Ep. 254 - The Leftist Snake Eats Its Own Tail
Summary
The election recounts have finally halted and Democrats have reluctantly conceded but swear to fight another day. Meanwhile, in Europe, bureaucrats trample the will of the people and try to kill Brexit. We will analyze undemocratic liberalism and illiberal democracy. Then, young people stop having sex, a homeless bum scams America, and Google has an anti-labor labor movement on its hands.
Transcript
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The election recounts have finally halted and Democrats have reluctantly reconceded but swear to fight another day.
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Meanwhile, in Europe, bureaucrats trample the will of the people and try to kill Brexit.
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We will analyze undemocratic liberalism and illiberal democracy.
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Then, young people stop having sex, a homeless bum scams America, and Google has an anti-labor labor movement on its hands.
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Democrats have conceded an election in Florida.
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It hasn't happened for 15 or 20 or 50,000 years, but Democrats have done it.
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Andrew Gillum, the Democrat running for governor, has finally reconceded.
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And Bill Nelson, the senator Democrat from Florida, has conceded to Rick Scott.
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We will analyze what it means and why and how the left, not just in the U.S., but broadly, is trying to undermine both liberalism and democracy.
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Ron DeSantis, the Republican, has officially beaten Andrew Gillum.
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He is now the governor of Florida or governor-elect of Florida.
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He was hoping that all of those fraudulent Democrat votes that were pouring in were going to bring that number down to 0.25%,
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at which point that would have triggered under Florida law an manual hand recount, an automatic, rather, hand recount.
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There was rampant corruption going on in this case.
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There were provisional ballots being discovered days after the election.
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Democrat activists were backing up truckloads full of ballots into election headquarters.
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Brenda Snipes, who is the election supervisor of Broward County, it looks like she's going to be forced to resign now.
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So Andrew Gillum, in the governor's race, he finally conceded.
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I had a little trepidation here when I read this because Andrew Gillum has conceded this race before.
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And then he unconceded it because he realized that he could try to steal the election.
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But unfortunately, it didn't work out for them.
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It sounds like the sort of thing when you lose a race, you say,
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Now, that's what he said after the election because he kept inventing all of these new votes that were coming in and in and in.
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Loss is only a temporary setback because the wheels of history are moving.
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They are progressing inevitably toward the future, toward utopia.
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And Bill Buckley, when he started the National Review, the conservative flagship newspaper at that time,
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magazine, rather, said that a conservative is one who stands athwart history yelling stop.
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So the left, the Democrat Party, they're saying that we're going to keep fighting.
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It's true in Britain as well, as we're going to see.
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The other race in Florida is Rick Scott beating out Bill Nelson.
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And Bill Nelson, I think, has served three terms in the Senate.
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That longstanding Democrat senator, Rick Scott beat him by, at last count, 10,000 votes.
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So this was after it triggered a machine recount.
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But as many provisional ballots and fake fraudulent ballots and illegal ballots as they could count,
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they still couldn't come up with that last 10,000.
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So Bill Nelson finally conceded, here's Nelson's concession address.
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Well, things worked out a little differently than Grace and I had hoped.
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But let me say I, by no measure, feel defeated.
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And that's because I've had the privilege of serving the people of Florida and our country for most of my life.
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And I don't think anybody could have been as blessed.
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It's been a rewarding journey as well as a very humbling experience.
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I was not victorious in this race, but I still wish to strongly reaffirm the cause for which we fought.
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Is that what happens when you serve in the Senate for three terms?
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That guy who, does he have any human left in him?
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And I'm going to force that smile, even though I want to murder about half of the constituents in my state.
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And his face just morphs into, he's just a purely plastic politician.
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Especially, you know, Rick Scott is a pretty good, he was a pretty good governor.
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I actually understand why the Democrats held out in Florida.
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Even before all these fraudulent, ridiculous days later recounts, new ballots coming in.
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And then when you add these corrupt officials like Brenda Snipes in there,
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they probably thought maybe we can squeak it by.
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People have been stealing elections in America for as long as the country has existed.
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Especially Democrats because they're very good at it.
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Stacey Abrams was running against Brian Kemp to be the governor of Georgia.
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You know, you see that automatic recounts are triggered at 0.25%, maybe 0.5%.
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It's three times the number that triggers an automatic recount in Florida.
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Stacey Abrams, total sore loser, awful candidate,
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boasted about how illegal aliens are part of her voter coalition.
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For future candidates who are taking notes right now, don't do that.
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So she constantly was trying to drag this thing out.
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after it's all but been admitted around the country
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Do you think that Brian Kemp is not the legitimate governor-elect of Georgia?
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The law as it stands says that he received an adequate number of votes
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And I am someone who's taken a constitutional oath to uphold the law.
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But we know sometimes the law does not do what it should.
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And that something being legal does not make it right.
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This is someone who has compromised our systems.
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And therefore, my mission is going to be to make certain
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the person who wins the most votes becomes the governor.
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Meaning that the person who gets the most votes should not become the governor.
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That there should be some new election, a runoff election, another recount.
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She's got some of the traits of lawyers stereotypically.
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But what she is arguing against is the ability of Georgians to choose their governor.
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She says, yeah, I guess technically, according to the law, he won the election.
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But I don't think he should have won the election.
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And therefore, she's suggesting that he stole it.
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I mean, that's the quote that an Abrams loss in Georgia is that this is the suggestion among
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He didn't win it by a little couple thousand votes or 10,000 votes.
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But they won't even concede that because to them, to progressives, anytime a conservative
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And if you stand in the way of progress, if you stand athwart history yelling stop, then
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You must be so stupid you can't see the progress in front of you.
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You want to stop people from living in this paradise that the Democrats are going to give
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you if you just give them a little bit more money and a little bit more power.
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When they say it's illegitimate, the law failed, democracy failed, they stole it.
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What they're really saying is anytime a conservative wins, that is illegitimate because it's against
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So the left undermining democracy and ironically undermining liberalism is not just happening
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It was the British exit from the European Union.
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We were told, oh, the forces of staying in the European Union, they're going to win it
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Hey, guys who want to leave the EU, don't even go vote.
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I think we've heard that in the United States before.
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So they go and they do the vote and the leave segment, it was leave or remain.
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Those who want to leave the EU, those who want to remain in the EU, leave one by 52%,
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And yet for some reason right now, Britain is still in the European Union.
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The reason is it is very difficult to pull yourself out of these supranational, transnational,
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This is why the United States, for centuries at this point, since the very founding, since
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the Washington administration has been wary of entangling ourselves in supranational empires.
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Because once you're in them, once you give up that national sovereignty, once you give up
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your liberty, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to get it back.
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So Theresa May, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, has promised, she said, we are going
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to negotiate the Brexit, we are going to fulfill the promise of Brexit.
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She said Britain would leave the single market and the regulations of the European Union.
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What is going to happen under her new Brexit negotiation deal?
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The reality is that Great Britain is going to be subject to exactly the same common rulebook,
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they're changing the name of it, but it's exactly the same rules and regulations and single
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Another promise was that Britain would leave the customs union, that they would be free
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They can make a free trade deal with the United States.
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They can make a free trade deal with anybody, bilateral trade deals.
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The reality now with this awful Brexit deal, this fake Brexit deal from Theresa May, is that
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There will be no ability to negotiate free trade deals with other countries.
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Brexit promised, Theresa May promised when she negotiated the deal, that Britain would
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be able to leave the European Court of Justice, this extranational, transnational judicial body
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In this fake Brexit deal, the United Kingdom remains in the European Court of Justice on regulations,
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It is as though the people voted to leave the European Union, and then a bunch of people
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on both sides of the aisle, Labour, Tory, whatever, they said, okay, we're going to follow the
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will of the people, and then neither side is doing it.
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If the majority of your citizens vote for something on a referendum, promised that it would take
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effect, why on earth would the party that promised it pull out and say, no, we're not actually going
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to do it, Theresa May, no, we're not actually going to do it?
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If another Brexit vote were given today, would it pass?
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Would the British people vote to leave the European Union?
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A lot of left-wingers, George Soros in particular, are trying to have another referendum to undo
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They just keep voting and voting and voting until they get the answer that they want.
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But also, one, the tide of public opinion is going to change, but those bureaucrats from
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Brussels to the United Kingdom, those guys are not going to change.
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A few of the electeds will leave, but the actual government forces, the actual state,
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Now, the Tories, the conservatives in the United Kingdom, they're ostensibly the ones who are
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They're supposed to be the ones on the side of leaving, but I think a lot of them secretly
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They say, oh, those people, those country bumpkins, they just voted emotionally.
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They're probably clinging to their guns and religion, although I don't think they have
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that many guns in Britain, but those country bumpkins shouldn't have done it.
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They're voting against their interests, we know better, so we're going to mollify them.
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We're going to pacify them and pretend that we're pulling out of the EU, but really, we're
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going to, in effect, have exactly the same deal that we have now.
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And that's why you have now a number of members of Theresa May's cabinet resigning, because
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the ones who actually wanted the Brexit are saying, this is nonsense, you're trying to
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This is that Beltway thing, that swamp thing, that Washingtonian establishment thing, is
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they go out and they campaign hard on conservative issues, and then what do they do when they
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And when you talk to a lot of them, the establishment type, specifically the coastal type, the ones who
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have been in D.C. for a long time, they feel that they have much more in common with elites
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in journalism and politics on the other side of the aisle than they do with their own base
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Probably their living situation is much more similar to elites on both sides of the aisle.
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Probably the music they listen to, the cocktail parties that they go to, the entertainment
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that they digest, the books that they read, are actually probably more similar among those
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self-appointed, benevolent, better elites than they are among their own base.
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They touch down on cultural issues, on immigration, on issues that really matter to the base, which
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I've talked, I mean, I've traveled all around the country doing these speeches.
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And I'll talk to people in shops and Ubers, on campuses, and the so-called country bumpkins
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and the flyover country can articulate to me how policies affect them and affect their
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communities much better than anybody can in New York or L.A.
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When I talk to people in New York or L.A., they don't know who their congressman is.
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They only think of grand matters like the European Union or the United Nations or national
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But people in the so-called flyover country, they do know who their congressman is.
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They're much more in tune with the individual needs and demands of their communities.
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That's why they know the specifics of how national and state policies affect them much better
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The other reason I think that Britain is trying to get away with this, that European elites
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are trying to get away with this, and why Americans get away with this, is because
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conservatives buy the left-wing cultural line, especially the elite conservatives.
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They hear that the left and the culture, they'll tell you that's impossible.
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Oh, it's impossible to build a wall on our southern border.
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Oh, it's impossible to renegotiate trade deals.
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Oh, it's impossible to enforce our immigration laws.
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Look, I know we need to tell our dumb constituents that we're going to build a wall, but we can't
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Look, I know we need to tell our constituents, who don't know as well as us because they didn't
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go to Eaton and Oxford and Harvard, that we need to tell them that we're going to have
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If the Trump election has taught us anything, it's that we should greatly expand our imagination
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and the bounds of what we think is possible politically.
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Just one example, they use this on the train station, or the train station, the embassy in
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The United States embassy in Israel is now in Jerusalem.
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A lot of politicians have promised to move it to Jerusalem, and none of them ever intended
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The Prime Minister of Britain may be out over this.
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She's already had five resignations from her cabinet.
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She might have two more resignations, possibly.
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Boris Johnson, he's the politician in the UK who just looks like Donald Trump.
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He's probably the slightly more classically educated Donald Trump, but he's got the same
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There's a lot of talk that he might become the next prime minister.
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This would be a welcome change because Britain is on the cusp of socialism, of Jeremy Corbyn,
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And they need to make sure that this Brexit goes through.
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They need to make sure that it's a real Brexit, not a fake Brexit.
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You always hear in the U.S., this is the most important election of our lifetimes.
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This is the most important election, blah, blah, blah.
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This is a very important moment for the history of Britain.
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And they're either going to careen toward insane leftism, give up their national power,
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As someone of partially British descent, I hope that they stand for their country and for their liberties
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and for the people who have voted and who they are supposed to be representing.
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We're going to talk about why young people are not having sex.
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but Johnny Bobbitt, who is the homeless guy who scammed all of America.
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The real problem, the great plague facing this country, young people are not having sex anymore.
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They refer to the sex recession that's going on in the United States.
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You would figure right now that sex would be more prevalent than you could possibly imagine.
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There's a study out that shows 50% of people sexed.
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They send pictures of themselves on text and leave electronic paper trails of their degeneracy like a bunch of idiots.
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Teen Vogue ran an entire feature on how to have sexual relations in places that you're not supposed to have sexual relations.
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Adults get a little creative sometimes, a little curious.
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And yet, nevertheless, all of this social mores relaxed.
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People, there are 56 genders now according to Facebook, so logistically probably it should be pretty easy to find a partner to get around and bump uglies.
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And yet, nevertheless, new studies show that teens and young adults are having less sex than ever.
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Between 1991 and 2017, the percentage of high school students who have had sex dropped from 54% to 40%.
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Now, in some ways, I suppose, if you look at it from a moral perspective or the perspective of an out-of-wedlock birth or abortion, then that's all very good.
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But from a cultural perspective measuring libido and relations between the sexes, this is a little curious.
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Why is it that when we've got this total sex-soaked culture, you can't turn on a TV show, you can't look at a billboard without seeing near nudity, nobody's having sex anymore?
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People in their early 20s right now are two and a half times as likely to be abstinent as people in Generation X, 40s, 50s.
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People who would say that their couples has declined dramatically.
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But actual boyfriend-girlfriend, if you have the flu, I'll get you chicken soup kind of couples don't really exist.
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And as anybody who's ever been single or in a couple will tell you, when you're in a couple, you're going to have sex much more frequently.
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I don't care what kind of Lothario, Don Giovanni you think that you are.
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It's just not going to happen as much if you don't have a regular old sweetheart.
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Another reason for this is that one-third of parents, or rather one-third of adults under the age of 35, are living with their parents.
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I've actually got a number of friends who are like this.
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But come on, you've got, I mean, it's very difficult to maintain an active sex life if you're living with your parents at the age of 35.
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Japan was always the example of this because they've got, broadly speaking, I don't want to make any cultural stereotypes here,
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but they've got some weird sexual preferences over there.
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You know, you see sometimes images of, like, squids and octopuses, and I don't remember Kurt Eichenwald got wrapped up in octopus tentacle porn.
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I'm just telling you the Japanese have always had a bizarre relationship to sex.
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And now, according to a new study, actually a 2005 study, so it's not even, I think the problem's actually gotten worse since then,
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one-third of Japanese singles between the ages of 18 and 34 were virgins.
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The Japanese analysts and pundits have blamed this on a term that I think we've got to bring into the United States, grass eaters.
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I don't remember the Japanese word for it, but they're talking about grass eaters.
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You know, in the U.S., especially these days, you hear terms like beta or cuck or soy boy or vegan or whatever.
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There was a study a while ago in Japan that more young Japanese men would rather have a night with a computer and pornography than have sex with a woman.
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It's also true in Finland and the Netherlands that people are having less sex.
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There are three culprits that we can point to in the immediate aspect, which is the hookup culture and porn and Tinder, because they're all fantasies.
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The hookup culture, you know, the hookup culture dominates, especially college campuses these days.
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But even, you know, young urban professionals, people in cities, there's a hookup culture.
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So you're not necessarily dating someone or going steady with someone or it's your boyfriend or girlfriend.
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A number of people who were surveyed by this Atlantic article said they hook up because they don't have social skills.
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They see a person who's reasonably attractive, and they go and hook up with them, and then maybe they call them.
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Okay, this is a fantasy as it pertains to having less sex because when you think back on the hookup culture, all you remember are the victories.
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All you remember are the nights that you went home with somebody.
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What you don't remember are the times that you struck out, the times that you were too sloppy drunk, the times that you went home and you wished somebody would bring you soup because you've got the flu.
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You only remember all the times that you went home with a cute chick from a bar or a party or whatever, and that's a fantasy.
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It is used by virtually every guy from very young ages now.
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I mean, it comes in via fast internet connections.
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The old joke is that if you can imagine it, there's a porn for it.
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I think Kurt Eichenwald proved to us that that's true with the weird tentacles from Japan.
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So, porn is this other fantasy because when you get excited about pornography, it's because you're going to see naked chicks and weird octopuses or whatever your thing is.
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But the reality of pornography is that you're sitting alone in a room with a computer, pleasuring yourself.
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And I mean that both as a physical act and as a spiritual and psychological act.
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I'm not judging the statistical 100% of my audience, male audience, that looks at porn.
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That's why it's something that should be resisted.
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Tinder and all of the dating apps where you swipe right, swipe left is a fantasy because while I know people who have gotten married off of Tinder, I've been to weddings where people get married off of Tinder, the majority of time spent on Tinder is not time meeting people, hooking up, finding a wife.
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The majority of time on Tinder is just wasted time.
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Swipe, swipe, a couple messages, swipe, swipe, swipe, swipe.
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So you think you've got access to all of the women of the world at your fingertips.
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And a lot of people have written into the show and they say they don't even get people to write back.
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I know it's easy to blame feminism for everything, so I will do that.
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But feminism is a major problem here because feminism is trying to take all of the love and the care and the complementarity of the sexes out of relationships.
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The great example of this as we approach Christmas season is Baby, It's Cold Outside.
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You know, for the last few years, feminists have waged war on Baby, It's Cold Outside because they say it's a rapey song.
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And what the feminists hear is a woman who's saying,
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What they misunderstand is seduction, coyness, modesty, the virtue of modesty,
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The woman who's saying, I really shouldn't stay, is not saying,
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I'm in an alleyway, help me, help me, I want to get out of here.
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The reason she's resisting is because of the virtue of modesty.
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And then he is trying to seduce her and persuade her to stick around.
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The other line they mention about Baby, It's Cold Outside is,
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When, again, in response to the virtue of modesty,
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you want to do something that you're not really supposed to do,
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then you could blame it on having too much to drink,
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or there's a roofie in your drink, or whatever.
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You're trying to give away responsibility for the act that you want to do.
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But even broadly, even taking these exaggerations out,
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romantic relations between the sexes involve male assertiveness,
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and then women ultimately deciding if they're going to stay or not,
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Of course, Baby, It's Cold Outside is about consent too.
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and have a little indiscretion, and they can enjoy each other.
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That is consent too, but it's not clinical consent.
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we're going to do this, and then we're going to do this,
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But for feminists, they've wiped all of this out,
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and it's made relations between the sexes pretty hard.
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Is a woman allowed to pay lip service to the virtue of modesty anymore?
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What does the relationship between the sexes look like
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when feminists deny that there's any difference at all?
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But either way, I feel sorry for you, young people,
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that you're all so terribly, I think, involuntarily abstinent at the moment,
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and you're just giving in to porn and selfishness.
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It's great to be respectful, and it's great to be a man,
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And the more our culture is confused about what all those things are,
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the less you're going to see men and women interacting in any sort of capacity.
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This is something I'm very grateful for as we approach Thanksgiving.
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You might remember him because about a year ago,
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and her boyfriend, Mark D'Amico, who is a bit older,
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they had this story where they said Kate ran out of gas on I-95,
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And Johnny Bobbitt, Jr., a wonderful homeless man with a heart of gold,
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took the last $20 out of his pocket and gave it to her
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Just remind yourself of this heartwarming story.
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So you're not wearing the glasses because you're Hollywood now?
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But it's Johnny Bobbitt, Jr.'s face and story that's gone viral,
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get back in the car, lock the doors, you know, I'll be back.
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Kate McClure says she could tell the man walking up to her off the highway was homeless.
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Me and my boyfriend Mark went back the next day.
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That gesture of helping stranded motorists is something Johnny has done countless times.
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Unknowingly, he was about to get hit with karma.
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Isn't that for Johnny, who helped her out, gave her his last 20 bucks?
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He's always helping motorists because Johnny's such a good guy.
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And this couple, they just decided out of the goodness of their heart to help him.
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The trouble with the story is it's completely fake.
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Whenever somebody tells you that the news media don't run fake news,
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Johnny never gave her 20 bucks to fill up her gas tank.
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They didn't end up giving Johnny a lot of this money.
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This was all a scam perpetrated by Kate McClure and her boyfriend, Mark D'Amico.
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And they offered to give him a portion of the money.
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It all started to unravel when Johnny Bobbitt sued the couple
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because they weren't giving him enough of the money.
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What are the lessons as we approach Thanksgiving?
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before they ran this story from coast to coast.
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And they didn't do it because they're weak journalists
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Also, the American people aren't doing their job.
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and says, give me some money, it's good to give charity.
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But you've got to make sure that you're not empowering scam artists.
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And this also teaches us an important lesson about virtues.
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Because I got this question when I was on the road.
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and I really want to know how to approach immigration
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Because my compassion tells me we should take in everybody,
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anybody who wants to come in, anybody who's here illegally,
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A Christian should also not create perverse incentives
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that hurt people who cross the border illegally
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and make it less capable of giving charity in the future.
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You should use your rational faculties and your wisdom
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you can actually make it more closely resemble a vice
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how can you have true justice in a world of fallen men?
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So when we see a GoFundMe and a HeartString story,
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while we're so happy for all the blessings that we have,
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while we want to extend those blessings to other people,
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You don't want to empower bad people and bad actors.
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You want to use the resources that you have wisely.
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This is a lesson that we can take personally and nationally.