Ep. 385 - The Party of Jussie Smollett
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Summary
As the left embraces another hate hoax, all other distinctions fade away. This is not the party of AOC or the Democratic Party of Jesse Smollett. We will examine the live action role play of the left. Then, Republicans cheer on AOC s new Republican challenger. But is the fresher, fattener conservative in New York s 14th congressional district just a wolf in sheep s clothing? We ll examine her statements and her old tweets. Finally, a new report shows Trump hasn t built any wall. And a woman marries her chandelier. All that and more.
Transcript
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As the left embraces another hate hoax, all other distinctions fade away.
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This is not the party of AOC or the party of Nancy Pelosi.
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Democrats have become the party of Jesse Smollett.
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We will examine the live action role play of the left.
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Then Republicans cheer on AOC's new Republican challenger.
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But is the fresher, facer conservative in New York's 14th congressional district
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We will examine her current statements and her old tweets.
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Finally, a new report shows Trump hasn't built any wall.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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A Georgia state representative claimed on Sunday
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that she was verbally assaulted by a man in a grocery store by a white man.
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Allegedly, he told her to go back to where she came from.
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Sounds like the chant that briefly some people at a Trump rally were chanting about Ilhan Omar.
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And more importantly, it sounds like the line that the mainstream media were trying to use
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against all conservatives everywhere to smear us as bigots and xenophobes and nativists and racists
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When she mentioned this story, this state representative,
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Not for one nanosecond did I believe that a man in a grocery store started yelling at this woman
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to go back where she came from, a white man probably wearing a MAGA hat.
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I knew from the first second that this was Jussie Smollett, the Jussie Smollett of the Georgia State Assembly.
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Why did they believe it and why did I not believe it?
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It's because of different premises about America.
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The left believes that America is hopelessly racist and bigoted.
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And so therefore, of course, some black state representative would be told to go back to where she came from,
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I don't believe that America is hopelessly racist and bigoted.
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I actually think that America is the most racially tolerant country in the history of the world.
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We are this multiracial experiment, this completely novel idea, this experiment in mixing different ethnicities and cultures together,
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all underneath a sort of unified American culture and American national identity, though not a racial identity.
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And to their credit, actually, she put on a pretty good performance.
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Her lawyer, first red flag, her lawyer tweets out this video after the alleged event happened.
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I decided to go live because I'm very upset because people are getting really out of control with this.
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With this white privilege stuff, I'm at the grocery store and I'm in the 10 out, the out that says 10 items or less.
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Yes, I have 15 items, but I'm not much pregnant and I can't stand up for long.
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And this white man comes up to me and says, you lazy son of a bitch.
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I don't know what happened in the grocery store.
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But what I am certain of is that he did not tell her to go back to where she came from.
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To go back to Africa where her ancestors came from or something like that.
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It's just too perfect a political line for Democrats right now.
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Right after they made a whole hullabaloo about this Ilhan Omar thing.
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Because almost immediately, this representative, Erica Thomas, showed her cards.
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She kind of admitted that the story that she was telling on camera wasn't quite true.
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So this Georgia State Representative, Erica Thomas, admits almost immediately,
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once she got off her lawyer's cell phone footage that she tweeted out,
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they say, so he, hold on, you're telling me that this white man in the grocery store said,
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He said, go back, you know, those types of words.
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I don't want to say, he said, go back to your country or go back to where he came from,
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but he was making those types of references is what I remember.
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He either said, go back to where you came from or go back to your country or go back to Africa
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They've got, they both have O, are they the similar types of words?
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She goes, I'm not going to say that he said go back.
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You said it in a teary eyed video that your lawyer shot that you tweeted out, obviously
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Because it, it just seems like it was too good to be true.
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This shows why we should all treat these claims of, of hate experiences and hate speech and
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Then incredibly CBS 46, the local CBS affiliate in this area gets both of these people, the man
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who allegedly told her to go back home and this representative, Erica Thomas, gets them
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together in a parking lot to hash out what really happened.
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And what it turns out is the guy actually isn't white at all and he's not a Trump supporter
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He's actually a Hispanic liberal Democrat and he contradicts her narrative, her first narrative
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events, I guess not her second narrative of events.
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He gives what he says is the real story on camera with Erica Thomas.
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Every black, brown and any woman that's out there, that's nine months pregnant and a white
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man comes up to you and calls you a son of, I don't care what you are.
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Anybody comes up to you and calls you a son of an, I am facing the man that degraded me
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And if you know how you made me feel yesterday, I'm Hispanic, I don't care what she thinks.
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So to call me what she wants to believe for her political purposes, to make it black,
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So I looked into this a little bit because look, the guy could be lying.
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He certainly could pass as a white guy, but he could also, he looks kind of Hispanic too.
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If you look at his social media history, he's a Democrat.
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Just last week, he was defending the squad, AOC, Ayanna Pressley, Ilhan Omar and Rashida
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He was actually defending Omar and Omar is at the center of this, this whole non-traversy because
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Omar was the, the object of the go back home chance.
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There's going to be another Jussie Smollett next week.
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There's going to be another Jussie Smollett after that because the left is living in a
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This guy, whatever he said to her, he might've called her a lot of names, but what he, it
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And the best part of it all, Twitter is forever.
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Four years ago now, Erica Thomas, this representative tweeted out, quote, going downtown Atlanta for
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I hope I magically bump into Jussie Smollett, hashtag biggest fan.
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If this were a Hollywood script, if someone just turned this events, these, these events
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into a Hollywood movie, the studio would reject it.
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You can't have her say at the end of it that she's a huge fan of Jussie Smollett, the most
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But that's actually what happened because we're living in the simulation, because this is the
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In the face of a hate hoax like this, all of the other distinctions among Democrats and
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This is not the party of AOC or the party of Nancy Pelosi.
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What unites all of them is that they see Nazis everywhere.
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It's a party of LARPers, live action role play.
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They're playing out of fantasy in the halls of Congress.
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They want to pretend that they're fighting the great civil rights battles that were already
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fought and finished 50 years ago or more, 100 years ago or more, 150 years ago.
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They're playing that because right now, basically in the grand scheme of things, we don't have
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So we have to invent fake verbal attacks, fake racial hate hoaxes at grocery stores.
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We have to invent white Trump supporters out of Hispanic liberal Democrats, out of Hispanic
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And as long as the Democrats, by the way, are living in a fantasy, the GOP is going to have
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This is, I think, a lot of how Trump won in 2016 and why he's looking good for 2020 is
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because you had the left living in this fantasy world of evil racists.
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Half the country are deplorable, irredeemable bigots.
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And we looked around and we said, that isn't true.
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We're the most racially tolerant country in the history of the world.
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If you campaign on fantasy, you're probably not going to win.
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If you campaign on reality, you have a better chance of winning.
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This is why AOC in New York's 14th congressional district is facing a new challenger.
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Although there is something a little wrong, I think, with this challenger campaign.
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And I want to get into it because I don't want conservatives and Republicans to be taken
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in by a wolf in sheep's clothing, if that's what she is.
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So moving from Georgia to New York's 14th over in Queens and the Bronx,
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the socialist darling, who's really from Northern Westchester,
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And everyone on the right is really excited about this because she's a woman,
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because she's an ethnic minority, because she's an immigrant from Jamaica,
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The left focuses on all of the intersectional boxes.
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And we rightly say that that's stupid, that politics isn't about those superficial characteristics.
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And it's about may the best person win regardless of their skin color or their genitals.
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But we fall into it too because we think, hmm, AOC's campaigning on all those identity politics.
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But sometimes, look, I understand why it's effective to us because it shuts down most of AOC's arguments.
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Sometimes in our excitement, I think we don't do our due diligence here.
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So this woman, Shiri Murray, has been doing the rounds on Fox News and doing the rounds on social media.
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Here is Murray explaining her campaign on Hannity.
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I think the narrative on the national level needs to be dialed back.
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I'd like to represent the constituents in Queens and the Bronx.
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And we see AOC, from the time she's been elected, she put out policy like the job-killing Green New Deal.
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She then went on to kill the Amazon deal in New York, which would have put some 25,000 jobs in Queens.
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And so these are some of the reasons, along with kitchen table issues, that I do believe that AOC has neglected in her limelight bid to focus on in the congressional district.
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She's saying she doesn't like the job-killing Green New Deal and she doesn't like the job-killing Amazon deal.
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That AOC shut down the Amazon deal and took away about 25,000 jobs from around her district.
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The problem with the Green New Deal isn't just that it kills jobs.
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It's that it won't really do anything to help the environment.
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It's that it outlaws cars and airplanes and cows and it takes away our personal choice.
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And it's that it becomes a transfer program for federal funds to people based on their race or their sex or all these strange characteristics.
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It's that it's profoundly un-American and that it's socialist.
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You'll notice when politicians, when all they talk about is job-killing and they're really vague on cultural questions, usually it means they don't agree with you on culture and they're trying to hide something about their political views.
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Whereas President Trump talked about jobs a lot, but he always couched it in culture.
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We're going to stop criminals from coming into this country.
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You know, he used pretty specific language, sometimes a little too specific probably when it comes to President Trump.
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But at least he was telling you where he came from.
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Hannity asks her to get a bit more specific and she fails to do that.
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How would you describe yourself politically and how do you feel about President Trump in the two plus years or two and a half years he's been in office?
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Well, I migrated here from Jamaica and I know firsthand what it is to not just be an immigrant, but to go through the process, right?
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And so what do I think about what the president is doing?
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I think that the president is delivering on his promises when he got elected.
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Please tell us what you think of the president.
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And she said, I think President Trump is delivering on his promises when he got elected.
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That's largely true, but it doesn't answer either of the questions that Hannity asked.
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She never explains what she thinks about Donald Trump delivering on his promises.
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Okay, this kind of confirmed my suspicions when I saw it.
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Murray celebrated when AOC won her primary election last year.
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She celebrated when AOC beat Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary, not 10 years ago, not five years ago, one year ago.
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The article was titled, A 28-year-old Democratic Socialist Just Ousted a Powerful Ten-Term Congressman in New York.
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And this woman, Sherry Murray, the GOP candidate for Congress, tweeted out, quote,
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Queens is headed in a new direction, and it's time for new leadership.
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I guess there are some possible explanations for this.
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It could be that she wanted to shake up the Democratic establishment.
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This would be like a kind of accelerationist idea.
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You want the most radical people in your opponent's party to come out because it'll show how crazy they are, and then Republicans are more likely to win.
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I mean, she said Queens is headed in a new direction.
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So it was headed in the direction of socialism.
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The only other explanation is that she didn't know that AOC was a radical socialist, but that one falls apart because the article she tweeted out identified AOC as a socialist.
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Now, how is Sherry Murray going to answer this?
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She gave this classic answer that politicians who either don't believe in anything or who don't want you to know what they believe gives.
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The answer she gave was a tweet, quote, I was hopeful when AOC won.
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She took on a Democratic political machine and won, but nothing has changed since.
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Because she's only been focused on fame and politics of division and hate.
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You were hopeful when a socialist won the primary?
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You were hopeful when a radical socialist beat a relatively more moderate Democrat?
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It's a smart answer in the sense that some people who are centrist politically or more moderate who don't pay attention to politics,
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you could see them saying, look, I was hopeful when Obama won that he would be good, but then he was bad.
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I know actually a number of people who are now Trump supporters who said that.
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I was hopeful when Obama won, but he wasn't good, and so now I'm more conservative.
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Part of the reason it's plausible with Obama is Obama only spoke in vague terms, hope and change.
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You know, kind of like the terms that Sherry Murray is talking in.
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She said, I'm a socialist and I want socialism.
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You were hopeful that she would be socialist, right?
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I mean, what do you mean you were hopeful that something would happen and then nothing has changed?
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The only thing that AOC would change is that she would make the country more socialist.
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If she made the country more American, more conservative, made us more economically competitive,
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made us love our country more, that would be a good thing.
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But if she did the things she said she was going to do, which you said you were hoping for,
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Last year, she celebrated a socialist winning an election, but now she knows better.
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Either she's still a left winger or just 12 months ago, she exhibited egregious judgment and ignorance.
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Now, I'm interested in this race because AOC and I grew up in exactly the same place.
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We grew up one town apart from each other at exactly the same time.
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We're the same age and we've had similar life experiences.
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I'm also curious about it because AOC and I have spent about the same amount of time in her current congressional district.
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And I'm interested in it because this is, she is the leader of the Democratic Party, right?
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DNC Chairman Tom Perez said she's the future of the party.
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And I just don't want conservatives and Republicans to get hoodwinked by a fraud.
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I'm not saying that Murray is definitely a fraud.
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I'm saying there are a lot of questions about her.
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So if Ms. Murray wants to come on the show and talk about it, I'd be happy to have her on.
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And I just don't want conservatives to fall into that trap of saying,
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oh, look, she checks all of the intersectional boxes.
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When in fact, she may be quite left-wing herself, much more left-wing than other people in the race.
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And if Ms. Murray wants to come on the show, she's more than welcome.
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In even crazier news than AOC, I know it's hard to imagine anything crazier than AOC,
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but in the realm of news that is crazier than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
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a woman is marrying her 91-year-old chandelier.
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It's a bit of a May-December relationship, obviously.
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The chandelier is much older than the 35-year-old woman.
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And this woman obviously has a right to marry her love.
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Just like anybody who falls in love with somebody else,
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I've loved the way that the light catches on the little crystals.
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I think it's good in the world to have a bit of variety
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If we're all the same, the world would be a really boring place.
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But she changed her name to Amanda Liberty a number of years ago
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when she entered into a different romantic relationship.
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She entered into a long-distance relationship with...
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Who was she in a long-distance relationship with?
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She was in a long-distance relationship with the Statue of Liberty.
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When I met Lady Liberty, the flags already knew
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So it didn't feel like I was cheating on anybody.
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The first part of Libby that I fell in love with was her crown
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But it was a crown that initially got me attracted to her.
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I just want to be able to tell people that I love her
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Didn't we just celebrate all the different sorts of sexual identity
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This woman actually does have a sexual orientation that is recognized,
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which is the sexual orientation toward inanimate objects.
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Maybe that's hate speech if I say that she seems a little crazy.
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Maybe I'll get kicked off of YouTube if I say she seems a little crazy.
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We will examine the similarities and differences
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between Chris Whitaker Liberty or Amanda Liberty's attraction
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We'll explain why this is the logical or illogical, I guess,
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conclusion of so much of the left's view on sex.
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Then we will explain the greatest irony of the 2020 race,
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and it has to do with Bernie Sanders' campaign.
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And then finally, a masterstroke from President Trump on Twitter,
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which the mainstream media obviously are ignoring.
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A lot of the conservative media are ignoring it.
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we'll explain why President Trump is so interested
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You get to ask questions in the mailbag coming up on Thursday.
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It tastes like the feeling of exposing their ridiculous, divisive narratives.
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Like, for instance, if I were walking in South Central Chicago
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and I were walking there and I had some people in MAGA hats come up to me
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and tell me this is MAGA country and beat me up,
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I couldn't because when those hoaxes are exposed,
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I wonder if she'll change her name to The Chandelier.
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The Chandelier's name is Lumiere, like in the movie Beauty and the Beast.
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So maybe she'll become Amanda Lumiere after this.
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She says that she's really proud of her attraction to inanimate objects,
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She has an open relationship with The Chandelier.
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She sleeps with different chandeliers in her bed every night.
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It's probably not good for these journalists in the UK to go into her house and film her
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However, it's instructive for our culture because this is a devastating report for the love is love
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sexuality, for the love is love view of sexual morality.
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This woman describes her marriage to a chandelier in precisely the same way in which the left
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describes the evolving definitions of sex and gender, right down to the emphasis on the word
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I'm determined to have this commitment ceremony to prove that I'm here for Lumiere and that my love
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I know a lot of people think my attraction to chandeliers is strange, but I'm not crazy.
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Obviously, she's crazy, but she's no crazier than a man who says he's a woman.
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She's no crazier than a man who feels in some metaphysical way that he wants to be a woman.
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And I'm not even using crazy as a pejorative term.
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I'm saying he's got something wrong in his psychology and he should be treated for it
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and we should treat this woman for it and we should be compassionate toward her,
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but we shouldn't indulge her fantasy that she's married to a 91 chandelier any more than we
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should indulge the fantasy that a man, a grown man, is secretly a six-year-old girl
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and therefore should go into the little girl's changing room or the girl's bathroom because
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As far as I can tell, there are three main premises of the new concept of sexual morality.
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We've discarded traditional sexual morality, theology of the body, traditional sexual mores.
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One, other than pedophilia and bestiality, all sexual desires are good.
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For some reason, pedophilia and bestiality are excluded,
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Every other sexual desire is not only not bad, not only neutral, it's actually positively good.
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No sexual desire other than pedophilia and bestiality should ever be repressed.
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You should never, if you have some sexual desire, whether it's to sleep with another person
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who isn't your wife or whether it's to, I don't know, do whatever you want to do,
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And then the third premise is, if it doesn't hurt anyone else and it feels good, do it.
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And actually, you've got to even sort of modify that third premise because you can hurt each other.
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I mean, people embrace Fifty Shades of Grey, BDSM, sadomasochism.
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So really what you would say is, if it doesn't hurt anyone else without his or her consent and it feels good, do it.
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And there are still these, the left still looks down on pedophilia and bestiality.
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Although you're seeing in kind of these far left academic conferences, a movement afoot to normalize pedophilia as well.
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And obviously you've got pedophilia in the news because of the Jeffrey Epstein underage sex trafficking scandal
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that is apparently ensnared Bill Clinton who flew on Jeffrey Epstein's jet 27 times,
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even though the jet was nicknamed the Lolita Express.
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People often can't understand that this is just a natural orientation for me.
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I'm fundamentally oriented to want to sleep with a 91-year-old chandelier.
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Well, if you're fundamentally oriented that way, you can't change it.
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Maybe you can't sense their energy, but she can.
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I'm not hurting anyone by entering into a relationship with them.
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Look, there are plenty of normal relationships that are really harmful.
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They're probably a lot worse than her relationship to the chandelier.
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She might be living in a fantasy and deluding herself, but she's not hurting anyone else.
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I'm not saying using traditional views of sexual morality.
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Either you can conclude that what she's doing, marrying a chandelier, is not wrong.
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Or you can conclude that the current sexual morality is somehow lacking.
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The current sexual morality is insufficient to describe reality.
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I have a feeling that as a culture, what we're going to do is just say, you know, there's
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nothing really wrong with marrying a chandelier because that's easier and you don't have to
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tell someone that their desires ought to be repressed or that their desires are wrong.
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In order to speak about this in a serious way, in a way that has something to do with the truth,
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in the way that we all know on a base level that you shouldn't marry a 91-year-old chandelier,
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that actually there's no such thing as marrying a 91-year-old chandelier.
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In order to speak about this, you need to be able to speak about ordered and disordered desires.
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That means that we need to be able to speak about purpose.
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Your love is not made for 91-year-old chandeliers.
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Your sexual desires are not made for the Lady Liberty statue.
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That means that we need to be able to speak about objective truth.
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Whatever the definition of marriage is, it's never involved chandeliers.
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All we have left in our culture is sentimentality.
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if we can't be mature and discuss serious things,
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love, joy, purpose, telos, the good, religion, culture,
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if we can't talk about those things like adults,
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then we're all going to start marrying chandeliers.
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We'll at least be in a culture where people are marrying chandeliers.
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You know, what this woman is saying is the sort of thing that a three-year-old would say.
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It's cute when a two-year-old or three-year-old says that.
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But our culture, because we are largely uneducated and largely uncultured,
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In many ways, the so-called elites are the least educated people among us.
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and you're going to see a lot more chandelier weddings.
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On the realm of actual hard real politics of people trying to behave like adults,
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let's turn to a serious, hardcore, urgent, immediate political problem,
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It turns out, according to a report now from U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
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question, President Trump has not built a single mile of new fencing since he's been in office.
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That's according, maybe there's another report that will contradict that,
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but according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
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all the fencing that has been built since Trump was elected
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has been built in place of dilapidated designs.
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51 miles have been built with the money set aside in 2017 and 2018.
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Since Trump took office, they've built 1.7 miles on average per month,
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205 miles of new and replacement wall has been funded since Trump took office.
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Now, in their defense, why have they only focused on replacing walls rather than building new walls?
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It's because it's way easier to replace the walls.
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Not just the Democrats in Congress obstructing it,
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but the environmental laws, the regulations from the EPA,
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the regulations from the bureaucracy, what we call the deep state.
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It's much easier to get the environmental and zoning permits in the areas that already have walls
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than to get them elsewhere, even five feet of new fencing.
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This shows the immense difficulty of building the wall.
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Nevertheless, President Trump needs to come up with a plan here,
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He keeps insisting that he's built a lot of the wall.
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Now, you really mean finish that wall because we've built a lot of them.
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He's rebuilt portions of the wall, but he has not built new wall.
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And eventually, people are going to notice that there's no new wall.
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Trump has been very good at fulfilling campaign promises,
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but this was a key promise of his campaign, and he hasn't done it.
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And it's going to be a glaring weakness in 2020 unless he comes up with an answer to it,
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unless he starts breaking ground on new wall, unless he can reframe this issue.
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It's really depressing news, but it's why you don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.
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This is not one of those issues where Trump is going to be able to get away with it,
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where he's going to be able to say, well, we really meant rebuilding old walls.
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It's hard, and when you make those promises, you've got to fulfill them.
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People are going to be chanting, build the wall, finish the wall.
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If there's no wall, we're all going to look like we have egg on our face.
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The White House needs to put some focus on this.
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Now, this is not to recommend any of the left-wing presidential campaigns
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They are almost all falling apart, and the best story, the best one of all,
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There is a new report out that shows that Bernie Sanders, the socialist,
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he wants $15 minimum wage for everyone, pay everybody as much money as we can.
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He is not paying his own campaign staffers very much.
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He's paying them less than he wants the minimum wage to be.
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Now, look, when I saw the report that he's not paying his staffers much,
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First of all, campaign work is often very basic work.
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It's not worth $15 an hour if you're just passing out pamphlets
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It's very basic work that virtually anyone can do if they're motivated to do it.
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A lot of people on campaigns volunteer because they actually care about it, right?
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Campaigns are not motivated by making a profit, or they shouldn't be at least.
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They're supposed to be nonprofit organizations.
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They're supposed to be motivated by activism rather than money.
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My first campaign that I ever worked on, I made, on average, 75 cents per hour.
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The trouble is Bernie is running on a $15 minimum wage,
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and he won't extend that courtesy to his own employees.
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So last Thursday night, his staff leaks this story to the press,
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that they've unionized and they're fighting for the $15 minimum wage,
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and Bernie, the fake union champion, is fighting them on it.
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So after this leaks to the press, it gets even better because the Bernie campaign responds and says,
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it is disrespectful to the bargaining unit that put so much work into this process
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that someone would take their concerns and go to the press.
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Whatever happened to democracy dies in darkness?
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Very different when it affects a left-wing campaign.
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Now, that's not even the best part of the story,
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that like all socialists, that he's a total hypocrite.
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now that this has come to the press's attention and the public's attention,
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He's promised he'll pay his workers $15 an hour and cut their hours.
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He's doing, he's showing you what happens under socialism.
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He's showing you what happens when you raise the minimum wage.
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You're not entitled to a job at a company or on a campaign.
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but that's not magically going to make more money appear.
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No, it's actually a big loss for labor because they're losing.
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He's just taking away their opportunities to work.
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And by the way, the purpose of working on a campaign is not to make money.
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I'm very proud to be the first presidential candidate to recognize a union
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Well, it turns out Bernie's learning about socialism for the first time, right?
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The reason he's never learned about socialism is because he has always failed to implement his ideas.
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He's been in the government for about 50 years.
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He's never implemented any of his ideas, right?
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He's transformed ideologically the Democratic Party.
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But he's never actually affected any of his ideas.
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So he's never dealt with the consequences of them.
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Now he's learning in real time that his ideas don't work.
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That you can't just raise the minimum wage without any consequence.
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And that actually raising the so-called minimum wage often, if not always, hurts the people that it's intended to help.
00:43:13.260
Before we go, I have to talk about this ASAP Rocky tweet.
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President Trump sent out a tweet over the weekend that is his most popular tweet of all time.
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I sometimes wonder if dead loved ones came back to life and I had to explain to them all the craziness that's happened since they've been gone.
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Just spoke to Kanye West about his friend ASAP Rocky's incarceration.
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I will be calling the very talented Prime Minister of Sweden to see what we can do about helping ASAP Rocky.
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So many people would like to see this quickly resolved.
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This is Trump's most popular tweet of all time.
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I mean, in a very technical way, this is by far the most popular tweet he's ever sent.
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And it shows you Trump's superpower, which is the culture.
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So ASAP Rocky got, or he was arrested in Sweden because his team got into a fight with some guys who looked like they had been harassing ASAP Rocky.
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He is the most pop culture aware president since Reagan, and even more than Reagan.
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Because when Reagan was in the White House, he was palling around with Sinatra and Jimmy Stewart.
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He was palling around with stores of an earlier era.
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Trump is palling around with Kanye West and calling about ASAP Rocky.
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And it shows you, look, I don't know ASAP Rocky.
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This is true of most people who spend their life in politics.
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Because you're just focused on politics all the time, and you're not, especially conservatives, you're not listening to hip-hop a lot or rap.
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Most people don't care about Kamala Harris' health care plan.
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Most people have no idea what it is and have never thought about it for two seconds.
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But most people in the pop culture know who ASAP Rocky is.
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Most people care a lot more that a guy named ASAP Rocky is in a Swedish prison than that Kamala Harris might abolish private health insurance.
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All these different guys in pop culture are boycotting Sweden to help their friend ASAP Rocky.
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Trump is the proof of the Breitbart, Andrew Breitbart slogan.
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And for those conservatives especially who say, oh, Trump, stop tweeting about ASAP Rocky and Kanye.
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And this tweet about ASAP Rocky and Kanye West is the most popular thing the president has ever tweeted.
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I know it's so hard for those of us to believe.
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Those of us who talk about politics all the time.
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Maybe President Trump knows how to bring people together.
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Maybe he knows how to talk to a whole group of Americans.
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But in a way that isn't just harping on the same old dry, wonky, think tank luncheon kind of topics.
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That have led other conservatives to fail at elections.
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You know, people knock Trump for watching Fox News too much.
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They knock him for getting all his news from Fox and Friends or wherever.
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Between a luncheon at a think tank and Fox and Friends, between reading the latest dissertation in some intellectual political journal and listening to ASAP Rocky and talking to Kanye West, guess which gives you the better pulse on politics?
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We talked about the difference between fantasy world and reality.
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This affects conservatives in politics too because I think we have this fantasy world of politics where everything that matters is about intellectual dissertations in political journals, journals of political philosophy.
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The Democrat fantasy world is that it's this awful racial, bigoted, maniac place, you know, Nazis everywhere.
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The reality of it is a lot closer to we love our country, we like our flag, and a lot of Americans like ASAP Rocky.
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It's a little weird for those of us who don't care about the pop culture that much, who don't care about hip hop.
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Maybe Andrew Breitbart was on to something too.
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Hey, guys, over on The Matt Wall Show, a Democratic lawmaker claims that she was the victim of a racist verbal assault at the grocery store.
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And then it turns out, shockingly, twist ending, there is more to the story than she originally let on.
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Also, a man in Canada is trying to legally force women to touch his genitals.
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And he might actually succeed in his quest because he claims to be a woman himself.
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We'll talk about it today over on The Matt Wall Show.