Ep. 1972 - UK’s First LGBTQ Surrogate Parent Arrested For Exactly What You’d Think
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It s almost time for a contentious election, so you know what that means? A new pandemic is brewing in quarantines around the country. We ll examine just how low Democratic favorability numbers have to drop before we all have to lock down for Hantavirus. Then, speaking of diseases, an OnlyFans model loses her composure after our old pal Clavicular introduces her to her biggest fan, who apparently donated millions of dollars to her. And Britain s first gay surrogate parent has been charged with sex crimes.
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It's almost time for a contentious election, so you know what that means.
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A new pandemic is brewing in quarantines around the country.
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We will examine just how low Democrat favorability numbers have to drop
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before we all have to lock down for Hantavirus.
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Then, speaking of diseases, an OnlyFans model loses her composure
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after our old pal Clavicular introduces her to her biggest fan,
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who apparently donated millions of dollars to her. Mr. Ikeler out here teaching a sophisticated
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lesson about morality and digital life. And Britain's first gay surrogate parent
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has been charged with sex crimes. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. President Trump has just described a presidential ticket
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of J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio as the perfect presidential ticket, but he's not endorsing
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them yet. It's not an endorsement, but it's the perfect presidential ticket. We will get to what
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that means and why people are already fighting. Are you team JD? Are you team Marco? Can you even
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the 11th or the 12th? Well, regardless, we're in May. We have these contentious midterms coming up.
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Democrats were supposed to sweep the whole thing in a tsunami, but because they overstepped on
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redistricting because of a couple of crucial Supreme Court decisions at the Virginia Supreme
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Court level and the US Supreme Court level. Republicans are set to pick up potentially 14
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seats, maybe not enough to stop a Democrat takeover, but it's another impediment to the
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Democrats. Trump is supposed to be less popular than he is. Now, his approval rating is a little
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low right now. Republicans are a little low right now, but the Democrats approval ratings are at
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essentially all time lows. And so things are looking a little rough for the Dems. You know
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what we got to do. You guessed it, another pandemic. According to the Wall Street Journal,
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American hantavirus cruise passengers flown to quarantine center after positive test.
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Two of the passengers are being transported in biocontainment units,
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while a woman in France has also tested positive. So the US has repatriated 18 American passengers
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from a cruise ship that was struck by a hantavirus outbreak. Hantavirus, I guess,
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spreads from rodents. So these passengers are now in quarantine. 16 of the passengers being
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monitored at University of Nebraska Medical Center, two others in Atlanta. It's good Atlanta's
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important because Georgia can be a swing state, so you got to make sure you get some of that
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hantavirus down there. It's not just in the US, though. A French woman also tested positive for
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the virus during her repatriation flight. So we're just getting things started, just in case.
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One, to start out, I don't think hantavirus is an op.
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In the same way that I don't think COVID was fictional.
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And the top health officials in the country told us bald-faced lies.
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not just things that weren't true. They said that wearing the hanky on your face would stop you from
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getting the virus. They told you that standing six feet away was medically necessary. It was
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totally made up. They told you that taking that stupid vaccine would prevent you from catching
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the virus. Then when people caught the virus, they said it would stop you from spreading the
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virus. Then when people spread the virus, they told you it would have been a lot worse if you
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never took it. They also told you there were no side effects and a bunch of people died from it.
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Anyway, I'm not saying that the viruses are fake. That is not really the argument about the
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Democrat opt for COVID, or we'll see how hantavirus plays out. The argument is that Democrats
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cynically played up the virus, exploited a virus to their political benefit in 2020 by rewriting
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all of the election rules, in some cases unconstitutionally in the case of Pennsylvania,
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and giving them a structural advantage for the 2020 election. And who knows, maybe here as well.
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I don't think people are going to fall for it. I don't lose sleep at night over hantavirus.
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I lose more sleep over Democrats subverting our whole political order.
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But to quote a former Republican president, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice.
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Hey, hey, hey, the point is you're not going to fool me again.
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Now, speaking of some of those shenanigans, the reshaping of the political order, as you
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know, the U.S. Supreme Court in Louisiana versus Calais just struck down after many
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years and decades, the Democrats' racial gerrymandering.
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the Democrats interpreted the Civil Rights Act, sorry, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to say that
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when states redistrict, so they redraw their congressional maps as they do every 10 years or so,
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when they do that, they have to discriminate on the basis of race.
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And Democrats had argued that based on the Voting Rights Act, which they said was just
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giving a greater enforcement mechanism to the 14th and 15th Amendments.
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The U.S. Supreme Court, with a decision by Sam Alito, and then an opinion that went even further
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than the court's majority opinion, written by Clarence Thomas, notably a rather black man,
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argued that, in fact, the Voting Rights Act made no such demand, and in fact, racial gerrymandering
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is unconstitutional. Not only does it not buttress the 14th and 15th Amendments,
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it actually undermines them. It violates them. So we have AOC, fresh on the heels of her history
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lesson, saying that the American Revolution was fought against the billionaires of its time,
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the American Revolution, which was led by the richest men in the colonies.
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AOC comes out with her take on how the redistricting, specifically in my state of
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Tennessee, violates the Voting Rights Act and disenfranchises black people.
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When you are seeing states like Tennessee want to wipe out every black representative on the map in these states, we have an obligation as Americans to stand with black Americans and communities whose whose representation is being disenfranchised.
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Okay, fact check, quick fact check here. Is Tennessee removing the only black representative
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that it has in Congress? Well, Tennessee is redrawing the maps in accordance with the
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U.S. Supreme Court's decision, and this will change the representation specifically surrounding
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Memphis, which is a majority black city. Okay, so just quick little fact check here.
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Who is the representative from Memphis? Is it Jamal Loquitius X? Is it, I don't know,
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Big E Smalls III? I don't know. I'm trying to think of stereotypically black names.
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No, it's Steve Cohen. Steve Cohen, who is a notably pale individual. I don't think he has
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a single drop of African ancestry to him. Neither an octoroon nor a quadroon is he.
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He is very, very lily white. So AOC is upset that Steve Cohen might lose his job.
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She interprets this as the eradication of black representatives from Tennessee. So I think
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if we have a PolitiFact or Snopes fact check here, we would have to rate this 100% false.
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Once again, AOC at that very same event said the American Revolution was fought against
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billionaires. Not only was she a little wrong, she was perfectly wrong. It was the exact opposite
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of reality. So too, in this case, Steve Cohen is not just not all that black. He is not in any way
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black. But then let's get to the deeper point of black representation in Congress. Right now,
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when you include the House and the Senate, there are about 67 black representatives in the US
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Congress. This out of what? What is it? 535 total representatives, which means coincidentally that
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black representatives make up 12.5% of Congress, which is precisely the black percentage of the
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US population. Not that that should even mean anything, by the way, because you could have
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zero black representatives in Congress and it would still not necessarily follow that black
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people were not represented in the United States. Congressional representation is done by district.
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It's not done by race. We don't have 12 to 13% black representatives and 60% white representatives
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and however many percent Hispanic and Asian and all the other kind of represent. We don't do that.
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We do it not based on race, which would be unconstitutional, but by geography, by district.
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furthermore you could have 100 black members of congress that still would not necessarily imply
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that there was racial discrimination in any case the redrawing of the congressional maps
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in accordance with the decision of the supreme court with a very strong opinion from clarence
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thomas who is more importantly an excellent jurist but notably in this case black
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does not in any way imply racial discrimination quite the opposite the whole point of the decision
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was to overturn racial discrimination, which the Democrats are pushing and which they're very upset
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that Senator Cruz might run for president again.
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A lot of beauties out there, J.D. I envy you and other people. I don't know. Who's it going to be? Is it going to be J.D.? Is it going to be somebody else? I don't know. Does anybody have? OK, let's go. You ready? Who likes J.D. Vance?
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who likes marco rubio all right sounds like a good ticket jd
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it's a perfect that was a perfect ticket by the way i do believe that's a dream team but these
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are minor details that does not mean you have my endorsement under any circumstances but you know
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Well, it's a perfect, it was a big and then a very nice, I think it sounds like presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate, president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association.
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I love him. And some people don't totally understand what Trump is saying here because they don't speak New Yorker. I think most people get what he's saying.
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But for those who don't, for those who are not familiar with that particular dialect of American English called New Yorkese, he comes out, he says, okay, we got great presidential candidates here.
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And he starts out with J.D., the vice president, obviously.
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Not as big as the round of applause for J.D., but it's still pretty good.
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obviously that crowd really likes Rubio too. Rubio is doing a great job. And he says, wow,
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sounds like a great ticket. He says, there was a huge round of applause for JD. There was a very
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good round of applause for Marco Rubio. Sounds like a great ticket, a dream team, a perfect ticket,
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but this is not in any way an endorsement. It's not an endorsement, but it's perfect and it's great
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and it's ideal and it's exactly what you should pick. And crucially, this is also what Trump has
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been saying for months now. Trump has been saying for months, JD should be the presidential
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candidate. Marco should be the vice presidential candidate. I want them to run as a ticket. I was
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in the room. I was in the cabinet meeting when it was right before Labor Day. And Marco Rubio
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had this great joke. It brought down the house. He said, this is a very important Labor Day for
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me as a man with five jobs. And everybody laughed. And they're going around. And Trump says, Marco,
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you're doing such a great job. I hope you never run for office again. I hope you stay in this.
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In a way, he was saying, you're doing such a great job. Don't run for president.
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but now he's saying, well, maybe run for vice president, but don't, but, but he's obviously
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favoring, he's saying it's not an endorsement, but I am endorsing you, but it's not an endorsement.
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He's obviously favoring the vice president because that's why he picked him.
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The historical circumstance, the strange historical circumstance of a non-consecutive
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second term means that when the presidential candidate picks his vice presidential candidate
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heading into that non-consecutive second term, he is effectively saying this is the guy who it's
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going to be next time. And Trump also loves the unity, it seems to me, within his administration.
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There was a little bit of division and discord in the first admin. In the second admin,
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people are getting along great. And this is crucial about JD and Marco Rubio because there
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are going to be some people out there who say, well, I prefer Rubio. I want it to be a Rubio
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JD ticket, or I want it to be a Rubio DeSantis ticket, or I want whatever. I don't,
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But you hear a little less of that from the pro-JD guys. You hear a little less anti-Rubio stuff
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from the pro-JD guys. You hear a little more anti-JD from some of the pro.
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Did I say, look, I haven't had a cigar this morning. I'm a little, let me say that again.
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You hear a little less anti-Marco from the pro-JD people. You hear a little more anti-JD
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from the pro-Marco people. Okay. Why? Why is that? Well, it seems to me, and this has been
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true for 15 years now. The Republican establishment feels more comfortable with Rubio.
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This is no knock on Rubio. Don't take this as a criticism of Rubio. I think Rubio is doing a
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great job. But the political establishment has preferred Rubio for a long time, really,
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since just about the time he became senator, certainly when he ran for president in 2016.
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The more establishment wing of the GOP really favored Rubio over a guy like Trump or a guy
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like Cruz or some of the other candidates. And so what does that mean for this kind of ticket?
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I actually think that's a great thing because the GOP does very, very well when you have the
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more conservative, a little more populist kind of candidate, along with the guy who's a little
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better liked by the establishment or by the business community or by even the foreign policy
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establishment. This is what you had with Reagan Bush. Reagan Bush was a unity ticket to bring
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together those two sides of the party. A little more cowboy, conservative, populist, a little
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more country club, gets along in the boardrooms kind of guy. That was Reagan Bush. You had this
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really with Trump-Pence in 2016. The GOP establishment, really, they didn't feel that
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comfortable with Trump. The foreign policy establishment really didn't like Trump.
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Even the business guys were a little worried about Trump, especially when he was talking
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about immigration and tariffs. But they did like Pence. Pence was a little more satisfactory to
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that wing. And so in this case, I think Vance Rubio makes a lot of sense. I think Trump is
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totally right here. It's a little too early to endorse a ticket, as Trump is joking too.
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But that makes a lot of sense. The fact that they appeal to slightly different wings of the party
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is actually a good thing. And there's an irony too, which is that by all appearances,
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at least from the outside, Vance and Rubio get along very well. They seem to be aligned on a
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ton of issues. They work together very well. So that could be an excellent ticket. Because
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Reagan and Bush did not really get along. Maybe they came to get along, but in 1980,
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they were not exactly pals. And they were a very, very effective Republican administration.
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Here, if Vance and Rubio already have worked together pretty closely, already seem to get
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along very well, and they appeal to different groups, you have the more conservative populist
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candidate in JD, who is the vice president, who has gotten the plaudits from the president,
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probably should be the top of the ticket. And then you have the guy who allays some of the fears of
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the more establishment wing of the GOP, but also has good conservative bona fides himself.
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Hard to disagree with Trump. That would be a very, very strong ticket. Okay.
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A perfect ticket, he says. Now, speaking of perfection, here's a story
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on the baby's head. And I can't make sense of it. It almost looks like AI,
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but it's not being reported as AI. It's being reported by a news organization.
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Where is this? Yes, this is by KWTX. Local news here, the hand of God, Kentucky mom,
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sees divine sign in baby's ultrasound. There's a now viral post. One Kentucky mother shares a
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precious ultrasound image of her baby in which she believes a hand is seen seemingly touching
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the child. Each time before ultrasounds, she says, I've dropped to my knees right in the
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doctor's office to pray over Kyler, said Amanda Foster. And she prayed that God keep his hand on
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her baby. And then the ultrasound comes out and you see this hand there. And it doesn't, I don't
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think it's the doctor's hand. It doesn't quite look like it would be the doctor's hand. And it
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does, it's just this weird image. Maybe it's just some, maybe it's AI. Maybe it's some weird
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interference in the ultrasound. Maybe, who knows what it is, but it's really jarring.
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Now, what I love about this image is the incredulity from people.
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The people who said, not the skepticism, but the incredulity. The skeptics, I'm a little
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skeptical myself, say, I don't know, I wonder how that image came about. Is it just, is it a hoax or
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is there some interference or whatever? But the people who say it couldn't possibly be the hand
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of God. I would just ask you, why not? Why not? It's not that God's existence relies on signs
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like this. It's not like if this turns out to be a hoax or just an illusion that therefore we
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conclude that God does not exist. But in a world made by God, this image, if it is real, should
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not be surprising. That's kind of my point. Modern people, secular people, materialist people,
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they're so shocked they seem so scandalized by apparent miracles and i don't really get why
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we live in a world that is contingent that is in motion that is subject to change
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that has effects caused by causes a world that by our best theories just began from nothing in a big
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bang? Why is it weird that in a world that is created and sustained by God, God whose existence
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we can know, we can deduce through reason, why is it weird that miracles might happen?
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There is nothing contrary to physics. There's nothing contrary to biology. There's nothing
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contrary to nature about the supernatural intervening into nature in a nature that is
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obviously created. You understand the point? This is like sometimes Christians will say, well,
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look, I don't believe that some miracle happened, whatever kind of miracle it is,
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whether it's a Eucharistic miracle, whether it's a miraculous healing, whether it's a mystical
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experience, whatever it is, they say, I don't believe that this miracle happened.
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And you say, hold on, you believe a guy died and then rose again from the dead on the third day
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and then ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God, the father almighty.
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But you don't think that like a religious relic could liquefy. You don't think that the Eucharist
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could bleed. You don't think that a person could be miraculously healed from cancer without any
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medicine. Hold on. They'll say this even about the miracles in the gospel. Well, look, I don't
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believe that Jesus literally fed 5,000 with just a little bit of bread and fish. Hold on.
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Hold on. You believe God became man, took on flesh and dwelt among us, then was crucified,
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died and was buried, and then rose again from the dead. But you don't think he could make some extra
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bread or turn water into wine? I don't really get it. I understand people's challenges that
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they have with religion and questions that they have about revelation, the way that God reveals
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himself in the world. But the people who say it is not possible to see the hand of God in an image
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of a baby on an ultrasound, I just think that doesn't, that's an illogical conclusion to draw.
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everything that we know about nature everything that we know about nature using our reason tells
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us that very well could be the hand of god okay speaking of the birds and the bees clavicular our
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old pal clavicular of michael and fame uh has you know he's had some troubles uh had a drug problem
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overdosed a little while ago we talked about it on the show and he's you know i've said said i
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think clavicular is very talented i think he's actually got some interesting insights into the
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world, but he seemed to be going down a bad path. And so we hope that he kind of makes a little
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I don't really want to talk to you after you said that.
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because i'm scared i'm scared i'm scared um nice to finally meet you are you guys right now i'm
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like i don't know no like it's literally dead it's not even a troll oh like most of them are
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like the scripted fake podcast but this mother is like actually your top spender
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so i want to know what do you bring to the table dating wise okay all right we'll pause here before
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we get to the crucial point but this is an amazing interaction already off the top so you might say
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well maybe this is all just fake but i don't know that it's fake i mean this lady is apparently an
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only fans lady and so guys pay her money kind of talk about the sign of a decadent age people are
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paying for pornography on the internet. The most abundant product that exists probably on planet
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earth for free, people are paying for it. It shows you perversity. It shows you the
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irrationality of vice and it shows you decadence. But I have no reason to believe that this guy
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hasn't spent a ton of money on this lady's OnlyFans page. And so they sit down and what
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does this guy say? You'd expect him to be really in love with this girl, right? He's given her all
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this money. He looks at her and obsesses over her all the time. He's infatuated with her.
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So you'd expect him, you'd expect it to be embarrassing for him, but in a different way,
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perhaps. You'd expect him to say, like, I love you and I want to marry you and I want to,
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you're just the most perfect thing ever. But it's not what he says. He sits down and he says,
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hey, you're fatter in person. And she seemed shocked by it. He says, what? All of a sudden,
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all of the bravado, the kind of performative confidence that goes along with any performance
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on camera, and certainly with pornography or prostitution or stripping or whatever,
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all of that, her tone shifts immediately. She's kind of taken aback. Wait, what?
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and and why does he say it that way because to him she is just a product it's like going to the
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store and buying a pound of gabagool and you inspect it you say the gabagool it's a little fatty
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hey hold on that's not what i paid for he's not in other words he's not in love with her as a
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human being would be in love with another human being he he he doesn't want her he doesn't desire
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her in the way that a husband desires his wife he desires her in the way that a fat italian guy
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desires Gabagool. He wants to consume her. And he's disappointed. He says, you're fatter in real
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life. And he's reduced her entirely to the material, just like flesh and meat. And the
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reality of her is disappointing to him because pornography is a glittering image. It's a
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phantasm. It's an illusion. And the reality is inevitably going to be disappointing because
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for him this girl is in part glittering images pixels and in part his own fantasies and she
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can't live up to his fantasies so then she says wait what she doesn't know what to say she's
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flummoxed and he says what do you bring to the table once again not hey how what can i do for
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you how can i help you and it's no it's hey hold on you're here for me i'm buying you you're my
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slave you're my product and then you get to the really crucial discovery of this bizarre interaction
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okay um i'm really scared like kick him out now yeah like right now i'm dead why would we get him
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she's really scared no because i'm scared i would be too but this is like the kind of that you
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subject yourself to when you like okay but why are you like not defending me and being mean to me
00:32:17.200
we are defending would you not be scared if you're me right now that's why i have my security guard
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here along with all my staff wait like would you actually not be scared right now if you're me
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uh i would but then i would also say to myself i subjected myself to this right but i didn't you
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know like this is the consequences of you know earning money in that way is i yeah no i understand
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but do you it's like no i don't think you did understand that was really scary no that was
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really scary actually that's never happened to me like right it's it's really easy it's really
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really easy when it's over the internet but like putting it right in front of you it it just
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actually gives you a clear picture on what's going on what an amazing turn in the interview
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you. What an amazing turn. So revealing. It actually shows, can I say it? Can it shows that
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Clavicular has some real insight here? Some of the things he said do not reveal insight and you
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should not follow them. Obviously, you know, like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer and
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injecting yourself with a bunch of drugs and, you know, stymieing puberty and making yourself
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infertile and some of his sociological, political observations. Not ideal. But here on this
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specific interaction, which crucially is not even just about men and women. It's about
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digital versus real life, which is his expertise. Because I think that was the discovery of my
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two-hour interview with Clavicular, which you can get on YouTube and on Daily Wire.
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The discovery was this guy was bred in a Petri dish by and for the internet.
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This guy is just like the perfectly distilled concentrate of growing up on the internet,
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which means he understands the internet really, really well.
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And so when she says, whoa, I'm scared right now, I think that's genuine. I think she is scared.
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She should be scared. That guy's super creepy. And she says, whoa, I'm scared right now.
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And Clavicular says, you should be. Yeah, I would be scared too. And then she says,
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why aren't you protecting me? He says, what are you talking about? You mean protecting you?
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I have security guards all over here. You are as well protected right now as you are ever going to
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be. But why are you putting yourself in the position where you are this vulnerable? In other
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words, how protected are you going to be when I'm not here with my staff and my security guards?
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Why are you putting yourself in this kind of danger? And she doesn't have a good answer for
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it. So then he says, it's very easy to do all of these things, to engage in this kind of reckless
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behavior on the internet, because you don't understand the stakes of it. It seems like
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there's no danger. It seems like there's no consequences on the internet. But then when
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the internet collapses into real life, all of a sudden you realize the stakes and you realize
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how dangerous it is to prostitute yourself. Prostitution is a pretty dangerous business.
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You're not really protected by the law. Prostitutes don't end up well.
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Putting yourself out there, inciting the lusts of all of these guys, making yourself a product for
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them and then being shocked and terrified when they desire you like a product. Yeah, maybe you
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should rethink what you're doing. It's amazing because the clip works as a Jerry Springer
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circus. It works on the level of pure trash reality TV entertainment. But this is a real
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insight into digital life. And it's an insight that we should take even beyond the realm of
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the sexual, even beyond the vice of lust. Because we're on the internet. People got big mouths on
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the internet. They engage in all sorts of vices, all sorts of sins. Wrath, certainly. X is for
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wrath. Twitter is for wrath. Pride. Instagram probably is for pride. Avarice. LinkedIn maybe
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is for avarice. Seems like social media is tailor-made for all of these vices. And we think
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they don't have consequences. Well, that's just online. The internet's not real life.
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But you are not a divided person. You can't compartmentalize your life. And you cannot
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totally protect yourself from consequences by a computer screen. You're one person. And what you
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do in your life, whether it be over a computer screen or whether it be in the middle of the
00:36:28.880
street, carries moral consequences, eternal consequences, but also very tangible consequences.
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You're putting yourself in danger, and one of the great tricks the devil plays in our digital age
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is to convince us that that screen protects us, both spiritually and physically, and it doesn't.
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Very insightful clip. Gotta hand it to him. That's a very insightful clip.
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You get the whole story from how radically her demeanor changes. Okay, speaking of young people,
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the collapse of family values. There's been a teen takeover in Tampa, Florida, a teen takeover.
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And that sounds really nice and kind of funny and just a little mischievous until you find out
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it's actually a major race riot with a bunch of deadly weapons. Folks, we know that one of the
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big ways that the left tries to control the present is by rewriting the past. They do this
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all the time. AOC just did it by saying that the American Revolution was fought against billionaires.
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has a new series, Real History with Matt Walsh,
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where he debunks all the lies and the nonsense.
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And every month, there's going to be a new episode.
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that if Americans understand their own history,
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Stop accepting the narrative that America is irredeemable.
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Watch Real History with Matt Walsh on Daily Wire Plus today.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Hard Boiled Entertainment. It says, pro tip Michael,
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keep the top on the tumbler, less spillage. So yesterday I was feeling very, very Italian and I
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was speaking with my hands and I knocked my tumbler over and the fruity millennial seltzer
00:38:14.540
went flying. It almost took out my camera. You say, I got to put the top on my tumbler. No,
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I don't do it. I don't do it. The leftist here's tumbler comes with the top. I don't use,
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I never use the top. I don't like it. It's infantilizing. It makes me feel like I'm a
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little child with a sippy cup. I want to drink like a man out of a big beaker. If it means I
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spill, so be it. There's been a teen takeover in Tampa, Florida. What is a teen takeover? We have
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some B-roll footage of it, I think. Teen takeover is when a ton of urban youths show up, in some
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cases with deadly weapons and terrorize people, commit violence, vandalism, total disorder.
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A consequence of this teen takeover is 22 arrests, the seizure of two guns.
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How old are the kids? There's one 21-year-old, not a teen, two 20-year-olds among the arrested,
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one 18-year-old, two 17-year-olds, three 16-year-olds, four 15-year-olds, to 14-year-olds,
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six 13-year-olds, and a 12-year-old. So the arrests bookended by people who are not teenagers.
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A 12-year-old showing up to commit crimes with 21-year-olds carrying guns.
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now this is very unfortunate we don't we don't like race riots in our cities that's just uh
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generally to be frowned upon it's even worse that this involves really young people teenagers
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but the most scandalous part of the whole thing is that we're calling it a teen takeover
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when i was a kid a teen takeover was a special night at the museum
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a teen takeover was like the special day at the movie theater when tickets were a little cheaper
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That was the teen takeover of this institution or that institution.
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Now, in our highly degraded culture, as we live in the ruins of our civilization,
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a teen takeover is when a bunch of 12-year-olds show up with guns
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like their child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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What the libs insist is that we just let people off the hook.
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This guy, recidivist, criminal, rap sheet a mile long.
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They say, okay, well, yeah, the guy's kind of crazy.
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And then he goes and kicks a 78-year-old man down the stairs of a subway.
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but that guy had been arrested many, many other times. He was threatening a couple women on a
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subway. He was chasing them, kicking women on the subway, trying to grab them, trying to victimize
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them. They got away. The guy starts following them across the street. And then luckily there
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were some cops there to protect them, speaking of protecting women. But the ladies refused to
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cooperate with the cops. And one of the girls goes on record. She was a 23-year-old girl. She says,
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well, I don't know. I didn't want to cooperate with the cops. I didn't want to, you know,
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it's like, I guess, I don't know. I just didn't want to see another black man in prison.
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so she lets this guy off the hook. Not only did she let him off the hook, she refuses to cooperate
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with the cops who are trying to enforce the law and protect the community. The guy gets off the
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hook, and he goes and kicks a 78-year-old man down the stairs and kills him, so because she
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didn't want to put a black man in prison, another black man in prison, she put an elderly white man
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in the grave. That was the consequence of that, of her misapplied empathy and her misperception
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of racial justice. The consequence of that was an elderly man was murdered in a totally preventable
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crime. Same thing here. What's going on? How do you get a 12-year-old showing up with a bunch of
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21-year-olds in guns committing crimes all over the streets? What do you do about that? You're
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not going to treat them like adults, I guess. They're kids. But what are you going to do?
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The inclination among the liberal, humanitarian, laissez-faire set is to say, well, we need to
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slap them on the wrist and tell them, no, no, no. But we certainly can't put them in juvenile
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detention. We can't put them in prison. We can't punish their families, obviously terrible families.
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We can't act in a way that is authoritarian or overbearing. No, no, no. We have to just
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understand the root causes, how the generational trauma stemming from the American Revolution,
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which was fought against the billionaires, why that's leading these 12-year-olds to terrorize
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people with guns. No, you have to just bring down the full force of the law. The instinct is the
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most scandalous part of it for the libs is to just coin another euphemism. Oh, well, it's just
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another teen takeover. You know, boys will be boys. You know, those 12 year olds running around
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shooting people with 21 year olds at the mall. You know, it's like who among us hasn't? I looked
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up the etymology or the history of the phrase teen takeover. It was coined in Chicago in 2019.
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It's a pretty new phrase, seven years old. And the reason that you have this phrase
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is so that we don't have to grapple with the reality of this, which is that we have,
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through our laissez-faire attitude, which you see socially on the left, but you see it a little bit
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on the right too. The right embraces laissez-faire. Hands off, we need very small government,
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whatever. Well, the consequence of that is the total degradation of society and the degradation
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of these people in particular. So I would say maybe we get rid of the euphemisms and we bring
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the full weight of the law down even on the little 12-year-olds and certainly on their families.
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That's the only way that you can prove this for everybody. Okay, last story before we go.
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Britain's first gay surrogate parent was just charged with rape and human trafficking.
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where's the story let's see i'll just read a little bit from the story
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i don't want to get too much it's not exactly a man bites dog story so barry drewitt barlow 57
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years old and scott drewitt barlow i don't think they're brothers i don't know they have the same
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last name i don't think they're brothers who's about 25 years younger they're the co-owner of
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some soccer team they're set to appear in court because this guy who is now married to his daughter
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ex-boyfriend, he became earlier, pre this daughter's ex-boyfriend husband, he became the
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first gay parent to surrogate a baby. This was in 1999. So what he did was he went, he purchased a
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woman's egg, he rented a woman's womb, he bought a baby, designer baby. He's obviously a total
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sexual deviant. He ends up then dating his daughter's boyfriend and getting gay married
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to him. And anyway, he's just been charged with rape and human trafficking. But of course. Now,
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the conclusion of this is not that all guys who are a little light in the loafers are pedophiles.
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That's not the conclusion. That's going to be a tempting conclusion for people to reach,
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but that's not fair. That isn't true. The conclusion of this should not be that all of
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the homosexuals should be thrown off of rooftops or hung from cranes or something. That's not,
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that's obvious. In certain parts of the world, that's the conclusion. I don't think that's a
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fair conclusion. I don't think that's where your righteous indignation at this story should lead
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you to land. But I think all reasonable people should look at a story like this. The very first
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guy to surrogate a baby, the very first homosexual in Britain, to surrogate a baby. And this guy,
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turns out is a sexual criminal. I think we can reach the fair conclusion that
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the gays can't buy babies. And maybe no one should buy babies, actually, but especially the gays.
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They should not buy babies because you just have to ask yourself, is this ideal for the baby?
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Is it ideal for the baby, for a couple of homosexuals to go order him and then intentionally
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deprive the baby of his mother, and then rent some other woman's womb, and then rip away the
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only mother the baby's ever known, and then to be raised in a household with two fellas.
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We've gone through the studies many times on here of the bad outcomes that this has for kids.
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But just even from first principles, do we think this is ideal for the baby? Do you think that a
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mother has anything to contribute to the raising of a child? Just as a father has anything to
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contribute to the raising of a child? You do think that, okay. So then, should we, in our law,
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permit people intentionally to deprive a child of a mother or a father? Should we,
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as a matter of the law, permit people who are, by definition, a tad sexually deviant
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and who statistically are much more given over to much more aberrant sexual behaviors,
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sexual crimes? Should we, by matter of law, permit these people to go out and purchase babies?
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no but michael you know sometimes women abuse children yeah they do you're right
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men abuse children at a much higher rate uh but but yeah women do sometimes too so what
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but michael don't you know straight people sometimes abuse children uh-huh right sure
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But homosexuals are given to these extremely deviant sexual identities at a much higher rate.
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So it's just, we're not going to ban people from getting married, like normal, like husband and wife.
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We're not going to ban people from having kids, nor should we.
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But it seems to me we could put some guardrails on this, right?
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Does anybody seriously think this is the ideal situation for a child to be raised?
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to be purchased by a man who is dating his daughter's boyfriend, who intentionally deprives
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the baby of his mother, and who goes on to commit sexual crimes? No, it's not ideal.
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So can we just say, without being homophobes or whatever, can we just say that we shouldn't allow
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that, just as basically no society ever allowed that until about five minutes ago? Can we say
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that the needs of the child are more important than the desires of deviant men? Can we say that?
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Do we have the courage and confidence to say that and to do something about it? Do we have
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the courage and clarity to enforce our moral vision in society as we must do, as all governments
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and societies must do? Or no, are we just going to be laissez-faire? Well, you know, I mean,
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you do you, I'll do me. This is just the teen takeover by another measure. It's the same root
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problem. Can we come out and say, no, sorry, gays. We like Cole Porter. We like Noel Coward.
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You don't get to buy babies. And actually, heterosexuals, you probably shouldn't buy
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babies either. But we're just dealing with this issue right now. You guys don't get to buy babies.
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When you travel well, your KLM Royal Dutch Airlines ticket takes you to more than just
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your destination. It takes you to winding streets, spontaneous detours, and the realization
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that neither of you is actually good with directions.
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And when the final shortcut taken isn't exactly short,