Ep. 402 - What Ever Happened To AOC？
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has disappeared faster than a Clinton enemy on suicide watch. Where is she? Conspiracy theories abound as to what could be going on with the missing congresswoman from New York.
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I never thought I'd ask this, but here it goes.
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The socialist congresswoman from Westchester has disappeared faster than a Clinton enemy on suicide watch.
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We will examine where Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went and what it means for the Democratic Party.
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Then, President Trump gets promoted from president to chosen one.
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We will examine the difference between humility and modesty.
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We look at what it means for corporations and politicians.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I can't believe I'm asking it, but where is AOC?
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AOC has been the dominant personality in the news.
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And in certain news cycles, she's dominated the news even more than President Trump.
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Then, three weeks ago, she fired her chief of staff, a guy named Saikot Chagrabarty.
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And now, she has vanished from the face of the earth.
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At least, she's vanished from Twitter and from the news headlines.
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This fuels a conspiracy theory that has been going on since March.
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I say conspiracy theory, by the way, now in quotes, because now we know that the fluoride
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We know that the frogs actually are turning gay.
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We're supposed to believe that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself on suicide watch.
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So, I think we're all Alex Jones at this point, and the conspiracy theory is just our reality.
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This particular so-called conspiracy theory was put forward back in March by a guy named
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And the theory is that AOC is not really a conviction politician who's now in Congress.
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She's an actress who was cast by progressive Democrats to play a congressional candidate.
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Then she won, and now she's sort of acting out the role of a congresswoman.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not really the congresswoman of New York's 14th congressional district.
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She's merely playing the part of a New York congresswoman.
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In 2017, a group called the Justice Democrats held auditions for potential congressional candidates
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that they would run on their platform for various congressional seats throughout the country.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's brother Gabriel submitted her for the role.
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Now, I didn't have to go digging for evidence for this, because they freely admit it.
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Back in 2016, we put out a call for nominations.
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Out of those 10,000 nominations, we found Alexandria.
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My brother told me that he had sent my nomination in the summer,
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but I was, like, literally working out of a restaurant.
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So, this tells you, not just the conspiracy theory, but what's happened over the last three weeks.
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This tells you a lot about AOC and the left-wing media, the left generally, the way that they treat conspiracy theories and the real conspiracy.
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Now, this conspiracy theory, so-called, about AOC for Mr. Reagan, is really not much of a conspiracy theory.
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It says the Justice Democrats, a radical left-wing progressive group, recruited candidates to run.
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We know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's brother sent in her tape, nominated her to be cast by this organization.
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We know that the Justice Democrats picked her because they ran her campaign.
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We know that they ran her campaign because then she nominated and appointed the head of the Justice Democrats,
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the co-founder of it, Sycott Chagrabarty, to be her chief of staff.
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It later came out, by the way, that this guy, Sycott Chagrabarty, had embezzled nearly a million dollars from the campaign
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and funneled it to his own businesses for his own uses.
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But then the way that we know that the so-called conspiracy theory is true,
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that basically these progressive operatives found an empty-headed bartender rather and turned her into a congresswoman
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The way we know that that is very likely true is when she fired the head of the Justice Democrats as her chief of staff,
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The magic was gone because apparently he was the brains behind the operation.
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I don't even think I can get through that without laughing a little bit because I said the brains behind AOC,
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But she really did have a great deal of cleverness, a real savvy for the media.
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That appears to have disappeared immediately when that guy was fired.
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Most importantly, it kind of puts the kibosh on conspiracies and conspiracy theories.
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And this is important for a week that we've learned that fluoride in the water hurts people.
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We have known for a while now that the frickin' frogs are turning gay.
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What this shows is that, yes, there are puppet masters for puppets.
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AOC may very well be a Charlie McCarthy doll, a little marionette who's getting her puppet strings pulled
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by more intelligent and more ideologically formed left-wingers like Sykatch Agrabarty and the Justice Democrats.
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However, once the puppets get into power, they have the power.
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So the Justice Democrats, they were the puppet masters.
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And AOC was just there like, blah, blah, blah, Green New Deal, blah, blah, blah.
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And she was just parroting whatever they wanted her to say.
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And I say it might be a bad political decision.
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I mean, she was saying a lot of things, getting a lot of attention, dominating the conversation.
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But if she wasn't doing what she wanted to do, if it wasn't serving her political interests, then it was absolutely right to fire them.
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There might have come a point when the political interests of the Justice Democrats and the political interests of AOC diverge.
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And at that point, she's going to look out for number one.
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The second thing that this shows is that the leftist media is just completely dishonest.
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And in the leftist media, I'm including the so-called fact checkers.
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Snopes.com, the fact checker, had an article that said, quote,
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Is Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an actress playing a congresswoman?
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And what's so dishonest about that is, I guess that that line could be false.
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Technically, by definition, that's false because she is now a congresswoman.
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But if the point of that article is supposed to be, was she simply cast in this role by Justice Democrats who ran everything that she was doing up until very recently?
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The Justice Democrats have admitted that that's true.
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But the media just can't give you that reality.
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So they put out an article that is 99.9% a lie in order to serve their narrative.
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And then the third thing that this shows, this is the most difficult part.
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The left is much harder to defeat than just one or two politicians.
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We think, you know, you see AOC or Ilhan Omar or Rashida Tlaib or somebody like that.
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And you think, I really don't like that person.
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If I just get them out of Congress, then the country will be better.
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When it comes to the left, they don't really matter that much.
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The left and the right have different approaches to politics.
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If you take out one of the right-wing political stars, you have seriously damaged the right.
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If you take out a left-wing political star, you haven't.
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Because the left operates in a much more institutional way than the right does.
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Then we have a handful of think tanks, and that's it.
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It's pretty much just these individual personalities.
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For the left, it's much more institutionalized.
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They actually don't have very many star media figures.
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And they have a few smaller media figures on MSNBC, like Rachel Maddow, for instance.
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That's my second job, obviously, is I put my Warby Parker glasses on.
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I go over to MSNBC because I need a second income.
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But their ratings are very low over there at MSNBC.
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And the same thing is true on they don't really have radio.
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What they have instead of media stars is they have media, quote-unquote, watchdog, media operative groups,
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whose purpose is not to put out their own content but to get the right-wing content fired because we rely on media personalities on the right.
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And so they have groups like Media Matters and others whose whole job it is is to watch our shows and then try to get us fired and try to get our advertisers boycotted.
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Then they've also got the countless astroturf operative organizations such as the Justice Democrats because AOC can rise and fall, but the Justice Democrats are going to stick around.
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The individual politicians can rise and fall, but the George Soros Open Society Foundation network that funds all of these left-wing astroturf groups,
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they're not grassroots groups, they're not organic, they are astroturfed in from above, those are going to stick around.
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Maybe the right needs to become a little bit more institutional.
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You know, the left learned this lesson 50 years ago.
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They took on what they called the long march through the institutions.
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So they've hollowed out the universities, most notably.
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It's just basically just the last 50 years or so that they really went hardcore.
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And the advantage to that strategy, it's not as glamorous, it's not as sexy, it takes a long time, but then you've got it.
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If you've got Hollywood, then you've got the biggest cultural microphone.
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If you've got the universities, then you are shaping the minds of the entire next generation.
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But we have got to establish that institutional presence or else we are at the mercy of, and we're at the whims of fortune, and we're at the mercy of the left, and we're at the whims of the left.
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I miss the stupid things she would say that we could then all make fun of.
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But there's going to be another AOC because the organization that put AOC in power ain't going away.
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The New York Times had a headline back in February that said, I'm paraphrasing the headline, but it was something to the effect of the Justice Democrats helped AOC get elected.
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They've already got their eyes on other candidates.
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There's going to be another AOC that pops up, and we've got to be able to match that strategy.
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We've got to talk about our own star politician, President Trump, who just got promoted to the king of Israel, which is this, by the way, this is being totally, obviously, misconstrued by the left intentionally.
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But even some conservatives are whining and crying and clutching their pearls.
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We'll get to what was bad about Trump's comments.
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We'll get to what that actually means, and we'll put it into context of modesty and humility.
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Speaking of feeling safe, I feel so much safer now that our president is not only the duly elected
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president of the United States, but he is the king of Israel and apparently the chosen one,
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That is because of a story that came out from a radio talk show host that President Trump
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then, of course, retweeted because he couldn't help himself.
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And this whole hubbub, we'll talk about the hubbub, but the main takeaway from it, I find,
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that people always misunderstand is the difference between humility and modesty.
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The difference between false modesty, which we have a lot of in this culture,
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and true humility, which we don't have a lot of.
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So, yesterday, King of Israel, Second Coming, and Antichrist were trending on Twitter.
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It's because President Trump tweeted something, which to the left is the end times.
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So, they can't tell the difference between those two.
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Trump tweeted out a compliment from the radio host, Wayne Allen Root,
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in which Root praised President Trump in a really, some might say hyperbolic way,
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and alluded to him as the king of Israel and the second coming of God.
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Don't forget, I don't know, if you haven't watched the show, I happen to be Jewish by birth,
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and 75% of all Jews vote Democrat, and they don't like Trump.
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And this is the greatest president for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world,
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not just America. Trump's the best president for Israel in the history of the world,
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and the Jewish people love him like he is the king of Israel.
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They love him like he is the second coming of God.
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Okay. So, there's one big issue, before we get to the theological issues,
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there is just one thing he said that doesn't strike very strongly,
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which is the Jews can't think that Trump is the second coming of God
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because the Jews don't think the first coming of God has happened yet.
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it cannot be the case that they think of Trump as the second coming.
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The political point that this guy is trying to make is correct.
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Israel named an entire town after President Trump,
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and Israel also named an important train station after President Trump.
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President Trump moved the embassy, finally, in Israel, from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
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and Trump was the first president with the guts to actually do it.
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Bibi Netanyahu, prime minister, basically campaigned on how he was friends with President Trump.
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He's, Trump has been better for Israel than any president in U.S. history,
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and her husband, her Jewish husband, is a senior advisor to the president.
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So, he is a good president for Jews and a good president for Israel.
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Now, the theological point somehow managed to offend both Jews and Christians.
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Obviously, the Jews don't think he's the second coming because they're waiting on the first coming still.
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And also, much as we, now speaking from the Christian perspective,
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much as we conservative Catholics and Protestants love President Trump,
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You know, we like comparing him to Cyrus, or David, or Samson.
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I personally see Trump as a sort of Samson figure in the Bible.
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I really like this idea because President Trump is about to become the Conunger of Greenland.
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Conunger, that's what he's going to be after the shock and awe campaign,
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If Barack Obama had done this, if he had retweeted some radio host saying all these things about him,
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we would have totally freaked out about it because we all suspected Barack Obama was the Antichrist or close to it.
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Politics does not live in some total abstraction in the air.
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Or politics is about what's really happening in real time to real people.
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The difference here is that Barack Obama actually thought he was the chosen one.
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He actually said that his election would be the moment that the planet began to heal.
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He said that the sea levels would begin to reduce, like he's Moses parting the Red Sea.
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After this whole blow up, Trump was asked a completely unrelated question about his China trade war.
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And he joked about the whole hubbub of king of Israel and everything by alluding to himself,
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Over the last five or six years, China's made $500 billion.
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And not only that, if you take a look, intellectual property theft, add that to it, and add a lot of other things to it.
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I love this guy because he, this is the evidence that he knows it's a joke because he immediately makes a joke about it.
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But if, if Donald Trump really believed what the radio host was saying, if he really believed that he's the king of Israel,
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the second coming of God, or he's perceived as the second coming of God and the chosen one,
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then he would treat that seriously instead of immediately making a joke about it because he's talking about the China trade war.
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And by the way, he's right about the China trade war.
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You know, politicians and presidents of both parties kicked that can down the road for 18 years.
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After China entered the WTO, the World Trade Organization, in 2001, the troubles really began in earnest.
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They were illegally subsidizing steel and aluminum.
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They were illegally forcing American businesses to work with local banks, which was really just a secret tax.
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They were doing all sorts of stuff, challenging our interests in the region.
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And we did nothing because we just, we got so hooked on cheap electronics that we didn't want to stop that from coming.
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They were stealing our jobs and not just in the regular flow of goods and services from country to country.
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They were stealing our jobs by cheating on trade.
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And this was acknowledged by both parties, President Trump and Chuck Schumer.
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Chuck Schumer even recently said, President Trump, don't go weak with China because someone has to take it on.
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So he's saying, I'm the guy, I'm the guy, the buck got passed to me.
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This is the difference between humility and false modesty.
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Anyone who's in politics or anyone who's in TV has an ego.
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But at least he's got a sense of humor about it.
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He talked about how he doesn't drink a little while ago.
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He said, I think I'm the only president who's never had a beer.
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He says, my only good quality is I don't have a drink.
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He quotes a guy calling him the second coming because it's funny.
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But he does exhibit pretty regularly a certain humility.
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Conservatives generally have humility by definition.
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You need a humility to be a conservative because to be a conservative is to acknowledge
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And that means there's a limit to what politics can accomplish.
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He never could doubt his own abilities or the possibilities of politics.
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This religious language presenting himself as the Messiah.
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He said the angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.
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Not that they always take themselves lightly, but they can.
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Beware people who can't tell a self-effacing joke or take a self-effacing joke.
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And that difference can even make the king of Israel humble.
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Speaking of laughing, we have to get to this stupid Gillette ad.
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We've got to talk about Gillette getting woke and going broke.
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Seven months ago, Gillette launched an ad against toxic masculinity.
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They sell ads to men, decided to launch an ad about how terrible men are.
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So you may have a conversation about this ad in your workplace or among your friends today.
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It's certainly getting a lot of attention online.
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Like, for instance, all the bad guys in the beginning, virtually all of them are white guys.
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And then after, once you get to the good guys, virtually all the good guys are not white guys.
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And they're just totally leaning in to the politics of race and the politics of gender and the politics of leftism.
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And then they followed with an ad about a guy teaching his daughter to shave her face after she decided to pretend to be a man.
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Growing up, I was always trying to figure out what kind of man I wanted to become.
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And I'm still trying to figure out what kind of man that I want to become.
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I didn't know that there was a term for the type of person that I was.
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I went into my transition just wanting to be happy.
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I'm glad I'm at the point where I'm able to shave.
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South, south, north, north, east, west, never in a hurry.
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Okay, so this is about as woke as you can get where a company that sells men's razors is now telling girls to shave to think that they're boys.
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Gillette has decided now to change course seven months later.
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They have, quote, decided to shift the spotlight from social issues to local heroes.
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It's basically saying we've decided to shift the focus 180 degrees from what we've been
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doing, which is failing to what we should have been, what we had been doing before that
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Because there's information out that Gillette's parent company, Procter & Gamble, took an
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$8 billion write down for the brand since that ad aired, $8 billion with a B, because
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This is their problem, and there's an important lesson here to be learned, not just for corporations,
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Nike went woke, but they decided that their whole base was basically going to be people
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who are open to racial politics, particularly in urban areas, particularly people who are
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leftist, and that seemed to work well enough for them with Colin Kaepernick.
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Same is not true of Gillette or other companies.
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Democrats have learned this lesson for 50 years now.
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They've constantly alienated more and more of their base.
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That's why they've actually got to import new voters in the form of illegal immigration
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It's because they're alienating the base of Americans.
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Conservatives, many conservatives that I've seen, hate their own supporters, and they are
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uncomfortable with their supporters, at least, or at least they look down on their supporters.
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These are the people I call conservative, but not that kind of conservatives.
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They're willing to admit I'm a conservative, but I'm not that kind.
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I'm almost going to choke my pearls around my neck.
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These are people who are uncomfortable with their own base.
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We've seen this in some presidential campaigns.
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Gillette is learning that lesson, and hopefully many other conservatives will learn that lesson
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Dear Michael, I need an answer to a very controversial question that only you can answer.
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What is the best place to get pizza in New York City, and what are your favorite topics?
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I know that your answer will get another hit piece on you from Media Matters.
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It's a correct answer that very few people know.
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The answer is Cafe Al Mercato in the meat market by Arthur Avenue in the Bronx.
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If you're in Manhattan, look, you get pizza, pretty good pizza just about anywhere in New
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Go to Arthur Avenue in the meat market, Cafe Al Mercato.
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For normal pizza that's not as good, my favorite toppings all the time, sausage and onions.
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Drew, I have a student who just received a scholarship to Yale to play football, and he's
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What advice would you give him to prepare him for being in that environment?
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He should join an organization called the Tory party, which is one of the constituent parties
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Actually, one of my good friends from the Tory party got recruited to Yale to play football.
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He was a very religious conservative, and he joined the Tory party.
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Yale is a great place to be if you're a religious conservative, because there were like four
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But it exposes you to the best arguments from the other side, the atheists and the leftists
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You get all these arguments coming in, and you really get to hone your beliefs.
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And I know I'm a member of the Tory party, an alumnus of it, and that organization in
00:33:47.460
particular really helped me to hone what I think and talk to other conservatives and
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figure out, discard some old ideas, get some other ideas.
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I went into Yale as a somewhat conservative atheist, and I left believing that God exists
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Embrace the fact that everyone is opposed to what you think.
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From Emma, I'm 30 years old, and I've decided that it's finally time to come out to my high
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You're going to tell them you're a lesbian, right?
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You're going to tell them that you're a conservative.
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But politics has never been a main talking point for us, but with media making politics
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so trendy, it's been coming up more and more, and I now worry that they will be upset with
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me when they find out that I voted for President Trump and have conservative values.
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Do you have any suggestions or words of advice on how to approach this?
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Good advice in show business, good advice in politics.
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When you tell your friends that you're a conservative, let's say you're all sitting
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around and they say, oh, oh, this Trump, he's so awful.
00:35:14.660
There are two ways that you can respond to that if you want to let people know that you
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You can either take this kind of timid, nice, moderate Mitt Romney approach and say, well,
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you know, I don't think it's a totally bad idea.
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I mean, look, I don't really like his tweets that much.
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But, but I kind of like, and they're going to crush you if you say that, because that
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approach is the I'm a conservative, but not that kind of conservative approach.
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It's very off-putting and it's going to have them pounce on you.
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The alternative to that is, oh, I think Trump's hilarious.
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There's no reason that Denmark, that little tiny country all the ways away gets to own
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We should build a giant Trump tower on Greenland.
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We should make it a launching site for not only our trade, but for our military.
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And if you take that approach, it's hard for them to respond because you're clobbering them.
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Also, you're funny and it's hard to argue with funny.
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And you'll probably get them to laugh because humor cuts through a lot of BS, especially
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It's actually kind of the way that guys should approach girls.
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You can either approach girl kind of creepy and timid and weird and earnest.
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I really like you and please, here's a bunch of flowers.
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Or you can kind of joke about it and say, hey, you're really cute.
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And therefore, I would like to get a drink with you tonight.
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That's what I would do in politics and romance.
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And, you know, look, in these days, I find politics very romantic anyway.
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And conservatives are much more romantic in their politics than the left, which is eggheads
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My mother is a Democrat as well and grew up in the 40s and 50s.
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And she makes it clear it is not what we are experiencing now.
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I don't think President Trump and others are racist, but the media say that he is.
00:37:44.540
Well, the left has not only tried to change the definition of racism, they've tried to
00:37:51.520
They've changed the definition of justice to not justice, right?
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It used to be justice, getting what you deserve without favor.
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Now we have their version of justice, social justice, economic justice, reproductive justice.
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But broadly, all their new definitions of justice means getting what you don't deserve
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I mean, the politically correct left has redefined man to mean not a man.
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So they'll say, if a white person doesn't discriminate against black people, he is a racist.
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Even though he's the opposite of a racist, they say, because he is white, he is by definition
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There have been, this has been written about in academic literature from the left.
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And yet they'll say, if a black person despises white people just on the basis of their skin,
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call them the white devils, that person is not a racist.
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Even though he holds racially bigoted views, he can't be a racist because he is black.
00:38:52.580
Because black people are somehow, I guess they're incapable of, of the same kind of things that
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I mean, I'm glad to hear that I've got at least one Democrat listener to the show, but
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I suspect there are actually a lot of Democrat listeners to the show.
00:39:17.820
But because this approach from the left of demonizing half of your countrymen is deplorable
00:39:24.040
and irredeemable and saying that people who are not bigots are bigots and people who are
00:39:27.660
bigots are not bigots and saying that up is down and left is right and men are women
00:39:30.940
is so offensive to people because you're just being lied to.
00:39:36.200
You're being told by the left and increasingly because the left took over the Democratic Party
00:39:40.160
by the Democratic Party, you're being told, don't believe your eyes.
00:39:52.780
And I think it's the reason that a fair number of Democrats and centrists and left-wingers
00:39:56.540
listen to conservative shows because at least we're talking about the issues and trying
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to work them out as best we can and not just regurgitating BS inverted politically correct
00:40:09.260
Michael, I know you've mentioned you were in acting and with that line of work, you must
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be able to memorize many lines for your performance.
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My question is, what methods do you use to remember a vast amount of lines for your performances
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or are you one of those people that can remember almost anything after reading it once?
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Thanks for everything you do and the Daily Wire group.
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If you want to memorize something and have it in your head for the next hour, you can train
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I can look at a sheet of paper pretty much just once and have it memorized for the next
00:40:45.220
If you want to memorize something and have it with you for 10 years or 20 years, I mean,
00:40:50.500
there are monologues, poems, Shakespeare, Dante, all these sort of things that I memorized
00:40:56.420
when I was 16 years old that I can still remember word perfectly.
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And the reason is because that technique, if you really want to get something memorized,
00:41:04.000
is you have to say it out loud and you have to not just read it in your head and try to
00:41:09.820
Say it out loud and use your muscles in an exaggerated way.
00:41:13.520
So if I were trying to memorize, I don't know, a Robert Frost poem, two roads diverged
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in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler long I stood on and
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I would make my mouth really big and I would use all my muscles and say two roads diverged
00:41:33.360
And the reason I would do that is because of muscle memory.
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So when you memorize in that way, you kind of remember how your mouth moves.
00:41:41.600
You kind of remember how your speech is physically and it helps you to remember the lines.
00:41:48.300
This is important advice, not just in memorizing a script or a speech or a presentation.
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It's important advice for life because what it tells you is the importance of habit.
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We think of virtue as doing one good thing one time.
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If you practice the virtues long enough, they become habitual.
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If you practice sin and vice long enough, that becomes habitual too.
00:42:24.400
You can't just pontificate and talk about your imaginary abstract world.
00:42:34.880
We're not just floating brains in the abstract.
00:42:48.360
My question relates to politics in the workplace.
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Lately, my company has been pushing for all employees to go to a climate change march.
00:42:55.100
For obvious reasons, this sounds like a terrible idea.
00:42:57.660
I'm extremely worried about getting fired for being conservative and have been tight-lipped
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Besides showing up to the march with I hate AOC signs, how would you handle the situation?
00:43:10.640
Obviously, in my current line of work, I'm pretty open about my political views.
00:43:16.880
But I have been an actor, as we just talked about in the last question.
00:43:20.080
I've worked in other places where I've been a little quieter about my political views because
00:43:24.220
if you open up about your political views, you don't work.
00:43:26.980
And that's, look, that's a choice you can make.
00:43:30.020
But if you want to work in something and you know that your political views are going to
00:43:33.920
get you fired for it, sometimes you need to be a little bit cleverer about it.
00:43:40.120
I wouldn't violate your beliefs and your views and your vision of morality.
00:43:47.200
However, you don't need to walk in and have like two AR-15s in your hand and say like,
00:44:00.680
What I would do is make some plans on the day of that climate march.
00:44:05.020
And then when they say, you're going to come to the climate march, you say, oh, I already
00:44:08.460
I got to go to my sister's lunch or whatever, whatever plans you make.
00:44:13.780
You're not violating your moral principles and you live to fight another day at your job.
00:44:18.280
And then when the time comes for you to really make that difference, you'll be able to do it
00:44:22.480
as long as you make sure you don't violate what your beliefs and you stay true and you keep
00:44:28.920
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