Ep. 2022 - LIVEļ¼ Brandon Gill DESTROYS Racist Bar Association Head
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On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, host Michael K. Knowles is joined by the president of the American Bar Association, AOC, to discuss her latest hit on the Democratic Party. They also talk about the Iran war, the Democratic presidential field, and how the left is trying to take over the country.
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most liberal feminist translation of the Odyssey ever weighs in on Christopher Nolan's film,
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which was apparently too liberal and feminist even for her.
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Then, speaking of interminable wars in West Asia,
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a new front opens up in the Iran war as Iran-backed proxies fire on Saudi tankers in the Red Sea.
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And a clear frontrunner emerges in the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination
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welcome back to the show one of the leading democrat uh influencers pundits a real prominent
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thought leader, Hassan Piker, has just debuted a new image on his set. It is a headline, a
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newspaper headline, right after 9-11. So this is Hassan Piker doubling down on his previous
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statement that America deserved 9-11. This is the guy that Democrats turn to, guys like Mamdani,
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AOC, when they want to campaign, when they want support from the young and activist left.
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This is one of their leaders, so we'll get to that momentarily.
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Before I get to any of that, though, I want to turn to a rising star on the American right
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They're calling him Brandon Grill for what he's doing to these poor, unsuspecting liberals
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Before I bring Brandon on, I got to give the latest hit.
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This is Brandon absolutely obliterating the head of the American Bar Association.
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According to the ABA's website, quote, all of us have implicit biases.
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The ABA believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion improves the practice.
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Would you agree with the statement that, quote, all of us have implicit biases from the ABA's website?
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The ABA believes that diversity in all of us is important.
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Do you believe that all of us have implicit biases, as your website says?
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The ABA looks to remove barriers and we examine.
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Do you believe that all of us have implicit biases?
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That is the ABA's position, as expressed by their website.
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Against which groups do you have implicit biases?
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The ABA believes that it's important to always explain.
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I'm going to ask you again, against which groups do you have implicit biases?
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It's important to always examine everyone's point of view and where they may need to consider.
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I am here as the president of the American Bar Association.
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And I'm asking you what your implicit biases are.
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I think about how I operate in the world constantly.
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I am here speaking on behalf of the ABA and the ABA.
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Congressman Gill, did you have heartburn yesterday after you devoured the head of the ABA for lunch?
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it's amazing because this is somebody who's president of the american bar association who's
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been promoting all this kind of left-wing nonsense for a long time and i mean they're really
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ideologically connected to this stuff um and she can't even answer a simple question i mean all of
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this dei nonsense just completely crumbles under even the slightest scrutiny um you know if you're
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going to say outright that everybody has implicit biases, I think you ought to be able to elaborate
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in some way on that. But they can't, and that's the result.
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This is what I love about your approach, is a lot of guys on the right, elected people,
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people in the media, intellectuals, they'll come in real hot, and they'll just, they'll start,
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you know, I don't know, they'll get on their soapbox and just start
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inveighing against the leftist who's being questioned. You're not doing that. You're
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asking very simple, I think, objective, very moderately stated questions, just asking them
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to elaborate on the beliefs that they have offered. They volunteered these beliefs.
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They never do. I mean, this is just the latest example, but you've been doing this for months
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now. Why can't they answer? Well, I think that the left has, and for the past decade or several
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decades, they've built up so much institutional power. It's sort of the culmination of the long
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march through the institutions, where the left has really never had to answer for anything,
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for this kind of nonsense that they spout, because they've had the ability to just coerce
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people into believing things that are nonsensical. Everybody can relate to. If you're in college
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or you're at work and your head of HR comes up to you or the college diversity group comes up to
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you and makes you sit through some diversity seminar and they tell you, why don't you sit
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down and reflect on your own inherent racism or your own implicit biases? Because everybody is
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racist. I mean, this is the kind of stuff that they've put us through and we've never been able
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to sort of make them answer for it, make them actually kind of explain what they mean by this.
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Because the obvious follow-up is, if everybody is inherently racist or inherently biased,
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you know, why doesn't the left tell us who they're racist against or who they're biased against?
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But I think that the problem is, again, that the left has had so much institutional power
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that is now finally starting to erode as sort of peak woke is behind us,
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that they've never actually had to elucidate any of this. They could just say things and coerce
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people into believing it. And if you pushed back, even in the slightest degree, they would label you
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as racist or kick you out of college or fire you from your job. And now that that sort of pendulum
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has swung the other way, it's time for us to hold them to the standards that they set.
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Yeah, it doesn't take the intellect of Socrates to see how the syllogism is going. If the major
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premise is everybody is racist. Every person is racist. And then the minor premise is I,
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the head of the ABA, am a person. The inescapable conclusion is I am racist or I have these biases.
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So what are they? They don't want to answer them. And I wonder, it pertains to what you just said
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about peak woke. We all feel like peak woke is behind us. Maybe that was 2022, 2023. The American
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people really reacted against it. This is why an issue like transing the kids was so prominent in
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the 2024 election. It's not that it's the most widespread problem in America. It's just so
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insane. It's so extreme. The left uniformly embraced it that it really sheds doubt on
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their judgment about anything. So they want to run away. They want to filibuster. This woman
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doesn't have the integrity. None of these guys that you're grilling have the integrity to say,
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yeah, I did say that. I did volunteer that. And I stand by that. Likewise, they don't have the
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the reflection to say, you know what? That was great. Peak woke was crazy. I reject that. We
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don't want to trans the kids. We don't think everybody's racist. We don't whatever. So they're
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just obfuscating now. And I wonder if what that implies is, yeah, peak woke at the moment has
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really declined. It's true. We're in a different spot publicly, but the left hasn't actually given
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it up. So now they've lost some of their institutional power. The Republicans have
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unified government. If the midterms go the Democrats way, if 2028 goes the Democrats way,
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are we going to be right back to where we were in 2023?
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100%. I mean, it is, I think we like to say that woke is dead. And I do think that we're behind
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peak woke because the left has a little bit less institutional power, but woke is not dead. It's
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just dormant. And you can see it at the ABA. You can see it at the Smithsonian Institution. We had
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a hearing earlier this week about leftism and how it's really infected almost all of
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the American Museum of American History, a Smithsonian Museum of American History.
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As soon as they get power back, whether it's in Congress or definitely in the presidency,
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you're going to see a resurgence of this. You're going to see a resurgence of DEI across the entire
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country in businesses who want to follow the lead of the president. You're going to see it
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in universities who believe, who if there's a Democrat president in office or a Democratic
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Congress, believe that they're going to have a lot more leeway to discriminate against people
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on the basis of race. Our job right now should be one, to make sure that they don't get that
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institutional power back, that Republicans continue to win elections, but two, to make
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sure that we can hammer home as aggressively and thoroughly as possible to the broad American
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public how evil these ideologies are. I mean, what you saw yesterday, I mean, remember,
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this is somebody who's the president of the American Bar Association. I've never been to
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law school. This is somebody who's been practicing law for longer than I've been alive. She ought to
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have been able to answer very basic questions about her own organization's ideology. And either
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she is too intellectually vapid or the ideology is completely indefensible. And it's probably a
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mixture of both, I think, but she was completely unable to do that. We've got to keep pressing on
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these people, and we've got to show how absolutely indefensible this stuff is so that down the road,
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if we do ever get into a position where Democrats have a bit more institutional power,
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it's much more difficult for them to push this stuff on the American people.
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Yeah, this was not a gotcha question. It's not like you said, hey, head of the ABA,
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Do you still beat your wife or husband or whatever in this case?
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Okay, Brandon, before I let you go, there's this poll out from University of New Hampshire.
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and it backs up something that I first heard from the vice president. Vice President Vance was on
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this show a few weeks ago. I said, hey, before I let you go, who do you think the leader is for
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the Dems? I thought he was going to say Gavin Newsom or something like that. He said, oh,
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Michael, there's no question. It's AOC. Had I been drinking a glass of water, I would have done a
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spit take. I said, what? You really think it's AOC? He said, yeah, there's no question. And made
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headlines. People didn't know if he was being a little provocative or something. Well, look,
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the University of New Hampshire poll right now says that AOC is leading the pack
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with 22% support. AOC's got it. Our sponsor, Kalshi, says that 44% right now, the prediction
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Behind AOC is Pete Buttigieg. He is relatively, he's actually pretty close to AOC.
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Then you get to about, what, 10% support or less for Gavin Newsom, Mark Kelly, Bernie Sanders.
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So AOC, she's only a little ahead of Buttigieg.
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She's way ahead of guys like Newsom, Kelly, Sanders.
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Do you agree with the University of New Hampshire?
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I mean, she's the one who is driving the Democrat messaging narrative.
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She's the one who is driving the Democratic Party's ideological shift to the left.
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Remember, I mean, it wasn't that long ago whenever AOC first came onto the political
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I think she was elected in 2018, if I can remember right.
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She was the face of the radical left at the time.
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She was the sign, you know, the institutional Democrats were trying to keep her out as much
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as possible because she was, even whether she said it or not or admitted it or not,
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And now you can see that her views are pretty mainstream amongst elected Democrats.
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You know, we talk a lot about the Democratic Socialists of America.
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What it really is is just sort of the culmination of political leftism, but she's been the head
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We'll see how much the donor class on the Democrat side embraces her, whether they embrace her.
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But she is the leader of the party, without a doubt.
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We're talking, and we'll get to it a little bit later in the show, but in terms of the thought leaders of the left, the journalists, the pundits, the intellectuals, you know, I'm using that word a little liberally here.
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But it's no longer the guys writing in the Washington Post.
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It's no longer the stuffy guys who go on the network news.
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It's Hassan Piker, and Hassan Piker just put up a sign behind him on his set celebrating 9-11,
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which is just reiterating claims that he's made for a long time, that America deserves 9-11.
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You look at the leading politicians, it's no longer even Chuck Schumer.
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What do you think the Republicans need to focus on right now?
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The polls are looking shockingly good for the Republicans in the midterms right now.
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There was, I think it was an Ipsos poll came out a few days ago, showed Republicans basically running dead even with Democrats, in some cases even a little ahead of them in the midterms.
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Historically speaking, Republicans should get blown out of the water in the midterms.
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The leader, Mike Johnson, sorry, the speaker, Mike Johnson, said to me during an interview a while ago, he said, I think we're going to keep our majority.
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We might even grow the majority in the midterms.
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I said, whatever you're drinking, whatever you're smoking, give me a little bit of that too, please.
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it sounds great. The polls now are proving him correct. Big vulnerabilities, though. A new front
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was just opened in the Iran War. The Iran War has obviously dragged on for a very long time.
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There's still some economic shakiness. They're good indicators, but it's a mixed bag. So what
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do the Republicans need to focus on from now through the midterms and afterward?
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Well, first of all, I do think that we've got a real chance to defy history and keep control of
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the House. And if we do, it will be an historic victory for Republicans and will allow us to do
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a lot of really good things and continue the great work we've done this Congress for another
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two years. I think that we've got to exploit the socialist shift on the Democrat side.
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And there's two ways that we can do that. One is we can point at the Democrats and we can say,
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these people are communist and communism is evil and communism has created more misery
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than any ideology ever in American history and in world history. And we can show all the examples
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and say, we don't want that here. All of that is true. And we should make that case. But I think
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we also have to make the case to the American people that the Democrat party today, which is
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totally different than the Democrat party of 30 years ago, the blue dog Democrat party to your
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point is dead. We've got to make the case that that is the Democrat Party that is selling away
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Americans' birthright. They're the ones who are flooding our country with illegal aliens,
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who are flooding our hospital system, flooding our schools, that are making our social system,
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destroying the economic viability of our social system, that are making our streets less safe.
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The Democrat Party of today is the one that is spending more money than we're taking in and
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driving up inflation for working class people. They are the ones who are throwing away the
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America that we all know and love in order to create what they believe is sort of a left-wing
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utopia. In other words, they are throwing away our children's birthright. That's the case that
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I think we need to make to the American people, especially to younger Americans who are living
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in a country where it is difficult to buy a home, where inflation is still harming,
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even though it's come down quite a bit, it still does make it a pretty difficult
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economic situation. I think that we continue to win on immigration and we can continue to win
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on economic issues as well. I think you're right about that. They're trying, AOC in particular,
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Mamdani also, they're trying to shift back. They say, wokeness is unpopular. No, no, no. We're just
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working class. We're working class heroes. To your point, the blue dogs are done and the people
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still exist, but it's shifted to the Republican Party. The party of labor is the Republican
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Party right now. And not just in rhetoric, but in really hardcore ways. If you're flooding the
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country with cheap foreign labor, like the Democrats are doing, you are not for American
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labor. You are not for the American working class. If you're spending all your time focusing on
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pushing weird sex ideologies on kids, you are not focused on the American working class. You're just
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not. And so that was reflected in 2024. It was, frankly, you saw an early stage of it in 2016,
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but it's been 10 years now. That shift has happened. And if you were an ordinary common
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sense working class Democrat back in 2015, 2016, you're not a Democrat anymore. It's just a fact.
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I agree. That's a very tangible argument. Congressman Grill, Congressman Grill him to
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death on Capitol Hill. I have to let you get back to your very important work, but thank you.
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Always good to see you, and thanks for coming on.
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Now, on this point, I want to get to the odyssey in a moment, but I do want to finish up on this presidential point because while we have a clear frontrunner in the Democrat Party, I know there's a lot of consternation on the right.
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the heap for Dems, they are looking at the Republican side. Right now, not surprising to
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me, probably not surprising to most of you, but maybe surprising to some political activists or
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people on Twitter or something. The vice president, J.D. Vance, is leading the pack. He's got 36%
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support. He's followed by Rubio, but Rubio's 10 points down. Rubio's at 26% support. Then all of
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the other GOP candidates had less than 10%. So that was led by Rand Paul, who was on the show
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just a few days ago, who I pointed out. He's got a real lane. He's got that libertarian lane.
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But Rand Paul's got 8%. The rest of the pack has less than that. So it's pretty clear. There's not,
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there's a long way till 2028, but it is clear that the vice president is the heir apparent.
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that was implicit when the president picked him
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Rubio, no surprise there, is the number two candidate,
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but he is substantially lower in terms of support.
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it's no knock on Rubio, he's doing a great job.
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This is how administrations and elections work.
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So I think people are trying to put those two guys at odds.
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at a personal level and at a political level, they're really not at odds. So you've got a very
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stable GOP primary field right now. And for the Dems, it's closer, but the two leading candidates,
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AOC and Pete Buttigieg. AOC, who is openly the face of radicalism, and Pete Buttigieg,
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who is the kind of nicer, softer, quieter face of extreme radical ideologies, as we saw when he ran
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as we see just in his own life. Okay. Now, before we get to more hot political issues,
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before we get to the Iran war, I want to get to a much older war that is the Trojan War,
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because everyone's still chattering about Christopher Nolan's new Odyssey film.
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Ben Shapiro, my friend and colleague Ben calls it a masterpiece. Matt Walsh, my other friend and
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colleague over here at DW, he says it's like the worst movie ever made and irredeemably woke and
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just totally sucks. My own opinion is somewhere in the middle of those guys combines a little,
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I don't think it's a masterpiece. It's not a masterpiece. It's like a pretty good movie,
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but I don't think it's the worst movie ever. But you don't need to just take our words for it.
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We now have the translator, the liberal feminist translator of the Odyssey, Emily Wilson.
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She has rendered the most liberal feminist translation of the Odyssey ever,
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and is struggling to process them in a very, I would say, very modern, psychiatrised way.
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He seems to feel bad about being a warrior, and we never actually get to see him doing much warrior-ing,
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which I thought, in a way, was a bit of a shame.
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I mean, we do get to see the boat, which is lovely, but I think in some ways,
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I mean, I was realising, thinking about the film,
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there's a tolerance for ambiguity in the world of The Odyssey,
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which I don't think there exactly is in the world of Hollywood blockbuster.
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He wants glory, and he wants to get spoils from the sack of a city,
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which you'll see what no one does with all of that,
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but it's different things from what Homer does.
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I kept looking in vain for a sense that this was a film about glory.
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I think it's a film that has some interest in shame,
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but I don't think it has any interest in glory.
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i didn't expect to say this but i i totally agree with the translator's critique there are lots of
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good look i'm i think the movie was pretty good i would go see it again i kind of wish i'd seen it
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in imax but the the biggest critique there's a lot of good stuff to say about it the fact that
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people are buying the odyssey now it's it's one of the top books on amazon and the fagel's
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translation is very good the latimore translation is very good there are a lot of very good
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translations. Who knows? Maybe you can read Emily Wilson's. I haven't read the whole translation
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from what I've read of it. I don't like it as much. But nevertheless, she's spot on here
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because the chief critique of the Odyssey, the best critique of the Odyssey,
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is not the wokeness or the casting. It's that it's not the Odyssey. It's a Christopher Nolan
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film, but it's not the Odyssey. It has more in common with Oppenheimer than it does with Homer's
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poem, The Odyssey. And you see this expressed because Odysseus doesn't really seem to want
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glory. He doesn't really seem to love being a warrior. He doesn't want the same things. He
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doesn't have the same motivations that he does in the poem. And so why is that? Well, something that
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I really got a kick out of or really clued me in to what Nolan is doing in The Odyssey is that he
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is reading the Odyssey through Western, Latin, and later even medieval Christian readings of
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the Odyssey. That's a part that Ben gets right in his review, is that it is the Odyssey seen
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through a Christian lens. The inclusion of the character Sinon, who kind of takes the place of
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Achilles in the Hades scene, Sinon played by the trans-identifying lady Ellen Page. The fact that
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that Nolan includes Sinon means that he's reading the poem or the story through Virgil and through
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Dante. Because Sinon doesn't appear in Homer's Odyssey. But Sinon is a character that comes out
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of Virgil's Aeneid. And actually, probably the version of the Odyssey of Odysseus' character
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that Nolan is most clearly reading is through one of my main guys, Dante. Because in Dante's
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Divine Comedy in the Inferno, he puts Odysseus and Sinon in hell. And he actually puts them in
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the lowest circles of hell, in the realm, the Malebolge, in the bulges where the fraudsters
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are, the counselors of fraud. Because this is who Odysseus is. He's this genius rhetorician.
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A buddy of mine just pointed out, he's sort of like ancient James Bond. He'll be tough when he
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has to. He'll shoot and punch when he has to, but he really uses his words. He uses his charm. He
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uses his deceit and cunning in order to get out of scrapes. And so Ben's point is right that Nolan
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is reading the Odyssey through a Christian lens. It's so on the nose. I mean, he talks about the
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golden rule, treat others as you would like to be treated. The real culmination of that movie
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is when Odysseus is confessing his sins to another person through a screen. It's like an actual
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Catholic confession scene there. But the issue is when Dante reads Odysseus through a Christian
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lens, it means that he's got to put Odysseus in hell because Odysseus is a fraudster. Odysseus
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is a liar. And Odysseus has so much ambition, so much desire for glory, and so much pride,
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and so much curiosity that he transgresses God's limits. And he ends up, Nolan uses this in the
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movie. Odysseus finally makes it back to Ithaca, but then he leaves again very shortly thereafter.
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And so you see this in Dante. He gets back to Ithaca. He doesn't stay there very long. He goes
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after because he's got to transgress the limits and he goes too far and he winds himself up in
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hell. The problem for Nolan though is Nolan wants to have his cake and eat it too. Nolan wants
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both worlds. He wants Odysseus to be the hero, the good guy. He wants to combine all of those
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elements from Homer, but he wants to read it through the Christian lens like Dante, but he
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doesn't want to put Odysseus in hell. And so what you wind up with is not exactly a Christian
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morality. You wind up with this kind of liberal boomer morality. You wind up with this liberal
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boomer morality that Emily Wilson, the translator, is getting at here. It's unclear what he wants.
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In other parts of that interview, she says he kind of wants to be like, does he just want to
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be like a suburban dad? That's not in the poem, but does he really want to go home? That's unclear
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in Nolan's movie too, when he's with the sirens, he says, I realized I don't want to go home,
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but he does want to go home. And then he does take off at the end, but he doesn't go off on
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a quest for curiosity and glory. He goes off on the end to basically just go on a vacation with
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his wife. So you end up with this confused boomer morality where at the end of it, your protagonist
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just feels kind of bad and then cheers up when he takes his wife on a cruise. I mean, it is a movie
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for our times. I'm not even knocking the movie. As a movie, I thought it was pretty good. I enjoy
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it. I'm glad it's sparking curiosity in the Odyssey. But it really does highlight the
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incoherence, the confusion of the lib boomer morality, which comes out of Christianity,
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but which doesn't have the boldness or the clarity or the courage of Christianity. And so you just
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end up with blah. And that way, Nolan's a really great filmmaker because he really is, not only is
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he making a modern American adaptation of the Odyssey, it's a kind of indictment of modern
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liberal America. Okay. Now, speaking of all sorts of wars and things like that,
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I do want to get to the modern war that we have in West Asia, which is a huge development in the
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Iran war, which I don't see a ton of people covering, but a new front was just opened up
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in the Iran war, just as we were hoping that the Iran war would, I don't know, wrap up. We were
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hoping that MOU might lead to a peace deal, or at the very least, we were hoping that some major
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military strike would just wrap the whole thing up. It's not. It's actually expanding now beyond
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the flashpoint of the Strait of Hormuz into another strait. It's now expanding into the
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Strait of Bab el-Mandeb, which is in the Red Sea. So you've got the oil that's getting choked off
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in the Strait of Hormuz. One of the alternative routes is through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
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Well, Iranian-backed Houthis are now firing on Saudi vessels in that strait.
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This is according to reporting from The Telegraph.
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The sources told The Telegraph last week that the Houthis were trying to shut down the strait,
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which is this choke point between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean on behalf of Iran.
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All of this saying, how long did the Trojan War last?
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And it begins, as we keep quoting Machiavelli,
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but wars don't end at the will of any particular man.
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There really does not appear to be any end in sight for this.
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could be wrapped up easily with a few more bombs. I don't see any evidence of that either. This is
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why I was very skeptical of the war before and at the launch of the war, and it remains so now.
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It's a brutal position that the administration is in, but it is the chief vulnerability,
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I think, right now for the Republicans in the midterms all the way up to President Trump's
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legacy. In the short run, what it means is we need to minimize the importance. We need to try
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to keep the oil markets. Got a little spiked with this issue in the Red Sea. I think oil right now,
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oil is about $91 as of this morning. But, you know, this could really jump up. This could be
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a big issue. We have months between now and the midterms. Republicans are looking good right now,
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but I don't know that that could hold. Iran does, in fact, have some leverage here.
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America's enemies abroad, Russia, China, other people who are involved, they do have a lot of
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leverage here. And so I think the best thing the administration can hope for from the standpoint
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of American grand strategy and the elections, which are inseparable, is just to keep the issue
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itself at bay. But anyone who's hoping for a quick resolution to the conflict, I got a bridge in the
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Strait of Hormuz to sell you. Okay. Now, speaking of Islamic terror, the thought leader of the left,
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one of the most prominent, it's hard to call him an intellectual, but he's a guy who's shaping
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left-wing thought, who's campaigning for Democrat candidates, who's shaping their rhetoric, and he's
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one of the biggest broadcasters, Hassan Piker. He is now doubling down on his support of 9-11,
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his belief that America deserves 9-11. We'll get to that momentarily first, though.
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The producer's favorite comment yesterday, I didn't pick this one. We'll see if they did a
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good job. This is from Steven. I don't even know. Did he comment on YouTube? Did he comment on
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Spotify? Maybe you need to leave your comments on both. He said, my wife and I saw the Odyssey
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over the weekend, and when Odysseus talked to Sinon in Hades, she said, she must really be a
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woman, she keeps bringing up the past. That's, yeah, that would be one. The Sinon scene in Hades,
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he's really taking the place of Achilles when Achilles is talking to Odysseus in Hades,
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and Odysseus is trying to console him about his death. And Achilles says, don't console,
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there's no consolation in death. Death just kind of sucks. A really important observation of the
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ancient Greek cosmos, different, obviously, in the Christian understanding. But there,
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that would be a big break because Achilles is all a man and Sinon in Christopher Nolan's movie is
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you're definitely a woman that's good evidence of that okay uh we'll get to Hassan Piker first
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though I want to remind you to join Georgia Howe and John Bickley's debate over the Odyssey
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which is going to be available very shortly on Behind the Wire
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oh please get it two hours later let's just say my enthusiasm has waned
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i don't like being the negative one i've got a lot of comments on christopher nolan
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being the screenwriter i think he should not have written this i loved it i loved it i loved it
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i'm actually very surprised how i feel about this movie we'll talk about it soon
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why am i promoting ben davies's show on this show what are we doing
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i hope he's buying ad space okay go check it out right now behind the wire we have behind
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the odyssey uh back to hassan piker the intellectual as it were thought leader of
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the left is now doubling down on his support of 9-11. Also, you might have noticed something,
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some changes behind me. I finally framed the Cutie Cinderella newspaper from 9-11 the morning
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of 9-12, the newspaper right there, the newspaper that covered 9-11. It's now officially sitting
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behind me and i moved the north korean uh poster up uh in in place of the fan art we're going to
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find a new place to put all the fan art don't you worry okay but in any case ladies and gentlemen
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boys girls and mbs that's a psa 10 by the way that 9 11 poster or not the the 9 11 news article
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this guy i'm not overstating it when i said he he's one of the thought leaders of the left
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this is not just me taking a kind of cheap shot trying to wish cast some radical into prominence
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in the dems they have done that themselves hassan piker is a regular um subject of and
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contributor to the new york times which is the most prestigious house organ of american liberalism
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Hassan Piker has written twice for the New York Times.
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He's been profiled twice for the New York Times.
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He has been featured in an additional op-ed by the New York Times.
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Regularly, they feature this guy in his own words or in an interview
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as someone who's really shaping left-wing thought, more so maybe than anybody.
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And the guy who's leading left-wing discourse right now,
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who campaigns with guys like Momdani and AOC and all the rest of them,
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And if AOC really is the Democrat nominee in 2020,
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The American left has always kind of been anti-America.
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The left is always kind of anti-your-own-country
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and anti-the-good, the-true, and the-beautiful.
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would be from the mainstream establishment Democrats
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Okay, speaking of unspeakable actions by the left,
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the man who was almost vice president of the United States,
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almost one heartbeat away from the presidency.
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Tim Walz is in hot water for pardoning a child rapist.
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And sorry, I should be more specific. Tim Walls, the man who Democrats picked to be their vice
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presidential nominee like five seconds ago, just pardoned an illegal alien child rapist
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in order to stop the Trump administration from deporting him.
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So who is this guy? This guy is Tu Lu Vong. He's a Laotian. He's ethnically from Laos. He was born
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in a refugee camp in Thailand. He made it to America, and then he raped a child in really
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I guess always would be really, really hideous. But the particulars of this case are especially
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extreme. It's a family show. I'm not going to get into them. Suffice it to say, this is like the
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worst thing you can do. Just about, he did it to a 10-year-old child. He then defended it when he
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was brought in by police. He said, oh no, it's just my culture. In my culture, we rape children.
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So it's just my culture. He didn't express remorse when he was brought in by police.
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this raises a question. If a culture condones child rape, probably we shouldn't bring people
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from that culture over here. Nevertheless, he was convicted and then released almost immediately.
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So this was all the way back in 2006. He got a slap on the wrist for raping a 10-year-old,
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and then he's just been living his life here. Now, the thing is, even if he had legal status
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which is why Tim Walz in Minnesota just pardoned him.
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because Tim Walz and the Democrats in Minnesota,
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because they're doing similar things around the country.
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They are willing to spend political capital to keep a child rapist from being deported.
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They're willing to spend real political capital to do this, and they're being applauded for it by their own side.
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The Minnesota Star Tribune says the governor refused to back down from his vote to pardon a Hmong man convicted of felony sexual assault in 2006.
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It's significant that Tu Luvang needed only two of three votes for the State Board of Pardons,
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but he received unanimous support. The Liberal Board of Pardons in Minnesota gave him unanimous
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support. Of course he needs to stay. So this is not based on his behavior in prison as parole
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can sometimes be. He's been out of prison for a long time. He was barely in prison.
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No, he got the unanimous support because the Democrats say, we can't deport anyone.
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The Dems are going to want to say that they oppose the deportation of the nice abuela who's lived here for 30 years, who's never harmed a fly.
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They oppose the deportation of these people who are the dreamers who were brought here as children, who are just, they just want to be Americans and they don't want to commit any crimes.
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The Democrats specifically oppose the deportation of the most heinous criminals in the country who have no right to be in the country.
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This is blanket open borders with special care given to the very worst of the criminals.
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Okay, speaking of criminals, I really want to get into the arrests of Andrew and Tristan Tate.
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Their lawyer has just come out and blamed their arrest on political deep state actors in the UK, even elected officials.
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He's trying to tie the arrest to the ousted labor prime minister of the UK.
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Some claims of hypocrisy and the arrests of the Tates.
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which is relating to Gen Z going back to church
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and the church's support of conservative politicians
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I want to get to all of it, but I don't have time.