Ep. 456 - Animals Aren’t People
Summary
Trump honors a terrorist killing machine at the White House. An American professor receives international scorn for offering an unpopular opinion on Indian cuisine. A news outlet prints a story that looks bad for Republicans, only to delete the story when it turns out the news is bad for Democrats. And finally, the campaign manager for the latest 2020 Democratic presidential entrant says Trump is headed for victory in 2020.
Transcript
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President Trump gives Conan the terrorist chomping canine killing machine a plaque and a medal at the White House on the same day that he signs sweeping federal animal cruelty legislation.
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And while Conan is the goodest boy in the country, the law is very bad.
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Then, speaking of controversial opinions, an American professor receives international scorn for offering an unpopular opinion on Indian cuisine.
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And the whole absurd episode actually has a lot to teach us about gratitude two days before Thanksgiving.
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A news outlet prints news that looks bad for Republicans only to delete the story when it turns out the news is bad for Democrats.
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And finally, the campaign manager for the latest 2020 Democratic presidential entrant says Trump is headed for victory in 2020.
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All that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I got a spicy take. I have a very spicy, controversial opinion.
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You think that Indian food is spicy? You think that the Indian food guy has a controversial opinion?
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I have a more controversial opinion and it has to do with animals, but I'm right.
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They invited Conan, the terrorist killing dog. That was great. That was the great part of the day.
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And then President Trump signed this new sweeping federal legislation.
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Let's start with the great part. Let's start with Conan, the dog.
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President Trump walks out. He's in the Rose Garden.
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He's got that little Abu Bakr chomping machine next to him.
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And he talks about what a great dog he is and how he won a medal, which, by the way, I sort of feel we memed into existence when we posted that that Internet meme and that image of Conan getting the the medal of pawn or around his neck.
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I guess we're living in the matrix or something.
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We're just causing things to flow in and out of consciousness and reality.
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President Trump in the Rose Garden gives Conan his due.
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Right now, probably the world's most famous dog.
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I learned a lot about this particular type of dog.
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And it's it's trained that if you open your mouths, you will be attacked.
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But Conan came over from the Middle East, just arrived with some of the great people from the special forces that did the incredible floor.
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And it's really and I actually think Conan knew exactly what was going on.
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I love the dog because every image, every video of the dog, he just looks so happy.
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And I love the idea that he's there just thinking, oh, oh, boy, I can't wait to eat another terrorist.
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You got Mike Pence just leaning down, scratching him like he's a little poodle, even though he's obviously this just lean, mean, killing machine.
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I also love the ceremony because it it treats animals in the way that animals should be treated.
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Pets are there for our enjoyment to be treated like a member of the family because the the pet is, you know, in a way, an extension of our humanity.
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So really, look, are we really giving credit to this dog for killing the terrorists?
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No, we're going to give credit to the special forces team that went in there and actually executed the operation.
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But President Trump can't go out and honor these soldiers, you know, on their on their own.
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I mean, frankly, if he if he gives away their identity, that would put them in great danger.
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And it would appear that they're still working anyway.
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It would appear that they're still over in the Middle East.
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So instead, what he's doing is using the dog as a symbol of the whole team and saying we're going to honor this dog.
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It actually ties in pretty well with what happened later in the day on the animal front, which is the animal cruelty legislation, except that, unfortunately, President Trump and even a lot of conservatives really are getting this this whole issue backwards.
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And this animal cruelty legislation is actually a pretty bad law.
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So when you look at, at Conan, when you look at Conan, the, this barbarian animal that eats the terrorists, part of the reason we love him is because we've kind of brought him in, right?
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We've brought him in, not just into the special forces team, but into the consciousness of the country.
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We, we like that he's part of the team and he really did do a job out there in the team.
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It reminds me of what C.S. Lewis said about animal cruelty laws and animal cruelty, uh, just as a, as a topic and a mode of behavior.
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It's an awful, awful thing, but it's awful because it deadens our humanity because it makes us cruel.
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It's, it's awful because of what it does to human beings.
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You can't sin against an animal or against a tree or against an inanimate object.
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Human beings are the moral creatures on this earth.
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There is a very modern idea that animal cruelty is wrong because animals have some kind of rights.
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Now, ironically, people say that animals have human rights.
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Animals cannot have human rights because they're not humans.
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There's a gorilla or there's some kind of monkey that is living in Florida that is considered a non-human person.
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But the monkey can't be a person because the monkey is not a human.
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Nothing about that would ever excuse animal cruelty, but it shows you where your moral compass has to be guided toward.
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We shouldn't be cruel to animals because it, it deadens our humanity.
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We should be caring and loving to animals because it expands our humanity.
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Unfortunately, it would appear, including President Trump.
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So later on in the day, he signed a federal law, a brand new federal law, banning animal cruelty.
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So it's taking animal cruelty from the state level all the way up to the federal level.
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He couldn't be happier and so many conservatives are cheering him on.
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I'm pleased to sign the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act into law.
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This is something that should have happened a long time ago and it didn't, but the people behind me and others have been incredible.
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And I ask the same question I asked for another bill that we just sent.
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And I give you the same answer because Trump wasn't president.
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This common sense legislation restricts the creation and distribution of videos or images of animal torture.
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It is important that we combat these heinous and sadistic acts of cruelty, which are totally unacceptable in a civilized society.
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We're pleased to be joined by some of the very important people that got this done.
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It makes a federal crime out of certain animal torture.
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And what it builds upon is a law from the Obama administration that specifically looked at these really sadistic videos that were going around the internet.
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I guess they pertain to different sexual fetishes where people would step on animals and crush the animals.
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And actually it was a case that went all the way up to the Supreme Court.
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And now this law is expanding that and making more forms of animal cruelty illegal at the federal level.
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It would appear that Laura Trump, who is President Trump's daughter-in-law, has been really pushing this.
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Laura Trump came out with a number of statements about this law.
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Our companion pets are family members and our working dogs are our heroes.
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Heroes, there's a Democratic representative from Florida who is a co-sponsor of this law.
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He said that the torture of innocent animals is abhorrent, of course, and should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
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Sure, signing this bill into law is a significant milestone for pet owners and animal lovers across this country.
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Nevertheless, this is an extremely stupid idea.
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Now, the whole episode reveals two distressing facts.
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People don't know how our government works and people don't know how the moral order works.
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So let's start with the government before we get to the actual human level of this, the actual moral, actually moral order level of this.
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At the government level, why should animal cruelty be a federal offense?
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That would appear to be what everyone who's sponsoring this bill says.
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It's so bad that it needs to be punished at the highest possible level.
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And in people's minds, what this means is it needs to be punished at the federal level, for the federal government.
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They don't understand that we have a federal system, meaning the federal government, the states, local government, municipalities.
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To put this in perspective, most murders are tried and punished at the state level, murders of human beings.
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So you're telling me that I can murder a human being in cold blood.
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But if I abuse an animal, if I abuse a little puppy or something, that has to be a federal offense.
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They can only handle it when you murder human beings.
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But when you abuse a little puppy, that has to be handled by the federal government because that is so much more serious.
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Now, when you put it in those terms, nobody would agree with that.
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Nobody would think that you should make a federal offense out of animal cruelty but let murders be handled at the state level.
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If really the difference here is about the severity of the crime.
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The question that I have to ask of the people who think that this is so important, it must be handled at the federal level,
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is what makes you think that the federal government is more capable of handling this than the state government?
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What makes you think that a more distant government that's less accountable to you is going to be better at handling these matters than the more local government?
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I do believe that most people in America now think that way.
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Most people think that, yes, federal government, bigger, better.
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That's where we've got to put the important issues.
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That's certainly not how the founders of our country thought.
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That is certainly not the idea that has allowed our country to develop for the past 200 years, 250 years at this point.
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We've always thought that more local government is better able, better equipped to deal with most problems.
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And you reserve only a handful of offenses for the federal government.
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But then think about it simply as a question of the moral law.
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How is it in this country that if you kill a baby at virtually any stage of development, virtually anywhere, you get off scot-free?
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The left in this country will applaud you for exercising your rights.
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If you murder another person, you murder your neighbor, that's a state crime.
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But you abuse an animal, anything from a kitten to a puppy to a goldfish, that's a federal offense.
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It seems to me we've lost track of our priorities.
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The way that puppies are treated is better than the way that humans are treated.
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People in L.A. are absolutely cruel to one another.
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But you see the way that people treat one another.
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And yet they put their little miniature poodle in a baby stroller and bring them into every single restaurant and order them foie gras half the time.
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That is an inversion of the natural order and certainly of the moral order.
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Do you remember, this was a year or two ago at Coachella.
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And what people found out, it's pretty disturbing, found out that there were puppies, living puppies in the bag.
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And when this became a public matter, it went totally viral.
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What kind of cruel monster would ever tolerate a woman throwing out a bag of puppies?
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Meanwhile, just a few years ago, Kermit Gosnell, the worst mass killer in American history, an abortionist who was operating with the blessing, I use that word ironically, the blessing of the left in Philadelphia nationally.
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Kermit Gosnell had bags of babies all over his apartment, all over his house.
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The left right now is praying to whatever God they have.
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I guess Moloch or Baal or Baphomet or something.
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They're praying that Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an 86-year-old jurist, doesn't die before Trump is out of office.
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Because they need, they're so desperate to preserve the right to murder a million babies a year.
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And we are completely dead to the suffering of human beings.
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And I think people are trying to separate this as a dichotomy.
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Like you can only be kind to animals or you can only be kind to humans.
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But the way it actually works is if you get the natural order right, if you get the moral order right,
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if you look with charity on your fellow man, if you treat your neighbor as yourself,
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you will be kind to animals and everything else.
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But if you disregard your fellow humans and you, you only love sentimental saccharine things like
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little animals or something, you will not be kind to human beings because you're perverting,
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That is not the, the recipe for a good society.
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Right now, what, what so much of this animal legislation is about is just about saccharine,
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And you, so you want to just do whatever you can for the little puppy.
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Self-government doesn't operate very well when it's purely on emotion.
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And, and the way to do that is to care about your fellow humans, to get your priorities in order.
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Mother Teresa gave a speech at the UN in 1994 on abortion.
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She said, abortion is the greatest cause of evil in the world.
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Because if a mother can kill her own baby, then there is nothing that we won't do to one another.
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There is no way to teach people not to be violent and to love one another.
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And the way that the left wants to put a band-aid over this horrific act that they're sanctioning
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is by saying, sure, we'll kill a million babies a year, but we really like this puppy.
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Get your moral order in perspective before you can move on to those sorts of things.
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Here's another spicy take on a completely separate issue.
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This is one of these stories that seems incredibly dumb, but it's actually telling us a lot about
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This is a story that was going around the internet yesterday.
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An American professor was asked to tweet out a controversial food opinion.
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So this American professor, Tom Nichols, professor at the U.S. Naval War College and the Harvard
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Extension School, tweeted out, quote, Indian food is terrible and we pretend it isn't.
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But hey, look, he knew that this is a controversial opinion.
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That's why he responded to the controversial opinion tweet, right?
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So he says, Indian food is terrible and we pretend that it isn't.
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Not only did he get ratioed, 16,000 replies to 2,000 retweets, this became an international
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The BBC posts, quote, Indian food is terrible tweet sparks hot debate about racism.
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The Eater magazine says, quote, controversial food opinions prompt on Twitter motivated racist
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But is that, that's racist if I don't like that?
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Sonia Gupta, who is some person with a lot of Twitter followers, I can describe so many
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She tweeted out, quote, white people dunking on Indian food sucks, but white people fawning
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It's the same feeling I had as a kid when white women would fawn over my mom's beautiful sorries
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while also talking to her as if she was a child.
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Like my mentions are filling up with white people who were enthusiastic about my food.
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I mean, she actually needs to have more problems if she wants to be able to develop as a human
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It helps us to mature and deepens our view of society.
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Because if she's upset about this, if she's upset that, that white people like Indian food,
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What this very surface level stupid story tells us about the culture, a few things.
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They go and look for a Twitter thread called controversial food opinions just so that they
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can find something they disagree with just so they can be angry because some people want
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to be aggrieved and some people really want to be offended and there's no arguing with
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If you've watched any of my campus lectures now in, in recent months, I'll go and I'll give
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And the students won't know what to protest in the speech.
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So they will literally set a timer and then 10 or 11 minutes in, they will all stand up
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and start screaming at me about what I have no idea.
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They'll start screaming and I've asked them, I say, what are you offended about?
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If you think about some of the psychobabble, maybe they just really don't like their dads
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If you think about it from a, uh, an academic perspective, I don't know.
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Nothing is never, nothing is ever enough for them.
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Jeff Bezos just donated $98.5 million to help the homeless.
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Jeremy Corbyn, who is the leftist leader in Britain, tweeted out, quote, that's 0.09%
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There was a few years ago, Amazon was reinvesting money in their business, so they didn't pay
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Also, how much money has Jeremy Corbyn ever given to the homeless?
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First of all, how much money has Jeremy Corbyn ever paid in taxes?
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How much money has he ever given to the homeless?
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Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself, buddy.
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How much money did you give to charity this year?
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Most likely, if you're listening to this show, you're not one of these people who scream
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and yell at everyone else for things that they did or didn't do.
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But if you are, if somehow someone on Twitter and the Twitter world is watching or listening
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to this, how much money did you give to charity yourself?
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Most people don't give a lot of money to charity.
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But the secret is you're not going to miss that money.
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What this brings up from the Indian food story to Jeff Bezos, what this all brings up at a
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deeper cultural level is that there are two ways of looking at the world.
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Now, this is very important when you were two days away from Thanksgiving, two ways of
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looking at the world, one from a position of entitlement, one from a position of gratitude.
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If you are looking at the world from a position of entitlement, you are most likely going to
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look at politics primarily as a matter of rights.
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You're going to see every little slight that was ever done to you.
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You're going to imagine, completely imagine new slights committed against you.
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Like that Indian woman who says that she doesn't like that white people like Indian food.
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You're going to judge others by their actions and you're going to judge yourself by your
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If you look at life primarily from an attitude of gratitude, you are going to look at politics
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Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
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You are not going to sit around imagining new slights.
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You're going to be happy for the life that you have.
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You are going to give people a break and you're going to be thankful that you don't get called
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You are going to be much happier because you are going to realize that you did not invent
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You are not responsible for giving yourself your own life.
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If life was a gift, you should be very happy to have it.
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Something to think about as we move into Thanksgiving.
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And I would recommend, at least for the Thanksgiving meal, turning off Twitter.
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You don't need during that moment to imagine all of the new grievances against you.
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You don't need to sit there and try to figure out a way to be offended.
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But when you're having Thanksgiving dinner with your leftist relatives, maybe you could
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A big story coming out of the mainstream media.
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Plus, the newest presidential candidate in the race seems to have good news for President
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Trump, as does the Supreme Court has good news for President Trump, too.
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But first, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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It's $10 a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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This is the third and final season of Another Kingdom.
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I did a 45-minute interview yesterday with Drew answering subscriber questions about Another
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We always talk about how conservatives need to be in the culture.
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This is going to be very, very important when we get some new information about the 2020
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presidential race, and we get some new information about impeachment.
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There was a story that came out from AFP, from the news outlet, AFP News Agency.
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First tweet, hashtag breaking, breaking news, more than 100,000 children in migration-related
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U.S. detention, according to the U.N., 100,000 children.
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No matter what you think about immigration, that's pretty bad.
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The left wants to deal with that by just getting rid of our borders and letting anybody into
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the country who wants to come in, compromising our national security because we have no
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idea who's in here, compromising our elections because you're just flooding the country with
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foreign aliens who will then, presumably, if they have children, those children will get
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We want to cut off the flow of migrants to come into the United States.
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Maybe we need to put some National Guard troops on the southern border with Mexico.
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We need to renegotiate certain deals with Mexico so that they can cooperate with us better
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The author of the report has clarified that his figures do not represent the number of children
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currently in migration-related U.S. detention, but the total number of children in migration-related
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So what, what that, what that second tweet really says is, hold on, hold on.
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Well, no, it, it was true, but it was true during the Obama administration.
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And so, because it was true during the Obama administration, it makes the Democrats look
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We will not only withdraw the story, we are deleting the story.
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I was interested in the story when it looked bad for Republicans because it's an actual problem
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But the press won't let the story stand when it looks bad for Democrats.
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That, that little incident, breaking news, oh wait, never mind, it looks bad for Democrats.
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That tells you everything you need to know about the mainstream media.
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We know that they choose their coverage based on the left.
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If they accidentally report on a story that looks bad for the left, they will, they will
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apologize for that and they will go back and delete it.
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What do we do here at the, at the Michael Knowles show and at the other Daily Wire shows?
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Okay, so we have a perspective, a political perspective.
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We're honest about our perspective and we report on the news.
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We interpret the news of the day through that conservative lens.
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Even knowing that, even being honest about our perspective, we don't hide news that is
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I mean, I opened my show today with a story about why President Trump was wrong to sign
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But we do that all the time because we're not interested in just carrying water like a
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Okay, we're interested in the reality of our political situation and our cultural situation.
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And we're interested in advancing a better culture and a better politics.
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Okay, and you don't do that by ignoring reality.
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And yet the so-called objective journalists of the left are doing precisely that.
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They are not merely slanted, not merely biased.
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They are propagandist, water-carrying hacks for the left who will actually go back and delete
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their own work if it accidentally looks bad for their political puppet masters.
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And I spend a lot of time haranguing the media.
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And I don't think it's going to work out for them.
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If any members of the mainstream media are watching this, use this as an example.
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If the media had played their cards a little closer to the chest, if they had been a little
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more cautious about this, they would still have some credibility.
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But they've been exposed repeatedly time and time again.
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I was talking to Drew about this yesterday in our Another Kingdom conversation.
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George Stephanopoulos is the war room communications director for Bill Clinton.
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He silences the women that Bill Clinton abused.
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He then becomes the chief political correspondent for, or chief political anchor, rather, for ABC News.
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ABC News has footage leaked of one of their anchors saying that the Jeffrey Epstein story
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ABC News rushes to figure out what happened by silencing the whistleblower.
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They don't try to, they're going out and trying to find the whistleblower.
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They're not going out and trying to find the person who actually killed the Epstein story.
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They are so unbelievably corrupt that now they don't have credibility.
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I mean, in that Conan video where President Trump has the dog in the Rose Garden, he's joking.
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And he says to the reporters, by the way, if you open your mouths, Conan is trained to attack you.
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And everyone laughs at this because we hate the press.
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We hate that they lie to us night after night after night.
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One of the constant applause lines that Trump gets at his very large rallies is when he says,
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They're going to smear us because they're the scum of the earth.
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It's independents too who are fed up with the lies.
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If they had just played it a little better, they would have credibility.
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In fact, the opinion people on the left and the right, in my mind, have a lot more credibility
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than the so-called objective mainstream media outlets.
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It's Rachel Maddow and the Young Turks and whoever else, Vox.com, have a lot more credibility
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because at least they're honest about their perspective.
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And sometimes, not always, but sometimes they'll even report on stories that are not wonderful
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The same cannot be said, certainly of AFP News, certainly of ABC News, certainly of CNN and
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I mean, another example, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, major media company, not to be confused with
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the former mayor of New York who's now running for president, even though they're the same
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Bloomberg Media, because Mike Bloomberg is running for president, says that they are not going
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The idea being that Mike Bloomberg is running in the Democratic presidential primary.
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And so he's not going to use his organ to investigate his primary opponents.
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But Bloomberg Media didn't have to put out that statement.
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Bloomberg Media already doesn't investigate Democrats.
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Bloomberg Media already carries water for Democrats and attacks Republicans.
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Also, by the way, if the whole idea here is that Mike Bloomberg is not going to use his news
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organ to investigate his political opponents, why not also promise not to investigate Trump?
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They're not going to do that because the media are done even pretending to be in any way objective.
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Speaking of Mike Bloomberg, though, President Trump got some good news from him.
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His campaign manager went on CNN to explain his candidates.
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And he admitted that right now President Trump is winning.
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You know, your guest before this talked about president chaos.
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Listen, Mike is getting in this race because he thinks that Donald Trump is an existential crisis.
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That's why other candidates are looking, getting in the race, Deval Patrick.
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That's why Tom Steyer got into the race, why Mike Bloomberg is getting into the race.
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It's why Hillary is trying to get into the race because they don't feel comfortable with Joe Biden
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They just don't think that these are serious people.
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They think that at this moment, Trump is on a path to victory.
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But if Mike Bloomberg is supposed to be the great savior of the Democratic Party,
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unfortunately, he doesn't appear to think that himself.
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Let's not forget, Mike Bloomberg is 77 years old.
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You know, he can get a coherent English sentence out of his mouth.
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He, in his behavior, looks like he's about 20 years younger than Joe Biden.
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And he feels, as he admitted just this year, that he is too old to be the president.
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But at some point, you've got to say, look, I would be 79 years old when I took office.
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People say, well, Ronald Reagan was 80 when he left.
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Yeah, when he was 80, they carried him out gaga.
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I don't mean to exaggerate it, but that's very close to being true.
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To start a four-year job, maybe an eight-year job at age 79, may not be the smartest thing to do.
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But I think if I thought I could win, I would have.
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To start this long job at age 79, probably the smartest thing to do.
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And he now apparently does think he has a good chance of winning, which is why he's running.
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The one thing I do notice about all these clips of him,
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he goes on later in that same interview to make fun of Beto O'Rourke as just a nobody.
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Mike Bloomberg does, for all of his kind of billionaire sophistication,
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Obviously, if you put that edgy New York billionaire up against Trump,
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the edgiest New York billionaire, Trump is going to eat him alive on stage.
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But Bloomberg does have a little bit of that New York attitude.
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Bloomberg now is out there on the campaign trail.
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He thinks he's going to at least have a good shot at the Democratic nomination,
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even though it doesn't appear that he thinks he's necessarily going to beat the president.
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He goes out and gives his first major campaign rallies.
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See how excited you get listening to Mike for America.
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Protecting women's and LGBTQ rights, supporting our veterans,
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and reestablishing America's place in the world as a force for peace and stability.
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But more than plans, I offer the leadership to turn plans into reality,
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to roll up my sleeves, to motivate our country,
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to unite and rebuild America, and make it fairer and better.
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So that I can finally, just two seconds of that very quiet, soft-spoken 77-year-old man,
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Does anybody really believe that Mike Bloomberg is going to get on stage
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and quietly talk about the same platitudes that were sort of popular in the early 90s,
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and that he's going to beat Donald Trump, who's the hippest guy in politics?
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There's also a physical aspect here, which is that obviously men of a more diminutive stature
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have been fairly successful throughout history, namely Napoleon, for instance.
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I've met Mike Bloomberg, I don't remember what the event was in New York,
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and I was pretty astounded by how petite he is.
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But if you look online, it says Mike Bloomberg's 5'8".
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and I'm not a particularly gigantic individual.
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So it's just not believable that he is going to beat Trump.
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think that the field is so insufficient right now that he might be the last best hope.
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then I wouldn't hold their breath to take the White House in 2020.
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More good news from President Trump from the Supreme Court.
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The Democrats have been trying to get President Trump's financial records.
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They've been trying to get the financial records to just add some icing to impeachment,
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because after all these impeachment hearings, they haven't really gotten anything on him.
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yeah, Trump explicitly said he doesn't want to quid pro quo, he didn't do anything wrong.
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No one can even explain exactly what the crime is that President Trump committed.
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Now they're trying to get the financial records to say,
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well, you know, he underpaid his taxes, or he had some shady business deals,
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The Supreme Court eventually heard about this question,
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delivered a major setback to the House Democrats who were trying to impeach Trump,
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that was going to give them access immediately to President Trump's financial records.
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The Supreme Court decided, they put out a one-paragraph order
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and it said that President Trump gets to keep his financial records for now.
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Now they're going to have to keep arguing this before the court,
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but it would seem that even in the House, among the House Democrats,
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they're starting to crack a little bit on impeachment,
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knowing what we know now about President Trump's popularity,
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about President Trump's support, particularly among non-white voters,
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yesterday there was an Emerson poll that backed up an NPR Marist poll
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that showed President Trump had upwards of 34.5% support among black voters,
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that is record-shattering in recent memory for a Republican president.
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He had very high numbers among Hispanic voters, too, he was over 38%.
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Knowing that the Democrats don't have anything in the impeachment probe,
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knowing that they're not going to get the financials, at least anytime soon,
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There's a Michigan Democratic representative, Brenda Lawrence,
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who is suggesting maybe Democrats shouldn't impeach Trump.
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Maybe they should choose a lesser measure, like censuring President Trump.
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Outright condemning him for all the terrible things that nobody can quite point out that he did,
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Because it would seem that the momentum is with impeachment.
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Pelosi didn't want to impeach Trump, but she was losing control of her caucus,
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and so she had to finally go along with the more radical members.
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If they impeach Trump, then it goes to a trial in the Senate.
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If it goes to a trial in the Senate, the Republicans control that house, that chamber.
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If it goes to a trial in the Senate, you're not going to see the key witnesses that the Democrats wanted to bring up.
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By the way, the key witnesses that the Democrats wanted to bring up, like Bill Taylor, like George Kent,
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like Sondland, Gordon Sondland, all of those guys in their testimony were pretty favorable toward Trump.
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In some cases, extremely favorable toward Trump.
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Those aren't the guys that the Republicans in the Senate are going to call if impeachment goes to trial.
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The Republicans in the Senate are going to call people like, oh, I don't know, Hunter Biden to testify.
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The Republicans in the Senate are going to call people like, oh, I don't know, Eric Charamella,
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the alleged whistleblower, who had a lot of shady contacts with a lot of prominent Democrats,
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like Joe Biden, like John Brennan, like Adam Schiff,
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who was running the whole impeachment hoax in the House.
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It's going to look really, really bad for Democrats if it goes to trial in the Senate.
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President Trump said, please go to trial. I'm begging for it to go to trial.
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Because in that case, he'll very likely be acquitted.
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Even Democratic analysts are admitting this now.
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And if he's acquitted, he could have a lot of momentum going into 2020.
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Some people say this is evidence of a broken political system.
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I mean, we talked about it at the top of the show today.
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We have a broken political system now because we've lost sight of the moral order.
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We've lost sight of, first of all, how our government works and how our government is structured.
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But at a deeper level, we've lost sight of the moral foundations for politics.
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We are dealing with a political situation now that is pretty off-kilter.
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However, we've got to play in the political realities that exist.
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And as they exist right now, things are looking pretty good for conservatives.
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Something to be thankful for as we head into Thanksgiving.
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Today we're going to take a good hard look at how the left infests the national discussion
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with lousy ideas and how that's blowing back on the Democrats while annoying the hell out