Ep. 1990 - Libs Panic： Trump Starts Denaturalizing Citizens
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In this episode, Cardinal Burke talks about the Trump administration's campaign to denaturalize immigrants who currently have U.S. citizenship. Cardinal Burke also talks about a massive protest from the left outside of TPUSA s Young Women Leadership Summit, and what that should tell us about the political order and the robust future of the organization.
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The Trump administration has announced an historic campaign
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to denaturalize immigrants who currently have U.S. citizenship.
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I want to make sure you heard that correctly, that you understand what that means.
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In the immigration debate, for most of my life, there were two positions you could hold.
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You could want more legal immigration, but less illegal immigration.
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or you could want more legal immigration and more illegal immigration.
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Then Trump came around and changed the conversation.
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You could want less illegal immigration and less legal immigration.
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What we're talking about here is something much further, a fourth option.
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You can now want to revoke the citizenship of immigrants who have already obtained it.
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And the Trump administration is actually pursuing that option.
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We will get into the specifics of how it will play out.
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Then, nerdy girls in Silicon Valley are turning to prostitution as AI takes their jobs.
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And speaking of prostitution, Hunter Biden attempts a rebrand.
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This is so, so great. I love it. And already the naysayers and the whiners and the complainers,
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they're going to say, well, they're not denaturalizing enough citizens. Well, yeah,
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look, well, I know that Biden was letting in 3 million illegals per year on top of all the
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legal immigrants. And I know that Trump closed down the border and stopped those illegals,
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3 million illegals per year from coming in. And I know he deported about 2 million illegals on top
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of that. And I know he's denaturalizing US citizens who are immigrants because they defrauded the
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government on their immigration applications. But it's not enough. Yeah, okay, man, whatever.
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It's like just such a massive shift from even two years ago. Are you kidding me? And a massive
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shift from the last, I don't know, 60 years of immigration policy. Here is the vice president
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explaining the policy. Yeah, well, absolutely. And that's one of the angles that we're looking
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at is the people who committed immigration fraud against our system. And how do we denaturalize
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those people and send them back to where they came from? There's also, as you know, Will,
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under the Biden administration, there was a big blurring of the lines between illegal and legal
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immigration. The Biden administration would often take people who are coming in on fraudulent asylum
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claims, fraudulent refugee claims, and basically wave the magic wand of amnesty and say, we're not
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going to enforce the immigration laws against those people. The first thing, and maybe the most
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important thing that we did in the Trump administration is that we stopped that from
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happening. But then you still have a lot of people who benefited from that Biden administration
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amnesty program. We're trying to unwind as much of that as possible. We've already had some success,
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by the way, Will, despite the fact that left-wing radicals in the justice system, the court system,
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have tried to stop us, we have been able to denaturalize and actually unwind that temporary
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protected status. The good news is that we're stopping the fraud that's happening against the
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American taxpayer. The bad news is that my own children will never be able to attend school at
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the Quality Leering Center. Great little singer there at the end. Unfortunately, Mike, we were
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just applying for the Somali Quality Leering Center in Minnesota, and we haven't heard back
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from them yet. This is really great news. It's really great for the vice president,
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the vice president who was put in charge of the fraud task force from the White House.
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And it's always dangerous for vice presidents because the White House will often put them
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in charge of things that they don't want to deal with and then not give them the resources to do
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anything with it. So the perfect example of this is Kamala Harris under Biden. Biden said, hey,
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I'm going to put you in charge of the border. You're going to have to fix the border. But
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Kamala Harris was totally incompetent, totally incapable of doing that. And the White House
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didn't actually want her to close the border anyway. The White House wanted open borders
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under Joe Biden. So in this case, they said, okay, we're going to put J.D. Vance, we're going
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to put the VP in charge of fraud. And you say, well, hold on, can the VP do that? Will the White
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House back the VP in doing that? And the VP's scoring big wins here, scoring major wins,
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unwinding a lot of that fraud. First of all, exposing a ton of the fraud,
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working with the conservative journalists, including our own Luke Rosiak,
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Daily Wire's own Luke Rosiak, who exposed a lot of that fraud in Ohio to put a spotlight on that.
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And then unwinding a lot of that, unwinding a lot of the red tape and protections that
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Joe Biden had put into place. And now we're seeing actually denaturalizing U.S. citizens
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who are caught up in the fraud. So according to CBS, the Trump admin is seeking to revoke
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the citizenship of 17 U.S. citizens accused of immigration fraud. This is, according to CBS,
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an unprecedented denaturalization campaign. I know a lot of people are going to say,
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17? Only 17? I want to do 17 million. Forget about 17. Yeah, sure. But we haven't really
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seen this before. New York Times, CBS, all reporting this is unprecedented. This is obviously
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a test run for a broader campaign. It's completely shifting the momentum on the
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immigration debate. It's expanding the Overton window of how we can even speak about immigration
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for all the people throwing popcorn from the sidelines and say, how many people have you
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ever denaturalized? How many immigrants and illegal immigrants and fraudsters on temporary
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visas, how many of those people have you gotten out of the country? None. This is very,
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very impressive stuff. So federal law, according to CBS, has long allowed the government to try
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to denaturalize foreign-born US citizens who have committed fraud. But the process has been
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historically lengthy, complex, seldom exercised, requiring officials to persuade a lot of judges.
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So sure, the federal government had this power. They basically never used it, though. Trump is
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putting this into overdrive. The Trump admin has sought to vastly escalate denaturalization efforts
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as part of its larger crackdown on illegal and legal immigration. I love this. I'm all for this.
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This was not even a view you could express on immigration for most of my life.
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But the problem with immigration is not just that people filled out the wrong paperwork.
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The problem with immigration is not just that they need to make sure they do it the right way.
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The problem with mass migration is that it frays social solidarity,
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radically changes the demographics of a country, destabilizes the political order,
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and undermines sovereignty. That's the problem with mass migration. It's not even a problem
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with the migrants themselves. It's fun to beat up on the Somalis, and the Somalis have committed a
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lot of crimes. It's fun to beat up on those Venezuelan gangsters, and they've committed a
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lot of crimes too. But it's not even anything against Somalis as such or Venezuelans as such.
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It's just we have the highest foreign-born percentage of population ever, and you can't
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sustain that. It's just not supportable by political order. So Trump is cracking down
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on all of it. Some of these 17 citizens targeted in the denaturalization campaign
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were convicted of violent or serious crimes, including sex offenses against children.
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Others were convicted of fraud crimes or accused of committing immigration fraud.
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So the political benefit of this, too, is you're now going to put Democrats in the position of
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defending chomos and pedophiles. That's what you're going to do. And you're putting Dems
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in that position, and they'll do it, by the way. They will do it. They're going to try to avoid
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the specifics, but then the conservatives can just smack them with the specifics and say,
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look, we're on the side of Americans who voted with the popular vote to get rid of a lot of the
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illegal aliens and the foreign-born people broadly. And you, Democrats, are spending all of your
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political effort to defend CHOMOs. So good luck. This is what I voted for. Love it. Love to see
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it. Can't wait for this largest unprecedented denaturalization campaign to accelerate much,
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much further. Speaking of body counts, headline out of Forbes, the nerdy escorts cashing in on
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Silicon Valley's AI boom. It turns out that hookers who have an above average IQ, at least
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above the average for hookers who have a little more book learning than most prostitutes are
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making bank in Silicon Valley, selling their courtesan wiles to tech oligarchs. I'll just
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read you a little bit from this story. It's worth reading the whole thing. In 2024, Maida Marek,
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which is an online pseudonym, was a recent college graduate working an entry-level finance job
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when she started doing the mental math that is fast becoming a rite of passage in such industry.
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What happens when AI can do this better than I can?
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I was just talking to a guy who said his kid graduated with a data science degree from a very good school, and he can't get a job.
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He can't get a job because those sectors, actually a lot of sectors, are undergoing this massive revolution because AI is just gobbling up all of their jobs.
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I've spent all my money on university education.
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But within a matter of weeks, perhaps, AI is going to take my job. So what can I do?
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Merrick took inventory. She was intelligent and naturally supportive. She was good at talking to
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people. She likes futurist rabbit holes, AI, biohacking, cryptocurrency, the sort of topics
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that can turn dinner into a three-hour debate. So she decided to turn that toolkit into a new career
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and became an escort. Man, however bad you think the economy is or is about to become,
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however unstable you think our political order is or is about to become, it's so much worse than
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that. You have got college graduates who might have hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt,
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who have learned technically difficult skills. You have them becoming hookers because that's
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the best career option for them, at least in their own minds. It's going to be very easy to
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make fun of this woman or women like her. It's going to be very easy to make jokes.
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She is responding to market pressure. She is responding to market pressure to provide what
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AI cannot. That is real. Her observation, her entry-level job that AI is about to do her job
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better than she can, if it can already, that is real. She's right about that. Her realization
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that she needs to be able to do something that AI cannot do is real. She's not just making that up.
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And what has she realized that she can offer that AI cannot? Her body. She said, well,
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the one thing that AI does not have that I do have is a body. So I am going to sell my body.
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That is not a totally irrational conclusion to draw. It's still the wrong conclusion,
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but it's not totally irrational. She's getting at something that's true.
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She's just taking it down the totally wrong path. It is true that human beings have something to
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offer that AI does not. And it's not our ability to crunch numbers, and it's not our ability to
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do research necessarily. It's not our ability to be a lawyer or an accountant or anything like that.
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But what we have to offer is not just our body.
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And for materialists, this is kind of hard to grasp, that humanity is more than the body.
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For materialists, we're just big blobs of flesh.
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We're just meat puppets with pistons firing in our heads and blood going through our veins.
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A lot of people have forgotten that in recent years. That's what the transgender phenomenon
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was about. But what does that mean? What can we offer that AI cannot? Are we all just doomed to
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become hookers? And for those of us who aren't runway supermodels, does that mean we're just
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totally up a creek without a paddle? No. I was having a debate with a big proponent of AI.
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and I observed that there is something that I can do that AI cannot do. And it's not that thing
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that this lady is doing in a bed with the Silicon Valley guy. The thing that I can do that AI cannot
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do is I can write a poem. AI can't write a poem. This has become a big debate among people who are
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looking at the future of AI. AI actually can't write a poem. The reason that AI cannot write
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a poem is that in order to write poetry, you need two things, and they're connected.
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Really, you just need one thing. In order to write poetry, you need to be able to come up
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with fresh metaphors. Most of the language that we use is just dead metaphors. The words that we
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use in our everyday conversation began as poetry, much more evocative kinds of language. Today,
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I guess it's a little bit of a fancy expression, but people will use it.
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They'll say, so-and-so was hoisted with his own petard.
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But when people use that expression, it's not a fresh metaphor.
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They just know that that's an expression that means that he undermined himself.
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That the thing that he was doing that he thought was going to help him actually ended up hurting him.
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but that is a metaphor. We, human beings, can come up with new metaphors. The reason that we
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can come up with new metaphors is in part because we have senses. We have sensory experience. So we
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can take in visual information from the world, colors through our eyes, smells through our nose,
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textures through our fingers. We can take in that sensory information. We can combine them
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in our intellect, and we can come up with a fresh metaphor, and that's what poetry is.
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And an AI can't do that because the language that AI is built upon, it's all dead metaphors.
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It's all metaphors that have already been used before. And AI doesn't have senses.
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So AI can't really see, can't really smell, can't really touch. That's what we can do.
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And so this is kind of the question. It reminds me of the Pope's encyclical,
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Magnifico Humanitas, which is technology is going to progress. We are going to go somewhere.
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We're not going to be Luddites and just stop technology.
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The question is, are we going to build the Tower of Babel, or are we going to build the
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Are we going to pursue technology in a way that degrades humanity and has us worshiping
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Or are we going to pursue technology in a way that recognizes the dignity of humanity,
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that puts God at the center of it and recognizes that God himself becomes incarnate as a man?
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Are we going to become prostitutes or poets? That's the question. Unfortunately,
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many people will choose the former, but you don't have to. You do have to respond to AI.
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You do have to respond to the fact that a lot of what you do in the economy is no longer necessary.
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But does that mean that we're going to degrade ourselves merely to the level of flesh?
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Or are we going to recognize our composite, hylomorphic nature? And I'm not saying you
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have to be a poet. Most people are terrible poets. But are you going to do something
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that is uniquely human, that the robot cannot do.
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Hunter Biden is attempting a rebrand. Have you noticed this? He's popping up all over X. He's
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popping up on podcasts. Hunter Biden, who was the symbol of just left-wing corruption,
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nepo baby, international criminal oligarch, he is now trying to rebrand as some kind of populist.
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Here's an exemplary tweet. He says, WTF timeline are we on? Someone called me the MAGA whisperer.
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Did someone call you that? Who called you that? I didn't call you that. Someone called me the
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MAGA whisperer and I'll gladly take the title. Left, right, Democrat or Republican, we all want
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the same things. Put a pause. I don't think we do. I don't think we do. I think I want babies to live
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and you want to kill them. I think I want to preserve marriage as it actually is. I think
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you want to redefine it. I think I want to let kids be kids. I think you want to chop their genitals
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off. I think I want to defend our borders. I think you want to flood the country with foreign
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nationals, I don't think we want the same things. This is a popular line, I guess.
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We all want the same things, do we? When the left says that, look, we all want the same things.
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Notice, they're just assuming we're going to just go along with everything they want.
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We all want the same things. Forget about your views on abortion or marriage or immigration or
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patriotism or national sovereignty or law and order. Forget about your views on all these
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substantive matters. We all kind of want the same things. What does that even mean? He explains.
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He says, we're being divided on purpose by the Epstein elite oligarch class because as long as
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we're at each other's throats, they get fat and rich off our misery. The second we figure out,
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we agree on more than we disagree. They're done. They. Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical
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honesty. Hold on. Love your neighbor, I agree with. Be yourself. I don't agree with that.
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Hunter Biden should not be himself. Hunter Biden should be good. Hunter Biden was himself
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for a long time on Skid Row and with all the hookers and taking the money from Ukraine and
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taking the money reportedly, allegedly from China and doing all the crack. That was him being himself.
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He shouldn't be himself. He should be godly. He should be like Christ. He should endeavor
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to imitate our Lord. He should not endeavor to just be himself. So I totally disagree with that.
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radical honesty. What do we mean by radical honesty? You should be truthful. You should
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live in accord with reality, but you should also have tact. You should also feel some shame for
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the sins that you commit. No Fs given, no Fs taken. No, I think you should give an F. I think
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if Hunter Biden gave an F when he was tempted to do the crack and take all the money for his
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personal enrichment, to pass 10% up to the big guy while the big guy was vice president or
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president. I think massive corruption in the White House. I think it'd be better if he gave
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some more Fs. Everything else is just noise, but still F Jake Brick Tamlin Tapper on any time. I
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guess he doesn't like Jake Tapper. Okay. The line here that is just, it's just too much. I just
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can't. He's an entertaining character to some degree, Hunter Biden. It's sad because what is
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entertaining about him is the misery he's made of his life and the crimes that he's committed,
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including at our expense. But the line that's too much is the Epstein oligarch class. This has
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become the populist slogan, especially among the left. Even though Epstein started out as a
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Democrat political scandal, the libs have tried to twist it into a conservative or Trump scandal.
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Epstein oligarch class. The phrase has officially jumped the shark.
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hunter biden was paid by literal oligarchs to sell out american influence and then hunter biden took
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the money from the actual oligarchs like ukrainian oligarchs he took the money to commit sex crimes
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which is the most lurid centerpiece of the epstein story hunter biden is the poster child
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for the Epstein elite oligarch class. Everything he's ever gotten in his life is because his last
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name is Biden, because he was trading on his father's political influence because his father
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was in the Senate starting in 1972. Hunter Biden has admitted this, by the way. He said this on
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camera. He said, yeah, well, look, I can never divorce myself for my name. Yeah, that's probably
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why I got a lot of what I got in life. And then dealt with actual oligarchs to take money to
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commit sex crimes. If Hunter Biden is not the Epstein elite oligarch class, there is no such
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thing. And now he's trying to rebrand on this pseudo-populism. It's just so tedious.
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And this kind of phrase, this is what the left is really testing out right now. And I think
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some of our international adversaries are trying to push this. I don't want to sound like a lib
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in 2016. But no, even in 2016, the conservatives never denied that our foreign adversaries wanted
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to mess up American politics, tried to influence American politics. And the way they do it, by the
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way, is not just creating scandals, not generally, not just creating problems. It's by exploiting
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divisions that already exist. So when the Soviet Union was messing around in the civil rights
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movement, it's not that they invented racial tension in the 60s and 70s. There was racial
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tension in America. They just exploited it. They just exacerbated it. So you're seeing this
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combination of the left with our international adversaries trying to make this thing happen,
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Epstein elite oligarch. And they make as their leader for this campaign against the Epstein
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elite oligarch class, Hunter Biden, who's the face of the whole thing. Totally, totally ridiculous.
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Now, speaking of horseshoe theory, there is a professor, a former professor in New York City,
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And her comments have some resonance on the right.
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But what this shows us is that there is a danger.
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So New York City College professor who hates the United States and apropos of modern,
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like current day political controversies, also really hates the state of Israel.
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And she's very pro-Iran and she's pro-Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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She has called to take down the US empire by any means necessary.
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Okay, you can see the keffi. Her name's Corinna Mullen. And she was once arrested for leading
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anti-Israel protests that caused $3 million in damage to the City College of New York.
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She lauded Iran's phenomenal military for beating up on the US. And then here's the key line.
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She says, this is having a huge toll on the capacity of the US empire to impose its will.
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We need to bring the empire down by any means necessary. What I find interesting about this
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is not that there's some radical New York left-wing professor who wears the caffia who
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hates America. Obviously, that's not a man-bites-dog story. What's interesting, though,
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is that her comments will have some resonance on the American right. And the reason, by the way,
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is that the American empire has pushed a lot of nonsense. USAID was funding things like
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transgender ballets in the Philippines. The flag of the American empire is like that pride flag.
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We're putting it up on our embassies around the world. Some on the right, myself included,
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have referred to the global American empire, or gay, because it pushes these decadent liberal
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values, which are really annoying and which we should not do. However, no conservative,
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no right-winger really of any kind can seriously demand the end of the American empire.
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as long as the conservatives and right-wingers are American. That doesn't really make a lot of
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sense. No true conservative or American right-winger can root for our adversaries to beat us
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in a war, even if in the war we're the ones pushing liberalism or secularism or what have
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you, all these problems that are attendant to liberalism. And even if our adversaries seem more
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based by some measure, whether it's the Iranians or the Russians or the Chinese.
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The reason for this is not just our patriotism. I hope you're all patriots. But the reason for this
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is when we side with countries on the basis of ideology, if we are, I've been tempted by this
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myself. If we were to look at Putin's Russia and say, you know what? They're pretty based.
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They're building cathedrals and we're building abortion centers. Happily, we're actually closing
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abortion centers right now, but we have built a lot of abortion centers. When we look at a foreign
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adversary and we say, or any foreign country, and we say, you know, ideologically, I have more in
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common with them than I do with my own governing elites. Therefore, I want them to win. I don't
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want us to win. When we say that, ironically, we become the most liberal of the liberals.
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Thomas Jefferson, when he was president, he was running against the Federalists.
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And the Federalists wanted more government power, and the Jeffersonian Republicans wanted less government power.
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He out-Federalists the Federalists because he makes the Louisiana Purchase on dubious constitutional authority to double the size of the United States.
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Well, the really based conservatives who look around at a place like Russia and say they're building cathedrals.
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They say they're keeping weird gay stuff out of movies.
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They say they don't really have quarter for feminism there.
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Ironically, when we allow our ideology to have us feel more affinity for our adversaries than we do for our own country, we are outliving the most liberal Americans.
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because liberalism is based on ideology, based on abstraction, based upon a notion
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that what really unites us and forms political communities is something in the realm of ideas
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and in the forms floating above the practicality of a political community. And that's just not true.
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That ain't how Russia views it. That ain't how China views it. That ain't how Iran views it.
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We have to be on our own side. There's that famous Robert Frost line. It says,
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a liberal is one who cannot take his own side in a quarrel. And the irony is, again, I'm not
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exempting myself from it. I felt this temptation myself. The irony is, when we say America's
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liberal and Russia, China, Iran, whoever else, they're a conservative society by their own
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standards. Therefore, I'm kind of on their side. We are not taking our own side in a quarrel.
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We are abstracting politics above the political community into the realm of ideas.
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It's a real challenge because we cannot, we have to be aware that we ourselves are in
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many ways the products of this liberal society.
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And sometimes our own priors can lead us to very, very strange places.
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If you find yourself agreeing with the radical left-wing New York City professor wearing
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the keffiyeh, you've taken a wrong turn. Speaking of the libs, a lady on BBC, Sarah Wakefield,
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the head of the Green Party in the UK, has just perfectly epitomized liberal millennials.
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You'll get to the way that their minds work, the way that their politics functions.
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he loves it. My favorite comment yesterday is from Todd Stern, 67, who said, I just found out my
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uncle, a lifelong Republican, just voted Democrat in the California election. This would never have
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happened if he were still alive. So true, so true. Probably many such cases. On BBC,
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while I was in the UK, while I was actually booked to be on BBC, Sarah Wakefield, the UK's
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Green Party candidate, just had a debate with the right-wing reform party's Rob Kenyon. And she has
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gone viral for her inability to understand what the conservative is saying. The idea of blaming
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our housing crisis on immigration is absolutely wild to me, actually.
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That says more about you, because you've got an extra 10, 20 million people come in the
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So do you not think an extra 10 million people is going to have an effect on housing in the
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Do you think that if we lock down our borders, we're going to solve the housing crisis?
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The thing is, the more people you have in the country, the more houses you're going to
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He's really good at explaining things later, isn't he?
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I love this setup, not even for the substance of what's being said, which is simple enough.
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We have a housing crisis in this country. We have a housing crisis. We got price of housing
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is going really high up. And then the conservative says, well, yeah, because you flooded the country
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with foreigners. And then that breaks her brain. And she doesn't really say much of anything.
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She just does that look, that look of the liberal millennial women that,
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Uh-huh. Like this kind of goofy, mocking, condescending. And he's very calm. He says,
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well, no, here's how supply and demand work. When you have a limited number of goods,
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like houses, and you're not scaling houses, one new house for every new migrant that comes into
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your country. When you have this limited number of goods, and then you flood the country with
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demand for that good, the cost of the good increases. Pretty simple. You don't need a PhD
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in economics for that one. And she doesn't have a response to this. So she tries to deflect.
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So you're saying that if we just stopped mass migration, all of our problems would go away.
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He says, I'm not saying that. I've never said that. I just said that when you flood the country
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with migrants, the cost of housing goes up. And she just does this face.
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this epitomizes millennial liberalism. This woman's only political power is not understanding
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things. That is indeed the only political power of the millennial liberals broadly.
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The women epitomize it more, or exemplify it more, but the men to some degree too.
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It's like that meme that goes around social media.
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So much of discourse is liberals pretending not to understand things,
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She's so desperate to defend mass migration,
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because she thinks it'll give her an electoral majority,
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because she's a masochist, because she hates her own country,
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Because she thinks that she has more of a responsibility
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to people she's never met on the other side of the world than she does to her own people.
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Whether it's for the C.S. Lewis point in Screwtape, when the demon is writing in Screwtape
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and says, hey, you're patient that you're working on to try to send him to perdition.
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He's going to have some feelings of love, but it's okay. Just make sure that he directs his
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feelings of love away from the people immediately around him, away from his family and his friends
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and his neighbors. Make sure he just directs that love to an abstract sort of person on the other
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side of the world that he's never met. That way, he can be awful and terrible to all the people
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that are around him. So his hatred and contempt will be wholly real, but his love will remain
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abstract and for the most part fictional and illusory. That's liberal millennials. So for
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whatever reason, she can't, she really wants the mass migration. And so she can't grant the basic
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economic premise. And the best they have is, oh, you think that we shouldn't chop off the genitals
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of children? That's it. That's what the libs did to us for years here. You think that Somali
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fraudsters are committing fraud in Minnesota and Ohio? You really, yeah, I really think that,
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because that's what all the evidence shows. You think that boys can't become girls?
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Yeah, I think that. I think that might be coming to an end and there will be some kind of new
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leftism that replaces it. Whatever Gen Z leftism is, probably it will be more militant and more
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full of conviction. But the millennials, I think in many ways, what defines the millennials as a
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political community on the left and even maybe on the right is a lack of conviction. We were raised
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in this fetid stew of subjectivism and relativism. We were told that we can't ever really know
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anything for certain. We were told that we have to be really nice and we just all need to be
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smiley, smiley and not offend anyone. We were raised as a generation shaped by political
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correctness that then flowered into wokeness. And so we can't ever have a direct sort of debate,
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generationally. Obviously, individuals within the generation can. But we can't do that. So it's all
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just based on consensus. It's all just based on, it's not that you try to prove that your opponent
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is wrong. It's that you try to prove that your opponent is weird. And that's what she's doing.
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And she's making herself look rather weird herself. Speaking of mental deficiencies,
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My favorite headline, my actual favorite headline of the last two weeks from SciPost says,
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mental health might be emerging as a source of political identity. Study finds. This is perfect.
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This is talk about political correctness. This is perfect euphemism writing. Mental health might
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be emerging as a source of political identity. What does that mean? Just close your eyes and
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think about what that means. That is a fancy way of saying that the libs are crazy. That's what
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that means. Mental health, let's just open up the article. It's an analysis of the 2022
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Cooperative Election Study data found that mental health is emerging as a source of political
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identity, particularly among Gen Z and more liberal Americans. Meaning the people who got
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there and say, you know, look, I'm on SSRIs. I have anxiety. I have depression. I have even,
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the one that the right participates in is autism. The right likes to claim autism,
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even though it's just people who are a little quirky a lot of the time. They say, I'm so
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autistic. So even we use this clinical language of mental health, but it's mostly the libs,
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as the study even finds. It's emerging as a political identity. No, you're just saying
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that you're a little crazy. And what's amazing is that the recognition, the self-awareness that
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you're a little bit crazy, it leaves you two options. You can either say, I'm crazy and that's
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not good. I should fix my craziness. Or you can double down on it and say, I'm crazy and I demand
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my rights. I'm crazy and I'm going to get even crazier and you're going to cater to my craziness.
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And that's what the left has argued for five years now, at least.
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i'm not going to fix the problem you see it i mean not to beat a dead horse but you the perfect
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example of this is the transgender ideology where you say hey i think i'm the opposite sex i can
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either correct myself you know i can either i realize that that's a little bit weird and so
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i can either try to persuade myself of reality or i'm gonna double down and i'm gonna and you're
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all going to cater to me. It's beautiful. I want to frame it. Tell this to your normie voter. Tell
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this to your median voter. See, there is a one-to-one correlation of craziness to voting
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for the left. Who are you going to vote for in the election? Okay, speaking of mentally ill leftists,
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this is a story from a couple of days ago, but I want to make sure we get to it. TPSA had the
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Young Women Leadership Summit, which they've had for many, many years now. It's a very successful
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event. It continues to be very, very successful. And there were protesters outside. Here are the
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protesters. We've got a Palestine flag. We've got a bunch of hippies, dirty looking people.
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Screaming random nonsense. Looks like any liberal protest that you've seen on these college
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campuses for years and years and years. The same sort of people who threatened TPUSA speakers and
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who ultimately killed Charlie Kirk. Okay. Furthermore, there weren't just the dirty
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hippies waving their little signs. Antifa showed up. So actual left-wing militants who train as
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terrorists. So you can see them. Cops have to take some of these guys down to the ground.
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The Antifa are getting very, very violent. We know we've seen Antifa at a lot of our events.
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Obviously, at my event at Pittsburgh a few years ago, they burned me an effigy and threw an
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explosive at the building. Seriously injured a cop. And then the most distasteful of all,
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you have a guy dressed up as Charlie Kirk with a mask on because he's a coward,
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dressed up as Charlie Kirk outside of an event that is being hosted by Charlie's widow, Erica,
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mocking Charlie's assassination by a trans furry leftist. He's dancing around in the Charlie Kirk
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mask. And then he ends up lying on the floor as if he's been shot. So amid all of this just
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absolutely revolting display, you have this magnificent speech by Erica.
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There will be a day 10 to 15 years from now when my children will look back on this season of life
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that us three are going through. And they won't remember it fully because they're so young.
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They will see how this world talked about their father, their mother, even themselves.
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They will be able to read every headline, every accusation, every lie.
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My prayer is their focus isn't on all that noise, but rather on how their mother showed up and how she handled it.
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Here, here, here, absolutely beautiful, spot on. Also why, from the beginning of all of this,
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from the moment Charlie was killed, I made a point, which is that I consider Erica to be a
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national hero in all of this. And some people, even people who really like Erica, they've said,
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oh, Michael, you're overstating it. She's gone through an immense grief. She's suffered something
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very, very difficult. But why would you say she's a national hero? She's not a national hero because
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her husband was killed. She's a national hero because of how she's responded to that,
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as well as the awful attacks, some of which have come from the right, obviously. Maybe the loudest
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ones have come from the right, but the most consistent ones have come from the left.
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And the way that she's responded to it has showed an immense, almost unfathomable amount of grace.
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And she has tuned out a lot of the noise. Very important, very important lesson to follow.
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and she is focused on what is good and what matters.
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She's kept the religion at the center of her life
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and she's proceeded with a great deal of magnanimity
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is something that I suspected from the very beginning, and I think I was proven right.
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In the real world, look at what side the attacks are coming from. In the real world,
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in the physical world, in the world beyond social media. Yes, there are attacks that have come from
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the right. We've talked about them, and we try not to focus on them too much.
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There are attacks coming from the right and from maybe foreign bots pretending to be from the right,
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No one's really seemed to be able to stop them.
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Don't think there's any confusion or any equivalence
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In the real world, the people who are showing up,
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who are getting violent, who are disturbing the events,
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who are mocking Charlie and who are mocking his death in front of his widow, those people are
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uniformly from the left. That's where the political threat really lies. And so how do we respond to
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this? Well, I'd be happy to regulate much of social media and try to get some of the foreign
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interference out. And I'm all for speech standards and all the rest. Obviously, I wrote a whole book
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about that. But in the real world, what do we do? We should exclude the extremely violent left from
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the public square, the ones on the left who have really embraced political violence and threats
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and all that. We should arrest and seriously imprison Antifa, people who are actually
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threatening us in the real world. We need to focus on what is good. We need to persuade people of
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the absolute perfidy of our political enemies. We need to continue to win. We need to continue to
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show up. We need to continue to hold power and we need to advance our agenda. That's what we need
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to do. That takes a great deal of courage, takes a great deal of magnanimity. No one has exemplified
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that better than Erica. And despite the best efforts of the violent, disgusting left,
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the Young Women's Leadership Summit went off without a hitch. Okay, speaking of violence,
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there are new details in the Carmelo Anthony case. You know, Carmelo Anthony was this young
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black guy who just murdered in cold blood, murdered this guy, Austin Metcalf. Allegedly,
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I have to say allegedly because he hasn't been convicted yet.
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Austin Metcalf at a track meet, high school track meet.
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but the story is somehow even worse than we all originally thought.
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