Ep. 2018 - China Steals 220M Voter Files： Trump's Primetime Speech EXPLAINED
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Today on the show: President Trump reveals troubling findings about the Chinese Communist Party, a transgender activist runs to replace former Democratic Senate nominee Graham Plattner in Maine, and the latest in the World Series between Canada and the Netherlands.
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that the news networks conveniently decided not to air. We will get into the details and what is
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to be done about it then. Vice President J.D. Vance gets in even more trouble with certain
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factions of the Republican Party, this time over economics. A transgender activist runs to replace
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former Democrat Senate nominee Graham Plattner in Maine. And speaking of transgenders,
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welcome back to the show secretary of state marco rubio gave a superb speech yesterday
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calling for a crackdown on global leftist violence and what was so great about the speech
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was not just the diction and the timeliness but he really got to the heart of what is wrong
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with socialism communism anarchism all of these leftist ideologies he really got to the heart of
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President Trump last night, he actually delivered.
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A lot of people weren't totally sure if this primetime speech was really going to deliver.
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Sometimes Trump exaggerates and teases a little more than he delivers in these speeches to get the networks to cover them.
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There was a ton of declassified information from the CIA, the NSA, the broader intelligence community,
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showing that our election systems, which we are told are as secure as ever since 2020,
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the most secure election in the history of elections. We now have not just claims from
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the president, not just slogans from the Republican Party. We have declassified intelligence
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from the IC, CIA, FBI, NSA, showing that our election system is extremely vulnerable
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to leaks, to hacking, to manipulation by the powers that are most hostile to us around the
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world, and that the intelligence community knew about this all the way back in 2020,
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in some cases earlier, and that deep layers of the intelligence community knew about this.
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We have the files. They've been declassified. The White House released them. You can go to
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whitehouse.gov to see them. It's right when you go to whitehouse.gov today, it says,
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do you want to see the declassified files? Deep layers of CIA, NSA, deep layers of the IC
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kept that information, not only from the president of the United States in his daily briefings,
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but kept that information even from the heads of the agencies.
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So you even have CIA directors who don't hear this stuff. And you have admissions from guys
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in the IC in their emails, in their memoranda saying, yeah, we're running the government here.
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We've got to keep this from people that are too high up.
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Here's President Trump just laying out the problem.
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Tonight, I'm announcing the immediate declassification and release of critical intelligence, revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure.
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This evidence shows that the election system we have dangerously exposes and
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really exposes like levels never thought possible to hacking, exploitation and
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foreign interference. Just as disturbingly this vital information has
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for many years been covered up and hidden from you, the documents cover five
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major areas of concern. First, they show that over a period of years, starting during the 2020
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election cycle, the People's Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest
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compromise of election data in history, resulting in China's illicit acquisition of 220 million US
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voter files okay i want to just cover there's so much in these files i encourage you to read them
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we'll cover a little bit of what's in them right now but i want to head off right at the top a line
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that you're going to hear from the left and it's in response to this question what is this speech
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about why is trump giving this speech right now we are heading into midterm elections looking ahead
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to the 2020 presidential election but we're not quite an election season yet we're in mid-july
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Why is Trump giving this speech now? And what the left is going to say is Trump is trying to
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relitigate the 2020 election, and he is trying to validate his conspiracy theories, which,
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you know, seemed, I mean, we got the CIA memoranda now, but anyway, they're going to say he's looking
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backward. He's going to claim that certain winners of 2020, be it at the presidential level or the
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Senate level are illegitimate. That was one of the leaks about the speech. Some of the reporting said
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he's going to claim that the Democrat Georgia senators are illegitimate because of election
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interviews. Notice, none of that happened. None of that happened. Trump did not really get into
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his gripes about the 2020 election in the speech. He didn't claim any sitting senators are
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illegitimate. He didn't do any of that. That is not what the speech is about. That speech last
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night was about one thing and one thing only, getting Republican senators to pass the Save
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America Act. That's what it was about. Right now you have this bill, which is an 80-20 issue,
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not even, it's like an 85-15 issue. Everybody supports voter ID and voter integrity.
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You have Democrats trying to stop it because they rely on weakening our election integrity in order
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to win elections. Because they want to flood the country with foreign nationals. They want them to
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vote illegally. They want insecure elections. They know that our adversaries hate Trump,
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So he was saying, yes, guys, forget about 2020.
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But our election system is extremely vulnerable.
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And in a democracy, in a republic such as ours, in a self-government by the people for the people,
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if you don't have confidence in your elections, you don't have a government.
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Detections began in the spring of 2020 that 220 million voter files had been breached by China.
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This was the largest data breach in U.S. history.
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By August of 2020, 18 states had voter databases breached by China.
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Intelligence did not brief the President of the United States, the Congress, or the states.
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By 2023, the number of files that had been breached grew from the initial smaller number of 17 million to 220 million.
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CIA and NSA analysts agreed that the decision not to tell Donald Trump, the president of the United States, was a politically motivated decision by deep state bureaucrats, by careerists at places like CIA and NSA.
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It was a political decision motivated by their partisan hatred of Trump.
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the NSA intercepted information that China was looking to you know meddle in all sorts of ways
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increase racial strife get some get some dirt on Trump none of that is surprising yet all of
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these intel reports basically none of them very few of them made it into a presidential daily
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briefing uh as I mentioned uh you had real issues in Venezuela now Venezuela was hacking its own
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elections but the the machines in Venezuela were very similar to machines that were used in in the
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US. All of this kept from the president. In the fall of 2020, Trump mentions this in his speech,
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the FBI heard from Michigan state police that they had found industrial scale election cheating
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in Michigan, fake IDs in voting coming from Democrat operatives. The FBI estimated through
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one sample, roughly 30% of the ballots were fraudulent. You're talking massive industrial
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scale, coming from Michigan, which is a Democrat state. In one box, 91 out of 107 votes were
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fraudulent. We're talking massive, massive scale fraud. As Trump pointed out in the speech last
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night, Biden was president at that point. The DOJ slow walked the case and no one was held
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accountable because it benefited Democrats. We're talking the kind of election manipulation and
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rigging that would put Tammany Hall to shame. Okay, we're talking, because at least in Tammany
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hall you're only looking at one city one state here you're talking about just massive multiple
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states widespread fraud involving foreign nationals so uh the doj starts looking into
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some of the election problems and recognizes that there are some people on the on the voter
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rolls who should not be on the voter rolls in 12 states that were cooperate cooperating more red
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than blue. They found 22,000 non-citizens on the voter rolls. Then four states that DHS analyzed
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by buying public data found quarter million foreigners who shouldn't be on the federal
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rolls on the federal rolls. On and on and on. There's so much more to get into. There's not
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enough time. What this is about is the Save America Act. And the question to the Republican
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senators who are concerned about standards and norms and who want to hold up the filibuster and
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whatever. Just ask yourself, when it comes to standards and norms, is there any standard and
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norm that is more important to maintain than the integrity of our elections? When you have
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massive evidence, not just coming from Trump, who some people don't trust, but coming from
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CIA, the NSA, the FBI, the vaunted intelligence community, for years and years and years,
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six, eight years in some cases, showing vulnerabilities in our election system
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exploited by our chief geopolitical adversaries? Is there any standard and norm more important to
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maintain than the integrity of our elections? I can't really think of one, which is why
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I like the filibuster too. I would like to maintain the filibuster, but they must pass
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the Save America Act. It has to happen. Okay. Now, as I mentioned, you probably didn't hear
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this if you were watching the TV news networks last night because they decided not to broadcast
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a speech. So now President Trump says they should pull the broadcast licenses. The left once again
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calling him a fascist and authoritarian. We'll get to what that means in a second. Then we'll
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get to Rubio's excellent speech on leftist violence. J.D. Vance's apparently controversial
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President Trump does not like that the news networks did not cover his bombshell speech last night.
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So he's contemplating pulling their broadcast licenses.
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In a rare move, NBC and ABC fake news have both said that they would not cover this speech.
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They knew what it was about because of the fact that they don't like the topic because they know
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how corrupt our system is and they don't want to reveal it. They and others in the media are part
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of a plot. They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want to keep it going.
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they want to protect the radical left they can't have a great country and that's true you can't
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have a great country without free and fair elections fraud like this should mean a revocation
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of their licenses they use our public multi-billion dollar in value airways for absolutely no money
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they pay nothing okay so cue the left and the squishy loser right cue them right now saying
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this is authoritarian. He's gone too far. We can't revoke the sacred federal broadcast licenses
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of NBC and ABC. Our founding fathers bled in the revolution. They suffered at Valley Forge
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so that NBC and ABC can peddle fake news on public airwaves. I don't think that's true.
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The question is, is there a legal justification to revoke their broadcast licenses? There are
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certain criteria, according to which, there's a rubric according to which the government can
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revoke the broadcast licenses for these networks that are on public airwaves. They're not going to
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revoke my broadcast license for the Michael Knowles show. I'm not on public airwaves.
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We pay our own way over here, and you pay our own way. Thank you very much to the viewers and
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the listeners. Not so when it comes to the public airwaves, not so when it comes to broadcast.
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NBC, ABC, they have no right to those licenses.
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must operate as public trustees of the spectrum,
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So public affairs programming, covering the news,
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and failure can lead to non-renewal of their licenses.
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So in this case, would you say that a national address
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on a crucial matter, such as the integrity of our elections,
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would you say that's a matter of public interest? Would you say that covering that sort of news
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would be servicing community needs? Would you say that is part of the deal when a news network
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signs up to get a public broadcast license? Would you say that covering that kind of thing,
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the president covering a crucial issue, getting to the very heart of our politics,
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a national address. Would you say that's part of the deal when you sign up to get a broadcast
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license? Because I would. I would say that. And the fact that Trump is now threatening to revoke
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their licenses, I think is a good thing. And I think these guys need to be brought in line.
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In other words, let me be perfectly clear, lest the left and the squishy loser right get confused
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about this. The threat to our freedom and our way of life and our great national traditions and our
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standards and norms and our country, the greater threat to all of those things lies in the perfidy
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and corruption of the media, more so than it does in the duly elected, popularly elected
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president of the United States wielding the power that is afforded to him.
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The greater threat to our freedom and our way of life and our standards and our norms,
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even though I know Trump's an eccentric character, the greater threat lies in the
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absolute corruption of our establishment media, especially the broadcast networks,
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far more so than it does in the duly elected president exercising power that he has.
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No question about it. The left wants to pretend otherwise.
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They want to pretend that they're speaking truth to power in an authoritarian regime,
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The establishment media are part of not an authoritarian, but rather a totalitarian system
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of liberalism that seeks to dominate and dictate every aspect of your life, not merely those
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circumscribed and narrow aspects in authoritarian regimes.
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Some of us wish he were a little bit more authoritarian.
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and what he's threatening here is totally just.
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You know, there would be a lot of hurdles to it,
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calling for a crackdown on global leftist violence.
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is now driven by far left and anarchist actors.
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An all-out assault on our immigration officers,
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a transgender shooter opening fire on Catholic elementary school students
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as they pray, his gun marked with slogans like,
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A health care executive executed in cold blood in the streets.
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Multiple assassination attempts on a sitting president.
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and the murder of the greatest conservative activist of a generation.
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It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time.
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They can call themselves anti-capitalist, or anti-imperialist, or communist, or anarchist, or Marxist.
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But the fundamental character is always the same.
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It is a poisonous resentment, cloaked in the language of equality, and justice, and liberation.
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an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built to wreck what is beautiful and
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what is right on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to
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offer the world spot on man absolutely precise from secretary of state marco rubio what i love
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so much about this speech is not just you know the the recognition of left-wing violence calling
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them out internationally as well as domestically. But the fact that he recognizes what it's all
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about, a lot of people think socialism is about giving money to poor people. A lot of people
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think communism is about an egalitarian system. A lot of people think that anarchism is about
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freedom or something. No. All of those radical leftist ideologies are about the same thing.
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They're about resentment, envy, and destruction.
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And I'm not even only speaking polemically here.
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Karl Marx, I think, in the greatest summation of his ideology,
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says everything that exists deserves to perish.
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that to me is the line from marx that sums up marx's view of politics better than anything
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else everything that exists deserves to perish it is pure destruction it is a zero-sum game it is
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negative it seeks to destroy intrinsically that's what the left is about that's why they're more
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violent. That's why they're angrier all the time. That's why they damage their own bodies. That's
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why they damage communities. That's why they damage statues and paintings. And because the
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ideology itself is destructive and violent. And there are some aspects to it that talk about
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economics. There's some aspects to it that talk about immigration or whatever, but it's not what
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it's about. The heart of it is violence. That is totally right from Rubio. And it is why we should
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not look at the now totally undeniable spike in left-wing political violence, even admitted by
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the left, even admitted by the Atlantic magazine, even using data sets that don't count most
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left-wing violence, like the BLM violence, like Antifa showing up to college campuses,
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like trainees shooting up churches and schools. Even when you don't count that stuff, even today,
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even the leftist magazines have to admit that political violence is chiefly a left-wing
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problem. It's why we can't look at that as an unfortunate turn of leftism, of revolutionary
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leftism. It's an unfortunate turn of revolutionary leftism that it's become violent. No, no, no. It
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just is violence. It just is violence. The most extreme conservative smokes a lot of cigars and
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really super hard, reads a lot of old dusty books. That's like the extreme of conservatism.
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The extreme of conservatism is getting like a really nice leather Chesterfield sofa and
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listening to Bach and smoking cigars and drinking good scotch. That's like, if you just let the
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conservative id run wild, it would be like a guy wearing a lot of tweed or I don't know,
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sitting in his nice home with his beautiful wife in her nice dress with their kids eating an apple
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pie. That's like fantasy run amok. Whereas the extreme of leftism is lopping off heads and
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emptying the Bastille and toppling statues and bringing down countries. Rubio, totally, totally
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right. Can't believe I just confessed all my fantasies on air. All the tweed, all the port.
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Okay. Before we get into another top member of the Trump administration and another presidential
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contender, really the heir apparent, J.D. Vance, he's in trouble again. He got in trouble yesterday.
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They called him anti-Israel because he compared Israel to, he said, Israel should be like our
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other allies. It's not the only ally. It's not in the special category. We should consider them
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like our other allies, England and France, who are literally our two greatest allies we've ever
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had. And for that, he was called anti-Israel. Now he's in trouble for talking about economics.
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They're calling him a communist or something. Let's see what he actually says about economics.
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J.D. Vance just can't stay out of trouble with certain, a little bit more establishment,
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a little bit more neoconservative factions of the American right.
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He's in big trouble right now, not just for his views on foreign policy, but for his views
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That to me is the fundamental challenge of AI, is it's going to unleash a lot of wealth
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But if that wealth creation all goes to some segment of people, you're going to have communism.
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Like that is the choice before us is a lot of wealth being created.
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But if you don't ensure that there's some broader prosperity from that wealth creation, like we have run this experiment before and it leads to communism.
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I hope the attacks coming from certain parts of the right on J.D. Vance are disingenuous
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because I think that I hope it's not just ignorant or idiotic or I hope they're disingenuous in a
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way I think that's the more charitable read but J.D. Vance comes out he goes I really don't want
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communism to rise up in America I really don't want leftist economics to rise up in America
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and so we need to make sure as we go through the midst of a radical new industrial revolution
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that is certainly going to bring huge changes to the labor market and massive wealth inequality,
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we need to make sure that everyone's brought along for the ride. People have buy-in to the
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market economy so that you don't get communism. And people pointed him, they say, you're a
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communist. Do you got cotton in your ears? What are you talking about? This is leftism.
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What on earth? He hates wealth. He just said he loves wealth creation. He worked in Silicon
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Valley. What are you people? Oh my goodness gracious. The point that he's making here is
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really, really important, which is you want economic growth. The left sometimes doesn't
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want economic growth. The left, you want economic growth. You want new wealth creation. The left
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wants appropriation of wealth. The left wants redistribution of wealth. But they're not really
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focused on new wealth creation. No, he says, we want all that. We want all that stuff.
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But we just need to make sure that people are bought in.
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One, because the palace is never safe when the cottage is unhappy.
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Two, because in a self-governing republic, you need people to have buy-in to the society.
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It's not just a grocery store that we all happen to go to, but we have no other connection to one another.
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comes from the polis, which is the city-state. And so we all need to have some investment in
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the future of that community, of that entity. And there are all sorts of different ways to do that.
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We can have a buy-in through military service. We can have a buy-in by all being invested in our
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401ks, the stock market. We can have buy-in. There are a million ways that we can have buy-in
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by intermarrying and having common language and common religion. But we need to have some buy-in
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in the future. And if a massive technological change of a new industrial revolution leaves
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90% of the people behind, that's a political problem. The consequence of which is going to
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be communism. So if you want to avoid that, you need to adapt eternal principles to changing
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circumstances, which is one of the most basic definitions of politics. So is this leftism?
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Is this only, I mean, the last time this happened, the last time we had a massive industrial and
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labor change. It was actually Republican presidents who addressed this in many of the same ways that
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J.D. Vance is talking about. Teddy Roosevelt, who is one of the presidents most frequently
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compared to Donald Trump. He dealt with that. He dealt with that with the square deal and
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both Roosevelt and Taft focused on antitrust protections, on different labor protections,
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this is not a uniquely progressive i mean teddy roosevelt was a kind of progressive a little
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different than some of the leftist progressives but plenty of other people taft less so than
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teddy roosevelt abraham lincoln other even more modern presidents have had all sorts of
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economic interventions george w bush was he uh was he a proger george hw bush i don't know give
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me a break guys it's this is not merely progressive intervention the other knock on
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Vance, you're seeing a lot of anti-Catholicism rising up, a lot of sharpening anti-Catholic
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rhetoric, which Arthur Schlesinger says is the deepest bias in the history of the American
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But what some people are saying is, this is just Vance embracing a kind of Catholic economic
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a ridiculous a ridiculous argument to make when uh that in recent years that that modern catholic
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economic view has been most prominently promoted by john paul ii one of the two men who took down
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communism ronald reagan and john paul ii and a little hat tip to maggie thatcher those are the
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people who destroyed communism popes have have invade against communism and socialism said not
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even a moderate form of socialism can ever be Christian. It's totally anathema. You cannot
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claim that that Catholic economic view is socialism or communism. John Paul II, the great
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anti-communist hero, writes in Centesi Musanus, which is written on the 100th anniversary of Pope
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Leo XIII's encyclical, Rerum Novarum, a brilliant document, which is the beginning of Catholic
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social teaching. John Paul II writes in Shantesi Musanus that the free market is the most efficient
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way to allocate goods around an economy, but we need to make sure that we're focusing on resources
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that are solvent and marketable, that we need to recognize that we have to circumscribe certain
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aspects of the market because human beings have dignity. There is nothing uniquely Catholic about
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that. There is nothing sectarian. There's nothing communist or socialist or anything like that.
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That is just common sense. And I don't know. There's going to be a Republican primary, I guess.
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I think Trump is just going to pick the nominee, ultimately, barring some total collapse of his
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administration. But it's fine. I mean, people have their horses. Some people really want Rubio to run
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against Vance, even though Rubio's already endorsed Vance. Some people want people who are outside of
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the administration, like Ron DeSantis, maybe. I don't know. There's no real evidence Ron DeSantis
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is going to run whatever it's fine i mean the gop loves fighting each other so you can all duke it
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out in the primary but i don't know if you're going to make these kind of criticisms advance
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at least make honest ones kind of kind of silly okay uh speaking of common sense there's a new
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candidate in maine a new democrat to replace graham plattner who had to drop out because he's a
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nazi rapist allegedly uh and so the new candidate we have is ashley ashley webb
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and then with with the trans community like we're being dehumanized they say that we want to hurt
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people i don't want to hurt anybody i just want to use the bathroom and it and if they want me
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to use the men's room i will but i don't want to be assaulted i endorse ashley webb i endorse i am
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now giving my full and complete unequivocal endorsement of ashley webb i don't know ashley's
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real name. And for the purposes of this endorsement, I don't care. Ashley, it is time.
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Enough transphobia from the Democrat Party. Ashley Webb must be the Democrat nominee
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for Senate in Maine. The Democrats must campaign on the civil rights issue of our time,
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letting trans women use the women's bathroom. Of course, they can't abandon that civil rights issue.
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And Ashley Webb needs to be the standard bearer
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to take on Susan Collins in the midterm elections.
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Come on, the arc of the moral universe is long,
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I got to go for work as I'm leaving the office at 1.30 in the afternoon.
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Look out for it on maybe on the RSS, definitely on the YouTube channel, elsewhere.
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I've, you know, read that poem for decades now.
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They've got Lupita Nyong'o, who is a very good actress, but they're saying that Helen of Troy
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is black. They're saying Lupita Nyong'o is the single most beautiful woman in the world.
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We've got Ellen Page playing a guy. We were initially told she was playing Achilles. Then
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we're told she's playing this character Sinon, who is not even in the Odyssey. It was actually
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from the Aeneid. So it's a later epic written in a different place in a different language.
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but we were and weirdly she kind of is playing achilles and uh just given how that character
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subs in and uh so i there's all this woke stuff there's there is an underlying theme of feminism
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and my main takeaway is i hate how talented christopher nolan is it's i'm not joking it's
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insidious how talented christopher nolan is because his skill and talent allow him to get
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away with a lot of nonsense. So we'll get into how he changed the Odyssey in ways that, you know,
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I haven't even seen other people talking about that are really, it makes me really rethink
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Christopher Nolan's worldview. I thought he was a kind of center-right conservative Republican
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after Dark Knight. And I don't know, he's making, it's a, in many ways, a really beautiful movie
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Okay, we got to get into the mailbag first though.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, don't accuse me of that.
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and we should support it, especially as Christians.
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The European Athletic Associations came out and said, we need to stop focusing on women's bodies
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when we cover their sports. And you rightly point out, I don't think that women should wear
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athletic wear in public. Yoga pants and gym clothing, the real tight stuff. I don't think
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women should wear athletic wear in public because I don't think that's appropriate
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to wear in public. It is appropriate to wear in athletics. The thing that makes the athletic
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wear inappropriate in public is that it focuses on women's bodies. It's too revealing. It's
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immodest. But that's what athletics is. Athletics is about the body. So my point on the silly
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European Athletic Association standards is, it's not just that they're not letting us,
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you know, look at those hot chickies anymore. It's that their guidelines make no sense.
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They're drawing a distinction. They say, we need to focus more on women's athletics and
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less on women's bodies. They're the same thing. Athletics is about physical excellence.
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Now, I don't watch women's sports. So I get, you know, and as I, all women's sports has some
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aspect of sexiness to it other than the WNBA. But all the other, and no one watches the WNBA,
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but all of, you cannot separate. I guess this is, at the deeper level, there is this real
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Gnostic impulse in modern life, which tries to downplay the importance of the body, but you can't,
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if you are watching women's athletics, you are looking at their bodies and their bodies
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are good looking. You can't, they're different from men's bodies. Men's bodies are not,
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Men's bodies can be beautiful in their own way too,
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So you can't, it's like when the feminists say,
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stop looking upon a woman's body with sexual attraction.
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So you're not, it's not that you're an object,
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but I'm going to look at you like you're a woman.
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And you can't cease to be, it's like trans.
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Women's sports is different from men's sports.
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Maybe it means we should ditch a lot of women's sports.
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This is Megan coming to you with another dating question.
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however it was one instance and overall he's a really kind and stable guy
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i've since lost a third of my body weight and i'm barely considered overweight at this point
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i also don't think i'd ever be comfortable dating someone who found me attractive when i was at my
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heaviest this has been a significant lifestyle change and i have no intention of gaining the
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weight back he recently has reached out to ask me on a date should i look past the bad first
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impression and give the guy a chance or are first impressions important and indicative of who a
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person really is. Thanks always, Megan. Good question. And congrats on losing all that weight.
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That's really impressive. Oh my goodness. I don't really know what the BMI is. I can't picture what
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that is, a BMI of 40. But if you're saying that's morbidly obese, if you were really,
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really overweight, you lost a third of your body weight. That's very, very impressive. So congrats
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on that. And yeah, I would date him. I'd give him a shot at least. I don't know. Maybe he's a jerk,
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but I would, I would date him because you say, you say, I don't, I have transformed in part so
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that I can, you know, meet a guy. I assume that's part of it. And I wouldn't want to date a guy who
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was specifically attracted to someone who's really, really fat in part, because I don't
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ever intend to get really, really fat again. And so I guess there, there is only one further
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question I would have on this, which is when you say he was dismissive to you to the point of being
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rude was it like you come up to him hey hey hey buddy how you doing and he says oh hey yeah sorry
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i'm i'm more i'm more interested in that chick sorry not interested was it that or was it like
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hey porky put down the pork rinds or whatever you know if he was doing that don't date him he sounds
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like a huge jerk but if he was just if he really was just interested in some other woman he's like
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hey sorry yeah i'm not you're not doing it for me sorry you know it was that i'd say i don't know
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maybe give him a shot. The purpose in losing all the weight was to go on dates with these guys who
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were looking past you. This actually gets to an important point. Ben and I were talking about
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this unfriendly fire the other day. Based on that bit from Peter Kreeft, the great Catholic
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philosopher who did an interview on Matt Fradd's show, and he talked about falling in love with
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his wife. And he said, can you love a person even when the person gets old and fat and ugly?
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And even when the person gets kind of nasty and starts to lose her mind a little bit, he said, I fell in love with my wife again an hour after she had died.
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I'm looking at her desiccated body, and I realized she was beautiful, beautiful like a crucifix.
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And Ben made a half good point where he said, yeah, see, it's such a beautiful clip because it means that beauty is in the soul, not the body.
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And I say that's a half good point because beauty is in the soul, but the soul is not really separable from the body in our earthly sojourn here.
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And so I said, no, no, no, Ben, when Dr. Kreeft says that he falls in love with his wife again as a body, actually just as a body, because the body was as beautiful as a crucifix.
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We're saying the crucifix is the image of perfect love.
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Beauty is not just skin deep, but it doesn't exclude the skin either.
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There's an interplay of both because human beings are both of those things.
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So don't exclude him just because he didn't find you physically attractive before,
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and now he does find you physically attractive.
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Michael, last year I sent you a rather scathing voicemail bag about your terrible stance on daylight savings time.
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And although you seem to get a real kick out of it, it obviously failed to stick.
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So I'm going to remind you why we should retire Daylight Savings Time in favor of permanent standard time.
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In the case of Daylight Savings Time, we don't have to know why this particular fence was built,
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Namely, some of the worst liberals in American history, including Woodrow Wilson, FDR, and LBJ,
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making Daylight Savings Time at least as gay and communist as soccer, if not more so.
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Although I've not missed an episode of the show in nearly four and a half years,
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if you continue to espouse such a light in the loafers' Marxist opinion,
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I may be forced to abandon the creme de la creme for the sweet baby gang,
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because I like changing the clocks once or twice a year.
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though I actually had forgotten for a year or two,
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that the daylight savings time thing was pushed by bad presidents.
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But bad presidents have done some good things before.
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Harry Truman, he won World War II with the help of FDR, who was a terrible president,
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Not everything that a bad person does is necessarily bad.
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In any case, it's another mark in favor of daylight savings time that you can use it
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to prove that not even Woodrow Wilson was all bad.
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I see that you are defending daylight savings time by arguing that it is basically an American
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However, I would argue that the setting the clocks back and forth is more like an application
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of transgender ideology applied to time, a sort of trans-time, you could say. Because time has a
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meaning, does it not? Noon is supposed to be in the middle of the day, which has to do with the
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position of the sun and such. If we set our clocks back or forth to pretend that noon is something
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else, how is that different than a man pretending that he is a woman? Time has a meaning, just like
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man and women have meaning. So while conservatives do respect tradition, and as an Orthodox Christian
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conservative, I can say that tradition is basically my blood type, I would argue that we should be
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opposed to daylight savings times because if we allow people to pretend that time is not what it
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actually is then the trans ideology will never be really as you say eradicated also please tell
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whoever's in charge of picking songs for music monday to use the ones i suggest every week when
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i send them to your mailbox and email i think my songs would be more prone to a substantive
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analysis than what you've been recently exposed to just my opinion thank you so because i like
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changing the clocks not only am i gay but i'm trans is that that's the new okay why did we keep
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doing the member block today uh okay it's now your argument is a more interesting argument
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and a deeper argument than just you know woodrow wilson bad so you're saying look the sun should
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be at the top of the sky at noon in other words time has real physical reference points that we
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should respect. And by arbitrarily taking time into our own hands, we sort of make ourselves
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into gods. And we're just the same as a man who says that he's a woman. Now, of course,
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we have taken time into our own hands many times and not just the libs, not just the trannies.
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The French did that in the revolution. They tried to remake how they ordered time. And so,
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But we've had the Gregorian calendar, the Julian calendar.
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We've had standard time, daylight savings time.
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And then I think that the bigger issue for your argument is time zones.
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Because, okay, if time is, if the reference point for time is just the position of the sun,
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what time is it for the person who's 50 miles away?
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And so then you enter into this question of time zones,
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the sun will be at a slightly different position in the sky,
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you have to take the matter into your own hands
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which is when we talk about social construction, you know, things are, we just construct things.
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But there is objective truth and there is mental construction. And the two actually have a
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relation to each other. Mind-independent things and mind-dependent things have a relation to one
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another in our cognitive power. Because the cognitive power is perceiving real things
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mediated by signs, but it also is drawing connections and helping to construct things
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and make deductions from the world. And so, there is a relationship there. There is, to quote the
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great philosopher Kamala Harris, a great significance to the passage of time. And we
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have to play some role in that with our cognitive powers, using our minds to overcome the challenges