Ep. 1961 - Shooter’s Identity & Manifesto Revealed After Trump Event Attack
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Summary
After mainstream leftists have spent years calling for the murder of conservatives, attempting to murder conservatives at public events, nearly murdering President Trump, and successfully murdering Charlie Kirk, a leftist assassin at the White House Correspondents Dinner is barely newsworthy.
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administration at the White House Correspondents Association dinner Saturday night, which is
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barely newsworthy at this point. After mainstream leftists have spent years calling for the murder
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of conservatives, attempting to murder conservatives at public events, nearly murdering President Trump
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and successfully murdering Charlie Kirk, a leftist assassin at the White House
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correspondence dinner is barely newsworthy. This is just what they do. So now we've entered the
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five stages of leftist violence. The first stage is denial. They all deny that it happened.
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Or they say it was staged. Or they insist that something happened, but we can't possibly note
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the motive. I've got all the receipts. The second stage is anger. They're angry that it didn't work.
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The third stage is bargaining. That's where they argue that the violence that they initially
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denied, is actually justified as a response to President Trump's abstract violence against them.
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He's not committing literal violence against them or particular violence. But when you really think
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about it, man, like in the abstract, sometimes when he tweets, it's kind of like violence.
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So therefore, their own literal violence is justified. Then comes depression. That's the
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stage when the leftists make themselves the real victims. And then we get to the final stage,
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acceptance when the left decides they just need to try again. None of that is newsworthy.
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It keeps happening again and again, more frequently, more brazenly. The left has been
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doing this for years and their political violence is only getting worse. The only newsworthy question
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for us is whether we are finally now willing to do something to stop it. I'm Michael Knowles.
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complicated issue. The people, even on the right, they're rending their garments. They say, what can
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Little silver lining in the storm cloud because this was a very, very serious event that occurred
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When the shots go off, White House Correspondents Association dinner,
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first time President Trump has shown up to it since he has been president. He showed up as a
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guest before he was president. This is the first time he shows up as president. And gunshots go
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off. Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Everybody in the room starts freaking out. I mean, you can see
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on the first lady's face, total shock. You can see the woman next to President Trump, shock.
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The guy standing up speaking to him, I can't tell if that's Secret Service or shock, shock,
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concern terror. And then there's Trump. And Trump just turns. He's looking in the direction of the
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first lady. And it's that James Franco look from Buster Scruggs. First time? Oh, this is the first
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time someone shot at you? It reminds me, there's a very famous picture, painting of Winston Churchill
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at the treaty where they're wrapping up World War I. And everybody's kind of jabbering with
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themselves. And there's Churchill just staring right out at you, light on him. And it was a
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picture, actually, that was painted before World War II. But it's him saying, I just see it. I've
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been through this. I know how this is going to turn out. Nobody seems to get it. Reminds me of
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that other line from Churchill. I think it's in my early life when he says that it was in Cuba
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as a student that he first had the thrill of being shot at to no effect. There's Trump.
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Handles it perfectly. Holds a press conference after with the press wearing their tuxedos in
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the briefing room. It's a very, very impressive response. But what the libs did here is very,
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very serious, much more serious than they are letting on. And it demands a political answer.
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President Trump has this great personal response, which is, I don't think about it much. I'm just
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going to keep doing what I'm doing. I'm in a dangerous job. They keep trying to kill me.
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I'm going to keep doing a great job for the country. That's the right personal response.
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Stiff upper lip, keep calm and carry on. But the political response is different.
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We cannot ignore this at the level of politics. We need to take a very firm stand against the
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people who increasingly support this because it's not just one fringe wacko. It's not just
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one left wing California teacher. It is a huge portion of the mainstream left from the lady
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who sits next to you at work all the way up to elected officials. They support this. They want
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Trump dead and they want you dead. And we need to do something politically to stop it. So what
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happened. This shooter busts into the correspondence dinner. It was so strange when this news broke
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because not 20 minutes prior, I turned to sweet little Alisa and I said, should I have gone to
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the White House correspondence dinner? I get very severe political FOMO, and it's very rare that I
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decline an invitation to a big, fun political function. That's why I'm everywhere. I'm always
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traveling. And I said, look, I'm traveling too much. My schedule's been too busy. I can't justify
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going to the White House Correspondents' Dinner. I'm going to skip it. And I turned to Elise. I
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said, should I have gone? 20 minutes later, the news comes in. I was getting texts from people,
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shots fired at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. And I thought initially that this was
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shots fired figuratively, metaphorically. The whole point of the event is that people tell
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jokes about each other. Oh, shots fired. But no, it was literal shots fired. And the shooter
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is a California teacher. He's a self-identified liberal, Kamala Harris donor. He writes a
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manifesto explaining all the reasons that he went to shoot Trump and the rest of the administration.
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He attended a no Kings liberal protest. He's part of a left-wing group called Wide Awakes,
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and he's just a huge lib. There's just no denying it, though the libs are going to try that.
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The most telling analysis I've seen of who this guy is, the libs always tell us these
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shooters are white this guy's not white the libs always tell us these shooters we can't know their
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political motive or they or more likely their right wing we can know his political motive he's
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left wing they always tell us he's some fringe weirdo out of society basement well no he's a
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he's a teacher and here is what one of his students said about him he he seemed just like
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completely average guy i mean i never would have expected anything like this out of a guy like
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it's really just bizarre. I can't believe it. He seemed like a completely average guy.
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Everyone is responding to this clip of one of the shooters, the alleged shooter students
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and saying, well, I guess he wasn't really an average guy. You thought he was just an average
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guy, but he's not. He was a fringe, crazy, extreme weirdo. The sadder reality, and people need to
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get this through their heads, and especially the right needs to get it through its head.
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The sadder, more disturbing thing that we don't want to deal with, that we don't want to acknowledge
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is the shooter at the White House correspondence dinner is an average guy. That's the average guy
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now. He's certainly averaged by the standards of the left. We have a YouGov survey came out
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shortly after Charlie was assassinated. Most Americans across the political spectrum
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say that political violence is never justified. But younger and more liberal Americans are more
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likely to disagree. So we're still at the point where most Americans say you shouldn't engage in
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political violence. But a disturbing number of Americans say it is justified. 28% of Americans
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overall say that political justice is justified, or they would prefer not to say. But then when
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you break this down by political ideology, the numbers get nuts. One in four very liberal voters
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says that political violence is justified. 14% are not sure, 6% don't want to say.
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So 45%, almost half of very liberal voters are okay with political violence.
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When you get to liberal, the number is 17% say it's okay, 12% are not sure, 4% don't want to say.
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When you get to moderate, 9%, almost 1 in 10 moderate voters says that political violence
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is justified. 15%, not sure, 4% don't want to say. Then you get to the conservatives,
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and conservatives basically say it's not justified. Only 6% of conservative people
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say it's justified. Of very conservative people, it's 2% or 3%. We get very, very low here,
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which means that if one in 10 moderates says that political violence is justified,
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and many more moderates are kind of okay with it. And then the number of conservatives who
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say it's okay is much, much lower. What does that tell you about the moderates? It tells you that
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the moderates are not moderate. To come out and say it's okay to go shoot people you disagree
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with politically is by definition not a moderate position. So that tells you that the moderates
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are no longer moderate. In other words, what it tells you is that when a teacher goes out and
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shoots up the White House correspondent dinner because he wants to murder the president and
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everyone who's around him. And the student says, well, he seemed like an average guy.
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The very uncomfortable conclusion is he kind of is an average guy.
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This is why, by the way, the people who want to say, well, it's a setup. It's not real. It's
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a government. It's a PSYOP. It's a foreign country. It's Israel. I don't know. It's always
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Israel. It's whoever else, or it's the Russians, or it's the Chinese, or it's whoever.
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I think that is a coping mechanism. That's a coping mechanism for people who don't want to
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acknowledge that the left and the centrists and the so-called moderates are increasingly,
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quite notably, radical. The call is coming from inside the house, guys.
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That's the problem. And therefore, the political solution to deal with this is not to get tougher
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on the Russians or the Chinese or the Israelis, as the internet wants to focus on, or on the deep
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state or on the whatever. The problem is the people, and not all the people. Obviously,
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most people are normal, as the surveys show. But a huge swath of the mainstream left
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needs to be dealt with politically. So we'll get to the five stages of left-wing violence in just
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first response the libs deny that this is happening here's cnn as the shots are ringing
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out the president the vice president the cabinet are rushed off the stage
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i always heard with plates falls yes and then we all went down yes yeah cascading effects with the
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entire ball i thought a waiter drops in plates by accident yeah yeah i thought it was just people
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dropping plates i don't know this is this reminds us of butler pennsylvania when president trump was
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almost assassinated. So loud sounds, president falls as loud sounds occur, always trying to
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maybe it was just plates. Maybe, I don't know, I'm not so sure. And the it was just plates,
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it wasn't really shots very quickly turned into this theory that some on the right were embracing
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as well, that it was staged. It was just staged. Trump staged this. And in an age,
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In defense of that view, in an age when the major institutions have lied to you and were
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caught in egregious lies, especially during COVID, the left-wing institutions lied to you
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during COVID, the NIH, the establishment media, they lied to you. And they have increasingly
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lost credibility, especially the media, especially the journalists who were in that room.
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And so it is natural that people begin to question everything.
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However, just examine this for even three seconds. You're telling me that a real man,
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a California teacher who donated to Kamala Harris, who attended No King's protests,
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who was part of a left-wing group that wanted to overthrow the Trump administration,
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who checks all these boxes. You're telling me that he willingly, he did all of that for years
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and years and years as a setup in order to help President Trump by pretending to try to shoot him,
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even though he's going to spend the rest of his life in prison.
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The people who say it was staged have to grapple with one of two possibilities.
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Either a guy did what he and all of his comrades say that they want to do.
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Either a guy is what he says he is and really is the person that he has lived as
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for the whole history that anyone can find anything about him. And he just did another
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version of what his fellow travelers keep doing that is attacking conservatives.
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And he has followed what his leaders have encouraged him to do by saying that Trump
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is an existential threat to democracy and you have to push back on Republicans and you have
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to harass them in public and you can't be civil with them. He's just either he this guy has
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behaved in a way that you would expect perfectly, or it was a decades-long, long game
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to help Trump or something. What is it? I think he just did it because it's always the ones you
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most expect. So that's the stage of denial that it actually happened. Then the left starts denying
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the target. Here's how MSNBC, now called MSNOW, covered the shooting.
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We do not yet know what the shooter's intended target was. Yes, obviously this was an event
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that was well publicized that the president would be attending. He has not attended this
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event since 2015, but it was a room of over 1,000 people. There were reporters, there were lawmakers,
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there were business leaders, there were members of Congress, there were members of the administration.
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And yes, of course, they were the president and first lady Melania Trump.
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But we do not yet know who specifically was the target, correct?
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That is absolutely right and really important to say.
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I mean, yes, it's Trump's event and the entire Trump administration was there.
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And this is the first time he's ever attended this event.
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But I mean, look, maybe the shooter was trying to kill
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the deputy assistant editor of TheHill.com, right?
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I mean, that's totally plausible, right? Maybe the real target was the production assistant
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from CNN, right? Probably. I mean, that's what the New York Times says too. New York Times,
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here you go. Search for motive of gunman who charged press gala. Search for the motive.
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What could the motive be? Gee, Sherlock, can we get you onto the case? Barack Obama posts,
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Although we don't yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting.
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I hope you were watching the coverage on the Daily Wire, which was a lot better than the
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Although we don't yet have the details about the motives behind last night's shooting.
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I mean, sure, it was a left-wing teacher in California, liberal, who donated to Kamala Harris and wrote a manifesto saying he did it to shoot Trump and all of Trump's associates.
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The libs did their best to deny it happened, deny that it was from the left, deny that we can know why the guy did it, but we know.
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they're really, really angry that it didn't work. Here is just one representative, ordinary lib
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going viral. Why can none of you aim across a grassy knoll in the back of a moving car?
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We were real Americans. Stop pulling the trigger unless you have the shot.
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So this is the same reaction you saw from countless libs throughout social media when
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president Trump was nearly murdered in Butler. I said, ah, next time we need better aim.
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Just to give an example, I'm not even, I'll get to the top politicians in a moment, but
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just to show you just ordinary libs. Here's some brewing company. Here's Minocqua Brewing Company.
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Well, we almost got free beer day. Either a brother or sister in the resistance needs to
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work on their marksmanship, or he faked another assassination to get a positive news cycle.
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We'll never know. So there it is. It's either totally fake because the left would never commit
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political violence, or it's really unfortunate that the libs didn't succeed at their political
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violence. That's it. It's one of those two. They said, we need free beer. Free beer if anyone
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actually succeeds at murdering Trump. But we definitely, no leftist tried to murder Trump.
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He probably faked it. Here's another, just random teacher, hat tip to libs of TikTok here,
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Andrea Hovis. I'll pray for better aim. She's a mom, a teacher, a community activist. I certainly
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hope she loses her job. I certainly hope she's ostracized. I certainly hope we get some real
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cancel culture, some good cancel culture here, which is very much what we need, despite the
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unfortunate misunderstanding of many on the right. We'll get to that momentarily too, though.
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So that's the anger stage. The anger stage is, darn, we missed. It didn't happen, and also we
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missed. Then we get to the bargaining, the justification. Outside of the dinner,
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you had leftists holding up signs saying, death to tyrants. It's funny, death to tyrants is
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basically the line that John Wilkes Booth yelled as he murdered President Lincoln.
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Sic semper tyrannis, thus always to tyrants. So the libs do this all the time. They echo these
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mottos, these slogans, they don't realize that they're the baddies. They're quoting the bad
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guys. They did this in Minnesota when Tim Walz was upset about immigration enforcement.
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And he said, we need to go back to 1863 to revolt against the federal government.
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Yeah, you're putting yourself on the side of the Confederacy, dummy.
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I don't mean to, does he know he's, maybe he knows he's doing that. I don't know.
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Death to all of them, says another one of the protesters.
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So they defend the violence. And this is where we get to the top leaders. It's not just randos
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Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat leader in the house, then gets to the bargaining phase. This is where
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the libs, after denying, after their anger, they get to bargaining where they say, well,
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actually, you know what? It's justified. Actually, we're not the bad guys here.
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America will not be lectured, says Jeffries, about civility by far-right extremists in Congress,
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particularly those who provide aid and comfort to hundreds of violent rioters who brutally beat
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police officers on January 6th. There we go. There we go. There will be ample time to vigorously
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debate the issues of the day. Now is the time to unify. To unify? To unify with what?
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You won't be lectured about civility by far-right extremists.
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January 6th, where the only person killed by political violence on that day
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was a Trump supporter murdered by a trigger-happy cop.
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January 6th, a day that was, we now know, thoroughly infiltrated by the feds.
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And very likely, we don't have firm evidence of this yet,
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but very likely, given the discoveries of the last week,
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very likely promoted by the Southern Poverty Law Center, by the left itself.
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But that's the best they got. Forget about the multiple assassination attempts against Trump,
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one of which blew part of his ear off. Forget about the actual assassination of Charlie Kirk
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by a leftist, then celebrated by large swaths of the left. Forget about the near assassination
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by a leftist of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Forget about the countless calls
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for political violence from mainstream leftists in Congress and in the Senate. No, no, no.
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The Horn Hat guy got a private tour of the Capitol on January 6th, five years ago.
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so we won't be lectured. Really, when you really think about it, this is chickens coming home to
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roost. Then when we turn from the elected officials to just the political media on the left,
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you get this guy who goes by Destiny, Stephen Bonnell, who responds to Riley Gaines. Riley
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Gaines says, stop trying to kill our president. Stephen responds, he says, I've never agreed with
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a statement more in my entire life. And this is ironic because it seems like what he's agreeing
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with is the idea that they need to stop killing Trump. But what he's really disagreeing with is
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the word trying. And we know this because of the context of Stephen Bonnell, who has repeatedly
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called for violence against conservatives. In fact, his reaction to the assassination of Charlie
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Kirk was that it is good that conservatives should fear for their lives when they go out
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in public, that we need to intimidate conservatives so they stop talking up in public.
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So there's that response. He goes, yeah, we need to stop trying to kill him. We need to actually
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kill him. Here's Hassan Piker, a more popular left-wing streamer, now feted by the New York
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Times, put on the campaign trail with multiple Democrat elected officials. Here is Hassan Piker
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openly calling for the murder of the president. And you actually wrote about this, and it was
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a great video where you talked about, you know, someone has to do it. See, when I say that,
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Everyone knows exactly what I mean, which which is I think that shows that there is a lot of anger, a lot of resentment and untapped potential, untapped revolutionary potential, as a matter of fact.
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And it's a great opportunity for for organizing, I think, in these.
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So there, Hassan, I think he's sitting next to I think that's Taylor Lorenz, who's a very mainstream left wing new media journalist.
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And he says, yeah, you know, you said someone has to do it.
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You all know what I mean. I'm not going to say it, but you all know what I mean. And what he
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means is someone needs to murder President Trump, which the left has then tried to do many, many
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times. Here's Hassan Piker, as I remind you, feted by the New York Times last week, put on a big
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podcast from the New York Times, looked to as a thought leader on the mainstream left, Hassan
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Piker, who had an op-ed published in the New York Times. Hassan Piker, who hits the campaign trail
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with mainstream Democrats, they embrace him. Here's Hassan Piker calling for the murder of
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charlie kirk what about democratic mayors it's like what the are you talking about dude we're
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talking about socialized medicine and you can turn around and you and you can ask a question
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about murderous cities and their democratic mayors i will i want to kill him dude i want to
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in a video game setting i want to i want to own him in a video game setting oh jesus
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in a video game yeah in a debate i want to keep him in a debate in minecraft
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yeah there you go ha ha ha ha so there he is openly calling for the murder of charlie which
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then uh one of his fellow travelers committed so he says i want to kill him i want to kill
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charlie kirk i mean ha ha you know in a video game or like in a debate or like in minecraft
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ha ha ha ha, but I want to kill Charlie Kirk. And then one of his fellow travelers did it.
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And you can say, well, look, he's just some random streamer. He's obviously not. He's being exalted
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within the last several days as a major thought leader on the left to be promoted by the most
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establishment liberal outlet, which is the New York Times. That shooter at the White House
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Correspondents Dinner, he is the average guy. He is the average leftist. That's the mainstream.
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Hassan Piker campaigns with the mayor of New York,
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He's one of the true thought leaders on the left.
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for college, I guess. He's been stinking up our country ever since. He's done no good for America
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whatsoever. He said that America deserves 9-11. He has openly called for the murder of Republican
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senators. He called for the murder of Charlie Kirk. He's called for the murder of President
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Trump. He is nothing but a rot, a fetid rot on our body politic. Why do we tolerate that?
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I can think of several reasons, several bases on which to prosecute Hassan Piker
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off the top of my head. I've mentioned a couple of them. He's called for the murder of U.S.
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senators. He obviously violated sanctions in a very specific way when he was in Cuba. He bragged
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about staying at the hotels that the US government tells you you can't stay at. He tortured his dog
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on camera, animal abuse, whatever it is. There are many bases on which to prosecute Hassan Piker.
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Why don't we do it? Ideally, he would be deported back to the backwater in which he grew up.
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In a wiser age, we did that. About 100 years ago, under a Democrat president,
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we did have the palmer raids when people like hassan piker who were radicals leftists anarchists
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were calling for and perpetrating violence against america we just got rid of them we just we
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arrested them we deported them in some cases we could do it again that wasn't even a republican
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administration was a democrat administration if we were a proper country this guy who has done
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nothing but add a fetid nauseous miasma to our country by his very stinky presence here would
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be booted out of the country or at the very least put in prison. But we don't do that. We, in fact,
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allow him to be a major thought leader on the left, and there are no repercussions for anybody.
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This is a big problem, big, big problem. Because what the left is doing very openly
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is calling for and perpetrating violence against the right. And what the right is doing in response
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is saying, you know, gosh, guys, can't we just have more debate?
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You don't have to debate everything. This is a major point I bring up on the show a lot,
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which is that politics is not just a debate club. And the right, as long as it sticks with that
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view, is just not going to make it. It's just not going to get it. You don't have to debate
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Hassan Piker. This is what I feel about a lot of the stupid theories that float around
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on the internet. So the reason I don't even talk about a lot of them is that not everything is
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for debate. Some things require the law, okay? When you make criminal threats, you need to be
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prosecuted. When you defame people, you don't need to be debated exactly. You need to be sued
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into the ground. When you undermine the very political order, you need to be excluded from
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the public square. I said this after Charlie was assassinated. When many of my very well-intentioned
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friends on the right. They said, this just means we need to redouble our efforts for open dialogue
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in the free marketplace of ideas. And I said, no, we tried that. That was what Charlie offered
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to the left and the left murdered him for it and then celebrated his murder. So I think we need to
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try something else. We just need to endlessly talk about all these people. No, I don't think
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that's true. I think we need to prosecute them. I think we need to reestablish standards and norms.
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I think we need to deport a lot of people, as we have done regularly in American history.
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I think we need to enforce standards and norms and, yes, limits to speech, as we have done from the founding of the country until five minutes ago.
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We just shifted the standards that we're enforcing.
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Now, if you say that a man isn't a woman, now if you say that a baby is a human being, you will be prosecuted in some cases for that.
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but if you say we should kill the president we should kill a senator
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america deserved 9-11 you face no consequences whatsoever you're promoted
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because of a suicidal misconception of free speech that has taken hold on the right
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the way to fix this is repression to put it bluntly to put it in a provocative way
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that i know many on the right go say well we don't want repression well okay then you're
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going to get left-wing repression. What we did in this country from the colonial era until
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at least, I don't know, the 60s or 70s, is we said we need to discourage certain behaviors,
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obscenity, threats, burning the American flag, which was illegal until very recently.
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The thought that undermines thought, that's the only thought that ought to be stopped.
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And then the right just gave that up because we bought a misconception of free speech that was
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ironically imported from the left. But the left never even really believed it.
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So we'll see. Are we a serious country or not? It's not just the fringe. If it were just the
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fringe, you could sort of tolerate it as an eccentricity of politics. This is the mainstream.
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Do we have just a little supercut? I think we have a little supercut
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of the mainstream of the left actively promoting violence.
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Show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
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I said if we were in high school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him.
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When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?
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They're still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump, and that's a fact.
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Look as his character is stabbed to death.
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A Missouri state senator is under investigation by the Secret Service after saying she hopes President Trump is assassinated.
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And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd.
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and you push back on them and you tell them they're not welcome anymore i could fill up
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five episodes of this show with all the clips of the journalists yes and the entertainers yes
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and the elected officials yes and the thinkers yes and the pundits yet on the mainstream left
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calling for violence against conservatives and so what are we going to do we can either respond
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and say, could you imagine if the shoe were on the other foot? It's not going to work.
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We could either say, we just need more debate. Why don't people debate more?
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It's not going to work. So we need the free marketplace of ideas and not going to work.
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You can't have a free marketplace of ideas or anything else when bandits keep shooting up the
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marketplace. Or you can enforce the laws that are already on the books. You can deport the people
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that are deportable. You can prosecute the people making criminal threats and inciting violence.
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You can wield the law for justice and as the teacher that it is that will improve morale.
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Those are the options, and I just think the right is unwilling to do that.
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What we need is cancel culture, but a good cancel culture.
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So we can either cancel the bad stuff and promote the good stuff, or we can live in the culture that we currently live in.
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even when Republicans are elected, which is very frequently that we cancel good stuff,
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virtuous stuff, and we promote really bad stuff that undermines our whole country.
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That's up to us. We know what can be done. This is not all that complicated. It's pretty simple.
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But until people start losing their jobs for promoting this, until people start being
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ostracized from society until people start being prosecuted where that is appropriate,
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then we're not serious about it. So you know what's going to happen? The left is going to
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shoot something else up pretty soon. And it's going to have a chilling effect on conservative
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speech. And the left is then going to amass more power at some point and going to prosecute
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ordinary, normal people. And we're going to say, gosh, golly, how unjust this is. If only we had
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more debate. If only the shoe were on the other foot. That's what we're going to do. And it's
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going to be totally impotent. Now, speaking of the future of our country, we might not have any
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future at all because we're not having any kids. Saturday night, as the White House
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pick this comment. The producers picked it. We'll see if I agree with it. This is from 2Bedo1234222
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who says, why does Michael Corleone from The Godfather Part 2 look just like Michael Knowles'
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true Italiano? It's the duality of man. I have two doppelgangers in this world.
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uh one is michael corleone from the godfather the other one is rachel maddow within each with each
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within each man there are two wolves which and whichever one you become is the one you most feed
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am i are we leaning godfather or are we leaning rachel maddow today i'm very much leaning godfather
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no no doubt about that uh the u.s fertility rate has fallen to the lowest level ever 53.1 births
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per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44. Not good news. Now, why is this? The New York Times are trying
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to explain this away. So the New York Times reports on it. Let's say U.S. fertility rate
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drops to another record low. But then they say the fertility rate has been falling since 07,
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in large part because of a plunge among teenagers. So they're trying to put a positive spin. They say,
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yeah, we're not having any kids anymore, but it's just because we don't have 13-year-olds
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getting pregnant. Isn't that a good thing, right? Yeah, but it's not true. The Institute for Family
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studies points out falling teen births account for only 10 to 15 percent of the total fertility
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rate decline since 2007. Even if you go all the way up to age 20, where, you know, 20-year-olds
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can have kids. It's probably good for 20-year-olds to have kids. But even if you include all the way
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up to age 20, that only accounts for 26 percent of the fertility rate decline. The rest, 74 to 91
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percent, is just because women over 20, 20s, 30s, early 40s even, are just not having kids anymore.
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that's totally unsustainable. We talk a lot. We actually haven't had a moment really and
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so much going on, but we haven't had a moment to get back to the war in Iran, which is in large
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part about a geopolitical play to maintain American hegemony in the world against a rising China
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and other powers that seek to displace us. And we talk about how we need to preserve a new
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American century and we need to preserve our hegemony around the world. You're not going to
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preserve American hegemony if you don't have kids. That's the most basic thing a country has to do to
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survive, much less thrive. And we're not having kids. So what happens? Decline in birth rates
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is used as justification for more migration because you can't prop up the social welfare
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system and you can't prop up GDP if you don't have people. So you just import people from the
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third world. Then more migration leads to more social breakdown because you're importing people
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who don't speak your language, who don't understand your civics, who don't assimilate
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to your communities. In many cases, these are the least assimilable people in the world. They have
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different religions. So you have social breakdown, which then leads to a further decline in birth
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rates, which then leads to more migration, which leads to more social breakdown, and you're caught
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in this endless cycle. So what are we to do about it? Some people, and I'm sympathetic to these
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calls, they say, well, we just need more economic support for people having kids. We need a bigger
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a social safety net, or we need a more industrial policy, or we need direct payouts to people to
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have kids. We've tried a lot of these things. In Europe, Hungary has tried a lot of that,
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and it's worked to a modest degree. But really, really the only driver of fertility,
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the biggest driver of fertility is religion. You need people to seriously believe their religion.
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conservative protestants traditional catholics orthodox jews people who take lds seriously
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muslims definitely muslims have a lot of kids that they come from various socioeconomic
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backgrounds they come from various geographies but that's the driver taking religion seriously
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theistic religion, seriously, is the big driver of having kids, which means that if you consider
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this a national problem, I consider it the most important national problem in an existential
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political crisis. That means that you need public support, government support for religion,
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which of course we had in this country until very, very recently. Public support for religion
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only started to break down in the middle of the 20th century, really the latter part of the 20th
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century. And now we pretend that America has to be a secular country, and we need to keep religion
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out of the public square. That is a novelty in America. We used to have prayer in schools. We
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used to have the Bible in schools. We used to have Christian displays in the public square.
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And then we had a lot of court cases. And in most cases, that was pushed out. And we see the
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results of that. Immediately, you see a collapse in birth rate. So if you're serious about this
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problem, this is how I feel about political violence. If you're serious about political
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violence, you need to prosecute the left. You need to fire people who encourage it and sanction it.
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you need cancel culture. You need right-wing cancel culture, and you need to deport a lot
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of bad people. Are you willing to do that? Many people, even people listening right now,
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are going to say, I'm not willing to go that far. Okay, then you won't fix the problem.
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This is how I feel about the birth rates. You want to fix the birth rates, you need public
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support for religion, as we had for most of American history. Well, I don't want to do that.
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I want to live in a secular country. I don't want, I don't know, I'm afraid of,
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I don't want no theocrats in charge. Okay, fine. You're not going to fix the problem.
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First of all, that's not what theocracy is, but even whatever, use whatever language you want.
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Okay, you're not serious about fixing the problem. Okay, that's fine.
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The other thing you need is strong communities. Strong communities begins with strong families.
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To have a strong family, you have to know what a marriage is, which means you need to overturn
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liberal divorce laws. It means you have to re-redefine marriage to exclude all the weird
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LGBT stuff that obviously isn't marriage. Are you willing to do that? Are you willing to overturn
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no-fault divorce? Are you willing to overturn so-called same-sex marriage? No, you're not.
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okay, that's fine. Fine, whatever. I'm not, but you're not going to fix the problem.
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You're just not going to fix the problem. So that's too bad. But then don't act surprised.
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When I, you know, I hate how much I hate to say I told you so. When I come out and I say,
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hey, you're not going to fix this political violence problem or these problems of defamation
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and radicalism and sensationalism with just like a lot more debate or a lot more podcasts or a lot
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more conversations or whatever, that's not going to work. You need something else. When I say that,
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And then people say, well, that's not, we reject your view, Michael.
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And then the problem gets worse and worse and worse.
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Same thing goes with families, strong communities.
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You're only seeing the problem spiral out of control.
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There's now a congressional candidate on the left who is bragging about how she used IVF
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You know, it's like, it's very, like very early.
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And that's obviously different from the decision I made when I was 41 because I already had two kids and we had done IVF.
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So we have, I don't know how controversial this is, but like we have five other embryos on ice right now.
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It's really crazy because I think back to that moment where my husband and I looked at each other and we know that for us, we've only wanted two kids, a boy and a girl.
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For us, philosophically, we don't want to overburden our footprint on the world.
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And we're not the kind of people that are like,
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I just want a lot of children and I don't know how to explain it.
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We wanted just to replace ourselves and not overburden anybody else or the world.
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So everything she just said is wrong, and most of it should be illegal.
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But even getting to the point that we were just talking about, public support for religion,
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It's not a theistic religion, but her religion is environmentalism.
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She says that the way that I make even the most important decisions in my life
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So that's the thing that's most important to her.
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That's the lens through which she makes sense of the world
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or doesn't make sense of the world in this case.
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The God of the Bible tells you to be fruitful and multiply.
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But the God of nature, not the real God of nature,
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the God of, I don't know, the various lower nature gods,
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we celebrate Earth Day, we have all sorts of public campaigns to promote this particular
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version of left-wing environmentalism. We support that kind of religion, but that's a false religion.
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It's not helpful to our society. It's led to our society literally dying.
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It's not even that complicated a religion. It's just nature worship. We had nature worship in
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the ancient pagan world. We have nature worship in the modern pagan world. That's all it is.
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There are different religions. There's Buddhism, there's nature worship, there's Christianity,
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there's Shintoism, there's Baalism, there's all sorts of religions. And that's the one that that
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lady follows. And that one has a lot of public support. So she comes out and she says, I was
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only going to make two kids, which is actually technically below replacement rate because to
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account for early deaths, you need a replacement a little above two kids per person, per couple.
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But she says, yeah, so to start out, I killed two of my kids. I sacrificed them to my nature gods.
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And then I did IVF, which is more popular, but IVF has radically increased the abortion rate,
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the rate of killing kids, because she says, I have five kids on ice that are going to be killed
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later on. But I got two kids out out of it. And then I got pregnant again, and I killed it.
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Not going to make it. A society that permits that stuff and encourages that stuff
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The most extreme form of political violence,
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she said that abortion is the greatest threat to world peace
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Even after the overturning of Roe v. Wade,
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based on originalism or textualism or whatever.
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We don't make substantive arguments to just ban abortion.
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And it's just a fact that a society that tolerates
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and even in some cases encourages killing its own kids
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such that you can go to the store and buy a baby
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A society that calls for the political violence
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against people that you disagree with is not going to thrive. A political society that seeks
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as the only remedy to those problems, endless blabber and blather and debate and podcasts.
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I know it's kind of ironic because I'm on a podcast right now, but I'm offering an alternative
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to the endless debate, free marketplace of ideas, podcast conversation view, which happens to be
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the view that politics has always rested on, which is you have to do things through the law.
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You have to set limits because the law is a teacher, and the ultimate goal of governments is to make the country better, and the way you make the country better is you make the people better.
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And we believed that until relatively recently, and then we flipped it on its head, and we've said our goal is going to be to encourage license.
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We're going to make autonomy the highest possible good.
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We're then going to encourage the worst temptations of the autonomous will, and we're going to make as our ultimate end product making people worse, and that's going to make the country worse too.
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and you might not want to deal with the uncomfortable conclusions that one has to
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draw to fix the problem. But we can't say that we weren't warned. Okay, much more to get to,
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