Ep. 304 - Child Sacrifice Through The Ages
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Senate Democrats reject a bill that would protect children born alive from botched abortions. It s no longer just Virginia Governor Ralph Northam. The National Democrat Party now supports killing babies after they have been born. Plus, Tucker Carlson tries to slut shame Tucker Carlson.
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Senate Democrats reject a bill that would protect children born alive from botched abortions.
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It's no longer just Virginia Governor Ralph Northam. The National Democrat Party
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now supports killing babies after they've been born. We will analyze child sacrifice through
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the ages. Then the pharisaical left tries to slut shame Tucker Carlson and the most important troll
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of the entire Trump administration coming to you. It just occurred to me yesterday and we have got
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to do it. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show.
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So much to get to today. The top story, the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act
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totally exposes the National Democrat Party. They can't say it's just Andy Cuomo. They can't say
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it's just Ralph Northam. They can't say Republicans are scaremongering on abortion. National Democrats
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have voted to kill babies after they've been born. We'll get to that in one second,
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insoles. Democrats just today shot down the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
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Abortion Survivors. We're not talking about some bill to limit abortion to
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before 18 weeks or before 20 weeks or before 24 weeks or whatever. Born Alive Abortion Survivor
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Protection Act. How did this all happen? Ben Sasse, Republican Senator, used Rule 14 to bypass
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committees and bring this bill straight to the floor of the Senate for a vote. This is, by the way,
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what we need more of in the Senate. We need to get Democrats on the record. They are finally exposing
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their radicalism. They're finally willing to go on the record. And we should call them up for as many
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votes as humanly possible. Green New Deal, whatever. So Ben Sasse brings this thing to the floor
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and initially tries to pass it by a unanimous voice vote. Now, why would he try to do it that way?
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Well, because it's about saving babies who have already been born. This has nothing to do with
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abortion. The only connection to abortion is that it refers to babies who have survived abortion.
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So some doctor tries to kill the baby in the womb. The thing is born. The baby is there alive on the table.
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And what Ben Sasse's bill would do is protect that baby from being killed while it's on the table.
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You think you could get a unanimous voice vote on that, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong.
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Democrat Senator Patty Murray, Democrat from the seventh or eighth circle of hell, I think,
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or Washington, one of the two, shot it down. She said, nope, no voice vote.
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So then Sasse comes out. He says, quote, I urge my colleagues to picture a baby that's already been
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born, that's outside the womb gasping for air. That is the only thing that today's vote is actually
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about. We are talking about babies that have already been born. Nothing in this bill touches
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abortion access. Senate shot it down. Senate Democrats shot it down. There were a couple Republicans,
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who wouldn't cross the aisle. I think there were three. Two of them missed it because of flight
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delays, like Tim Scott missed it. Tim Scott didn't miss it because he wants to kill babies on the
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table. He just wasn't able to get there in time. Murkowski, I believe, voted against it. I believe
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Lisa Murkowski, fake Republican from Alaska, actually did, I guess, support killing babies who have
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already been born on the table. And then a few Democrats came over to vote for it, guys like Joe
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Manchin, that kind of thing. Otherwise, this was a strict party line vote. You have now the National
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Democrat Party endorsing the killing of babies after they've been born. That is not a hyperbolic
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statement. That is not a scare tactic. That is not exaggerating what happened. We're not just talking
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about abortion in the second trimester or the third trimester. We're talking about killing a baby after
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it's been born. We're not just talking about one guy in Virginia. We're not just talking about one guy in
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New York. We were talking about the National Democrat Party held in the vote, held in the greatest
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deliberative body in the world, or should be the greatest deliberative body in the world. And the Senate
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What is it to be born alive to survive an abortion? I think one of the excuses that they'll use is they'll
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say, well, this doesn't happen a lot. Oh, how many babies? Look, we're really good at abortion. When we want to
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kill a baby in the womb, we can kill a baby in the womb. Well, no, actually it happens quite a lot.
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There are many cases of babies surviving abortion. Actually, there are some people who now, you know,
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they're now adults and they've survived abortion. They go on and give amazing testimony. But this is
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why Kermit Gosnell, the most prolific serial killer in American history, the reason he's rotting away in
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prison right now is because he botched some abortions. The babies were born alive. He would play with the
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little babies and then he would kill them. He would put them in jars or he would just kill them
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right off. That's, that's what we're talking about. We're talking about the barbarity of Kermit
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Gosnell playing with little babies and then killing them. We're talking about the reality of what Ralph
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Northam was talking about just a few weeks ago. This does happen. And Democrats voted to let it keep
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happening. Democrats just voted to encourage it. Here's how Liz Warren, Senator Liawatha decided to
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spin it. She said, quote, Republican politicians just tried and failed again to score political
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points at the expense of women. Enough. Women and their doctors should decide what's best for their
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health, not the Senate GOP. I understand the argument that abortion is about a woman's health.
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It's not really. I mean, it's, it's about the baby. Primarily it's about killing a baby or letting the baby
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live. But I understand the argument. You can say, well, the baby is inside a woman's body. And so
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she can make this disingenuous argument that it's about her health, whether or not you can kill that.
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There is no argument that the baby that has already been born, that is sitting on the table,
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that the ability to kill that has something to do with the mother's health. There is no,
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there is no argument. That is a total nonsense. That's like saying, bah, bah, bah, bah, bah.
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It doesn't mean anything. And what Liz, Liz Warren is not a stupid woman. She knows that. And she is
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just so radical that she thinks that it is perfectly within a woman's right to kill a baby if she doesn't
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like him. I don't know, maybe she'll kill a five-year-old if she doesn't like him. That's the
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kind of radicalism we're talking about. And she is also so confident that her voters are stupid
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that she can conflate the two. They're totally different. What this brought to mind, because I
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think some conservatives are really shocked by this. I'm not shocked by this. Not shocked at all.
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We've known that Democrats support killing babies forever, for my whole lifetime. At least, I mean,
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since 1973, we've known that for sure. So why would you be shocked? What they're shocked about is,
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I think conservatives thought Democrats were just a little confused. And maybe some are. Some are
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confused about what abortion is. Some are not confused. And furthermore, they're shocked that
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anybody, seeing the reality of it, seeing that it's not inside the womb, it's not, it is outside a
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totally separate entity, umbilical cord snipped on the table, that anybody could support killing that
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baby. And I'm not shocked by that at all, because child sacrifice is commonplace throughout human
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history. Child sacrifice is a perfectly natural temptation. All of history attests to this.
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Every civilization, everywhere in the world, or I guess every pre-civilization, many, many societies
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all throughout the world have practiced child sacrifice. It's existed everywhere at some point.
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This is not some aberration. This is the norm. Actually, not killing babies is a unique
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advancement of civilization. Or it was. Now we do it again. But it was. When we had a really
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civilized society, that was one of the great advancements, was we don't kill babies.
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Here in the Americas, the Aztecs, the Incas, the Mayas, they all practice child sacrifice.
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Archaeologists digging up the Aztec civilization found, have already just sort of randomly digging
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in the dirt, found 42 children sacrificed by Aztecs. And obviously the number was much,
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much higher. Conquistadors and other Spaniards in the new world, Hernán Cortés Bernardino de
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Sahagún, they describe at length accounts of child sacrifice. Obviously at the consecration of
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Tenochtitlan, the great Aztec temple that was consecrated five years before Columbus set
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sale, there were 80,000 people executed in a matter of days. Their children were not saved
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from this. Children were sacrificed as well. The Incas practiced a ritual whereby they cracked
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children's skulls, or they strangled them, or they just drugged them and brought them up to
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a mountain and left them to freeze. This was a ritual called Kapak Ucha. I don't know, I'm
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probably not pronouncing that correctly, but commonplace. The Maya had a ritual called Kex.
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The Maya ritual believed that supernatural spirits, this is the one actually that most reminds me of
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our civilization. The Maya believed that supernatural spirits feasted on the souls of powerful people.
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And so only by a process of substitution, where you take an innocent baby and you use the innocent
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baby to substitute for your soul, could you appease these supernatural spirits.
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Especially during times of famine or times of drought, this was used as well. And I guess we'll
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get to it in a second. This is the one. We look at that, we say, wow, how stupid, how superstitious,
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how barbaric. What they thought, oh, they thought there were these spirits out there and they were
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going to substitute the little babies for their own. We do the same thing. We do this, we sacrifice
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our babies on the altar of idols and false gods, false gods of money, fame, career. We sacrifice our
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children such that those things won't be taken from us, such that our spirit as we view it won't be
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taken from us. Bible documents or Bible, rather books of the Bible show that there was child
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sacrifice throughout the Middle East. We're no better. We'll get to this in one second, but first
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sacrifice everywhere. How's that for a segue? Well, I guess it has to do with safety, doesn't it? All
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throughout the Middle East, the king of Moab sacrifices his heir. Actually, in the Bible, again, a unique
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advance of civilization, specifically our civilization, Judeo-Christian, Leviticus and Deuteronomy ban
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child sacrifice quite explicitly. You see it in the binding of Isaac. There is the kind of natural
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child sacrifice. God is commanding Abraham to sacrifice his son, and then he stays his hand,
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says, don't do it. This is an advance, a moral advance, but the state of nature is all child
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sacrifice. We know that the Carthaginians sacrificed their children. We know that the
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ancestors of the Carthaginians, the Canaanites, did this. We know that the Phoenicians sacrificed
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their children. Pagan Arabs sacrificed their children to idols. We hear this from early Islamic
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sources, from the Quran. We know that child sacrifice for witchcraft, specifically a witchcraft
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practice called muti, still occurs in South Africa. It occurs today. We know that Uganda recently
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saw an uptick in child sacrifice. They're trying to play it down, but this is within the last 10
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years. We look around at all of that and we say, gosh, we're so much better. We don't sacrifice our
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babies to these ridiculous, superstitious gods. We sacrifice our babies to our careers.
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We sacrifice our babies to our false god of hyper-individualism. We sacrifice our babies to
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our false god and idol of total freedom of choice and freedom from obligation.
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It's the same exact thing. And it actually tells you quite a lot about the nature of pride and sin
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and the fallenness of human nature, that we could do exactly the same thing that the Incas and the
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Mayas and the Aztecs and these pagans throughout Africa and the pre-Islamic Arabs and all in the
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Canaanites and the Phoenicians. We can practice the exact same child sacrifice that they did on a much,
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much larger scale. And we can pat ourselves on the back while we do it. And we could have
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superiority, intellectual and moral superiority while we do it. This is barbaric. And the Democrats have
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become a barbaric party. So it's no coincidence that they're embracing it on a national scale.
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I mean barbaric very specifically. The word barbarism is, it refers to foreigners. The word
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barbaric refers to how the speech of foreigners is unintelligible. So it just sounds like bar,
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bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar. That's what a barbarian is. Well, that's what the Democrats have
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become. They abuse language so much. They say things that don't have any meaning. You say,
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we shouldn't kill babies who have been born and who are sitting on the table. And Elizabeth Warren
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says, we need to protect women's health. What? What women say? What? I mean, you're certainly
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not protecting the half a million babies that you're killing who are women or girls. So that
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seems to cut against women's health. But what does a baby sitting on a table over here have to do with
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the health of a woman who's over here across the room? Nothing. That's your bar, bar, bar, bar,
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bar, bar, bar. It's a breakdown of communication. This is the denial of the left that says there's no
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objective truth. In order to communicate, in order to have meaningful speech, there has to be some
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objective truth. There has to be an objective standard about which and through which you are
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speaking. In order to communicate, we have to refer to something outside of you and me. If I have
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something that I want to convey and then Johnny over here is meant to understand what I'm going to
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convey, the only way he can do that is not through just a raw subjective emotion. The only way that that
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can happen is if I use symbols, which are speech, to refer to something outside both of us, which is
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called the truth and reality. And then he can understand those symbols as referring to that
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reality, which he can perceive. I don't mean to be didactic, but the entire left has missed this
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central fact of reality. The entire left is trying to deconstruct reality itself. And so it's very
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important to be precise. And this is also primitivism. It's not just the barbarism. It's
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not just the breakdown of truth. It's this primitivism. I mean, all you need to do is go into a coffee shop
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in Los Angeles to see the advance of primitivism. You've got people tattooing random nonsense all
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over their bodies, growing their hair out. Many of them haven't showered in weeks. They wash their hair
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with weird little oils. They eat diets called the paleo diet, where they don't even cook their food.
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They're just like cavemen. They're regressing into some pre-conscious state. And this is not a
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coincidence. It's easy to make fun of the filthy hipster on Sepulveda Boulevard or whatever, but it's
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not just this random funny occurrence. This comes naturally out of leftist ideology. This comes
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naturally from the exalting of the noble savage. The fundamental difference, and there are many
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differences between the left and the right, one of which is that conservatives tend to enjoy
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civilization. So civilization is a good thing. The great tradition that we've inherited is a good
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thing. Things can all go bad pretty fast. We've got to be careful when we start knocking down the
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pillars of our civilization. Things can go wrong real fast. As Ernest Hemingway writes,
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and the sun also rises. He's talking about the guy who went bankrupt. He said,
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how'd you go bankrupt? He says, gradually, then suddenly. That's how civilizations can collapse.
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Gradually, then suddenly. This worship of primitivism is bizarre. We like civilization on
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the right, but the left says civilization has made men worse. Men used to be so good. This is why they
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have all these ridiculous myths about the indigenous peoples around the world. As though the indigenous
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peoples were this uniformly angelic, perfect. It's like avatar. They're just all living in harmony
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with nature, singing about the colors of the wind. No, they're people. It's actually a fairly racist
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sentiment that they are these angels walking through the woods, perfectly vulnerable to the wickedness of
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settlers. No, they're people. They're people. Some are good. Some are bad. Some are nicer than others.
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Some are a little craftier than others. They have self-interest. They practice child sacrifice. Some
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of them, some do not. They're people just like all of us. But that leftist idolatry of the primitive
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leads them back to a savagery, the noble savagery. There's nothing noble about savagery. Savagery is
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savagery. It is savage. And, and killing babies after they've been born is savage. When we talk
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as conservatives about the tradition, we, you know, we seem to be pulling our hair out. We say,
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you're knocking down the greatest economic system that's ever been built. You're knocking down the
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greatest healthcare system that's ever been built. You're knocking down the greatest system of law
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that has ever been constructed. You're not, stop it. You're ripping apart the greatest constitution of
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any Republican history. No, no, no, don't do it. The reason that we're so frustrated by this is because
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of how high the stakes are. We have so much to lose. The stakes are not just marginal tax rates go up a
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little bit. Oh, I, the government takes a little more of my money. It destroys wealth. Oh, I'm going to
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have to have a smaller house or I can't eat steak two nights a week. No, no. The stakes are killing
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babies on the table after they've been born and having the oldest continuously existent political
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party in the world cheering it on, voting for it in the United States Senate. Those are the stakes.
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That's what we can lose. On the bright side, President Trump and the GOP are excellent at getting
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speaking of exposing themselves, the left is now trying to slut shame Tucker Carlson.
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The upshot, the good news about child sacrifice. It's hard to find a silver lining in that storm
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cloud. But the silver lining is that President Trump and the GOP are very good at getting Democrats
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to expose themselves. This vote in the Senate was brilliant. Senator Sasse did a great job
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getting this on the Senate floor. We now have virtually every Democrat on the record
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saying that they think that we should be able to kill babies after they've been born.
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The GOP ads in 2020 are going to be terrific. This is also, by the way, going to affect the 2020
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presidential race because you've got a number of U.S. senators running for president. Kamala Harris,
00:24:00.540
Corey Spartacus Booker, Senator Liawatha, Liz Warren, Amy Klobuchar. All of these people,
00:24:08.900
all of these women are going to have to defend this vote during the presidential debates. I said,
00:24:14.900
do you really think we should be able to kill a baby after it's been born? Either way,
00:24:18.940
they're really in a tough spot because if they say yes, then they expose themselves as absolute
00:24:24.400
barbarians. And if they say no, then the follow-up question is going to be, well, why'd you vote for
00:24:29.400
it then? The bill was very clear. The Born Alive Abortion Survivors Act was very clear. And you voted
00:24:36.740
against it. And they'll say, um, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar. That's what they're going to do. They're
00:24:41.500
going to do the same Liz Warren game. Well, uh, women's health has nothing to do with women's health.
00:24:46.640
Bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar, bar. That's what they're going to say. And it's going to be clear
00:24:50.840
to America. The, the other great little bit here is not just, uh, it's not just all about abortion.
00:24:58.320
President Trump last week, we weren't able to get to it in the show, but I really want to cover it now.
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President Trump during a cabinet meeting announces that on the 4th of July of this year,
00:25:08.720
he will host a salute to America parade or gathering. And nobody has really understood
00:25:16.820
why he did this, but I do. And I really appreciate it. Here's President Trump announcing it.
00:25:21.460
We're thinking about doing on the 4th of July or thereabouts a parade, a salute to America parade.
00:25:27.800
It'll be a, uh, really a gathering as opposed to a parade. I guess you'd have to say, uh,
00:25:33.480
perhaps at the Lincoln Memorial, we're looking at sites, but we're thinking about doing something
00:25:38.140
which would become perhaps a tradition salute to America on July 4th or July 4th weekend,
00:25:44.780
somewhere around that area. And David, you're taking charge of that and you'll see how it,
00:25:49.280
uh, how it works out with schedules and everything else. And I think it could be a very exciting day.
00:25:54.820
And the fireworks is there anyway. So we just saved on fireworks. We get free fireworks because it's
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already being done. So he's going, look, we're going to piggyback on the fireworks. We're going to
00:26:05.380
save a lot of money. It's going to be great. Now this came after president Trump wanted a military
00:26:09.120
parade, uh, which, uh, was supposed to happen last year. They delayed it. The local DC government
00:26:15.720
ran up the costs of it, became untenable. There was too much going on. So now he says,
00:26:21.800
we're going to have a salute to America parade. And the left is mocking him for it. The left is
00:26:26.520
upset about this. Why? They're saying, well, that we already have 4th of July celebrations.
00:26:30.060
Yeah, sort of. I mean, do we have a national celebration being run out of the White House? I
00:26:35.400
don't know that we have that. Do we have something called a salute to America? It's a little different
00:26:39.780
than just eating hot dogs or even commemorating what happened in 1776. It's a salute to America
00:26:46.920
as it is, our country. And the left is mocking him, not because it's redundant, but because the left
00:26:53.020
doesn't like America. President Trump could have said, we're going to have apple pie week. Yeah,
00:26:58.680
we're going to have apple pie and puppies week in America. And, and the left would hate it and say,
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oh, oh, apple pie. We're going to have watch baseball week. Oh, I hate baseball. I like soccer.
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Because what they're exposing is that they don't like the country.
00:27:15.380
It's a brilliant idea. I really like it. I really like it. It is, we're in an age of cynicism,
00:27:23.360
of performed apathy, of, oh, I'm too cool for America. I'm too good for that. Ooh, I hate America.
00:27:30.140
Certainly on the left, you see that. Oh, I hate the middle of the country. Oh, I, when I go abroad,
00:27:34.420
I tell people I'm from the coasts. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Oh, I, oh, I'm so ashamed. I'm so embarrassed
00:27:39.240
by America. The only, the only poll that they care about, you'll notice this when you talk to the
00:27:44.340
left, they're so humiliated because the rest of the world doesn't approve of President Trump.
00:27:50.100
Which, by the way, isn't even true. A lot, I mean, Bibi Netanyahu in Israel is campaigning with
00:27:55.180
pictures of Donald Trump over there. A lot of people like Trump quite a lot, but they're so,
00:28:01.040
they say, oh, I'm so embarrassed. I want the world to like us. Ooh, they're just like really
00:28:04.820
insecure little teenage boys and girls. And this is unbridled patriotism, unironic, nothing cynical
00:28:12.440
about it. I love America. We're going to salute America. It's the MAGA hat on a parade with fireworks.
00:28:17.660
It's going to be a great idea. And it gets Democrats on the record as, as talking it down,
00:28:23.420
as talking down America, as talking down Americans. People notice this stuff. Voters notice this stuff.
00:28:29.040
They might not register it with pollsters, might not be at the top of their mind, but it does register.
00:28:33.840
And Democrats are going to have to pay a price if we still have a country.
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I have an idea, a very important idea, the most important troll of the Trump administration.
00:28:43.000
I have a plan for Donald Trump to become the first woman president. If you want to hear it,
00:28:48.820
you've got to go to dailywire.com. If you're on Facebook or YouTube, it's 10 bucks a month,
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00:29:00.080
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00:29:04.280
of fun. You get another kingdom and you get this. You get the Salute to America Tumblr.
00:29:15.840
You're going to want to get this before the 4th of July because every firework that goes off,
00:29:21.260
and it's going to fill up the whole Tumblr. And if you don't have it, you're going to drown. So
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make sure you get it before the 4th of July. Get it even sooner, folks. There's a lot of great
00:29:35.200
stuff going on. President Trump is now at his second summit with Kim Jong-un. If anything comes
00:29:41.220
out of that, the tsunami is going to be overwhelming. Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back with a lot
00:29:45.600
more. I have an idea. It occurred to me yesterday. I was speaking to Liz Wheeler from OANN, and it just
00:30:03.760
occurred to me, and the more I think about it, the more I love this idea. I think I've figured out the
00:30:10.360
only way to crack up the left's ridiculous gender ideology, all these stupid pronoun battles in the
00:30:15.960
bathrooms and all that. Before he leaves office, for just one day, President Trump needs to identify
00:30:24.980
as a woman, Donna Trump, for one day. There are only two possible consequences of this. Either
00:30:34.780
the left will have to admit the absurdity of gender ideology, transgenderism, or the left will
00:30:43.520
have to celebrate Donald Trump as the first woman president. Beat Hillary to it. Beat Amy
00:30:51.260
Klobuchar. Beat Kamala Harris. Beat Liz Warren. Beat Donna Trump. That's what we'll call him for that
00:30:57.960
one day. Donna Trump will become the first woman president. If he remains married to Melania, he will
00:31:02.500
be the first gay president, not just the first gay president, the first lesbian president, not just
00:31:06.260
the first lesbian president, the first gay married lesbian president married to an immigrant. It will
00:31:13.540
be a glorious moment. Now you say, oh, that's okay. That's a funny line. That's okay. Whatever that
00:31:19.100
no, I actually, first of all, if any president were going to do this, it would be Donald Trump,
00:31:23.240
the greatest troll ever to occupy that office. But why wouldn't he do it? Let's say he does it.
00:31:29.740
Obviously, he says, I'm a woman today. I issue an executive proclamation. I am a woman and I will
00:31:36.460
go by Donna. What is the left going to do? They'll say, no, you're not. Well, he could say, how dare
00:31:42.580
you? How dare you assume my gender? They say, well, you're just, you're not really a woman.
00:31:49.140
Did you say that to Caitlyn Jenner? Did you say that to all these transgender athletes? They're
00:31:56.580
transgender. They're men who are pretending to be women who are beating all of the women in these
00:32:00.600
competitions. How dare you? She said, well, okay. Okay. Let's say we grant that you're a woman.
00:32:10.000
You're not the first woman president. Are you saying that transgender women are not real women?
00:32:15.920
Well, gosh, I guess that is sort of what I'm saying. Well, I get, and they have to,
00:32:21.160
something has to give. And I don't really care which gives. If, because he can go back, by the
00:32:28.220
way, gender is fluid. You can just identify as a man the next day. He can go right back to being
00:32:32.000
Donald. But for just one day, that's all it takes to become the first woman president, the first
00:32:37.520
lesbian president, the first lesbian gay woman president married to a immigrant. That's all it
00:32:43.700
takes is one day. And if he does that for one day, I don't care how it turns out. Either gender
00:32:50.540
ideology falls apart because it's absurd or Donald Trump goes down in the history books as the first
00:32:54.780
woman president. It is a win-win. President Trump is really good at win-wins. He's really good at
00:32:59.080
wedge issues. He's really good at driving a wedge between the socialists of the Democrat Party and the
00:33:04.860
establishment of the Democrat Party, which doesn't want to use that word. He did it at the State of
00:33:08.860
the Union. He split AOC and all those people from Nancy Pelosi and all of those people. He's really
00:33:15.660
good at driving a wedge between the pro-worker blue-collar Democrats and the globalist neoliberal
00:33:24.120
Democrats. That was basically the story of the 2016 election. And now he could drive a wedge
00:33:30.160
between the transgenderist ideologues and the feminists. The people who say gender doesn't
00:33:37.680
mean anything. Men can define womanhood. It's not a real thing. And the feminists who say, no,
00:33:41.900
no, no, no. Womanhood is a real category. Women have been historically put upon. And we need to
00:33:47.060
focus on that category, which is innate and immutable. President Trump, he could do it in just
00:33:52.100
one day. And what is there to lose? The next day he goes back to Donald. It would be a glorious,
00:33:58.640
glorious troll and a very important and instructive reckoning for a nihilist,
00:34:06.560
deconstructive ideology of gender that truly does threaten the soundness of our republic.
00:34:16.060
It threatens our logic and our thinking. Donna, you got my vote. I can't wait till you're the
00:34:21.040
first woman president. I have to get to Tucker as well before we get out of here. Tucker Carlson,
00:34:27.460
speaking of slut shaming, speaking of gender politics, the chief LA correspondent for BuzzFeed,
00:34:36.100
Kate Arthur, who may soon need to learn to code. I'm not sure. Just judging by her writing, I suspect
00:34:41.760
she's probably one day going to be better at coding than writing. She said, quote, on Twitter,
00:34:48.580
remember Tucker Carlson's lecture during family separation in June about how the left doesn't
00:34:53.760
care about family values? Well, I'm not one to kink shame, but here he is with a sex worker.
00:34:59.600
Tucker. Go Tucker. It's this picture of Tucker Carlson with a sex worker. I don't really know
00:35:08.260
her history. I don't know exactly what kind of sex work she does, but I guess she's a sex worker.
00:35:12.300
And it's a picture of her kind of kissing his cheek and Tucker turning away and laughing.
00:35:16.060
And this was taken, not at some brothel or something, this was taken at the funeral of Dennis
00:35:23.040
Hoff, who was a Republican candidate, friend of Tucker Carlson. And he, he's also this Nevada
00:35:29.100
kind of pimp figure. So he knew a lot of ladies of the night. And this, the woman pictured there
00:35:34.400
immediately went after the BuzzFeed writer. She said, how dare you? We were at a funeral for our
00:35:38.960
friend and Tucker was a very nice guy. I offered to buy him a drink and he ordered a club soda.
00:35:44.380
Perfectly well-behaved guy. What this shows is that the left is not pro prostitute,
00:35:49.800
not pro sex worker, not pro, it's not pro anything. It's anti-conservative. It's anti-tradition.
00:35:56.780
It's anti-big daddy. That's what it is. Big, the religion, culture, and politics of the, of the
00:36:04.340
civilization that we have, of our tradition. That's what it opposes. It's, oh, dad, I'm so angry at
00:36:12.180
you. It just wants to break things down. How, how rude to do this to this, this woman, the sex worker.
00:36:18.100
It's also pharisaical. You know, I was reminded when I saw that tweet, this woman says, look,
00:36:23.720
this guy talks about family values and there he is with a prostitute. Like, you know, the Pharisees
00:36:28.680
said the exact same thing about Jesus. Said, look, this guy is giving sermons about family values and
00:36:34.700
he's hanging out with prostitutes and tax collectors. Uh-huh. Right. Yes. Right. There is a moral standard
00:36:41.680
and also there is kindness and mercy because we're all fallen. Uh-huh. Right. Maybe you've
00:36:47.720
learned, you haven't learned anything. You're just accusing people and condemning people, but
00:36:52.060
you could learn something if you listen to your own words. Really, I guess the whole theme
00:36:59.700
of the last couple of weeks is the left exposing itself, which is an image I don't really want
00:37:04.020
to think about too much. I think of Hillary. No, nobody wants, but, but it is ideologically exposing
00:37:09.360
itself. And now the, the big story that's coming up, I think we have a little bit of time, is Michael
00:37:16.120
Cohen. Switching gears slightly, although I guess this is still in the theme of exposure. Michael
00:37:22.340
Cohen, the president's former personal lawyer, says that he's going to expose Donald Trump for racism
00:37:30.120
and crimes and lies while in office. This, this was actually, I think this was the Time Magazine
00:37:37.180
headline, New York Times. Cohen expected to accuse Trump of lies, cheating, and racism. Okay. What is
00:37:44.780
this talking about? He's going to testify. He's going down to Capitol Hill and he's going to say
00:37:49.660
that president Trump ordered him to pay Stormy Daniels money to keep quiet during the 2016 election.
00:37:56.260
There's really a tough argument that this even constitutes a crime. I don't really think it does
00:38:00.800
constitute a crime. Uh, there's not a lot of precedent that would show that president Trump could be,
00:38:06.760
uh, held to account for, for paying off Stormy Daniels. One of the good arguments is that Trump
00:38:12.760
has paid off women all his life. This is business as usual. This has nothing to do simply with the
00:38:17.180
campaign. Um, but it also raises a question about Cohen because there are two lines of argument here.
00:38:24.020
One is that Cohen is a dirty rat, a disloyal scum of the earth, and, uh, he's the lowest of the low.
00:38:31.100
The other is that he's a liar and that his, his words and testimony can't be trusted. And Ben made
00:38:36.780
this point today on Twitter. He said, look, stop. If you're calling Cohen a liar, stop calling him a
00:38:41.300
rat. If he's a rat, he's honest. And if he's a liar, he's not a rat. I don't think that's quite right.
00:38:48.840
Rats can be liars. Rats usually are liars, but they don't lie about everything. Nobody lies about
00:38:54.460
everything. Very few people could do that. A rat is someone who's disloyal, who snitches, who is a
00:39:01.560
turncoat, who betrays his people. Dante puts those who betray their benefactors in the lowest circle
00:39:09.360
of hell, Cassius, Brutus, and Judas Iscariot. Rightly so. Disloyalty, betrayal, that is, that is
00:39:19.380
really the lowest of the low. It is unsurprising then that those people also often tell lies.
00:39:25.880
Some, you know, what are the lies? I don't know. Clearly Michael Cohen is both of these things.
00:39:31.640
They're not mutually exclusive. We know that Bob Mueller, the special counsel, has put the squeeze
00:39:37.940
on Michael Cohen, not just for things he did when he was working for Trump, but for other transactions,
00:39:43.780
other things that he's worked on throughout his career. He says, I got you on this crime. I got you
00:39:48.120
on this crime. I got you on this crime. You're never going to see your wife again. You're never
00:39:50.840
going to see your kids again. You're never going to see nobody. You're dead. Your life is over.
00:39:55.760
Unless you accuse Donald Trump of a lot of things. Maybe they're real. Maybe they're not real. Maybe
00:40:02.360
you call him a racist. I don't think racism is a crime yet in this country, but call him a racist.
00:40:07.140
That'll be good. That'll help butter up the jury. Yeah. Oh, good, good. He's putting the squeeze on
00:40:12.280
Cohen. Cohen's a rat. He's clearly a rat. He's willing to betray his benefactors and his people.
00:40:19.100
And he has all of the incentives in the world to lie. We know that he's lied. He was convicted of
00:40:24.060
lying. He can be both things at the same time. And it's really, I felt during the 2016 campaign,
00:40:32.100
conservatives didn't give Donald Trump enough credit for loyalty. Trump does have a real loyalty.
00:40:37.140
Now, when people turn on him, he turns on them pretty fast. But otherwise, he's had a real loyalty
00:40:41.860
with his people. He keeps people around the Trump organization for a fair amount of time.
00:40:46.260
He keeps things close. If he feels that you've turned on him, obviously, he can be as vicious
00:40:51.960
as anybody else. But loyalty is a very important value. Without loyalty, things break down. Without
00:40:58.340
loyalty, we're just a bunch of atoms floating in space. We do have bonds that bind us together to
00:41:05.060
our friends, to our family, to our co-partisans, to our countrymen, to our people in our community.
00:41:11.160
That loyalty is very important. The truth is very important, too. We should put the truth
00:41:17.180
above all things. Michael Cohen has rejected both of them. We shouldn't simply judge the man for his
00:41:26.040
lies. We shouldn't simply judge the man for his disloyalty. The two go together. And it really
00:41:30.900
paints the picture of a guy who's pretty cheap, who's pretty low, who's pretty dirty, and who
00:41:35.280
probably shouldn't be taken very seriously. We'll see. Democrats are going to try to take
00:41:40.140
him seriously. But they've got nothing. The Senate Intelligence Committee admitted they've
00:41:45.460
got nothing. Bob Mueller's so far come up with nothing on Trump colluding with Russia. The
00:41:50.580
best they're going to try to get is paying off some porn star. And Michael Cohen's going
00:41:55.800
to try to help them do it. Pathetic. I'm sure we'll be covering it, though, because the media
00:41:59.860
are going to want to focus on that rather than focus on the Kim Jong-un summit in Vietnam.
00:42:06.380
We'll cover both. We'll see which one is more important to our country, which one is going
00:42:09.800
to be more important to Americans, especially as they look to 2020. That's our show. Come
00:42:13.640
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