Ep. 56 - Happy Trump-aversary： 365 Days Of Covfefe
Summary
On this wonderful anniversary of the Trump administration, Republican pollster Kristen Soltis-Anderson joins us in studio to run the numbers for 2018. Amber and Roaming Millennial come on the panel of deplorables to talk Kevin Spacey s Stalinist purge and why Facebook wants you to send them naked pics. Why wouldn t they? Finally, the mailbag.
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Then, we will also talk about how Ed Gillespie lost two nights ago,
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and Senate candidate Roy Moore has been accused of dalliances with teenage girls decades ago.
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Republican pollster Kristen Soltis-Anderson joins us in studio to run the numbers for 2018.
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Amber Athie and Roaming Millennial come on the panel of deplorables
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and why Facebook wants you to send them naked pics.
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If you look at the Democrat press releases or the mainstream media reporting, but I repeat myself, then the country is in smoldering ruins.
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On the economic front, consumer confidence is at the highest level it's been in 17 years.
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Over half a million jobs have been created in the first three months in office.
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Furthermore, stock market rally has rallied since Trump, and it is the second biggest one since JFK was in office.
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Those destructive tariffs and trade wars that conservatives feared have not materialized.
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On corruption, Trump imposed a five-year ban on lobbying the government by former White House officials,
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and a lifetime ban on lobbying for foreign governments by former White House officials.
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On the so-called social issues, Trump repealed the Obama mandate that forced states to fund Planned Parenthood.
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He reinstated the Mexico City policy that protects U.S. taxpayers from having to fund abortions overseas.
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Unlike his predecessor, Trump has refrained from refashioning the White House into a giant glowing rainbow
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to celebrate activist judges' abuse of the Constitution.
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Instead, quite the opposite of that, he's appointed Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court,
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a marvelous, originalist justice considered the second coming of Antonin Scalia,
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Scalia's old fishing buddy, albeit slightly thinner and less Italian.
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He's also appointed 12 other textualist judges to the lower courts, and many others who await confirmation.
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On immigration, President Trump has added more ICE agents.
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He ended the immigrant advocacy program at the DOJ,
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signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to defund sanctuary cities,
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and as a result, the number of illegals crossing into the United States has dropped by at least 70%.
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On foreign policy, where we were promised that Donald Trump would recklessly plunge us into nuclear war,
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Well, he got some trade concessions out of China.
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He's convinced them to cooperate in wrangling North Korea.
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He very ably handled the Syrian chemical attack, which was a test of American credibility and resolve,
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and specifically a test that Barack Obama failed with his red line that was a pink line,
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He also oversaw the return of American high school student Otto Warmbier from North Korea,
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which has added to the tension in that conflict, but he did get the student home before he died.
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He dropped the Moab on ISIS, over which Syria just today declared victory, victory over ISIS.
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He has approved the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines.
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Barack Obama's North Korea strategy of strategic patience is over.
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Barack Obama's Middle East strategy of leaning from behind, it's over.
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Donald Trump also pulled us out of the pointless virtue signaling Paris Climate Accord
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that experts say would have no effect on the climate.
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Speaking of the environment, at the EPA, 25 rules have been overturned.
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$23 billion of regulations were slashed within the first six months of that presidency,
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while a net 13,000 new federal regulations have been added annually for the past 20 years.
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Under Donald Trump, the number of net new regulations is near zero.
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Trump discards Obama legacy, one rule at a time.
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This includes ending Barack Obama's disastrous so-called clean power plan,
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which, as the Heritage Foundation explains, would have resulted in higher energy prices,
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fewer jobs, less growth, and it disproportionately hurt poor families,
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and it would have affected, you guessed it, zero environmental benefit.
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Most importantly, Donald Trump has cracked the patina of credibility
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that Democrat operatives masquerading as journalists once enjoyed
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and sophisticated Republicans, those very nice Republicans with nice glasses like I have,
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As a result, nearly two-thirds of Americans now recognize
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that mainstream media outlets shill for Democrats rather than present unbiased reporting.
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And Hollywood lies in rubble as the preening moralizers who hold their countrymen in contempt
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And if you've enjoyed all of these improvements,
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the protection of your First and Second Amendments from the clause of Hillary Clinton's Supreme Court pick,
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less government, more freedom, and strength abroad, thank a Trump voter.
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I would also be remiss not to point out another anniversary.
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Tomorrow is the Marine Corps birthday from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli.
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The Marines have been keeping us safe for 242 years,
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Now, in the news, Ed Gillespie lost in Virginia last night.
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The Alabama GOP nominee, Roy Moore, has just been accused of trying to pick up teenage girls 40 years ago.
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And we are joined by pollster Kristen Soltis-Anderson
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for analysis on what the numbers look like for Republicans in 2018.
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But if you are on the right side of the aisle, there's a lot of data that suggests the next 12 months could be kind of ugly.
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Look, Republicans have been feeling good because many of these special elections,
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since Trump has become president, have broken our way,
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whether it's John Ossoff losing in Georgia and on and on.
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And so Republicans had been feeling pretty good about things.
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And in Virginia, you had in Ed Gillespie a candidate who was trying to split the difference
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between being a fairly mild-mannered, nice, cheerful guy, been in D.C. forever, nice guy,
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trying to, as much as possible, kind of embrace a Trump message,
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a tough message on things like immigration, talking about law and order issues.
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You've got MS-13, that there are, you know, over 1,000 MS-13 members in Northern Virginia,
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And I think in part because he barely won the primary.
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who made a big issue out of keeping Confederate statues up.
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Now, in the exit polls in Virginia, a majority of Virginia voters who turned out
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said they do actually want to keep those Confederate statues up.
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But nonetheless, that was not their main voting issue.
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And now there's the question of does this have national implications?
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Now, I'm always hesitant to say, yes, it does have national implications
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because, you know, whether it was that Georgia special election
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or a statewide in Virginia, there are local dynamics.
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There are individual candidates and their personalities.
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But I think the thing that should have folks worried is that Ed Gillespie's numbers
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looked pretty similar to what Donald Trump's numbers looked like,
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especially in some of those bellwether swing counties.
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Now, in a state that Trump won, that may be fine.
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And so I think for Republicans that are in places that Donald Trump didn't win,
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they're going to be facing a really big challenge for those midterm elections.
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A lot of people, myself sort of included, but I'll at least acknowledge that I'm doing it
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out of my defense of the Republican Party and Donald Trump.
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They'll say, well, Virginia is a blue state these days.
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And there was a statistic going around that in the last five presidential administrations,
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the president lost Virginia and New Jersey governorships in the first year in office.
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I don't know how someone figured that out, but that's an interesting statistic.
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Can we just write it off and say, well, it's a blue state.
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And, you know, being pretty good doesn't get you over the finish line.
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Or should we be worried that we're going to lose the house or something like that?
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So I think it's, you should not think, oh, well, this is just a blue state going blue
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If Ed Gillespie loses by two or three points, hey, it's a blue state.
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Ed Gillespie actually did great in places like Southwest Virginia,
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up dramatically from when he was on a Virginia ballot three years ago.
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There are voters that have embraced Ed Gillespie more
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now that he's gotten closer to a message that's Trump-like.
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But it's in northern Virginia and even in the suburbs around Richmond.
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these are all folks that work for the government.
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This is further south in Virginia, but nonetheless, it's more upscale suburbs.
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These are the types of places where Gillespie just got annihilated.
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And that's where a lot of these swing districts are across the country.
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If Republicans are struggling in middle to upper middle class suburbs
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around metropolitan areas, that makes the math for the midterms very tough.
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Yeah, I come from one of the most debated, contested congressional districts in the country,
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And, yeah, they don't like Donald Trump there very much.
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They're a Republican sort that wears these glasses and this kind of jacket,
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and they work at hedge funds and things like that.
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Where Millennials Are Leading Americans and How Republicans Can Keep Up.
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Where are millennials leading us and how can we keep up?
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So where millennials, I think, are leading America is by embracing a lot of changes
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that have other folks from other generations feeling anxious.
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So whether it's cultural change with millennials having sort of more progressive views
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on things like what is the definition of a family, things like smoking pot,
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whether it's economics with millennials, I think, being much more open to...
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I mean, there is data that suggests that a lot of millennials
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don't actually really know what the term socialism means.
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Technological change, things that older generations sort of balk at or think.
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They're just as likely to do things like pray daily,
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but they're more likely to say, I'm not religious.
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So there are a variety of things where millennials are just abandoning institutions
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that their parents' or grandparents' generation had embraced.
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And so that creates a tension when Republicans tend to do really well
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among voters who are married, who go to church, who are white,
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who live in areas that are not as dense population-wise,
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and you see that millennials are living in areas that are denser and more walkable,
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and they're structuring their families in different ways,
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and they're not going to church, and it's a very diverse generation.
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All of these demographic things come together to make it really hard for Republicans
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to have a message to the millennial generation without embracing diversity,
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without embracing different family structures, things like that.
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So it's created this tension, and in the book I try to give Republicans a way forward
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that tries to preserve conservative principles.
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I don't think the answer is Republicans should just become Democrats.
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Because young voters don't love the Democratic Party either.
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Republicans have in some ways been given a stay of execution all along
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because while young voters liked Obama, they're not fans of the Democratic Party.
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But so what are things that conservatives can do that are completely in line with our principles
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How can we use technology to make government run more efficiently, make it smaller,
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make it do the few things that it's supposed to do really well
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so it can stop trying to do all of the other things it shouldn't be doing?
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And I think that there are a lot of opportunities that Republicans have missed over the years
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that it just frustrates me because now we have the oldest millennials who are in their mid-30s.
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The data that scares me nowadays is not seeing Republicans lose voters 18 to 29
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because Republicans have been losing that age group for a decade or more.
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It's now that we're losing voters in their 30s, those millennials are getting older.
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Well, what you said reminds me of the title of your book, The Selfie Generation,
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People say, well, I'm spiritual but not religious,
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which to me means I don't care what God wants, but I'm very interested in myself.
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And that is depressing, but obviously there's a certain narcissism that typifies the generation.
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You might notice that I talk into a camera for a living every day of the week.
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Like, the group that gives me hope is the next generation, Gen Z.
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From some of the studies that come out from them, it seems they go to church more.
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I think there are some areas where you find Gen Z folks embracing things like tough views on immigration,
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you know, being further to the right than their millennial older brothers and sisters are.
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We shouldn't just let everyone come in and blow up our cities or something.
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Well, there are a handful of views where, you know, Republican teenagers have pretty conservative views.
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There are issues, however, like gender identity, climate change,
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where they trend even more progressive than their millennial older brothers and sisters.
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But I think for Gen Z, their views have not been cemented.
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For the millennials, we either came of age right before or during the Obama presidency,
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and so for a whole variety of reasons, that has started to cement their views as being a little further to the left.
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But for Gen Z, that stuff is much, it's malleable.
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If you think of it like cement, when you first pour concrete, it's malleable.
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And if Republicans and conservatives make an effort to actually say,
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Those are arguments that were never made to millennials, but there's still time.
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If they're to the right on immigration, if they're to the right of what most Republicans were on immigration,
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even 10 years ago, does that mean that we need to eschew Donald Trump and say,
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Or do we have to take a little bit of the Trump movement and the Trump election and say,
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yeah, maybe we should speak more bluntly about issues of legal and illegal immigration,
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national security, even possibly tax regimes and free trade?
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Well, I think the other thing you have to keep in mind, though, is the diversity of these generations.
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So if you look at the baby boomer generation, I think three out of four are white, non-Hispanic.
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And as you get further and further down into the generations, for millennials,
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I think we're about 56 percent white, non-Hispanic.
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So the increasing diversity of America is showing up most prominently in these younger generations.
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So the question is, how do you have a message that says it's important to have a secure border?
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And it shouldn't be considered wrong to say that.
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That doesn't sound like we want America where everybody looks.
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Yeah, you know, you've got to find a way to have the argument for your policy
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that does not sound like you don't want America's changing diversity to happen.
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That's a hard argument for me to make because these days, you know, I guess I'd be okay in that America.
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But during the heat of the summer, I would be booted right across.
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Okay, Kristen, thank you so much for being here.
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And check out the book, The Selfie Vote, Where Millennials Are Leading America and How Republicans Can Keep Up.
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And we better keep up because we need to win elections and keep the kevfefe coming.
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Okay, so in the news right now, I want to welcome the panel, by the way, Roaming Millennial.
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And by the way, good timing on the news cycle, because I think both of these stories are about
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They are editing Kevin Spacey out of all the money in the world.
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Any pugilist worth his salt knows when someone's on the ropes, that's when you throw a combination
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They seem so harmless at first, small, quiet, lapping up their saucer of milk.
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But once their claws get long enough, they draw blood, sometimes from the hand that feeds
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But Roaming, is this a Stalinist purge of Spacey, or is it just capitalism at work?
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I was actually wondering that exactly about Stalin as well.
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I think it's Ridley Scott, the director who's editing Spacey out of his movie.
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To be honest, I actually really like Kevin Spacey as an actor.
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I really enjoy his performance in House of Cards.
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I think he's really good in almost anything he's in.
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I mean, if you have this huge movie, I think the budget was about $40 million I read.
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You have this huge movie that's going to be promoted and it's going to be launching.
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At the same time, one of the main actors is embroiled in this awful sex scandal harassment
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It does make sense to try to distance yourself from it.
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Not only are they excluding Kevin Spacey from the promotional events, they're actually just
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And apparently this wasn't the studio's choice.
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And I think it is smart for business, even if it means they're going to have to spend some
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money, invest a little bit more up front to do some reshoots.
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But I think it also sends a more positive message from what we're used to seeing in Hollywood.
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I mean, if we look at people like Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, even Chris Brown from the music
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side, we're so used to Hollywood kind of turning a blind eye when these allegations are made
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against people and just kind of acting like it never happened.
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But at least I think maybe now, because there's so much attention around the issue, we're actually
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And I do want to say that I think this is different than just one person making an allegation
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against someone that being unsubstantiated with Kevin Spacey and people like Harvey Weinstein.
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We're actually seeing like documented instances many, many years.
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And I don't see what immediate gain a lot of these people would have from launching these
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allegations, which again, you know, I'm for innocent until proven guilty.
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But this is something where we have to kind of look at everything contextually to figure
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And when you're talking about a $40 million film, which when you factor in promotion,
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it could be $70 million or something like that.
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The thing that's really crazy about this is for people who've never been on a film set or been
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in the film industry, there is seven weeks right now.
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There's seven weeks until the release of this movie.
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There is an, you know, for big studio films, it could take at least seven months, a year.
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To do this in seven weeks, I'm skeptical that they'll do it.
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But clearly, they're worried about the money they're risking.
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From the viewer, though, from the person who is enjoying the artwork or reading the book
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or seeing the movie, should we punish artists for their personal lives?
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That's something that I've thought about as well.
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And to me, you know, there's a difference between saying, oh, you know, Lady Gaga, she supported Hillary.
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There's a difference between saying, I'm going to let this artist have whatever political views they want,
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you know, and accept that they're not going to agree with me on everything.
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There's a difference between that and saying, I'm going to continue to financially supporting someone who is a known sexual predator.
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I do think it makes sense to make that distinction.
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And I'm not someone who's going to boycott someone just because they have different political views than I do
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or just because they have, like, a personal lifestyle that maybe I don't agree with.
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But now we're talking about, like, actual crimes that are being alleged against him.
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And I think that is something we need to differentiate between, like, oh, you know, they're just,
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I just don't like their opinions, therefore I'm going to boycott them.
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And I guess if we're not going to financially support those predators, I guess, Marshall, today will be your last day.
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There is a, I know, it's sad, but Roaming made the decision.
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There's this book that Andrew Klavan and I were reading a few months ago called Darkness at Noon.
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He's an ex-communist, wrote a book about, it's a novel about communists, basically, in a Stalinist purge.
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And it's interesting on a sort of meta-literary level because the author of that book, I believe, was accused of rape.
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He was apparently just a dirty, rotten, horrible guy.
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And yet the artwork that he produced is very good, and I'm glad that I read the book.
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I personally don't really care how awful the artists are.
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But fair enough, we shouldn't, I guess, I guess, while Marshall's still here, we shouldn't keep filing his paycheck.
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So from, speaking of sex, Facebook wants you to send them nude photos over the Internet so that they can prevent your nude photos from going on the Internet.
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As part of our continued efforts to better detect and remove content that violates our community standards,
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we're using image-matching technology to prevent the non-consensual, intimate images from being shared on Facebook.
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And obviously, I am furious that I didn't think of this first.
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The Michael Knowles Show anti-nude photo, nude photo collection program.
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Only those geniuses like Mark Zuckerberg can think of it.
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To take their point seriously, revenge porn is a serious issue.
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Will people, will girls who send naked photos, will they use this program because they trust Facebook more than their ex-boyfriends?
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I think a lot of people will actually use this program.
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I had a Facebook account in, I think, ninth grade.
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I deactivated it, tried to make a new one when my channel was starting.
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Everything was different and confused me, got frustrated and gave up immediately.
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And I think for, I mean, we've seen this happen to celebrities all the time.
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Even, I mean, this happens very commonly to, I think, high school and college students especially.
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I wish it wasn't a thing that, you know, exes would feel the need to be, I guess, vengeful and to try to hurt people.
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And it's weird that this is now a thing in our society.
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I'm not someone who would think like, oh yeah, I better just upload my nude Facebook photos to Facebook so that the nude photos I've sent to other people can somehow be edited out of the internet.
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I'm like, hopefully that's just never a situation I will find myself in where that thought logic makes sense.
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But I think a lot of people will actually do this if they are concerned, which I can see a lot of people, unfortunately, nowadays being concerned about.
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What I wonder is if my personal profile is already a very tasteless nude photo, will they just automatically use that when people upload revenge porn?
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Why on earth, in this age of hacking and of scummy boyfriends and of big brother technology, why on earth would a girl send her boyfriend or some other guy a nude photo?
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Not that I am complaining per se, but like that seems like the most foolish thing in the world.
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I mean, pretty much all of our devices are synced with, you know, the cloud or something, some sort of thing that keeps not only, you know, a copy of the photo on your hard drive, but also an electronic copy in your account.
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So it just, it doesn't seem like a very good idea to me.
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But I know with a lot of the celebrities that this happened to is because they were involved in like long, long distance relationships.
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And I mean, we can talk about how it's not the best move to make, but I mean, a lot of the stories I've seen have, it's happened to high school students who are not making good decisions in the first place.
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And I think really the emphasis of the blame should be on the person who either hacked it or leaked it.
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I think it's a huge invasion of privacy to the person that happens to.
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Whatever happened to tasteless, I mean, you know, oil paintings, what happened to those?
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Yeah, you know, there's this really great artist on Twitter, and she keeps painting these paintings from my photos, you know.
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And so I tweeted something like, paint me like one of your French girls, but I think that was too far.
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Nobody on Twitter wants anything to do with that.
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From Pete, I am slash was a lapsed Catholic that has attempted to return to the sacraments upon learning that my wife is pregnant.
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Yet, I can't help but feel dishonest with myself as I still am heavily lacking in faith.
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I've been agnostic pretty much since my confirmation.
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I was too, and nearly chose Thomas as my confirmation name for that reason.
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I want to return to the faith so my child has the same chance at it that I have had, but I can't manage having faith myself.
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What advice can you give this heretic and to any others out there?
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But even asking that question, even having that impulse when you think about your future child and your pregnant wife,
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I don't think you'd ask that question if you didn't have it.
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Andrew Klavan did a great video now eight years ago at PJ Media called How to Find God in 60 Days
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because he was an atheist and he is now a Christian, wrote a great book about that called The Great Good Thing.
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And his advice is to just pretend like God exists for 60 days.
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I was basically an agnostic atheist type from my confirmation to my, I don't know, 21 years old, 22 years old.
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And I was then intellectually convinced that God exists by some of the arguments for God.
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St. Anselm and Thomas Aquinas and the ontological and the cosmological.
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And so I was perfectly intellectually convinced that God exists.
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I don't think there's really any good argument against God and there are many good arguments for the existence of God.
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I couldn't bring myself to praying, to a person, to a man.
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And until the numinous experience, the religious experience happened, I would recommend behaving as though it is true.
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Because there are so many forces in this society telling you that if you believe in God, or specifically in the Catholic Church,
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the most maligned of any of those institutions, if you believe in God and that version of Christianity,
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then you're stupid, you're ignorant, you're uneducated, you engage in wishful thinking,
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you are afraid of the dark and afraid of death, and you don't understand evolutionary psychology,
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and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, all nonsense.
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As Antonin Scalia said to New York Magazine once,
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many more intelligent people than you or I have believed in the devil.
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And it seems to me that the weight of intellect, the weight of history and philosophy and theology,
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is with Christianity and with, specifically, I'm a Catholic.
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So I would say don't be discouraged by what the culture is telling you,
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because, you know, it's right there in the book, pal.
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The culture is going to try to tell you that none of it's true and that you'd be a dummy for believing it.
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So good luck and congratulations on your child.
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Which of the seven deadly sins do you think is the most prevalent in modern society?
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You know, I guess they've always all been around.
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The most prevalent seems to me pride, seems to me superbia, pride or hubris.
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We were just talking to Kristen, who wrote about the selfie generation.
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And, you know, the trouble with that one, it's the most prevalent.
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Obviously, we're all taking selfies all the time, and I'm speaking into a camera for hours at a clip.
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And, you know, there isn't a lot of real friendship or real conversation that occurs.
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But also, it's where all of the other vices and sins come from.
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So, you know, there is lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy.
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But they all come from pride, and it's a pride that I was just discussing with that previous question.
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It's a pride that I can have sex with whomever I want, and relationships be damned, and people who love me be damned.
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It's a pride that I can take whatever I want from someone else, and it doesn't really matter because there's no judge, and there's no judgment, and there's no good, and there's no bad, but thinking makes it so.
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It's a pride that, well, it all doesn't matter.
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We're born in a random chance, and we're all going to turn to worm food, so who cares if I get up and do my job today or get up and do any work or be productive?
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You know, pride is an occupational hazard, if not a prerequisite, of show business and politics, so we all have to be careful of that, but that's the one that the devil likes best.
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From James, dear blank book millionaire, I wish, but, you know, it's still pretty good.
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Australia is still having its same-sex marriage debate, and I am voting no to changing the legal definition of marriage.
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It is my view that voting yes would be ignorant of the history of marriage between a man and a woman and ignorant of the fact that it is an institution of forwarding procreation.
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Does this position of not wanting to give same-sex couples the legal recognition of marriage conflict with a libertarian view of government?
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People say this a lot, libertarians who have a very myopic view of politics, but I suppose that's an occupational hazard of libertarianism.
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It isn't. It isn't at all. It isn't a matter of rights. It isn't a matter of the government.
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The left has done a great job at framing the issue of redefining marriage as one of rights.
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This person has this right to marry a person that he loves, but this person doesn't have this right to marry a person that he loves.
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But that's not where the debate starts. It isn't about the rights.
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A premise of both of those questions is that marriage has a meaning that allows for a same-sex monogamous union, but the question we have to debate is what is marriage?
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And furthermore, what are men and what are women?
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If men and women are basically the same and there aren't really any differences between them, then the left's argument on same-sex marriage makes perfect sense.
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If men and women are different, if they're complementary rather than indiscernible from one another, then that opens up a big question.
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Now, there is a reason that for all of history marriage has been between a man and at least women, if not just one woman.
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For most of our history it's been between a man and one woman.
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But we also can look at marriage in today's day and age.
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Is it to bring a child into the world or is it so that the child can make us feel good about ourselves?
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And the arguments against redefining marriage seem to me strong and have the weight of history to them.
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There are some arguments for redefining marriage, but those aren't them.
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And there's absolutely nothing that contradicts a libertarian view of government or conservative view of government or a Christian view of government or what have you about not deciding to redefine radically and fundamentally the basic institution of the West.
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We should engage in that debate on a much more serious and sophisticated level, which is what is marriage, what are men, and how do we deal with a society in which traditional marriage has broken down entirely?
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And so why not admit monogamous same-sex couples who might raise children better, who might live a much more productive life?
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It shouldn't be on some frivolous matter of rights.
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It may show my dad's name above, but that is false.
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I am a Catholic and a junior in a liberal high school.
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In AP Physics, we're building egg drop devices.
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In my group, I suggested the idea of just gluing a small cross on the egg and dropping it unprotected.
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But more recently, I've been wondering what, in fact, would happen if I did this, if I dropped an egg with just the cross.
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If with complete faith, for the purpose of converting the class, I dropped the egg with only a cross, what would occur?
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I know that all things are possible through Christ, but I can't grapple with the idea that the egg would drop and not break in Christ's Jopert.
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Yeah, good, man, because in the last temptation of Christ, I'll just read you the passage when the Antichrist takes Christ down to the wilderness.
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And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him,
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If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence.
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For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up,
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lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
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It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
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It is not up to you to show off God like a magic trick that you have power over.
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Only by grace are you saved by the grace of Jesus.
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So if even Jesus would not drop Himself down to test God, and He is God, I don't think you should either,
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because that egg is going to end up everywhere.
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Dear Michael, I am the son of a Cuban immigrant, and I am currently attending a university
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where I have often heard a romanticized view of the state of Cuba, perpetuated by students and faculty alike.
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This infuriates me because so many of my family members who are still in Cuba
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tell us of the plight in which the Cuban people truly live.
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How would you recommend I deal with these situations when they arise?
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Do I attempt to re-educate these Bernie-loving ignoramuses, or just ignore them entirely?
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I noticed that people don't wear Che Guevara shirts down there like all of the idiot white liberals wear in America
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who are completely ignorant of that slave island.
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What you should do is give your testimony, just as you have, and this might be the one place that I'll abide the idea of white privilege,
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It's at least an American privilege that we live in such luxury and freedom that we can become very lofty in our minds and say,
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well, who cares if communism doesn't work in practice?
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Yeah, I know those Cuban people have been slaves for half of a century, and they've been killed and tortured and starved to death,
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but, you know, look, it obviously was for a good purpose.
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions, guys.
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You have a unique perspective and voice, and people should hear from the horse's mouth what that horrific ideology and that horrific regime are really like.
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Since out of you, Ben and Andrew, I hear you're popular with the ladies.
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It's because I went to college with Drew's son, Spencer, and maybe he's telling tales out of school.
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I'm a cashier, and I work with a girl named Samantha.
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To be honest, she's way out of my league and more mature than me.
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Sometimes we make eye contact, and maybe I get a smile from her without doing anything.
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I'm not really experienced with asking a girl out.
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What's the best way to get your foot through the door and stay out of the dreaded friend zone?
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Also love to hear some inspiring love experiences you may have had that can help.
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That's going to be for my sequel romance novel to the blank book.
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Thank you, Michael Knowles, a.k.a. Love Doctor.
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Marshall, I want you to only call me that from now on.
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So I've gotten this question a few times, and so I'll give some variation on that because I don't know that I've given a complete answer on young men trying to find love in a swipe right culture.
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I have had a girlfriend for longer than Tinder existed, so I'm really unfamiliar with that.
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But the best advice I'll give you, which everyone will probably also give you, is to be confident.
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I've seen a ton of really ugly dudes have beautiful girlfriends and wives because they are confident.
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Henry Kissinger, I believe, said that power is the greatest aphrodisiac.
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It isn't the end of the world if this girl doesn't go out with you, but it would be fun to go out with you.
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If it becomes a creepy or desperate thing, then she's not going to want to do it.
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It also helps in conversation if you like women.
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It helps if you actually like these people and you're not just trying to get in their pants or something.
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So if you, it's true in conversation generally.
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If you have a conversation with someone and you are interested in what they're saying, it will be a better conversation and you both will enjoy it more.
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You might learn something or be entertained or what have you.
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If you're not, if it's just a technique like you read one of those pickup books and you say,
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Hey, honey, and you look like Mike the Situation from the Jersey Shore, then you're going to be a slick creep and she won't want to go out with you.
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Just be confident, be interested in her, and keep it fun.
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The purpose of dating is that it's very, very fun.
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And ultimately, it leads to things that are probably less fun and more duty-bound like marriage and raising children and, you know, being a pillar of society.
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But the early part, the dating is extremely fun.
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I had a teacher in high school who was a biology teacher.
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This was my history teacher, a great history teacher.
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And he would say, don't think of this test as an opportunity to be penalized.
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It's an opportunity to fail out of class or something.
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A test, an exam, is an opportunity to get points.
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And so that's the same thing with asking a girl out.
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It's an opportunity to go on a fun date and, you know, see what happens from there.
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But it isn't something to dread or feel nervous about or rejection.
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