outraged
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of that. We're on day four of the outrage, not just from the libs, which would be one thing,
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but from multiple US senators, all these squishy types. So just want to put all the cards on the
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table here. Let's examine it. We have to examine it. It's four days of this. We got to examine it.
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What exactly did President Trump post? Initiated by a court order, the Michigan investigation team
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obtained forensic access to a DS200 tabulator, the machine that counts of votes. A Tellit 4G wireless
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chip manufactured in Taiwan was discovered embedded into the motherboard. The voting machine tapes
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clearly indicate modem engagement and transmission of election data.
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Some of the anomalies that we noticed in the 2020 general elections, that five key states all stopped
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counting at a certain time in these key battleground states. These were all where the software,
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the mini machines, the SNS machines were used, the Smartmatic, the GEMS software. So when the vote
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stopped counting, and this has been noted in other countries as well, President Trump was significantly
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ahead. When reporting and counting resumed, there was a massive spike occurred that favored Joe Biden.
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Okay, okay. So I know if you're only listening, you could maybe hear it there at the very end where
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you get that Lion King, right? That for that one and a half seconds, there was this image of Barack and
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Michelle Obama with their heads on monkeys. And this was very, very racist. Of course, this is proof that
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Trump hates black people. This is the only thing that anyone knows about this post. 99.9% of the
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post was about voting machines and the potential of rigging in the 2020 election. But then there was
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this thing at the end, which I think very clearly was just an auto scroll, like you get on Instagram
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or Twitter or anywhere else. You play the video and then a new video pops up. Anyway, in any case,
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that's the one that everyone's focused on. Said this is proof that Trump is really racist. So I said,
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okay, it's not really tasteful to put black people's faces on monkeys. I certainly agree with
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that. So I don't think he did this intentionally. I don't think he posted this. He obviously thought
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it was distasteful because he took the video down when he even got to the very end, if he got to the
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end the first time he saw it. But I said, let me go back to the original video, not the voting
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machine one. I'm talking about that one that autoplayed there at the end. I'm even skeptical that that
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video is racist. Not because of putting black people's faces on monkeys, but I'm skeptical of
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it because the libs have been lying about everything when it comes to Trump. So you know what? Let me
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just go back. I found the original video. Here's the original video. I'll describe it to you if you're
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only listening. So we've got Brock and Michelle and their heads are on monkeys. Okay. Okay. That's a
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little distasteful, I think we would say. And then there's Hillary's like a warthog. And then Hakeem is
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there. AOC's a donkey as his noose. Some Pritzker's an elephant. Zoron is a leopard. Hold on. Pause it.
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Pause it. There's the key. Joe Biden is a monkey. So if this video, which is just all the Democrats
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looking like animals, and then the punchline is Trump comes in as the lion and they say,
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you know, the lion sleeps to nine. He's the lion and they're all a bunch of animals.
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But if it were only black people as monkeys, I might be able to understand the outrage a little
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bit. So, you know, it's kind of distasteful, isn't it? But that's not what happened.
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Because here you have Joe Biden, vice president to Barack Obama, and then the Democrat president
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that followed him as a monkey. Furthermore, in that very image, you got Joe Biden as a monkey
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eating a banana, and then you've got Kamala as a turtle. Now, Kamala, I'm reliably informed,
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is a black woman of color. So if this were a racist thing, Kamala would be the monkey,
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and I guess Biden would be the turtle. And it would actually make more sense for Biden to be the
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turtle because Joe Biden's really slow and he's like 200 years old. So the craziest part about
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this, and I haven't really seen people talking about this, is, yeah, okay, it's, yes, it's
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distasteful to put black people's faces on monkeys. Sure, fair enough. Trump clearly didn't intend to do
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that. He almost certainly didn't even see that. He might not have posted the video himself,
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very likely did not. He's got other things on his plate. And, you know, posting a video is a
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little more complicated than just sending out a tweet with a, you know, a few lines that you type
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yourself. But beyond that, what everyone seems to agree on, including the conservatives is,
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but the original video in context is racist. And the fact is, it's not. In context, the original video
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itself is actually not even racist. In order for the original video to be racist, it would have to be
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the black people as monkeys and the non-black people as not monkeys. But that's not what
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happened. You get Biden as the monkey. And then to prove it, you get Biden and a black person in the
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very same frame. And the white person is the monkey. And the non-white person is the turtle.
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A hoax through and through. And I don't, it's crazy. I haven't even seen anyone defend that.
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Look, it's obviously Trump regretted posting it because he took the video down.
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But I don't, I don't want to hear, I've been seeing some conservatives saying, well,
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obviously the original video is racist. It's actually not in its original context.
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You could say that making black people look like monkeys is a, is racial and cruel or whatever.
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But in the context of the video, it's actually not. You don't even need to give lives that much.
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It is thoroughly, entirely, 100% grade A USDA certified a hoax. Okay. Speaking of criticizing Trump,
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which everyone loves to do. We have another Olympian throwing shade at Trump.
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This after, what was that guy's name? Rudolph Hess? Is that his, no, not Rudolph Hess. It was
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something Hess. Whatever, whatever Hess is, the skier. He comes out and he starts attacking Trump.
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And he says, you know, you know, man, there's a lot of bad stuff in the country right now. I don't,
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just because I wear the America flag doesn't mean I represent America.
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Like, well, that's literally what it means. And that's all that it means.
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And then this figure skater chick comes out and she attacks Trump. And now we have the perfect
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exemplar of American Olympians criticizing Trump. And we have the perfect example of what is wrong
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with the Olympics. And that is this skier, Eileen Gu. Do you know Eileen Gu? I don't really follow the
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Olympics. I don't care for the Olympics. I don't watch it. I don't, it doesn't interest me. I think
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it's pagan and super lib and it just doesn't interest me. But some people like it. That's fine.
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Eileen Gu has just come out. She was asked about President Trump attacking the skier Hess.
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And Gu says, quote, she's sorry that the headline that is eclipsing the Olympics has to be something
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so unrelated to the spirit of the games. She says, as someone who's been caught in the crossfire before,
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I feel sorry for the athletes. I hope they can ski to their very best. She's really upset.
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Trump. Oh, this Trump. He's just, you know, why does this headline have to take away from the
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spirit of the games? What is the spirit of the games? Is the spirit of the games American athletes
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dissing America? You know, I was trying to read her comments as an esoteric defense of Trump.
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You know, I'm sorry that this headline is so, is eclipsing the Olympics and so unrelated to the
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spirit of the games. I was wondering if in a way she was thrown shade at Hess here. Hess should have
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kept his mouth shut and not undermine America kind of thing. Actually weird, maybe kind of weirdly
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defending the administration and the United States. But then you look at Eileen Gu and who she is and
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you say, probably not. Eileen Gu is American. She was born in America. She's an American citizen.
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Her mother was an immigrant, but her father's American. She was raised in America. She was
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educated in America. She trained in America. She's lived basically her whole life in America.
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And she competes for China. She competes for China. Not only a different country, but America's chief
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geopolitical rival. She's competing for them. I thought this is just perfect. This is the perfect
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example of what's wrong with the Olympics. First of all, a lot of athletes are like this.
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A lot of athletes live here. Maybe they're born here. They train here. They get all the benefits
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of being in America. And then they go back to their country and they compete for their actual country,
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not for America. And you say, all right, if it's a tiny little country somewhere in Africa or the
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Far East, if it's like Mauritius or something, you say, okay, why not? Okay, that's fine.
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When it's America's geopolitical rival, chief rival, China, you say, well, that's a little
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distasteful, isn't it? I mean, that's the word to describe all these stories today on the show.
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It's a little distasteful. But what are the Olympics? The Olympics are a modern invention.
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They don't go back to antiquity. There was an Olympics in antiquity, but the modern Olympics is a
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creation that's roughly 100 years old. And it's to promote liberalism, internationalism,
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globalism, we would say today. And this is it. This is the kind of thing that the election of
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Trump was a rebellion against. This idea that people are going to come here, they're going to
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get all the benefits out of this country. They're going to sap this country dry. They're going to get
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welfare benefits when they move to Minnesota. They're going to train at the best facilities.
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They're going to go to the top schools. They're going to get the greatest legal and political
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protections. They're going to benefit from this great economy. They're going to benefit in every
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single way. And they're just going to take, take, take, take, take. They're not going to consider
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themselves American. They're not going to assimilate. They're not going to adopt an American
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identity, which includes getting rid of your old identity in large part. No, they're going to take,
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take, take. And then they're still going to identify with their country of origin.
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And they're even going to help their country of origin to compete against the United States
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economically, politically, maybe militarily. And in this case, in skiing, in athletic games.
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This is it. She says, I'm sorry that these headlines are contradicting and eclipsing the
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spirit of the Olympics. I'm not. I'm thrilled that these headlines are eclipsing the spirit of the
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Olympics because the spirit of the modern Olympics is terrible. It's, it's a horrible spirit. And it
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is actually that spirit, which was the cause of the election of Donald Trump. It wasn't literally
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the, it wasn't practically the Olympics, but it was that spirit that animates the Olympics.
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That is what galvanized people to vote for Trump in 16 and 2020 and 2024 and to win the popular vote in
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2024. A rebellion against this globalism, this liberalism that diminishes the United States,
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that does not really benefit, that doesn't, it does not constitute our strength, that does not
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create a beautiful, delicious stew in a melting pot that's greater than the sum of its parts.
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That's the, that's the spirit of it. Okay. Speaking of attacks on Trump, there's a really weird one.
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I teased it yesterday. I think I teased it. In Illinois high school, had a walkout to protest
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ICE. And as part of the protest, they crucified Trump in effigy. And they actually completely
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here. An amazing story, an amazing story, because it doesn't just pertain to a high school in Illinois.
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This is a symbol of the Libs' derangement and the ways in which the people who think they're the good
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guys very often are the bad guys. This is from Waukegan High School in Illinois. They had an anti-ice
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protest with hoisting Mexican flags, of course. They almost never hoist the American flag. It's the
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they erected. This is pretty, pretty disturbing. They erected a cross and they, they crucified an
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effigy of Trump and they made him look kind of fat, you know, mostly naked, wearing, wearing a MAGA hat.
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I love, I actually, I don't love this display because it's so vile and sacrilegious,
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but I, I love the point they accidentally made. The Libs thought they were really going to,
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at this, first of all, students at high schools should not be doing this. From whatever teachers
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encourage this, there are people with gray hair over there. Those people need to be fired,
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obviously. These students need to be severely punished and they should be grounded by their
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parents. They should be suspended from school. Maybe they should be expelled. I mean, this is
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pretty outrageous stuff and, and has no place in a high school. However, notice the imagery here.
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These Libs have become so deranged or there's just so ignorant, you know, their intellects are
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darkened by sin and ignorance that they, they think the way to get Trump is by comparing him to
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God. They think the way that they're going to really stick it to Trump, that guy that they hate so much
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is by comparing him to, uh, what is that? Oh yes. Christ crucified.
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is reenacting the passion, except they're on the side of the mob calling for Barabbas,
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calling for Christ to be crucified. I don't know if you've ever read the story. I hope you have.
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If you haven't the mob, it's not the good guys. You know who the good guy is?
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God Christ, the one that they're crucifying and they're comparing him to Trump and they don't
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even realize that they're doing it. This reminds me of something that it wasn't just ignorant high
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school students. It was ignorant members of Congress and governors and politicians did some
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years ago. Do you remember after the 2020 election about which president Trump is still
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posting videos, potential rigging? Do you remember what the Libs said?
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They said that Republicans had perpetrated the big lie. They said, you Republicans who are denying the
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results of the election. Libs have denied the results of basically every single election they've
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lost in my lifetime, going back to Bush v. Gore at least, but nevermind that. They said, you Republicans
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who are denying the results of the election by pointing out that the rules were all changed at the
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last minute, in some cases illegally and unconstitutionally. They said, you all are perpetrating
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the big lie. That was the phrase you heard on CNN and MSNBC and the Washington Post and the New York
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Times and all over the place. And they used that phrase specifically because they associated this
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phrase with Hitler. It's the big lie, like the Nazis, like Hitler. And what was so amazing about them
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using that phrase is that that phrase was coined by Hitler, by the Nazis. The phrase appears in
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Mein Kampf. The phrase is not an accusation from the allies or from the Jews or from the innocent
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German people against the Nazis. Au contraire, my frere, that was a phrase used by the Nazis
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against the Jews. And they didn't know it because they don't know anything about history.
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So they're using this phrase. You're saying, you Republicans, you Republicans are pushing the big lie.
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In so doing, they were putting themselves in the place of Hitler and they were putting Trump and the
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Republicans in the place of the persecuted Jews. You couldn't make it up. If you were writing a
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Hollywood screenplay about this, you could not make it up. It was so on the nose.
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And now you have these liberal high school students being pushed by their parents and
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by Democrat politicians all around the country. You have them putting themselves in the place of
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the crowd calling for the crucifixion of Christ in whose place they put Donald Trump.
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Couldn't make it up. Really makes you think. Maybe sometimes when you think you're the good guy,
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maybe you're actually the baddie. Maybe you should have some introspection and you should examine your
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conscience and have a touch of humility to ask yourself, is what I am doing actually right?
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This is the whole point. This is the central debated point of that stupid halftime show with
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what's his face, Bad Bunny. Have you seen this going around? There's this picture from the Bad
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Bunny halftime show, Levi's Stadium. And then up there on the big billboard next to Bud Light,
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very fitting. It says, white background, black text, all caps. The only thing more powerful than hate
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is love. And then some guy, it's gone totally viral, almost 4 million views, tweets us out and says,
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imagine getting mad about this and still thinking you're a good person. Why would you get mad at
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the transvestite, anti-American, vulgar, degenerate rap singer babbling in a foreign tongue that the
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vast majority of Americans don't speak while featuring two men grinding on each other in front
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of a sports game that is supposed to be viewed by children? Why would you get mad about that? A guy who
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disses America, even in the phrase, God bless America. How could you get mad about that when
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Investing involves risk. Imagine getting mad about this. This is a meme. This is a meme that the
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right uses to make fun of the left. And the left is now just doing it sincerely, unironically.
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And the meme is, you know, the left comes out as they're like killing people, slaughtering babies,
00:24:14.680
you know, mutilating little children, flooding the country with rapists and poison peddlers and
00:24:21.380
murderers. And they say, yeah, but we stand for love. We define everything we do as love and
00:24:28.740
everything you do as hate. So we're actually the good guys. Did you know that? Did you know that?
00:24:33.200
When the Libs redefined marriage for basically the first time in human history anywhere,
00:24:40.140
and they did so in such a way that excludes mothers from their children, from families,
00:24:47.840
or alternately excludes fathers from families, leads to all sorts of horrible things up to and
00:24:54.120
including creating children for the purpose of denying them their natural mother and father.
00:24:57.900
You know, really heinous stuff. But what did they say? They said, love is love. Love is love. Love wins.
00:25:02.720
How could you oppose love? Why are you? We have defined the disordered things that we're doing
00:25:10.040
that are contrary to reality and to the common good in human flourishing. We've defined them as love.
00:25:14.740
And if you oppose us, you hate love. Huh? Checkmate. Checkmate, conservatives.
00:25:20.940
This is like when Anthony Kennedy decided to abdicate his responsibility to interpret the law
00:25:27.320
as a Supreme Court justice. And he instead decided to write cheap romantic poetry
00:25:31.540
that is fitting for an eighth grade English class. And he decided that his interpretation
00:25:37.380
of the Constitution was going to find a right to privacy. Just as he earlier in an abortion case
00:25:44.160
had found a right to define the sweet mystery of life somewhere in the Constitution. I don't know
00:25:52.780
where it is. And they say, look, we support mystery. We support love. We support life. Well, life,
00:25:59.340
that's the key here is when you're, when you're lib friends, send that meme around.
00:26:06.180
Hate is worse than love. Love beats hate. How could you get mad at that?
00:26:11.900
Bad bunny had a sign. How could you get mad at that? The point you should tell them is that you are
00:26:19.020
pro-life and they are angry at people who are pro-life. How imagine being against life and thinking
00:26:27.600
you're the good guy. And what would they say? They would say, no, no, no, but you're not really
00:26:31.060
pro-life. You're anti-choice. You're, you want to control one's bodies. You want to, and they'd use
00:26:36.600
all their own silly euphemisms. You say, okay, okay, okay. Before we get into the abortion issue,
00:26:41.560
I just want to point out, you have granted me the premise. You have accepted the premise
00:26:45.740
that sometimes people use words in ways that can be misleading or tell a partial truth,
00:26:53.940
or at the very least can be euphemistic. You've granted that point, right? Okay, great. So you
00:26:59.400
don't like my phrase pro-life. I think pro-life is an honest phrase that accurately depicts what
00:27:03.820
we're talking about, but you, you dispute that. Okay, fine. Then let's dig into the real substance
00:27:08.440
of it. I support the law coming in and restricting women from going to a medical professional to kill
00:27:18.620
her baby. That's what we're talking. You want to get past the euphemisms and the slogans? That's what
00:27:22.420
we're talking about. And what you support is women being able to kill their babies in defense of
00:27:28.940
their own disordered autonomy, right? That's what we're talking about. With marriage, you support
00:27:35.320
excluding mothers or alternately fathers from marriage and denying babies their natural mothers
00:27:40.500
or fathers. Okay, that's what you support along with other acts that we don't even need to get into
00:27:45.920
when it comes to gay marriage. I support not that. I think that babies have a right to their mothers and
00:27:51.820
their fathers. So let's get down, let's get down to the brass tacks. But I think what you will find
00:27:57.080
as the libs promote all their slogans, love beats hate, love is love, love wins, whatever.
00:28:02.720
I think you will find the conservatives are more than happy to put the slogans aside and talk about
00:28:07.300
the real issue. The libs will focus on more and more hyperbolic and preposterous slogans.
00:28:16.680
They will do whatever they can to avoid looking at the real issue. They will only speak in
00:28:22.220
euphemisms. And that very fact tells you everything you need to know about the issues.
00:28:27.780
All politics uses slogans, but that fact tells you everything you need to know about the issues.
00:28:32.820
The conservatives are using slogans and euphemisms to try to convey the truth.
00:28:37.900
The left is using slogans and euphemisms to deny the truth.
00:28:40.980
If that isn't the case, then let's get down to brass tacks. Let's talk about the details.
00:28:46.920
Now, turning from the party of love to the religion of peace, Zoran Mamdani, peace be upon him,
00:28:53.260
the mayor of New York, has defended the city's sanctuary city policies,
00:28:58.420
said this is a reversal from his predecessor, albeit a Democrat, Eric Adams.
00:29:03.260
Eric Adams said illegal immigration is going to destroy New York City.
00:29:07.200
Zoran comes in, he says, no, no, no, we need more illegal aliens.
00:29:09.980
Bring them here, all the rapists from MS-13, all the murderers from Trendy, Aragua.
00:29:14.300
We want them. Come on in. The water's warm in the Kiwanis or whatever, in the East River.
00:29:20.760
So that's not surprising. We knew he was going to run on that. He's a communist. So there's no
00:29:27.200
surprise there. But listen to how he is defending the sanctuary city policies.
00:29:32.400
The story of the hijra reminds us that Prophet Muhammad, S.A.W., was a stranger too, who fled
00:29:41.600
Mecca and was welcomed in Medina. Surah Al-Nahl, 1642, tells us, as for those who immigrated in the
00:29:48.560
cause of Allah after being persecuted, we will surely bless them with a good home in this world.
00:29:53.520
Or as the Prophet Muhammad, S.A.W., said, Islam began as something strange and will go back to
00:30:01.340
being strange. So glad tidings to the strangers.
00:30:06.800
Okay. I'm out. I mean, I'm literally out of New York because I was born in New York, raised in New
00:30:13.720
York, and I've since left New York. But what I mean is I'm out of this. I don't want this. I don't want
00:30:18.640
my mayor's quoting Muhammad or the Hadith or the Quran or any of it. I don't want it. It's wrong.
00:30:25.680
And you can tell me that we don't have a religious test for political office in America. Sure. And you
00:30:30.700
can tell me we don't have an official established religion in America. Okay. Kind of. Sure. Whatever.
00:30:36.460
I don't want it. I don't like it. I'm even somewhat open-minded when it comes to Muslims. I've
00:30:42.240
said on this show many times, I have a reasonable degree of respect for Islam, and I find it in many
00:30:47.600
ways easier to talk to a Muslim than to talk to some decadent lib atheist. Okay. So it's not even,
00:30:52.340
I mean, my Islamophobia is intensifying when I hear the mayor of New York talk this way, but I'm not
00:30:58.460
even like a knuckle-dragger on the issue. There are nice insights that we in Christendom have taken
00:31:05.300
from our interactions with the Muslim world. Some as warnings, but some as legitimate contributions.
00:31:11.080
I don't want it. I don't want it in New York. This reminds me of a debate that happened about 15
00:31:17.300
years ago. They were going to install a mosque, or at the very least an Islamic center, by the World
00:31:22.940
Trade Center. And this was at the time when the left was very Islamophilic. I guess it still is.
00:31:29.140
And this was at a time when the right was very libertarian. The conservative movement was very
00:31:33.880
libertarian. So they lacked the fortitude and the moral clarity and the guardrails of authority
00:31:40.740
to explain why it was wrong to put a mosque at ground zero. They couldn't quite say why,
00:31:46.580
because they were so libertarian. We all knew it was wrong. And Charles Krauthammer,
00:31:51.780
of blessed memory, Charles Krauthammer wrote a great piece in the Washington Post, I assume,
00:31:55.800
about why. He came out, we were all kind of wondering where these pundits and these thought
00:31:59.640
leaders were going to land. And he said, you can't have a mosque at ground zero.
00:32:04.440
It's just not the place for it. It's just not fitting. It's not fitting for the mayor of New
00:32:11.140
York to be quoting Muhammad as some kind of great authority. It's just not fitting. That's just not
00:32:16.460
what we do there. And especially in the wake of 9-11, it's perverse to do that. It's just wrong.
00:32:23.460
It's not the right place for that. It's not that there's no place to quote Muhammad.
00:32:27.880
Muhammad. There's certainly places around the world, maybe even in America, Muhammad can come up.
00:32:33.980
Not from the mayor of New York. It's just wrong. However, I have to give some credit here. Professor
00:32:39.160
Jacob made a great observation to me. In a way, I'm glad Momdani is quoting Muhammad in this way,
00:32:45.780
because it allows us to ask ourselves where all of this ends. Momdani comes out, he says,
00:32:53.540
you know, Muhammad was booted out of Mecca, and he was welcomed into Medina. He was welcomed there.
00:33:01.120
So anyway, that's why we need to let a bunch of illegals in. You say, well, hold on. Keep going
00:33:05.520
with the story. What happened after Muhammad was welcomed into Medina? What happened? Did he just
00:33:11.280
live peacefully, happily ever after? He just kind of got along with the locals, and they all just decided
00:33:17.640
to live their own lives, and you do you. Oh, or was he welcomed into Medina, and then raised an army,
00:33:27.020
conquered not only Medina and Mecca, the entire Arabian Peninsula, and then the entire Levant,
00:33:32.000
and then this is obviously including his followers, and then all of North Africa, and then half of
00:33:38.640
Europe going all the way up almost to Paris until he was booted out and had to remain in Iberia for 800
00:33:44.560
years. What happened? You understand, we need to let these people in, just like Medina allowed
00:33:53.220
Muhammad in. So then, Trendyiragua and MS-13 and all of these foreigners who don't speak our language
00:33:59.860
or share our culture or have any desire to assimilate, then they can conquer us just like
00:34:04.320
Muhammad did. He said, well, hold on. Wait, if that's your example, I think we need to get rid
00:34:09.680
of all of them immediately as quick as possible. Maybe not the best example if you're trying to
00:34:15.500
convince people that the mass migration will turn out well for them. How did it turn out for Arabia
00:34:21.520
and the Levant and North Africa and Europe and America increasingly? Okay. Speaking of Christianity,
00:34:29.960
a great, great turn of events happened just yesterday, and that is that the vice president,
00:34:35.540
J.D. Vance, became the highest-ranking U.S. official ever to visit the very first Christian
00:34:43.640
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My favorite comment yesterday is from at O-X-X-X-G, who says, I speak Spanish and I didn't
00:36:09.980
understand anything Bad Bunny said. Yeah. I looked up some of the lyrics. Someone sent them to me.
00:36:15.800
It's probably good that we did not speak Spanish. Some of his lyrics are not great. Not great, let's
00:36:23.820
say. Okay. Vice President J.D. Vance has just made history and very, very important history because it
00:36:33.500
relates to history and it relates to the history of our civilization. J.D. Vance just flew to Armenia
00:36:39.540
to become the highest ranking U.S. official ever to visit the very first Christian country in the
00:36:47.100
world, Armenia, which became Christian in 301, the year of our Lord 301, which is a decade before the
00:36:55.300
Edict of Milan. The Edict of Milan by which Constantine legalized Christianity throughout the
00:37:01.560
Roman Empire. Here is the Vice President. This is one of the oldest Christian countries in the entire
00:37:07.960
world, a true bedrock of Christian civilization and culture. As a devout Christian myself, I know the
00:37:14.680
meaning of this country to the entire world and to the religion that the prime minister and I share.
00:37:20.720
So to the people of Armenia and the great prime minister, I want to thank you for your partnership.
00:37:25.020
President Trump is committed to this partnership and so am I and we're thrilled to be here to take
00:37:30.040
the next step. God bless you. Really, really important. In the context here, we've talked
00:37:33.980
about it on the show a little bit, but it hasn't gotten a lot of play in American media. There has
00:37:38.080
been a decades-long war between Armenia, which is the very first Christian country, Christian before
00:37:45.440
Constantine made it legal in Rome, and Azerbaijan, which is a Muslim country. And there's been this war
00:37:53.040
over a debated region called Artsakh, which is Armenian, which unfortunately the Azerbaijanis were able to
00:37:59.480
steal from them. And they're destroying every last vestige of Christianity there, which goes back
00:38:04.780
to antiquity. And it's a little complicated because Armenia was a Soviet satellite state during the Cold
00:38:13.140
War. So the U.S. didn't really have relations with Armenia. And Armenia has been squeezed by Russia and
00:38:18.000
Iran. And the United States is NATO allies with Turkey since the 1950s. The United States is allies with
00:38:23.700
the state of Israel. Israel hates Iran. So Israel cozies up to Turkey and Azerbaijan, which means
00:38:31.540
that in this war, indirectly, American money was being used to wage this war from a Muslim country
00:38:38.400
against the very first Christian country. And it's just a whole mess until President Trump comes in.
00:38:44.100
And President Trump insists upon a peace. Now, unfortunately, the peace granted the political
00:38:49.540
realities, which is that Azerbaijan really did rest this territory from Armenia. And so it's very
00:38:53.560
unfortunate the way it ended. But it is happy, at least, that there is some peace here. And the
00:38:59.300
vice president, the very fact that someone as high-ranking as J.D. Vance, who is, by the way,
00:39:05.880
given the circumstances of the second term, is the presumptive heir to MAGA, the presumptive
00:39:10.280
Republican nominee in 2028, and by my calculations, very likely the next president, that he would go there
00:39:16.520
and say, you know what, it is important that we stand with Armenia. And there are all sorts of
00:39:21.100
realpolitik aspects to this move, ways that can kind of weaken Russia, weaken Iran, other American
00:39:27.740
adversaries. But there's a civilizational aspect here. And this is the point I've been talking about
00:39:32.360
since I've been bringing up the Armenian issue. We ignore the Armenians. We focus on all sorts of
00:39:37.200
persecution and religious groups, genocides, ethnic cleansings, and somehow we forget the Armenians,
00:39:43.300
who were subjected to a genocide in the early 20th century by the Turks.
00:39:49.120
And even today are seriously being persecuted, and being persecuted as the first Christian country.
00:39:54.920
And we have a cultural relation to them. Okay? St. Paul is like writing to these people. Okay?
00:40:02.540
We have a cultural relation to them because we are a Christian country. We're one nation under God.
00:40:07.440
We're founded on the Christian morality, as John Adams tells us. The founding fathers are writing
00:40:13.840
constantly about providence. John Jay writes in the Federalist Papers about our shared religion,
00:40:18.140
Christianity. So we have a relation to them. And it's important, if America's going to have any
00:40:22.800
global leadership at all, surely we have to do our very best to bring some peace to and defend
00:40:29.360
the very first Christian country. I talk a lot about one of the arguments for supporting the state of
00:40:34.720
Israel is the protection of the holy sites. That's one, that's a very compelling argument to a lot
00:40:38.520
of people. Well, you could make similar arguments about Armenia. Okay? And especially in the wake of
00:40:43.340
the Cold War, now that the Cold War is over, now that the Soviets are out of Armenia, though they
00:40:46.660
still want it, you know, we have an opportunity for global leadership to expand our influence and
00:40:51.240
to protect Christians. This is a great way to do that. Very, very important. I'm really,
00:40:58.620
really pleased to see this from the Vice President, from the White House, from the whole Trump
00:41:02.180
administration for our national security strategy. I think it's just terrific. Very important to call
00:41:06.400
attention to it. Okay. Speaking of defending civilization, a little more of a depressing
00:41:10.860
story here, closer to home. A Louisville judge is catching some heat, going viral, for reducing
00:41:18.100
the sentence of an unrepentant rapist. Judge Davis thought the jury's recommendation was too long.
00:41:27.640
She feels he hasn't mentally matured yet, and never had a real shot at getting any help early
00:41:33.980
in life. But if you were to come in here, and instead of being hurt and angry, which is what
00:41:40.560
this court hears, right, as a 20-year-old African-American male that has been, you know, experienced this
00:41:49.240
society, et cetera, and you would show that, yes, okay, this is the situation. This is who I am.
00:41:55.840
I don't want to be this person anymore. I don't want to be in jail forever forever.
00:42:00.720
Thompson repeatedly stated he did not care, not about his sentence, the victim, or her family.
00:42:07.240
But Judge Davis emphasized she's the one that holds the pen, and regardless of what the media may think,
00:42:13.060
she applies the law. To her, 65 years was an extremely long time. As she puts it, it's his whole
00:42:20.540
life. One she doesn't believe should be spent entirely behind bars.
00:42:25.500
This court does not believe that Mr. Thompson, if giving the resources that he can get while
00:42:36.820
What? You hear these cases all the time. Some judge lets these career criminals, these people
00:42:43.020
who rape and murder and, you know, have a rap sheet a mile long, they keep letting them off the
00:42:47.020
hook. And what do they do? They go out and they rape and murder some more, and then they wind up
00:42:49.640
right back in front of the judge. You hear these cases all day long. But this case seems so egregious
00:42:54.980
because she brings this guy in. What did he do? Let's just be clear about what he did.
00:42:59.640
He kidnapped a woman a couple years ago, two, three years ago, no, about two years ago.
00:43:05.340
Kidnapped a woman in her own vehicle, forced her to perform certain acts on him in a school parking
00:43:13.980
lot, drove her to an ATM, robbed her, drove back to the school parking lot, performed more
00:43:22.400
deviant, disgusting acts on her at gunpoint, and then was arrested. And they cut this out of the
00:43:31.740
media report. They go in and the judge says, before we even get appearances, Mr. Thompson,
00:43:37.200
I'm going to need you to be respectful. He responded, I am doing nothing. Eat my D-I-C-K.
00:43:43.640
Then moments later, the judge says, it's fine. Okay, it's fine. He responds, if I could spit on you,
00:43:50.760
I would. And she says, at the end of the day, I'm the one with the pen. And the rapist says,
00:43:58.120
the rapist robber says, I don't care. This is such a perverse exchange. She goes, hey,
00:44:05.960
whether you like it or not, I'm going to let you off the hook for raping that woman twice at gunpoint
00:44:10.480
and robbing her. And he says, basically, I want to rape you too. I want to assault you. I'm not
00:44:16.480
sorry at all. And she goes, well, too bad. Too bad, Buster. Okay, because I'm the one with the pen,
00:44:23.900
and I'm letting you off the hook. Because you're a black man in America, and you've experienced
00:44:28.500
this society, whatever that means. And so I'm letting you off the hook for multiple rapes.
00:44:34.700
You shouldn't. What does he say? He goes, I don't have sympathy for nobody. I don't have sympathy
00:44:38.960
for you, the victim, the victim's family. I don't care. Boo-hoo. Direct quote. She goes, yeah. Okay.
00:44:45.960
Well, you can say you're unrepentant. You could even come out and say you wanted to rape us all
00:44:50.700
tomorrow and rob us and kill us. I'm letting you off the hook. So take that. This is so,
00:44:58.080
so pathetic. And why? Because he fell through the cracks, the judge says. Unfortunately,
00:45:04.320
he fell through the cracks and ended up in this court as an 18 or 19-year-old.
00:45:09.160
This court does not believe that Mr. Thompson, if given the resources that he can get well
00:45:12.260
incarcerated, it's beyond being rehabilitated. Okay. Yeah, I don't think anyone's beyond redemption.
00:45:18.600
That's true. But first of all, just statistically, listening to this guy,
00:45:24.940
I wouldn't put my money on him becoming the, you know, president of the HOA when he gets out of
00:45:31.780
prison. Wouldn't bet money on that. But second of all, he can be rehabilitated and still serve his
00:45:39.960
sentence, which would also, by the way, protect society from the people that he's very likely to
00:45:45.900
rape and rob at gunpoint the second he gets out. This is where we're at. This is, when people talk
00:45:53.880
about the Soros DAs, you know, the Soros DAs and these liberal judges, you know, it kind of sounds
00:45:59.700
like your boomer uncle, you know, just idly complaining about the political order while he's
00:46:05.520
grilling or something. You say, okay, Uncle Bob. Yeah. All right. Whatever. No, no, no. What we're
00:46:10.720
talking about is rapists telling the judges to their face, I have no repentance. I would harm all of you
00:46:19.940
right now if I could. I hate you and I am villainous and I am a threat to everybody.
00:46:25.580
And the judge saying, yeah, la, la, la, la, la. I can't hear you. You're going to be on the street
00:46:32.700
again soon. La, la, la, la. That's what we're talking about here. Okay. That is such an escalation
00:46:40.740
of lawlessness. That is so irresponsible. That is such, in effect, anarcho-tyranny.
00:46:49.440
It requires a political solution from Republicans that's a little more severe than just,
00:46:55.200
oh, golly shucks, this George Soros, you know, isn't he awful? Oh boy, these liberal judges,
00:47:00.980
we got to do something. No, no, no. We need, I've said it before, I'll say it again. People talk about
00:47:07.260
the over-incarceration problem in America. We have a severe under-incarceration problem and we
00:47:11.960
have a serious problem of lawlessness. And if you don't enforce the law, if you can't protect people
00:47:17.740
from rapist robbers on the streets, if your judiciary is explicitly, specifically encouraging
00:47:25.920
and promoting rapists and robbers on the streets, you can't have any other of the goods or the
00:47:33.600
accoutrement of civilization. Very serious. I hope people see this for the reality that it is.
00:47:41.080
This is whatever you thought this was. It's a lot worse. Okay. On that chipper note,
00:47:46.280
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00:48:03.600
What was it like, Merlin, to be alone with God? Is that who you think I was alone with?
00:48:21.260
Meridyn, I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.
00:48:26.100
All men know of the great Taliesin. You are my father, that the gods should war for my soul.
00:48:42.060
I know what the bull god offered you. I was offered the same.
00:48:48.080
There is a new power at work in the world. I've seen it.
00:49:10.440
Trust in Yezu. He is the only hope for men like us.
00:49:14.720
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?
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So clinging to the promises of a god who has abandoned you.
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From the moment I met you at that restaurant, it was love at first sight.
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