Ep. 445 - The Cult of Self-Love
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Bad news, boys. Emma Watson is self-partnered. That s the new PC term for single. We will examine the left s cult of self-love. Then, Kentucky goes blue, sort of, according to the mainstream media.
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Then Kentucky goes blue, sort of, maybe, according to the mainstream media.
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The real election results are more complicated, so don't expect to hear about them in the press.
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A new study shows how politicized scholarship makes bad public policy.
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And ABC News covers up its cover-up of the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, who, by the way, didn't kill himself.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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So much to get to today when the mainstream media are covering up the cover-up of their own cover-ups,
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when the mainstream media are lying about politics.
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I just want to tell them, hey, guys, go partner yourself.
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You know, just go somewhere and go partner yourself.
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That's what Emma Watson is describing as the new way to be single.
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I don't mean to make fun of Emma Watson for this.
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Emma Watson was asked the question in Vogue magazine.
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She said initially, when she turned 29, she felt stressed and anxious due to the bloody
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Quote, if you've not built a home, if you do not have a husband, if you do not have a baby
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and you are turning 30 and you're not in some incredibly secure, stable place in your career
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or you're still figuring things out, there's just this incredible amount of anxiety.
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I'm not saying I was like, she says, I was like, this whole thing about being happy and
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It took me a long time, but I'm very happy being single.
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We will examine where Emma Watson goes wrong here and where, it's not just Emma Watson,
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but where the whole culture goes wrong on this cult of self-love.
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And I understand why people are using this language, but you really shouldn't because
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First of all, I'm not saying marriage is for everyone.
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Some of the happiest people on earth are unmarried.
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There was a survey that went around of the happiest jobs.
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I think this was in 2007 out of the University of Chicago.
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The happiest people in the world, the most job-satisfied and fulfilled people, are actually
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There are plenty of religious people who are unmarried who are very happy.
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And for people who just happen to be single, they happen to be unmarried.
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It's one of the longest studies of adult life ever conducted.
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It showed that relationships with your family, relationships with friends, relationships with
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a local community can seriously promote long-term happiness, even if you're unmarried or you've
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never been married or you're divorced or you're a widow.
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The difference between all of those things and being self-partnered is the object of your
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relationships because priests are not self-partnered.
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People who have long-term happiness and they're unmarried are not self-partnered.
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They have strong bonds to their communities, their family, to their friends, to going to
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church, to going to the local PTA, going to the local Lions Club, whatever.
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Marrying yourself, self-partnership, all different.
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I mean, we've seen self-marriage crop up in recent years, not just Dennis Rodman.
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I mean, Dennis Rodman probably started this trend in the 1990s when he declared himself
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bisexual, put on a wedding dress and said he was going to marry himself.
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When Dennis Rodman did that, we all laughed about it.
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You know, two years ago in 2017, a woman named Adriana Lima married herself.
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There are stories about this crop up all the time.
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13 years ago, so after Rodman, but before Adriana Lima, a woman named Gil, wed herself.
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Your children will grow up and your friends will move.
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You also see this in sex robots, especially if you read the Drudge Report every day.
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Because I don't know what Matt Drudge is interested in on the internet, but I do know that every
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They're all over the mainstream media because AI has permitted sex robot technology to get
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There are now sex robots that don't just move their arms and do whatever sort of things you
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They actually have chest cavities that can breathe.
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I mean, Mashable did a report on this the other day.
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They said that the robots are just as good as people, but they're not people.
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But people are, I think, mistakenly doing all of these things.
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These women who are marrying themselves or people who are buying sex robots or people
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A man, a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
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We can now say, I need anybody else like a fish needs a bicycle.
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Emma Watson had that feminist campaign a few years ago called He for She.
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There's a loneliness epidemic that's going around this country and around the West generally.
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It found out that millennials are more afraid of being lonely than they are of losing a job
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That survey showed that 42% of millennial women are more afraid of loneliness than they are
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Stress, anxiety, depression, all up in recent years.
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And so they turn to these, these comforts, what they think are going to be comforts.
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Sex robots or the idea of self-sufficiency or internet porn, which is just the same thing
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And then ironically, when people turn to these things to alleviate their loneliness, they
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The reason is this culture of self-love, which you see all the time in leftist publications.
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You see it in Emma Watson talking to Vogue magazine.
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The cult of self-love has deluded people into confusing the virtue of endurance with the sin
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It happens to every single person multiple times throughout their lives for sometimes
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It is a virtue to be able to endure that loneliness.
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And what we try to do is mitigate the effects of that loneliness by engaging with our community
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and by praying to God and by involving ourselves in the whole world.
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Very different from the sin of pride, which tells us that we are sufficient unto ourselves.
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It's even, I think sometimes conservatives want to lean a little too much in this direction
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of self-reliance and I don't need anybody else.
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Human beings are meant to be in society together.
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There is no such thing as the state of nature where I'm a single individual atom just floating
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I'm born into a family, in a town, in a society, with customs and traditions.
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Politics is living together with other people and determining how you're going to live and
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We feel that and so we try to replace those social bonds with virtual social bonds.
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Like partnering with myself or marrying myself or looking at internet porn or buying a sex
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That, I understand the suffering that comes with it.
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I think the people who are saying these things are really trying hard to make the best of
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And if we actually want to mitigate this loneliness crisis that is affecting everybody, we have
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We have to stop pretending that it's fine to isolate yourself from society and to take
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And one way to mitigate that is to work together.
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And to recognize that romantic love is not the only way to do this, but you need to involve
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In Emma Watson's defense, by the way, she's a celebrity.
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The fact that she's not completely off her rocker means she's turned out pretty well.
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But it's a lesson for all of us because we're all millennials here, right?
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We're all celebrities because we all have social media.
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The problems that are being faced at the pop culture level are problems that are bleeding
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down into the rest of us because we've had this huge leveling out of celebrity.
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In 2006, the Time Magazine person of the year was you because of YouTube.
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That's one of the defining features of the era that we're in.
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And we need to make sure that we don't fall into the same pitfalls of celebrity, which
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You know, the cult of self doesn't just show itself in how we interact with ourselves.
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It even creeps out into the scientific literature.
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You know, there is a group of 11,000 scientists right now who've signed a petition demanding
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He said within 10 years, we'll have 100 to 200 million people dying regularly, starving
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In 1970, the population was 3.7 billion on Earth.
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Was there any consequence to this leading scientist at Stanford University?
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The scientists also in 1970 were predicting global cooling.
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One thing I notice about all these disparate political issues, and these are political issues
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by the way, is that they come together to thwart human flourishing.
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They put it in the name of science, but they're using science as though it were a religion.
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And like many religions, it's had many false prophecies and false prophets, even on this issue.
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That's a pretty wicked religion that tells you to stop having babies, to kill the babies
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When you examine religions, whenever you see that, that's just a little mark that tells
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It's part of that same cult of self that says we need to prioritize us.
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I know that we receive life as a gift, but we can't pass it along because the weather
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So let's just live for us right now and nobody else.
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You will not be happy if you live only for yourself.
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You will be much happier if you live for someone else.
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I'm very skeptical of the social science of happiness, but all the surveys, all the studies
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There was one study that tried to refute it, said that single childless women are the happiest
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This was immediately debunked when the story came out this year.
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We are happy when we involve ourselves, when we encourage life, when we encourage flourishing.
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And don't believe anybody who tells you otherwise, whether it's a Hollywood celebrity or a politician
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Speaking of politicians, let's get to election night 2019.
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The Democratic candidate for governor of Kentucky is declaring victory.
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Tonight, voters in Kentucky sent a message loud and clear for everyone to hear.
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It's a message that says our elections don't have to be about right versus left.
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That our values and how we treat each other is still more important than our party.
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That what unites us as Kentuckians is still stronger than any national divisions.
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That is Andy Beshear, who's declared victory as the governor of Kentucky, apparently doing
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the worst impression of a politician I've ever seen.
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Did that guy say anything that could not just be in a cartoon of a politician?
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Our politics is not about right versus left, but right versus wrong, huh?
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We need to speak in platitudes, not serious statements.
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I mean, just the most empty suit impression of a politician I've ever seen.
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The guy makes Mitt Romney look like Winston Churchill.
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The mainstream media, of course, are declaring him the victor.
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Because at last count, the two candidates were separated by between 5,000 and 10,000 votes.
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Bevin, Matt Bevin, who was the Republican governor, has 48.7%.
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And Bevin is going to, going to try to hold on.
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This is being reported on as a major loss for Trump.
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Turnout in this election was higher than expected.
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It's estimated to have been around 1.4 million.
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So, that's roughly 400,000 more than the last governor's race in 2015.
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The silver lining is that Matt Bevin, the current governor of Kentucky, is one of the least popular governors in the country.
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This is in part because of his history of incendiary comments and big fights over public teacher unions and healthcare.
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The bad news for Trump is, because Bevin was such an unpopular governor, they called in the president to try to help him eke out an election victory the night before the election.
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So, this is reflecting very poorly on President Trump.
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And then the media is going to say it's a big loss for, for the Trump administration.
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Now, obviously both sides are going to spin this.
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Democrats are going to say this is a bellwether.
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The Republicans are going to say Bevin was a terribly unpopular governor.
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That's why Trump had to come out in the first place.
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And they're still going to be debating who won the election.
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The good news here is the Republican, Daniel Cameron, was elected the attorney general.
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He's also Kentucky's first black attorney general.
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Shows it's not a blue wave in Kentucky or anything like that.
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He got 57% of the vote when the AP first called the race in his favor.
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Outside of Kentucky, if you look at Virginia, bad news for the GOP.
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In Virginia, the GOP lost the Virginia State Senate.
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So, the GOP was holding the State Senate by one vote.
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Still, there's some good news in Virginia as well.
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Nick Fritas, who is a member of the Virginia House of Delicates,
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So, he withdrew from the election formally in July
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because he failed to submit the required paperwork.
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And as a write-in campaign, he beat the Democrat by 14 percentage points at the last count.
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Was it a good night or bad night for Republicans?
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Was Trump a political asset or a political liability in this election?
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You're going to hear over the next few days, a lot of people say Trump was a huge liability.
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I think the Kentucky governor was headed for a defeat and Trump went in to try to stop the bleeding.
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I think, generally speaking, Trump is an asset in these races.
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Is Trump a political asset or a political liability in these races?
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And Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy, tends to agree.
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He thinks that the conventional wisdom, the wisdom that we hear from the prognosticators
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on TV, who almost always get their predictions wrong, who were completely wrong about the
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2016 election, the wisdom they espouse that President Trump needs to just shut up and stop
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interfering in politics, that that's all BS because the people feel a personal connection
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The funny thing about it is when he first started tweeting during, you know, when he was running
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for president, people said, ah, it's too much tweeting, too much tweeting.
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You'll never get, okay, you got elected president, but now you need to stop.
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And I think historians are going to say, okay, that tweeting was a really good idea.
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It bonded the public to him without the middleman.
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And I think even the typos end up working in his favor because you know he wrote it.
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And it feels that you feel connected to your leader in a way we never have before.
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Yeah, it's being reported that some of his staff wanted to restrain him.
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Because I think you could tell a massaged tweet versus an original.
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You look at it, you go, oh yeah, he wrote that one.
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So Scott Adams has, who's one of the few people who predicted the Trump victory in 2016.
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And he predicted it by, not because he's this rock-ribbed conservative, but because he's spent
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a lot of his life studying the art of persuasion and he felt that Trump was doing a good job
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I love the point he's making here because I hear this all the time, especially from the
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really smart people who wear suits and ties and go on television and predict politics and
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who usually get politics wrong, but who still get invited on and predict more about politics.
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These are people who said Trump was going to lose, who said his candidacy was awful, who said he'd
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And he won by being Donald Trump and by tweeting and by talking and by being who he is.
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And then the people who were completely wrong about the election say, okay, yeah, we were wrong and he
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I know that he won the presidency by not doing what we say he should do, and other candidates
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have lost the presidency by doing what we say that he should do.
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But now, because we're smart and we wear suits and ties, he's got to do what we say.
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This whole idea that Trump is some bumbling, fumbling idiot who's never done anything right,
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who just by happenstance was able to succeed in every single thing he's ever tried, is so
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presumptuous, it's such an arrogant point of view.
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Here's my view of Trump, and here's my view looking at the 2020 election.
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Maybe the guy who became a billionaire real estate developer, who's been famous since the
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1980s, who's been at the top of the pop culture since the 1980s, who branded his name on everything
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in the world, who was a casino mogul, who was a merchandising mogul, who became the number
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one star of network television for 15 years, and who became the leader of the free world,
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elected president of the United States on his first actual run for political office.
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That's my, in my humble opinion, that's my modest suggestion here.
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Maybe he knows what he's doing, and maybe all these other people who are wrong all the
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time, maybe they're not quite as certain as they seem to be.
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Maybe they aren't all that much smarter than the president.
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I think election night 2019 tells us very little.
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Kentucky's a conservative state, but the governor candidate was a really weak candidate.
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That's why he had to call in the president of the United States day before the election
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I don't think it tells us very much, and so much is going to change as we move forward
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Not just impeachment, but the IG report, the John Durham investigation, questions about
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interference in the 2016 election, and collusion between Democrats, the federal bureaucracy,
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So many more questions are going to come up, and the people who are saying, President Trump,
00:31:46.900
shut up, don't interfere, don't speak, I think they're missing an essential point, which is
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The leftist establishment are the problem, and if Trump hadn't spoken up and cut through
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all that, they would have succeeded in rigging the 2016 election.
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I think that's got to be our guiding light here.
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Not these little races in Kentucky or Virginia, and the Republicans win some, and the Democrats
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win some in 2019, but the 2016 presidential election.
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That's going to be the guiding light for the 2020 election.
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Is he going to run it as a quiet, mild-mannered candidate?
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And we've run candidates like that before, and they've lost.
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He's got to run, for better or worse, as Donald Trump.
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The idea that it just turns off everybody, that he's brash, and that he says crude things,
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and that he makes crude remarks about women sometimes, is, I think, myopic.
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It doesn't give enough respect to the American people.
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I mean, even people who personally really don't like Trump are defending him right now.
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Rand Paul, Senator Rand Paul, no love lost, is now defending President Trump more than just
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We'll also get to what faulty politicized science does to our politics.
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And finally, the journalistic standards of ABC in the cover-up of the cover-up of the
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Jeffrey Epstein, by the way, he's that guy who definitely didn't kill himself.
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You'll get all of that, but you've got to go to dailywire.com.
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You get to ask questions in the mailbag coming up tomorrow, so get your questions in.
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You get Another Kingdom, the third and final season, and it's my favorite season yet.
00:33:54.300
Most importantly, you get the Leftist Tears Tumblr.
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So, you've got impeachment is the backdrop to the 2020 presidential election.
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Nobody really understands why Trump is being impeached in the first place.
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They're accusing him of engaging in a quid pro quo because he asked Ukraine to investigate
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Joe Biden, who's the leading Democrat, former vice president, who apparently engaged in a
00:34:41.260
quid pro quo to get his son off the hook for corruption because he was being paid $600,000
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a year with no experience whatsoever to sit on the board of a Ukrainian energy company,
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which was a major talking point at the State Department.
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We need to impeach Trump because he did what Vice President Biden did.
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Biden, who's now the leading Democratic candidate for president.
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Rand Paul is cutting through all of the BS because at the bottom of this impeachment inquiry
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is a whistleblower, a so-called whistleblower, who is creating the pretext for impeachment in
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And Rand Paul is demanding that we find out the identity of this whistleblower, we bring
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it into the light of public discourse, and we see if there are any political motivations
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behind the very root cause of impeachment in the first place.
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Whistleblower laws, though, they protect a whistleblower.
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Here's the thing is, the whistleblower statute protects the whistleblower from having his name
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Even the New York Times admits that no one else is under any legal obligation.
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The other point, and you need to be very careful if you really are interested in the news,
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is that the whistleblower actually is a material witness completely separate from being the whistleblower
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He worked for Joe Biden at the same time Hunter Biden was receiving $50,000 a month.
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So the investigation into the corruption of Hunter Biden involves this whistleblower because
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What was his involvement with the relationship between Joe Biden and the prosecutor?
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There's a lot of questions that the whistleblower needs to answer.
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Boom, even if they don't totally unmask the whistleblower, Rand Paul has just unmasked the
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key feature here, which is that the whistleblower, who I think he's a 2008 Yale grad named Eric
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Charamella, and he worked for John Brennan, who hates Trump.
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He worked for the CIA, and crucially, he worked for Joe Biden at the time that all these shenanigans
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Not only is he not a whistleblower, not only is he obviously a Democrat hack, this was not
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just my conclusion, it was the conclusion of the inspector general for the intelligence
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community who found three pieces of evidence that he was biased against President Trump,
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but he actually would be a witness in the case here.
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What he's doing is he's blowing the whistle on President Trump for trying to investigate
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potential crimes that Joe Biden engaged in, a quid pro quo in Ukraine.
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So he's actually participating in this at the same time.
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Of course, President Trump should be able to face his accuser.
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Rand Paul is not some guy who carries water for Donald Trump.
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Rand Paul, personally, it would seem, despises Donald Trump.
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They had an incredibly acrimonious relationship during the 2016 campaign.
00:37:52.240
Just to refresh your memory, here is, I think, a second GOP primary debate in 2016.
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First of all, Rand Paul shouldn't even be on this stage.
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And how he got up here, there's far too many people.
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Anyway, as far as temperament, and we all know that.
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I kind of have to laugh when I think, hmm, sounds like a non-secretor.
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He was asked whether or not he would be capable and it would be in good hands to be in charge
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of the nuclear weapons and all of a sudden there's a sideways attack at me.
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I think that really goes to really the judgment.
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Do we want someone with that kind of character, that kind of careless language, to be negotiating
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Do we want someone like that to be negotiating with Iran?
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I think, really, there's a sophomore quality that is entertaining about Mr. Trump, but
00:38:44.400
I'm very concerned about having him in charge of the nuclear weapons because I think his
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response, his visceral response to attack people on their appearance, short, tall, fat,
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Would we not all be worried to have someone like that in charge of the nuclear arsenal?
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Jake, Mr. Trump, I never attack him on his look and believe me, there's plenty of subject
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But Jake, all right, he opens up his statement in 2016 and he says, Rand Paul shouldn't even
00:39:21.080
He goes, well, at least I'm not attacking how ugly you are.
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These are guys who don't have a great personal relationship necessarily and even Rand Paul is
00:39:28.300
defending him because the deck is so absurdly stacked against Trump right now from the federal
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bureaucracy, from the Obama administration, from the left-wing media.
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All of these guys are stacking the deck against Trump.
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So you're going to hear a lot of think pieces, ironically named think pieces.
00:39:46.580
They're not very thoughtful in the next few days about how the election night 2019 is evidence
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I don't think it's evidence that Trump is going to win either.
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I don't think it's evidence of very much at all.
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It's going to come down to Trump himself, not some guy in Kentucky, not some guy in Virginia.
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It's going to come down to do people like how Trump is governing?
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Are people willing to ignore some of the personal flaws that they find in the guy?
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He's not going to win by pretending to be somebody else.
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It's going to be an election about Donald Trump.
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And I just think as a little bit of evidence that people are going to come around on him,
00:40:28.300
that people are more nuanced in their thinking than a lot of pundits give them credit for.
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I hear it not just from Rand Paul, who more or less says, I don't really like the guy,
00:40:38.400
but he's getting a raw deal and he's a good president.
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I hear it from friends who say, yeah, the tweets, you know, great, whatever, the way he talks,
00:40:50.980
I suspect that's going to be the calculus in 2020 and it's not going to come down to Kentucky
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and it's not going to come down to what the mainstream media tell you.
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There is, and we talked about this a little bit yesterday.
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This is switching gears from the national to the local level, back to La La Land where I live
00:41:12.580
The mayor of Los Angeles said yesterday, or we played the clip yesterday,
00:41:17.720
With a straight face, he said that Los Angeles is the model city for dealing with homelessness,
00:41:26.040
Homelessness increased in LA County 13% from 2017 to 2018, increased in LA City 16%.
00:41:35.900
There are whole tent, like actual tent cities cropping up all around Los Angeles,
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which are full of drugs, which are full of violence, which are full of sexual assault.
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They're just hideous, hideous, awful places that no one should be permitted to live in and no one
00:41:54.400
The way we got here in many ways was because of the closing of the insane asylums.
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Huge numbers of these homeless people have mental health problems or drug addiction or both,
00:42:07.580
and they're dealing with the mental health problems with drug addiction.
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A lot of this came because we closed the mental hospitals.
00:42:13.380
There's actually a new study, a study of a study that came out just last week,
00:42:18.480
which shows that the science behind closing the mental health hospitals was bunk, was garbage.
00:42:26.380
1973, David Rosenhan, psychologist, published a paper called On Being Sane in Insane Places.
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This was in the prestigious journal Science, and it made a huge splash.
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The study showed eight healthy volunteers going undercover as fake patients in 12 psychiatric
00:42:45.180
hospitals around the country, and it showed the awful conditions that they were in,
00:42:49.160
and it showed how easy it was for sane people to be locked up, and it helped push along this
00:42:54.300
idea that we need to close all the mental hospitals.
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People blame Ronald Reagan for this because Reagan was the governor of California, and Reagan
00:43:00.720
did help this along, but this was a liberal policy.
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This was always a left-wing policy that Reagan encouraged.
00:43:07.760
I mean, Reagan also made no-fault divorce easier and liberalized abortion laws while he
00:43:16.340
Now it turns out that the study that led to the closing of these mental hospitals was just BS.
00:43:23.400
It turns out that a lot of Rosenhan's work was falsified, that he misrepresented and outright
00:43:29.520
lied about some of what he did, that he actually kind of masqueraded as a patient himself and
00:43:34.560
covered up all of the other symptoms that these guys were describing to the doctors at these
00:43:40.860
mental hospitals to get themselves admitted to it.
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Now we closed the mental hospitals, and now we have a major homelessness problem.
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No serious society, no respectable society should permit 60,000 people on the streets of L.A.
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to live in squalor and addiction and filth and crime.
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The way you stop it is by dragging homeless people to homeless shelters.
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More than half of the homeless shelters in L.A. are not filled every single night.
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The homeless shelters in L.A. are supposed to be at 90% capacity.
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For the homeless people who won't go to the shelters, they should be dragged to either addiction
00:44:44.620
recovery places, or they should be dragged to insane asylums, and they should be committed
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It's very hard to do that now because of the laws, but they should, and they should have
00:44:55.220
that happen because that's much more compassionate than letting people live on the street.
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By the way, if they won't do any of those things, they should be thrown in jail because
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even that is more compassionate than letting people live in squalor and filth on the street
00:45:06.540
and crime and allow crime to spread throughout the city and filth and ugliness.
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The way that we came to the conclusion that it was more compassionate to let people live
00:45:17.600
on the street is because we atomized ourselves.
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It actually gets back to that cult of self-love.
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We thought, hmm, people should just be allowed to do whatever they want.
00:45:29.100
I feel icky forcing addicts and unwell people into these insane asylums, so we'll just let
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It's only considered compassionate in this highly individualized, highly atomistic society
00:46:06.440
There's nothing liberal about letting that happen.
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But we need to take a much more serious understanding of compassion, of love, of self-care, of all
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That is the only way that we are going to move ahead.
00:46:25.560
It's the only way that we are going to ameliorate our situation, not just for the people who are
00:46:31.860
The only way that we're going to mitigate this loneliness epidemic, the stress epidemic,
00:46:35.560
the depression, the anxiety, the only way we're going to turn this around is by thinking
00:46:41.720
not less of ourselves, but thinking of ourselves less, to quote C.S. Lewis.
00:46:48.360
That's going to be a real way to engage in self-love and self-care.
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And it's through not selfishness, but selflessness.
00:46:54.980
Before we go, I just have to point out, we talked about the Jeffrey Epstein story yesterday.
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Jeffrey Epstein is a financier and a sex criminal who definitely didn't kill himself.
00:47:03.180
So there was that bombshell video from James O'Keefe, which showed that ABC News buried
00:47:08.140
the Jeffrey Epstein story for three years, would not let any of it be reported for three
00:47:14.420
Once this undercover video came out, ABC released a statement.
00:47:17.740
It said, at the time, not all of our reporting met our standards to air, but we never stopped
00:47:23.280
Ever since we've had a team on this investigation and substantial resources dedicated to it, didn't
00:47:29.520
This is ABC News, which aired baseless smears based on nothing against Brett Kavanaugh.
00:47:36.480
This is ABC News, which ran footage from a 2017 Kentucky gun show and pretended that it
00:47:41.180
was currently occurring in Syria from the Turkish forces against the Kurds.
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ABC News, which has no journalistic standards whatsoever, is trying to cover up their cover
00:47:53.200
up of Jeffrey Epstein by saying the Epstein story didn't meet their journalistic standards.
00:48:01.640
They're not, they didn't air any, any word about this on their ABC Evening News.
00:48:07.440
The only way you cut through that is through the memes.
00:48:15.400
You've got to try to keep this story alive about Jeffrey Epstein, who is not alive because
00:48:20.800
he didn't kill himself, but was obviously killed intentionally.
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Go engage in a little self-love, but not by self-partnering.
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Go engage in a little self-love by involving yourself in the world, and then come back, and
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