Ep. 54 - The October Revolution： 100 Years of Useful, Communist Idiots
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Today we commemorate the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's 1917 revolution by looking back on a century of the useful idiots who propagandized communist lies. Candace Owens in studio, Red Pill Black, Ariel Davidson, and Paul Bois join the panel of deplorables to discuss Trump's gun grabber smackdown, Republican odds on election day 2017, and more of Hillary Clinton's terrible ideas.
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Comrades, today we commemorate the 100th anniversary of Vladimir Lenin's October Revolution
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by looking back on a century of the useful idiots who have propagated communist lies.
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Then, Candace Owens in studio, red pill black, Ariel Davidson, and his eminence Paul Bois
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join the panel of deplorables to discuss Trump's gun grabber smackdown, Republican odds on election
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day 2017, and more of Hillary Clinton's terrible ideas. We could fill a year of podcasts with
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those, couldn't we? I am Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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So go do it. Skillshare.com slash Michael. Okay. That's enough communism. That's enough happiness
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and human dignity and self-improvement and liberty. We have to get into all of the terrible
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lies of communism. Today marks the 100th anniversary of the October revolution. This might confuse you
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as today is November 7th. The discrepancy of dates is directly caused by Russia's still having been on
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the old Julian calendar in 1917, but indirectly, more profoundly, the October revolution's November
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birth date exemplifies the central fact of communism. It's a lie from the very beginning. Despite
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representing a tiny minority of political forces at work in the February revolution to oust Russia's
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Romanov dynasty and constituting only the majority of the most extreme leftist elements among the
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Russian revolutionaries, Vladimir Lenin called his faction Bolshevik, which means one of the majority.
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Now, speaking of lies, to commemorate this day, the Washington Post ran a 4,700 word piece titled
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100 years later, Bolshevism is back and we should be worried. Yeah, I'd be worried about that. That's
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pretty scary. You might assume that the Washington Post article described the recent spate of New York
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Times pieces extolling the virtues of communism. Here are some headlines. What killed the promise of
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Muslim communism? Are Christians supposed to be communists? No, spoiler alert, no. Or why women
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had better sex under socialism? You might presume that the Washington Post discussed the terrifying
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recent poll that showed that the majority of American millennials would rather live in a communist,
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socialist, or fascist nation than a capitalist nation, than a nation where you have freedom. But no,
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that is not what the Washington Post talk about. Instead, in this nearly 5,000 word article,
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they accused Republican President Donald Trump, whose administration has overseen massive deregulation,
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enforcement of democratically enacted law, the appointment of textualist judges faithful to the
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Constitution, a bold and nuanced foreign policy that has thus far avoided the disastrous bellicosity
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of Barack Obama's regime, robust defense of civil rights and religious liberty. No, no, no. They
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accused that President Trump of being a neo-Bolshevik. The Washington Post, ladies and gentlemen, democracy
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dies in darkness. The fake news at its finest. Vladimir Lenin is said to have called communist
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sympathizers in America useful idiots. The phrase refers to people like New York Times reporter Lincoln
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Steffens, who traveled to the Soviet Union shortly after the revolution and claimed, quote,
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I have seen the future and it works. Or New York Times reporter Walter Durante. I'm seeing a trend here.
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New York Times reporter Walter Durante, who won the Pulitzer Prize for publishing Stalin's propaganda,
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denying the Holodome War that starved to death seven and a half million people. Or Anne Applebaum,
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the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who penned today's insipid twaddle in the Washington Post.
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All allegedly expert thought leaders on a subject about which they wrote in such ignorance. The
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Russian Revolution led to the death of at least 94 million people as communism infected nations
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around the world. It enslaved half of the globe. Yet much of the left in America remains unrepentant
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And finally, new rule. Fidel Castro is not worse than vampire Hitler. And Cuba is not North Korea
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crossed with hell. If we had opened up relations with Cuba 30 years ago, instead of pursuing the
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stupidest, most ineffective policy in American history, not named the drug war, today Cuba would
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look like St. Bart's and your kid would be there on spring break drinking rum out of a jug, jug
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People in sinecures like yours, affluent, protected people in Western countries where they can speak
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their minds, who defend this guy. I've never met anybody who fled from Cuba who would defend
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Because, well, the ones who have fled for a number of reasons, sometimes for personal
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reasons. They left their wives behind. They want to start a new life. Would a new wife forget
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about the old family. You don't hear about that in the media there. And nationalism, the
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So you're saying that people who fled Castro were abandoning their families?
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Some of them, some of them there. Some of them want to begin a new life there. Some of
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them were. So it's not this huge system of political oppression that is very popular among
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In 1985, you praised the Sandinista government and you said that Daniel Ortega was an impressive
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guy. This is what you said about Fidel Castro. Let's listen.
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You may recall way back in, what was it, 1961, they invaded Cuba. And everybody was totally
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convinced that Castro was the worst guy in the world. All the Cuban people were going
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to rise up in rebellion against Fidel Castro. They'd forgot that he educated their kids,
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gave them health care, totally transformed the society.
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Useful idiots like Bernie Sanders at the end. I'm sure you could tell because he sounds exactly
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the same as he did then, both in content and in voice. But that was Bernie about 30 years
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ago. Useful idiots. Men of character and moral clarity saw this evil for what it was as it
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began. People all the time quote the Iron Curtain line of Winston Churchill's speech,
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The Sinews of Peace. But they often neglect his prescription for how to fight this ideology
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of lies. Be blind to the fact that the liberties enjoyed by individual citizens throughout the
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United States and throughout the British Empire are not valid in a considerable number of countries,
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countries, some of which are very powerful. In these states, control is enforced upon the common people by
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various kinds of all-embracing police governments to a degree which is overwhelming and contrary to every
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principle of democracy. The power of the state is exercised without restraint, either by dictators or by compact
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oligarchies operating through a privileged party and a political police. But we must never cease to
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proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man, which are the joint
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inheritance of the English-speaking world, that freedom of speech and thought should reign, that courts of
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justice independent of the executive, unbiased by any party, should administer laws which have received
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the broad assent of large majorities or are consecrated by time and custom. Let us preach what we
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practice. Let us practice what we preach. Perfectly said, perfectly summed up by Winston Churchill. We must not
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only practice what we preach, we also have to preach what we practice. Yet from the American left, all too often
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we hear, liberty for me but not for thee. From atop the shoulders of the giants who built our civilization on ordered
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liberty and human dignity, they preach against the spiritual and philosophical foundation of that society that
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they enjoy, of the life that they live. They are the sophisters, economists, and calculators that Edmund Burke warned us
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about. But some men understood Churchill's vision and they saw through the degrading materialism of communist
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ideologies. Winston Churchill said the destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great
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forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits, not animals. And he said there's something
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going on in time and space and beyond time and space, which whether we like it or not spells duty. You and I have a
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rendezvous with destiny. Communism deprives man of his dignity because it pretends that man is an animal.
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That's why where conservatives see people, leftists only see the masses, the unwashed masses. How often
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do you hear that phrase? The more they love mankind, the less they love men in particular. G.K. Chesterton
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understood that communism relies on a central lie, which comes from the father of lies. And he explained the
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strange fruit of this mystical religion of materialism. He wrote, quote, the Marxian talks as if the only
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object of saving people from sufferings inflicted by the, quote, blind forces of capitalism was that
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those people should have material consumption and material security. It is not. It is that they should
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have life and that they should have it more abundantly. It is not only that a man should be secure of eating
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the turnip. It is that he should have authority over the turnip and liberty with the turnip and the
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right to choose his own way of cooking the turnip. For that sense of dignity makes all the difference to
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his general view of life and of that heaven which fills the empty spaces and the idle hours. On this
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hundredth anniversary of Lenin's lies, let's redouble our efforts to defend the liberty and dignity that
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make life worth living and to rebuff the useful idiots who propagate those lies at every chance that
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we possibly can. All right, enough about communism. Let's get to the news. Communism ruined an entire
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century and it does not need to ruin the rest of my show. So we have an excellent panel to bring on.
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We have Candace Owens, Red Pill Black in studio. We have Ariel Davidson. We even have his eminence,
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Paul Bois, the cardinal himself. But I might have to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube before we go.
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Be sure to tune in to watch our next episode of The Conversation. That conversation is going to be on
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Tuesday, November 14th at 5 p.m. Eastern, 2 p.m. Pacific featuring little old me. The conversation will
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What do I get? Well, you get me. You get the Andrew Klavan show. You get the Ben Shapiro show. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But look at this. Look at this, folks. The leftist tears tumbler. It's the
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100th anniversary of the Russian revolution, of the promise of the glories of communism. And we
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leftist tears, hot or cold, always salty and delicious. We'll be right back.
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So good. So delicious. So nice and sunny. I'm almost parched. They're so salty. Okay. We've
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got a great panel to bring on today. I think we've talked enough about communism. I don't
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want to talk anymore about these. They've ruined the whole century. Let's talk about Chris
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Silliza. So from CNN, which you might not know, is fake news. This is CNN. This is fake
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news. Chris Silliza had this headline. Quote, Trump literally just made the good guy with
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a gun argument. Literally, not figuratively. Literally. That's real news. That's CNN. That's
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a real journalist, Chris Silliza. Let's see what Chris is talking about.
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You've talked about wanting to put extreme vetting on people trying to come into the United States.
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But I wonder if you would consider extreme vetting for people trying to buy a gun.
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Well, you know, you're bringing up a situation that probably shouldn't be discussed too much
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right now. But it's okay if you feel that that's an appropriate question, even though
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we're the heart of South Korea. If you did what you're suggesting, there would have been
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no difference three days ago. And you might not have had that very brave person who happened
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to have a gun or a rifle in his truck go out and shoot him and hit him and neutralize him.
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And I can only say this. If he didn't have a gun, instead of having 26 dead, he would have had
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hundreds more dead. And are you considering any kind of gun control policy going forward?
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The city with the strongest gun laws in our nation is Chicago. And Chicago is a disaster. If this man
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didn't have a gun or a rifle, you'd be talking about a much worse situation in the great state
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of Texas. But Chris Eliza reports, Trump literally just made this argument. The sun
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literally shines. The fish literally swim. Candace, what's wrong with the argument?
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Well, first off, Trump is literally Hitler, according to CNN.
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I forgot. That's true. We've got to take that note.
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So, let's see. I don't think that they know anything about history. I don't think they're
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paying attention just because, let's say guns were completely illegal and nobody could ever
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get their hands on it. That does not change the fact that people are going to get their
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hands on things illegally. Do they pay attention to the era of prohibition where people not
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drinking there? It's just, it's a tired argument. And let's not even talk about how inappropriate
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it is that she is interrupting the president while he is on foreign land in South Korea.
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They're supposed to be talking about trade. And she's like, let's talk about our personal
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issues, like right now. Well, they have to pounce on it. It is true. And Trump, I love
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me at that point. He said, yeah, maybe you shouldn't be talking about this when I'm in South Korea,
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but no, that's fine. I'll answer. I'll answer. It is a tired argument. Obviously, it was illegal
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for this shooter to get a gun anyway. There was a law against him getting a gun and the
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government bureaucracy failed to do its job. Surprise, surprise. We're a country of 300 million
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guns. Paul Bois, Silliza, seems to make arguments about guns that are essentially statistic.
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He says, well, you know, according to these statistics, good guys with guns don't usually
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stop shootings or whatever. Doesn't the statistical version of this gun argument miss the point of the
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Second Amendment? Yes. Essentially, I mean, the Second Amendment is basically a philosophical,
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I mean, theological argument that human beings have a right to defend themselves and period. Now,
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of course, we can debate the prudential extent humans have a right to defend themselves, but,
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you know, obviously, should all citizens be allowed to own a tank or a bazooka? We can, of course,
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debate, obviously. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought I didn't rise. It was a rhetorical question. Go on.
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Yeah. So that's, you know, speaks to that. And on another point, the reason why they're engaging in
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these statistical debates regarding this, it sort of speaks to what you were talking about,
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how the left only sees the masses in these scenarios. And Ben Shapiro hinted at this in his
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podcast the other day about how when it comes to these types of tragedies and the left always calling
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for more gun control, we get accused on the right of not having any nuance at all. Yeah, but that's
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really, uh, the pot calling the kettle black. I mean, this is just, this happens. And then the left
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goes, uh, Chris, uh, Silesa is clearly doing it here. Citizens have no right to own firearms, period.
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Uh, whereas we say, yeah, uh, some citizens should have firearms. Obviously this guy should not have
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firearms. He was illegally barred from owning them. Uh, but the government failed us. So it's because
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it's not ideological. They're, they're looking for an answer because the, the leftist view of the
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world, like the communist view of the world is essentially ideological. Whereas conservatism at
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least tries to avoid ideology. I remember Antonin Scalia was asked a question once, well, how, you
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know, something to the effect of how are you able to apply this complicated, uh, constitutional
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provision? How are you able to interpret it? And his answer was very carefully. You have to do it
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very carefully because we're dealing in human things. Ariel, while the left uniformly mocks
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and invays against conservatives who have offered their thoughts and prayers for the victims of this
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evil, they can't seem to articulate a policy prescription that would have prevented the crime.
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Similarly, conservatives and so-called conservatives who continue to obstruct Donald Trump and
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invade against him can't seem to articulate any alternative for our political goals of expanding
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liberty. Is there ever any reason to preen? If you're not part of the solution, aren't you just
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part of the problem? Well, I think it's natural after some, an event like this and including, uh,
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the Vegas massacre as well to say, what could we have done to prevent this? And I think there are lots
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of solutions to this problem, but I don't think necessarily, uh, regulating weapons to the extreme
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that the left is seeking. Um, I also think it's, like I said, it's natural to seek answers. The other
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thing I want to note though, is that the reason the left can't come up with a policy prescription
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is because the laws were already in place, particularly for this past, uh, this incident
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this past weekend. Um, this is a failure of government enforcing its own laws that are already
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on the books. I'm sure that begs the question, right? So that begs the question, if we can't
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even enforce the laws already on the book, our bloated bureaucracy, are they going to
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be able to handle an increased capacity of regulations, especially when it comes to communicating
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on a state versus federal level? This is what Ronald Reagan predicted. He said that what
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the left always tells us, just give us a little bit more power, just give us a little bit more
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money and we'll get it right this time. No, next time we'll, we'll get it. Right. And
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I think the other issue is that the reason the left can't come up with an articulate policy
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is that their ultimate end game is confiscation. Uh, I do firmly believe that because when it
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comes to, we want gun control now, if you respond by saying, well, the, according to current
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regulation and law, the shooter should not have had access to guns to begin with, their answer
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will be more laws. And then if you get to the real nitty gritty of what they specifically
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want is a limitation on the types of firearms sold, uh, and then potentially just an end to
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firearm sales in general, uh, which obviously will be a disaster. But, uh, I think that's ultimately
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why they're not crystallizing for us what their policy end game is largely because we know deep
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down it's coming down to confiscation. That's it. I mean, a country of 300 million guns, there's one
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policy that would change any of these shooting statistics and that's mass confiscation. And it
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would probably have a negative effect on many other crime statistics, but that's the one you got to
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take them. You got to go over to all those cold dead hands and pry them out. All right. Enough
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about the guns. Let's get down to nitty gritty politics. Today's election day in at least two
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places, Virginia and New Jersey. They're a pretty highly watched races. They're Ed Gillespie, the
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Republican candidate in Virginia, Kim Guadagno, Republican candidate in New Jersey. Uh, it looks
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like Kim is probably going to lose, but Ed Gillespie is running neck and neck right now. Um, Candace,
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is Gillespie going to win? I certainly hope so. I mean, if he wins, it tells us a lot about where
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the American mindset is at. Um, it also shows us a lot watching this race in Virginia that the
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Democrats haven't pivoted their strategy whatsoever, even though they just had the biggest upset in the
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history of presidential elections. And they don't understand that their party is very split. There
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are the moderate Democrats, which are so close to being conservative and they can't- Are there? I haven't
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met them in a while. Are they still there? Yeah, they're still there. They're hanging on by a
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thread, but they're still there. And they're, they're so close to jumping ship, which is something
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that I did because everything just seems so illogical on the extreme left side. Uh, so it's
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something that we have to pay attention to closely because it lets us know what the Democrats have in
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store. And right now from everything I'm seeing, it's absolutely nothing. Well, Candace, it's about,
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it's about your lion eyes, isn't it? You know, they, they ran that ad against Gillespie that showed a
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tea partier's truck that was mowing down little Arabic children the same week that a Muslim
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terrorist mowed down people in New York in the name of ISIS and while yelling Allahu Akbar is that
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we were just talking about the, the lies of communism, that it's fundamentally founded on a
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lie. And your screen name, your name on YouTube is red pill black because you basically realize that
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so much of what we've been told in our political establishment is a lie. It's the, it's the lies
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of the, the media and the elites and the experts who it's not that they're ignorant. It's just
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that they're expert and they really know things that aren't true. What was it that pushed you over?
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What, what were the lies that pushed you over and said, huh, maybe the world isn't quite like I
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thought it was. You know, I think, and I think this is true for a lot of people last election cycle,
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it was too aggressive. Like normally they lie casually, you know, and they move on to the next
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story. They are like, baby, I love you. I've heard that line twice. It wasn't true. But they were so
00:24:07.820
aggressive and angry when it came to Trump and it hasn't stopped. Like I was just on the phone this
00:24:12.000
morning with my aunt and she is a registered Democrat. And she said, I can't even bear to
00:24:15.600
listen to CNN anymore. It's just become the Trump news network. There's so much hate and there's so much
00:24:20.120
animosity that you have to essentially realize at some point that we learn about propaganda in our
00:24:25.140
history textbooks. We are living under propaganda right now. The media is just trying to trick our
00:24:30.380
brains and brainwash us. So I think if you had even a modicum of intelligence, you realize that
00:24:34.980
something was up and that something was that these media companies are being run by businesses who have
00:24:40.020
globalist interests. Hmm. And, and they certainly, you know, it's funny you call it the Trump news
00:24:44.760
network. I guess now it is. They just focused on Trump all day long. But I would, I would always hear of it as
00:24:48.940
the CNN, the Clinton news network, pro Clinton, you know, now, now it's the same thing, I guess now
00:24:53.580
anti-Trump. Um, Ariel, the media are going to spin a Gillespie loss tomorrow as the big anti-Trump
00:25:00.560
pivot. You know, they've been waiting for this in every special election that they were supposed to
00:25:04.720
win, that Republicans then won. They always say, then they say, Oh, this doesn't matter. It's no big
00:25:08.320
deal. You know, that's how they're going to spin it. If Gillespie loses, what, how are they going to
00:25:12.700
spin it? If Gillespie wins, what's the story going to be? It's going to be a moral victory because that's
00:25:18.180
how the left always spins it if they lose, but then they want to convince us that they actually
00:25:23.400
won. I mean, we're talking about the age of participation trophies reigning supreme, right?
00:25:28.860
So this is just an extension of the participation trophy. I mean, the left is starting to see their
00:25:34.800
election losses as victories because the only way they can keep morale up is to tell the, you know,
00:25:41.440
their, their electorates that don't worry, we're going to win next time. And, you know, we're on,
00:25:46.440
we're on the right side of history. Yeah. So that's how they usually present their losses is
00:25:51.540
that we just have the ignorant masses electing, um, the incorrect politicians into office and we
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have the moral high ground here. So when history writes books about, or when there's history books
00:26:02.420
written about us, we will be on the right side of history. That's really how they're going to spin
00:26:05.700
it. There was that guy in Georgia. They, you would have thought this was the redo of the 2016 election.
00:26:13.220
I think they thought it was. And he was in Georgia's sixth, I think, John Ossoff. And then
00:26:18.440
he lost and all the coverage, you would have thought that he won. It's just like when they tell a lie
00:26:22.840
and then they said, like Michael Brown, the Michael Brown was executed. He was completely innocent.
00:26:27.460
He was surrendering to police. And then some racist cop just murdered him in cold blood.
00:26:32.040
Then it turned out there were three autopsies and a grand jury said that isn't what happened.
00:26:35.800
And they say, well, okay, that wasn't true, but it gets to a greater truth.
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This complete lie that we've based our entire movement on. I get, no, it's a lie. Don't tell
00:26:44.260
him it's a lie. It's a greater truth that we have to talk about. Your eminence, Mr. Bois,
00:26:50.060
Evan McMullin, the nominally Republican, never Trump presidential candidate who tried to spoil the
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election and give us president Hillary Clinton. He tweeted today, Ed Gillespie was one of the good
00:27:01.320
guys, but now he peddles fear and white nationalism. No evidence of this whatsoever. Of course,
00:27:07.080
it's better for Virginia and America that he not prevail. Is this evidence that despite
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predestations of principles, guys like McMullin are just lefty squishes?
00:27:18.160
Oh, Michael, I think self-righteous weasel is a better term for this type. I have very little
00:27:24.000
respect for Evan McMullin. It was bad enough when he did his never Trump crusade during the election,
00:27:30.780
which couldn't even keep Trump from winning Utah. And that's what Evan McMullin certainly wanted to
00:27:36.420
do. And that failed. And he's just upset. You know, he didn't get to have his way. And now he's
00:27:41.940
out there standing on his pedestal alone, doing absolutely nothing and just trying to derail
00:27:49.060
Trump's agenda and the Republican Party's agenda on all this. He just looks ridiculous. And so...
00:27:56.780
The evidence that he's a squish, while maybe not all of the guys who oppose Trump are squishes,
00:28:01.600
I understand there were plenty of reasons not to be thrilled with his nomination among
00:28:05.640
conservatives and Republicans. But the reason I think we know that McMullin is just a squish
00:28:09.880
is that he lost a presidential bid and he's behaving the way that Democrats do when they lose the
00:28:15.780
presidency. Not the way... When Republicans lose the presidency, they do it gracefully. George Bush
00:28:20.180
Sr., Bob Dole, John McCain, Mitt Romney, they all just get over it and move on, you know? And the
00:28:25.940
Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, they lose their minds and they just start muttering on
00:28:32.160
the sidewalks, screaming to themselves that they are the real president. I think we're
00:28:36.280
seeing that with McMullin. That squish. Okay, moving on. In her tell-all, speaking of electoral
00:28:41.660
strategy and Democrats, Donna Brazile is writing about what she considers the idiocy of one of
00:28:47.820
Hillary's campaign strategies in which Hillary would send Donald Duck costumed protesters to Trump
00:28:55.540
rallies because Trump ducked releasing his tax returns. He ducked that. Do you get it? He ducked.
00:29:02.000
He was a duck. Donald Duck. Do you get it? It's really funny, you know, because it's a duck.
00:29:07.000
Candace, why ultimately do you think that Hillary Clinton couldn't encourage people
00:29:14.940
It is just, the strategy was so bad. And the greatest thing about Donna Brazile and all of
00:29:21.300
these revelations is we've just been screaming it for about a year now. And suddenly, I don't
00:29:25.340
know, maybe she doesn't know about Project Barrett, doesn't know about the WikiLeaks emails,
00:29:29.020
and she thinks that her book is, like, groundbreaking. She's like, the DNC cheated. Oh, really?
00:29:33.900
The DNC cheated. Weren't you the head of the DNC? Didn't you help them when you fed the CNN
00:29:38.900
a question? Didn't you cheat? It's just, it's absolute, like, she's totally oblivious to
00:29:44.140
herself. And at a certain point, you have to feel bad, like, that these strategies were so bad that
00:29:48.460
Hillary Clinton, like, high-fived herself and was like, this is going to be so good. We're going to
00:29:52.520
get Donald Duck in a costume. And so he ducked his taxes. I know what the youths are after. I know what
00:29:57.600
the youths really want. I know. Donna Brazile really is a Johnny-come-lately on this because she did
00:30:02.480
cheat on behalf of Hillary Clinton. But whatever. It is fun to watch it crash and burn. I'm a little
00:30:07.000
actually upset with Donna Brazile because right now, she, Elizabeth Warren, Democrats are just
00:30:13.100
completely murdering Hillary Clinton. Who knows why? Maybe they're worried that Mueller is going to
00:30:19.020
implicate Clinton and Podesta in his investigation. Who knows? But it's too bad because I was waiting
00:30:25.300
for Hillary 2020, Hillary 2024, Hillary 2020. Hillary now more than ever. Hillary Clinton forever.
00:30:32.480
Paul Bois, your eminence. This reminds me of when M. Night Shyamalan began to exert complete
00:30:38.400
creative control over his movies and he never made a good movie ever again. Is this evidence
00:30:43.220
that campaigns need decentralized power? Oh, quite the contrary, Michael.
00:30:49.360
I know you love M. Night Shyamalan. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have been so quick.
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Oh, quite the contrary, Michael. I so wish Hillary just got her complete way with all of this.
00:30:57.740
And Donald Duck was there at the DNC at every single rally of hers. I mean, it just would have
00:31:06.420
been so beautiful. Yeah. Just one more reason to be glad that Hillary is not sitting in the Oval
00:31:12.220
Office right now. I mean, it just really speaks to how clueless she actually is. I mean, why would
00:31:18.740
you want to associate Donald Trump with a beloved Disney character? It'd be like Trump associating Hillary
00:31:25.740
Clinton with Betty Boop. It makes no sense. The alternative actually was that they would send
00:31:30.920
protesters dressed up as Uncle Sam and Hillary vetoed. I mean, this is not a joke. Hillary vetoed
00:31:35.680
that because she thought Donald Duck was funnier. But their other option was to associate Trump with
00:31:40.200
America itself. Absolutely incredible. You're right. Maybe we need more centralization for Democrats
00:31:46.420
and Democrat campaigns because just as we saw in the Soviet Union, you centralize all that power,
00:31:51.660
it is just going to collapse of its own weight. Ariel, is this evidence of Ann Coulter's thesis
00:31:57.780
that despite all the sideshows and the reality TV of this campaign, voters ultimately care about
00:32:04.000
issues, not gimmicks? I actually will even push back further on that. I read a piece today and for
00:32:11.300
the life of me, I cannot remember the name of the author, but it was basically saying that Trump's
00:32:15.680
victory was really about electing a cultural president as opposed to necessarily a policy-oriented
00:32:22.960
president. That's not to say that Trump won't carry out certain policies, but when it came to sort of
00:32:28.340
the percolating culture war that was evolving under Obama's eight years, really, Trump was sort of a
00:32:34.420
declaration more so in the cultural war. Now, the policy implications of that are very strong,
00:32:39.140
but I do see that thesis as being something that's definitely worth arguing. Well, I don't disagree
00:32:45.420
with that at all. I would lump that in, though, with issues. Not all issues are about lowering the
00:32:50.720
tax rate. These culture war issues have been bubbling up for a long time. Everything else is
00:32:55.260
just accounting, basically, but sometimes you see campaigns delve into stupid little sideshows like
00:33:01.140
Donald Duck or the Pokemon Go or my NCAA bracket. I don't know. I don't think it's about the tweets.
00:33:08.420
I think it's about the content of it. No, it is. It is. And I actually got in a disagreement with
00:33:13.180
someone about this on Twitter because I said, you know what? Even if McCain is voting against
00:33:18.100
repealing Obamacare, even if he's doing it in a dignified way, I'm still going to fundamentally
00:33:22.320
disagree with him. I'm going to support the candidate who is, even if he's a little rough
00:33:26.860
around the edges, is actually supporting and promoting the policies I want. If you are the one
00:33:31.700
that's voting against Obamacare appeal and then complaining about Trump's tweets, I don't want to hear it.
00:33:36.620
This is a taste versus content issue. I understand that. There are people within the GOP that
00:33:41.620
prioritize taste over content. I am not one of them. Do I think Trump could clean up his tweets?
00:33:46.020
Absolutely. Do I think he's a little rough around the edges? Yes, I do. But when it comes to content,
00:33:51.680
I think that's the most important driving factor for me as a voter.
00:33:54.980
Absolutely. I couldn't agree more. All right. That's our show. Listen, we've gotten so much.
00:34:00.580
That is our show today because we're a capitalist show right here. So we got to go and make some
00:34:04.000
money. I will say my guest and frequent Michael Knowles Show panel, Deplorables panelist,
00:34:10.120
Candace Owens, is heading over to the Rubin Report. There's going to be a smackdown between another
00:34:16.440
Michael Knowles Show friend, Blair White. So definitely look out for that. That's going to be a lot of fun.
00:34:20.960
We'll have three panel of Deplorables people all just yelling viciously at one another. So it should
00:34:26.960
be a lot of fun. I can't wait to go watch that. The rest of the panelists, Ariel Davidson, your
00:34:31.460
eminence, Paul Bois, thank you for being here on this wonderful anniversary of the beginning of
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