Ep. 1964 - Democrats Destroyed： SCOTUS Hands Conservatives HUGE Win
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Supreme Court strikes down Democrats' racially discriminatory gerrymandering in a conservative win that upends over 60 years of Democrat chicanery. Meanwhile, Florida passes a new redistricting map that adds four new Republican congressional seats and ABC is reportedly about to pull the plug on Jimmy Kimmel.
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The Supreme Court strikes down Democrats' racially discriminatory gerrymandering in a conservative win
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that upends over 60 years of Democrat chicanery.
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Meanwhile, Florida passes a new redistricting map that adds four new Republican congressional seats.
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And ABC is reportedly about to pull the plug on Jimmy Kimmel.
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All of which, I know this is uncharacteristic for conservatives.
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I know we always have to be doomers and angry and despairing.
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But this all has me cautiously asking, are conservatives, despite our self-conception,
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actually on a generational run of winning a Michael Knowles?
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Welcome back to the show. A little bit to temper our expectations. President Trump has continued
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the Iran blockade. So he is promising that the Iran blockade will go on,
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not just for weeks, potentially for years. We will get to what that means for oil prices,
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the stock market, Republicans, elections prospects, world peace. We'll get to all of that
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momentarily. This win from the Supreme Court, absolutely massive. The case, a lot of people
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haven't been following this. We follow the really titillating cases, obviously the abortion cases,
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some of the weird sex stuff cases we follow. This is a huge one. Louisiana versus Calais.
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This was a 6-3 win. So you had all the conservatives plus the kind of squishy
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conservatives against all of the liberals here. But what was at play was whether or not Louisiana's
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congressional map with its second black majority district created an unconstitutional racial
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gerrymander under the 14th and 15th amendments. So why this matters, you hear the Democrats
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babbling all the time about the Voting Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act of 1965,
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which they say is the most sacred, important law ever passed in the history of the United States,
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as if people didn't vote before the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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And the Democrats have for 60 years now, and more so in recent years,
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perverted the Voting Rights Act to say that as a consequence of it,
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Democrats at the state level must be able to create majority-minority districts
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based on racial discrimination, such that if a state doesn't have a certain number of
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majority black districts say that it's somehow in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
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But this, of course, creates a tension with the Constitution, because the Constitution says you
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shouldn't be discriminating on the basis of race. So the whole point of these gerrymandered
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districts that the Dems say they need to do as a result of the Voting Rights Act is to say we're
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going to racially discriminate in redistricting. And if we don't racially discriminate in
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redistricting, then we're running afoul of the Voting Rights Act. But that itself,
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the Voting Rights Act, which exists to underscore, to double down upon, to buttress the 14th and
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15th Amendments, that reading itself would undermine the 14th and 15th Amendments.
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So Justice Alito, the GOAT, writes the majority opinion here, and he says that Louisiana intentionally used race as the predominant factor in its redistricting.
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Gerrymandering is when political parties redraw the congressional districts in order to give them an advantage.
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And both sides do it, and they always do it, and they're always going to do it.
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It's not just that it's a regular old gerrymander.
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It is a racially discriminatory gerrymander, which is unconstitutional.
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Alito points out that the plaintiffs here would have needed to show,
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the people who want the racially discriminatory districts,
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would have needed to show a racially polarized voting while accounting for partisanship.
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And that voter dilution that they're seeking to address
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comes from present-day racial discrimination rather than just sort of vague historical
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discrimination, historical socioeconomic discrimination or whatever. And Alito
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points out that the plaintiffs didn't do that. So this is just unconstitutional.
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Justice Thomas agrees with Alito's majority opinion, but he, joined by Justice Gorsuch,
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go even further. So I know I said Alito's the goat, but obviously Clarence Thomas gives him
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run for the money on that. I still give a slight edge to Alito because Alito seems to me a little
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bit more classically conservative and Thomas is a little bit more libertarian. But Thomas is the
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man. We love Thomas. He's awesome. He goes even further than Alito. And he says that section two
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of the Voting Rights Act, which is the thing that Democrats are harping on incessantly,
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that's the provision of this law that's in play here. He says section two of the Voting Rights
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Act doesn't regulate redistricting at all. Section two of the Voting Rights Act, contrary to the
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Democrats' claims, doesn't say anything about how the states can draw their congressional maps.
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He says section two of the Voting Rights Act pertains to violations of the voting rights of
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the citizens, period, full stop. So a poll tax, say, or an exam at the ballot box,
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or I don't know, a grandfather clause or something, that would violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights
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Act. But it has absolutely nothing to say about the state's legitimate rights to draw their
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congressional maps. Indeed, he says that the court's previous interpretations of the Voting
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Rights Act are disastrous, and they violate the 14th and 15th Amendments. So we know what the
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14th Amendment is. We hear about the 14th Amendment all the time. The Equal Protection
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Amendment, the 14th Amendment, which is so broad, unfortunately, it has led to a lot of
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constitutional problems. The incorporation of the Bill of Rights to the states, undermining
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states' rights greatly, birthright citizenship because of a misinterpretation of the 14th
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Amendment. It's so, so broad. Substantive due process, which is this way that the libs
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use the 14th Amendment to just rule from the bench in any way they want, effectively just
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legislating from the bench. There's a lot of problems with it, but we hear it's a very
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important amendment. The 15th Amendment, people are less familiar with. The 15th Amendment reads,
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the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the
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United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
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And nowhere in that amendment does it suggest that the states no longer have a right to direct congressional districts.
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The reason that it's so important for Louisiana right now, the reason the case surrounds Louisiana,
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is because Louisiana has these two districts that are going to give undue influence to Democrats on the basis of racial discrimination.
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and they've got a primary election coming up in weeks, just a couple of weeks.
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Governor Landry of Louisiana has just come out and said,
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we're suspending the primary election in deference to the Supreme Court's decision,
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which means we're going to have to redraw the congressional districts
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because we're not going to let the Democrats rig the election.
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Now, zoom out from Louisiana, from this one decision,
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from the primary election in the midterms and even the next presidential.
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we are stacking wins at the Supreme Court. Probably the most notable win to come to mind
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is the overruling of Roe v. Wade. After almost 50 years, Roe v. Wade is overruled,
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one of the worst decisions ever to come out of the Supreme Court.
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Roe v. Wade, which created a national license to abortion. That took a long time,
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took almost half a century. It's been more than half a century since the Voting Rights Act
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and the way in which Democrats have perverted that law actually to undermine the Constitution,
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actually to undermine the protections against racial discrimination that the Constitution
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enshrines. It takes a long time. Had we not won in 2016, we wouldn't have gotten that.
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We wouldn't have gotten these Supreme Court justices. Had we not won this go around,
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we'll see if that results in any more Supreme Court seats. But this is a massive win. And this
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is something that conservatives are not very good at. It's kind of ironic because you'd think
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conservatives understand the importance of time. Conservatives understand the importance of patience
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as a virtue. But we don't. And the Democrats do. It's weird that the radicals are more patient
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than the conservatives. But the radicals know you just have to keep winning and keep winning and
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just keep doubling down on your power and insisting upon your preferences in law again and again and
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again and again until eventually you build up, in the case of the left, this hideous, to quote
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Alito, disastrous, sorry, to quote Thomas, disastrous kind of jurisprudence. But they
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understand the importance, to quote Kamala Harris, the importance of the passage of time.
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They really get that. Conservatives don't. And so for conservatives,
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we elect trump a second time and we get a lot of wins out of it we get a lot of wins out of it we
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we look at the end of uh transgenderism in public life entirely which is effectively what we got out
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of the first year. We look at the DOJ going from partnering with the SPLC to persecute conservatives
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to the DOJ indicting the SPLC, the biggest left-wing organization. We go from Joe Biden
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arresting Catholic grannies outside of abortion mills, praying with pro-lifers to protest abortion.
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We go from those grannies being imprisoned to those grannies being freed. We go from
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from ordinary, albeit eccentric conservatives being imprisoned for daring to oppose Democrats
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to them being freed. We go from churches being spied on with the sanction of the DOJ
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to the DOJ bringing cases against religious discrimination.
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Massive shifts, okay? And we just have to keep our eyes on that because there are challenges,
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there are setbacks, there are all sorts of problems. We'll get into the war in Iran right
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now, which looks like it doesn't really have any end in sight. We'll get to some of those setbacks,
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but keep your eyes on the prize, guys. This is massive stuff. The libs are furious about it.
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We'll get to, oh my goodness, the Democrats in the House are apoplectic. We'll get to that
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momentarily. We will also get to the way that Republicans are responding in their own
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redistricting down in Florida. DeSantis absolutely killing it. First though, I want to tell you about
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really annoying redistricting that just took place in Virginia. Virginia, which is basically a 50-50
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state. Virginia, which basically voted 50-50 even on the referendum to redistrict. Virginia,
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which has now effectively disenfranchised every Republican in the Commonwealth.
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Well, I think Republicans now have 9% of the congressional districts,
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even though it's basically a 50-50 state. So Virginia, I guess, has the right to do that.
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It's unfortunate. It's clearly contrary to the interests of Virginia voters.
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But as a result, Governor DeSantis down in Florida in their own redistricting has just
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made it through the legislature. Now it goes to the desk of the governor
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to add four more congressional districts for Republicans. So excellent, excellent stuff
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from Governor DeSantis down there. A great response from the Republicans to the gerrymandering
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in Virginia. Absolutely love it. Then on top of that, on top of that, we get the Democrats whining
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in the House of Representatives. Here is Hakeem Jeffries, the Democrat leader there,
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And now we're at a point where affirmative action is gone.
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He's using all these euphemisms to try to make Republicans look like the bad guys,
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Don't forget the Republicans just won unified government with the popular vote across demographics.
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But when you dig down past the euphemisms, he's reminding us of our wins.
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One that I forgot, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action.
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Affirmative action is a euphemism to mean racial discrimination against whites and to some degree
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Asians, which is obviously unconstitutional. You're right, that was struck down. You're right,
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this racial discrimination in redistricting, that was just struck down. You're right.
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Don't forget Roe v. Wade, that was struck down. Don't forget DEI, that was largely struck down.
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Don't forget all the trans nonsense, that was largely struck down. You're right.
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you guys are getting absolutely pummeled. By whom? By the extremists? I don't think so.
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I think the median American, the median common sense, ordinary voter, not too partisan American
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thinks that racial discrimination is wrong and we should generally avoid it.
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I think the ordinary median American thinks it's basically wrong to kill babies. I think the
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ordinary median American thinks the transgender stuff is totally nuts. I think the ordinary
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median American thinks we probably shouldn't be prosecuting pro-life grannies and spying on
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churches and imprisoning peaceful protesters on the others. And I think that's basically what the
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ordinary American thinks. And we on the right, we think that the Democrats are just hegemonic
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because they have been so patient, they have been so crafty, they have taken control of
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basically every major institution in the United States over the course of some 60 years.
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And so we think that's it. We can never win. It's over. Give up. Retreat to a political
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quietism. Bury our heads in the sand and hope that they come for us last.
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And what this Supreme Court, what this administration, what these Republican
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governors have shown is that that's not true. You actually can beat the libs. This was a point
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that I was making the other night. Matt and I were doing an event with TPUSA at the University
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of Idaho, which is a ton of fun. I think the whole event is up on TPUSA's website. Some of the clips
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have been going viral, but it was a great event. The kids were terrific. Erica, the leadership of
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TPUSA, has done a tremendous job continuing Charlie's tour. And it was very encouraging
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to go out there. It was very, very encouraging. Sold out crowd. Unfortunately, over a thousand
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people we had to turn away because we can win. I was reminded of a quote from Cardinal Manning
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that there will come a day, there is a day to come that will reverse the confident judgments
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of men, which Cardinal Manning means in an eschatological, religious sort of way. And it
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applies to politics as well because all human conflict ultimately is theological,
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to quote the self-same Cardinal Manning. We can win. You want to know another great win?
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This is really exciting. ABC, according to a report from The Sun, ABC is ready to pull the plug
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on Jimmy Kimmel. Jimmy Kimmel, who just days before the latest Democrat attempt to assassinate
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President Trump, this is number three, after many other violent acts from the left, which resulted
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in the successful assassination of Charlie Kirk, the most important conservative organizer in the
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activist side of the party. After all of this left-wing violence, Jimmy Kimmel comes out and
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he does a fake White House correspondence dinner. And he says, oh, Melania, you have the glow of an
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expectant widow. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. And now, according to this report, after Melania Trump
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says Jimmy Kimmel needs to be fired, many conservatives say Jimmy Kimmel needs to be
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fired. I say Jimmy Kimmel needs to be fired. According to this report, ABC has had enough.
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and they might pull the plug on Kimmel. That remains to be seen. There is no question though
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that Jimmy Kimmel should be fired. And some libs are taking issue with me, with me in particular,
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because I said Kimmel obviously should be fired. And the libs pulled up some tweet that I had
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posted years and years ago at the height of woke when some comedian or other was being canceled for
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saying that men can't become women or some totally innocuous thing. And I said, look,
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comedians shouldn't be fired for their jokes. But now I'm saying Jimmy Kimmel obviously should
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be fired, which if we were to go back to basic logic, a basic syllogism, major premise, minor
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premise conclusion, I think makes my point very clear and coherent. Comedians should not lose
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their jobs for telling jokes. Jimmy Kimmel should lose his job. Therefore, Jimmy Kimmel's not a
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comedian. For starters, because comedians are supposed to make you laugh. And Jimmy Kimmel
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used to make people laugh, but he hasn't made people laugh in a long time. Now he goes out and
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he cries on his show and he tries to get claps rather than laughs. But even beyond that,
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to take the issue more seriously, even if we say that Jimmy Kimmel technically is a comedian.
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Obviously, there is some limit to the things that we say. I wrote an entire book about this
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called Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, which thank you, which is a number one
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national bestseller, describing the limits that all societies have for speech.
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And so the question becomes, what sort of limits are we going to enforce? I don't even think the
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most ardent defender of comedy, I love comedy, but I don't even think the most ardent defender
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of comedy would say that there is nothing beyond the pale for a comedian. If a comedian, for
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instance, were to joke and make a direct threat, that would be a violation of the law. That would
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be illegal speech. If a comedian were to make a joke and slander someone or libel someone,
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that would not be permitted. Even obscenity, there's a lot of obscene comedy, but even
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obscenity would be a gray area. And then here, we're talking about maybe a threat,
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maybe the incitement of violence, maybe just the encouragement of the murder of the president of
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the United States. And in certain social contexts, maybe even that extreme could be tolerated.
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But I guess we have to ask ourselves here in the big two six, the year of our Lord, 2026,
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after President Trump was very, very nearly murdered in Butler, Pennsylvania,
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just a couple of years ago, a year and a half ago, had part of his ear blown off.
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After President Trump was almost assassinated again at one of his golf courses,
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after a liberal teacher from California, Kamala Harris donor, just tried to rush and murder
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President Trump with a shotgun and slaughter as much of his administration and guests as he
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possibly could. After all of that, if we do not believe that after the successful assassination
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of Charlie Kirk, which was celebrated by large swaths of the left, in that context,
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if the encouragement of the murder of the president of the United States
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is not beyond the pale, if that doesn't violate the taboo, if that is not worthy of getting
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someone booted off of publicly regulated airwaves, what is? What is? If a triple assassination
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attempt on the president in a short period of time, cheered on by a lot of the left,
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which is busy trying to, and in some cases successfully murdering other conservatives,
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If that is not the time to at least slightly rejigger the standards of public speech, what is?
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At that point, we are saying there are to be no standards at all, which is not possible.
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And the left, which pretended to claim that 60 years ago, immediately took about resetting standards that were evil, that outlawed truth and demanded falsehood.
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You saw this very clearly in the case of transgenderism, that outlaws good and demands
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wickedness. You see this in the rejiggering, especially of sexual mores, but a lot of mores.
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That discourages beauty and encourages ugliness. You see this in what passes for modern art and
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entertainment. If this is not the moment to reset the standards, at least to a modest degree,
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I don't know what is. Kimmel's got to be fired, and I hope ABC follows through with it. Okay,
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the the shooter the aforementioned shooter is a little bit of a clown himself new pictures are
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emerging of this shooter and it is so it shows you what a decadent and ridiculous age we're living in
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this shooter is posting pictures of himself like he's a typical millennial on reddit or instagram
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goofy quirk chungus millennial before he attempts to slaughter the head of the government we will
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code Knowles for 20% off. The picture that broke the political internet yesterday,
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it is the would-be assassin. I don't even want to say his name. He's the guy. The last picture
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you saw of him probably was where he was wrapped up in tinfoil like a baked potato
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after he failed to kill anybody, thankfully. This guy takes a picture in his hotel room,
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perhaps moments before he attempts to slaughter the president of the United States,
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dressed up like a complete dork, wearing a black shirt with black pants and a bright red tie
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tucked into his belt with what appears to be a machete or a big knife in his pants.
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He's got guns all around him, taking a mirror selfie with that stupid millennial smirk.
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Listen, we've all done it, all us millennials.
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Boy, isn't this weird? So that happened. Hey, I did a thing today. It's this millennial
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blasé, vocal fry, hipster cynicism. Gosh, boy, how quirky is this? How did I find myself in
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the situation where I'm about to slaughter the president? Record scratch, freeze frame.
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It's so incongruous to the severity of the action that he's about to undertake.
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That he's obviously going to fail at because he's a complete loser.
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I'm glad he didn't succeed at killing the president and the whole government.
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But I guess what's so jarring about this picture is how unselfaware it is.
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how surreal it seems, how even hyper-real it seems. The writer, Jean Baudrillard, has become
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very popular, especially on the right, to talk about. We've had vocal distance on the show who
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went viral for describing Baudrillard's theory of hyper-reality, which really started to become
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mainstream in the early 90s when he made the claim that the Gulf War, the first Iraq war,
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didn't really happen. In the sense that our experience of the war was so removed from the
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reality of it. It was just kind of glittering images on a TV. Very few Americans were actually
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involved in fighting it. American interests seemed fairly divorced from it. It just seemed
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hyper real. It seemed, I don't know, very removed and abstracted and a local distances description
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of this. It's kind of the difference between an actual strawberry and a strawberry jolly rancher
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slushy. You know, it's just, there's actually, even though one is derivative of the other,
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there's very little direct correlation between the two of them. And the reason I find the picture
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so jarring is it underscores the most jarring part of the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination,
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which is that the people cheering it on weren't just Antifa militants who were training to make
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Molotov cocktails in some anarchist bookstore. The people who were cheering it on weren't just
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overt terrorists. It was the quirky lady who sits next to you at work. It was your aunt.
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It was your kid's teacher or the nurse at your hospital or the waiter at the restaurant you go to.
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They didn't understand the seriousness of this act. Their moral framework was so skewed.
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It seemed that very literally that might be a consequence of our overstimulation and our
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living in a virtual world. People are calling this guy the Reddit assassin. He doesn't seem
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like a real assassin. He seems like the kind of assassin who just exists on Reddit or on social
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media, almost like an AI assassin. And because we live so much of our lives mediated by social
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media and by the virtual world, we become alienated from our own bodies. I think that
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explains a lot of the transgender ideology. We become alienated from our families, even. So
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people break up with friends or disown their families increasingly over these more abstract
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political debates. We become alienated even from our own actions. This guy taking the mirror selfie
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that he's going to upload when he's just, aren't I just so weird and crazy? I'm just such a quirky
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guy. I'm such a silly, quirky guy. I'm going to go murder the president. That's me. That's so me.
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that it's it's so jarring because one gets the impression this guy did not understand what he
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was about to do even as he went to do it with the knives and the guns as he's charging the secret
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service and then he doesn't end up really harming anybody and he winds up naked wrapped up in tin
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foil like a baked potato looking like the biggest loser on planet earth which he is
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You just think, wow, this guy really misperceived the world.
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That lady next to you at work who was posting on Facebook celebrating the murder of Charlie Kirk.
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You get the sense, not only is she doing something evil and wrong, but she just really
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misunderstands the world. Charlie was a young husband and father of young kids who did not
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whole political office who did not pass laws, who organized conservatives in a center-right
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coalition that excluded the real toxic elements, and who was best known for going out and hearing
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out the other side and speaking graciously and charitably with the other side on college campuses.
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If that guy must be murdered, then the entire American right, everyone slightly to the right
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if Hillary Clinton needs to be murdered. It just expresses such a misperception of reality,
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such an alienation from society. And the libs, ironically, you know, every lib accusation is a
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confession. The libs focus in, they concentrate on the threat from the so-called incel far-right
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guy living in his mother's basement who never interacts with the world, who never gets a
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girlfriend, who doesn't have any friends, who's living. But yet, ironically, it is the mainstream
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left that is very much living in that way. It is the mainstream left that is dehumanizing its
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political opponents, including those as amiable and moderate and gracious as Charlie Kirk.
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It is the mainstream left that is divorced from reality. It's the mainstream left that
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thinks that a man could be a woman. It's the mainstream left that thinks that a baby isn't
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really a human being. They're the ones who are so alienated. And the solution to this,
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I've long advocated for a regulation of social media and the internet. Americans of both parties
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agreed with this in the 1990s. That's why they passed the Communications Decency Act and the
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Child Online Protection Act, which was struck down by liberal judges, which underscores to our first
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point in the show the importance of winning elections so that we can get conservative
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judges on the court so that our country doesn't spiral out of control. But quirk, chungus, mirror,
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selfie, millennial smirk guy should be a wake-up call to everyone. Frankly, the pictures he's
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posting on the internet are more jarring even than the attempt to murder the president of the
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United States because it shows you the pervasiveness of the problem. Okay. Now, speaking
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of President Trump, unfortunate news, though perhaps inevitable news coming out of the war
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in Iran, which to Trump's credit did kind of end within the timeframe that he suggested. He said
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the war will go for four to six weeks. And right before the end of the sixth week,
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there was the ceasefire, which is holding. It's a kind of a tenuous ceasefire, but it is holding.
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responded to by Iran with a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
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And then the United States responds to that with a blockade of the blockade.
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So we now have a double reverse UNO blockade, which might just continue forever.
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And this poses a major, major threat to the Trump coalition.
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Over Easter weekend, 2026, an American fighter jet was shot down over Iran
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the story of one of the most daring rescue missions
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is from PNW Vibes, who says, the little boy that told you and Matt, this was at the TPSA event,
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the little boy that told you and Matt he wanted to be a priest was so adorable. It was unbelievable.
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Absolutely unbelievable. This kid comes up at the end. There were a lot of really,
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really good questions. A lot of religious questions too, obviously, because you can't
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separate politics and religion, and people increasingly realize how religious politics is.
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But a boy comes up at the end, 10 years old. He says, hey, I want to be a priest. Do you have any
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advice for me? And I said, you know you want to be a priest. And Matt, classic Walsh, decides he's
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going to grill the little kid. I just said, this is great news. A little boy wants to be a priest.
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What wonderful news for the culture. What a white pill. Walsh decides to grill him and says,
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yeah, why do you want to be a priest? Why do you think you're going to be a priest?
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And the kid gives the perfect answer. He says, I just think God's calling me to that.
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Not even, this is my appetite, this is my desire, this is my self-actualization.
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10-year-old kid. He says, I think God is calling me to that, just the answer.
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and should be the answer to why we all do whatever our vocation is in life or our vocation.
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Absolutely beautiful. I loved it. You can go watch the whole event somewhere on YouTube. Okay.
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The war in Iran, the non-war, the paused war, the stalemate war in Iran continues.
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Obviously, President Trump is blockading the Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz,
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the Iranian blockade, which has cut off 20% of the flow of the world's oil,
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not to mention liquid natural gas, not to mention petrochemicals, not to mention fertilizer.
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Some reports that upwards of 70% of farmers are going to have a shortfall in fertilizer coming up.
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So major, major fallout to the global economy and therefore to global politics
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from just the Iranian blockade. And President Trump responds to that with his own blockade,
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which you have to grant is probably the best case scenario because the only two other options,
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the only two options to conclusively end the war would be capitulation where we say,
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okay, Iran, you win, whatever. You can keep pursuing your nuclear weapons. We're going to
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lay off. We're just going to back out, reopen the strait, and we're good. So surrender or
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a ground invasion of Iran aimed at regime change. Those were the two options other than,
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well, you know what? You're going to blockade it. You're going to freeze in place. Well,
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we're going to freeze you in place too. And we're just going to play a game of chicken now
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that could result in a global recession. But we're just going to play this game of chicken.
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Now the ball is in your court. So according to the president,
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the blockade is somewhat more effective than the bombing. I agree. They are choking like a stuffed
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pig, and it is going to be worse for them. They can't have a nuclear weapon. So this is Trump's
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line. Trump's line, which regardless of how the decision to enter into this war at this time was
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made, obviously the prime minister of Israel was very supportive of getting involved in this war.
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According to reports, so was the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, so were other people.
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Now, a lot of people around the president were saying, look, even if Iran deserves it,
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this is maybe not the best idea because the reasonable probability of overthrowing the
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regime is just not there. And the proportionality, the goods to be achieved versus the losses that
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will likely be incurred are probably out of whack. That was and continues to be my argument.
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But nevertheless, Iran certainly deserves it. I think there is at least an argument that you
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can make that the war would be justified on those grounds. And Trump has wanted to bomb
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Iran for 50 years, and Iran has deserved it for 50 years because they made an enemy of the United
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States since 1979, since they took our hostages, since they killed our hundreds of Marines in the
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Beirut barracks bombing, since they've funded terrorism that has continued to kill Americans,
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since they've destabilized the region and giving a big advantage to our geopolitical adversaries.
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All of that is well and good, but what are we going to actually get out of this war?
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Is this going to end quickly and decisively and actually help the United States or not?
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that question is is very much open uh apparently the president told cnn's caitlin collins
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that the timeline for the war at least for the blockade which is the the coda to the war we hope
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it's the last part of the war that that now could be similar to the timeline in ukraine well hold
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on the ukraine war hasn't gone on for weeks or months the ukraine war has gone on for years but
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of course, the global economy cannot tolerate the closure of the Strait of Hormuz for years
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or for months or maybe even for weeks longer without causing massive disruption and probably
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a global recession. Now, the president knows that. But the bet here, at least according to
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the reporting, is that Iran is on the brink of collapse. Even if the regime is not on the brink
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of collapse, the Iranian economy is. Some of the Iranian infrastructures, the president said
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this about unsold oil in Iran. He said, what happens is the line, the line that's transporting
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the oil explodes from within, both mechanically and in the earth. Something happens where it just
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explodes. They say they only have about three days left before that happens. And when it explodes,
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you can never rebuild it the way that it was. So it's this real game of chicken here. Will the
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Iranian economy collapse and will Iranian infrastructure literally collapse before
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the global economy collapses because 20% of the world's oil supply is being held up in the
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Strait of Hormuz, along with a bunch of other goods. That's the game of chicken here. This is
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very, very high stakes. Now, given where we are in the war, given the fact that we did lead the
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strikes and they didn't ask me to join the National Security Council, and a lot of people
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or were skeptical of the war, were overruled. And so the die is cast and we are where we are.
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This is probably the best thing the president can do right now is just hold out, say, look,
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just a few more days, guys, a few more weeks, and maybe the Iranian regime is going to have to cry
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uncle. We have all the military cards. And if we start bombing them again, then the Iranians are
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going to start bombing our Gulf allies. That's going to weaken our support in the region. That
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could escalate the worst. We don't want to do that, but we also don't want to capitulate because
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the red line for President Trump is you cannot pursue a nuclear weapon. So now we're in this
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game of chicken. Are the Iranian oil pipelines going to explode before the global economy
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explodes? All of which is to say, the risk here for President Trump is that this action could
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overwhelm his legacy. I certainly hope it does not. I have a lot of trust in President Trump.
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He's got the best record on foreign policy in my lifetime. But I think he knew going in,
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as I said the day it happened, this is the riskiest thing the president has ever done
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in 10 years. And he's done a lot of risky things. He is not the most risk-averse president, okay?
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He's done a lot, and he's succeeded basically every time. But as oil is now, the price of oil
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is starting to catch up with what a lot of people were fearing, as oil is hitting a four-year high,
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as farmers are having shortfalls in their fertilizer, as the global economy is getting
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tense. The game of chicken is coming to a head. The president clearly wants out of this. He does
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not want to govern Iran, have ground troops there, managing the country for years on end,
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a la Iraq or Afghanistan. He clearly doesn't want that. But I don't think he's going to surrender.
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So we're now in this extremely high stakes game of chicken, where we're in a war that's not really
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a war, but it could break out once again into a war at any moment. And in any case, Trump once
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again, gambling it all on Red 23, once again, with this incredible record from the first term
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and the second term, and all the cascading effects of his record, namely, including,
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I shouldn't just say namely because there are a lot of other cascading effects, but including
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the judges that he's put on the court, which have cascading effects on redistricting, which have
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effects on the representation in Congress, which have effects on Democrats' ability to hold
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political institutions, which has effects, let's not forget, on the left-wing non-profits because
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the DOJ is now prosecuting the fraudulent non-profits like the SPLC. All of this stuff,
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he's kind of gambling it all on what could be the crowning achievement of US foreign policy
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since the Cold War, namely flipping Iran to a more favorable regime. Or it could be the biggest
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political problem he's ever found himself in. Can't say the guy's not bold. He can't say he's
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not bold. That's where the situation stands. Okay. Now, speaking of less than ideal countries,
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we turn from Iran to Haiti and back to the Supreme Court. We'll end where we began today
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because the Supreme Court is also hearing a case on the temporary protective status
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of all sorts of people who are not really helping America. In this case, the Haitians.
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So you remember about a billion years ago, the United States gave temporary protective status
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to Haitians. They said these Haitians, you know, they're in a bad situation right now. So we're
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going to bring a ton of Haitians to the United States. We'll give them temporary protective
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status. The Trump administration comes out and says, okay, well, last I checked, the word
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temporary means not forever. You know, I know that Libs love redefining words. We redefine
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American to mean foreign nationals. We redefine man to mean woman. But I'm pretty sure temporary
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means not forever. So we're done with the temporary protective status. And the Libs are
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saying, no, no, no, we want temporary to mean forever. You can't remove the Haitians. So this
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case is going up to the Supreme Court. Here is Sonia Sotomayor, one of the lib justices who is
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a little less, I don't know, reasonable, a little less precise than, say, Elena Kagan.
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Sonia Sotomayor arguing that we can't end temporary protective status for Haitians
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because Trump said that Haiti is an S-H-I-T-hole.
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Now, we have a president saying at one point
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that Haiti is a, quote, filthy, dirty, and disgusting S-hole country.
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instead of people from Norway, Sweden, or Denmark,
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where he declared illegal immigrants, which he associated with TPS, as poisoning the blood of
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America. I don't see how that one statement is not a prime example of the Arlington example at work
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and showing that a discriminatory purpose may have played a part in this decision.
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Okay, so Trump says that Haiti is an S-H-I-T hole.
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And we all know Haiti, of course, is a paradise.
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I mean, isn't that where you went on your honeymoon?
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No, listen, maybe not you bigoted, awful conservatives,
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but surely the liberals and the leftists, many of whom listen to this show,
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obviously you all think Haiti is a paradise, right?
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And if you're being honest, if we're just between us gals, are we going to acknowledge Haiti, not the nicest place?
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It's a country that since it declared independence in a voodoo ritual that led to the absolute slaughter of every white person on the island.
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That people eat cakes made of mud there because there's no food.
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can we acknowledge that it's a pretty awful place? Can we acknowledge that the Haitians
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want to leave and they don't want to leave because it's paradise? Okay, so if we can
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acknowledge that just between us gals, then what Sonia Sotomayor is saying is because President
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Trump described reality in a way that we would all agree with if we were being honest, because
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he did that, he cannot end the temporary status of Haitians who are in this country.
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he cannot even follow the law if he if he acknowledges reality and because she says
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it's discriminatory okay put a pause here immigration involves discrimination can we
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acknowledge that immigration involves discrimination because we take in some people
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and we don't take in others right discrimination there's just discrimination there's unjust
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discrimination. When you let your grandma enter your home for dinner and you don't let a burglar
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enter your home, you're discriminating. You're discerning differences between two people and
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acting accordingly. So immigration necessarily involves discrimination. The Democrats know that
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in 1965, they rewrote the immigration law to discriminate. Ironically, given Sonia Sotomayor's
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example, we now discriminate against people from Europe. And we discriminate increasingly in recent
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decades on behalf of people from Latin America or the Caribbean, or even to a lesser degree,
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the rest of the world. But we do discriminate. And so the question is, how are we going to
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discriminate? And a basic rule of American immigration until recently and of just all
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immigration to all countries is, well, you want to take in the people who will help your country.
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And you want to keep out the people who will hurt your country. You want to take in the people who
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can assimilate. You want to leave out the people who won't assimilate. You want to take in the
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people who follow your laws and orders and procedures, not the people who undermine them.
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Sometimes you'll take in a small number of people for purely charitable reasons.
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And in those cases, you don't want them to stay forever. That's exactly what we've done.
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and now it's time for them to go home. Because if we don't do that, then we're effectively saying
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we have no borders, or even worse, we do have borders, but the people who are controlling them
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are only going to take in the most dangerous elements and keep out the immigrants who might
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potentially benefit American society. Are we going to tolerate that? I don't think so. That is an
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existential problem for the United States. And I'm happy that because people have shown up to
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elect Republicans to win elections, probably Sonia Sotomayor is not going to win the day
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on the Supreme Court. But those stakes are very, very high. And it involves all of us getting with
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the program and keeping our eyes on the prize and not being taken off into hyper real abstractions
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about politics and a bunch of nonsense, focusing on the real wins. Okay. Much, much more to get to.
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