Ep. 3 - Affirmative Action： Warm And Fuzzy Race Discrimination
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Trump administration is reportedly preparing to sue universities over affirmative action policies that discriminate on the basis of race, what bigotry! Plus, roaming millennial Zoe, Rachel, and Louder with Crowder s Not Gay joins the panel of deplorables to talk about the stock market s predictable drop to an all-time low, the president's running roughshod over environmental regulations to build the wall, and NASA's new planetary protection officer to save Earth from ET.
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The tweets are in. At Real Donald Trump, cutting college affirmative action, which is actually
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racist. I wouldn't want extra SAT points for my race. Why not? Hashtag affirmative action is just
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a fancy term for reverse discrimination. We need to end discrimination in all forms against all
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people. Good idea. Good. It's about time we eliminate the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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Hashtag affirmative action. I'm confused liberals. Is it okay or not to treat people differently
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based on the color of their skin? Wednesday wisdom. It's good wisdom. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed
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of a day when people weren't judged by the color of their skin. End affirmative action. Leftists,
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dismantle systemic racism now. Right. Okay. Let's end affirmative action. Leftists, wait,
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well, some systemic racism is okay. Sorry, libs. We will no longer give privileges based on race,
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but rather on the content of people's character. Hashtag affirmative action is a racist cancer,
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paternalistic whites who think blacks can only get ahead if they're given a head start. Toxic.
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You tell them. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration is preparing
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to investigate and sue universities over affirmative action admissions policies, which discriminate on
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the basis of race, on the meager grounds that those policies discriminate on the basis of race.
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What bigotry. Plus, roaming millennial Zoe Rachel and Louder with Crowder's Not Gay Jared joined the
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panel of deplorables to talk about the stock market's predictable drop to an historic high,
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the president's running roughshod over environmental regulations to build the wall, and speaking of
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aliens, NASA's new planetary protection officer to save Earth from ET. I'm Michael Knowles. This is
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the Michael Knowles show. So Attorney General Sessions at DOJ is reportedly about to target
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the affirmative actions policies at universities and in employment, but specifically on campus at
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universities. And we are, we are really lucky because here at the Michael Knowles show, we have
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obtained exclusive footage of former Obama administration officials reacting to the news.
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Do we have it? That is really gory. That's too bad for them. Well, they're at least out of office now.
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You know, before his head exploded, the Obama DOJ employee, Vanita Gupta, said this about the
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reported policy change. Yet again, the Sessions Justice Department, led by the political leadership
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and marginalizing the career employees is changing course on a key civil rights issue. Now, he's making
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a point about affirmative action, but it's really interesting. The other point he makes, which is
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that the political leadership, you know, the people put in place by our elected representatives
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are undermining the career bureaucrats who have been governing us with no accountability for decade
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upon decade, because apparently there are benevolent betters. They're the technocrats who can tell us how to
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live our lives better than we can live them ourselves. But then he's also making the point
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that this is a terrible change for civil rights and so on. Let's allow Attorney General Sessions
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I couldn't have put it any better myself. That screaming dog, of course, are the lefties and
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Obama-era officials who were raising a ruckus about this. And he does sound a lot like Foghorn
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Leghorn. But he's a great American and a good Attorney General. But that is basically what he's
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telling him. He's telling him to shut up. And we can go a little bit more in depth on the subject.
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In 2003, the Supreme Court sent a very confusing message on the issue of affirmative action.
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In the case Gratz v. Bollinger, they decided that affirmative action was not okay. It was
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unconstitutional. But then in Grutter v. Bollinger, they decided that it was constitutional.
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One case was about the undergraduate admissions policies at the University of Michigan. The other
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was about law school admissions policies at the University of Michigan. And it was a complex case.
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I think even Sandra Day O'Connor, who wrote the opinion of the court, understood that she was making
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a very complex and gray point. What she said was, the United States Constitution, quote,
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does not prohibit the law school's narrowly tailored use of race in admissions decisions
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to further a compelling interest in a diverse student body. But, she went on, the court expects
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25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest
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approved today. So, I don't know why she picked the number 25. I think it's because she understood
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this is unconstitutional. It's unconstitutional now. But it will affect a social change that we would
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like or apparently will affect a social change we would like. So, let's just do it for a while
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and you can overturn it in 25 years. And there is some precedent for this. Even Bill Buckley,
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who's credited with founding the modern conservative movement, he advocated, quote,
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a pro-Negro discrimination policy in employment to make up for historical injustices and inequalities
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and the exclusion of blacks in America. Clarence Thomas, the only black justice on the Supreme Court
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at the time, vehemently disagreed with this opinion. He said, quote,
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the majority has placed its imprimatur on a practice that can only weaken the principle
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of equality embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Equal Protection Clause.
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Quote, our constitution is colorblind and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
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Now, he agreed with the 25-year structure that was set up by Sandra Day O'Connor,
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but he agreed because, quote, these policies will clearly have failed to eliminate the perceived
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need for any racial or ethnic discrimination because the academic credentials gap will still
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be there. So, is the academic credentials gap still there? We're not quite 25 years out,
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but we are a number of years out from this, not too far behind. I think Clarence Thomas put it even
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more succinctly in another talk. Do we have it? I have never understood the notion that we could
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continue to focus on race in order to get over race. I've never understood that, that we have to
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continue to identify us and, you know, to be race conscious in order not to be race conscious.
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What a virulent racist and clearly so uneducated, isn't he? So, there are these two arguments.
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There's this constitutional and American ideals argument. How are we supposed to not be race
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conscious if we're, how does being extremely race conscious get us to being not race conscious?
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And this constitutional argument that we shouldn't be discriminated against on the basis of
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our racial background. Now, there are also more tangible reasons to oppose affirmative action.
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The first argument is reverse discrimination. This is the reason that even that socialist utopia,
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the United Kingdom, got rid of the policy, is that clearly it discriminates against some racial groups,
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but not on others. A Bush administration, Department of Education, civil rights official,
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said this in 2005. She said, quote, these policies dismiss the very real prices paid by
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individuals who end up injured by affirmative action. And those individuals, by the way,
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are not just the much maligned straight white male. There are a lot of other groups as well.
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Geez, I want to talk about my white privilege so badly.
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I graduated North Hollywood high with a 1.7 GPA. I could not find a job. I walked to a fire station
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in North Hollywood. I was 19. I was living in the garage of my family home. My mom was on welfare.
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And food stamps. And I said, can I get a job as a fireman? And they said, no, because you're not
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black, Hispanic or a woman. We'll see in about seven years. And I went to a construction site and
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dug ditches and picked up garbage for the next seven years. I got a letter in the mail sent to
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my father's house saying, your time has come to do the written exam for the L.A. Fire Department.
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I took it. And I was standing in line. And I had a young woman of color standing behind me in line.
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And I said, just out of curiosity, when did you sign up to become a fireman? Because I did it or a
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person seven years ago. And she said, Wednesday. That is an example of my white privilege. It's I
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think it's an economic privilege more than it is the color of your skin.
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There's Adam Carolla, a fellow cis-sexual, heterosexual, Italian-American man. I identify
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very strongly with him. But the notion that Adam Carolla, a fairly burly guy, would be overlooked
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for seven years and a smaller woman would be in line right the next day is quite interesting.
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There are these two other arguments. There is the class inequality argument. There's the
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mismatch theory argument. The mismatch theory argument is what got Antonin Scalia in a lot
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of trouble in the year before his death. The class inequality argument is easy. It's the idea that
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these programs don't actually help the people that they're intended to help, poor ethnic minorities,
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poor blacks who should be able to climb up out of poverty and go up into social mobility. But it
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actually helps the already upwardly mobile, the middle class and the upper middle class.
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And here's Thomas Sowell explaining both of these ideas.
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Particularly since the net effect of the preferential treatment, which is preferential in intention
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more so than in results, is that those blacks who are particularly disadvantaged have fallen
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further behind under these policies. That such policies have typically benefited those blacks
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who are well off, who became better off. Blacks who have relatively less work experience,
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lower levels of education, black female-headed families. All these groups have fallen further
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behind during a decade or more of affirmative action.
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Don't you feel the racial hatred pouring out of that noted brilliant economist Thomas Sowell?
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The other point he makes in another clip somewhere else is that affirmative action encourages people
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to continue to separate themselves into smaller and smaller and more specific groups because
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preferred groups then, or rather people who come from non-preferred groups want to appear as
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as though they come from preferred groups, which is why I am a Palermo, Sicilian American, and so on and so forth.
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And this ultimately leads to that intersectionality hierarchy where we need to decide if a black transgender
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Jewish Muslim is more oppressed than a Persian pygmy who rides horses or something to that effect.
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Now, Richard Sander explains the effects of mismatch theory, which Thomas Sowell just explained.
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He explains some interesting statistics that come out of this. UCLA law professor who points out black college freshmen
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who aspire to STEM careers at a rate that's significantly higher than whites, but they dropped out at double the rate
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because of a mismatch, the idea that students are going into these schools, but they're unprepared.
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And because there is an advantage given based on racial preferences, maybe they would do better off at a lower tier school
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where they could succeed and then go on to advanced degrees.
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On that point, black students who attended a college at which they're mismatched were two times as likely to be derailed
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from pursuing advanced degrees if they intended on doing that when they got there.
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One half of black college students rank in the bottom 20% of their classes.
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The bottom 10% in law schools also explained in part by mismatch.
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Black law grads are four times as likely to fail the bar exam.
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And Sanders says that the mismatch explains at least half of this gap.
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Campuses with lower academic mismatch are also significantly more likely to be socially integrated
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because people tend to be attracted to people of their intellectual peer group.
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And so campuses where people are of roughly the same academic caliber tend to be more socially integrated across all criteria,
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After UCLA dropped its affirmative action, the total number of black and Hispanic students who received bachelor degrees
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was exactly the same for the next five years as it was for the five years before the change.
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And the explanation for this is while there may have been fewer students from certain demographics,
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So you had the same number of students actually graduating.
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And obviously there are a lot of other factors that come too,
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which is saving lots of money, not taking out needless student loans, being productive during those work years.
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So with that, we bring on our panel of deplorables.
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We have not gay Jared from Ladder with Cratter.
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We have roaming millennial from everywhere else on the internet.
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Now, fortunately for us, we have a member of a much persecuted minority on our panel today.
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So I'd love to hear from him, a not gay Jared as a not gay American.
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Do you think it is time to finally end affirmative action?
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I think it's mind boggling that people are just now waking up and realizing this is a issue.
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You know, we've talked about that on our show for a long time.
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People get screwed the most are whites and Asians almost indefinitely.
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I forgot you had those persecuted ovaries, you lucky duck.
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Do you think there's a role for affirmative action in 2017?
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Any white person who's concerned about affirmative action is what you got to do.
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Or if you want to get your job or you work at the fire department or anything like this,
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All you got to do is just tell them that you're a black woman.
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Are they going to use the application of objective biological science to prove that you're not?
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That is so smart, though, because I've been tanning a lot.
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And because I'm Sicilian, I can become almost Hispanic.
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That's what we try to do is make things simple.
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But if I can say really quick, man, the funny thing is about affirmative action is that I have never met a black person yet who claims have needed it.
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I got this because I'm talented, because I'm smart.
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Now, the rest of the Negroes may have needed affirmative action, but I didn't.
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You know, there's also this amazing side to it, which is, you know, when I was at college only five years ago, and at Yale, some of the, you know, 10, 15 smartest people there were from ethnic minorities.
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But there was this awful cloud over it because you think, well, possibly they got where they are because they're black or because they're Hispanic or something.
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It isn't that fair to these people who are really smart and talented, but they have this cloud hanging over them because of legalized discrimination.
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Oh, and I say it's not fair to the people who didn't deserve to be there who you're essentially setting up for failure.
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Dropout rates and debt, a tremendous amount of debt.
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I mean, you know, there were a debt crisis in the United States, particularly among young people with these awful student loans, quarter million dollar loans.
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Don't we think that compassion here is clearly misguided?
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And you bring up a really good point talking about the average graduation rates of some of these minority groups.
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The last thing you want to do to someone who is from an underprivileged background is saddle them with a bunch of debt for a degree they're never going to end up completing.
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The U.S. already, I think, has a little bit of a problem when it comes to the global economy, you know, in context with skilled labor.
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And, you know, these university spots, they're important.
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So we need to be giving them to the students who are most likely to finish, most likely to go enter in the workforce with their degrees and be skilled workers.
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Right. I mean, this is so social justice in universities is one of the most damaging things I can think of to the American economy.
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Listen to Richard Spencer over here spouting her racist claptrap.
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You know, if affirmative action isn't achieving the results it was intended to achieve, Jared, why do Democrats insist on perpetuating it?
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You know, I think the real problem is that it goes back to government trying to fix bad government policies with more government.
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So, you know, you see this just very much so with the, you know, the Fannie Mae Freddie Mac situation, the market crash of 2008.
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They're trying to fix over-regulation with more over-reach and over-regulation.
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So, you know, I think if you were to wind the clock back for some of these students who maybe did stand a shot at getting into these universities on their own merit.
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You know, school vouchers, for instance, you know, Steven and I talk about this on the show all the time.
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We've yet to hear a real solid argument against school vouchers.
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So, say these students could get out of the ghettos, get out of the places, go to schools that actually provide real education, real training,
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that aren't, you know, in the dumps and claiming to be underfunded all the time.
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You know, more money will fix these schools, right, in the ghettos.
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You know, they stand a chance to think of actually earning their merit to get into this college
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and actually set themselves up to be much more successful than just, as we talked about, you know,
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failing, dropping out and being stuck with a crap ton of student loans.
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That's right. This happened in my own hometown.
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Mayor de Blasio of New York, in a payoff to the teachers unions, tried to target the charter schools.
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And there was vicious pushback because it was the only shot for mostly black, you know, heavily impoverished areas to get out of poverty
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and have a shot of going to a good school and getting a good career and so on and so forth.
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So it's just, you know, the government creates a problem and then there's more government to solve the problem
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and then there's more government to solve that problem.
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Well, it doesn't end because the issue adds up mainly to two things, money and votes.
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So as long as we keep this affirmative action narrative going, as long as we keep this racial strife narrative going,
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You're getting money and votes and they know how to keep this thing going.
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Yeah, that's really interesting. And what do you think though about these awful racists, Clarence Thomas and Thomas Sowell?
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You know, it is pretty incredible to watch both of these guys, some of the smartest guys in the country,
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saying very much as Frederick Douglass said, leave us alone, stop trying to help.
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That's really what it comes down to. You know, the thing is, is, you know, if they would just leave us alone, you know,
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we would have a, we'd have a pretty good chance to catch up.
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You know, I don't know if, you know, you might've seen some of us sprint sometime.
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We've got some pretty explosive nature to be able to catch up if you just get out of our way.
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But unfortunately there is a system that keeps programming us to believe that, you know what, you have to keep asking.
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So the mainstream media all predicted before the 2016 election that if Donald Trump were elected president, the stock market would absolutely collapse.
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CNBC, NBC, New York Times, CNN, they all predicted.
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One quote, the stock market would almost certainly tank.
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Do we have right now a live view from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange?
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 22,000 for the first time ever, in no small part because of a 4% surge in Apple stock.
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So, is this what President Trump meant by getting sick and tired of winning?
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Honestly, I don't pay that much against the stock because I'm afraid I'd be one of those people like sipping like milk and magnesia lattes and sprinkling with Rolaes.
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I remember, but you know, it looks like, I don't know, I guess Boeing is doing pretty good.
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And Trump talked about Boeing or the aircraft industry doing well under his administration.
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It looks like with Boeing, that's reflecting that.
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But you know, I think the bottom line though, is that if this, if this sustained, if this, if this trend sustains, hopefully people will start to feel it.
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They can look at it, tick and all that sort of stuff, but they have to feel it in their own economy.
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They'll say, oh, this is great for, you know, the, for Wall Street and the holders and stuff like that.
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But you know, when it, when, when am I going to feel it?
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I did get a little distracted because I was thinking about milk and magnesia lattes, but I think I, I think I got most of your point.
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I think, you know, that is a really great point.
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It's just caused by Apple surging 4% or are the fundamentals of our economy right now?
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I think they definitely are headed in the right direction.
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I think this goes to show that no matter how much you call someone sexist, racist, a bigot, and an Islamophobe, turns out markets don't really care, right?
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And if we look at President Trump's, his initiative toward jobs, I think that's one area where he has, he's really, you know, made an effort to keep his campaign promises.
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I mean, we see that he's repealed, I think it's 16 regulations for every new one introduced toward businesses.
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And I think that's definitely a step in the right direction.
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And what's funny is that all of these news outlets who were so keen to get the message out that if Donald Trump is elected, it's going to be economic doomsday.
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Now that we're actually seeing successes in the markets, we're seeing great job creation, lowest unemployment we've had in a long time, they're very silent on the issue.
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You know, they all got it wrong almost to a man.
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Is it because they are deceptive or are they just extremely stupid?
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Well, they're wanting the same, I think, on this issue, but I think-
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It's not an either or question with the mainstream media.
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But, you know, it's really hard thing to comment on because it's just so volatile.
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It could be up today, down tomorrow, and it's kind of hard to-
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Yeah, I've never even heard of Ladder with Crowder.
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I'm just really shocked, actually, that, uh, that, uh, you know, Apple's doing well.
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That's actually more shocking to me than anything else in this study.
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Yeah, it's actually through the bottom of the floor, I think, yeah.
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Right when I get verified, Twitter's gonna go out of business.
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I guess, you know, I got verified for not writing a book, so that's-
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Roaming millennials is way more famous than me.
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Are you, that's, well, man, all right, now I see why that company's failing.
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The Department of Homeland Security says it will waive more than three dozen laws and regulations,
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most related to environmental review and the protection of wildlife, as it pushes to build
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The end of the line, I will be there for you while you take the time in the-
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Naki Jared, is this an example of President Trump cutting through red tape or is this lawlessness
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There's always gonna be just mountains of mountains of red tape of this, and I think
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when leftists realize they can't make an argument on the immigration front, it's just a natural
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shift to say, oh, but their climate, you know, change reasons to shift, you know, away from
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I remember Jeff Corrin, like a month ago, was saying, if you build this wall, it's really
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I don't know if you know what happens when birds encounter, you know, objects in the wilderness
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such as a wall, but they tend to fly over them.
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So, this is just leftists getting their own way.
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Because it's something they oppose, and they can relate to climate change.
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You know, but they get in their own way with this kind of stuff as well.
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You can't build solar panels in the Mojave Desert because of some stupid endangered turtle.
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So, you know, they're gonna get in their own way with these things.
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It's my greatest crime against humanity, but no, I don't think-
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I think Trump's gonna have to do some of these things and cut through the BS, or at least, you know,
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maybe talk about some of the funding for these programs and these people who wanna just, you know,
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Because I think you're gonna find most of it's unfounded, and it doesn't make any sense.
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I have to push back on your species as Anake, Jared.
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Roaming, if securing our borders might endanger half a dozen chupacabras,
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shouldn't we just completely abandon the project?
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We have arms traffickers, drug traffickers, documented, like, criminals who we've sent back and keep coming over.
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But, you know, places like the EPA, oh, well, there's this species of rabbit that likes to, you know,
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hop back and forth this area, therefore, we shouldn't do it.
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And I think, you know, if nothing else, it proves the point that, hey, walls do work in restricting population movement, right?
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I was advising a company on how to build in this middle of nowhere New York, and we had to halt the entire project.
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Would have brought a lot of jobs in because of a rattlesnake, which last time I checked, we don't want.
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I was gonna say, if you remember, though, a lot of times when they do this and push these proposals, right?
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The climate change, we can't do it because X, Y, and Z.
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They don't really tend to name the actual species they're trying to save.
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I remember there was a bridge in California, like, two years ago.
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They built a new one because the old one was rusted out, and they had to tear down the other one.
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But the other one was housing, like, home to, like, 800-something birds.
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And it was gonna be, like, a $33 million project to remove these birds.
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I cannot find in any article where they specified the birds.
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I didn't even know there were 800 different birds.
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Yeah, like, no, no, 800 of the same kind of bird mounted up into this old bridge.
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You know why they can't be too specific, though?
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No, the reason they can't be too specific is that global warming might cause new bird species to go and live there.
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I mean, these shifts really affect the biosphere.
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If they're bald eagles, you might get people on board.
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But if you were to tell people, like, hey, actually, they're just pigeons, they'd be like, well, screw the pigeons.
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They divert a ton of our fresh water because of the delta smelt, which is just an anchovy.
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There are these anchovies that are sucking up more fresh water than Californians are.
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But, I mean, all of these environmental regulations, I think, they're just the greatest symbol of, I think, white, upper-middle-class privilege that I can imagine.
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With this border wall, you have, like, low-income, let's say, African-American communities in places like Los Angeles and Texas whose jobs are being undercut by legal immigration.
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Yeah, we don't care if you can feed your family.
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Zo, does Donald Trump need to build the wall if he doesn't want to lose his supporters?
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You know, I think I'm going to get a lot of people mad at me when I say that.
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I haven't really been a big build the wall guy.
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You know, they're cute and cuddly, you know, despite, you know, who, who.
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Anyway, you know, my thing is stop giving out the goodies that they come over for.
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You know, the education, the healthcare, the jobs and stuff like that.
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So, you know, that way, you know, they stop losing the incentive to come over.
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And if you do see some people trying to sneak into our country from there, even though they know they're not going to get anything, chances are that person trying to sneak in is probably trying to blow something up.
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I mean, I'm not someone who thought like, oh, a wall would be a great idea before it was mentioned.
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But, you know, when you think about it, it does kind of make sense.
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You have a lot of movement going back and forth unauthorized.
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And to me, it's not just about the actual physical wall.
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It's about, you know, hey, patrols, greater monitoring, things like that.
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You know, it's something that he campaigned on greatly.
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I think it's something that a lot of people who are feeling like rule of law doesn't apply in America anymore.
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There's a lot of that portion is already walled anyway.
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It's not as a, I think, as huge a project as some people are making it out to be acting as if there's like no separation at all going on.
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Well, you know, speaking of the threat from illegal aliens, NASA is currently seeking to hire someone with a secret security clearance and, quote, advanced knowledge of planetary protection to lead the agency's planetary protection capability.
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Now, this appears to be a change in course from NASA's primary duties under President Obama.
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When I became the NASA administrator or before I became the NASA administrator, he charged me with three things.
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One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math.
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He wanted me to expand our international relationships.
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So which poses a greater danger to the United States, extraterrestrials or Muslim terrorists?
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And I like having George Jefferson as the dude who's going to do that for him.
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It is really reaching across the aisle, a real melding of the Obama and Trump administration priorities.
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Now, again, Jared, we're making nice with Muslims.
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But the last time that humans traveled out of low Earth orbit was 1972.
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Is it because of fear of the Muslim extraterrestrials?
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But if you've got a protector of the universe out there as they're planning,
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and I can only picture at this point Al Gore with spandex and a green mullet, I wouldn't want to leave the Earth either.
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That's the making of a horror movie you can't take back.
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Are these the kind of jobs Obama was adding when he was inflating the work numbers?
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I want to go back and look at those jobs numbers under the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Are they getting funding from Ted Turner to protect for Captain Planet?
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Well, because of Citizens United, we can't look into all this dirty money in government,
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Roaming, when we ventured out to explore the moon, all we found was dirt and rock.
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Does our apathy about exploring imply that we have gone soft as a civilization?
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I've heard that argument, even from conservatives.
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The fact that Russia is making gains against the US in the space race.
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It's still really hard, I think, to justify that amount of spending, just in general,
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when we have such a huge deficit, when we have so many problems on Earth in the country.
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But you know, I think the biggest question here is that if it's a planetary protector,
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I mean, shouldn't other countries be kind of going into this?
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And I'm not saying we build some sort of Death Star, but you know,
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if we're actually thinking of protecting the whole planet,
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why is it always the US that's taking on these initiatives, right?
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I mean, if it's just an American job for NASA, I think we, you know,
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a sort of protective bubble just around the US is more feasible, in my opinion.
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But I've got to ask, you know, because when they keep looking out in the space,
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and they're always saying this planet could potentially support life,
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they haven't substantiated that there is a organic material out there,
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or something that is supporting life out there.
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So why are they worried about some sort of organic material coming here
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when they haven't really proven that there's something else that supports life out there?
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Yeah, well, we can't focus on protecting from terrestrial life
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until we first project against the evil Martians.
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I mean, the idea of making another planet habitable is cool,
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we still haven't figured out a way to make, like, Sub-Saharan Africa habitable, right?
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Maybe we could turn our view inside and make our own societies better.
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Roaming millennial, not gay Jared and Joe Rachel.
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a legal structure that began with apparently good intentions
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has wrought unintended consequences that are unjust
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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These statistical, moral, and legal arguments to end affirmative action are overwhelming,
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The Justice Department is entrusted with the responsibility to stop discrimination
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Perhaps, finally, it ought to be able to do just that.