Ep. 384 - Send Her Back？ Make Her Speaker!
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A crowd at a Trump rally chants to send comically villainous anti-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar back to her native country. Meanwhile, President Trump has already disavowed the chant. We will cut through the hysteria and examine why not only should we not send Omar back, but we should make her Speaker of the House. Then, the UK s Prince Charles predicts the end of the world in just 18 months. And Berkeley outlaws sexist words like manhole.
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A crowd at a Trump rally chants to send comically villainous anti-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar back to her native country.
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The usually excitable suspects lose their minds on the left, right, and center.
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Meanwhile, President Trump has already disavowed the chant.
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We will cut through the hysteria and examine why not only should we not send Omar back, we should make her Speaker of the House.
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Then, the UK's Prince Charles predicts the end of the world in just, bum-bum-bum, 18 months.
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And Berkeley outlaws sexist words like manhole.
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Finally, the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Not just the biggest news of the day, the biggest news of the century.
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The biggest news in the history of American politics.
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People at a Trump rally chanted, send her back to an awful, villainous, anti-American congresswoman.
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And then President Trump disavowed the remarks.
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People are losing their minds over this chant because nobody has any sense of proportion anymore in politics.
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President Trump went after Ilhan Omar, as well he should have, because she's singularly awful and she's anti-American.
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So Trump goes after Ilhan Omar, as he should have.
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She pleaded for compassion for ISIS recruits attempting to join the terrorist organization.
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Omar laughed that Americans speak of al-Qaeda in a menacing tone and remarked that you don't
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And at a press conference just this week, when asked whether she supported al-Qaeda,
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that's our enemy, that's our enemy, they are a very serious problem that we take care of,
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She didn't want to give an answer to that question.
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He should campaign on this until, until election day in 2020.
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Then, and this is the, this is what has everyone losing their minds, heads exploding.
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Now, if you can't see the clip, you got to look at Trump's face here.
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Usually when he hears these chants, lock her up, USA, make America great again.
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In this chant, he actually looks a little angry.
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He's not encouraging it, which is important when you see his reaction to it this morning.
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So according to the mainstream media, the left, even many conservatives, and I'm specifically
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talking about those conservatives who all they want to do is prove to the left that they're
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not racist or sexist or bigoted or this phobic or that phobic.
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They just, all they want is to make sure the New York times doesn't say anything mean about
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According to these people, this is the single most horrific event in American history.
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It doesn't, it doesn't get any worse than this.
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Forget about slavery, Jim Crow, the Dred Scott decision.
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Forget about the wars that we've, no, Pearl Harbor.
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No, no, no, this is the worst event because a crowd briefly chanted, send her back to an
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immigrant who speaks with sympathy of Al Qaeda.
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Justin Amash, the former Republican who wants to impeach Trump and he left the GOP.
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He, he was tweeting out all of this hysteria this morning.
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First thing, Ilhan Omar is a comically villainous figure in politics.
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She equates Al Qaeda with the United States and England and the U.S. Army.
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She equates Al Qaeda terrorists with U.S. soldiers.
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She begged a judge to give leniency to ISIS terrorists.
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She's one of only a couple legislators to vote against denying insurance benefits to the
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She explicitly refused to condemn Al Qaeda at a press conference this week.
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And that's all apart from the, the regular Jew hatred that she spouts.
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That's not even taking into account the, the things that she has tweeted about Al Qaeda
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That's just what she's, uh, or rather all the things that she's tweeted about Israel and
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That's just talking about what she said about Al Qaeda, ISIS, and terrorists.
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It is perfectly understandable why people would want to send her back.
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Send her back to immigrants who are U.S. citizens.
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The impulses, she can be completely villainous and awful.
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And also that chant is ugly and we don't like it.
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And politically, it's counterproductive to the people who are chanting it.
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President Trump has already disavowed the chant as well he should.
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When your supporters last week were chanting, chanting, send her back, why didn't you stop
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It really was a loud, I disagree with it, by the way, but it was quite a chant and I felt
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But I will say this, I did and I started speaking very quickly, but it started up rather, rather
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So you'll tell your supporters never to say that?
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You know, the thing that the mainstream media and the left and the anti-Trump conservatives,
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just the, the minute that any news story could possibly reflect poorly on Trump, they pounce
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They say, this is actually the only time conservatives do pounce.
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Conservatives generally don't pounce, despite what the mainstream media said, but some anti-Trump
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The minute a syllable leaves Trump's mouth or one of his supporters' mouths, they take to
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Twitter, they say there's the worst thing that's ever happened in the history of the world.
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It, it is the sort of thing we don't want to hear in America and Trump disavowed it.
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What, what basically what they want is this moment that John McCain had in 2008, which,
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where he tells his supporters that they're awful and they're bigots.
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What, what the left wants is for Republicans to campaign like twice failed presidential candidate
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Why can't Republicans campaign like the twice failed presidential candidate John McCain?
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Oh, I can't imagine why you'd want us to campaign like that.
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And then this morning he said, I didn't like it.
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This seems like the, this seems like the right thing.
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His supporters, some of his supporters went too far.
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They chanted something ugly and politically unproductive.
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This all happened within the span of what, 10 hours?
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I don't think anyone is really calling on her to, to strip her of her citizenship and deport her.
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I think people are expressing their frustration that we have an anti-American terrorist apologist in the U.S. Congress.
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I also suspect very few people actually want to give the President of the United States the authority to strip citizens of their citizenship and deport them at will.
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So what the statement is doing is expressing moral disapproval of Ilhan Omar's egregious actions.
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And a lot of people are being disingenuous here.
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They said, quote, Trump's accusation is that Rep. Omar sympathizes with Al-Qaeda terrorists.
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Fortunately, I have found no evidence for the claim that the Washington Post is a credible newspaper.
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I did, however, find evidence of Ilhan Omar expressing sympathy for Al-Qaeda and speaking in a very strange and giggly way about Al-Qaeda.
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The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said Al-Qaeda, he sort of, like, his shoulders went up and, you know, it was sort of like, Al-Qaeda, you know, hospital.
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You know, you don't say the army with an intensity.
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CARE was founded after 9-11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties.
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Can you respond to some of the president's specific claims, most notably that you're a communist and that you're pro-Al-Qaeda?
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It's beyond time to ask Muslims to condemn terrorists.
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We are no longer going to allow the dignification of such ridiculous, ridiculous statement.
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She voted to let terrorist families keep insurance money from their terrorist family members.
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And she almost certainly committed immigration fraud by marrying her brother.
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The conservatives pretending that this is the worst thing that's ever happened also are being disingenuous here.
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The thing that's so counterproductive about it is it almost makes her sympathetic, which is virtually impossible to do because she's so villainous.
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Where Trump bears responsibility here, I mean, I thought he handled the chant and the aftermath as well as he possibly could have.
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Where he bears some responsibility is he could have avoided this almost certainly by being more precise in the wording of his tweet.
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And instead of saying, if you don't love America, leave America, which is the sentiment he was more or less expressing.
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Instead, he said that these four women, he was implying that these four women should go back to their home countries, even though three of them are from America.
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And so if the tweet had said, America, love it or leave it, go spend time in countries that aren't so great, come back here and then tell us why our country is even worse, that would have worked.
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And it should give him pause, just not to create the political headache for himself of maybe way to beat.
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Because if he had been a little more precise in his language, this would have been a knockout political attack.
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I don't think the sky is falling, but it just could have been, he could have made it easier for himself.
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Also, and this is the point I want to drive home to the people who had been chanting.
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She's a greater gift to conservatives than AOC.
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In some ways, she's sort of sympathetic because she seems unintelligent.
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And she equates Muslim terrorists with U.S. soldiers.
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I mean, that is a, there's no comparison there.
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We should make her the leader of the Democrats for life.
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We should make every Democrat rally behind her.
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Which was the effect of the tweet that Trump sent in the first place.
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Now, speaking of the sky actually falling, I have to get to really bad news coming out of the United Kingdom and the royal family.
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Do you remember when AOC told us six months ago that we only had 12 months left to live?
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We're like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change.
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And your biggest issue is, your biggest issue is, how are we going to pay for it?
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According to Prince Charles, this situation is way worse.
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According to Prince Charles, AOC was off by ten and a half years.
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Actually, we only have 18 months left before we reach a tipping point and the world cannot be saved.
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I'm firmly of the view that the next 18 months will decide our ability to keep climate change to survivable levels
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and to restore nature to the equilibrium we need for our survival.
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Now, this is particularly bad news because in 2015, just four years ago,
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Prince Charles said that we had 35 years left before we reached that tipping point.
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So I don't know what happened in the past four years, but apparently things have gotten way, way worse.
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And we should note in Charles's defense, the 35 years prediction only came after his 2009 prediction
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where he warned that we only had 100 months left to save the planet,
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which by that measure means that we passed the point of no return in 2017,
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which means that there's nothing we can do anymore,
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which means I guess we should probably just live it up because the world is already doomed.
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I wonder how much more time we'll have in 18 months when the world doesn't end
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and Prince Charles tells us we have another 10 months or another 10 years or who knows.
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It's almost as if all of these alarmist warnings are arbitrary and disingenuous emotional manipulation
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to try to affect the same leftist policies that these people have been pushing for 100 years,
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most of which have nothing to do with the environment.
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They tell everyone that the world is about to end.
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Then they tell everyone that luckily they have the one solution that can prevent the world from ending.
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And then they tell everyone that because there's just, there's really no time left,
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we just have to embrace their solution without asking any questions, without thinking about it too much.
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And then that's the only way we can save the world.
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But if we wait and we think about it, then the world is going to end.
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I remember this watching An Inconvenient Truth, that Al Gore movie in 2006.
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Even I, watching that movie, when he came to the end, he said,
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the whole world's going to end, but it's not too late.
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We still have like five seconds to do something as long as you do exactly what I tell you to do.
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That's what they, they always end it with that.
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We can still do something as long as you embrace exactly what I want right now.
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And even I walked out of there thinking, gosh, maybe, maybe he's right.
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I was, I was emotionally manipulated by that movie, which is what they are all doing.
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The left wants us to adopt these policies quickly because they don't want us to think about them.
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Most of the Green New Deal has nothing to do with the environment.
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It's about redistributing wealth to Native American tribes.
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What does that have to do with the environment?
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So what does that, it has nothing to do with the environment.
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Again, nothing to do with the environment, but we have to do it quickly because if we reflect
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on the policies, we'll realize that we're being scammed.
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The other reason we have to do it quickly is because if we think about it long enough,
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we'll remember that all of their other doomsday predictions didn't come true.
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2009, we had only 100 months, which means the world passed the tipping point in 2017.
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We got an extra, what, three, three and a half years, something, but we got to do it now.
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Al Gore said New York City would be completely underwater by now.
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The population bomb in the 1970s, if we don't dramatically decrease the world's population,
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abortion, contraception, if we don't do that, then we're all going to die.
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We're wealthier today than any time in history.
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Remember in the 70s, global cooling was going to lead to a new ice age, unless we embrace
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Now global warming is going to lead to a new hell on earth, unless we embrace their policies.
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If they ever are proven right on their predictions, on their doomsday prophecies, then maybe I'll
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Speaking of things, by the way, even crazier than Prince Charles' doomsday predictions.
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The city of Berkeley is banning gendered language from government.
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Of course, it's happening in Berkeley, California.
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No manpower, you can't, no way can you say manpower.
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Frankly, I think maintenance is a little too close to man for my liking, but I guess
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it's a progressive step in the right direction.
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They won't use pronouns anymore, singular pronouns in the Berkeley city government.
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Only the singular they, like they is drinking from the leftist tears tumbler.
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The council member there, a Rigel, I think that's how you pronounce his name.
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Rigel Robinson said, quote, there's power in language.
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These little small moves in language matter a lot.
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That's why the left fights so hard to change them.
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That's why there are 0.2% of the population, if that, is confused about their biological sex.
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And we've spent years now debating whether we can say he or she, or we have to use the
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singular they, which is an assault on the English language.
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Because it radically changes our understanding of reality in the past.
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When you use language, the kind of language you use radically changes how you think of reality.
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For instance, the reason they do the pronoun battle is, if I hear about a transgender girl
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beats a girl at a high school track meet, I think, okay, well, a transgender girl who
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is a type of girl beats a different girl who's another type of girl at a track meet.
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But if I use accurate language and I say, a boy in a dress beats a girl at a high school
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track meet, I'll become aware of the injustice of that.
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Because men are physically stronger than women and they're faster than women.
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I don't think that boy in a dress should be able to take a scholarship away from a girl
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I think the boy should compete with the boys and the girl should compete with the girls.
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Because if I just say she to refer to the boy in the dress, if I just say transgender girl,
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even though I am aware of what that means, I'm explicitly talking about that.
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The image in my mind is of a girl and that's what language does.
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He then goes on, this city councilman, Rye Joel Robinson, quote, having a male-centric
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municipal code is inaccurate and not reflective of our reality.
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Women and non-binary individuals are just as entitled to accurate representation.
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Our laws are for everyone and our municipal code should reflect that.
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Man can refer to a man, like me, or it can refer to mankind, which is gender neutral.
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In the book of Genesis, it reads, God created man, comma, both male and female.
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There is male and female of man because we're talking about mankind.
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When the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon, Neil Armstrong said,
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one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
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There's that distinction there between a man, which is Neil Armstrong, and man referring to mankind.
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But the singular they, by the way, the singular they already exists.
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When people say, instead of saying, hey, call your friend, see if they want to come hang out.
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People already use this, and we do it because we're so timid about sex in our society.
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Because you know that if you say something that is true, but politically incorrect,
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like referring to a man who thinks he's a woman as a man,
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If you're in school, you'll be called into the principal's office.
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So we use they, not because it's correct or grammatical, but because it's just easier.
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It suggests among them that there is no difference between the sexes.
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It suggests maybe there are more than two biological sexes.
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Robinson, in his line, he referred to non-binary people.
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Now, there are people who are hermaphrodites or intersex,
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who have ambiguous genitals or even ambiguous chromosomes.
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Those people represent, at most, 0.05% of the population.
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99.95% of the population is either male or female.
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But if we alter our language to only focus on the 0.05% rather than the 99.95%,
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we create the impression that many, if not most people, are non-binary,
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And it's this particularly leftist fiction, and it's a particularly liberal fiction,
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The story of modernity is the story of emancipation.
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We emancipate ourselves from all forms of oppression.
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Oppression which one perceives from a king, let's say.
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Then it's emancipating yourself from social oppression.
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The oppression of your town or your community or your family, even.
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Then it's emancipating yourself from moral oppression.
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I'm going to deny the existence of a moral law.
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Because if there's a moral law, then someone's telling me what to do.
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An emancipation from the natural biological sorts of oppression.
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We're trying to emancipate ourselves from our very nature.
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Not just aspects of human nature like our fallenness, our brokenness,
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our greed, our ambition, our envy, or our over-ambition rather.
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Saying I am not even to be oppressed by my own body.
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And ironically, this means emancipating ourselves from all distinction.
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And it only leaves this boring and ironically oppressive sameness.
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This is what's imagined in every dystopian novel.
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In every dystopian vision, people are all kind of just wearing gray.
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If you contradict the totalitarian regime, you're liquidated.
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You just have to say the same things, think the same things, look exactly the same way.
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And it's no surprise that Berkeley, California, left of Lennon, is leading the charge in its language.
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Speaking of language, we've got to get some mailbag questions coming in.
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But first, listen up, all of you truth-loving, cigar-smoking, whiskey-drinking, seekers of laughs and insight.
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We are taking backstage, on the road, backstage live, August 21st, to the Terrace Theater in Long Beach, California.
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Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire God King Jeremy Boring, Andrew Klavan, and yours truly, your humble host,
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will be live on stage discussing the winners and losers of politics and pop culture
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and doing our best to answer your burning questions from the audience.
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And by we, I mean there's a very good chance they're going to make me just work at the merch booth.
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So tickets are available at dailywire.com slash backstage.
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There are still a few VIP ticket packages available,
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which include premium seating, photos, and meet and greets with all of us.
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You know, I love meeting people on the road at these college events.
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But when we do, I think we're just doing one event this year as the Daily Wire.
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And I've actually got, you know, I've stayed in touch with a number of people that I've met.
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And it's just one of the great opportunities for us.
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So get your tickets, bring a friend, bring some good questions,
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what are your thoughts on Facebook censoring a St. Augustine quote?
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And do you think that Facebook will ever stop trying to censor conservative and Christian voices?
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We actually didn't get time to cover it this week.
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Facebook censored a quote, not from some awful bigot,
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not from even some conservative political figure, which they try to do frequently.
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They censored a quote from one of the fathers of the church
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and one of the greatest saints of history, St. Augustine.
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Let us never assume that if we live good lives, we will be without sin.
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Our lives should be praised only when we continue to beg for pardon.
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But men are hopeless creatures, and the less they concentrate on their own sins,
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the more interested they become in the sins of others.
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Unable to excuse themselves, they are ready to accuse others.
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I mean, this is the essence of the Lord's Prayer.
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Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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It's the idea that, you know, before you take the speck out of your brother's eye,
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Obviously, we're a culture right now that totally focuses on everybody else's problems,
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We always judge everyone else on their actions.
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We judge ourselves on our intentions, never on our actions,
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because then we have to admit that we screw up all the time.
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Facebook is now in the business of censoring the truth.
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Social media now will ban you if you state simple facts.
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And so they're always going to come after the truth.
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I mean, what Christian wants to celebrate pride?
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They're going to go after those people who state simple moral truths.
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And that it's actually a good thing to be hated for his sake.
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Obviously, the culture, not just this culture, but all cultures,
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all human society is in some ways going to persecute followers of Christ.
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And I can't believe it, but they're going after St. Augustine.
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If a man receives a gender reassignment surgery, hormone therapy, plastic surgery,
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and a successful functioning uterus to carry children,
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do they have a legitimate claim to say that they are a woman?
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And what we're confusing is a kind of utilitarian, functional definition of what a woman is
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So women aren't just sort of machines and vessels for bearing children.
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They're not just instruments for our own pleasure.
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That's what the surrogate movement is all about,
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is basically paying desperate women to carry our babies
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because we don't want to do it ourselves or we can't do it ourselves.
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But women are not just instruments for our own desires.
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That's why the sexual difference between men and women
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It's why the sexual difference between men and women
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It's why it's true of every foundational story of mankind.
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Sexual difference is foundational to who we are.
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And speaking of Genesis, it's why women are plucked,
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You can't change your sex, which is so foundational.
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You can't just change it by getting cosmetic surgery.
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You can't even just change it by turning yourself,
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that tells us just how essential sexual difference is,
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I find it more difficult these days to find non-PC ones.
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You probably, well, speaking of gender difference,
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because it suggests that there are such things as guys and dolls.
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It was the first musical I ever did when I was a kid.
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So musicals really thrived in the middle of the 20th century.
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that is going to help the conservative movement
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and the mainstream culture are telling him to do.