Ep. 1965 - Viral JP Morgan Exec Story Explained in 5 Mins
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Summary
A lawsuit goes viral for its lurid claims that a beautiful woman sexually assaulted a schlubby Indian man. Then conservatives allege that a new film adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm betrays the novel s original anti-communist, pro-capitalist message. And finally, the Supreme Court's decision on racial gerrymandering might achieve the impossible, namely allowing Republicans to win the midterms.
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A lawsuit goes viral for its lurid claims that a beautiful J.P. Morgan bankress
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And the story is a great measure of our BS detectors and the pornification of society.
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Then, conservatives allege that a new film adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm
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betrays the novel's original anti-communist, pro-capitalist message,
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revealing that basically no one on the left or the right understands Animal Farm.
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And finally, the Supreme Court's decision on racial gerrymandering might achieve the impossible,
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namely allowing Republicans to win the midterms.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Alex Jones is finally shutting down InfoWars after a massive lawsuit
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and all sorts of attempts for years and years to shut it down. InfoWars, RIP. We'll get to what
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that means for politics, any lessons that we can take from that. First, though, biggest political
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takeaway. Guys, you know, sometimes we can take the win. I know conservatives are always supposed
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to be mopey and despairing and saying the West is lost and all is going down the tubes. But
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this Supreme Court win in Louisiana versus Calais was a really big deal because it said that the
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Libs can't racially gerrymander. They would be violating the Constitution, the 14th and the 15th
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Amendments, if they were to draw congressional districts based on racial discrimination.
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The Libs argued that that's what the Voting Rights Act demanded that they do. The Supreme
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Court ruled six to three. The Voting Rights Act says no such thing. And furthermore, what the
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Democrats were doing was unconstitutional. All of this right up on the political primaries.
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The primary in Louisiana, I think, is May 16th. So it's really, really coming up. But the governor
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of Louisiana says we're going to redraw the congressional maps anyway. We're now getting
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politicians coming out of my own state of Tennessee. President Trump posting about a
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conversation that he just had with the governor of Tennessee. He said, I had a very good conversation
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with Governor Bill Lee this morning, wherein he stated that he would work hard to correct the
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unconstitutional flaw in the congressional maps of the great state of Tennessee. Likewise, all of
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the other political representatives of Tennessee have promised to do so. This should give us one
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extra seat, one extra seat just in Tennessee, and help save our country from the radical left
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Democrats and their country destroying policies of high tax, open borders, transgender mutilization.
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Defunding the police, ICE, Border Patrol, no voter ID, soft on crime, and so much more.
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So I love this, especially as it pertains to my own state of Tennessee.
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But notice, you pick up one seat in Tennessee, and then maybe you pick up another seat in another state that redistricts to get rid of the unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
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Maybe you pick up another seat in another state.
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We don't know how many states are going to redraw their lines quickly enough for it to affect the midterms.
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But you could be looking at over half a dozen seats that go to the Republicans as a result of this Supreme Court decision.
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You remember just about a month ago, I sat down with House Speaker Mike Johnson, a man I greatly admire.
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And we're sitting there, and I think Mike Johnson's a straight shooter.
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So I asked him, I said, how are you guys feeling about the midterms? This is all on camera. You
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can go check the tape. And he says, Michael, I think we're going to win. I think we're going
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to expand the majority. I said, you know, listen, I don't want to call anybody a liar here. I don't
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want to call anybody delusional. Look, I know it's kind of your job to say that if you're the
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Speaker of the House, but I don't know, I'm a little bit skeptical. This is a tough political
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environment. Obviously, the party that is in power usually loses the first midterm. I don't
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know about that. He seems so confident. I said, he's a smart guy, good politician. Okay, whatever.
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And then, fast forward. I don't know if this is what was in his mind, but it is amazing. You get
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the Supreme Court decision. The Supreme Court says, in that beautiful majority opinion by Alito,
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with a separate concurring opinion by Justice Thomas that goes even further than Alito,
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saying, yeah, we're not doing the racial discrimination and the gerrymandering.
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All of a sudden, OK, yeah, Democrats have a lot of momentum at their backs,
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But if we're flipping seven seats, Republican, just automatically,
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if the governors and state houses can do their jobs and redistrict in time for the elections,
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if you get an automatic seven seat advantage or more,
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we just don't know how many it could be. Sure, you've got this razor thin, essentially one seat
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majority in the House right now. If you add seven to that, all of a sudden, Democrats, look, they
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could retake the House, no doubt about it. But all of a sudden, that takes a lot of wind out of their
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sails. This is really big. And it's very important right now because the White House is facing
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major uncertainty. The way this breaks down is that the Iran war is very, very unpopular.
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I mean, the fighting in the Iran war is over and actually was over within the six-week
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time frame, four to six weeks that Trump had promised.
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But now we're in this tenuous ceasefire where the Strait of Hormuz is still closed.
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It could cause cascading economic and political effects.
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The actual firing of missiles could kick off again.
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It's really uncertain, and Americans really don't like the war.
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On the other side, you have literally everything else that Trump has done, which is very popular.
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The deportations, great jobs numbers. CNBC was just giving the president plaudits on that.
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Obviously, record high stock market, law and order, prosecuting the bad guys, freeing the pro-life
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grannies, ending woke, ending the transgender nonsense, on and on and on. Everything that
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Trump has done is really, really good and really, really popular. Other than you have this political
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football of the Iran war, which, if it resolves happily, is a major foreign policy victory,
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but it threatens to overwhelm the whole legacy. Anyway, in an uncertain political environment
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like that, if the states can do their job and redistrict in time, in accordance with the
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Supreme Court's ruling, I'm going to feel a lot better about the midterms with a seven-point
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advantage. Now, speaking of political power, revolutions, apparently there's a new movie
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version of Animal Farm. Animal Farm is a short little novel. You probably read it in seventh
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grade or something. It's by George Orwell. And I haven't seen the new movie. I think Angel Studios
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put it out. I haven't seen it yet. I tried to get a screener. I still haven't gotten a screener,
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so I haven't watched it. And there's this big debate that's broken out, even on the right,
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where some people are promoting the movie, because conservatives generally like George Orwell.
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We quote his essay Politics in the English Language.
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I think this pope actually, Pope Leo, was the first pope ever to use the adjective Orwellian.
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I'm not certain that many people have actually read Orwell or know very much about Orwell
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because you have some people going out there saying, this is great, a movie about Animal Farm.
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Go see it. It's going to be awesome. And then other people on the right saying, don't promote
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this movie. This movie betrays the original message of Animal Farm. Animal Farm originally
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is a pro-capitalist, anti-communist movie, or book, rather. And this movie is anti-capitalist.
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it's a leftist movie it's a betrayal of George Orwell's vision and I don't I haven't seen the
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movie apparently it takes a lot of liberties and I don't know I don't even know if I will go see it
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but what I am taking away from the whole debate is that nobody understands George Orwell
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nobody understands Animal Farm because no matter what the new movie does no matter uh what how it
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changes the story or if it's anti-capitalist or whatever it's got it's got a bunch of libs in it
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and directors and whatever. No matter any of that, Animal Farm is not a pro-capitalist book.
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Animal Farm is about the Russian Revolution. Animal Farm is about a fight within the left.
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It is a fight between communists. You have the character Old Major. He represents Lenin.
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Then you have the character Napoleon. He represents Stalin. Then you have the character
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Snowball, who represents Trotsky. And the only sort of plausibly good guy among all of those
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is Snowball, Trotsky, whom a lot of disillusioned communists in the West exalted as the good guy
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and Stalin as the bad guy. George Orwell was a socialist. George Orwell said that everything
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he has written has been in furtherance of democratic socialism as I understand it, he said.
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And so it gives him a little wiggle room because you say, well, you didn't understand democratic
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socialism very well, because socialism's awful. But Orwell supported the commies in the Spanish
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Civil War. He was a man of the left. And Animal Farm has nothing to do with capitalists. Spoiler
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alert, if you haven't read the novel, the conclusion of Animal Farm is that the communist
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revolutionaries under Stalin were just as bad as the capitalists or the royal family, you know,
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the original regime that was overthrown, the American capitalists. But the conclusion is not
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that the capitalists are good and the communists are bad. The point of Animal Farm, mapping closely
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on how the left saw the Russian revolution, is that some of the communists were good, but the
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good communists lost to the bad communists, and the bad communists are basically just as bad
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as the capitalists. They're no worse. They're no better. And the reason the right has embraced
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Animal Farm and George Orwell generally is because Orwell was anti-totalitarian and the
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modern left is quite totalitarian. So there are some similarities here. But I don't know. I'm not
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going to lose sleep over Animal Farm. I think people just totally misunderstand Orwell. And
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it's a fine book, but it's like a fine book to read when you're in eighth grade. It's not
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And whether or not there's some live movie about it, okay, whatever.
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We all should pay closer attention to what these works actually mean.
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But it's even better to quote actual conservatives, traditionalists, and classical politics.
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Okay, enough of a rant about a movie that I haven't even seen.
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Now we have to get to the story that everyone wants to talk about, which is this J.P.
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Morgan lady, this bankress, who has been accused, she's a good-looking lady, she's been accused
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of harassing, in the most obscene ways, a schlubby-looking Indian guy. We will get to
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If you've been on social media over the past 24 hours, you've seen this story.
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It has gone viral based on a lawsuit filed by a kind of schlubby-looking Indian guy
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who says that his superior, who is a rather attractive woman, sexually harassed him.
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It reads like a Dear Penthouse letter or worse.
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This is a family show, but it involves this woman just demanding sex,
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this very good-looking banker woman demanding sex from this kind of schlubby Indian guy.
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And the language is very vulgar. She apparently would just constantly offer to do him various lewd favors. She would apparently say terrible things about his wife. I think the line from the lawsuit was she said she was showing off her, what's the technical term, gazumbas to this banker.
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And she said, I bet your fishhead Asian wife doesn't have cannons like these.
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So really nasty, racist, lewd accusations.
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And anyway, after everyone was sharing this story all around for 24 hours, it turns out it's completely made up.
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Chirayu Ranu, who's the Indian guy who filed the lawsuit, filed it under the pseudonym Jondo.
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He accused his 37-year-old executive director of turning him into her sex slave by drugging.
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Oh, yeah, she apparently drugged him with, like, date rape drugs
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and then threatened to slash his bonus if he didn't sleep with her.
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So the woman hits back with a statement to the Post via her lawyer saying,
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She never engaged in any inappropriate conduct with this individual of any kind
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and has never even been to the location where the alleged sexual assault supposedly took place.
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Furthermore, a J.P. Morgan investigation found this woman was not the superior to this guy.
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So the claims that she would withhold promotions or bonuses were impossible.
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J.P. Morgan conducted a relatively quick investigation, found no basis for any of this.
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And then the guy apparently pulled his lawsuit, allegedly for corrections, but then it was never refiled.
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but the real reason it's a great story is because it is a good test of your BS detector.
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When I saw this story, I said, you know, that's very lurid. I'm not sure I should even be reading
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this story, but I said, I don't know. It doesn't ring true to me. Color me a little bit skeptical.
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As you read the claims, they read like a kind of a fan fiction, like a wish casting on the part of
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a schlubby guy who's got a hot lady working at his bank. So it's a good test of one's BS detector.
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And all of our BS detectors are a little bit off. They've been skewed by social media algorithms
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and they've been skewed by a popular culture that denies basic aspects of the truth. I mean,
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let's not forget to, not to beat a dead horse, but to use the example that was clearest in our
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culture for the past five years, half the culture told us that a man can be a woman and looked at
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us with a straight face and made us say that, tried to make us say that. So obviously the BS
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detector is a little bit off. Furthermore, this is proof that everyone's brain has been melted
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and turned into a thick, lumpy goop by pornography. If you believe, I'm not reading,
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this is a family show, we're not doing that to your brains, but if you read the claims that this
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lawsuit made before it was retracted. You just say, women don't talk like that. Now look, our
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culture being pornified means that I guess maybe there are some women who talk like that. Maybe
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there are some women who are aping male desires in order to, but generally speaking, no, the stuff
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that you read in that lawsuit was something out of like a cheap porn film. That's not something
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that actually happens. It's what guys want to believe women will say to them.
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Not to put too fine a point on it, no lady has ever referred to her uppermost assets as
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cannons, ever. Not once, not once in history has a woman seriously referred to those anatomical
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features as cannons. That's the sort of thing a guy, especially a guy who maybe is a little less
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familiar with the English language, a guy who maybe is of Indian extraction, would think that
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she would say. When you are constantly misperceiving, misinterpreting the world, when you
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constantly have ill-formed preconceptions, especially about the opposite sex, that is a good
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time to, one, turn off the pornography, obviously, and two, sit back for a second, reconsider your
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priors i think of this politically the people who told us for five years with a complete straight
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face that you had to put a hanky over your face to prevent the spread of a virus told you that
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the covid vaccine had no deleterious effects whatsoever that it would protect you from
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getting covid and then when that wasn't true as protect you from transmitting covid then when
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that wasn't true to protect you from hospitalization that was kind of unfalsifiable
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the culture that told you that a man can be a woman all these people who looked at you and said
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absolutely a man can be a woman how dare you suggest otherwise as all of these things have
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come crumbling down with a million other examples, you need to step back and you need to readjust all
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of your priors. And you need to tune out the penthouse playboy lawsuits. Just, I don't know,
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everybody needs to detox, desensitize. Go on a spiritual retreat. Okay, just get your
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mind out of the gutter and your mind away from the screens, other than the screen when you watch
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this show. OK, speaking of unbelievable stories, I teased this story yesterday. You know how much
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I hate to say I told you so. When Viktor Orban was booted out of Hungary, Viktor Orban, who was
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the conservative prime minister standing up to the liberal globalists in Brussels of the European
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Union who wanted mass migration, he was the only one who said we're not taking migrants.
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And Brussels colluded to boot him out of office. And the way they did it was by backing this guy
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Peter Majar, who said that he was even more right-wing than Orban. And his victory was heralded
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by Hillary Clinton, Gavin Newsom, the head of the European Union, on and on and on. Alex Soros,
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the son of George Soros. They were all really excited when this guy won. So that gives you a
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good sign that this guy's maybe not the most conservative person in the world, or at least
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he won't fight for real conservative policies. But you had some people, including right-wing
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pundits in America saying, no, guys, actually, this is super duper genius 5D chess. This new guy
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who the entire global liberal elite just backed to replace Victor Orban, this guy is secretly
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even more based than Orban. Guys, this is secretly a big win for us. And I said, you don't, how can
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you possibly believe that? You probably believe that the hot JP Morgan bankress was assaulting
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the schlubby Indian guy. That's obviously not true. And now we have evidence that much as I
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hate to say I told you so, I told you so, Hungary is about to wave the rainbow flag. Okay, we'll get
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story coming out of hungary uh five seconds after they oust orban uh there's going to be a gay tv
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channel in hungary orban kept a lid on all the lgbt stuff orban uh got rid of all the pride
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demonstrations orban said that hungary was going to be an illiberal democracy this shocked the
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global elite illiberal democracy he's a fascist he's a nazi he's undermining democracy he said
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no, no, no, no, I'm not undermining democracy. Orban won many times. He was prime minister for
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16 years. He was clearly an expression of democracy. But for the libs, when they say
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democracy, they really mean liberalism. Liberalism is a political ideology. Democracy is just what
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most of the people want. So those two things don't necessarily have anything to do with each
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other. But for the left, they're identical. So when Orban came out, he said, we're going to have
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illiberal democracy. They view this as a contradiction in terms. There's nothing
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contradictory about it. Orban said, we're not doing any weird gay stuff. We're not flooding
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the country with migrants. We're going to ground our country on Christianity, which is the bedrock
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of the country, the country that was founded by St. Stephen a thousand years ago. This is why
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the sovereign in Hungary is the crown of St. Stephen. So on the National Day parade, they
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would put a cross in the air. It was really, really beautiful stuff. They oust Orban. Five
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seconds later, you get gay TV. According to the owner of this channel, I won't try to
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pronounce it in Hungarian, it's called Rainbow TV. Adult content will be made available on
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the channel along with LGBTQI cultural and gastronomic content. So I don't know, some
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frou-frou tasting menus or something, plus a bunch of weird sex stuff. Obviously, this
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was going to happen. The only way that the globalists, the liberals, could win in a
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conservative country like Hungary was by running a conservative candidate. So he ran on all this
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stuff. I'm going to be even more right wing than Orban. I'm going to do all this. But he who pays
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the piper calls the tune. And this guy had the backing of Brussels. And now it appears that he's
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going to do Brussels bidding. I hope that I'm proven wrong about this. I hope that this guy
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tells the EU to go stuff it. I don't buy it. I don't see it happening. And all of those
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right-wing pundits, even the right-wing pundits, who said, no, guys, actually, secretly, this is
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awesome. This is a moment where we say, okay, we've got to reexamine our priors. Are we? Is our
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judgment really intact? Did you believe the J.P. Morgan story? Hold on, guys. Take a step back
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here. It's amazing. Political punditry is the only job where you can consistently be wrong about
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everything and then show up to work the next day and no one cares. Political punditry and sports
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commentary. Those are the two. You'll be wrong about everything and you get to keep your job.
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It's crazy. Okay. Speaking of foreign relations, President Trump has made a very important
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announcement. I consider this personally a very important announcement. Trump is lifting the
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tariffs on scotch whiskey. And I'm a scotch man. Look, I'm in Kentucky right now. We just had a
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great Mayflower event last night for the Kentucky Derby. I'm getting ready to place my bets. I know
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I'm supposed to drink bourbon. I live in Tennessee. I'm a scotch man. I love scotch.
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I like rye I even like bourbon but I'm a scotch man so great news Trump says in honor of the king
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and queen of the United Kingdom we have just left the White House soon headed who have just left the
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White House soon headed back to their wonderful country I will be removing the tariffs and
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restrictions on whiskey having to do with Scotland's ability to work with the Commonwealth
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of Kentucky on whiskey and bourbon two very important industries within Scotland and Kentucky
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so he says I'm great news I like the king so much I'm going to lift the tariffs on scotch
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provided that you lift your tariffs on bourbon.
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in that there had been great inter-country trade,
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especially having to do with the wooden barrels used
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much as I care about scotch and bourbon. That's the key line here for us. The king and queen
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got me to do something that nobody else was able to do without hardly ever asking.
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A wonderful honor to have them both in the USA, President Donald J. Trump.
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The takeaway here is that a monarch was able to get better diplomatic results
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than an army of bureaucrats and technocrats, a monarch over tea was able to get more effective
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diplomacy accomplished than the entire foreign ministry and the trade representatives and all
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the bureaucrats of the UK and the US for that matter. And I shouldn't even just say a monarch
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because in America, we have this natural aversion to monarchy in large part because of a liberal
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history that we've been given of the American Revolution, which was not anti-monarchical.
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It was a war of independence. But we almost had a formal monarch in America. That proposal was
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on the table. Ultimately, Hamilton was overruled. But instead, we got a president who is like a
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monarch. And that's not even a dirty word. The M word. We have the N word. That's the M word.
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But it doesn't have to be a bad word. The president, practically speaking,
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is a much more powerful monarch than any monarch who currently reigns today.
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Without question. There's no question about that.
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But this means that you had essentially two monarchs speaking to each other.
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In the American government, we have the monarchical element.
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We used to have an aristocratic element in the Senate.
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We still have it to some degree, I guess, in the Supreme Court.
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The UK, to some degree, has that too, though.
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They very much weakened the aristocratic element.
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they've basically abolished it in the House of Lords. They've really weakened the monarchical
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element, and that's been building for hundreds of years now, and it's essentially run by the
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Parliament. But nevertheless, you have these two monarchs, and they get something done.
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And I think it's ironic, or maybe I'll call it paradoxical, that on the 250th anniversary of
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the American Revolution, a war in which my ancestors fought, you know, I love the American
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Revolution. I love the great men who gave us our country. I don't mean to diminish 1776 at all.
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But history did not begin in 1776. And I think there's a greater appreciation, as our country
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ages, of the civilizational foundations on which our country is built. You read about this a lot
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in the Federalist Papers. The Founding Fathers were keenly aware of this. We seem to have forgotten
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it somewhere along the way of the 20th century, and we're beginning to rediscover it. You saw that
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beautiful essay from the State Department came out about a year ago, in which the author referenced
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the wellsprings of our country. Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, you know, people that you don't usually
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hear referenced, but they obviously form part of the basis of our civilization. And I think we're
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beginning to recognize, call me a crypto-monarchist here, but I think people really get this. I think
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Trump obviously gets this, that we don't want a tyrant. We don't want a dictator. We don't want
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an autocrat. We don't want any of that stuff. But what we do want is a figure who can rise above
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party politics, who can unify the country, who can speak to the more dignified elements rather
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than the merely efficient elements of our politics. And the way we try to do that is with
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the president. Increasingly so. But that role was traditionally filled by a king. And it's very
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funny that the libs who say, well, no kings, they're all giddily taking selfies with the
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king of England. They don't really mean no kings. What they mean is no tyrants, no autocrats,
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no dictators. But that's different. Trump is neither of those things either. But Trump is
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kind of a king in that way. You know, he is kind of the king. He's filling that role and I'm here
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for it. Well, let's see how the third and fourth and fifth terms go before we finally weigh in on
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Okay. Big exclusive story to Mary Margaret Olihan of the Daily Wire. We've covered the anti-Christian bias that you saw from the Biden administration, from a lot of Democratic administrations, go back to the Obama administration.
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But we're getting it even more clearly right now. According to this exclusive, the Biden DOJ, an employee of the Biden DOJ, was texting around about how he would like to imprison any nun wearing the traditional habit.
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So here's the line. Let's read it. This is Molly Gaston, assistant U.S. attorney, says, I just noticed for the first time the nuns near the Oath Keepers in one of the New York Times photographs.
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So trying to argue that the nuns are secretly, you know, these right-wing extremists.
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The DOJ partnering with the SPLC comes out and says that the Catholics are radical extremists, potential domestic terrorists.
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Said basically the same thing about concerned parents who didn't want to chop off their kids' genitals.
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Look at the nuns next to this radical right-wing group.
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Molly, I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them, the nuns.
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Joseph Cooney, I'm with you, although I'd like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.
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That is, that's kind of a funny joke from a liberal who hates the church, who hates, you know, it's a secular lib joke.
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It's kind of ha ha ha, tee hee hee, until the government's actually doing it.
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And the problem is, these guys worked for the Justice Department that actually did that, that actually put out missives categorizing Catholics as terrorists and actually sent jackbooted thugs to spy on Catholic churches.
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In fact, I'm pretty sure I had a personal experience of this.
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I haven't talked about that publicly, but I'm pretty sure I ran into a Fed around these times at a church asking around about people.
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so this was happening then the doj lied about it uh then we found out that this was that this
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directive went out to field offices around the country all this after joe biden as vice president
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was suing nuns now you have the trump administration no longer partnering with the left-wing groups
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going after the nuns now you have the trump administration indicting that left-wing group
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encouraging religious liberty freeing catholic political prisoners what a difference an election
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makes. Okay, I said I would get to it. I'll get to this really quick point. Alex Jones
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is shutting down InfoWars. After years and years, this was the preeminent conspiracy content show,
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network, juggernaut of a media company. Then Alex Jones made this claim that the Sandy Hook
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shooting was fake, and the parents of the kids sued him and bankrupted him to the tune of like
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a thousand bazillion gajillion dollars. Just a crazy ruling that effectively bankrupted the
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company. They've been fighting it for years. The Onion, the left-wing satire,
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supposedly your left-wing satire company, tried to buy it. I think they finally succeeded.
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So now after all the lawfare, InfoWars has gone down. Here's Alex Jones saying goodbye.
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And all glory goes to Jesus Christ and our Heavenly Father that leads, guys, and directors.
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and come back with the great Tom Renz and then Jay Dyer to close this out.
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The next phase starts. The real war begins now.
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All right, so that's it. Ave Atque Valle InfoWars.
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Look, what he did that got him in this hot water is indefensible.
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I think what he did was very wrong when he was saying.
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And he maybe sincerely believed it, that the Sandy Hook shooting was fake or a hoax.
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But nevertheless, this caused a lot of pain to the families of the kids.
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And so, look, he was sued for this, and he lost his company.
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And you can find him very lovable and endearing, kind of feel sorry for him.
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He's going to go out. He'll be fine. He'll go do another company.
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He's a media genius. He is the absolute king of all conspiracy content.
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He's the best to ever do it. He'll be fine, I suspect.
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And, you know, a lot of times the conservatives only understand that lesson in a defensive posture.
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These liberals are wielding lawfare against us and we need to stop it.
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this is not fair. They shouldn't be doing this. And they need to understand this in an offensive
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posture. The conservatives have bought a cynical liberal line that all of politics is just about
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open debate and the free marketplace of ideas and blah, blah, blah. And that's not true.
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I wrote a book about that. It's called Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
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You can get it anywhere. You're a little slow today, guys. Maybe it's because of the time delay
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on my travel. Nevertheless, they bought this idea that you should never engage in lawfare.
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Lawfare is great. Lawfare is awesome. Lawfare works. The law is a teacher.
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Politics is not merely downstream of culture. Politics also informs culture, and it works.
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This was the saddest, one of the saddest conclusions after we saw the reaction to Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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One of the really sad conclusions that no one wanted to admit is that assassinations work.
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so we i don't know we've denied this especially the libertarian side has denied this how incentives
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work how sticks and carrots work and so bringing it away from terrorism into just the rule of law
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and lawfare that works when you want to shut somebody up and there is a legal basis for
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shutting that person up you do it in courts you do it with lawyers you do it with the government
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Some of that seems icky to conservatives who don't want to get their hands dirty in real politics
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Whether you love Alex Jones, whether you don't like him
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Again, I don't know how you could really hate Alex Jones
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My favorite comment yesterday is from the drummer's workshop Norm's Music,
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who says ABC better put a tarp out for Kimmel's final monologue.
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speaking of bringing consequences to bear for people.
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I said that some years ago, in reference to something totally different,
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I said that comedians shouldn't be fired for telling jokes.
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And then I said, Jimmy Kimmel obviously should be fired.
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So if we're going to treat that as a syllogism, the only conclusion we can reach is that Jimmy Kimmel is not a comedian.
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Underscored by Drummer's Workshop at Norm's Music's Point, which is that he needs a tarp.
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And so let's hope he cries a little bit more on his show.
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Hi, Michael. This is Megan from the Creme de la Creme coming to you with another dating question.
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I was recently talking to a guy who told me that he likes to listen to YouTube videos of stories,
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like romance stories of single dads basically getting rescued by billionaire women. Sort of
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like a weird reverse pretty girl scenario, which totally gave me the ick. But then I realized that
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I like to read Amish romance novels because I'm fascinated with Amish culture and I know that they will not get graphic.
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So my question is, in general, as good Christian people, is it inappropriate for us to be reading romance novels of any kind?
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And more specifically, is this guy really icky or is it just me?
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Was that like a, I love to listen to blank Amish romance novels, and he listens to blank
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divorced dads. That's, wow, that's, there's so much, so much to unpack in that question.
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First off, let's take it in reverse order. Is it wrong for Christians to read romance novels?
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It depends. I mean, look, the word novel comes from the word romance, like in the romance
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languages. We just call them romances. That's what a novel is. So I don't know. Is it okay to read
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some trash paperback that's essentially pornography? Probably not. Is it okay to read
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Wuthering Heights? Yeah, I think it is. Wuthering Heights has a little steaminess. There's a sex
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scene in there that most people miss. But you can read romances, I think. But romances are a little
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dangerous. So you're right to realize there's spiritual danger. Don't forget, in the fifth
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canto of the Divine Comedy, Paolo and Francesca, the adulterous lovers, blame their affair on the
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fact that they were reading a romance. They were reading Galahad. Anyway, you should be careful
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about it, but if you're reading Amish romances, that's probably about as wholesome as it gets
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for that tier of literature. Now, to the related but separate question of, should that guy give
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you the ick? Yes, he should. That's weird. That's really weird. First of all, he's not even reading
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the romances. He's listening to them on YouTube, which is not cool. It's like, if you're going to
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read something, if you're going to do a thing, do the whole thing. Like, trashy romance novels,
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that's a thing. What he's doing, it's like decaf coffee. You know, it's like the thing without the
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essence of the thing. He's doing trashy romance novels on YouTube, like the audiobook of trashy
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romance novels. First of all, that should give you the ick right there. Second of all, the reason it
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should give you the ick is not just because it may or may not be pornography. I don't know if it is.
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The reason is it's inverting the male and female roles. To be pursued is the role of the woman.
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To pursue is the role of the man. One time out of a thousand, maybe that gets a little jumbled,
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but generally those are the rules. To be the provider is the role of the man. To be provided
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for is the role of the woman. Again, that's not always the case. Some women are the breadwinners.
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There's always Lady Thatcher out there, but generally that's the rule. To be rescued
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is the role of the woman. To do the rescuing is the role of the man. So the fact that his fantasy,
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which obviously appeals to the Praurian interest to some degree at least, is to by every
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measure be in the place of the woman, not even just one or two, but like by every single measure
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to be in the place of the woman and have the woman in the place of the man, that should throw up red
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flags. That's, that's trans, that's trans behavior. Don't be surprised if he starts wearing your
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dresses. Anyway, don't even get that far. I don't know that if I were in your shoes, I maybe would
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not go on the second date. Next one. Hey Mike, my name is Brian Rucca and I have been reading the
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gospel every week in anticipation of practicing before getting to the pew. And this week, Jesus
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tells the disciples that he is the way and the truth and the light. No one comes to the Father
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except through me. If you know me, then you will also know my Father. From now on, you do know him
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and have seen him. And to that, Philip replies, Master, show us the Father, and that will be
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enough for us it always amazes me at how flawed the apostles are throughout the gospels and i was
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curious if you have a take on that if that's in there to to help it relate to us as flawed humans
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or what is the goal of showing us that because i know personally it helps me feel better about
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myself because these guys were jesus's closest friends companions and followers and even they
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still had trouble wrapping their head around the mystery of Christ?
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after 10 years of practical and sometimes explicit atheism,
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I said, you know, I should probably read or reread the Gospels.
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And I opened it up, and I was immediately taken by the reality of it all
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sometimes that our Lord, you know, when he's talking to the apostles, he'll tell them the
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truth. He'll show them the truth. And then they'll just say, like, the dumbest thing you've ever
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heard. And he'll say, how much longer do I have to be with you people? Why am I, I'm God. I created
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the cosmos. And now there's, there's obviously a lesson there for all of it because his love is
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infinite. And, you know, he loves his apostles and he loves you too. But that line is so funny.
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he says, I'm the way, the truth, and the life. Whoever has seen me has seen the Father.
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Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. You have now seen the Father. And what does Saint Philip
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say? Immediately he says, oh, cool. Hey, so when can we see the Father? He says, how long have I
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been with you, Philip? How long have I been with you? Do you not hear the words coming out of my
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mouth? It's very difficult to hear the words. It's very difficult, especially when we're, look,
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We're in this veil, this double darkness into which we're born, which is ignorance and sin.
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And especially as we find ourselves deeper and deeper into sin, it's hard to hear the words of our Lord.
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You know, our Lord can overcome even the worst ignorance and the worst sin.
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But that's the state in which we find ourselves.
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The other reason it's related in the Gospels is because it happened.