Ep. 297 - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
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On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show: President Trump continues to win in public opinion polls, a teenage boy is on the cover of Esquire and Cory Booker says poor people shouldn t eat meat, and we ask if animals have feelings.
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President Trump waxes philosophic on his big, beautiful wall.
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We will analyze the long tradition of ascete conservatives and Philistine liberals.
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Then, independent Democrat presidential candidate Howard Schultz calls the Green New Deal immoral.
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Cory Booker says poor people shouldn't eat meat.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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They think it's awful to have a teenage boy on the cover.
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Before we get to whether teenage boys have feelings or not, teenage white boys,
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let's talk about an overgrown teenage white boy, President Donald Trump, who remains on the war path.
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And he just keeps on doing it, keeps on winning.
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So we talked about good potential news from his cabinet meeting.
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We talked about how he's winning in public opinion.
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If you looked at his Twitter account this morning,
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he was referring to the Senate investigation into his improprieties with Russia.
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And he tweeted out, not a Daily Wire clip, not a Fox News clip.
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He tweeted out an MSNBC clip to celebrate this news.
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MSNBC News exclusive reporting on the Senate Intelligence Committee,
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their investigation into Russian election interference and what they have and have not uncovered.
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NBC's Ken Delanian has just jumped in front of a camera to join me with his new reporting.
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Hallie, after two years and interviewing more than 200 witnesses,
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the Senate Intelligence Committee has not uncovered any direct evidence of a conspiracy
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That's according to sources on both the Republican and the Democratic side of the aisle, Hallie.
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And careful viewers and readers will note that Senator Richard Burr,
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the chairman of the Intelligence Committee who leads this probe,
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essentially said that in an interview with another network last week.
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But what I've been doing since then is checking with my sources on the Democratic side
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to understand the full context of his remarks because that was essentially a partisan comment
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And what I found is that the Democrats don't dispute that.
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So President Trump included that entire clip from MSNBC because the schadenfreude is so much better
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What they're saying is the Senate Intelligence Committee was investigating Trump's links to Russia,
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And now you could say, well, the Senate is run by Republicans.
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And so it's no surprise that they came up short.
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But what they're saying on MSNBC, to their credit, they're at least admitting it,
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is that they spoke to sources on both sides of the aisle on that committee.
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The Republicans said the investigation turned up nothing.
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The Democrats said the investigation turned up nothing.
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Now, we predicted that this would happen weeks and weeks and months and months ago, of course.
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But we also saw that this was happening in particular right now last week when Adam Schiff,
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that Democrat congressman who's running all the investigations, when he started shifting
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his focus away from Russia onto Donald Trump's financial interests, you realized they were coming
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If they could have said, ah, Donald Trump visited Russia.
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If they could have linked him, they would have stuck on that story.
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And so now they're saying, well, if Vladimir Putin is not buying off Donald Trump,
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we want to make sure that nobody else is either.
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So we're going to look into all of his financial records since forever.
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And then we're going to make sure nothing is improper there.
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Now, the reason for this, of course, is that Donald Trump is a very wealthy man.
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Any guy who's worked for a long time in business is going to have very complex financials.
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And they're hoping to look in and find something untoward, especially if you worked in real estate
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So now they're just trying to rummage through Trump's trash and find anything that might
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be scintillating for gossipers, anything that might be scintillating to try to bring him
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Maybe Bob Mueller found something that nobody else was able to find.
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Maybe he found the smoking gun of Donald Trump colluding with Boris and Natasha.
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Russia, but right now, as we have said since the beginning, since 2016, it's just not looking
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President Trump is obviously winning on this one issue that has dogged him.
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You can tell he's sort of let it get to him because he'll just tweet out, no collusion,
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Now on the substantive question, will President Trump take a deal on the wall or will he shut
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So, he shut down the government and he said, we need to get 5.7, I believe, billion dollars
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Now, 5.7 billion dollars is not nearly enough to build the wall.
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It's only enough to build a couple hundred miles of new wall.
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Then the government was shut down, longest shut down ever.
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Then the government reopens and he says, I'm going to open it for three weeks, but if we
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don't get to the negotiating table, if you don't give me money for the wall, then I'm
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I don't know how important it is that he does actually.
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Well, it depends on how else he can get the money.
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I think he likes that right now he is seriously winning.
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There's a lot of momentum in the public opinion sphere for him.
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So, I don't think that he wants to kill that approval rating and halt that momentum by
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So, the deal on the table that has been struck by legislators that they're now bringing to
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Donald Trump asking his opinion on takes the amount of requested money down from $5 billion
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That is a fraction of what they offered him for the wall.
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Obviously, a lot less than he asked for and they won't be able to build much wall for this.
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There's one really big reason why he would take the deal.
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If he gets even $1.4 billion or $1.375 billion for the wall, he can come back and destroy the
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Democrats' fundamental argument, which is that walls are immoral, which is that walls don't work.
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That's been their argument now since the beginning.
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Walls are immoral, ineffective, and they cost too much money.
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And what President Trump can say, if he takes any amount of money, if they give him 50 bucks
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out of their pockets, he can say, well, if walls are immoral, then you all just committed
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If walls are ineffective, then you all just gave me money for nothing.
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And if walls are too expensive, then you all just wasted the people's money, even if it's
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only some of the people's money, even if it's only a tiny fraction of it.
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So, I think there actually is an argument to take a deal, even if the deal isn't going to
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build a whole lot of wall, because then what is their argument?
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When he comes back and says, we need more money for more wall, are they going to say,
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I mean, this argument was so effective for Republicans when they pointed to Chuck Schumer
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and said, hey, Chuck Schumer, in 2006, you paid for the wall.
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Now, it never got built, or in a lot of places it wasn't built, but you paid for it.
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Now, some Democrats in the House and the Senate were not susceptible to this attack because
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But now, if he gets all of them on the record as paying for this wall, what argument do they
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The thing that needs to be addressed, of course, is how does he build the rest of the
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If he just builds 50 miles of wall, he's toast in 2020.
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If he can't build more than 50 miles of wall, what are we doing?
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So, President Trump, all of this swirling around in his head, he finally addressed the
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question over whether he would accept the deal or not at a cabinet meeting.
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We're getting a beautiful-looking structure that's also less expensive to build and works
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That's a good combination of events because it was crazy what they were putting up.
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In fact, I happen to think that the walls that they were building were so unattractive and
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so ugly that walls got bad names, okay, if that means anything.
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But they were so ugly with rusted steel and big, ugly plates on top that were all tin
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It's called tin canned where they're wavy because the heat makes them expand and contract and
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I've never seen in my whole life steel come to me that was unpainted.
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You'll notice the way he's talking about the wall, he's not talking about it in utilitarian
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He's not talking about it even as a matter of cost.
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He's talking about it in strictly aesthetic terms.
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So President Trump is there at the cabinet meeting talking about the wall.
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And the way he's talking about it is in aesthetic terms.
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He said the walls that they built before, the fences they built before were so ugly,
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He said up at the top, because the steel was poor quality and it wasn't painted,
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And President Trump was outraged that it would start to rust.
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These aesthetic terms, these graphic terms, show a big difference with the left.
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I think in the popular culture we get this backwards.
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We think of conservatives as the sort of stodgy old man reading the Wall Street Journal,
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And liberals rather, you know, they're the artistic ones, man.
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The left has its ideology, it's got its science of politics, its science of history,
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and it's trudging along joylessly toward progressive utopia.
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But on the conservative side, conservatives have a more romantic view of the world,
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a more immense, complex, intricate view of the world.
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We look at the world with greater awe and wonder.
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It's no coincidence that the big mac daddy of conservative thought,
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the godfather of conservative thought, Edmund Burke, was a proto-romantic.
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Our main conservative modern founder, Edmund Burke,
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before he wrote Reflections on the Revolution in France,
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He wrote An Inquiry into Our Ideas on the Sublime and the Beautiful.
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President Trump is going to write the revised and expanded edition, I think.
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These terms, obviously President Trump has used these a lot.
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On the campaign trail, one thing that really set him apart from the other candidates
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is the other candidates would all be speaking in really dry policy terms.
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He would paint a picture of John Kasich eating in a disgusting manner.
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Maybe like a little atom with the electrons are dead or so.
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So throughout that entire campaign, when he gave you a nickname, when he gave you a description,
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This is a wonderful tool of conservatives and of the right.
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We should use our vivid imagery, our appreciation of a world that is more complex than some stupid little manifesto.
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You know, then here's the whole world in five bullet points, according to Karl Marx.
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The conservative view is so much richer than that.
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I mean, this is part of what makes leftism so inhuman.
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Leftism treats human beings like material objects.
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Leftism says, when our material needs are satisfied, everything is great.
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So when Barack Obama was talking about jihad in the Middle East, he said,
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oh, the reason that these guys are committing jihad is not because they're motivated by big ideas.
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It's not because they have a perverse view of God and the divine and the transcendent and the purpose of their lives.
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You know, if these guys in jihadi land, if they could just buy iPods and watch TV,
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We're just material, fleshy, deterministic machines.
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Once you plug us full of material, then we don't have any thoughts anymore.
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They don't realize that human beings are not primarily material creatures.
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We're primarily spiritual and artistic creatures.
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With the earliest men, when you think about the caveman, what image comes into your mind?
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This sort of semi-conscious, big, eyebrows, not very smart guy who's dragging a club in one arm and his wife in the other.
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And he's dragging them around and he's a brute and he's barely, he's not capable of reason and he's barely recognizable to us.
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Because that is the leftist view of what a human being fundamentally is.
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But we don't know that the caveman carried a club around.
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We don't know that the caveman dragged his wife by her hair.
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We don't know anything about the caveman other than this, that he was an artist.
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The only thing we actually know about cavemen is that they painted drawings on cave walls.
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Actually, the only firm thing we can say about our hominid cave ancestors is that they had an artistic sensibility.
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They wanted to reproduce their vision of the world in art.
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And they had an abstract enough reason and a sophisticated enough consciousness that they were able to do that.
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That they were able to see an animal in the field, go into a cave, and by torchlight or whatever, paint the little animal in the cave.
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They had a sophisticated enough artistic sense that they could create the pigment in which to paint the animal.
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That is a creature so sophisticated, he almost looks like you and me.
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Turns out that our ancestors may have had a lot in common with us.
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It turns out maybe the essence of humanity is aesthetic.
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I mean, you know, our image of President Trump is that he's walking around the field with a club in one arm and his wife in the other arm dragging her by the hair.
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But in reality, when you actually listen to this guy talk, especially when he talks about building, especially when he talks about his career, he speaks in aesthetic terms.
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I can tell you that, am I happy at first glance?
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Because we're supplementing things and moving things around, and we're doing things that are fantastic, and taking from far less, really from far less important areas.
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And the bottom line is we're building a lot of wall.
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We're building in the face of tremendous obstruction and tremendous opposition.
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Look at the comparison, just how when he's talking about the wall itself to when he's talking about how he's going to fund the wall, he starts to say at the letter, yeah, well, we're taking a lot of money from different areas.
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And frankly, everybody, and it's going from an area, it'll be in another area, obstruction.
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Well, if he can take the deal and then tie it around the Democrats' necks, that's fine, if and only if he can take the money from elsewhere.
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Senator Ted Cruz has a great idea of where to get that money, which is that we've finally got El Chapo.
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We're putting him into an American prison, so he's not going to break out this time.
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He's not going to break out like he did in Mexico.
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President Trump only asked for $5 billion for the wall.
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How about we take all that $14 billion through asset forfeiture?
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And then, if you did that, you would not only be able to build the wall, you would make Mexico pay for it.
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You'd be able to make Mexico pay for it without Mexico actually paying for it.
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So, without making the Mexican taxpayers pay for it or the Mexican government, you take like the worst Mexican of all time and you just steal all his money, which he's given up now.
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And, specifically, one of the main reasons we need this wall is because drugs keep pouring over the border.
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Whether the asset forfeiture laws are such that that's even possible is up in the air.
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Conservatives have been promoting this idea for a long time.
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It's not just Ted Cruz or Donald Trump who can do it.
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It would be a great way to start doing it, though.
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And, in this very whimsical way, you could accomplish every single one of the campaign promises in a way that certainly not even President Trump could have expected.
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But, President Trump is not the only person who's upset with Democrats these days for obstruction or radicalism.
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Democrat Howard Schultz is also upset with the Democrats.
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And, here is why, in a CNN town hall, he's asked this question.
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As a lifelong Houstonian, I've seen the damages that hurricanes have caused to my city.
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And, I watched, as Harvey continued, in a devastating way, that damage.
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So, in the face of a warming climate that leads to more powerful storms,
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how much of a priority would climate change be to your administration?
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And, what are some plans you have to tackle that issue?
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Before we get to his answer, I would like to point this out.
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This is the trick that the left does all the time.
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He says, as a native Houstonian, I have seen the damage that global warming has done to my community.
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I've seen what these storms that are caused by global warming.
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And, I've seen global warming up close because of specific weather events, global warming.
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Is weather the climate or is weather not the climate?
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Because, when Amy Klobuchar gets covered in snow, and we mock her for saying global warming is happening,
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And, then when this kid gets up there and says, there was a big storm that affected Houston,
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all of the left applauds and says, yes, that is, that specific weather event is the climate.
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What, you'd have to be an idiot to think that those specific weather events are climate.
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It's the premise here, by the way, that before global warming, there was no such thing as hurricanes.
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They never, no, first ever hurricane happened in 1997.
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It was the first ever hurricane ever recorded by human beings.
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We didn't even know what, we thought the gods were coming down, they were so angry with us.
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No, the first, in 1997, right when global warming started, that was the first hurricane.
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No, of course, you have to pick one or the other.
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But, for some reason, conservatives let the left get away with this.
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What about the extreme blizzard up in Minnesota?
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When I read the Green New Deal, and I try and understand what they're suggesting,
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I don't understand how you're going to give a job for everybody,
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how you're going to give free college to everybody,
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how you're going to create clean energy throughout the country in every building of the land,
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and then tally this thing up with $32 trillion on Medicare for All.
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That's about $40 trillion plus, we are sitting, ladies and gentlemen,
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with $22 trillion of debt on the balance sheet of America.
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So, once again, not that I'm a business person or I'm an economist,
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but I think it's not, it's immoral to suggest that we can tally up $20, $30, $40, $50 trillion of debt
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to solve a problem that could be solved in a different way.
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The question is, is this going to help him in his strategy to run as an independent Democrat for president,
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His whole strategy is that he has to split the Democrats,
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he's got to split the reasonable Democrats away from the insane, radical, intersectional leftists,
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and then he's got to siphon some votes off of Donald Trump,
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Look, never say never when it comes to Donald Trump, as they say.
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So, I suppose there's a world in which it does happen,
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so if Donald Trump goes spiraling down for some reason,
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he actually has a pretty good chance of doing it.
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I don't think that Howard Schultz is running an intentionally futile campaign.
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I don't think he's running just to show the strength of possible third parties.
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He knows that the odds are stacked against him,
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but he's going to put himself in a place where, if something goes wrong,
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Now, there is an appetite out there for less crazy Democrats.
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What Ocasio-Cortez and the Green New Deal people try to insist is that the American people broadly love the Green New Deal.
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They said over 80% of Democrats and over 60% of Republicans support the Green New Deal.
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And what those statistics are based on is a survey from Yale's Center for Climate Change Communication.
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And it's a totally bogus survey which polled people who did not know what the Green New Deal is,
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and when it asked them about it, basically just said,
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hey, the Green New Deal is really great and it's going to be really, really great.
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And its supporters say it's really, really great.
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And then they were shocked to find out that most people supported that really great thing.
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But when people actually learn about what the Green New Deal is,
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costs $40 trillion that they're going to pay for by printing money out of thin air,
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it's going to take away your doctor and your medical care,
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it's going to take away unemployment insurance,
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it's going to force people onto a backstop government job.
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the popularity of the Green New Deal plummets to nothing.
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So there is certainly an appetite out there for a less crazy Democrat.
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Some people are trying to present him as this conservative guy.
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But there's an appetite out there for less insane Democrats.
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It shows that two-thirds of people who identify as pro-choice in favor of abortion
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So two-thirds of people who think that they support abortion actually are pro-choice
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think that after whatever, 24, 26 weeks, abortion should be illegal.
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To say nothing of Ralph Northam, the governor of Virginia's idea that abortion should be legal after birth.
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We should be able to kill babies once they've been born.
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I think it'll probably help Republicans broadly.
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And if he is able to bring the Democrats back to some modicum of sanity, that would be a great service to the nation.
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Cory Booker is telling everybody not to eat meat, especially poor people.
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We will get to the Democrats all trying to outwoke one another.
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Then we will ask, do white teenage boys have feelings?
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It's $10 a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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And by the way, if Howard Schultz does run hard for president through the general,
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and if he spoils the election for Democrats, and if because of him Donald Trump gets reelected,
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we're going to put out the vintage leftist tears Pike Place roast.
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All of these Democrat candidates are trying to outwoke one another, other than Howard Schultz,
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He says, I'm not going to outwoke all you idiots.
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I'm going to run on my own ticket, and I'm going to beat all of you because I have a lot of money.
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So, you've got Kamala Harris yesterday talking about how she loves smoking pot and listening to Snoop Dogg,
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even though Snoop Dogg didn't come out with his debut album until seven years after Kamala Harris said that she was smoking pot.
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Then you've got Beto O'Rourke writing his little diary entries like a teenage girl.
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You've got Elizabeth Warren now addressing an Indian group.
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She appeared at another Indian group and talked about how important it is to support Indians.
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One, she lied about it for so long that it's really hard for her to stop lying about being Native American.
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Either how she wants to appear virtuous to her voters or even her own sense of virtue to herself.
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Because what she has done is lie about her race for decades to her professional advantage and actually to the disadvantage of real Native Americans.
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And now, in her mind and in the mind of voters, she hopes she's supposed to be a really good virtuous person.
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She's so much better than mean, bad guys like Donald Trump.
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She's a race fraud who disadvantaged Native Americans to get ahead in her career.
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If she'd had an answer on this, she would have come up with one already.
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And now it looks like it's killed her presidential campaign.
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And now, to outwoke them all, Cory Booker is focusing on being vegan.
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The thing you'll notice about all of this, smoke and pot, listening to Snoop Dogg,
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writing little diary entries about your feelings, trying on new identities,
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trying on racial minority identities that you don't even really have,
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but you just want to kind of craft that identity, being vegan.
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These are all phases that teenagers go through.
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Teenagers go through all of these phases, some more than others.
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It's because Democrats, these candidates, don't have a serious sense of purpose.
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So they just keep cycling through these phases like teenagers.
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They just never got to the next stage of mental and spiritual development.
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And so they just keep trying on these different phases, these little fads.
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Cory Booker whining, as he usually does, defending veganism against his critics.
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It's just disheartening to hear somebody in this day and age in the United States of America
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say, basically, implicate that gay men are not men, that they're not guys.
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That was Cory Booker talking about another rumor and actually, really, the woke prize of them all.
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There have been public rumors for a long time that Cory Booker is gay, and he's always denied it.
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Then he came out with this bombshell story last week.
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I don't really care if Cory Booker is gay or not.
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That would be the, if a candidate came out as openly gay during the primary, could you ever outwoke that?
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But the only way to outwoke that would be to come out as transgender or something, which I guess any of them could do at any given time.
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Whenever he's asked the question about being gay, he says, well, so what if I am?
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I don't know whether Cory Booker is gay or not.
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Frankly, I don't know if Cory Booker is vegan or not.
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But they're just trying to check all of the behavioral boxes, what they view as the ideal behavioral boxes of the left.
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Have a non-traditional diet, have a non-traditional sexuality, smoke non-traditional drugs, have a non-traditional ethnicity, even if you have to make one up out of whole cloth like Liz Warren.
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And you'll notice what none of this has anything to do with is public policy.
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None of this has anything to do with actually doing the job of president or even their own experience in life.
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They're just talking about little fads that teenagers do.
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This does raise a real question, which is, what is the morality of veganism?
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Do animals have feelings, as was recently asked in an article, I think in The Atlantic, are animals morally significant?
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Every so often, you know, Kate Flanagan always publishes good stuff in The Atlantic, and she's the one person who does.
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And then all the other stuff in The Atlantic is trash.
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I barely read it anymore, except every so often they publish a good piece.
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So this one they ask, do animals have feelings?
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And they talk about the Jains in India and this group of people who has a religious devotion to animals and how they understood long before the West did.
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Long before those idiot Westerners, these Eastern spiritual people, realized that animals are really super conscious and they suffer all the time.
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And they're just as complex as humans, and we can never even look at them the wrong way.
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Here is the sort of fake science that they use throughout this article.
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In one experiment, honeybees were attracted to a boat at the center of a lake, which scientists stocked with sugar water.
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When the bees flew back to the hive, they communicated the boat's location with waggle dances.
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The hive's other bees would usually set out immediately for a newly revealed nectar load.
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But in this case, they stayed put, as though they'd consulted a mental map and dismissed the possibility of flowers in the middle of a lake.
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Other scientists were not able to replicate this result, but different experiments suggest that bees are capable of consulting a mental map in this way.
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Because all they want, this is the new move that everyone wants to do, they want to prove that animals are just as conscious as we are.
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They anthropomorphize animals because they can't stand the idea that man has dominion over the land and the sea.
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They can't stand the idea that man is superior to the other animals.
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We're basically just slightly more advanced honeybees.
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But even the way that they say it, look at their imagination, the imagination of these scientists and especially this writer.
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The honeybees were communicating in this really sophisticated way, this location far, far away on a lake in the middle of a boat.
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And the other honeybees, they were all going to go over there to get the sugar water.
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And then, but then they didn't do it because they rejected it.
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They had some meetings and they held a couple elections probably.
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And I don't know, they built up huge civilization and then they just didn't do it.
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And scientists weren't able to replicate any of the stuff we're saying.
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But they're really, really, really smart, you guys.
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This is the product of, I think, an idolatry of scientific materialism.
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This is a product of an idolatry of processes of natural evolution.
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People who want to erase the distinction between man and beast.
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This is not popular according to modern orthodoxy.
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And attempts to present some other idea or to upend that always end up in silly mental gymnastics and unscientific conclusions such as this.
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But it says a lot about our society, our modern materialist secular society, that we are so desperate to make ourselves the same as animals.
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We want to level ourselves down in this egalitarianism, not just of the species, but of all the species.
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We want to anthropomorphize and exalt and raise up animals.
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And there is a reason that they're comparing this to the Jains or ancient Indian religions.
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And we have a new paganism on our hands because we are rejecting the natural order and all of the philosophical and theological and scientific fruits of our civilization.
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There's a wonderful piece in Esquire called The Life of an American Boy at 17.
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This piece talks about a white teenage boy in middle America.
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White teenage boys are the only group in America that the culture permits and actually encourages us to hate and condemn.
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You remember with those Covington boys who were waiting for their school bus in D.C.
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Everyone jumped on them, tried to turn them into awful racial bigots, whatever.
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Then it turned out it was exactly the opposite.
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And the senior culture writer at BuzzFeed, Anne Helen Peterson, said,
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Well, you can understand why that face caused a visceral reaction in so many.
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He's a young white guy and young white guys are the worst.
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There was that piece in the Yale Daily News about how young white guys with brown hair are evil and we should ruin their lives.
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Actually, the reaction that this piece has prompted is evidence that the piece is urgent and timely.
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The big line now they say is, How dare you run that cover during Black History Month?
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You can only do black things during Black History Month.
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You can't do any non-black things during Black History Month.
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You have to wait until White Middle Class Teenage Boy Month to run the cover of that kid on Esquire.
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I don't know when White Middle Class Teenage Boy Month is.
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It's not as though Esquire doesn't put black men on the cover of their magazine.
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In just the last year or two, they've put on Idris Elba, Pharrell, Chadwick Boseman, Donald Glover.
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Plenty of, you don't need, you don't only limit black men to one month.
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You know, you can have black men in any month of the year.
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They're not outlawed during all the other 11 months.
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To be a girl would mean he'd have to deal with a lot more drama.
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And he could end up a mom, rather, which he doesn't ever want because being a mom is hard.
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Also, he might not think football was as interesting.
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He isn't sure what would be interesting if it isn't football.
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Other than that, he doesn't think there are too many reasons it would be better to be a guy than a girl.
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Unless you're from the Middle East or maybe the inner city.
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This is a profile of the way that a 17-year-old boy in America is thinking.
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He seems like a perfectly moderate kid, by the way.
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It's not like he's some guy wearing a Trump hat every single place he goes.
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He's saying being a mom is the hardest job in the world.
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The reason he wants to be a guy is because that's who he is.
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But in the abstract, he doesn't think it would be terrible to be a girl.
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Unless you're not living in Western civilization where it actually is pretty terrible to be a girl.
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The editor of the magazine sent out a letter explaining why he put this piece.
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The piece that he wrote in that letter is called,
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Why Your Ideological Echo Chamber Isn't Just Bad for You, It's Also Bad for Your Kids.
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We live in a very confusing culture where we're told to judge people only on their character,
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not on the color of their skin or superficial physical characteristics.
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We're also told that white teenage boys are the worst people ever.
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Other than maybe grown straight white men who think that they're men.
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But don't judge anyone on their skin or on their sex.
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We're told that men and women are so exactly the same.
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And then we're also told if you treat women in a certain way.
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If you don't treat men and women exactly the same.
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Now of course we all know you can never hit a woman.
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You can't hit a woman because men and women are different.
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But if men and women are exactly the same, why can't you hit a woman?
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If there's no physical or spiritual difference whatsoever.
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We're told that everyone is entitled to his opinion.
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And then, as this article shows, if you're a white teenage boy who holds an opinion,
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A very confusing leftist culture that gave it to us.
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The Esquire piece beautifully and bravely analyzes that.
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And you should read it and post about it too because it drives the left crazy.
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Esquire is not exactly a conservative magazine.
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But they're at least dealing honestly with this question.
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