Ep. 310 - What Will Be Trump’s Legacy？
Summary
A federal judge rebukes special counsel Robert Mueller and springs Paul Manus from life in the clink. Meanwhile, the wages go up for the first time in over a decade as Mueller goes down at court. Plus, a new company that makes shirts that aren t meant to be worn.
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A federal judge rebukes special counsel Robert Mueller and springs Paul Manafort from life in the clink.
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Paul Manafort will be out of prison within about two years.
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As Mueller goes down at court, wages go up for the first time in over a decade.
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Amid all the non-traverses, we zoom out and consider what the Trump legacy might look like 20 years down the road.
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Then, International Women's Day sparks the communist revolution in Russia, and kids go on strike to protest climate change.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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This has been, you know, I forget when it was, a few weeks ago, we had a really tough week for conservatives, and we were all kind of down.
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And then, this past two weeks, three weeks maybe, the Green New Deal, then you get Ilhan Omar spouting anti-Jewish slurs, then you get people defending Ilhan Omar and the Democrat Party, then you get Russiagate going down at court.
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So we had the sentencing of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
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You heard they were going to throw the book at him.
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They said, this guy, he's not working with prosecutors the way we want him to.
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He should get 15, 20 years, maybe more in prison.
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But that includes the time he's already been in prison.
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So actually, he's only going to serve another 38 months.
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And that's not even true, because he's almost certainly going to get out six months early.
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He's going to be out in a little over a year, or a little over two years, two and a half years.
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The stakes here are for the Russia investigation.
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This judge, T.S. Ellis, actually, in a fairly direct sense, rebuked the special counsel investigation here,
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because he made a point to acknowledge that this sentence, these crimes, had nothing to do with the Trump campaign and Russia.
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He was the one who worked with the Russians for years.
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He was working with pro-Russian forces in Ukraine.
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He was in, when he was running the Trump campaign, he was talking to people.
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They went after him, 800-page report, and they give him 47 months, which really becomes 32 months.
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Why was it so different than all of the mainstream media expected?
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This gets to the importance of the judges, because this judge, as the mainstream media are going to tell you now,
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Oh, they wanted Manafort to rot, never see his kids again.
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It says, this judge, Ellis, has never read the first thing about Paul Manafort,
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had never known that Paul Manafort was known as the leader of something called the Torturer's Lobby
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for representing unsavory dictators around the world long before he ever came to Donald Trump's orbit.
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And, you know, this wasn't just a one-off, you know, brief period of crime here that he's been accused and convicted of.
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This was a 10-year crime spree, as Mueller, as prosecutors have laid out.
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This was a massive effort to defraud banks and evade taxes for a long time,
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and then to lie and commit felonies after already admitting guilt and making a deal with prosecution.
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So, it's a really surprising outcome from a federal judge who, you know,
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from what I'm told by prosecutors who have been in front of this court,
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tends to be a lot harder on poor defendants than on white-collar offenders.
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I just wanted to make sure I could hear the whole clip.
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You just get off an airplane, you're feeling a little dehydrated.
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Luckily, MSNBC provides all of the waterworks that we want.
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His crime is wearing tailored Italian suits, is what his crime is.
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There's so, and then, then they just try to completely twist it.
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They say, well, he's really hard on poor people.
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He's like, no, they, because they wanted to send him to the clink for anything.
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You know, last night I was talking about global warming at the University of Cincinnati.
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And I made the point, if you are going to predict the end of the world, if you are going to predict the apocalypse, you only get to do that once.
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When you make these huge accusations, when you make these huge predictions, like Donald Trump committed crimes with the Russian government to steal the 2016 election, his presidency is illegitimate.
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When you make those kind of claims, the truth is going to come out at some point.
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When Al Gore says the world's going to end in 15 years, when Ocasio-Cortez says the world's going to end in 12 years, that time is going to come.
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He said that the polar ice caps could be melted by 2014.
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It seemed like it was so far in the distance when Al Gore made that movie in 2006.
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There was more ice mass in the polar ice caps than there was in 2006.
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Even fewer people listen to him now than listen to him in 2006.
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They were so furious after they lost the 2016 election, they had to blame it on somebody.
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They made up this huge story that has distracted our politics for over two years now.
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They bet the farm on this Russia conspiracy thing.
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And the worst that you're getting is a longtime lobbyist getting a slap on the wrist and he's got to go to the clink for a couple years.
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We found out today, you remember Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, testified before Congress and basically gave nothing, no new information.
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Just testified that Trump is a big meanie and a really bad guy.
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Well, now it's come out that Michael Cohen met privately with the House Intelligence Committee chairman, Democrat Adam Schiff, for 10 hours to prepare for that testimony.
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Schiff, who lives in California, represents a district in California, flew out to New York to meet with Michael Cohen.
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Now, you have to wonder, okay, what was he doing?
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Was he, I mean, obviously he was coaching the witness.
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Because they knew it was going to come up empty.
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And apparently, Adam Schiff's not a very good coach.
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Because 10 hours of coaching later, Michael Cohen still looks like a schmuck on Capitol Hill.
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So now, now they're launching investigations into the finances and the business and the this.
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And it just looks so desperate because the clock ran out for them.
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They said, okay, we're going to, this Russia thing, we're going to go as hard as we can with Russia.
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Eventually, people need you to put up or shut up.
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He's the first convicted liar to Congress to be called back to testify before Congress.
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We know that he lied about not wanting a job in the White House.
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We know that he lied about not seeking a pardon.
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They just end up with egg on their face, being rebuked and reprimanded by a federal judge who has a good sense of justice here.
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By the way, I hope Paul Manafort still gets pardoned.
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Lobbyists tend to work with pretty crooked institutions and do kind of crooked things.
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But does anyone really believe Paul Manafort would be in prison right now if he had not committed the real crime of helping Donald Trump become president?
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They knew that that was what he was being investigated, what he was being prosecuted for.
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And this judge, I think, in a very fair way, actually carrying forth justice, said we're not going to throw away the rest of this guy's life because you don't like that he helped a Republican win the White House.
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Actually, there's some bad news couched in a lot of good news.
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The bad news is we only added 20,000 jobs in February, but job growth basically flatlined.
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And I don't say that to try to brush a bad jobs number under the rug.
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It's just that right now we currently have a record number of people employed.
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So this is, I think, the 18th record that we've hit during the Trump presidency.
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We've got 157 million people in this country employed.
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So you can't really say, well, they've only added 20,000 jobs.
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Well, okay, I mean, our unemployment rate is basically zero.
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Or I think the unemployment rate is about 3.8%, which is about as low as you can possibly get it.
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During the Obama years, he would always try to cook the unemployment numbers by hiding relatively low labor force participation.
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So unemployment rates for adult women, teens, blacks, and Asians stayed about the same, all near historic lows.
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And unemployment for adult men, whites, and especially Hispanics dropped pretty precipitously in February.
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And so you've got really tight employment, regardless of what the job growth number is.
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Wages are finally rising for the first time basically in my life.
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I mean, it's been a long time since real wages have risen for people.
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However, this is really good news for the American worker who hasn't really had a raise in 10, 15 years.
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Obviously, you're not going to hear that on MSNBC or CNN.
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You're not going to hear the good economic indicators.
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They're going to focus on Donald Trump's tweets about no collusion.
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They're not going to talk about all those boring statistics of how a record number of Americans have jobs,
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unemployment across the board for every demographic is near record lows.
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This is sort of what I was thinking about as I'm getting this opposite information.
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You know, Russia, Russia, Russia, illegitimate, blah, blah.
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It reminds me that history changes very quickly.
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Currently, the entire news cycle is Russia, Stormy Daniels, porn stars, total nonsense.
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But history and historical views of presidents change very quickly.
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When I was a kid, Bill Clinton was actually impeached for lying under oath,
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for taking his intern into the Oval Office and making her into a human humidor,
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and then humiliating her before the entire world.
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He was actually impeached, and then for 15 years after the Clinton administration,
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All people had were memories of that great 1990s economy.
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All they had were memories of basically the economy that was permitted by the Reagan administration,
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and then you had this huge once-in-a-200-years tech explosion with the Internet.
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He was on the campaign trail all the time for Democrats.
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Now, the thing about the Reagan administration.
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During the Reagan administration, you heard of all these scandals.
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It was just a completely made-up affair because we were trying to fight communists in Latin America.
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Then there was a rumor, you know, that Nancy Reagan was interested in astrology.
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They tried to make this a huge story, big headlines.
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I mean, nobody, I think, in the millennial generation could explain to you what the Iran-Contra scandal is.
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could you explain actually what the Iran-Contra affair is?
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It's nothing with regard to the Reagan administration.
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When we look back at the Reagan administration, we think booming economy, defeat the Soviet Union.
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I mean, the man has basically been deified 30 years after he left office,
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or now, I guess, approaching 40 years after he entered office.
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And he's become better and better and better every year.
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Is it going to be Paul Manafort did a deal with a pro-Russian Ukraine?
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Nobody will remember her name in like five years.
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I think what the legacy is going to be is the economy and judges.
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If he has a second term, then you could have, obviously, anything could happen.
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But just right now, if this were the Trump administration, if he were leaving office today,
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Because you look, 1987, Ronald Reagan appoints Judge Ellis to the court.
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Because at moments like this, when real battles are happening, where real overreach is happening,
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like this Russia investigation, real constitutional questions are being raised,
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we have that Reagan-era judge to stand up for the Constitution, to stand up for law,
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And Donald Trump has filled the courts with judges.
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What does the future, then, look like for the right and the left?
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Because you hear all this talk of anti-Semitism on the left.
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You hear all this talk of nationalism on the right.
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And looking into the future, I think people have a sort of bleak view of it.
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Here's Thomas Sowell, the great economist Thomas Sowell,
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giving his unfortunate view of socialism coming to America.
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I mean, do you think that we are destined to go through a period of socialism,
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a period where these ideas that have not worked, no matter where they've been tried,
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and certainly wouldn't work here, will be tried here and could bring down our country?
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Well, the predictions of economists do not encourage me to go far in that direction.
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But I do have a great fear that in the long run, we may not make it.
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And I hate to say that, but, and the one thing that keeps me from being despairing is, of course, we don't know.
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And I'm reminded, though, of John Maynard Keynes, another great economist,
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So what Thomas Sowell is seeing is that America is careening towards socialism.
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It certainly was careening towards socialism in the 60s and 70s.
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And then Reagan came in and changed all of that.
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Now it seems to be careening towards socialism again.
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President Trump says America will never be a socialist nation.
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The way I'm seeing the future, though, is that the right and the left are beginning to look a lot more in America like they do in Europe.
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American right wing is totally different, way better than the European right wing.
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And the American left wing used to be very different than the European left wing.
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And you're seeing that turn with the new fresh faces of Congress.
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You're seeing them say no to the party leadership.
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They say, this is the direction that we want to go in.
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And the American right, a little bit, is heading in that European direction of embracing nationalism, of saying, listen, we like our country.
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We want to talk a little bit more about our country and our culture and securing our borders and not just saying that anybody can come in whenever they want, do whatever they want.
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We're going to focus a little bit more on the nation and the nation state, the Westphalian system that has governed the world for 400 years.
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Now, President Trump has made this point pretty clear.
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He was at it before he was getting on an airplane today to go look at the crisis in Alabama.
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He called out the Democrats as they are in typical Trumpian, no uncertain terms.
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I thought yesterday's vote by the House was disgraceful because it's become the Democrats have become an anti-Israel party.
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And he could say, he could take it even further and say they've become the European left.
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But I'm not sure that this is a terrible thing.
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I mean, it's obviously, I don't want socialism and I don't hate Jews, but I don't like the left either.
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But I don't think it's such a terrible thing that clearer distinctions are being made.
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Because I think when people say, well, the European form of politics and the American form of politics are totally different, they're incomparable, they have nothing to do with one another, that's obviously ridiculous.
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Our religion comes from the religion that built Europe.
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And so it's not surprising that our politics might have some similarity to European politics as well.
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Maybe there was a divergence for a period after the war, the Second World War, where Europe was so decimated, America was unchallenged in the West, that there might have been some divergence.
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The sort of liberal consensus, the American hegemony throughout all of the West.
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At a certain point, the West is going to rebuild.
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Certainly after the fall of the Soviet Union, those two superpowers dividing the world up amongst them changed.
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And those old eternal political questions come back.
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And I think the future looks not, it doesn't look exactly like our past.
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But by looking at our past, we can learn about our future.
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This is the trouble in the United States where we don't study history.
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They don't study history in elementary school, middle school, high school.
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And if people want to see where the politics is going, it would probably behoove them to look into our history, to look into our past.
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Unfortunately, though, today, the left is so busy trying to erase our past, censor our past, knock down statues, turn away murals, turn away depictions,
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that they're not going to be able to learn very much, which is where you get childish idiocy and activism, such as the global climate strike, which is being led by actual children.
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And the left believes this is a very beautiful and profound thing.
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We'll also obviously get to International Women's Day, one of the worst days in the history of the world.
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But International Women's Day is just a communist contrivance that destroyed Russia and much of the 20th century.
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Ten bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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Get your Tumblr so that you can store your 47-month supply of leftist tears.
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This was the headline, quote, Adults won't take climate change seriously, so we, the youth,
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Global climate strike inspired by a 15-year-old Swedish girl who would cut class once a week
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And now there's going to be a big day where all the kids do this.
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I see a couple problems with all the kids going on strike.
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So if they go on strike, I don't know that anyone's going to complain.
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I don't think anybody's going to be harmed by the kids going on strike.
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I don't think that it's going to mess up anybody's day or anybody's schedule.
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The other problem that I see is that kids, being kids, can be grounded.
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So if they all cut class, their parents can ground them.
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They can prevent the kids from doing activities.
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They can prevent them from going out with their friends.
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They can prevent them from going to the movies on Friday night.
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They can prevent them from using their cell phones and they can prevent them from striking
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So I don't think the strike is going to go very well, but I love the language of it.
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I mean to beat up on the Democrat Party, which is just as childish.
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We, the youth of America, are fed up with decades of inaction on climate change.
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On Friday, March 15th, young people like us across the United States will strike from school.
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For decades, the fossil fuel industry has pumped greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere.
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For decades, you have pumped greenhouse gases into our atmosphere.
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For decades, I have pumped greenhouse gases into our atmosphere.
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The fossil fuel industry is not an evil gangster cabal.
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The fossil fuel industry gives us a product that we all buy and want and need for our lives.
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They don't put the gas into your car and then drive your car around.
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I mean, this is the problem with climate change.
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They want to put the villainy off on somebody else.
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It's the wicked capitalist who's polluting our...
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And then when you throw out your cell phone after two years, it's going to end up in the Pacific Ocean.
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Do you like your cheap consumer goods from China?
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Do you like air conditioning during the summer?
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Or because you are the one releasing all of that carbon emission.
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By the way, the world isn't going to end in 12 years.
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I'll bet every single penny that I have to my name that the world doesn't end in 12 years.
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All they want to do is blame someone else for their problems, which aren't even real problems.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez taking a thousand Ubers during her campaign.
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Flying across the country 66 times for a congressional race where you are in a district.
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And James Comey, it's everybody's fault except Hillary Clinton that she lost.
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But I think it is endemic to the leftist activism these days.
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And I like to bring up the kids because this is what kids do.
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The kids, you know, they've got the, they're reaching into the cookie jar.
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They're reaching into the leftist tiers cookie jar.
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Sort of cute or at least understandable when children do it.
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But now we have an entire political party doing it.
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I can't imagine that that's going to play very well in 2020.
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The alarming symptoms of climate denialism, a serious condition affecting the whole ways of government and the general population, mark our current historical crossroads of make it or break it action on climate change.
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Apparently, the kids never learned not to mix metaphors in their English class.
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I don't mean to make fun of their writing, but it's not good writing.
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And I'll defend them in the sense that I don't think Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could put together a more coherent sentence.
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So what they mean by denialism, first of all, they're comparing normal people to Holocaust deniers.
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But they're saying, if you don't believe that the world is going to end in 12 years, you are a denialist.
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It's a symptom of a psychological condition called climate denialism.
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You are a lunatic if you don't think that the world is going to end in 12 years.
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They're talking in psychological terms because our culture is so materialistic these days.
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It's so scientistic that we can only talk about our minds and our souls in physical terms.
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So we say, oh, different chemicals are firing off.
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Different neurons are firing when we fall in love or feel joy or feel fear.
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Now, it's noteworthy, by the way, that these socialists...
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It is noteworthy that these socialists always go after kids and women.
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They always go after the International Union of Students was put up by the Soviet Union.
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The World Federation of Democratic Youth put up by the Soviet Union.
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And nowhere is this more apparent than today, on March 8th, on International Women's Day.
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The Google Doodle today for International Women's Day was that little, you know, the women's sign.
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I think a lot of women in this country think that International Women's Day is about women.
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International Women's Day is the launch of communism in the West.
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They don't have a hammer and sickle on the Google Doodle.
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The New York Times says, quote, International Women's Day isn't going anywhere.
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It's a call to action for everyone to continue to push for complete gender equality.
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Okay, they say, the early 20th century was a time when women were becoming more active
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in their protests against oppression and gender equality, leading marches and campaigns to demand
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According to the official International Women's Day website, during the International Conference
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of Working Women in 1910, Clara Zetkin of Germany's Social Democratic Party proposed
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that a day be set aside every year across the world to celebrate women and reinforce their
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That's half true, but that misses the whole point because it actually didn't start in
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The first International Women's Day started a year before that, in 1909.
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And it didn't start because of the Social Democratic Party.
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It started because of the Socialist Party and the Communist Parties.
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The first one ever was held in New York, 1909, organized by the Socialist Party of America.
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Then, in 1910, the International Socialist Women's Conference created International Women's Day.
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You've got the October Revolution in 1917 happens.
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After the October Revolution, Vladimir Lenin made International Women's Day a national holiday
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He prioritized it because on International Women's Day, March 8th, 1917, an International
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Women's Day demonstration actually started the Russian Revolution.
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This is, you can blame International Women's Day for killing 100 million people in the 20th
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Whenever you hear things with international in it, usually you're talking about communist
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The protest started because women textile workers who were in Petrograd decided that they were
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This had been whipped up by communist agitators.
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And Trotsky said of the demonstration, quote, meetings and actions were foreseen, but we
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did not imagine that this Women's Day would inaugurate the revolution.
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So they planned some meetings, some demonstrations.
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This International Women's Day was celebrated almost exclusively by communist countries and
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socialist activists until 1975 when the U.N. adopted it.
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And now, to prove Thomas Sowell's point, unfortunately, it seems that as America is becoming more socialistic,
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I'd take a National Women's Day, celebrate American women.
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But International Women's Day, just like all of these internationalist schemes, they're
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trying to divvy up all of society along certain demographic lines, class lines, gender lines,
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Workers of the world unite and break down national boundaries.
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I guess it could be Abigail Adams' birthday or something.
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All of this sort of navel-gazing, which is what you see on International Women's Day.
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Obviously, they hide the communist origins of it.
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They try now to just celebrate it as girl power.
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It's only sexism that is having all of the male and female reviewers say that it's terrible.
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This is a culture of just celebrating yourself all the time.
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This is a culture that is insistent on that sort of thing.
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There was a really negative outcome of that sort of culture.
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And it's like, it's a funny headline, but I do feel bad for the guy.
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A billionaire named Ehud Arie Laniato died this week during penis enlargement surgery at the age of 65 in a posh Paris clinic.
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His friends say that he was always obsessed with his appearance.
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He obviously had some other physical issues that he was dealing with.
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He would have his accountant read out his bank account statement multiple times a day.
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And he dies because of this sort of frivolous surgery.
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There's an important lesson here for a perverse culture.
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You know, when scripture talks about how the rich will be made to look like fools, the proud will be made to look like fools, folly, folly, all is folly.
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You can see that happen in something like this.
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You can see it even broadening the sense of just self-gratification and constantly needing self-gratification.
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You've got the owner of the New England Patriots.
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And he says, well, I think I'm willing to risk it all for a $50 rub-and-tug massage at a parlor in Jupiter, Florida.
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He goes into a sketchy massage parlor to throw away all of this.
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That the heart of man is so perverse that you could have everything.
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Billions of dollars, winningest football team in all of history, and be willing to throw it all away for nothing, for some cosmetic surgery or for a rough lower body massage at a massage parlor in Jupiter, Florida.
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And it reminds me that joy has to always be closely guarded.
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We're in Lenten period where Christians traditionally fast.
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On Ash Wednesday, the priest puts ashes on your forehead and says, remember, man, that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return.
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And you try to take stock of this life and this mortality.
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You realize you only have so much time in this world, and you want to make the most of it.
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You really take stock, and you have, hopefully, a sense of humility.
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This Lenten period is a great antidote, rather, for pride.
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But true humility does away with false modesty.
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And when you think of stories like this, you think, gosh, a billionaire.
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So he made his billions in really valuable diamonds.
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And he's got everything, yachts, girls, this, that.
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And he throws it all away for some little insecurity, for some little pride.
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Some guy who owns the New England Patriots throws it all away for just a little more gratification.
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If it can happen to them, it can happen to you, it can happen to me.
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That anxiety Thomas Sowell feels, this country is going to throw itself away for socialism.
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You've got to really guard that precious thing that we've got.
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You've got to really cherish it, really, really protect it.
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I've got to get out of here because we're running late as usual.
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The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Robert Sterling.
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Hey guys, over on The Matt Walsh Show today, we're going to talk about the Democrats
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Well, it has to do with the left's victimization flow chart.
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Also, AOC, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, thrives on false narratives.
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And she was pushing another false narrative yesterday.
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