Ep. 469 - Donald Trump Is Still Your President
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Summary
Alyssa Milano, Michelle Wolf, Alyssa mccartan, and more! Impeachment has finally happened. The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump and now it s up to the Senate to decide whether or not to convict.
Transcript
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Democrats impeach President Trump as Alyssa Milano leads a rally chant that this is what
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democracy looks like. We examine what happens now and we remember what our founding fathers
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thought about democracy. Then alleged comedian Michelle Wolf jokes about how killing her child
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made her feel like God. CNN refuses to believe a CNN poll that's favorable toward President Trump
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and stick around for the mailbag to get my thoughts on whether or not we should boycott
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Star Wars, about the Crusades and about the age old question of whether Christians should date
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non-believers, all that and more. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the Michael Knowles Show.
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They did it. The Democrats have impeached President Trump. So what happens now at this point? I'm
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actually half hoping that the Senate convicts just so that President Pence can then institute
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a full-on Handmaid's Tale style dystopian Puritan tyranny. Not because anybody wants that to happen,
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least of all Mike Pence, but just because it would totally own the libs. Can you imagine how
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hilarious that would be? I mean, it would be dystopian, obviously, but it would be absolutely
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hilarious. They think they impeach Trump and they think because they've never read the Constitution
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that that means that now Hillary Clinton is going to be president. And then just peeking out from behind
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the curtain is Mike Pence there just passing out bonnets left and right. That would make it almost
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all worthwhile, though I say almost because this actually is sort of a sad thing for our Republic.
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We've gotten into this habit now of impeaching presidents. The impeachment power should very,
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very rarely be used. We're now using it a lot because we're prioritizing the Congress and the
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legislature as somehow a more important branch of government than the executive. And you've heard
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this a little bit from both parties to diminish the role of the executive. But if you diminish it
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too much, you totally throw our system out of whack. And that's what's happening all around the
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country. People are throwing our system of government out of whack. They don't even know what our system of
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government really is. We don't need to cover very much on impeachment. Obviously, we knew this was going
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to happen. We've been talking about what it will look like all week. Worth pointing out that two
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Democrats voted against impeachment and no Republicans voted for impeachment. So that means
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that the vote against impeachment was bipartisan and the vote for impeachment was not. It was strictly
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partisan. It was only Democrats. Nancy Pelosi knows that this is bad for her. It does not look good.
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I mean, it's rallied her base over the past 24 hours. They'll probably be able to fundraise pretty
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well over the next, I don't know, a couple of weeks or something. Except actually that we're
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heading into Christmas and New Year's right now. So people are tuning out of politics. If they wanted
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to fundraise off this, probably should have picked a better time. Still, Nancy Pelosi knows this doesn't
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really help her looking into 2020. So actually right now she's threatening not even to deliver
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the impeachment to the Senate, meaning that the house has voted to impeach the president. That's
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done with. But what would happen now is the house would deliver that to the Senate. The Senate would
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conduct a trial and then presumably the Senate will acquit President Trump because the Republicans
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still hold the Senate and this whole impeachment thing is a hoax. So they have no leverage. They're
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giving away all their leverage. And that's why Nancy Pelosi is saying, well, we're going to vote to
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impeach him, but maybe we won't give it over to the Senate. And you just see cocaine Mitch there
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sort of rubbing his fingers together. Like, yes, yeah. Do whatever you want, Nancy. Because right
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now that the vote has already happened, Republicans hold all of the leverage. Before we move on past
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impeachment, I do want to give a quick shout out to Republican Representative Bill Johnson. You know,
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all the congressmen were making these impassioned pleas yesterday on the topic of impeachment,
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impeachment. But Bill Johnson, more than anyone else, gave a truly powerful oration on the
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presidency, on the legislature, and on the topic of impeachment. Here is Representative Johnson.
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Thank you, Madam Speaker. In a day heavy in verbal debate, I choose to use my time to enumerate in
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detail. Every high crime and misdemeanor committed by the president of the United States. I will do so
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Yeah, it's still playing. He's there. He's standing. He's looking around. Wow. See that? That was,
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this is the best argument I've heard yet. It's so concise. It's so coherent. Where have I heard this
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before? Gentlemen, time's expired. Feel back. Uh-huh. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. They say
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that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. That's a quote by Shelley. And I can't
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help but feel that that's true. I can't help but feel I played a small role in the creation of that
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powerful speech. And that speech, I think, will go down in the annals of American history as the
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decisive oration on the topic of President Trump's impeachment. Really, really great. By the way,
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international bestselling book endorsed by President Trump. Meanwhile, so you had all these
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congressmen fighting all day. You had pretty much just one funny speech about it, which was from Bill
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Johnson. Meanwhile, in LA, you had a ton of left-wingers. I mean, congressmen, ex-congressmen,
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that thruple, derelict Katie Hill flew out and hung out with Alyssa Milano. They were holding a rally
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to celebrate the impeachment and to celebrate the attempted overthrow of the 2016 presidential election.
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Alyssa Milano was one of the people leading this rally, this protest. And here is what she had to say.
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If he thought Greta was angry, he's seen nothing yet. I'm premenopausal and I am angry.
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Yeah. If that is what democracy looks like, count me out. I'm gone. I'm cashing in my democracy
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chips. Get me out of here. Maybe she's right, though.
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I think a lot of people see these rallies. They see this hoax impeachment and they say,
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that's not what democracy is supposed to look like. Maybe that is what democracy looks like.
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them. Is that what democracy looks like? If it is, it sends a shiver down my spine. But I think she might be
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right. She might be. Just look at impeachment. There is a legal basis for impeachment. There's
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supposed to be at least. And yet the house Democrats overruled these constitutional safeguards.
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They overruled the law in favor of political strong arming. They basically said, we've got the
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votes. We're going to impeach. This is democracy. Who cares that you didn't commit a high crime or
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misdemeanor? Who cares that you didn't commit bribery? They dropped the bribery charge. Who cares that you
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didn't commit treason? Doesn't matter. We're going to impeach you anyway because we got the votes and
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it's going to be strictly partisan. Now, a couple of Democrats with a political conscience
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actually voted against impeachment, but the whole rest of the caucus voted for impeachment. And they
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didn't even pretend, by the way, many of them did not even pretend to have a legal basis for this
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impeachment. Here's a democratic representative, Schakowsky exemplifying that mob rule. She explains
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her basis of impeachment, which is not constitutional, not high crimes or misdemeanors. It's not even
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Ukraine, which was the ostensible basis for this version of impeachment. She said that she decided
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to impeach President Trump because her child told her to. It is my adult son, Ian Schakowsky,
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whom I will always credit for my decision last June to support an impeachment inquiry.
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It had never been my goal to impeach a president, but Ian made such a compelling case. He reminded me
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of the oath I have taken 11 times now to support and defend the Constitution of the United States.
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He said, Mom, this is not about politics. This is not about party. And pushing back against my arguments,
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he said, this has nothing to do with the final outcome. It's about doing the right thing, even if
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others don't. He made me see that it was about my legacy, my modest place in history.
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I want to thank you, my son, for helping me do the right thing today, to vote to impeach the president
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of the United States, Donald Trump, because no American is above the law.
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I want to thank you, my son, for helping me to realize that my job isn't to uphold the Constitution,
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that my job isn't to support the norms of American Republican government. My job is to do what my kid
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tells me to do so that I get all the good feels. And that's what congressmen are for. They're for having
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really good feels. So thank you. Thank you so much, my son. This is, this is mob rule. This is government
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by sentiment. This is government by saccharine feeling rather than government by law or government
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by our Constitution or even our traditions or our norms. This kind of mob rule has affected so many
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areas of our government, not, not even just this one Congress, this one Congresswoman. It's come all
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over the place. And what you've got to remember is that we don't actually have a democratic form of
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government, or at least we're not supposed to. Everyone seems to forget that little detail.
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The word democracy appears nowhere in the Declaration of Independence. The word democracy appears
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nowhere in our Constitution. You know what word shows up? Republic. Republic shows up through so many
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of our founding documents. The founders were terrified of democracy. They didn't like democracy.
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Democrats today would have us believe that our government is supposed to be some ever purer
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democracy, but it's not, at least not as the founding fathers envisioned it. In their great wisdom,
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the founding fathers knew what democracy looks like. Here's what James Madison, father of our Constitution,
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here's what he wrote in Federalist 10, quote, democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence
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and contention, have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property,
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and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
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Pretty sharp fella, that James Madison. Our government is not a democracy for that reason. Our government
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is a republic. And yet, we've become more democratic over time. This has happened indisputably. And in
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some ways, as the government has become more democratic, we appreciate that extension of various
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rights to people who ought to have had those rights. But in many ways, the democratization of our
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Republican Representative Barry Ludermilk, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, he made the rounds on
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Twitter yesterday because he compared President Trump at his impeachment trial to Jesus. Now,
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Republican congressman from Georgia, he made the rounds yesterday. His clip went viral because he
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compared the impeachment of President Trump to the trial of Jesus Christ. We can all agree,
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I think, that claims of President Trump's divinity have been exaggerated. However,
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Congressman Ludermilk makes a very good point about the Democrats here. He makes a very good point
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about democracy. Before you take this historic vote today, one week before Christmas, I want you
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to keep this in mind. When Jesus was falsely accused of treason, Pontius Pilate gave Jesus
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the opportunity to face his accusers. During that sham trial, Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to
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Jesus than the Democrats have afforded this president in this process. I yield back.
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Okay. Not a perfect analogy, I suppose we can say. And generally speaking, let's say generally,
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Trump is not Jesus. Okay. I suppose you could have a sort of St. Paul scenario where he says,
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it's no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives in me. But I could never presume President Trump's
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faith. So let's put that part aside for right now. Trump isn't Jesus, but the Democrats are Pontius
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Pilate. You know, when Christ is talking to Pontius Pilate, Christ tells Pontius Pilate that he has come
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to bear witness to the truth. Pontius Pilate responds in one of the most famous moments of
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the entire Bible. He shrugs his shoulders and he says, what is truth? And he walks away. And this isn't
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just some sloppy moment from Pontius Pilate, just some throwaway line. It's the evidence that Pontius
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Pilate is a cynic, a cynic in the true sense of the word. He doesn't care for the truth. He is
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totally indifferent to what the truth is. He doesn't believe in a way that there is objective
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truth. That cynicism has infected much of our society, but it is especially affected the left, which
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now denies objective truth. As a matter of course, they'll say there's your truth and my truth, but there's
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no the truth. Who are you to say that you're a man? If you think that you're a woman, then you can be a
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woman. Whatever you want to be, you can be. Who am I to presume your pronouns? There's no objective
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reality, so I can't presume the truth. The left has demonstrated this, especially in this impeachment
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trial. I mean, they have been trying to impeach Trump now since before he took office. And the
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reason has changed. The only thing that has stayed consistent is that they want to impeach him.
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So initially it was, we're going to impeach him because he conspired with Russia. Two and a half
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year, $32 million investigation into that. We conclusively can say he did not conspire with
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Russia. Okay. Then we're going to impeach him because he maybe slept with Stormy Daniels 10,
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15 years ago. No. Okay. That's not a crime. All right. We're going to get him because he
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didn't pay taxes. Oh, he did pay taxes. All right. We're going to get him because he conspired with
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Ukraine. Is that one good? I know Ukraine's at war with Russia, but let's just, let's go with that one
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now. Ukraine. Okay. There's no evidence that he committed any crimes with Ukraine. Well,
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whatever. We're going to get him anyway. Obstruction of Congress and abuse of power.
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Yeah, that's pretty good. You can't, those are so vague that you can't possibly refute that. Well,
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we're going to impeach him anyway. That's cynicism. A lot of people are cynical in politics. A lot of
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politicians don't have very much regard for the truth. However, this is especially brazen. This is
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especially in your face. This disregard for the truth. Another tough feature about radical
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democracy. Another really unfortunate feature is that it breaks all constraints on society.
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All right. It's obviously broken our constitutional constraints. This happens time and time again.
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It's broken our legal constraints when, when people feel that they can just impose their will
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regardless of what the framework of our country says. But it also breaks the constraints of the moral
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order. Nowhere is this better exemplified than in the recent special of the alleged comedian,
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Michelle Wolf. You'll remember her. She was at the white house correspondence dinner a few years ago
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and she made fun of Sarah Sanders. And this was something of a controversy. So Michelle Wolf's got
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a new special on Netflix and she decided to do a whole bit, a whole joke about how killing her child
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made her feel like God. Here she is. So negatively that you feel like you should have this sense of
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shame after you get an abortion. Well, you can feel any way you want after you get an abortion.
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You know how my abortion made me feel? Very powerful. You know how people say you can't play God?
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You know, that's pretty ghastly. I think it's pretty repugnant. Most people are, are so shocked
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by that joke because it's so real. It's so true. It's actually why it's a, it's a pretty good joke.
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If not for all the suffering, if not for all the dead babies, if not for the reality of it,
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because she actually killed her child, it would be a very funny joke. If not for the victims,
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why would it be a funny joke? Because it's so true. She's right. I'm sure she did feel very
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powerful. The ability to snuff out innocent life makes one feel powerful. It makes one take on the,
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the, to presume to have the authority of God. Yeah, that she's right. That's not a good thing.
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That's a very bad thing. The impulse of radical egalitarian democracy is to make each man a God.
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That's the trouble. And what is the result of that? Is the result of that a good thriving,
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wonderful society where we all love each other and we're all very nice to each other? No,
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the result of that is a society that is coarse and capricious and miserable and murderous.
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That's what happens. Does any of us want that? The framers did not want that. The current democratic
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party does. I mean, you saw this even in the decision of justice Kennedy and Planned Parenthood
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V Casey, where he famously said in the early nineties that we each have the right to define our own
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reality, our own, our own objective reality will have to subdue itself to our own subjective whims.
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Each of us will be gods in this kind of radical democracy. That is a pretty new idea. And that is
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a consequence of saying that we're all absolutely equal as we will presume equality, even with God,
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which is absurd and has pretty disastrous consequences, both on the individual and on
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society. Now blending the two, blending the cultural realm and the political realm, we see the near
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effects of this radical democracy now in the most cringe inducing video from Elizabeth Warren in the
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past 24 hours. It seems like every three or four days you get a really cringe inducing video from her.
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We'll get to that in a second. First, Christmas is coming up guys. Christmas, the holiday season,
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New Year's Eve, especially people want to go out, get a little bibulous, have a couple adult beverages,
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one or two Coca-Cola's stay off the road. Because even if you're not just drinking,
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even if maybe you want to puff on that Haitian oregano, something like that,
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stay off the road. I know you think that one is okay to smoke marijuana is okay. And then you get
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in a car, but driving drunk is not okay. We all know that the risks of drunk driving,
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you get in a car crash, people get hurt or killed. Almost 29 people in the U.S. die every single day
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in alcohol impaired vehicle crashes. What's that equal? One person every 50 minutes.
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But even though drunk driving fatalities have fallen by a third in the past three decades,
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drunk driving crashes still claim more than 10,000 lives each year. And many people don't
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realize driving while high can be just as dangerous. In 2015, 42% of drivers killed in
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crashes tested positive for drugs. All right. From 2007 to 2015, marijuana use among drivers killed in
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crashes doubled. Driving while high is deadly. So don't kid yourself. If you're impaired from
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alcohol or drugs, do not get behind the wheel. You can call a ride share. It takes two seconds,
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cost you less than 10 bucks usually. Don't do it. Okay. If you feel different, you drive different.
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Drive high, get a DUI, drive sober or get pulled over. A little Christmas PSA as we get ready for the holiday
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season. When you want to blend the effects, when you want to see the blend of effects of radical
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democracy and culture and politics, look no further than Elizabeth Warren, Liawatha herself.
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Okay. In anticipation of tonight's democratic debate, Elizabeth Warren appeared in another
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super awkward video with the Queer Eye star, Jonathan Van Ness. This was posted on social media and the
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two of them give away the game on this radical egalitarian democracy.
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Senator Warren, who gave me permission to call her, Elizabeth. You'll hear me do that a lot of
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times. No, but I should've asked you to do it. You don't. Get it together, Jonathan. But
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Elizabeth is on this episode of Getting Curious and tomorrow's a big day. Oh, it is. The debates.
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The debates. And what do you want people to take away from it? So they can go to ElizabethWarren.com and
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follow the debates live and also engage in a lot of conversation around it because this is about
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making democracy work, not just for the rich folks. It's about making democracy work for
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all of us. We have such an opportunity. Kind of restructure this power and like give this little
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classic moment. Structural change. A big moment. And so much structural change. Yes, yes, yes.
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Everybody's making that orange out of there. She was out of frame when it was nice to cuss. Thank you so much.
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Okay. If this is what democracy looks like, I am cashing in my chips. Okay. Could you imagine
00:25:09.560
the founding fathers? They're writing the constitution. They're writing the federalist
00:25:13.560
papers. These are some of the most brilliant men that have ever graced this continent.
00:25:18.200
They're contemplating how to balance perfectly our federal government and all the powers there that we
00:25:24.600
know that men are not governed by angels. We know that men are not angels. And so we need this
00:25:28.680
government to be rightly balanced to get our individual rights and our community rights and
00:25:32.680
our state rights. And the federal government has some power. And wow, we have this great,
00:25:36.760
great blend. I don't think that they were dancing around on Instagram. I don't think
00:25:42.120
president Washington was saying, oh, call me Georgie, please. No, he wasn't. There was a certain
00:25:48.440
formality. You see the problem at the very top of this video.
00:25:52.600
When Elizabeth Warren says, I insist, call me Liz. Don't call me Senator. Call me Liz. Come on.
00:25:59.320
I'm just your chum. I'm just your pal. We need to make democracy work for everybody,
00:26:03.720
not just the super rich. What does that mean? First of all, we're not a democracy. We're a
00:26:07.400
republic. We're supposed to be a republic. What does that mean? Make it work for everybody.
00:26:10.520
You mean steal their property. That's all you mean. The founding fathers knew this would happen.
00:26:13.880
We've all known this would happen. If you have government by mob rule, guess what?
00:26:17.240
Guess what will happen? You'll see those 620 billionaires, some odd, 620 some odd billionaires
00:26:22.600
in the US, and we're just going to take their money. And that's, that's no longer merely
00:26:27.400
theoretical. Elizabeth Warren is promising to do that, not just to take their income,
00:26:31.080
but to go in and take their actual wealth that they've stored up, more or less go in,
00:26:35.400
kick down their door and take their property away. All in the name of democracy, which is not
00:26:41.320
supposed to be our form of government. Is this what democracy looks like? I think it very well
00:26:48.520
might be, you know, even, even take this to CNN. It's a clip that I actually like, but it shows you
00:26:54.040
the same kind of pernicious effects. CNN conducted a poll on impeachment, and it turns out that the
00:27:00.120
people, the, the majority of the people polled do not want to remove president Trump from office.
00:27:08.760
Now it depends which poll you're looking at, but that's, those are the polls we've seen.
00:27:12.360
So CNN drills down. CNN looks at just the Democrat opinion on impeachment. And they found out that
00:27:18.680
during the impeachment process, it dropped from 90% support of impeachment and removal
00:27:23.000
down to 77%. So they've mentioned this on CNN and the CNN contributor refuses to believe the poll.
00:27:28.600
Here he is. By party, Allison, you're right. You see a decline from our last poll in democratic
00:27:34.440
support from 90% down to 77%. You see independence holding roughly steady there in a slight decline
00:27:41.160
among Republicans. I would just note that that November poll was taken right on the heels of
00:27:45.400
that house intelligence committee hearings. I don't believe that poll for one second.
00:27:50.040
What part? The 90 to 77%. I, I, you know, it's just, I don't believe it. Well,
00:27:55.480
like it makes no sense that that number would change like that.
00:27:57.880
It's a subset. It's a subset of the poll and the margin of error. When you look at just Democrats
00:28:02.680
is like 6.7% in here. It's not a wild swing. It's just where the movement is in the poll. I don't
00:28:09.560
know what's not to believe. That's what, you know, you call people up on the telephone. You get their
00:28:13.960
information. You pump out a survey. This is what those that we hold. I get it. But, but I mean,
00:28:19.480
you know, life means life has shown us that polls are sometimes wrong and David, that poll is wrong.
00:28:28.200
Kind of like is brazen. I don't care what reality says because even I, I should be clear about this
00:28:36.120
poll CNN. I don't believe the CNN poll found that the majority of Americans oppose impeachment and
00:28:41.560
removal. We've seen some polls like that. And so people are just picking and choosing the polls that
00:28:45.320
they like. But the CNN poll does show that Democrats are moving in the direction of opposing
00:28:51.000
impeachment or removal during this process. And the CNN contributor says, no, I'm just going to
00:28:55.080
choose not to believe that. Why? Because I said so. It's a funny example, but it shows you the impulse
00:29:00.120
of radical democracy, which is cynicism, which is to disregard the truth, to disregard reality,
00:29:06.200
to elevate ourselves, to presume that we have the right to dictate reality to everybody else. You're
00:29:12.120
seeing it happen on the political front. You're seeing it happen in Congress. You're seeing it
00:29:15.320
happen on the presidential campaign trail. You're seeing it happen in the culture while
00:29:20.840
comedians are cackling and making jokes about killing their own children. And the audience is
00:29:25.800
huffing and hooing and laughing and cheering. That is the conclusion of radical democracy. Maybe
00:29:32.120
the founders were right. Maybe the founders had a point, just my modest suggestion.
00:29:36.920
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All right. I'm going to be running out and catching a flight because surprise, surprise,
00:30:40.200
I'm going to be heading to TPUSA's student action summit over in Palm Beach just this evening. I'm
00:30:46.840
going to fly out. I'm going to be speaking with Andy Ngo tomorrow on leftist violence. As you know,
00:30:52.620
I was the target of leftist violence when at University of Missouri, Kansas City, some masked
00:30:59.180
Antifa weirdo came in and sprayed me with a bunch of creepy goop. And that was fine. I had to get a
00:31:05.020
new blazer, but life goes on. Andy Ngo had all sorts of awful things thrown at him. He was being
00:31:11.020
punched. He was really, really violently attacked by Antifa. So we're going to be taking that on in
00:31:15.980
Palm Beach at the student action summit. That will be tomorrow afternoon. So Friday afternoon,
00:31:22.540
Eastern time, early afternoon. If you happen to be in the area, come on by and say hello.
00:31:26.700
Before then, let's answer all of your burning questions in the mailbag from Grant.
00:31:31.340
Michael, my ex-girlfriend and I of five years broke up in early November. We're still talking daily and
00:31:39.100
see each other once a week. And she says we should grow together before we get back together. She's
00:31:44.460
unsure about having kids and she's unsure about my Christian religion. We're both 25 years old. Do
00:31:49.460
you think it is worth pursuing the relationship still or better to let her go? She is my best
00:31:55.080
friend as well as the woman I want to spend my life with. Would love some advice. P.S. Thank you for
00:32:00.380
all you do. Haven't missed an episode in two years. Well, thank you very much, Grant. Since you're a
00:32:05.420
regular listener to the show then, and I really appreciate you sticking around for two years,
00:32:08.780
I'm going to give you some tough love. Drop her like a hot potato. I know you, you really love
00:32:19.100
her. You want to spend the rest of your life with her. She's your best friend. There's your first
00:32:24.660
problem. I, I could not possibly love a human being more than I love sweet little Elisa. She's not my
00:32:33.360
best friend because friendship is a different thing than, than romantic and marital love.
00:32:39.000
They're just, they should be different categories, but we in our modern culture have confused all of
00:32:43.500
this and we think that sex is basically at the bottom of all human relationships. That isn't true.
00:32:49.460
You should have strong friendships outside of your romantic relationship or your marital relationship
00:32:56.060
or whatever. That's the first problem. And I think that might be confusing you a little bit here.
00:33:00.220
Second, you're not, I mean, you're young, you're very young, 25, but you're not 15 or 16. So if these
00:33:07.660
views are starting to harden, she doesn't like Christianity, she doesn't want to have kids,
00:33:11.200
especially, that's not a good place to be at, especially if you've had five years together
00:33:16.520
already. It's not like you're just getting through the first six months of your relationship.
00:33:22.660
And then there's this issue of she seems to be stringing you along. So you break up,
00:33:29.360
but you really love her. You want to spend your life with her. She's the one who's pulling back.
00:33:32.680
Let her go. Let her go. Are you kidding me? You're not, you got to be a man. I mean,
00:33:36.980
I'm going to, I'm going to give you the advice that, that Don Corleone gives to Johnny Fontaine
00:33:40.900
and the Godfather. When Johnny Fontaine is complaining about how he doesn't know how to
00:33:45.320
get out of his contract, Don Corleone shakes him. He goes, you're going to act like a man.
00:33:50.180
What's the matter with you? You got to act like a man. I mean, that's frankly,
00:33:52.740
if you want any hope of hurry coming back to you, you got a man up here and just say, nope,
00:33:56.900
you don't want to do this. That's fine. I'm going to go see some other people. And that's just the
00:34:00.900
way that it's going to go. There's a chance you end up together, I suppose, but you're not going
00:34:06.040
to end up together. If you, if you continue down this path of saying, you're my best friend,
00:34:10.720
please let's see each other as much as we can. Please let's get back together. I'm not saying
00:34:15.920
that you shouldn't pursue her, but if you're going to pursue her, you got to draw some lines here.
00:34:22.580
You can't just let her lead the way and dictate all the rules of the game. You got to put some
00:34:27.680
boundaries on that and make it clear that you want to date her again, and you're not going to accept
00:34:32.340
being the best friend who hangs around and sees her once a week, whenever she's willing to spare
00:34:38.540
you the time of day. That is ridiculous. There's a good book on this by Ovid called The Cure for Love,
00:34:43.720
Remedia Amoris. It's a little, a little on the pagan side. So, you know, take it with a grain of salt
00:34:49.380
when you approach it from your faithful Christian position, but it's a very good book on the cure
00:34:55.320
for love. And I think it'll give you some good ideas in getting over this and playing the field
00:35:00.220
a little bit. And then if it's meant to be, it's meant to be, and she'll come running back. And I
00:35:04.080
hope that works out for you, but if not, maybe you'll have a better life with another lady.
00:35:08.060
From Chris, after Matt Fradd posted his Daily Wire article on porn, people lost their minds and went
00:35:14.260
full bore to the, the tyrannical government is going to take away my rights. I couldn't help but notice
00:35:18.940
that the arguments ultimately redounded to my body, my choice. Don't put your religion on me.
00:35:24.720
And think of the financial situation of the woman, meaning the performer, not the woman getting an
00:35:30.000
abortion, but the woman who's in the porn video. What is the deal here? Is porn to become the sacrament
00:35:35.220
of libertarians and some conservatives? What is it going to take for people to realize the leftist
00:35:40.320
undertones to these arguments? Yes, that is starting to happen. And it's because of the
00:35:45.000
misunderstanding of liberty, just like we have a misunderstanding of democracy.
00:35:47.860
In our country, from the very beginning, we have adopted certain democratic principles,
00:35:54.220
which is a good thing. That's wonderful. But we're not a pure democracy. In the same way,
00:35:59.400
from the very beginning of our country, more importantly, we have preserved liberty.
00:36:05.300
But we haven't, we haven't exalted licentiousness. That wasn't the point. We haven't exalted sort of
00:36:12.020
anarchistic liberty to do whatever we please at any given time. That was never the, the idea of the
00:36:17.260
founding fathers. That was never the idea of this country. What we preserved was ordered liberty.
00:36:22.520
And as Madison spells out importantly in Federalist 51, the end of government is justice. And Edmund Burke
00:36:28.680
describes justice as ordered liberty. A liberty that is far higher, far more exalted than just being
00:36:35.840
able to shoot up heroin in the street whenever you want. Like that's some kind of liberty. It's just a
00:36:40.440
misunderstanding of it. And when you see that throughout all of our history, we've had obscenity laws.
00:36:44.460
We've had certain laws about drugs and alcohol. We still have all of those laws. You realize that
00:36:49.840
this kind of radical libertarian idea that we ought to be able to access any kind of creepy porn at any
00:36:56.200
given time and do whatever we want to ourselves and to our brains. Because as many have pointed out,
00:37:02.000
the scientific evidence is pretty clear that high speed video internet pornography is wreaking havoc
00:37:08.880
on our brains, specifically on the brains of young men. When you realize that, when you realize that
00:37:15.020
society is about more than just this narrow licentiousness, then you can see we like to have
00:37:21.400
democratic principles. We like to have liberty, but we don't need radical, totally perverted views
00:37:29.140
of either of those things. From Nathan. Hey Michael, speaker of millennials and lord of the hair.
00:37:35.180
Do you think that when president Trump is reelected that he will win the popular vote as well? Thanks,
00:37:41.220
came for Ben, stayed for Michael. I think it very likely could happen. You know, George W. Bush lost
00:37:45.480
the popular vote in 2000 and he won the popular vote in 2004. President Trump lost the popular vote in
00:37:52.200
2016. It would appear he's picked up a lot of support since then. I mean, you can just look at the
00:37:57.640
numbers in the, among black voters or among Hispanic voters. Those, those numbers have increased pretty
00:38:03.760
dramatically and this is according to multiple polls. Now listen, the only poll that matters is,
00:38:08.060
is on election day, but we're not just talking about one outlier poll here anymore. We're talking
00:38:13.120
about multiple polls that shows Trump's black support could have doubled or even, even tripled,
00:38:17.340
or in some cases even more. That is a pretty good sign that the president Trump could see history
00:38:23.840
repeat itself and that he could win the popular vote in 2020. From Sam. Anytime a debate starts about
00:38:28.760
religion versus another religion historically, Islam versus Christianity. Christians are always hit
00:38:33.760
with the, but what about the crusades and the Spanish inquisition? What is the best way to respond to
00:38:39.040
these? Thanks. There's a lot of history that you should read on them, but the kind of 30,000 foot view
00:38:46.700
is that the crusades were a defensive war to stop the, the Muslim persecution of Christians in the Holy
00:38:52.060
land in the Holy land to which the Muslim conquerors had no historical or religious right in the first
00:39:01.620
place. They, you know, sort of made sense for them to be around Mecca, but it, it didn't make sense for
00:39:07.560
them to conquer Jerusalem, to conquer the Holy land. And then when it comes to the inquisition,
00:39:12.080
let's not forget there were several different inquisitions. There was the Cather inquisition,
00:39:18.160
the middle ages that was in the 11th and 12th century. That was to, to weed out the Albigensian
00:39:25.420
heresy, which would have absolutely destroyed civilization. It was encouraging people not to
00:39:29.900
get married. It was encouraging people to hate material. We, there would not be such a thing
00:39:33.800
as the West today if the Cathars had been allowed to, to take over the culture. And so there was that
00:39:38.880
inquisition. And then the Spanish inquisition was to find out if people who were pretending to be
00:39:45.700
Christian actually were Christian and to root out heretics as well, which has a long history and
00:39:50.300
Christian tradition. And, and Thomas Aquinas defended it pretty well. I am not defending
00:39:54.400
the Spanish inquisition. I want to be perfectly clear about this for when media matters puts their
00:39:59.160
next video out on me. What I am saying though, is that the Spanish inquisition was a much more
00:40:07.220
complicated event than, than some people would say. And the people who throw it around as though this
00:40:12.500
negates the whole of Christendom and is somehow negates all of Christianity or just don't know
00:40:17.400
very much about it. Another thing to point out here is that the Spanish inquisition was led by
00:40:22.980
the crown. It was led by Spain, not by the church. And when it comes, I highly recommend you, you read
00:40:29.800
up on the crusades because so often I hear the rhetoric that we have to go into Libya, you know,
00:40:36.200
because of a humanitarian crisis. We have to go into Syria because of a humanitarian crisis. We have to go
00:40:40.980
into any other country around the world because of a humanitarian crisis. That's the argument for
00:40:46.560
the crusades. The argument for the crusades is that there was a humanitarian crisis and the Muslim
00:40:54.140
invaders were persecuting Christians. It's the same exact argument. Now there were many crusades,
00:41:00.420
some better than others. So as in all things, I just think the real history is much more interesting
00:41:05.500
than the sort of ideological revisionist slogan view of things. And it's best to approach these
00:41:14.200
historical questions with some humility and with an air of curiosity rather than sitting up on your
00:41:20.120
high horse, standing on the shoulders of giants and thinking that you're flying because you're not.
00:41:25.080
From Miles, I subscribed just to ask this question. I hope I have a good answer.
00:41:30.300
Do you have a list, you can say, of books to relearn American history as well as history in general?
00:41:36.560
Now that I have kids, I want to reestablish my American roots and do away with what little I remember
00:41:40.900
of my public school education of America. But I find it daunting once I start looking for a non-revisionist
00:41:46.940
history book. Sure, I actually, I don't think you need to go for the most intense conservative sources
00:41:52.760
and you should only read books written by conservative political commentators or something.
00:41:57.460
But there are plenty of popular historical books, even of the last 20 or 30 years,
00:42:01.380
that are not revisionist history. For instance, the books by Nathaniel Philbrick. Nathaniel Philbrick
00:42:07.060
wrote The Mayflower. I don't think that's a revisionist history book. I think it'll give you a pretty good
00:42:11.020
overview of the pilgrims. And I don't know what his politics are, but that's probably a good thing
00:42:15.840
in a historian. Same thing with David McCulloch. His books are really terrific. Very popular.
00:42:20.120
They're pretty easy read. Very interesting. He's a good writer. Ron Chernow wrote some great
00:42:26.200
biographies. Hamilton, which is what the musical is based on. Washington. A number of others. And
00:42:33.080
if you want a good history of the West, a really good intellectual history of all of the West from
00:42:37.600
the modern era, you know, 1500 to the present, you know, the Protestant revolution basically through
00:42:43.440
the late 20th century. I highly recommend Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun. He was, I think,
00:42:49.680
approaching 100 when he wrote the book, so he'd lived through a fifth of it. And again, it's really good.
00:42:53.740
I don't know exactly what his politics were, but it's a great history. And from Joshua,
00:42:58.360
Michael, do you think we will ever again have a presidential candidate run on balancing a budget
00:43:03.720
and actually win? If so, can they win while being honest that there needs to be some entitlement
00:43:08.780
program reforms to accomplish a balanced budget? No, not yet. I guess in the distant future,
00:43:14.620
who knows? We can't predict the future. I actually have a little bit of insight into this because I
00:43:19.140
worked on some presidential campaigns that were trying to put entitlement reform at the top of the
00:43:23.660
ticket. And even, I love Mitch Daniels, who's now the president of Purdue. And he had this idea of a
00:43:28.740
social truce, not a social surrender, but a social truce. We're going to pause talking about social
00:43:33.100
issues to get our fiscal house in order to then be able to tackle the cultural issues again.
00:43:39.900
And there's no appetite for it. Paul Ryan tried to pass the path to prosperity and entitlement reform
00:43:45.120
plan. It just didn't work. It didn't happen. Why? What, what did we see proven wrong by that
00:43:52.300
approach, which a lot of us embraced? What we saw was that the culture has to come first. I mean,
00:43:59.420
in many ways, it's the Andrew Breitbart model. You cannot deal first with the economic question
00:44:07.740
because the economics is just bean counting. The economics is just a question for calculators
00:44:14.000
and economists, like Edmund Burke would say. You first have to move the culture in questions like
00:44:18.800
immigration, questions like our view on life, questions like our view on marriage, questions
00:44:22.520
like our view on who gets to decide questions about life and marriage. That is going to come
00:44:27.960
before we can get to the economic question. I remember once Ann Coulter came when I was in college
00:44:33.360
to give a talk and she was speaking to us and she knew that there were a lot of pro-abortion
00:44:37.440
young conservatives. That's just the way college kids are, at least at that time. And so she said,
00:44:42.400
look, if you're debating between voting for two candidates, one of whom is pro-life, one of whom
00:44:47.300
is pro-abortion, they both promise to cut your taxes and all you care about is low taxes.
00:44:53.000
Vote for the pro-life politician. He will cut your taxes more. What did she mean by that? She meant that
00:44:59.600
the pro-life politician will have a coherent worldview. He will have an understanding of our
00:45:06.160
right to life and our right to property and he will have a philosophy that's consistent. Whereas
00:45:12.340
the pro-abortion tax-cutting politician does not have a consistent ideology and so he's more likely
00:45:19.000
to lose his stomach and to lose his spine. Once we get past those cultural questions,
00:45:26.000
then we can get to those economic questions. It's a little bit of an inversion of the common
00:45:30.060
conventional view, but it's right. From Nick, last question. Do we think that as conservatives,
00:45:39.040
we should unite and boycott the new Star Wars movie? Is it our moral obligation to deprive the
00:45:45.200
studios of money after The Last Jedi was the most Marxist, anti-capitalist, third-wave feminism
00:45:51.160
infested piece of blasphemous propaganda garbage ever put to screen? Thanks for your wisdom. And yes,
00:45:56.400
Jingle All the Way is the best Christmas movie of all time.
00:46:00.060
I don't think we need to push for a boycott of the new Star Wars movie. I think that there will
00:46:05.140
naturally be a sort of boycott of the new Star Wars movie because it's getting terrible reviews
00:46:09.640
and all of the recent Star Wars movies since Return of the Jedi, with the possible exception of Rogue
00:46:15.860
One, which was fine, have been absolutely terrible. So I plan on boycotting the movie,
00:46:21.280
not because of the politics, but because it's a terrible movie. Because the other ones have been
00:46:25.620
terrible and I bet this one will be too. And I don't think that those two questions are
00:46:30.540
unrelated. I think them shoehorning in all these stupid, woke leftist politics have really,
00:46:35.500
really damaged the movies. But also the fact that they've lost the sense of good and evil.
00:46:41.980
They've lost the sense of simple storytelling. They've lost what made the first Star Wars a good
00:46:46.600
movie and what made Empire Strikes Back a pretty good movie. And even what made Return of the Jedi with
00:46:51.980
all of those little teddy bears dancing around, even that was a fine movie. And then they've lost
00:46:57.080
that sense and they've lost that worldview. And that comes out in their politics, but it also comes
00:47:01.520
out in their crappy movies. That is our show. I'm going to be in Palm Beach at TPUSA tomorrow. So be
00:47:07.820
sure to come over and say hello if you're there. Otherwise, we'll have another show before Christmas
00:47:13.480
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00:47:21.980
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