Ep. 399 - Big Tech Censorship Is All About 2020
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Two months after leftist cry bully Carlos Maza tried to get Stephen Crowder and other conservatives thrown off of YouTube,
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We talked yesterday about how conservatives should react to the political misfortunes of our political foes.
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And of course, we should extend an olive branch, even to Carlos Maza, even to leftists who relentlessly seek to smear and silence us tomorrow.
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We will analyze what Vox's move means for 2020, particularly in light of a Google whistleblower's latest document dump on the tech giant's political interference efforts.
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Then, sex trafficker and cartoonish supervillain Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy reveals broken bones in his neck that are more consistent with homicide than suicide.
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We will examine for any Clintons watching why he still totally committed suicide, and this is all perfectly normal, and I don't know nothing.
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Then, a quick look at 2020, finally the mailbag.
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Two and a half months after Carlos Maza tried to get Crowder and other conservatives, and obviously they were looking down the pike at us, trying to take them all off of YouTube, it appears, it's being reported right now, that Carlos Maza is being fired from Vox.com.
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If you do not remember this insufferable leftist bully, here he is.
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The stuff he was saying was not, had nothing to do with my political views.
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He was calling me a lispy queer, and a sprite, and a fairy, and he called me a gay Mexican, and he would routinely make fun of the way that I spoke, and just do gay impressions.
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He made kind of gruesome sexual comments about me.
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I hope that YouTube recognizes that the end result of this is not some happy medium.
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If the teacher never intervenes, the kids who are getting bullied in the playground will leave the playground, and that's what's happening to YouTube.
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That's right, the bullies, it looked like the bullies were going to just run the whole internet.
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The bullies, of course, not being Stephen Crowder, the bullies being this jerk who's trying to silence all of his political opponents.
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He was angry at Crowder for calling him gay and queer.
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Do you know what this guy's personally selected Twitter handle is?
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By the way, we've been told that queer is the new politically correct term.
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It's in the acronym LGBTQ, used not only by gay people themselves, but also by straight politicians.
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But only the good ones, only the progressive ones can use the term.
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The conservative ones, if you use it, it's the same as the N-word.
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Outrageous stuff trying to get us all kicked off.
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Now it looks like he's going down, according to reports.
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This was one of the first media guys to call Tucker Carlson a white supremacist.
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I mean, in many ways, Carlos Maz is ahead of his time.
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He is kind of leading the progressive political tactics.
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He had in his Twitter bio, Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist.
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Now all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are not only calling Tucker Carlson a white supremacist,
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they're calling all of the Trump supporters, half of the country, conservatives and Republicans,
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referring to them as white nationalists and white supremacists.
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So I think Carlos Maz, I mean, I got to give the devil his due.
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He recognized that the way that Democrats can avoid what happened in 2016,
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that the left and Democrats can avoid the re-election of Donald Trump
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and keep on losing their races is by censoring their opponents.
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The way to do it is because the left controls the flow of information around the internet
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because all of the big tech companies are decidedly, invariably leftist.
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The way that they can do it is by censoring us, shutting us up,
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ruthlessly silencing conservatives on the internet.
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Carlos Maz flew a little bit too close to the sun.
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And I think this is the right move for Vox to fire him.
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I said, it's a bad look for a media company to censor their opponents.
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It's a bad look for an outlet, a news outlet and a commentary outlet,
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to be trying to silence and censor other people.
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By the way, we need to darken the office buildings of every single one of our competitors.
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I mean, and the left also has operative organizations that exist to silence conservatives
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So they don't even need Vox.com to fill that gap.
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I think as a business decision, as a journalistic decision, they had to fire this guy.
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But this ties in with what we're talking about over here at Google.
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I mean, I'm really glad that Carlos Maza is going down.
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I am really glad that the timing works to prove my rule yesterday.
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The rule I said yesterday is I don't want to jump on Fredo Cuomo for having a couple drinks
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and defending his honor at a restaurant or a beer garden or wherever he was.
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I don't want to jump on Don Lemon because of just some allegations in a lawsuit.
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There is nothing high-minded about unilaterally disarming and letting the left destroy our
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I think there are some conservatives who think that by remaining above it all and not engaging
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with political realities saying, well, I'm never going to get my hands dirty, that that's somehow
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There's nothing good about letting guys like Carlos Maza totally destroy our culture and
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So I'm, I'm glad that we have to, that we're getting into this.
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I'm glad that this guy's going down and I would be happy to extend grace to my political
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But they need to extend grace to us three times in a row, just three times in a row.
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Some, some non-traversy comes up, some tweet or something, some, you know, they can go after
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Sean Hannity or Tucker Carlson or one of us, or I don't know.
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They can, they could go after one of us and they choose not to.
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If they do it three times, I'm willing to extend grace to the left until they do that
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And I, and by the way, I'm not just talking about random Twitter accounts or something.
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I'm talking about the, these, these guys, Vox.com is a huge outlet on the left.
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The, the people who are out there forward facing the 2020 democratic presidential candidates,
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if they extend grace three times in a row, we'll extend grace to them.
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If they don't, we're going to laugh in Carlos Maz's face.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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We'll see what this means for big tech generally.
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So this ties in with what we're talking about on big tech generally.
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There's a whistleblower from Google that just came out thanks to Project Veritas and James
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He delivered nearly 1,000 pages of documents to the Department of Justice's antitrust division
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demonstrating that Google manipulated its algorithms in such a way that it biased its
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search engine results against conservatives, against Republicans, against Christians, all
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the people who are politically incorrect these days.
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Google was actively going out of their way to suppress them.
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I felt that our entire election system was going to be compromised forever by this company
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that told the American public that it was not going to do any evil.
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This is the best thing that I can do in the situation that I'm currently at.
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He's not even using one of those masks or anything like that.
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He's coming out because he said that this was compromising our election system.
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This is the greatest irony of the last three years of Russian collusion and the illegitimate
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election because the Democrats can't ever admit that they lost a presidential election.
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They accused Republicans of cheating on the election.
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There is no evidence that that happened whatsoever.
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The left, however, did interfere in the election.
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They did skirt FEC rules because they don't need to point out that when you have the largest
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companies that control the flow of internet information, when you have them working for
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one side of the political aisle, that is obviously an in-kind contribution that is worth millions
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and millions and millions of dollars, if not more, and they get to do it.
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They, first of all, they control the flow of information around the internet.
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They do it when they don't just do it on Google, they do it on Facebook.
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If there's a story they don't want getting around, they can suppress it, and they regularly
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One thing they did to us for a while is when you'd search for Daily Wire, you'd get a bunch
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of results of leftist organizations talking about how terrible we are.
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Those would be some of the first results to come up.
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You say, okay, I want to hear about this story.
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They say, oh, I can't trust Daily Wire because the organizations that Google is promoting don't
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So every little thing you've ever typed in, every little weird search that you've put
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I know you look at some weird stuff on the internet.
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I'm talking about stuff like the Michael Knowles show.
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Maybe you don't want that to get out there because you could lose your job and your reputation.
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There might not be protections on it even if it were.
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But it's just a random corporation, a super powerful corporation, a very leftist corporation
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And then they can manipulate the appearance of reality itself.
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I mean, this is, we'll get to deep fakes in a second.
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They have total leverage over you and what you think and all your deepest, darkest secrets
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And now they can manipulate the appearance of reality itself.
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I mean, it's very, if you haven't looked at deep fakes, the New York Times is warning about
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There is now technology that can so manipulate video that you can't even believe your own eyes.
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Deep fakes actually kind of take us to the logical conclusion of this big tech behemoth.
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So if you haven't seen or heard a deep fake, check this one out.
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Frankly, it sounds almost exactly like him too.
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We're entering an era in which our enemies can make it look like anyone is saying anything
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at any point in time, even if they would never say those things.
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So, for instance, they could have me say things like, I don't know, Killmonger was right.
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Or, how about this, simply, President Trump is a total and complete dipshit.
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Now, you see, I would never say these things, at least not in a public address.
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You can see it's Jordan Peele there, and he's the one who's just coming up with all of this monologue.
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I mean, he's just a comedian, and he's coming up with this monologue.
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The voice isn't perfect, but if the voice were a little bit better, it would be indistinguishable.
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Because on the video features, the Obama's face, you almost, it's 99.9%, you couldn't tell that it's a fake video.
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And there's a lot of alarm, people are freaking out over this, because, talk about future dystopia.
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Someone, some big tech giant could just make a fake video.
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And you wouldn't be able to separate the real video from reality.
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I mean, we're within like two years of these being pretty much perfect.
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I think this is helpful to taking down some of this tyranny of big tech.
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The coffee you had this morning, the walk you took with your dog, your drive while you were Instagramming a story,
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as you were driving and, you know, also recording something else and also, everything is out there.
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And this is especially true for a generation that grew up with Facebook.
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We finally got Facebook when I was in eighth or ninth grade, I think.
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So people were all uploading their photos and their information.
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And now you have a whole generation that didn't exist without those kind of companies.
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So I remember at the time, we were in high school, and I was thinking, gosh,
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when people run for office in 20 or 30 years from this generation,
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We're going to know every beer they had in high school.
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We're going to know, I mean, we're going to know everything about them.
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What is that going to mean for politicians who often are guarded, who guard their privacy?
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The question you have to ask yourself is, what do those photos and videos really tell us?
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The best example is the grab-em-by-the-you-know-what video,
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the Access Hollywood tape that came out in 2016.
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This video, this was going to end Trump's presidential campaign.
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Because Trump was caught on a hot mic having this private exchange locker room talk with
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Billy Bush saying, yeah, these girls, when you're a star, they let you do whatever you want to them.
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I'm saying he enjoys the company of women and has dated many, many women while he was married,
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Tells us that Trump has a little bit of a naughty mouth while he's talking with the boys, ostensibly in private.
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But there was this shock of seeing it on video.
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Because the visual is so much more compelling than just the argument.
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You know, this is why politicians have television ads.
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It's why they spend so much time manicuring their image.
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It's because the images strike us so much more to our core than merely arguments.
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This is why Hollywood is so incredibly successful at manipulating our culture.
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That's why not just leftist culture in the United States,
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but it's actually why the United States has used Hollywood and film as a tool of what is called on the left cultural imperialism.
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What we're doing is we're exporting our culture and exerting soft influence around the world.
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You know, if Trump had run for office in 10 years from now, he could say,
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Now, we know it's a real video because it happened 10 or 15 years ago.
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I think that we should focus in our politics on what's going on now, on things that actually matter.
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Obviously, you want to know the character of the guys that you're electing.
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But I don't care that he said some naughty word on tape 15 years ago.
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It could have an outsized effect on the electorate, and I don't think it should.
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Frankly, I don't even really care about Governor Northam's yearbook photo,
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It's him either wearing blackface or more likely wearing a KKK hood.
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I care if he's discriminating against people now.
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But I don't care about this gotcha thing from 15 years ago.
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I mean, I do care about the hypocrisy, but I don't care about the thing itself.
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I mean, this has been what we were talking about yesterday and what we're talking about today.
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This could be a way to loosen up that tyranny of the Internet, that tyranny of images,
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And we have to break up the power and credibility of big tech.
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We can do it corporate death by a thousand cuts.
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We can't do it fast enough, and we should do it through leaks, inquiries, investigations,
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prosecutions, lawsuits, anything and everything.
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You know, big tech makes our life incredibly convenient.
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Facebook, Twitter, Google, it makes life so convenient.
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It makes it so easy to do research, to do business, to connect with friends, to do all of that.
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The cost is surrendering your culture and politics to unaccountable, decidedly leftist corporate masters of the universe.
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If we broke up those companies, there's a cost.
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Maybe a cost of convenience, maybe a monetary cost.
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We've convinced ourselves that, oh, yeah, we get to use all these great services online, and they're totally free.
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The cost of your data and the cost of your culture and politics.
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You know, we've gone on for 20 years now pretending there's no cost.
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We've pretended that there's no cost to just importing all these cheap Chinese goods.
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There's a cost in now they're our biggest creditor.
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There's a cost in that we don't have a ton of manufacturing anymore because we shipped it all overseas because we wanted cheap technological goods from China.
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There's a cost that now they can challenge us in the South China Sea or at other points of interest for us around the world.
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Maybe you've got to pay a little bit more for a t-shirt.
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Maybe you've got to pay a little bit more to use some gadget or to use some aspect of technology.
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Before we get to the mailbag, I have to talk about Jeffrey Epstein.
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This autopsy has now revealed that Epstein had multiple breaks in his neck, specifically in the hyoid bone, which experts told the Washington Post is more common in homicide than suicide.
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One medical study of suicidal hangings cited in this report found that the hyoid bone was broken in only 16 out of 264 cases.
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And we're talking about hangings, you know, where people usually jump off of a stool and so there's a huge drop and there's a crack.
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In this hanging, Epstein didn't have that opportunity.
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He would have had to just basically lean forward from a bedpost using a sheet and to try to asphyxiate himself.
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So it's even less likely that that bone would have been broken in his case.
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Now the former bodyguard of his was talking to New York Magazine.
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He's contradicting things that he had said years ago in an interview.
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He seemed very nervous, according to the interviewer.
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However, obviously, there's more to this story.
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You know, this guy, you have this guy, this former Russian UFC fighter.
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He's this really tough guy who years ago in 2015 in a New York Mag interview was saying,
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And then now all of a sudden after this suicide, after the death of Epstein, he's nervous.
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I have this image off camera of Hillary Clinton there standing with a baseball bat in her hand like,
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Some people are still insisting this was a completely accidental suicide.
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You got to ask me to believe a lot of coincidences to believe that,
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The two guards just happened to fall asleep at exactly the same time for hours and hours.
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You've got to tell me that the suicide watch that he was on, he was taken off of that.
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You've got to tell me that he decided to off himself right at the perfect point of the news cycle.
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You've got to tell me that all those very, very powerful people all around the world who wanted him dead,
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who benefited from him dead, just a coincidence.
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You've got to tell me that he managed to crack this bone in his neck more,
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which would be more commonly done in strangulation than in hanging.
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He just happened to be one of the unlucky ones.
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Oh, and by the way, he did it by pulling on a bed sheet on his knees rather than the way it would normally happen by hanging.
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The conspiracy theory now, the craziest conspiracy theory, is that he just accidentally did it.
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That he just accidentally was allowed to kill himself.
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The people telling you otherwise are, I got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell them.
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I got a bridge right across the river from that jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
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An Economist YouGov poll has Elizabeth Warren up to 20%.
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This is among all likely primary and caucus voters.
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We are now getting to the point where this primary is really heating up.
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As we predicted, it looks like Joe Biden's best day was his first day.
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Other candidates are jumping up, including Elizabeth Warren.
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These next debates are going to be very interesting because you are going to see that crowd winnow down very, very quickly.
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You've got all these guys, Beto, Julian Castro.
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They're desperately trying to pull their last minute Hail Mary plays.
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Ain't going anywhere, unfortunately, for those guys.
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We're about to see the 2020 race actually kick into high gear.
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And poor old Sleepy Joe just seems to be sliding and sliding further down.
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I'm going to fly through this mailbag from Shannon.
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Michael, I was sad to see that the name Fredo is considered an ethnic slur.
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That has been my husband Alfredo's nickname ever since we've been married.
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It's the same name as Fred or Frederick or Alfred.
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The name in itself took on this kind of connotation of a weak or stupid guy because of the Godfather.
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I mean, they're trying to turn it into an ethnic slur the same way a name like Paco,
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a Spanish name like Paco, is now used as a kind of slur for Hispanic people.
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I could go, I mean, I could name a dozen ethnic slurs for Italians right now.
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You know, to use one example, there's a phrase, Dago, that you use for Italians.
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So WAP, there are all these different etymologies for WAP.
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No, it actually comes from the Neapolitan word guapo, which is just like guy, dude, you
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And so from that, you get the word WAP that comes out of it.
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Is the word guapo a terrible word in and of itself?
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But it's used and become a slur against Italians.
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Fredo is an insult for idiots, not for Italians.
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And it's a perfectly fine name, so just go on calling your husband Fredo, no big deal.
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From Jonathan, what is your opinion on the separation of church and state?
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I'm very keen on keeping the church away from, or I'm very keen, rather, on keeping the
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church protected from my state and keeping the state out of the affairs of my church.
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We have in this country a First Amendment that does not establish a religion.
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So we have a history in the United States of religious pluralism.
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The first people who came over here on the Mayflower wanted to practice their own puritanical
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There were other varieties of that that came over, which established their own colonies.
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You had Maryland was a Catholic colony, Maryland.
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And because of that religious pluralistic history, we have a history of religious toleration
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But the fact that we don't establish a church in the United States does not mean that we're
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some kind of secular country like the people who insist on the separation of church and
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And by the way, there's no such thing as a perfect separation of church and state because
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The nation has certain sacred things that it holds together.
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I mean, you can just look in our so-called secular culture today.
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We have secular saints like Martin Luther King.
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But the image of Martin Luther King that has been created in the American civic religion
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is in many ways a different figure than the actual man himself, Martin Luther King.
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When you go to the National Mall, speaking of Dr. King, we have lots of monuments and memorials
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Those, what does the Washington Monument look like?
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Is it just a statue of Lincoln standing there giving a speech?
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It's him sitting like a god in a Greco-Roman temple.
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We have oaths of allegiance, pledge of allegiance.
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We have Black History Month to celebrate a particular leftist vision of black history.
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It's not actually celebrating black history, but it's celebrating this particular ideology
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It's celebrating a particular ideological view of women's history.
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I mean, we are celebrating pride, which is actually the queen of all sins.
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That gets its own month to be consecrated and celebrated on that calendar.
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I'm not even knocking it because nature pours a vacuum and man has religious longings.
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And at the bottom of our politics is culture and at the bottom of that is religion.
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And so we are going to turn our religious longings toward something.
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And historically in the United States, that's been toward Christianity or a version of Christianity.
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And now increasingly it's toward a version of secular liberalism or leftism.
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Even I, who I think I look very realistically at what the separation of church and state means
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and what not establishing a church in the United States means.
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But even for people who think we are going to have this firm, hard separation,
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they just need to understand it's not possible.
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The question in our politics is what are we going to consecrate?
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Recently on Ben Shapiro's Sunday special, you mentioned that you speak several languages.
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What languages do you speak and how did you come to learn them?
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So the only languages that I actually speak, I have a very firm grasp on,
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are English, depending on the day of the week, and Italian.
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Which is why I'm allowed to say all of those Italian awful ethnic slurs like Fredo.
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And spent a lot of time reading Italian literature.
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I'm going to hear words here and there and some dialect.
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But there are a lot of studies that show that heritage learners
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just learn the language of their heritage much more quickly
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than say if I wanted to pick up Swahili or something.
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And this is specifically true not for the children of immigrants,
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Because they want to not lose a culture that is quickly going away.
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I did study Esperanto when I was in high school.
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It's a language that you can learn in 10 lessons.
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And one way that I try to make my Latin better is I go to the traditional Latin mass.
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So I can incrementally get a little bit better with my Latin.
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But the nice thing about learning a Romance language is once you pick one up fairly well,
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If I go into a Spanish mass, I can understand almost all of what's going on.
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People in the U.S. don't learn a ton of languages.
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But when you learn language, I think more than really any other educational endeavor,
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And not just because you can read different literature,
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but because you understand symbols and meaning in a different way.
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And you should learn more languages better than I do because I was a little bit derelict in it.
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Hey, Michael, the national debt and the spending deficit continue to be a problem for the U.S.
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Spending seems to have increased under the Trump administration,
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and Republicans don't seem to care about it anymore.
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what would you do to balance the budget and pay off,
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What cuts would you make or what departments would you eliminate?
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I wouldn't abolish the whole EPA, but they have a giant, humongous...
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I wouldn't give them warning either, by the way.
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I would knock half the building down and let half the people fall out onto the sidewalk,
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I would leave, I don't know, half or a tenth of the people in that building.
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Then I would take my caterpillar wrecking ball to the IRS,
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The people I left at the EPA, I guess they can go do some of the taxes or something at the IRS.
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Then I would take that caterpillar wrecking ball to the education department.
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I would eliminate quite a lot of these superfluous federal agencies
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that have been created in the last 40, 50 years.
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The reason I would do it is not because I hate the environment.
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I do hate taxation, but it is a necessary evil.
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I understand it's supposed to protect the environment,
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It usually just makes it harder for business to operate.
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and it doesn't actually protect the environment.
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almost more from a matter of personal liberty than saving money,
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stimulate the economy by taking away those burdensome regulations.
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The only way to actually get the debt issue under control
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You have to change the massive entitlement programs,
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They are not sustainable at the moment for people who say,
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You have to reform them in keeping with demographic changes,
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and to stabilize programs that were unstable from the very beginning.
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There was a moment in 2010 to 20, I don't know, 2012, 2013,
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when it seemed like conservatives and Republicans
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were talking a good game on entitlement reform.
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So, I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon.
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I mean, we knew that when we voted for President Trump.
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He's done a very good job on most of those priorities.
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But if you do want to get deficits and debt under control,
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when it comes to those massive entitlement programs.
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nearly impossible, to reform them or to pull them back.
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who say it's impossible for stories in the Bible
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to have happened, like Noah's Ark and other parts?
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Oh, what part, I mean, what are you talking about?
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that it's impossible for stories to have happened.
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So, you can point to all those historical moments,
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I don't even know if it's mostly a history book.