Ep. 452 - Our Leaders Are Gasbags
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Summary
A whistleblower reveals Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell passed gas on live television, but he insists it wasn t him. But something about his denial about it just doesn t smell right. The evidence is uncontradicted that the President used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help him cheat an election.
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Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell broadcasts hot air on MSNBC, but not so much hot air as
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Democratic Senator Chris Murphy or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. We will examine the shameless gas
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baggery of our leaders. Then across the pond, the UK's Prince Andrew sweats over questions
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about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, who didn't kill himself. A New Zealand hunter gets
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death threats for killing her own food, and conservatives' favorite chicken restaurant
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gives in to the leftist mob. All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Some people are just catching wind of Eric Swalwell's appearance on MSNBC last night,
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but a whistleblower showed that Eric Swalwell passed gas on live television. Swalwell himself
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has been gaslighting on the subject and insisting that it never happened, but something about his
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denial just doesn't smell right. Listen for yourself. The evidence is uncontradicted that the president
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used taxpayer dollars to ask the Ukrainians to help him cheat an election. Now that, I know it's
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sometimes it's hard to figure out when it's just Eric Swalwell talking and when he literally passed
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gas on television. Sometimes it's very confusing. It would appear to me that he did, in fact,
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break wind on national television. This is trending on Twitter as hashtag fartgate.
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I'm sorry that I even have to say that publicly, but it was the top trend on Twitter for many,
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many hours yesterday. I love Eric Swalwell. I just love him so much. I don't really have very
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much to say about the incident itself. It's very, very unfortunate. That's probably the worst thing
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I could possibly imagine having happen if you're on national television. But one of the keys to Eric
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Swalwell is that he feels no shame. One of the key defining characters of Eric Swalwell is he is just
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completely oblivious to his own absurdity. So he does this and you could all hear it. And then Eric
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Swalwell comes back and says, no, that wasn't me. I don't know who it was. It obviously was, by the
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way. If you just look at the clip, he becomes physically uncomfortable during it. So it would
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appear that it was Eric Swalwell. But, you know, he just keeps trucking on, trucking on. And what is
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really incredible is that that clip literally breaking wind was not the most absurd thing that
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Eric Swalwell did on television all day. Eric Swalwell then goes back on television. He's on CNN
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and he insists with a straight face that President Trump needs to be thrown out of office because he
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conspired with a foreign power to steal the 2016 election. Here he is.
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But the House Speaker seems to have already made up her mind about impeaching the president. What
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say you? I have not. And I don't think she has either. But the evidence points in one direction
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that this president leveraged our taxpayer dollars to have the Ukrainians help him cheat an election.
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And he has had every opportunity to send in witnesses that would show his innocence. And he has blocked
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those witnesses from coming forward. And so we can only conclude that that's where the evidence is going
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too early to reach an ultimate conclusion, Wolf. But the president has an opportunity to send over
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the witnesses we've asked for. Is that so, Eric Swalwell? You, Eric Swalwell, a Democrat,
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a member of a party that purchased foreign intelligence from an operative team, Fusion GPS, during the 2016
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election. You went in, paid off former journalists to work with a foreign intelligence officer to dig up
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dirt on Donald Trump. You then used the power of the state illegally to spy on the opponent's campaign.
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You actually colluded to try to steal the 2016 election. You are going to accuse President Trump
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of doing that very same thing. That's what they're doing. The left always does this, by the way.
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The left always accuses the right of doing what the left is doing. And Swalwell can say that with a
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straight face. Frankly, I feel it's less absurd to break wind on television with a straight face than
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it is to expel that ridiculous hot air from his mouth. For Eric Swalwell to go out there and say,
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the president can exonerate himself. He just needs to let people testify. Democrats have called three
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key witnesses already. They called Bill Taylor. Remember that a few days ago? The ambassador.
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They called George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state. They called Marie Yovanovitch,
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the ambassador to Ukraine. All three of these people were supposed to be the bombshell testimony.
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Remember that? And then Bill Taylor said he had no evidence of a quid pro quo. George Kent said it was
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perfectly legitimate for President Trump to ask for an investigation into Ukrainian corruption in 2016.
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And Marie Yovanovitch was asked, point blank, do you have any evidence that the president committed
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any sort of crime? And she said, no, no, I don't. She said it twice in a row. And Eric Swalwell goes on TV
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and says, the president is stealing the election. He's committing collusion. And we need to throw him
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out of office for that. Four times now in this country, impeachment has been invoked. Andrew Johnson,
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Richard Nixon, who resigned before he could be impeached, Bill Clinton, now Donald Trump.
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This fourth impeachment, Donald Trump, by far the least legitimate, by far there is so little evidence
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of any sort of crime. And Swalwell goes on TV and insists that we need to throw him out of office
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for it. And even Swalwell wasn't the most ridiculous person here. Chris Murphy, a Democrat in the Senate,
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went on television. And instead of just hitting Trump for the Ukraine non-troversy, he's defending
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the Bidens, who are actually the subject of the non-troversy because of the corruption they engaged in
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in Ukraine, which prompted the call for an investigation, which prompted the impeachment in the first place.
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Here's Senator Chris Murphy. I get that in your view, what's going on right now with President Trump
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is a much, much bigger deal and much more important than the Hunter Biden situation. But
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just point blank, should Hunter Biden have taken that role on the board of Burisma while his dad
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was vice president? Well, I think in an interview, Hunter Biden himself admitted that he had possibly
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made a mistake. But let's be clear, Hunter Biden didn't do anything illegal. And his father,
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the vice president, didn't do anything illegal or unethical. And all of these attacks on the Bidens
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and the effort to bring the whistleblower in to testify are just an attempt to try to put more
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chum in the water and distract from the corrupt scheme that is at the heart of this inquiry.
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The Bidens are totally innocent. The Bidens, the Biden corruption, that's not even an important story
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here when we're talking about how President Trump was trying to investigate Biden's corruption.
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goes on television. He says, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, they did nothing wrong. Now, of course,
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we know they did something wrong here because Hunter Biden came out and said that he was sorry
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that he did it and he got off of the board. He resigned from the board of the Ukrainian energy
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company Burisma. It's like saying, hey, look, I did nothing wrong. I'm completely right. I'm
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totally exonerated. And by the way, I'll never do it again. Very sorry. Of course, he did something
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wrong. Joe Biden knows that he did something wrong, which is why when Joe Biden found out that Hunter
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Biden was on the board of Burisma, he said to him, you better know what you're doing. That's according
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to a magazine interview that Hunter Biden gave in July. That's according to TV interviews that Hunter
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Biden gave just a month or two ago. Biden knew there was something very, very fishy here.
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Biden said in his administration, he's not going to allow this kind of nepotism and corruption.
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Well, if he's not going to allow it for the president, why was it okay when he was the vice
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president? Simply doesn't add up. Obviously, this was pretty crooked. And by the way, we're only talking
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about Ukraine right now. He did the same thing in China. Hunter Biden flew on Air Force Two with
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then Vice President Joe Biden, goes to this meeting in China, and then just coincidentally,
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not long after that winds up with a billion and a half dollars worth of financing out of China.
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So obviously, there's a lot of corruption going on here. And Chris Murphy says, don't talk about
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that corruption. Talk about the impeachment. What I have said from the very beginning is impeachment
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is not going to look good for Democrats, especially not going to look good for Joe Biden,
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because in order to talk about impeachment, you have to talk about Biden's corruption.
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That's what they're impeaching him over is he had a phone call with Ukraine, President Trump,
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and Trump said, hey, by the way, look into that corruption in Ukraine and look into
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the interference in the 2016 election. So he's allowed, he's not allowed to do that. But Democrats
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are allowed to spend two and a half years investigating Russian collusion, which totally exonerated the
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president. And by the way, Democrats are allowed to get off scot-free when they themselves
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interfered and bought off foreign intelligence in the 2016 election. Now, I'm actually not sure
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they're going to get off scot-free. We're obviously waiting for the IG report and the John
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Durham investigation into how the whole Russia hoax came to be in the first place and maybe which
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Obama administration officials and Democrats and foreign assets are culpable in the attempt to rig the
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2016 election and the now known and demonstrable spying on the Trump campaign. So what I actually
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think is that this impeachment push is an early defensive measure to mitigate whatever comes out
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in that investigation in 2016. But regardless, absolutely shameless. And then Nancy Pelosi,
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the most shameless one of all, comes and puts the little cherry on top of the sundae.
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Does the president get, as he says, to confront his accuser or get due process?
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What do you mean confront his accuser? Confront the whistleblower?
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Well, I will make sure he does not intimidate the whistleblower. I was there, I told the president,
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you're in my wheelhouse when you come after the whistleblower. And this is really important,
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especially when it comes to intelligence, that someone who would be courageous enough to point out
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truth to power. And then through the filter of a Trump-appointed inspector general who found it
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of urgent concern and then took it to the next steps. So the president could come right before
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the committee and speak all the truth that he wants if he wants to take the oath of office,
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or he could do it in writing. He has every opportunity to present his case. But it's really
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a sad thing. I mean, what the president did was so much worse than even what Richard Nixon did.
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But at some point, Richard Nixon cared about the country enough to recognize that this could not
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Allow me to translate that for you. Nancy Pelosi is saying that what Trump did is so much worse than
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what Richard Nixon did. By the way, what Nixon did was his goons didn't know how to tape a door.
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This is how the fall of Richard Nixon came because the two burglars who broke into Watergate
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should have taped the door up to down to keep the door open once they were stealing the documents out
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of Watergate. But instead, they taped it side to side so a security guard was able to see it.
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And so these burglars engage in a dirty trick, which Richard Nixon, by all accounts, didn't know
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anything about, by the way. And then he covered it up and then they threw him out. Why did they
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really throw him out? They wanted to overturn the presidential election because they were furious
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that Nixon won in the first place. They were certainly furious that he got reelected. They
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stole the election from him in 1960 successfully. And they never forgave the guy for following
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Alger Hiss, who is a leftist darling at the State Department, who was a communist spy.
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And he was called out as a communist spy by Whitaker Chambers. And Richard Nixon was the only
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one who believed him and went and got him in the left, never forgave him for it. That is the
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background that very few people talk about when you talk about the Richard Nixon impeachment. But
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what Pelosi is saying is what Trump did is so much worse than that. Let me ask you a question,
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Nancy Pelosi. What did Trump do? Because the storyline now has changed about a million times,
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not even just from the Russia hoax to Stormy Daniels to taxes to now Ukraine, but even within
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Ukraine, what did he do? You're saying it was bribery? You're saying it was a quid pro quo?
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You're saying it was an abuse of power, so maybe it wasn't a crime? What are you talking about?
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If Nancy Pelosi were telling the truth, if what Trump did with regard to Ukraine was worse than
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what Richard Nixon did, it's an impeachable offense, then Nancy Pelosi would state the offense.
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This is how you know the Democrats are full of hot air here, is they can't even state what the
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offense is. I can't even state what the offense is. I follow this story every single day. But the
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storyline changes every day because all the witnesses that the Democrats are calling to
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testify say that Trump did nothing wrong. You've got Bill Taylor, George Kent, Maria Yovanovitch.
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Who else are they going to get to say that Trump committed an impeachable offense? Nobody. So
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disingenuous. So totally disingenuous. But if you want the height of gas baggery,
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you actually can't even stay in America. You got to cross the pond and head over to the UK where
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Prince Andrew, good buddies with Jeffrey Epstein, who definitely didn't kill himself, is now trying
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to defend his relationship with the possibly dead disgraced pedophile in a way that it made me blush
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how shameless it was. We'll get to that in a second. Then we'll get to so very much more. But first,
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Eric Swalwell and Chris Murphy and Nancy Pelosi. You got to go to the United Kingdom. You got to go to
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Prince Andrew, son of Queen Elizabeth, who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and took a lot of photos
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with Jeffrey Epstein and has allegations that he slept with some of Epstein's girls.
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He's finally answering questions about this. Jeffrey Epstein thought, or rather Prince Andrew
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thought, that the best way to get in front of this story was to go and do a television interview.
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This became one of the biggest PR disasters in recent royal memory. And it shows you, if you're not a
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good BS-er, like, for instance, Nancy Pelosi or Eric Swalwell, don't go on television and try to lie to
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the entire world because it looks really dishonest. He got caught in a couple lies here. Here is Prince
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Andrew, asked about his old pal Jeffrey Epstein. What does he have to say?
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He has quite obviously conducted himself in a manner unbecoming. Yes.
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Unbecoming. He was a sex offender. Yeah. I'm sorry. I'm being polite in the sense that he was a sex
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offender. Oh, not a great start, Prince Andrew. Now, in Prince Andrew's defense, I don't like using
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ugly words in public. I don't like it. I don't like using swear words in public. I don't even like
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mentioning what Eric Swalwell did on national television. It's just that itself is unbecoming.
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However, I'm not sure that's exactly what Prince Andrew's doing here. I don't think it's simply
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because of the dignity of his role and his office that he's not using this line. I think it's because
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he doesn't want to admit that his friend of many years, who he hung out with even pretty recently,
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was one of the most notorious sex offenders in history. So he says, well, you know, what he did,
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it was something, you know, a little bit unbecoming. You mean that he was a notorious sex abuser
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and child sex trafficker? Well, yes, that's what I meant. Then the interviewer gets down to brass
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tacks, asks Prince Andrew about sleeping with Epstein's harem. For the record, is there any way
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you could have had sex with that young woman or any young woman trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein in any of
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his residences? No. And without putting too fine a point on it, if you're a man, it is a positive act
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to have sex with somebody. You have to have to take some sort of positive action. And so therefore,
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if you try to forget, it's very difficult to try and forget positive action. And I do not remember
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anything. I can't, I've racked my brain and thinking, oh, well, when the first allegations,
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when the allegations came out originally, I went, well, that's a bit strange. I don't remember this.
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And then I've been through it and through it and through it over and over and over again. And no,
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nothing. No, no, nothing. I don't, I don't think, I don't believe that I remember that if I were to
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have slept with the girls, I would have had to put my little mini royal into the, and I don't believe
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if I, I'm scratching my head and it's just not coming up, then a very bad excuse. You could just
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say, no, you just say it didn't happen. Yeah. If it didn't happen, then you come out and say, nope,
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didn't happen. If you want to leave yourself leeway, then you need to pretend like you might
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not remember. Look, I don't have a great memory either. Okay. And Prince Andrew has been seen out
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partying and he's had a bit of a colorful life. So I could understand if your long-term memory is a
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little hazy. If you regularly frequent the private residences and islands of the world's
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most notorious sex trafficker filled with young and underage girls, I think you would remember
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that. I think you would remember whether you slept with any of them or not. I don't think it would be
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confusing. I don't think you'd have to rack your mind and say, did I, did I accidentally trip over a
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rock on little St. James Island and perhaps fall on top of one of the, you wouldn't do that. You
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would just, you either did it or you didn't do it. The fact that he's now backtracking and he used to
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deny these allegations, now he's saying he can't remember. Not a great look. Then the interviewer
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keeps pressing and the interviewer keeps going off the rails. And so does Prince Andrew Kopp do it? No.
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He puts out even more hot air. We will get to that in a second when Prince Andrew is asked why
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he stayed at Epstein's house after Epstein was convicted for child sex crimes. We will then,
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back with a lot more. Okay, so you've got a masterclass in gas baggery from Prince Andrew,
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a masterclass in how not to comport yourself in public. First, Prince Andrew's asked about his
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old friend Jeffrey Epstein. He says it's unbecoming to have sex with children. Then he's asked whether
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or not he sleeps with the young girls. And he says, well, you know, I can't quite remember. I
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don't think I did. No, it doesn't sound right. Then he's asked why he stayed at Epstein's house
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after Epstein was very publicly convicted for child sex crimes. And you know, Prince Andrew's
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answer, he's just too damn honorable. But you were staying at the house of a convicted sex offender.
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It was a convenient place to stay. I mean, I've gone through this in my mind so many times.
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At the end of the day, with the benefit of all the hindsight that one could have,
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it was definitely the wrong thing to do. But at the time, I felt it was the honorable and
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right thing to do. And I admit fully that my judgment was probably colored by my
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tendency to be too honorable. But that's just the way it is.
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Oh, my gosh, you've got to be kidding me. So you did hear there are two excuses in here.
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He said, why did you stay at that convicted sex offenders, child sex abusers house? Well,
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you know, it was very convenient. Because the prince, a British prince cannot afford a hotel room.
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It was so convenient. You know, it was much closer to the airport than the Marriott. So I just felt I
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would stay there. I'm pretty sure the prince can stay wherever he wants in the whole world. I think
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he's got other friends. I think he can go to other private residences. Pretty sure he could stay at the
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top floor of the Ritz whenever he wants to. So that's the first excuse. And then the second one,
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the second one is so great. He stayed with the convicted sex offender because he's too honorable.
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This is the excuse you hear like in job interviews. I'll say, what's your worst quality? And then when
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it's a kid right out of school, I'll say, you know, I think my worst quality is probably,
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I'd say I probably care too much. You know, I just work too hard. And so it's really, sometimes it's
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really hard for me to separate my work life from my professional life because I just give too much
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to the company. That's my problem. I'm too good. I'm too good. Prince Andrews. I guess it's because
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Prince Andrew has never had a job in the way we think of jobs. He's never had a job interview,
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that's for sure. And so he gives this absurd line with a straight face. Instead of just, if he just
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came out and said, yeah, he was a friend of mine. Obviously I was associating with a disreputable
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character and I shouldn't have stayed with him. Okay. It's not a satisfying excuse, but at least
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it's, you can believe it. And then finally, Prince Andrew gets caught in a lie. He's asked, wait,
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hold on a second. We see pictures of you holding the bare midriff of these underage girls with
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Jeffrey Epstein at Jeffrey Epstein's place. Well, doesn't that seem to be incriminating? And he said,
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it couldn't have been me that the accounts that these girls are describing where we had sweaty sex
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can't be real because I can't sweat. That's what he said. Here he is.
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She described dancing with you and you profusely sweating and that she went on to have baths,
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possibly. There's a slight problem with the sweating because I have a peculiar medical condition,
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which is that I don't sweat or I didn't sweat at the time. And that was, oh, actually,
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yes, I didn't sweat at the time because I had suffered what I would describe as an overdose of
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adrenaline in the Falklands War when I was shot at. And I simply, it was, it was, it was almost
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impossible for me to sweat. And it's only because I have done a number of things in the recent past
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that I'm starting to be able to do that again. So I'm afraid to say that there's a medical condition
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that says that I didn't do it. So therefore. Oh my God, dude, why on earth? His PR guy,
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his, his publicist quit when Prince Andrew agreed to do this interview, he should have quit long
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before that. I mean, he's still going to get some blame here. One earth prepared him for this
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interview because photos have since come out showing Prince Andrew at parties surrounded by women
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sweating. I couldn't have had sex with these girls because they said that I was sweaty and
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I can't sweat because I was shot at during the Falklands War. What? Very bad gas baggery.
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And it's, it's important to see this because the Royals are always kind of a kooky family and it's
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especially the ones who are a little more degenerate than, than the queen who is really just a model of
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grace. But when you watch them just fall apart under this kind of scrutiny, you look back at our own
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politicians and it gives you a certain respect for them because they're so shameless and they're so
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practiced and they're so skilled at it, but they're just as full of it. And occasionally just a little
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evidence of that hot air squeaks out of them, such as Eric Swalwell on live television. It's the same
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sort of gas baggery. And what they do is they gaslight us. I know these are puns. I'm actually not even
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doing that intentionally. These, at least not anymore. These, this gaslighting is what's so offensive to us.
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Because these people, Prince Andrew, I guess most ridiculously, but Pelosi, Swalwell, Chris Murphy,
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these guys go on television and they tell us not to believe our own lying eyes. They tell us not to
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believe our own lying ears. They're trying to force a narrative on us that is obviously untrue. And
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people really don't like being lied to. I've found if you're just straight with people, they appreciate
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that. You know, President Trump during the 2016 election more or less came out and said, yeah,
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I hear all my flaws. Okay. I've never pretended to be a saint, but here's what I'll do for you.
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Here's what I'm promising. And I, I won't lie to you. I'll talk straight to you. And generally
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speaking by politician standards, he has done that. If Democrats think that they are going to win in
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2020, and that is what all of this circus about impeachment is about. If they think that they're
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going to be able to win in 2020 by continuing to push a false narrative, by continuing to tell the
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American people not to believe their lying eyes and ears, then they are going to lose. And it doesn't
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matter how many candidates are in the race. More candidates are entering the race even now because
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Deval Patrick entered the race. We haven't even talked about that because eh, who cares? But you
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know, they had 25 candidates. That wasn't even enough because they are not dealing with any relation
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to reality here. That is not going to serve them in 2020. And if they want to have any chance,
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any chance in hell, they've got to deflate themselves, expel the hot air, presumably or
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preferably off camera and deal with the reality of the political situation. I'm not holding my breath.
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Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A caved to the left after years and years of defending their Christian values.
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You know, they're closed on Sunday as Kanye West recently rapped. They would donate to a number of
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Christian charities, but you know, really unobjectionable charities like the Salvation Army.
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They caught a lot of flack for this from the left because the left hates Christianity. So the left
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doesn't want them to donate to Christian charities like the Salvation Army. And they say that it's
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because the Salvation Army discriminates against homosexuals or something, but that isn't true at
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all. Anyway, after years and years of this, Chick-fil-A has caved to the left. And I think I'm the only
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person who's a little bit relieved to hear this news because for years I've had to pretend that I
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really like Chick-fil-A sandwiches. I don't. I don't really like any fast food chicken sandwich.
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Fast food hamburgers are much better than fast food chicken sandwiches. But I've had to pretend
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because Chick-fil-A has been such a good company and such a symbol of conservative resistance to
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leftist cultural tyranny. And now they're not. Here's what Chick-fil-A said. Quote,
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as Chick-fil-A expands globally and into more liberal parts of the U.S., the chicken chain plans to
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change which charities it donates to after years of bad press and protests from the LGBT community.
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This is from a report, obviously. So beginning next year, Chick-fil-A will move away from its
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current philanthropic structure. After donating to more than 300 charitable organizations this year,
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the Atlanta food chain will instead focus on three initiatives with one accompanying charity, each
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education, homelessness, and hunger. So they've gotten all this bad press. They're expanding their
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business and they don't want any more bad press. A couple things to learn here.
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One, Chick-fil-A is going to learn this if they haven't learned this already. For most companies, with a few
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notable exceptions, if you get woke, you go broke. If you kowtow to the leftist mob, you will collapse.
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Look at Dick's Sporting Goods. Takes guns out of there. Their sales drop tremendously. That's going to
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happen to Chick-fil-A here. They're basically saying, hey, all of our conservative supporters, we don't care about
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you. We're going to try to get forgiveness from the woke mob. By the way, you're never going to get
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forgiveness from the woke mob anyway. They're just going to ask for more and more and more. But the
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other thing that this shows you, which is important in conservative debates right now, is
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perfectly free markets, perfectly economic views of politics are insufficient. Because let's say
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that Chick-fil-A's decision to stop donating to the Salvation Army, to more or less apologize for
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being Christian, let's say that that decision increases the bottom line by 5%. I don't know. I'm
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just pulling a number out of thin air. Let's say that that were to happen. It would still be bad.
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It would be bad for the culture. We would have a better culture if businesses made 5% less, but
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actually stood for some values, actually helped to maintain our American culture and at least pay lip
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service to the faith that founded our civilization. That would be better. And that's not what's happening
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here because Chick-fil-A is selling out to mammon. Seek ye first the kingdom of mammon, I guess, is
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what they're saying. Salvation Army has issued a statement because Salvation Army is losing
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donations from Chick-fil-A, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and the Paul Anderson Youth Home.
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We're saddened to learn that a corporate partner has felt it necessary to divert funding to other hunger
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education and homeless organizations, areas in which the Salvation Army, as the largest social services
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provider in the world, is already fully committed. We serve more than 23 million individuals a year,
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including those in the LGBTQ plus community. In fact, we believe we are the largest provider of
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poverty relief to the LGBTQ plus population. When misinformation is perpetuated without fact,
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our ability to serve those in need, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, religion,
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or any other factor, is at risk. We urge the public to seek the truth before rushing to ill-informed
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judgment and greatly appreciate those partners and donors who ensure that anyone who needs our
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help feels safe and comfortable to come through our doors. Very good statement. I've always liked
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the Salvation Army. I always like to put a buck or two in their pots when they're ringing the bells at
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Christmas time. Absolutely pathetic stuff here from Chick-fil-A. Absolutely pathetic stuff.
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What is going to be the effect of this, of this LGBTQ leftist activism, is that this charity is going
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to get a lot less money. They're going to be able to do a lot less good. But it doesn't matter. They
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don't care about doing good. They just want to virtue signal. And what is the virtue that they're
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sending? Sure doesn't look like a virtue to me. Chick-fil-A is not the only company doing it. Sprite right
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now, Lemon Lime Soda, is testing out an advertisement in Argentina. And I watched this advertisement a
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couple times. I don't see anywhere in the advertisement where they mention Sprite Soda. Here it is.
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For those who can't see, who are just listening, I'll describe the scene.
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You've got a mother painting makeup onto her transvestite son.
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Throughout the whole commercial, you've got these, you know, a mother binding the breasts
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of her young, I guess, transgender child. So a young girl who wants to be a boy. The mother is
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binding the breasts up so that the girl can more closely resemble a boy.
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Throughout the rest of it, you see parents coming out and just affirming the gender identity of their
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child, regardless of that child's actual biological sex. Now, one thing that's missing from the
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commercial, I'm not casting aspersions on this kind of bizarre commercial, at least not yet. One thing
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that's missing is Sprite. Where's the product? Where's the soda? You're not selling this at all.
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What you're selling is this really weird ideology where you're forcing gender ideology on children,
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on actual children in this case. I don't care if somehow this increases Sprite's bottom line by
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5%. I don't think it will. But even if it did, I don't care. I want a good culture. I want a culture
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where we can say, hey, forcing sex and gender ideology on 10-year-olds is a bad idea. I want a
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culture where we can say, hey, if you want to donate to the most famous homelessness charity in
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America that's been around for a very, very long time and has always done great work, you can do
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that without being called a bigot. I want to live in that culture. I want to live in a culture where
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the CEO of a company can be a Christian and not threaten his entire corporation over it
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and not be forced to kowtow to a small but vociferous leftist mob. Andrew Breitbart very
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famously said politics is downstream of culture. That's true. Culture is also downstream of politics,
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okay? And there are policies in this country that are encouraging this sort of culture.
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policies which always privilege, for instance, atheism over the religion that founded our
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country, Christianity. Policies which force sex and gender ideology on children in schools.
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These sort of policies are affecting our culture. And when we think about politics, we want as much
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economic freedom as is possible. Economic freedom is a great thing, allowing people to do what they want
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with their own property and their own labor and their own money. We also want a culture because
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you can have all the money in the world, but if you don't have a coherent society, all that money
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isn't going to buy you very much. Before we go, I have to get to this. A woman, a mother of three in
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New Zealand is now saying she's faced death threats because she shared pictures from hunting trips
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which show her carrying animals' carcasses away after a hunt. She's gotten death threats for this
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for posting it on social media. I think this would be fine if she wanted to take the animals and cut
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off the heads and put them on the wall. I think this would be fine if she just wanted to leave the
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animals and let other animals eat them. But what she's actually doing is killing the animals and then
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eating them herself. She's feeding her family with these animals that she's eating, or that she's
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hunting rather. And part of the reason she's doing this is because she thinks it's more
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sustainable, it's better for the environment, and it's better for the health of her family
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than using a factory farm. So the people who are environmentalists, who are terrified about
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global warming, should actually support what this woman is doing because it's really, talk about
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farm to table. She's going out, killing her own food, and eating it takes out so much of the
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environmental impact of factory farming. But it doesn't matter because people want to virtue signal
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without any sense of virtue. I gave a speech last night at the University of Kentucky. Go check it
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out. The speech is online. It's called Babies Are Not People. It was a lot of fun. The Q&A got pretty
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feisty too because we had some, I think the people are called groipers. They're critics of conservatives
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from the right who showed up also, and we had a fun Q&A with them. So go check that out. But the thrust of
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the speech was that in America today, if you disturb the nest of a bald eagle, you'll be fined a quarter
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million dollars and go to jail for two years. But if you kill a human baby at any stage of development,
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practically, you'll be applauded as a great defender of freedom. I mean, if you kill a baby after birth in
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Virginia, the governor of Virginia says that's perfectly fine. That is a bizarre moral system.
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Right now, speaking at the 20th World Congress of the International Association of Penal Law in Rome,
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the Pope, Pope Francis said, quote, we have to introduce, we're thinking about it, to the
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catechism of the Catholic Church, the sin against ecology, the ecological sin against our common home
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because a duty is at stake. Far be it from me to ever criticize the Pope, but consider this a filial
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correction, very respectfully. There's no such thing as a sin against ecology. You cannot sin against
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ecology. Sin can only be against God and those made in the image of God. We are the stewards of
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creation. Now, of course, we can abuse those things, and to abuse creation is a transgression,
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but sins can only be committed against people. We are in a culture now. I mean, it's why I bring up
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the Chick-fil-A example. It's why I bring up the extreme of that, the Sprite example. We are in a
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culture that is getting things, not just a little off kilter, but actually completely backwards. We're
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now living in a culture where people who hunt animals for their own food are getting death threats,
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but people who kill babies are being celebrated as heroes. That is a shameless culture. That is a
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culture full of hot air. That is a gas bag culture that is telling you not to believe the reality that
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we're all seeing in front of you, but instead to believe the narrative. Unfortunately, at least on
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the cultural level and on the religious level, some people, a lot of people, have gone along with that
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narrative. Don't do it. Put a little pinprick in it. Deflate that gas bag narrative, and let's all come
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back to reality. That's our show. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. If you missed the
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