Ep. 371 - Student Loan Forgiveness Is Welfare For The Rich
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Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes a taxpayer-funded bailout for all student loans in the United States. But what the left won t admit is that student loan forgiveness is nothing but welfare for the rich. We will analyze the numbers.
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Bernie Sanders proposes a taxpayer bailout for all student loans in the United States.
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But what the left won't admit is that student loan forgiveness is nothing but welfare for the rich.
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That crazy lady who's accusing Trump of rape says more crazy things on television.
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We're going to be talking about loans a whole lot today because Bernie Sanders has a new plan to cancel all of the student loan debt in the country.
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$1.6 trillion of student loans currently owed by 45 million people.
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About 40, 41 million who are college graduates.
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So they're really having trouble paying their loans.
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This is the most radical proposal we've seen yet.
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And they've all been talking about this for a while.
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The Democratic candidates have been building up to this.
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So previously, Bernie had proposed making community colleges and four-year public colleges tuition free for people who make less than $125,000 per year.
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You know, $125,000 that would cover a lot of people.
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Elizabeth Warren had taken it a step further and talked about forgiving student loan debt.
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What her proposal would have done was giving all Americans who have student loans up to 50 grand.
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Even that is nowhere near what we're seeing now from Bernie Sanders.
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Some people have student loans upwards of $200,000 or more.
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Harris, Booker, Gillibrand, all the Senate Democrats running for president.
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They endorse something called the Debt-Free College Act.
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This would wipe out all of the student loan debt currently owed in the country.
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Would do nothing for the people who already paid off their student loans.
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Ostensibly, it wouldn't do anything for the people who are about to take out student loans.
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For the people who currently have them, it would wipe them away.
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Here's AOC embracing it at her own press conference because the sun can't rise in the morning without AOC holding a press conference.
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I will disclose my personal stake in this fight because I have student loans, too.
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A year ago, I was waiting tables in a restaurant.
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And it was literally easier for me to become the youngest woman in American history elected to Congress than it is to pay off my student loan debt.
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So that should tell you everything about the state of our economy and the state of quality of life for working people.
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It doesn't tell you about the state of our economy or the state of the quality of life of working people.
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Of education nationally and specifically about AOC's education.
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She went to a college called Boston University.
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It costs today about $70,000 per year to go there.
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I'm not saying Boston University is never worth it.
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I'm saying AOC didn't get a whole lot out of it.
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But if she went there hoping that it would help get her a job, she took out $200,000.
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I don't know how much she took out in student loans, but she could have taken up $200,000.
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She did not learn enough in that university to pay it off with the job she got after college.
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Because the job she got after college, she said she was waiting tables.
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So, either because of what she studied or how she applied it or what she learned from it, her education did not translate into lots of money afterward.
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But it's not a fine job if you've got $200,000 in student debt.
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You don't need to go to college to be a bartender.
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You're not really supposed to get a liberal education to get a job anyway.
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The purpose of a liberal education is education for itself.
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You only study things like literature, history, mathematics, things that don't have direct applicability.
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It's the arts to understand your liberty and to understand your role as a free citizen and to understand your own civilization.
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So, it's fine to be a bartender, but if you're saddling yourself with $200,000 of debt and you think that that's going to get you a very high-paying job afterward, then being a bartender isn't going to cut it.
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She became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.
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Being a bartender is much harder than being a congressman.
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It requires much more in terms of social intelligence.
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The job of being a congressman offers an inflated salary and a much higher future earnings potential for mediocrities.
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Most people who are in Congress are not terribly intelligent.
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They're just glad-handing grifters who make a bunch of money on taxpayer dollar and then they leave and they become lobbyists and they make even more money.
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She's saddled herself with debt for what is basically a worthless degree.
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And she realizes, gosh, in the private sector, I'm never going to make anything.
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And I'm going to just be waiting tables or being a bartender for the rest of my life and never be able to pay off this debt.
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This is the path forward for mediocrities coast to coast.
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Because what the left doesn't want to admit is that student loan forgiveness is not a way to help out poor people.
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It's not a way to help out the oppressed underclass.
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Student loan forgiveness is welfare for the rich.
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As always, it's the left pretending that they're sticking up for the little guy when really they are sticking up for the elites.
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Bernie and AOC say this is going to help the average, the working American.
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Again, the average working American doesn't have a college degree.
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Two thirds of Americans don't graduate from college.
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Americans who do graduate from college, statistically speaking, can expect to make a lot more money.
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The median American college graduate makes about 75% more per year than the median American who only has a high school diploma.
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If you go to college, statistically speaking, the median person who goes to college is going to make significantly more money.
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It's not as though Bernie Sanders and AOC are like paying off these people's student loans out of charity.
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So you now have a system being proposed by Bernie and AOC where the majority of Americans who make comparatively less money than college graduates will be paying off the reckless financial decisions.
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We'll be bailing out the minority of Americans who choose to go to college and get that education who will statistically make significantly more money than the majority over the course of their lives.
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This is a bailout from the comparatively poor to the comparatively rich.
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Now, the left is trying to avoid this criticism.
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Ilhan Omar, to her credit, has sort of alluded to this issue that it's the minority of people who are going to college in the first place who are graduating from college.
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It's people who have much higher future earnings potential than people who don't go to college.
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Why is the rest of America going to bail them out for something that's going to make them more money in the long run?
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Many of them played by the rules, followed the advice of our parents, our leaders, and got an education.
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We are told going to college opens a world of opportunity, but far too many, it's accompanied by a world of anxiety, stress, and never-ending debt.
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We are told by some politicians that this debt is our fault.
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That if we want to achieve the American dream, we have to lift ourselves up by our bootstraps.
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Well, we're here today to say student debt is not the result of bad choices or behavior.
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It is the result of a system that tells students to get an education and go to college in order to have a stable life,
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but then does not provide the resources to afford that education.
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They're not the ones who are going to make more money.
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They were tricked into it by their parents, by society.
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They're the real victims, and the majority of Americans who don't have a college degree,
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who they're now telling to bail out the minority who will,
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it's incumbent on them because they haven't had such awful oppression as the people who spent four years at very expensive private colleges.
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Ilan Omar does not want to take responsibility for her financial decisions.
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She's saying, obviously, this is the sort of basic aspect of leftism.
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The loan companies tricked me into taking out loans and go, whatever.
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The other aspect of leftism here is they want to get something with no cost and with
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You can take out $100,000 in loans, go to college, graduate, not having learned anything,
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not having studied very hard, not having been appropriate for college.
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Maybe there was a better path for you, but you did go to college.
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Now, you got a lot of debt and you're not making a lot of money.
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And even little babies, frankly, don't have perfect security.
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So for the median and everyone else, you're going to make a lot of money after you graduate
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Not just because you're so privileged and wonderful and beautiful.
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You incur that cost and then you get a reward for that in the long run.
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According to a new survey just came out, two-thirds of employees in America are reporting
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They wish they didn't get it according to a pay scale survey of about 250,000 respondents
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They have regrets because I don't think they have regrets because they don't want to make
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They are making significantly more money than if they hadn't gone to college.
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If you want something in this life, you've got to pay for it.
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So, the other question on this is why are we only going to pay off student loans?
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If the minority of people are the ones who are getting the student loans, why are we privileging
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Also, are we going to reimburse people who already paid off their loans?
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Or are we going to give a bonus to people who were able to get scholarships to college
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so they didn't need as much in student loans or any student loans?
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Are we going to give anything to the majority of Americans who don't have student loans?
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The average car payment in America is significantly higher than the average student loan payment.
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And way more people have car payments than have student loan payments.
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Now, the left would say, this is the Democrat response, they say, college helps the economy.
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It's sort of a common good because the more educated people you have, the more they're
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going to make a lot of money and that wealth is going to trickle down.
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Ironically, they're making a sort of trickle down argument from the left.
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It's helpful to the community when people get educated.
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Car ownership helps the economy way more than most college degrees.
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Car driving also should be encouraged by society.
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If we pay off student debt, why aren't we going to pay off car loan debt?
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If we pay off student and car loan debt, why aren't we going to pay off mortgage debt?
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People need a place to live way more than they need to study lesbian dance therapy at
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If we're going to pay off all those debts, certainly we should pay off homeowner debt.
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People have debt because they are borrowing against their future earnings.
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The money today is more valuable than waiting and having the money in 20 years.
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So you're going to pay a little bit of an interest rate on that because there's time
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value of money and you're going to use that money now.
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If you know that you're going to make 75% more per year by going to college, then you're
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definitely going to borrow the money now because you're going to have 60 years of earning
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But if there's never any consequence to debt, then the system of credit is going to collapse
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because no one's going to have faith in the system, right?
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The way that credit works is you have to have people believe that there's going to be a
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Otherwise, why would anyone pay off their debts?
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If we forgive 1.6 trillion in student loan debt, why would anyone ever again make a student
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It actually wouldn't be fair for them to do it.
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It already wouldn't be fair for the people who paid off their debt.
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We're just going to have to bail out student loans all the time.
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If we forgive all the student loans, we are creating a federal entitlement to free college
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But once the government gets involved, I guess it becomes a public college.
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The big question politicians need to solve here is not all of the oppression, not all
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of the victimhood, not all the terrible reasons why people went to college.
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They need to figure out why is college so expensive?
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It's because the federal government guarantees loans.
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So it's a blank check to colleges to raise their tuition, which has skyrocketed over the
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You're telling people they need to get a college degree.
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And so the colleges have the opportunity to just raise the prices.
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In 2016, nearly 70% of high school graduates enrolled in college.
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A lot of those people are not going to graduate.
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For a lot of them, it was a terrible idea to enroll in college.
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In the 1940s, do you know how many people got a college degree?
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Do we really think that people today are much better educated than our grandparents were?
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In the 1950s, universities required knowledge of Latin as a prerequisite.
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High schools taught Latin because of this requirement.
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Today, even top universities don't require Latin.
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I mean, getting a good education always makes sense.
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But I'm saying the education that was being offered actually was coherent.
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So you'd read the ancients through the Middle Ages through modernity.
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You would understand how Aristotle and Homer relate to Thucydides, relate to the Bible,
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relate to Dante, then relate to Boccaccio, relate to Shakespeare, then how all of those
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people relate to the moderns, how they relate to Thomas Aquinas.
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So Thomas Aquinas takes Aristotle and he makes him Christian.
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Then you get to Hobbes and Rousseau and T.S. Eliot, and it makes sense.
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You have a picture of how ideas have progressed, how we got to where we are.
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Okay, I'm going to take modern French film and I'm going to take math for English majors.
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And that's supposed to be an education, but it's not.
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Education also used to make sense for students.
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So if you wanted an elite education, you got a liberal education.
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If you wanted to be an electrician, you apprenticed under an electrician or you got a trade education.
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If you wanted to be an entrepreneur, sometimes you got a liberal education.
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You just started building things, you just started doing stuff right out of high school,
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The problem is not that the cost is too high or that people have too much debt or that it's
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The problem is that we have devalued education by saying that everyone needs to go and that
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the government will basically create an entitlement to it.
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Personally, I paid very little for college because I got a lot of scholarships.
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I know the guy who had the named scholarship who then I received his scholarship.
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I understand that even though I didn't have to pay a lot for college, barely had to pay anything,
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If the government is just going to forgive all the debts, there's no feeling of gratitude.
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It creates a feeling of entitlement of all of these AOC and Ilhan Omar, these bratty little
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girls who are saying, I want something for free.
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It's not my fault that I have to pay something for the great benefits that I've had.
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We need to make it clear, once again, that not everyone needs the same schooling.
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Because when everybody has the same government-run schooling, then you have a lot of schooling.
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Unfortunately, the problem seems to be getting worse and you see that lack of education every
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Moving on from the 2020 race, we have to talk about war because Iran keeps threatening us with
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And this is creating a lot of consternation in the White House and on the right, especially.
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Iran looks like they set a few oil tanks, a couple of oil tankers on fire last week.
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They also then shot down our $130 million drone, which is very frustrating.
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No Americans killed, but $130 million is a lot of money.
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So the question is, are we going to war with Iran?
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It looked like the United States was going to launch some strikes on Iranian targets and
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President Trump called it off at the last minute, according to White House reports, which he
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Because he said it's not worth killing people for a drone, which is an amazing statement from
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He's like the most peaceful president I've ever seen, certainly in my lifetime.
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I think he's certainly the most peaceful president since Ronald Reagan.
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He heard that it would, about 150 people would be killed in Iran if they struck those targets.
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And he said, no, I'm not going to do that for a drone.
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You know, Barack Obama loved invading Muslim countries.
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They said, they said, if I voted for John McCain, then we'd go to war with another Muslim
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And obviously that was correct because I voted for McCain and we went to war with more Muslim
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George W. Bush responded to 9-11 by invading Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Bill Clinton bombed a medicine factory in Sudan just to get Lewinsky out of the news.
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That's how little it took for Bill Clinton to go to war.
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Ronald Reagan sent forces into Lebanon and then you had the Beirut bombing and over 200 Americans
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were killed and he pulled those forces out pretty quick.
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His supporters don't want to go to war with Iran generally, but there is sort of a split
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There's a split in the conservative mind on this.
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I don't want to send American soldiers to fight because it doesn't seem to really affect
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They're both kind of views of going to war that have a kind of machismo to them.
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They're both, they have a conservatism to them, but we're debating now which one to do.
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Sanctions imposed through the executive order that I'm about to sign will deny the Supreme
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Leader and the Supreme Leader's office and those closely affiliated with him and the
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office access to key financial resources and support.
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The assets of Ayatollah Khomeini and his office will not be spared from the sanctions.
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Okay, so I have to stop it right there because the left was attacking Trump yesterday.
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They were all making fun of him because he referred to the Ayatollah Khomeini who died
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He talked about Ayatollah Khomeini like Ayatollah Khomeini is still alive.
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I said, okay, yeah, Ayatollah Khomeini is dead.
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None of them knew because they don't know anything.
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They make these jokes like guffawing buffoons, but they don't, they don't know the punchline.
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It's not like he, he, he confused him with John Smith or something.
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It's not, that's not like the biggest deal in the world.
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He goes on to the actual meat of what he's talking about.
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These measures represent a strong and proportionate response to Iran's increasingly provocative
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We will continue to increase pressure on Tehran until the regime abandons its dangerous activities
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and aspirations, including the pursuit of nuclear weapons, increased enrichment of uranium,
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development of ballistic missiles, engagement in and support for terrorism, fueling of foreign
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conflicts and belligerent acts directed against the United States and its allies.
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He's getting tough as a diplomatic measure, but he isn't saying the bombs are going to fly in five
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The friend of the show, foreign policy expert, Mike Durant has an interesting take on this.
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Then we'll get to that crazy lady who's accusing Trump of rape and a whole lot more.
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But first I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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Yeah, that sounds like, it sounds like we're not going to forgive your $1.6 trillion in loans.
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If they think that payout, payouts, $1.6 trillion payouts for the minority of Americans who are
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these elite, effete, generally left-wingers, that's going to rally people to go vote for
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Mike Duran, one of my go-to guys when it comes to especially Iran policy, he has a piece out
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at Mosaic Magazine and it's the most coherent and compelling argument I've heard yet.
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The title of the article is What Iran is Really Up To and then the subheader is Desperate
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to Preserve the Nuclear Deal, Iran, with the help of its Western friends, is creating just
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enough turmoil to make America and not it appear eager for war.
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All of the American allies in Europe and the G20 nations, they're all fearful, we're told,
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because Donald Trump is a populist and he's upsetting the established order of decaying
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They're afraid in Europe, they're afraid of their own right-wing populism.
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And so specifically on the Europeans, Khamenei wants to scare them about the threat of war
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with Iran and they want to scare them about the threat to the international order.
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And then, this is what Mike Duran thinks, they're going to offer a multilateral diplomatic
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The Iran deal that President Trump campaigned against and ripped up when he got into office.
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So it turns out we never fully pulled out of the Iran deal.
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We ripped up most of it, but we crucially are still issuing waivers to our European allies
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to allow them to cooperate with Iran on certain projects that are permitted under the deal.
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And what this means is, it actually does give us a little bit of leverage.
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So one of the arguments against pulling out of the Iran deal is it takes away our leverage.
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We actually still have a little bit of leverage.
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President Trump could reinstate all sanctions, every punishment against Iran with the snap
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So what Iran wants to do is present President Trump as the enemy of a rules-based international
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This is very hilarious because Iran, since the Iranian revolution, has been the chief international
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They're worse than North Korea in this regard because at least North Korea doesn't pretend to
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be a part of the international order and system.
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Iran puts one foot in the international order and they show up and they give their speeches
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at Columbia University and the UN and they wear suits and ties or whatever version of that
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They try to pretend to be serious participants in the international world order.
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They undermine the international order left and right.
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So Iran announces, in keeping with how they behave, they announce on June 17th that their
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nuclear stockpiles are about to exceed the limit of the Iran deal.
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Well, just in time for the G20 summit, right around the corner.
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So Mike Duran writes, quote, Iran's policy of strategic pressure then is made up of three
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separate but interlocking lines of effort, a struggle to gain relief from the oil and
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banking sanctions, a campaign to tarnish Trump as an agent of chaos, and an initiative aimed
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Among these, the third is by far the most urgent.
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To understand why, we need to examine the function of the waivers and why they are exceptionally
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So this is all about the Iran deal, all about getting those waivers to keep building up their
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So Shinzo Abe, the Japanese leader, went over to Iran this past month.
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And right around the time he was there, Iran blew up a partially Japanese-owned oil tanker.
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They're trying to threaten everyone else and scare them about President Trump's role in
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So according to reports, President Trump sent a message with Shinzo Abe for Ayatollah Khamenei
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and Khamenei responded to Abe and said, I have no message for Trump.
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He's trying to get, and more importantly, he's sending a message to Europe.
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It shows us, one, Obama got bungled Iran completely.
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Obama assumed wrongly that he could diplomatically stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
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And Obama tried it, and it didn't work, and other people have tried it too.
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You can only stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon with force.
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Now, as Mike Duran says, it doesn't necessarily mean war, though it very possibly could mean war.
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You will need coercive measures that are not just people singing kumbaya.
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An eternal rule of statecraft is that if you want to avoid war, you need to be totally ready to go to war.
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If you want to avoid war, you need to be able to credibly threaten going to war.
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And that is the line that President Trump is walking now.
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So people are saying he's sending mixed messages.
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He is an anti-war candidate, and John Bolton is his national security advisor.
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John Bolton has been an Iran hawk his entire life.
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On the other hand, there's a military operation in place to strike Iran.
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He's trying to show that we have the credible threat of force, and we will do it.
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He's actually using against Iran the very thing that Iran is trying to use against America,
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I genuinely can't predict what he's going to do on Iran.
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So what Trump is saying is, you can't predict what I'm going to do.
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We will force you not to have that nuclear weapon.
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What Kamehne is saying is, look at that madman over in America.
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Because he's a madman who'll blow up the whole world order.
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It's over the question of how mad is Donald Trump, and which side is he going to come down on when that charade is over.
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I have no prediction, because his strategy is working.
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Speaking of mad people and crazy people, a couple days ago, you know there was, a few days ago now,
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there was that woman, E. Jean Carroll, the New York advice columnist, who accused Trump of raping her 23 years ago in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room.
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And we saw that interview that she did with Alison Camerata, and it was really weird, and it wasn't terribly credible.
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She did an interview on MSNBC, and she was discussing what she should have done in that moment, what was going through her mind,
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You know, not going in, not being raped by Donald Trump, not coming out with this before 23 years later.
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Do you know what she says she would have done if she could change anything about the event?
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While Donald Trump was in the room with her, about to rape her, she would have asked for his tax returns.
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So, I just, Lawrence, I wish I had said, I wish, I said, I'll tell you my age if you show me your tax returns.
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Yeah, it would have been, it would have been helpful in that.
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Okay, all right, well, that's a little odd, isn't it?
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So, she has these lines, she keeps evading the question and saying all these crazy things.
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So, she's saying, but before she was calling, they were referring to this as rape, and this was her rape in there.
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Now, she's avoided those direct questions when she's done these interviews.
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Now, she's saying it wasn't rape, and she explains why it wasn't rape in an interview on CNN with Anderson Cooper.
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It did not last long, and that's why I don't use the word you just used.
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Sexual violence is in every country, in every strata of society, and I just feel that so many women are undergoing sexual violence.
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And I think of all the women who are enduring constant sexual violence.
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So, this one instant, this one, what, three minutes in this little dressing room, I just say it's a fight.
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She says she's not using the word rape because she doesn't want to offend less fortunate women who are raped.
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Just because you are relatively better off than someone else doesn't mean that a crime can't be committed against you.
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When a rich guy gets burglarized, he doesn't refuse to call the police or say he wasn't burglarized because poor people are also burglarized.
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So, when women experience rape, but they're sort of relatively wealthier or better known or better off, it's still rape.
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It's not not rape because some poor woman also can be raped.
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Now, the reason she's not trying not to use the term rape, I suspect, is because she wasn't raped by Donald Trump because her story is completely falling apart.
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But the interview then takes the craziest turn of all when she tells people, when she tells Anderson Cooper that another reason that she won't refer to the event that took place as rape is because rape is sexy.
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I was not thrown on the ground and ravished, which the word rape carries so many sexual connotations.
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But I think most people think of rape as a, I mean, it is a violent assault.
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I think most people think of rape as being sexy.
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If you can stick around, we'll talk more on the other side.
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The left is saying, well, forget about her, but think of all the other women who have accused Trump.
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I haven't seen a lot of them, but we're told that all these women accused Trump of rape.
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Even on the right, even David French said this.
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He said, look, when this first came out and he believed her, before he saw the video, I suspect,
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We have to come to grips with the fact that President Trump is very likely a rapist.
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If all the women are as credible as that woman, then none of the accusations are credible at all.
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They say, well, you know, forget about this particular claim.
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You know, whenever their hysterical claims get disproven by the facts, they say, well, forget about this one instance.
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Okay, maybe that one wasn't true, but it gets to a greater truth.
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Okay, if it gets to a greater truth, show me the actual examples of it.
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But just know, five million women accused Trump of rape.
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Or you could, actually, more likely, you could be lying even in your presentation of that narrative.
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This woman is the most prolific, she's the most prominent woman so far to come out and accuse President Trump of raping her.
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This is about the left pushing their narrative and us trying to refute it with facts.
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We have a new person who's going to be doing that from the White House.
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Melania's spokesman, Stephanie Grisham, is going to be the new White House press secretary.
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You know, she worked for a lot of Arizona politicians, worked on the Romney campaigns, coordinated press for the Pope's visit to Philly.
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And she was a press aide to the Trump campaign.
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The one claim they're throwing at her is that she violated the Hatch Act, which prevents people in government from using their government offices for political and campaign purposes.
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And the one violation they say she made is she used the phrase make America great again from her official account.
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So I guess you're not allowed to say make America great again now if you work for the government.
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A very big shoes to fill after Sarah Sanders, who was just terrific in that role.
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I just mentioned this, and I give my condolences to her for getting the toughest job in D.C.
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because what we are battling right now, the battle that we're in, is a battle of language.
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And the press secretary plays a tremendous role in this.
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You know, actually bringing it all together, getting back to school, the issue of education, college and high school.
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There was an amazing exchange in Scotland, just happened, that highlights this battle of language that we're in.
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There was a student who was kicked out of class because he said that there are only two genders.
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And his teacher said, no, there are more than two sexes.
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And you can't make me say that something that's not true is true.
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Then he secretly recorded his conversation with the teacher who is yelling at him for it.
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All the way in Scotland tells you everything you need to know about what's coming this way in the United States if we don't stop it.
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If I am, then why would you kick me out of class?
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Because I was saying that what's wrong with the website is that there are more than one gender in this country.
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And that is an opinion which is acceptable in the school.
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I'm afraid yours, which you're saying that there's no such thing as anyone other than male or female, is not inclusive.
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Basically, there are just two genders, depending on what gender you have.
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You said, oh, this website doesn't have more than two genders.
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Murray, you were clearly given an opportunity not to pursue it.
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I think it's silly to have anything other than two genders.
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Could you please keep that opinion to your own house?
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So you get to put your opinion out in class and my opinion has to stay inside my house.
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I am stating what is national school authority policy.
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When you've got to choose between scientific reality and political, politically correct, ideological dogma, Murray, you've got to pick the politically correct, ideological dogma.
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There will just be the eternal present where whatever the party says is right.
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Murray, the party says that two plus two doesn't equal four.
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He said, you had the opportunity to keep quiet.
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And the kid says, right, but you're telling me that there's more than two sexes.
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It's not that we tried to teach you something that is obviously not true.
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You brought it on yourself because you could have shut up.
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And because you didn't shut up, you brought your own punishment on yourself.
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You were able not to pursue this, but you pursued the truth and now we're going to punish you.
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He says, keep your own opinion to your own house.
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I mean, not really because he's, he is the instrument of the most obvious example of tyranny
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But he says, you keep your opinion about reality in your own house.
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He says, well, I have to keep my, I have to, I can't state basic facts in a school.
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And so the kid says, well, it just seems crazy that to say there's more than two sexes
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And the kid says, well, you're going to teach me your opinion.
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He says, that's not necessarily my opinion, but that is what the authorities have told
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He says, well, what the authorities have told you to say isn't true.
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He uses the word scientific, but the word science just means knowledge.
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And the teacher says, policy isn't always scientific.
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We will use the coercive power of the state to make you believe lies and state lies.
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And if you ever say the truth, we're going to use the power of the state to punish you.
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Now, the Democratic Party and the left wants a full government takeover of our education
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The government, big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything
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That means that they are going to control 100% the education system in this country, not
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just the public universities, the private ones too.
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The mechanism by which students go to these universities, the money, the payment, is now
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And I wonder what that education system is going to look like.
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I wonder if that's going to help the education system or if it's going to hurt it.
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Something tells me it's going to look a lot like this classroom.
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