Ep. 369 - Joe Biden’s Very Bad Week
Summary
Joe Biden's bad week just got worse, as Democrats call him racist, and the mainstream media accuses him of corruption. Then, a black NFL star pushes back at Democrats on yesterday s reparations hearings on Capitol Hill. Finally, the mailbag.
Transcript
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on yesterday's reparations hearings on Capitol Hill.
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On Tuesday, I didn't even want to cover this story at first
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because I thought it was people making something out of nothing.
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I now realize this story of what Joe Biden said,
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and get something accomplished for the country.
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So he was referring to the segregationist senators
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And he, in typical Joe Biden, awkward, old-timey joke way,
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They called me son because they were of this older school,
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but certainly by the left and by fellow Democrats,
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good-looking black guy that ever ran for office.
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I mean, he's said things that are a little awkward,
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that he's this racial bigot or something like that.
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about what the Democrats are debating right now.
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but it's never okay to celebrate segregationists.
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Liz Warren paints that as celebrating segregationists.
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Here's Kamala Harris responding to Biden's remarks.
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I have a great deal of respect for Vice President Biden.
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He's done very good work and he has served our country in a very noble way.
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But to coddle the reputations of segregationists,
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I would literally not be standing here as a member of the United States Senate,
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is, I think, it's just, it's misinformed and it's wrong.
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But, you know, let's be very clear that the senators that he is speaking of with such adoration
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are individuals who made and built their reputation on segregation.
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There's nothing in Joe Biden's remarks that he's adoring those senators or that he's coddling those senators.
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That is totally made up and that is completely unfair.
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And I hate to defend Joe Biden, but it's, that's ridiculous.
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And you'll, you'll listen to how Kamala Harris phrases this here.
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She goes, I have the most respect for Joe Biden.
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He's a great guy because she knows she's not going to win this race.
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And so she's trying to suck up to maybe be the vice president.
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but she's got to take the shot at him because this is open.
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The only way you're going to become a number two is if you run hard.
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So, okay, they're, they're all taking their shots.
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He's mentioning people that he disagreed with that he was able to work with.
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The thing that people keep forgetting here though, including Joe Biden,
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is the example that he's giving is not an example of him working across the aisle with Republicans.
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He's talking about working with members of his own party because those two segregationists,
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like virtually all segregationists were Democrats.
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The Democratic Party is the worst party in the history of the world on race relations.
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And this was true, not in the way distant past.
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And he was working with them as members of his own party.
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He hasn't been able to give a good example of working across the aisle and maintaining
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civility, but it's okay because the mainstream media is doing his work for him.
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Joe and the mainstream media are pretending that this is an example of working with Republicans.
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And on one particularly egregious MSNBC show, this is Casey Hunt's show.
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Still to come, Joe Biden references his relationships with two former Republican colleagues at an event
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The only problem, they were both segregationists.
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Anytime that you have a party behaving in a sustained way, in a bad way on race relations,
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This has been true since the 19th century and it remains true today.
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Even when they say that they were the party of the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s, first
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of all, there have been something like nine civil rights acts.
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They were all pushed by Republicans, except for this one, which was pushed by a Democrat
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And yet it was only pushed through the LBJ Civil Rights Act.
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It was only pushed through because of Republicans.
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The Democrats largely voted against it and Republicans largely voted for it.
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So he then went on and said, Joe Biden needs to apologize.
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He's saying Biden's joke itself was racist, talking about how he, they didn't call him
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And that he palled around, he, he, he was working with people who were white supremacists
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When Cory Booker asked Joe Biden to apologize for this, this was the straw that broke the camel's
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back and Joe Biden pushed back very hard on it.
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I've been involved in civil rights my whole career, period, period, period.
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I mean, they're trying to back him into a corner that he does.
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But just as a matter of morality, a matter of what he actually said, he has no moral obligation
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This is totally contrived political theater, except it does serve a purpose in this campaign
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and in the light of how the Democrat Party is dealing with politics on a national level.
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So this is obviously a totally contrived political attack.
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One thing that it does show and one way that I think it's pretty effective is, sure, nobody
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thinks that Joe Biden is some anti-black bigot, but it does remind people that Joe Biden is
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He's so old, in fact, that he served in the U.S. Senate with pro-segregation senators when
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segregation was still a thing, when segregation was still a hot political issue.
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So I think that's pretty good because he is a little past his sell-by date.
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And the story matters because what it shows is not the Democrats' view on race or the
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Democrats' view on reparations or the Democrats' view on segregation.
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What people are saying, what the question that Cory Booker and other people are bringing
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It's, was Joe Biden right to be civil to segregationists?
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Is it right, when there are battles over segregation, some awful political issue, is it right to be
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people, to be civil rather, with the people that you disagree with?
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Of course Joe Biden was right to be civil with segregationists.
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Yes, we should be civil with the people that we disagree with politically.
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That is the only way a Democratic Republic can survive.
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This used to be a totally uncontroversial opinion.
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The left says you can't be civil with people that you disagree with.
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Well, but what about a terrible, awful issue like segregation?
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Because a republic such as ours, self-government, requires civility.
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It requires that we not just scream and shout and insult one another.
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Today, forget segregation, today, half of all politicians in this country support abortion.
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They support killing innocent babies in the womb and disproportionately black babies, since
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We don't just randomly start punching them on the floor of the U.S. Congress.
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We don't refuse to speak with people who support abortion, even though abortion is worse than
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Murder is worse than other forms of oppression.
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Because you are totally robbing someone of their life, not just their liberty, not just their
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You're killing a baby before the baby's even born.
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Because that's the only way that we're going to move the issue.
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That's the way that pro-life has been able to win so many battles over the last four decades,
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Here's Hillary Clinton explaining why the left won't be civil anymore.
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You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what
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That's why I believe if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's
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But until then, the only thing that the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength.
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You can't be civil with people who oppose everything you stand for.
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If you don't have to be civil with the people who disagree with you, then what's the point
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Of course you're civil with the people who agree with you.
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The only purpose of civility in politics is to be civil to the people that you disagree
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But Hillary doesn't grant that people who disagree with her have any legitimacy, have any right
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They're the worst kind of people in this country.
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Guess what happened, by the way, when she said that?
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That those very people made sure that she never came within a stone's throw of the White
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People say we can protect free speech, but we can't protect hate speech.
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The whole purpose of the First Amendment is to protect hate speech, so-called.
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Something that's hateful to one person is maybe not hateful to somebody else.
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The purpose of the First Amendment is to defend unpopular speech.
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Popular speech is already going to be protected by the mob because everyone likes it.
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The only reason to do it, the only reason to have civility, is to be civil with the people
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It's not just Hillary Clinton who's saying this.
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Current elected Democrats, Maxine Waters, very prominent Democrat congresswoman, is coming
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out and showing you what it looks like when you stop being civil to your political opponents.
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If we can't protect the children, we can't protect anybody.
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If you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline
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I mean, that is a recipe to get rid of self-government.
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You cannot have a democratic republic very long.
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If you keep that up, you're going to have to impose more order from the top down.
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If you cannot, I mean, this is the deal that we've made with self-government and with a
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We can only do that if we discipline ourselves.
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If we are mature, if we educate ourselves about what the political issues are and we
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educate ourselves about how we're supposed to behave and if we can be civil and if we
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can deal with people that we disagree with, that's the only way we can do it.
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If we can't do that, we will lose self-government.
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We will lose political freedom because we have to.
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It will either assert itself from the bottom up, from people who are disciplined and educated
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and serious people who are worthy of freedom, or it will be imposed on us from the top down.
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It's never happened and it's never going to happen.
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And this is the very risky gamble that Democrats are trying to foist on us right now.
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So the Joe Biden issue is a really important one, not because of the stupid race stuff, but
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because Joe Biden represents the old school of Democrats who say, I hate Republicans.
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Or in the case of Joe Biden, I guess, I hate other Democrats who are racist and bigot and
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That's the old school and the new school saying, don't be civil.
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Ruin them, get physically violent, go to their houses.
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That's the debate we'll see in this 2020 race, which side of that is going to win.
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Speaking of the race hustling that we're seeing in the Democrat Party, sparks were flying yesterday
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during this absolute exercise in national idiocy where we have so few problems in this country.
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Everybody living in relative luxury, historically speaking, that we've got to dig up slavery 150
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years ago and argue over reparations so that the great, great, great, great grandchildren
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of slaves, but maybe also slave owners can get some reparations from, I don't know, modern
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American immigrants who had nothing to do with slavery.
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And we're going to have to figure out who's exactly the right percentage of victim and figure
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out who's going to get what amount of money, which will accomplish absolutely nothing.
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In this melee of idiocy and victimhood, the NFL star, Burgess, Burgess Owens showed up
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and he just gave a total smack down of the whole premise of the hearing.
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And when I talk about them, I'm going to talk about people.
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I used to be a Democrat until I did my history and found out the, the, the, the misery that
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I do not believe in reparation because what reparation does, it points to a certain race,
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a certain color, and it, and it points them as evil and points to the other race.
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My race is one that has not only becomes racist, but, but also beggars.
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Let's point to the party that was, that was part of slavery, KKK, Jim Crow, that has killed
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over 40% of our black babies, 20 million of them.
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State of California, 70, 75% of our black boys cannot pass standard reading and writing
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So, yes, let's pay rest, rest, rest, restoration.
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And those, after, after we learn our history, decide to stay there, they, they should pay
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And every white American, Republican or Democrat, that feels guilty because of your white skin,
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That way we can get past this reparation and recognize that this country has given us
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The left and the Democrats, they want to say slavery, it's the, the original sin of America
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and it's all of Americans and all of white America.
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Like, well, no, actually, to be specific, it's Democrats.
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And the Republican Party was founded to oppose slavery.
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And then the founding of the Republican Party led to a civil war where 600,000 to 750,000 Americans
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And then the issues of the KKK, the Jim Crow laws, segregation, lynchings, that also was
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The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democrat Party.
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Burgess Owens calling them out for that entirely.
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I don't know what it does to the debate on reparations, but it was very fun to watch.
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The, the case for reparations broadly, I think one thing he really expressed well is that
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The premise of reparations in 2019 is that blacks need handouts from whites because there's
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And you'll look at that guy, Burgess Owens, and you say, well, he succeeded pretty well.
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Now he's got a great career in, in commentary and politics.
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Is some poor white guy in Appalachia supposed to pay Burgess Owens?
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How about, is some poor white guy in Appalachia who maybe descended from slave owners or maybe
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Is he supposed to pay Jay-Z and Beyonce reparations for slavery?
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Is he going to pay Barack Obama reparations for slavery?
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Present, former president of the United States, half black, half white, actually not descended
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from black slaves, descended from African, an African immigrant or an, but actually just
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an African national who happened to have been in America.
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You know, we talked yesterday about how the first formally recognized American slave owner
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of, of an arbitrary, arbitrarily declared slave for life was a black guy.
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Does that guy's ancestors, do they get reparations?
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Let's say, as is the case for most black Americans, that they have some white ancestry, maybe a white
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Are we going to resurrect the racist one drop rule to say, if you have one drop of black
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That makes you essentially racially black and defines you and entitles you to some reparations.
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One of the reasons, there are many reasons that reparations are totally impracticable in
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But one of them, well, the most offensive one is that it is a racially essentialist idea
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It doesn't jibe with 150 years of American history and immigration and, and dissent.
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Just even my, I don't know, I'm descended from Italians, Irish, Welsh, English, old, Sicilians,
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For mixed race people, are they black or are they white?
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Burgess Owens showed some of that absurdity, but the entire reparations debate yesterday
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was a sideshow and it was all just part of the broader absurd clown show, which is the
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Other bad news came out for Joe Biden yesterday beyond the race stuff.
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The mainstream media are finally asking questions about his shady deals with his son in Ukraine
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So while Joe Biden was chief diplomat, was vice president, he was, he was leading American
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He got, uh, I think a billion dollars or more of, uh, funding out of China for a company called
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And in the Ukraine, he was able to get a, I think, $55,000 per month retainer when he
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was on the board of a company called Burisma Holdings.
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This was while Biden was there negotiating with Ukraine.
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Biden, as the chief diplomat for Ukraine, was threatening to withhold American aid to
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the Ukraine if the Ukraine didn't fire a prosecutor looking into his son's shady business
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And we've been talking about this for months on the show.
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Finally, the mainstream media started asking the questions just within the last two days.
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Was Hunter Biden profiting off his dad's work as vice president?
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We're talking about millions of dollars in at least two countries.
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Questions about foreign deals his son Hunter Biden pursued.
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In countries where Joe Biden was working as America's top diplomat.
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Hey, look, we've got journalists in the mainstream media finally.
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This is, I know it's a cold and chilly day in hell and pigs are flying all over the world
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because a mainstream network journalist is asking tough questions of Joe Biden.
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Questions that we've been asking on this show for months.
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I mean, we've known this story for a long time.
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Obviously, Joe Biden is ducking the question because he knows he's guilty as sin here.
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He later gave a statement or his campaign gave a statement that said that if he were elected
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president, he would empower White House ethics lawyers to monitor these sorts of activities
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He's admitting he acted inappropriately and let his son peddle his influence to make a lot
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Now, finally, June 20th, the mainstream media will ask the question, why?
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The reason is because back then, months ago when this came up, the mainstream media were
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backing Joe Biden as the leading candidate for president.
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Now it seems they're moving toward another candidate and so they're willing to ditch Joe
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According to a June Wall Street Journal NBC News poll, Liz Warren is surging.
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This poll looked at Democrat primary voters who are enthusiastic or comfortable with candidates.
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So back in March, they said, who are your most comfortable candidates?
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So she made a significant gain, seven percentage points, and she's moving in the right direction.
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So what Democrats and the media are saying now is that Liz Warren might be a compromise
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She's got all those left-wing bona fides and she's sort of acceptable.
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She's really annoying and unpleasant, but she's not detestable.
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She's very white, but she pretends to be Native American.
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So she checks a few intersectional boxes because the Pocahontas thing has been around for so
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But more importantly, all the other candidates have proven themselves really weak.
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Joe Biden had his best day basically on his first day of his campaign, and he's been tanking.
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And other candidates who we thought would be good, like Kamala Harris, have just proven
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Pete Buttigieg is a fairly talented candidate, but he's a very young mayor of a very small
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So Liz Warren is starting to define herself as possibly a compromise candidate.
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She might have a moment to make a comeback here.
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And that is really, that's the worst news of all for Joe Biden, because if the media
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Of all the books adapted into Hollywood movies, what is one story yet to be faithfully adapted
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There have been a lot of bad movies out of books, a lot of books.
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I really want to see made into a movie, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
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And this book, if you haven't read it, gave America one of the great characters of its
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literature, which is Ignatius J. Riley, this big, fat, weird, lazy, layabout, medievalist
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It's just, I can't describe what a great character he is and all of the adventures that he has
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living with his mother, wandering around New Orleans, getting a job and trying to, it's
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There are always been rumors that they're going to make one, but that's one, if I had
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any clout in Hollywood, which I don't, if I were able to, you know, even walk down the
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street in Hollywood without people throwing rotten tomatoes at me for my politics, that
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would be one book that I'd try to make into a movie.
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Hey, Michael, I'm a Catholic and therefore believe marriage is between one man and one
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Do you think the government should get out of marriage entirely?
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And do you think a Christian can hold this position?
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I think it's, I don't think the government can get out of marriage.
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I know probably the majority of conservatives these days say that they just want the government
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This has always been a sort of libertarian position or it's been at least viewed as a
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The government, if the government has an interest in any aspect of your life, it has an interest
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Marriage is the essential building block of society.
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Why does the government have an interest in marriage?
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Well, if the government has an interest in any aspect of society, which obviously it does,
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The government does have an interest in children.
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The government has an interest in what you can do to your children.
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If you abuse your children, the government can come in and take them away.
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They're raised within the context of the family and the essence of the family is marriage.
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The government has plenty of regulations surrounding adoption, as well it should.
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Well, rules about adoption ultimately come down to marriage.
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Now, we have loosened laws about adoption in recent years.
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And even if you support those policies, those questions still surround marriage, either because they're saying we're going to change the definition of marriage or we're going to change the importance of marriage.
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But nevertheless, the government is interacting with that.
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I think the lie that some people who don't want to have to deal with the difficult question of what marriage is, who don't want to offend people and say marriage obviously involves sexual difference, it involves men and women, is they say, well, listen, I've got the neutral position.
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I'm going to get the government out of marriage entirely.
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To say that the government is getting out of marriage is to say that the government does not view, does not have a definition of marriage.
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Or rather that the government, obviously the government does have a definition of marriage by saying that monogamous same-sex couples can now be marriage.
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The marriage debate was totally lost by conservatives because we allowed the left to define it in terms of rights.
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Gay people have always had the right to get married.
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Marriage and for all of human history, virtually everywhere, certainly throughout the West, marriage has been the union of husbands and wives.
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Sexual difference has been essential to marriage.
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And then about five minutes ago, the left decided that sexual difference had nothing to do with marriage.
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But my girlfriend, oh, shoot, I hope my wife isn't watching now.
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No, I mean, before I was married, you know, you love your girlfriend, but then the love you have with your fiancé is a little different.
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The love you have with your wife is different than the love you have with your fiancé.
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And the government establishes, at least at a very basic level, establishes the very definitions that we're working with.
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We all need to be on the same page for certain institutions.
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And one of those, the bedrock one of those, is marriage.
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Conservatives basically are surrendering that to the left, I think, because we just don't want to have to deal with an issue that, in the popular culture at least, has been lost.
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But it doesn't change the fact marriage is between a man and a woman.
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No amount of social engineering is going to change that.
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And I think it's ultimately an act of political cowardice for us to back away and say we don't have anything to do with that.
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From David, greetings to Michael Knowles or Eric Swalwell.
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Racism obviously is an antagonism or a discrimination against another person based on feelings of racial superiority or racial inferiority.
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The left is redefining racism because they always want to redefine words because that's how you control the culture and the politics.
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And the way they're redefining racism is to say, sure, racism is hostility, antagonism, discrimination on the basis of race.
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Never if you're the less powerful race and we're going to define more powerful race as white and less powerful race as black or Hispanic or Native American.
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They just redefine the word racism to mean that only white people can be racist.
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I mean, you're just changing the definition of the word to something that it is not.
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And on the question of how wrong bigotry is, racial bigotry is wrong because it is an affront to human dignity.
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And the left is trying to have its cake and eat it too.
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They're trying to agree with that point and then say, except it's not wrong if you're racist against whites.
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If you have an antagonism or you discriminate against another person because of feelings of racial superiority or inferiority, whether it's against whites or blacks or Hispanics or whatever, that is racism and you are guilty of it.
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From Anonymous, Michael, I am a student entering my first year of college.
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Do you have any date ideas for a poor college student?
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Well, speaking of how the left gets things exactly backwards, I got to tell you, back in my atheistic, reckless, irresponsible days when I was single and in college, I too engaged in, I guess what you would call the backwards culture of the left, which is that at least when I was there, the dominant kind of culture was not dating.
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And I think that's still the dominant culture on campus.
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So instead of taking a girl out on a date and then going back and hooking up, it was actually the opposite.
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You'd see a girl at a party or a bar and you'd go hook up and you'd go back to your room and then you'd do this like five or six times and then maybe eventually you'd go on a date.
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So I really am not the best person to ask for advice here because I was engaged in this totally inverted culture as well.
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But the nice thing about college is everyone has pretty low expectations because everyone's broke.
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So you just, you don't need to worry about that college offers so many opportunities to have fun for not all that much money.
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So I don't know, take a girl, anything from a dorm party to a cheap restaurant or a cheap college bar to a walk in the park or walk around campus.
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You can really get away with just about anything because the expectations are low.
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Once you get out into the real world and start making money, the expectations for dates become much, much more expensive.
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So enjoy it while you can. You can't go wrong. Just be, just be a good guy. Be interested in the girl.
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Find a girl that you like and don't try to be a jerk about it. Don't try to play a game.
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Don't try to be something that you're not. Be confident. Go pursue the girl. Kiss the girl.
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From Benjamin, Michael, last week you had a very insightful episode about pride and how pride is the queen of all sins.
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I generally agree, but it got me wondering if there is a distinct difference between having pride and being proud of accomplishments.
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For example, should I be proud of getting good grades in school or successfully overcoming some challenge?
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I was wondering about this, this question of pride and personal accomplishment or national pride, for instance.
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So the tougher one is pride and accomplishments because let's say you, you write a really good blank book, you know, and you're really proud of how successful it was.
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Or you do a really good podcast or you do well on a test or whatever.
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You naturally feel a temptation to pride, to take, to claim total responsibility for that.
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But actually the traditional response to this is that you should give all glory to God.
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Because the circumstances of your life were given to you.
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You were born into a certain family, born into the United States, born into privilege.
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I mean, when you think about the privileges that you had from a position of gratitude rather than a position of guilt or envy, I think it's actually a good way to think about your life.
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Your work ethic is a product in part of your culture and a product of your will and a will that you are turning toward the good, which is something outside of you.
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So when it comes to your own accomplishments, give it up to God.
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This is something that you are doing the accomplishment not just for yourself or for your own vain glory, but for the glory of God, for the good.
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And so that's how I would deal with personal accomplishments.
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As for national pride, I don't think that you actually take pride in your country in the way that we talk about pride month or pride is the queen of all sin.
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I think what you have is really a form of piety for your country.
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It's a form of piety like the respect for your father and mother, like respect for your family, your parents, your ancestors, things that came before you.
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It's a question of love and allegiance rather than pride as well.
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And I don't really see people like spiking the football too much and saying, yeah, woohoo, America, it's all because of how great I am and how great.
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No, it's actually a form of gratitude and respect for things that actually you did not do.
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It's not really a form of pride and because pride essentially is just exaggerating one's own excellence.
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From Brittany, Michael, how can conservatives make nuanced and complex issues such as taxation, health care, and immigration reform more relatable to college students?
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I'm 30 years old and a lifelong conservative, but I wasn't able to truly relate to these issues until I was in the workforce myself and saw how the real world worked.
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This is why I think it's much easier for these young students to be outspoken on social issues such as gay marriage and hate speech and ignore everything else.
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Yes, thank you. Yeah, I think this is true in part.
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Obviously, the finer points of tax policy are a lot more boring than talking about abortion or something,
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but that's because the only thing that actually matters are social issues and everything else is just bean counting,
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including the finer points of health care policy and tax policy.
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I like lower taxes because I like keeping more of my property and I think it's more moral and I like having more liberty,
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What I care about are the foundations of those issues.
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What I care about are what are underneath tax policy, what's underneath health care policy.
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And I think sometimes conservatives, especially in that 1980s policy wonk mold,
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they get a little too focused on the particulars of policy,
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but you're not going to win anybody by being the most efficient bureaucrat or technocrat.
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That's not compelling, not for college students and not for voters more generally.
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The left focuses on social issues because they work, because they're compelling, because they actually stir people's souls.
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We're not just here trying to rearrange certain aspects of the federal bureaucracy to make life a little more efficient.
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Why should we be in control of our own health care and be able to choose our own doctors?
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What does that say about us and our freedom and our national political traditions and the good that it does for us and the whole rest of the world?
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And I wouldn't cede the question of so-called social issues to the left.
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Abortion was winning at the time that Roe v. Wade was decided.
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And since then, public opinion has moved steadily in our direction because the arguments for abortion cannot sustain themselves in the light of truth and in the light of sonograms and in the light of science and the arguments that we're making for it.
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So I would, even when you're making tax arguments, even when you're making health care arguments, I would make them from a cultural, from a social, from a moral standpoint.
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It's, you know, the left, just on taxes, the left says that if you want to keep your own money, you're greedy.
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But if you want to steal somebody else's money and take it for yourself and give it to everybody else, then you're compassionate.
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If I want to keep my own money, that's my money.
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And if you want to steal my money, you're envious.
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I'm going to be up in Santa Barbara speaking to the Young America's Foundation over the weekend.
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Maybe you'll be able to catch that on live stream.
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The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Rebecca Dobkowitz and directed by Mike Joyner,
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The Michael Knowles Show is a Daily Wire production.
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the Democrats conducted a hearing yesterday on reparations.
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But I think there are a lot of very serious problems with the reparations idea.
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Namely, it's immoral and extremely impractical.
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Also, amazing advancements in medical technology are continuing to make abortion more and more
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Though pro-abortion people, of course, haven't noticed that yet.
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And I'll answer your emails today over on The Matt Wall Show.
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