Ep. 597 - Trump-Pence vs. Deep-State
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The media warned us yesterday that Republicans were going to start to attack Kamala Harris in personal, sexist, horrible ways. And, oh we didn t have to wait very long. President Trump is already digging in to Kamala. Was that sexist?
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The media warned us yesterday. The left told us that Republicans were going to start to attack
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Kamala Harris in personal, sexist, horrible ways. And, oh, we didn't have to wait very long.
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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, already digging in to Kamala. Take a listen.
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Well, she lied. I mean, she said things that were untrue. She is a person that's told many, many stories that weren't true.
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She's very big into raising taxes. She wants to slash funds for our military at a level that nobody can even believe.
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She is against fracking. Fracking is she's against petroleum products.
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I mean, how do you do that and go into Pennsylvania or Ohio or Oklahoma or the great state of Texas?
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She's against fracking. Fracking is a big deal.
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She's in favor of socialized medicine where you're going to lose your doctors. You're going to lose your plan.
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She wants to take your health care plans away from 180 million Americans, 180 million Americans that are very happy with their health insurance.
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And she wants to take that away. So she was my number one pick.
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So she was my number one pick. I love her. I'm rooting for her, says President Trump.
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Was that sexist? Was that personal? No, it wasn't. Not at all.
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Notice all of the comments were about her policies and her dishonesty.
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Now, the left has been going after Trump personally for years.
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But notice Trump isn't going personally after Kamala.
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It's not a personal thing. It's about her fitness for the job and her policies.
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Why? Well, it's because Trump is a person, right? That's why they go after him personally.
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And Kamala Harris isn't. She's nothing. She's just a vessel for the administrative state.
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She's just a vessel for the liberal establishment.
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She doesn't have any deeply held beliefs. She doesn't have any convictions.
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Trump is going after something bigger than just one person or two people.
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He's going after a system that is a perversion of American democracy.
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He's going after the whole media, the administrative government.
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We'll get into it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back. My favorite YouTube comment yesterday from Ezra.
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When Harris mentioned being a little girl, Joe immediately knew he would choose her as his VP.
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That was the big hit that Kamala made on Joe, where she said,
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When I was a little girl, I was bused to school because of good policies that Joe Biden opposed because he's a racist.
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Even though now I really like him and I'm so honored to be his running mate.
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Everyone has been changing their tune on Biden, on Kamala.
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Because it doesn't matter. It's not about them.
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Obviously, the Trump attacks were not sexist, as we were all warned to brace ourselves with the sexist attacks.
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The only person who's even coming close to being blamed for a sexist attack is Tucker Carlson.
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Why? Because Tucker Carlson brought up the inconvenient fact that Kamala Harris began her political career in sort of dodgy, not so nice ways.
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Harris clearly wasn't picked for her personal charm.
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More than 30 years ago, she dated a man called Willie Brown.
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Last week, Brown publicly urged Joe Biden not to pick Kamala Harris as his running mate.
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But it turns out Willie Brown's opinion no longer matters in the Democratic Party.
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So do the opinions of his fellow Bay Area tech titans.
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So this you're not allowed to mention, even though Willie Brown, who's a Democratic politician, mentioned this months and months ago.
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The fact is Kamala Harris dated this much older married man, and then he launched her political career, and now nobody's allowed to talk about that.
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I mean, that's the sort of attack that the left is calling sexist.
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You could attack a man if a man did the same thing.
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But if a man, you know, had a relationship with an older married woman and then she launched his political career, you could bring that up.
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It's just acknowledged as something that she did.
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But the reason it's called sexist, and this is a broader point even beyond this race, is because the left is not looking at these politicians as individual statesmen with individual visions and policies and accomplishments.
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That's why the left divvies up the country into, you know, black, Hispanic, Asian American, different sexual groups.
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The reason it does that is because it doesn't care about singular vision, singular accomplishment.
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It's not politicians who are governing us for the left.
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It's just this kind of bureaucracy that has no accountability for all.
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That's been the left-wing project in America, the democratic project in America, since Woodrow Wilson.
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You're going to hear these, it's sexist, it's racist, whatever.
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I think importantly here, it's very good that Tucker and Trump, most importantly, is not attacking Harris for being tough on crime.
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That's one kind of meme that we've been joking about is Kamala's a cop.
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She put people in prison and that's bad and that's racist and that's such a weak line of argument.
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It's basically the only thing I like about her.
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And conservatives should not take up that left-wing line of argument.
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That's not going to serve us very well in the end.
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The left already has enough problems to deal with on Kamala.
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If Kamala Harris is this wonderful person, it's historic, it's so much better actually that we've got a black woman on the ticket than this white man.
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Why didn't they pick her if she's so wonderful and she's going to bring all this hope to Joe Biden's campaign?
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And what they mean by that, I mean, this is classic liberal stuff.
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It actually is racist and sexist when they say this.
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Because what they always say is that white guys are the past and all the other races are the future.
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And white guys are bad and all the other races are good.
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And white guys have privilege and they're terrible and all the other guys are good.
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And this is just a classical oppressor-oppressed kind of left-wing narrative.
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You'll actually see t-shirts that say, women are the future, men are the past.
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Because if you don't have men, you're not going to get any future of the species at all.
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But they just have this view because everything has to be oppressor or oppressed.
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And then they have this view of history, which is that the past is very bad and the future is very good.
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And there's a science of history and we know what the future is going to be.
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That's how the New York Times can make that claim.
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So you either get on the wrong side of history with white, male, evangelical, straight, Christian.
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I mean, Mike Pence checks every terrible box for them.
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Or you get on the right side of history with Kamala Harris, who they do not view as an individual.
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She is simply an amalgamation of her racial, sexual, physical characteristics.
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Okay, if she's the future, why didn't they nominate her?
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Another headline, Kamala Harris, a political fighter shaped by life in two words.
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There are a lot of punchlines to that joke, but I don't want to get in trouble.
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And then the final one, New York Times, excited again about a woman on the ticket.
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Again, you could have picked her to be the nominee.
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And was anybody really excited about Hillary Clinton?
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Those two, when they ran, they did not run as individuals.
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They ran merely as a vessel for the establishment, the liberal establishment.
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By the way, was the New York Times excited to have a woman on the ticket in 2008?
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Because again, it's not even about a woman, right?
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They are bending over backwards and leaping all over the place to try to make sense of
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their past criticism of these people, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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I mean, I'm talking about the radical side of the left.
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Sean King, a very active Black Lives Matter activist.
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Here's what Sean King tweeted out during the Democratic primaries.
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I'll be frank and tell you two Democrats that I'm 99% sure I won't be supporting.
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Primarily because of their dismal history on criminal justice reform over the course
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of their entire careers, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
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They both helped build and advance mass incarceration.
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Until Joe Biden gets a nomination, Kamala Harris gets picked as VP.
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Without a hint of irony, without any shame, he says,
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Among current U.S. senators, I would rank Kamala Harris in the top three on justice reform issues.
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He previously said he would 99% not vote for her,
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specifically because of her dismal history on criminal justice reform for her entire career.
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Now he says she's in the top three on justice reform issues.
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I am incredibly proud to see a brilliant black woman and HBCU grad, historically black college,
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Kamala Harris is the most progressive VP nominee in American history.
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He says she's one of the worst on criminal justice reform.
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Now he says she's one of the best on criminal justice reform.
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Kamala Harris is the most progressive VP nominee in American history.
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Now, how can that be the case if he's previously criticizing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
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for being among the least progressive in the race?
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What he said there at the end, she's the most progressive VP nominee in American history.
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I mean, he's obviously a shill and he'll shill for the Democrats regardless.
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In another universe, she could be somewhat conservative.
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But because of how much the left has advanced progressively since at least Woodrow Wilson
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for the last hundred years, she is the most progressive nominee because they're all on
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They will change their opinions and move them to the left simply by virtue of time.
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When Joe Biden ran in 2008, by today's standards, he would have been very conservative.
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Same thing in 1990, he would have been very, very conservative.
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Same thing in 1970s, he would have been very, very, very conservative.
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They're not individuals in the political sense.
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They just go along with the progressive movement.
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If it's not about Joe and it's not about Kamala, what does it say about the system?
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Trump has these kind of unique policies, even compared to Republican presidents.
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People still don't understand this, even on the right.
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Your laws are not made in Congress or in the Senate.
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And they're not, you know, signed into law by the president.
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Sometimes, occasionally, some change is made there.
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And usually, especially now with divided government, the House and the Senate and different parties,
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Your laws are made by bureaucrats who you have not elected, who are not accountable to you,
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But bureaucrats who, even when the president changes, right,
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the bureaucrats are part of the executive agency, so the executive should be able to change them,
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the executive, the president, whoever gets elected, can barely make a dent into this, okay?
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The politicians come and go, the bureaucrats remain there, and the bureaucrats pass all of your laws.
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Sometimes, though, if you get the right administration in there, they can try to cut this back.
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So one way Trump has done this is he said, for every new regulation, we have to cut two.
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It's been able to reduce the size and scope of the administrative state at least a little bit.
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Another thing is not replacing people after these bureaucrats quit through,
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you know, as the size is reduced through attrition.
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You know, all of this administrative government.
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The AFFH rule is Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing.
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This rule comes from 2015, from the Obama-Biden administration.
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Now, the way Republicans, they used to only talk about the Obama administration,
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but now because Joe Biden is the nominee for the Democrats,
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What this rule does basically is set up a national system that takes zoning rights away from local areas,
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in the suburbs in particular, and makes it a national issue.
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So, bureaucrats at the national stage can now basically take all the power away from these local communities and rezone.
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And what this was about was shipping in low-income people from the inner cities into nice suburbs.
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Now, the reason for this, they always make this a matter of race, right?
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You remember Joe Biden said, look, I think poor kids are just as smart as white kids.
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That poor and black are synonymous to the Democrats, right?
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And rich and white are synonymous to the Democrats.
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They've never been to parts of Appalachia, for instance, other areas in America.
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It's a racist thing to say, but that's how they look at it.
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And by conflating those two things, by the way, that's how they bully you into accepting these sorts of rules.
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It took so much power from the local, brought it up to the national.
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But what's worse, what nobody's talking about is a big key to this rule from 2015
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was that the Democrats knew they could count statistically on those inner-city votes.
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So, they wanted to ship those Democratic voters up to the suburbs to turn red or purple districts blue.
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So, he's fighting back against radical social engineering by the Obama administration directing the bureaucrats.
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That's this power grab, and he pushed back against stealing the elections.
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And he's not going to get a lot of credit for it because it's, you know, it's just one of these orders.
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A lot of times, Republicans will criticize a Republican president like Trump for using executive orders.
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They'll say, no, we need our laws passed by Congress.
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That's not the way our framers intended for laws to be passed.
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Hey, buddy, if the executive agencies are the actual people writing all of your laws,
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then the only way you can govern is by executive order.
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And I actually want more executive orders because at least it's, first of all,
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it's an elected person grabbing hold of the administrative state at least a little bit.
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But it's also an acknowledgment that Congress does not rule us anymore.
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So if we're going to be ruled that way, I at least want the executive to have some control over it.
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And the way he does that is by signing executive orders.
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And if you have a problem with that, your problem is not with Trump or with Obama even.
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Your problem is with reality and the way that the progressives have stolen our government away from us
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You see it even in the way that they make the minority groups that they invent refer to themselves,
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That's the word that the white liberals are telling us we have to use.
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So maybe you've seen this somewhere, especially if you've been in college or high school recently.
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I guess they put the X because they don't like that Latino ends in an O because that's masculine
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and male is bad and that's the past and women are the future.
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They could just use the term Hispanic, but now they're trying to differentiate between the term Hispanic and Latino.
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Both of which, by the way, are just completely ridiculous jargon invented by the left about 50 years ago.
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Invented specifically or propagated specifically by the Ford Foundation, other radical left-wing influence groups.
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This came out from the Pew Research Center on Tuesday.
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They found out that only one in four adults in the United States who identify as Hispanic or Latino have ever even heard the term Latinx.
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Three quarters of Hispanics have no idea what this ridiculous term Latinx is.
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And only 3% of Hispanics actually use that term to describe themselves.
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And yet what you are going to be told now, especially if you're in a university or K-12 for that matter or in corporate America or just about anywhere,
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you're going to be told that if you don't use this word Latinx, you're a racist.
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If you don't use a word that 97% of the people that word is supposed to describe don't use.
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If you don't use a word that 75% of people who are supposed to be that word don't even know about, don't even know what it is,
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We sometimes think of the progressive movement as being grassroots.
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You know, it springs up from the people crying out for a more progressive.
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And it's been enforced mostly by the white liberal establishment.
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And we've all got to catch up because it's got so much power.
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The one consolation, though, you know we talk about the conservative consolation on this show a lot.
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It's that reality reasserts itself, sometimes, sporadically, eventually.
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These liberal elite schemes are not popular with the actual people.
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You see it in the word latinx, but you see it in the more tangible policies all around us.
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The left is now no longer even saying that we need to allow these peaceful protesters who are burning down the country.
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That we need to allow them to kind of run its course.
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You know, have some of the radicals of the BLM organizers coming out and defending the looting as justice.
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They're defending this theft and this vandalism as a positive good.
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I don't care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike because that makes sure that that person eats.
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That makes sure that that person can make some kind of money because this city obviously doesn't care about them.
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Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have insurance.
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It's so awful that she's got to be in modern America, well-fed, sort of well-protected by the cops.
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She wants to defund on television, running roughshod over the entire country, stealing stuff, defending theft without any consequences.
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It's not even these peaceful protesters stealing Gucci and Nike sneakers, you know, for justice or something.
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It's happening all the way at the political level.
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Which is a very funny statement to make while you are clamoring endlessly to take the billionaire's wealth.
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Wait, we are told, AOC is simultaneously telling us that people will die, the world will fall into chaos if we don't get the billionaire's wealth.
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So that's why we need to expropriate it and steal it.
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Theft at the top level of taking people's wealth from the government.
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But we're also told, we don't need those billionaires.
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If you're saying we're all going to die if we don't steal all their money.
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The whole argument is we do need them, so give us your money.
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Now, one thing I've asked myself, because I've never understood this.
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Why on earth would these oligarchs, these bureaucrat oligarchs, why would they want to encourage this kind of system?
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This kind of chaos in the streets, this lawlessness, this injustice, this theft.
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Don't you think they'd want to just keep all their money, right?
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Because the more that law breaks down, the more law and order breaks down, the more property rights break down, the ability to own your own wealth, the more local attachments break down, the more attachment to family breaks down, the more local government breaks down, the more all of these things break down.
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The more power the progressive administrative state gets.
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That's why the left does it every election year, to grab a little bit more power.
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More and more and more and more and more power to the point where you've got the national government telling people how they can zone their neighborhoods.
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Where you've got the federal government coming in telling people exactly how much money they're allowed to have and how much they're not.
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You've got the administrative government, which issues all sorts of rulings on what words to use, what language to use.
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If you don't use it, it'll be a civil rights offense.
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You'll get hauled before an administrative tribunal telling 97% of people who don't want to use this term that they have to use this term to describe themselves.
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Even telling, they flaunt their power in such outrageous ways, and this comes right down to this very contemporary issue of the masks.
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I've been telling you for months that the masks are not about protecting public health.
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There is very little evidence that the masks work at all.
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There is a lot of evidence that the masks don't work at all.
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There's a disclaimer on every mask that you buy right now that says this mask does not prevent the spread of any viruses.
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And that's a disclaimer that was put there by the same administrators who tell you you have to wear the masks.
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The head of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources just told his employees,
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wear your mask, even if you are home, to participate in a virtual meeting that involves being seen,
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such as on Zoom or another video conferencing platform, by people who are not in our staff.
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This was Preston Cole, head of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
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Set the safety example, which shows you as a DNR public service employee about the safety and health of others.
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Probably it won't do anything, but couldn't hurt, right?
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There's no common sense in the administrative state.
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Dear Michael, I am nearly 30 and have strong Catholic beliefs.
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I have always dated cradle Catholics, but they were never really believers as I am.
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Yeah, sometimes, you know, they're a little more just cultural about it.
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I believe in waiting until marriage for sex, which gets increasingly difficult when trying
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I met a great guy, and I really thought we were perfect for each other, and we had plans
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Against what I knew was right, I slept with him and we're no longer together.
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Whoever I meet next, I would still want to wait until we are married, but I'm afraid
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I messed up and another good man may reject me because of my transgressions.
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I feel lost and hopeless that having a family may never happen for me.
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Do you have any theological perspective or advice on how I handle any of this?
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Yeah, go to confession, confess your sins, pray a rosary, and you'll be fine.
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People make mistakes, especially that everyone makes that mistake these days, virtually everyone.
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I mean, you know, we're in a culture that's saturated by sex where we're told that having
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sex before marriage is essential to do, and you're a weirdo if you don't do it, and, you
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I mean, there are actually circumstances here that I think do mitigate this sin a little
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So if you're worried that everybody else is so perfect, and you're not perfect, so you're
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That's like young to get married, according to the culture.
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But you've also got to recognize these kind of cultural realities and give yourself a little
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bit of grace, a little bit of breathing room here, you know.
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Now, maybe if this last guy you dated was a jerk, maybe he even wasn't a jerk.
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But, you know, regardless, find a better guy the next time.
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I'm very confused and would appreciate it if you could clear my head.
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Joe Biden has announced Kamala Harris as his running mate.
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Joe promised he would pick a woman, and I have to assume he made his choice the same
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way he picks every girl, by grabbing their shoulders from behind and taking a long, deep
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By all accounts, Kamala's fragrance is less than alluring, reportedly being somewhat of
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a blend between the marijuana she smoked while locking up thousands of black teenagers
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mixed in with leftover traces of Willie Brown's cologne.
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So, with his normal discerning methods off the table, what do you think are Biden's
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I think we've got to stop reading comments from Nick, is what we've got to do.
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You are an astute observer, even if you are going to get me fired.
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Dear Mr. Covfefe, I've been an atheist most of my life, but lately I find myself listening
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to mostly Christian conservative podcasts and media.
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So, as a 25-year-old, I've dated around a little bit, not too much, and now I really
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My question is, how do you know when you've found the right person?
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I'm torn between the notion that the effort you put in matters, put in more than the person
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you choose, in fear of choosing the wrong person and subjecting myself and my children
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Yeah, I think now, I mean, I think what you've said sums up what a lot of people think,
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which is, this stupid hookup culture is really dumb and maybe, you know, maybe I dated around
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a bit, but actually the thing I want to do is the thing that is being discouraged by the
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There is a reason that the left and the administrative government is pushing progressive, bizarre,
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The reason they do it is to break down the family, which is the bedrock institution, stopping
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I mean, you see, even during COVID, they always say, don't, don't have sex with people.
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She never has any meaningful relationship with anybody other than the government.
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That's one stage in this progressive utopian dream life.
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She doesn't fall in love and get married and have a father for her child.
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She chooses to have a child, and then the big government is there to take care of you.
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Your specific question is, should I just marry the next guy I see, or should I really spend
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a lot of time thinking about who the right person is?
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I think you're right that in this culture, people are too slow to act to get married.
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They'll just date for a long time because we're so nervous about picking the wrong person.
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That said, though, I think my life would be worse if I married someone other than sweet
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But I think, you know, generally you marry someone, you can make it work because marriage
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It's about the other person, obviously, but you together, you and this other person are
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But I've got to tell you, I do think my life would be significantly worse if I had married
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How do you know when you've found the right person?
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Well, whenever people ask me this sort of question, I say, are you attracted to that
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Does that person make you want to go spend time with them?
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So, that shared experience is very important, too.
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He and my grandmother have been married now, I don't know, 65 years, something like that,
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And I said, what are the keys to a good marriage?
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And my grandmother was pregnant, I think, for 54 months.
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Obviously, you need lots of patience for the other person.
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My grandfather was in the Navy, so he would deploy a fair bit.
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You don't need to go away for nine months at a time.
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But you do need to be able to at least have your sort of separate spaces every now and again.
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And that shared experience is what you're getting at.
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Then you have to spend all this time thinking and making sure it's rationally perfect.
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To do it right, you know, before you pull the trigger.
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Would you consider donating to political activist campaigns, the best example being pro-life organizations, as being an acceptable inclusion in the 10%?
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I don't mean exclusively donating to political campaigns, but simply putting part of the 10%, you know, tithe toward politics.
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I ask this because I don't make a lot of money.
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And I think donating beyond 10% of my earning would be bad financial stewardship.
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I don't think that you're obligated anymore as a Christian to tithe exactly 10%.
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You should give alms, but St. Paul, I think, is clear in 1 and 2 Corinthians.
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I know some people may disagree with me on that, but I say all of that to say it is good to give to pro-life organizations.
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And if you do that, I think that would be very good.
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And I don't think you need to give 11% or 12% to make that happen.
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Dear Mr. Knowles, my friend's daughter floored me with a statement she made recently that the pyramids were not built by slaves.
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I immediately thought to myself, where on earth has she heard this nonsense?
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I then began looking up articles on the subject.
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One article in particular by Jonathan Shaw, who built the pyramids.
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Shaw states the pyramids were not built by slaves, but by privileged laborers.
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He goes on to say that the notion of a vast slave class in Egypt originated in the Judeo-Christian tradition
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and has been popularized by Hollywood films like Cecil B. DeMille's Ten Commandments.
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Is this yet another attempt by liberals to erase history and gaslight Americans into thinking we invented slavery?
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I think what it draws on is this highly reductive view of slavery that's overly simplistic.
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Slavery has meant different things at different times.
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Even in America, slavery in the 17th century, first of all, was not racialized to the degree that it became in the 19th century.
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So, in this kind of ironic quirk of history, the first legally recognized owner of an officially declared arbitrary slave for life,
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you know, the precursor to what you would call American slavery, was a black guy.
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He was the first officially declared slave owner, Anthony Johnson.
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Obviously, this developed over time, and by the 19th century, you have this highly particular racialized kind of slavery.
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A lot of historians now say that slaves did not build the pyramids.
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And regardless of the specifics of that, we know slavery long predates the West.
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You know, actually, Western explorers and merchants bought slaves from slave markets in Africa.
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There already was slavery in Africa for a long time.
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And by the way, liberals are often participating in it because a lot of that slavery is in East Asia.
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So, as with everything, I would suggest the real history is just complicated.
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Michael, would you smoke a black and mild gas station cigar?
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You know, I usually like it maybe a little notch above that.
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There's a more intricate creation process because you get the blending, then you get the rolling.
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I like a pipe every now and again, but I've once heard tobacco compared to different parts of our soul.
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So, you've got, like, the appetite, the emotional part.
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You know, you think of big guys with big chests puffing outward.
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You know, most of the smoke goes out eventually.
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And then you have the pipe, which is the sort of philosophic, logical part.
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The press is pulling out all the stops to depict radical Kamala Harris as a moderate.
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But as far as I'm concerned, Trump should go after her real weak spot, which is that
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their fight to reopen their church on The Andrew Klavan Show.