00:01:07.640You can tell the Dems have learned so much since the most recent leftist shooting trying to kill Republicans.
00:01:14.480They've learned so much that they've taken to CNN like J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, a top Democrat presidential candidate, goes on TV and says, yes, I do compare Trump to Hitler.
00:09:47.280Then when they cross the line into defamation, you need to sue them. You need to wield the force of the law and the culture because even beyond the law, you can ostracize people. You can refuse to platform people. You can refuse to elevate these ideas up into fodder for debate.
00:10:03.600you need to bring the weight of taboo down upon these people to exclude certain ideas from the
00:10:10.340conversation. This is a point I've made many times over the years. It comes from a line of
00:10:13.700G.K. Chesterton, which is that there is a thought that stops thought, and that is the thought that
00:10:17.440ought to be stopped. It's a line from William F. Buckley Jr. when he was debating this very issue
00:10:21.660on Firing Line. He said he was an epistemological optimist in that he thought we can make exclusions.
00:10:26.960We don't need to debate Nazis. We don't need to debate communists. We can just exclude them and
00:10:31.180ideally prosecute them. That is the idea. That's a deeply conservative idea. It's very offensive
00:10:36.280to classical liberals. And it's kind of funny because classical liberals also want the actual
00:10:40.820classical liberals actually did want to exclude lots of bad people and bad ideas. But what passes
00:10:45.500for classical liberalism today, what passes for libertarianism, it doesn't understand that a
00:10:51.640society needs to just say no sometimes. And so the question is, do we have the guts to do it?
00:10:57.100do we have the guts to fire jimmy kimmel that's what this is coming down to do we have the guts
00:11:03.580to say no we don't actually need to take these ideas seriously we don't need to elevate the
00:11:09.180ravings of lunatics of violent people of those who would undermine our whole political order we
00:11:13.780don't need to take that seriously we can just fire it ostracize it prosecute it sue it we can0.74
00:11:21.800we can behave, in other words, as if we really do believe things, that we can come to conclusions,
00:11:27.600and therefore we can make exclusions from our society. The Kimmel issue is a great test of
00:11:33.020whether or not the American right has the intellectual architecture anymore or the courage
00:11:39.900to just do that. Do we have the courage to do that? Do we have the courage to have
00:11:46.680a cancel culture? A culture in this case that would cancel legitimately bad things that are
00:11:52.940beyond the pale, that we don't need to debate, that we don't need to have all sorts of long
00:11:57.820conversations or podcasts or network television shows about. Can we just say no? That's a two
00:12:03.780letter word that is so beautiful on the right and we've lost it because we've been infected
00:12:07.740by the spirit of liberalism that has tended toward libertinism. Do we have the ability
00:12:12.800to do that. Because there's a cancel culture today. Even after we got rid of the woke cancel
00:12:18.680culture, there's a new cancel culture that the left has replaced it with. And they're trying
00:12:22.200to cancel us with bullets. And they're being encouraged in doing so by major media figures
00:12:28.120on the left, by elected politicians on the left who say that Donald Trump and his supporters pose
00:12:33.500an existential threat to the country. That was Joe Biden who said that. Who say that we need to push
00:12:38.280back on Republicans in public. That was Maxine Waters who said that. Who said you can't be civil
00:12:41.600with Republicans. That was Hillary Clinton who said that. Do we have the courage and the clarity0.98
00:12:47.520of vision to have a real cancel culture that just says, we're not platforming this stuff.
00:12:52.620We're not going to take it seriously. We're going to exclude it. We're going to repress it.
00:12:56.300We're going to put it out of mind for the common good. No, people are going to say that's
00:13:01.300authoritarian. And so the problem will fester. Or we can fire Kimmel. We should fire Kimmel.
00:16:05.540many, many times, including recently. Yeah, it's crazy because you know why it's crazy?
00:16:13.360Because, drum roll please, because January 6th, that's the best you got. The best you got
00:16:23.620is a contrived nonsense from five years ago, a political event at which the only person who was
00:16:29.520murdered was a Trump supporter murdered by a trigger-happy cop. That's the best you got.
00:16:33.860And then they said for years, the right wingers on January 6th, which was infiltrated by the FBI, probably, we can't prove it yet, probably funded by the SPLC, January 6th, where they told us for years that cops were killed by the right wingers, didn't happen, none of that was true, medical examiners contradicted all of that.
00:16:50.820But even if it were true, which it isn't, that's the best you got, is a mob from five years ago, in some cases, being escorted around.
00:16:59.520The Corn Hat guy getting a private door of the Capitol.
00:17:02.500How dare, how dare the press secretary read our words back to us?
00:17:06.120You can tell the left is feeling the heat here.
00:17:07.920And the only reason they're feeling the heat, by the way, is because the right is finally speaking in terms of borders and standards and exclusions and consequences.
00:17:16.760Because the right is saying Jimmy Kimmel needs to be fired.
00:17:19.740Hassan Piker is a toxic personality who needs to be prosecuted and maybe deported back to the backwater that he was raised in.
00:17:28.440Saying that the Democrat politicians who have associated with people like Hassan Piker need to be removed from office.
00:17:36.100He's not feeling the heat because we're just, we're going to engage in the free marketplace of ideas.
00:17:42.620The point that I've made for the last eight months, I was making it before that, but you see it especially in the last eight months since Charlie was assassinated by leftists.
00:17:49.440leftist, is we tried to have a free marketplace of ideas. No one did that more graciously and
00:17:56.200more charitably than Charlie. And the left shot him for it. So you can't have a free marketplace
00:18:02.660when the bandits keep shooting up the marketplace. The left is not going to stop. In case you thought
00:18:07.300that the left had a sudden change of heart because of all the debates we've had. We've just had so
00:18:11.920many debates. They've changed their mind. Here is a top presidential candidate for the Democrats,
00:18:16.800governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker, on CNN, asked about his extreme rhetoric against Republicans,
00:18:23.800which justifies the assassination of Republicans, has he learned anything?
00:18:29.620Some of your critics may point to what you said in the State of the State last year when you
00:18:33.640compared the Trump administration to the rise of Nazis. What would you say to that?
00:18:39.360Well, Manu, remember what I was talking about was the fact that a constitutional republic was torn
00:18:44.700apart in 53 days in Germany in the 1930s, and that we need to watch out for that in this country.0.51
00:18:51.820That is what I was talking about. And we've seen it. By the way, that speech was given in February0.98
00:18:56.800of 25. I think over the last year, much of what I said has been proven to be true, that the
00:19:02.460institutions of this democracy are being attacked by the Republicans and by Donald Trump.
00:19:07.840Excellent question from Manu here. Says, hey, you know, you've been calling this guy a Nazi,
00:19:13.360So that justifies political violence against him.
00:19:16.480So are you second-guessing your rhetoric now?
00:21:43.640He only cares when the violence is committed against him, and he does not see that he is a contributor to the atmospherics of the world we're living in, right?
00:21:54.700The three assassination attempts against the president, the successful assassination of Charlie Kirk, the countless violent actions against conservatives in public life, all of which have been encouraged by many elite liberals.
00:22:10.220Because some unspecified rhetoric from Donald Trump allegedly inspired some unnamed, unknowable, I think, right-wingers to vaguely threaten Chuck Todd at some point that we don't know anything about.
00:26:38.760In this case, though, the victim is not being victimized by his own flaws.
00:26:44.460He is being victimized by the perfectly observable threat of left-wing governance.
00:26:50.860So here you have a bodega owner worrying openly, almost exactly one year ago, May 2025, on ABC7 in New York, about the threat posed by crime in the city.
00:27:00.840himself spoke with eyewitness news a year ago saying he worried about violence against bodega
00:27:07.700workers he'd seen on social media people got shot killed some sometimes got robbed and
00:27:13.540never in the police never responds quick tonight the organization is wondering if the person who
00:27:19.200shot abdul salah was someone who shouldn't have been on this it's always the ones you most expect
00:27:25.240And notice who the victim is here. You hear Zohran Mamdani, all of these very left-wing
00:27:30.920city politicians. They say, you know, we need to protect the immigrants. We need to protect the
00:27:37.240working class, the minorities. And well, this guy, this victim checks all of those boxes.
00:27:43.640And he was killed by the other people that Zohran Mamdani says that we need to protect,
00:27:48.220namely the criminals. Because Zohran Mamdani has called for the abolition of police.
00:27:52.680He's called for going much lighter on crime.
00:27:55.320He's called for not cleaning up the streets.
00:27:57.480And so this brings us back to a concept that, again, much like my calls, which I think now are pretty well understood by many people, but getting back to my calls for cancel culture, this is a related term that a lot of right-wingers are going to react against, especially from the libertarian side, but they shouldn't.