Ep. 601 - Saving The World From Cannibals
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In the midst of our national turmoil, at the height of an election year, we can always count on the mainstream media to focus on the important issues, ask the important questions. During the pandemic, the QAnon movement has been gaining a lot of followers, and President Trump brushes it off.
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Amid all of our national turmoil at the height of an election year, you know, we can always count
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on the mainstream media to focus on the important issues, ask the important questions like questions
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about QAnon. During the pandemic, the QAnon movement has been, appears to be getting a lot
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of followers. Can you talk about what you think about that and what you have to say to people who
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are following this movement right now? That's what really is on people's minds. You know,
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the, the nation is on fire, cities burning, people getting attacked, statues coming down,
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police departments getting abolished. And you know what we want to hear about is an internet meme.
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Yeah, that's, that's, that's it. Thank you. Great job, media. An internet meme that, that you in
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many ways have contrived. Trump brushes it off. Well, I don't know much about the movement other
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than I understand. They like me very much, uh, which I appreciate, but I don't know much about
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the movement. Uh, I have heard that it is gaining in popularity. And from what I've hear is these
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are people that when they watch the streets of Portland, when they watch what happened in New
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York city in just the last six or seven months, but this was starting even four years ago when I came
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here, almost four years, can you believe it? Uh, these are people that don't like seeing what's
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going on in places like Portland and places like Chicago and New York and other cities.
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Great answer. His answer is basically, yeah, my guys are good. Your guys are bad. Yeah. You,
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you people are destroying the country. And if you vote for me, we're going to fix the country.
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Very simple answer. The reporter won't let it go.
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The crux of the theory is this belief that you are secretly saving the world from this satanic
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cult of pedophiles and cannibals. Does that sound like something you are behind?
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Does that sound like anything you've heard? Like, uh, you know, I don't know, like the Democrats
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booing God at their national convention number of years ago, or, uh, flying around with pedophiles
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and airplanes to Caribbean islands or literally eating human brains on CNN, which is what
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former CNN contributor Risa Aslan did. I don't know. Starting to sound not all that outlandish
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to me. Uh, we'll put the, the Q thing, whatever that's so that's completely secondary. That's
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a distraction from what is really going on in the country. We will get to Trump's excellent
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answer. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show.
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Trump gave a good answer, which is, yeah, I don't really know that much about this thing. I vaguely
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heard about it, mostly just from left-wing media trying to turn it into some sort of phenomenon and,
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and some kind of boogeyman. But, uh, yeah, I'm not, I'm not that concerned. We've got other things to
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worry about. And then the, the reporter says, yeah, but it's a, it, it, they say that there
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are Satanists and pedophiles and cannibals running around. And I say, right, that's just
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on CNN. Where, where are they hiding? It's what I want. I want to know the ones that are
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under the cover. So she pushes it and pushes it and pushes it. People are criticizing Trump's
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answer. I thought he gave an excellent answer. Well, I haven't, I haven't heard that, but, uh,
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is that supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing? I mean, you know, if, uh, if I can help
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save the world from problems, I'm willing to do it. I'm willing to put myself out there.
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And we are actually, we're saving the world from a radical left philosophy that will destroy
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this country. And when this country is gone, the rest of the world would follow.
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Beautiful point. See what a number of conservatives have wanted Trump to do. And they're
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venting their frustration about Trump's answers. They want Trump to say, Oh, it's terrible. I hate
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everyone. Everyone who has any kind of kooky view. I hate them. They're terrible. There are no good
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people. I don't want their support. The whole point of the reporter's question about this
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non-traversy is to make Trump supporters look like kooks. That's the whole point. They've done
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this for decades. It's like a standard Democrat playbook and Trump is not going to play into it.
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He jokes, he makes a couple of jokes about it, right? He says, Oh, you're telling me I'm saving
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the world from satanic pedophile cannibals. That's it. Sounds pretty good. Is that, should I not be doing
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that? Should I be supporting the satanic? And then he says, look, they're forget about the
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Satanists or whatever. You're saying that I'm saving the world from problems. Uh, that's what I'm
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trying to do. That's what we're trying to do in politics. And, uh, and you guys are trying to
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destroy the country and I'm trying to fix the country. And I, I like it when people support me
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in that mission to fix up the country a little bit on the broader point of the QAnon thing.
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I really, I don't even care to address that. I have a message for the Democrats, which is that
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people who spent the last four years pretending that Donald Trump is a secret KGB spy
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do not get to lecture conservatives about conspiracy theories. Okay. You don't people
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who think that there is a grand conspiracy to close mailboxes in democratic districts to steal an
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election, particularly people who belong to a party that has tried to steal an election and overturn an
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election for the past four years. Don't get to lecture conservatives about conspiracy theories.
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I don't want to hear that phrase again out of the mouth of a Democrat or out of a mouth of a,
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of a leftist activist, or most of all out of the mouth of the mainstream media. I don't want to hear
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it. You've lost that privilege. Russiagate was the end of that, especially now that we see that there
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was a conspiracy with regard to Russiagate, but it wasn't from the Trump campaign. It was from the
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Obama administration and the press ignored it and covered it up for years. We're finally seeing this
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come out now with, with charges being brought against various FBI and DOJ officials. Something
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tells me there's a lot more to come. Not that the mainstream media will ever look into it. And in
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fact, there was an episode yesterday, totally separate from what you would call practical
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politics, party politics that, that illustrates just how far the mainstream media have fallen.
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This involves a former Navy SEAL, this guy, Robert J. O'Neill, guy who killed Osama bin Laden.
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He tweeted out a picture of himself on an airplane sitting up there without a mask on. And he takes
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the picture and he says, I'm not a wuss. I'll translate. He used a more colorful word. I'm not a wuss.
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My man, love that. Looking great. Standing up against this stupid leftist political culture we
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now have that makes us muzzle ourselves on airplanes. So he posts that picture and immediately
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a New York times editor, Dan Solstein tweets out, I don't know this guy, but counterpoint you might
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just be because you're not willing to sacrifice and be a little uncomfortable for your fellow humans,
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including that Marine behind you. Now, obviously, uh, obviously this Navy SEAL does know a thing or
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two about sacrifice and being made a little uncomfortable for the good of his countrymen
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knows a whole lot more about it than Dan Solstein, whose greatest sacrifice for America is writing for
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the New York times, which is it, which in fact sacrifices America and it's sacrifice, sacrifices our
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integrity, journalistic integrity. The issue here isn't the tweet. I don't care about this little
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Twitter spat between, between O'Neill and Solstein. It's the incompetence. It's the laziness.
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If, if I had done that, if I had not known who this guy was, that'd be one thing. If your average
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layman in the street had not known who Robert O'Neill, that would be one thing.
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An editor of the New York times is supposed to know how to investigate things. An editor of
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the New York times should at least know to make a Google search before you start lobbying charges
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like that. But they don't, they don't, you know, the New York times was always left wing and, and
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often dishonest, but they weren't incompetent. They weren't lazy. Now we have this generation of
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of New York times, you know, generally journalists, editors, writers who, who are just lazy and
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incompetent, don't know the basics of their job. So if a, if a New York time editor can't even get
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this question right, how are you supposed to trust his reporting on anything else? Drew Klavan always
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points this out where you're reading the New York times and you don't know about any of the stories.
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So you're just kind of reading to get filled in. Then you get to one story that you do know about
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who knows, say it's the New York Yankees. I don't know. Or it's some area of manufacturing.
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Maybe you know something about it and you read it and you think, gosh, they got this totally wrong.
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I know that this is wrong because I, I know about this topic, but then you go right along and you
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believe all the other stories that you don't know anything about. The longest lasting Trump
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legacy I think will be the complete collapse of the credibility of the mainstream media.
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generally panned convention appearance, decides to defend him because to CNN's credit, they bring up
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this question. Why is it that in the Me Too era, when everybody's getting taken down for even looking
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crosswise at a woman 20 years ago, or even not looking crosswise, but they're just kind of crazy
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allegations that come up in the case of Brett Kavanaugh, for instance. How is it that Bill
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Clinton has managed to survive in that culture? And that they've got a one word answer,
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maybe a two word answer, second chances. How has he survived all of these waves of
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cancellation when he has been one of the biggest violators of these rules at all these years? I
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mean, we, we talked last night about the use of character. We talked about, we talked about the use of, listen.
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There it is. The one word answer is redemption. The two word answer is second chances. And
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Democrats actually believe in neither of them, right? I'm kind of, I'm more exercised by the
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second chances thing though, because in cancel culture, you don't get a second chance. I understand
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maybe you don't want to give someone a third chance or a fourth chance, but you don't get a
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second chance at all, unless you're a Democrat, unless you're a leftist. Left believes in redemption?
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How? Show me how the left believes in redemption. They don't. They'll, they'll smack down anybody
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who comes in their way, whether it's a comedian, whether it's, look, Ellen DeGeneres took a photo
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with George W. Bush. They're out for her head, right? Kevin Hart made a, an unpopular comment or
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something. They go after a joke he, he told 10 years ago, a joke that virtually every other standup
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comedian in history has made as well. I don't think they're, I don't think they believe in
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redemption except for their privileged few. This is not some sort of nice principle whereby we say
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we're going to have grace, we're going to have forgiveness. They don't believe in any of that stuff.
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It's, it's purely cynical. They'll cover for their guys and they'll attack your guys, even if there's
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no evidence whatsoever that they did anything wrong. Again, like the case of Brett Kavanaugh, CNN,
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Van Jones, they go on. You were talking about Bill Clinton's character. And what I admire about
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Bill Clinton is that he has acknowledged his wrongdoing. He's apologized. He's tried to rebuild
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his family. And I think apologies don't come as often or as easily from the present White House,
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even when they should. So I don't, I don't think we can, I don't think we have to say everything
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that Bill Clinton has done is great. But I do think that when he has made mistakes, he's acknowledged
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to them. And I admire him for that. Was Van Jones alive in the 1990s? Does, was Van Jones,
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does he, is he remembering the same Bill Clinton I'm remembering? Mr. Clinton, any response to Van
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Jones's point that you take responsibility for the things you've done? I want you to listen to me.
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I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky.
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I never told anybody to lie. Not a single time. Never. These allegations are false. And I need to
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go back to work for the American people. Thank you. Need to go back to the, you can even see at the end
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of that clip, if you're watching it, he has a little smirk at the end. He's like, I can't believe they
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believe that. That's so fun. Man, I'm a good actor. I should have been in Hollywood. I should have hung
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out with Harvey Weinstein. Oh yeah. Bill Clinton, totally not acknowledging what I did. And then
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later on he, he got caught. And so utterly shamelessly, he goes out on television and says,
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okay, maybe, well, a little, a little bit, but, and even then, I believe the exact wording was,
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well, what I said was not technically, well, what I said was technically true. I misled. It's like,
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well, you lied. You lied. And you're still, you're even when you are forced to acknowledge it,
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do not acknowledge it. But, but the Democrats believe in redemption, right? As long as you
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acknowledge what you've done, he's still doing it. You know, I, I grew up a town over from,
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from Chappaqua where, uh, where Bill Clinton grew up. And one side of me was AOC in Yorktown.
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Then on the other side of me was, uh, was Bill Clinton and rumors swirled. Let's just, uh, let's
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put it that way. I don't want to report any rumors, but something tells me that guy did not quite
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reform himself. And by the way, Bill Clinton was like the good old days. The, the, I would take
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Bill Clinton's democratic party any day over the democratic party of these current crop of, of
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radicals. So right now, during the DNC, there was the DNC LGBTQ caucus meeting and a member of this
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caucus, Jay Mai, don't know who that is, described what their aims are. You know, Democrats in recent
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days have said, we're not about abolishing the police. We're not about, well, Jay Mai in this
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open democratic caucus meeting says that is exactly what we are for.
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We're talking about abolishing the police. We're talking about abolishing ice. We're talking about
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abolishing prisons. There it is. There it is. And you remember what AOC said when, when the Democrats
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continued to hear the younger crops say, we're abolishing the police, we're abolishing ice,
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we're abolishing prisons. They said, well, abolishing the police doesn't really mean abolishing the
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police. And then AOC came out with a press statement. God bless her. I mean, she, at least she
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was honest about it. She goes, no, abolishing the police means abolishing the police. Doesn't mean
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removing a little bit of funding or moving some funding around. It means actually abolishing,
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getting rid of the police. So that's the, that's the democratic party. It's so funny. What, what
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they've been trying to do is hide some of these sessions, but part of the, the issue with them
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pushing this continued lockdown, needlessly pushing this continued lockdown is these sessions are all
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on video and it would seem that we've got Republican operatives in every single one of them.
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And so the video keeps leaking. And then what happens when the video leaks? Well, the Biden
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campaign has to distance itself, right? Cause the Biden campaign is pretending that this is a
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moderate Democrat campaign for a moderate Democrat party. Uh, even though we all know that the minute
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Joe gets into office, if he's even aware that he gets into office, you're going to have this crop
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of radicals running the country. So the Biden campaign says, I bet the police, the campaign has
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been very clear when it comes to defunding the police. They do not support defunding the police. And I
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don't know how many times we have to say this on this network or others, but that is the case. Now
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at other times the Biden campaign has seemed very open to defunding the police, but neither here nor
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there. They're, they're denying it now. How about Linda Sarsour? We were talking about Linda Sarsour a
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little bit yesterday, I believe. Linda Sarsour is this Islamist, radical leftist activist. And she was,
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she's so radical that she was kicked out of the women's march, but she was permitted to speak at the
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democratic national convention. So the Biden campaign has to, has to do a little damage control
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here. Joe Biden has been a strong supporter of Israel and a vehement opponent of antisemitism
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his entire life. And he obviously condemns Sarsour's views and opposes the boycott divest sanction
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movement as does the democratic platform says campaign spokesman, Andrew Bates. She has no,
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no role in the Biden campaign whatsoever. Well, that's strange. If the whole democratic platform and
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demo, I mean, I suppose that who writes the platform is the party. If the party so despises
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Linda Sarsour, why did they give her a slot to speak at the convention? Doesn't make a lot of sense.
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And frankly, the only reason that the Biden campaign even responded to this is because Trump
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tweeted about it. This is the big problem here for the Biden campaign. The Biden campaign is behind
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the ball. They're following their party. They're trying to catch up to their party. The party is leading
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and the party is now radical. So the, the Biden campaign can come out and say, no, no, no,
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we, uh, we don't really want to defund the police. No, no, no. We don't really hate the Jews. No,
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no, no. We don't, we don't really support Linda Sarsour. But the fact that they have to keep playing
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catch up like this shows they're not the ones in charge. So who cares, who cares what they say or
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what they think? The Trump campaign on the other hand is going on offense. And this was a move yesterday,
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again, somewhat controversial among conservatives, mostly among libertarians, but, but some
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conservatives too got a little, a little frightened by this. The, the Trump, well, first through Trump's
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Twitter, but then through the Trump administration and Kayleigh McEnany, they came out and said, yeah,
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we don't like Goodyear anymore. Goodyear tires. We went through their, their slideshow yesterday on
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this show, but Goodyear showed, seemed to have this policy, which is that it's okay to express views
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in support of BLM or the LGBTQ movement, but you can't support, uh, any sort of expression for
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blue lives matter or all lives matter, wearing a hat that says make America great again or anything
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like that. So you can support left-wing things, but you can't support right-wing things. Trump said,
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don't buy Goodyear. The left is going to play this game. We'll play it too. Get, stop having Goodyear,
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right? Stop supporting Goodyear. And Kayleigh McEnany was asked about this at a press briefing.
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Thought she gave a great answer. Here's the question. Today, the president encouraged Americans
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not to buy Goodyear tires, suggesting that they had a ban on MAGA hats, but it appears that their
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policy is just a ban on political speech. It's pretty common for most companies. So why is the
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president retaliating against a private company for their dress code and potentially jeopardizing
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American jobs? Okay. I want to pause here for one second because this reporter typifies the
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dishonesty of leftism for a hundred years. What the slideshow showed was you, yes, BLM,
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yes, LGBTQ, no MAGA, no blue lives matter, no all lives matter. And she says, and at the very end of
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the unacceptable line, it said no political speech. So what the left is saying is conservative speech
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that I don't like blue lives matter, all lives matter, make America great again, support the
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president. That is political and therefore unacceptable. Whereas black lives matter and LGBTQ,
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that's not political. That is just the orthodox dogma of the state. You can't, you can't possibly
00:22:37.380
question transgenderism. That's our established church. You can't, that's not political. BLM run by
00:22:46.120
three avowed Marxists wants to destroy the nuclear family, according to the, the about us page on
00:22:52.680
their website. That's not political. What the left has done here, ironically, is they have made
00:23:01.000
everything political except for politics, right? Everything's political. Now you go out, you buy a
00:23:06.620
cup of coffee, it's political. Anything you wear, anything you say, anywhere you go, the kind of car
00:23:11.840
you drive, what everything has become political. Now the mask is, everything is political except for
00:23:17.400
politics. And this has been the, what the democratic party has pushed for since Woodrow Wilson. They
00:23:22.580
basically want to take all the important questions out of the realm of politics and give it to
00:23:27.180
bureaucrats, give it to administrators so that we can't debate about it anymore. And the government
00:23:30.900
can just do whatever they want, but they'll, they'll at the same time politicize everything.
00:23:35.860
So we're arguing about absolute diversions. Gets to this QAnon question too. We're arguing about
00:23:42.000
internet memes as though this is really important. Meanwhile, we're told that substantive questions
00:23:46.180
like the Marxist organization, BLM, that's outside the realm of politics. Whether a man can become a
00:23:52.100
woman, LGBTQ, you know, whatever the, the alphabet continues to grow by the day that is outside the
00:23:58.940
realm of politics. We're not allowed to have opinions about that anymore. I thought Kayleigh McEnany
00:24:02.120
handled the question, you know, in an excellent manner.
00:24:06.560
Goodyear needs to come out and clarify their policy. There was an image.
00:24:10.420
They failed to clear. Yes, I did see their statements, which still, still failed to clarify
00:24:15.000
their policy. What happened is there was an image that was put out that showed that certain speech
00:24:20.120
was acceptable. Black Lives Matter insignia, for instance, but what was not allowed was Blue Lives
00:24:25.540
Matter. What was not allowed was MAGA hats. What was clearly targeted was a certain ideology.
00:24:31.220
They have not denied that that image was presented at one of their facilities and they need to come
00:24:35.980
Racial equality, racial justice, that is okay, but not political speech. That's pretty standard
00:24:40.460
across the board right now. That's not that unusual. Did the president even reach out to
00:24:47.120
There it is. It's, it's just racial justice. It's just sexual equality. That's not political.
00:24:53.880
What do, do these people know what the word politics means? Politics means public things,
00:24:57.840
the things we all do together, how we all live together in the city, in the polis,
00:25:01.800
right? Greek word. That's, that's politics. And they say, no, that's not politics. Politics is
00:25:07.040
like your internet memes and like the MAGA hats and the things I don't like. So that you can't do
00:25:11.680
politics. It's like, they always say this in schools, you can't talk about religion.
00:25:16.680
You can talk about how a man is really a woman. You can talk about that, which is called Gnostic
00:25:21.900
Dualism, by the way. That's a religious concept, but you can't talk about Christianity. You're not,
00:25:27.020
you can't, you can't do that. You can talk about equality and justice and the 1619 project in BLM,
00:25:32.580
but you can't talk about politics. Even though the author of BLM says this is not a history that's
00:25:38.700
being taught, it's activism. But they say, no, no, that's not, it's not, the things I like are not
00:25:44.220
politics and therefore we, we should just all accept it. And the things I do not like, that is
00:25:49.340
politics and we've got to get it out of what we need. So much of the Trump movement has been,
00:25:55.080
forget about the judges, forget even about breaking down the media. It's been about expanding the realm
00:25:59.840
of politics in an authentic way, in a proper way, because we had been told for decades, look,
00:26:07.380
you're not allowed to have an opinion about outsourcing. You're not allowed to have an
00:26:09.980
opinion about immigration. You're not allowed to have an opinion about the loss of American
00:26:13.700
manufacturing. You're not allowed to have an opinion about our role in transnational
00:26:17.320
institutions. You're barely allowed to have an opinion about international interventions and
00:26:21.220
foreign wars. You're just not allowed. That is separate. That's being run by the brilliant people
00:26:25.660
at the state department or in the bureaucracy elsewhere. And that's not in the realm of politics.
00:26:30.440
And what Trump came in and says, nah, I think it is. I think we're going to rip up trade deals.
00:26:34.100
We're going to build a wall on the border and you stupid bureaucrats aren't going to have a damn
00:26:37.960
thing to say about it. And that's what we're seeing here. Now, I think I am allowed to have an
00:26:42.740
opinion about the BLM organization. I think I am allowed to have an opinion about Marxist
00:26:47.280
propaganda being taught in our schools. I am going to have an opinion about that. And if
00:26:52.920
Goodyear doesn't like it, you know what we're going to do? We're going to boycott Goodyear.
00:26:55.900
I think it's a great idea. It's a great idea. For too long, Republicans have allowed
00:27:00.360
corporate America to push America further to the left. They've given them a free pass.
00:27:05.240
No longer, my friends. By the way, this is playing well for Republicans. This is not playing well
00:27:10.920
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Kamala Harris as his VP. That's a bad sign. You pick a VP so that your numbers go up.
00:28:36.080
Same thing. We don't, obviously, we don't have numbers from the end of the convention yet because
00:28:39.080
the convention just ended last night. But it, there's no evidence yet that, that Biden is
00:28:44.080
getting any kind of boost like, like you hope for out of a convention. That's the whole point of a
00:28:48.160
convention. Not good news for Biden. I mean, it's going to be, there's now going to be more pressure
00:28:54.140
for him not to debate, not to show up. It just didn't work. Why didn't it work?
00:28:58.540
The convention was more boring than usual. These conventions are usually pretty boring,
00:29:03.840
but it was more boring than usual. There weren't any kind of spontaneous moments because,
00:29:09.020
you know, that's, this is all pre-planned. This is basically just a Zoom meeting. Do you remember
00:29:13.580
back in 2012, you had, you had Clint Eastwood come out for Mitt Romney and he clearly didn't
00:29:19.960
prepare anything. He walked on stage at the last minute and talked to an empty chair. And it was
00:29:24.460
great. It was the best moment in any political convention, certainly in my lifetime, but because
00:29:30.480
it was unscripted. It was, you didn't know what was going to happen. It was, it was entertaining.
00:29:34.540
You didn't get that. Republicans need some of those moments here. Luckily, Trump always seems to give
00:29:39.000
it to them, but you're going to need that in, in the next convention. You know, the, the ratings for
00:29:45.060
the DNC this year plummeted. I mean, they were so, so bad. Trump is much better on television,
00:29:49.880
obviously, but the RNC needs to keep this thing loose, entertaining, bigger, faster, funnier.
00:29:56.120
Maybe you get Clint up there with an empty chair, certainly get Trump on screen as much as you can.
00:30:01.540
I want to bring this back to what we started with at the top of the show, this Q thing,
00:30:07.100
Q Anon, which is what the, all, that's all the Democrats in the media want to talk about.
00:30:11.840
I think most conservatives don't even know what this is. They haven't even heard of this.
00:30:15.260
This is an internet meme, right? But the press, they're writing about it all the time. Like,
00:30:19.760
this is the end of the world. So what is, what is the Q thing? I, like President Trump,
00:30:24.300
also don't, don't really know much about it. But unlike Democrats, I, I do think we should take
00:30:29.520
the, the fact that this movement exists seriously. I don't, I don't think we need to worry about
00:30:34.780
anything. I don't think it's the end of the world, but the fact that there is such an internet
00:30:39.100
meme that's become, you know, something of an activist movement, what does it mean? You know,
00:30:44.540
I take BLM seriously. I don't take BLM's claims seriously, but I take BLM seriously and I wonder
00:30:50.680
why did this rise up? So same thing with Q. The, the reporter brought up three things, religion,
00:30:55.760
weird sex, and cannibalism, right? Satan, Satanism, and then pedophilia, and then cannibalism.
00:31:02.400
What does that mean? Well, as I mentioned earlier at the, was it the 2012 DNC, you had
00:31:09.340
the Democrats booing God. You now have BLM top leftist activists calling for churches to be
00:31:17.380
smashed, images of Christ and the Virgin Mary to be smashed. You have statues of St. Junipero Sarah
00:31:24.280
being torn down. It, it seems pretty clear that there is a religious battle going on,
00:31:30.760
as Henry Edward Cardinal Manning said, at bottom, all human conflict ultimately is theological.
00:31:35.980
So you've got this religious battle brewing. I mean, the people leading the BLM riots, right?
00:31:40.140
The founders of that organization are Marxists. They're atheists. Again, and you, you see this
00:31:45.740
constant sort of attack on religious Americans, the bitter clingers clinging to their Bibles.
00:31:51.220
That image that, that irritated the left so much was Trump holding up a Bible outside a church,
00:31:55.160
a church that they were trying to burn down. So there's a, there is clearly a religious issue
00:32:00.220
going on. How about the weird sex? There's plenty of weird sex going on. Obviously there's the
00:32:03.660
Jeffrey Epstein thing that seems to involve every prominent leftist in America, but even,
00:32:08.020
you know, there's a show now on Netflix. It's called Cuties. My wife showed me this last night.
00:32:13.380
She showed me the trailer for it. It's called, it's about 11 year old, like go-go dancers or
00:32:19.320
something. This is, listen to this description. This is just a, from the Netflix website. Cuties,
00:32:23.860
Amy, age 11, becomes fascinated with a twerking dance crew, hoping to join them. She starts to
00:32:30.760
explore her femininity, defying her family's traditions. That, that is like pedophile catnip.
00:32:40.140
How on earth, what sicko executive at Netflix allowed this thing to go up? Like I, I know,
00:32:48.420
you know, sometimes we hear all these crazy people on the internet. They talk about how there's
00:32:52.420
pedophilia going on all over the place. Well, what do you, how do you explain that? That's pretty
00:32:57.500
weird, isn't it? There's like a show about 11 year olds twerking and exploring their femininity
00:33:01.940
against their family's wishes. That's, that's weird. Like, you know, Jeffrey Epstein flying
00:33:07.720
around on an airplane with Prince Andrew and all these top, mostly left-wing politicians. He was a
00:33:12.980
member of Mar-a-Lago, so there were photos of him with Trump too, but Bill Clinton apparently flew
00:33:17.120
on his plane like 27 times. That's weird. Isn't that weird? That's a little weird, isn't it?
00:33:21.860
So clearly there's some weird sex thing going on. And by the way, the only thing anyone talks
00:33:25.280
about these days is sex. That's why LGBTQ can, you know, goes now 26 alphabet letters
00:33:30.460
long. Because people, beyond this question of, of pedophilia, people are just obsessed
00:33:35.480
with sex. They're talking about sex all the time. So there's, there's that aspect going
00:33:38.840
on. And then cannibalism. There are some real cannibals like Reza Aslan, formerly of CNN,
00:33:44.080
who ate human brains on television. Actually did that. Isn't that weird? That's a little weird
00:33:48.460
too. But there's this issue of cannibalism at a cultural level, which I, which I think
00:33:53.060
is actually what's going on here. We are eating ourselves alive. We are, we are devouring
00:33:57.760
our own culture, right? Cannibalism has a, has a kind of metaphorical meaning as well.
00:34:05.220
People are just devouring themselves because they've, they've run out of other things to
00:34:09.400
consume. What is, I mean, obviously we see that now we're tearing down our own history.
00:34:14.020
We're tearing down our own art. We're covering up our own art. We're, we're destroying our
00:34:19.460
own politics, destroying our own institutions. Frankly, Reza Aslan aside, there's much more
00:34:24.760
evidence of a cultural cannibalism, a civilizational cannibalism than of a personal cannibalism.
00:34:29.460
Those things are all real. Okay. And the media right now are asking about the QAnon thing.
00:34:35.940
They're asking about a bunch of internet memes. They should be asking themselves about what
00:34:39.860
the phenomenon means. The fact that people are worried about Satanism and pedophilia and
00:34:47.420
cannibalism. Why, why, what does that tell you about your culture? If these mainstream media
00:34:52.440
journalists had two brain cells to rub together, they would be able to see some, some real insight
00:34:57.380
in, in the very fact of these phenomenons. Just like I encourage the left, consider the fact of BLM.
00:35:03.080
Why has this thing risen up? So too, I would encourage the left, consider why these things
00:35:09.020
that you, you're so obsessed with, consider why they've risen up, but that would require
00:35:14.080
introspection. And of course they're not capable of that. Um, by the way, there's one thing I know
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I'm running late on the mailbag, but I don't care. I've got to, I've got to mention my friend,
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00:36:08.560
to hide either corruption or abuse of authority and just to make sure certain agencies didn't look bad.
00:36:16.360
We have a peaceful transition of power process. That's not what happened. There were more meetings,
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there were more leaks, there were more attacks. The thing that they were investigating the Trump
00:36:26.620
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There's too much good stuff to talk about today. Well, we got to get to the mailbag. I will speed
00:37:57.400
through it. We will get through as many questions as possible from Alejandro, dear future vice
00:38:01.780
president, Michael Knowles. If you were selected to be the Republican vice president for the 2020
00:38:06.040
election, what would your opening statement be at the vice presidential debate? I would get up there
00:38:12.920
and I would say, uh, uh, thank you so much. Uh, it's such an honor to be here. I would especially
00:38:19.620
like to thank the democratic party for not reading the constitution because you don't realize that
00:38:24.180
right now I am still just a little bit too young to be vice president. Uh, but since the Democrats
00:38:28.600
don't read the constitution, that's perfectly well and good. Let's get to the questions. That would be
00:38:32.720
my opening statement. You know, it's unfortunate that Democrats don't know anything about the
00:38:36.440
constitution, but there can be a little silver lining that storm cloud. We can, we can use it to turn
00:38:41.140
lemons into lemonade. And part of that would be, would be my selection as vice president. It's
00:38:45.380
great. I'll take it even before the age of 35 from Catalina. What a great name. Catalina. It's a
00:38:50.940
nice Island off the coast of California. Hi, Michael skinny boy and master of covfefe. I'm a rising high
00:38:56.120
school senior. My college search came to a grinding halt recently when I fully realized that the
00:39:00.540
environment at the Ivy league schools is overwhelmingly liberal. I was really interested in applying to
00:39:04.760
Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard, but after seeing so much leftism at the admissions sessions and in
00:39:09.160
their promotions, I'm reconsidering like you, I'm Catholic and conservative. What was your experience
00:39:13.680
in the political environment, political environment of Yale? What should I do? I don't want to be
00:39:18.480
universally hated on my college campus for being conservative. Thanks so much. I love this show.
00:39:22.480
Listen in every day. God bless. Depends what you, what you want. You know, uh, there are some colleges
00:39:27.320
where you can get a magnificent, uh, classical education, liberal education, even, uh, Thomas Aquinas
00:39:34.120
College, Franciscan of Steubenville, Hillsdale, you know, very famously offers a more classical
00:39:40.580
and rigorous education. Um, but if you want a big brand name school, you know, let's say you want to
00:39:45.200
go work in banking or consulting or, you know, get into a really top law school or something like that.
00:39:51.260
If you, if you do want to kind of go down that route, which, which has, uh, increasingly
00:39:56.400
diminishing returns because now people are beginning to realize that the Yale of 2020 is
00:40:03.400
not the Yale of 1920. And frankly, it's not even the Yale of 10 years ago. Um, so, but if you want
00:40:09.620
to do that, Yale has a pretty robust area for conservatives. They've got the William F. Buckley
00:40:15.820
Jr. program. They've got the Tory party, which is a great organization at Yale. Uh, they, they do,
00:40:20.500
they do have a number of conservatives that have come through there. Uh, the campus has gotten very
00:40:24.840
left-wing even since I was there. And even when I was there, you know, I got along just fine,
00:40:29.420
had a great time, you know, but, but whenever a political activity that I was working on got a
00:40:33.940
little too hot, I was absolutely persona non grata on campus for at least a month or two.
00:40:38.880
And then people would kind of forget, you know, and I'd get to go back to parties and things again,
00:40:42.940
and it was all fine until, but if you do things that are effective in politics, then you're, you're
00:40:48.360
going to have a lot of people dislike you for that. And that's just, uh, that's just the cost of doing
00:40:53.200
business. That's the cost of doing politics rather. You've really got to ask yourself,
00:40:56.880
what do I want? If you want a kind of classical education, that's, that's not, uh, you know,
00:41:03.500
going to have all the trappings of, of maybe an Ivy league school, then I would say go to one of those
00:41:07.560
other colleges. If you want to get that big brand name, just know you're, you're going to be in a
00:41:13.520
decidedly leftist institution for a long time. And, uh, and you're going to have to make your way.
00:41:18.900
Sometimes that'll be easy. Sometimes that'll be hard, but conservative insight is nothing in life is free.
00:41:23.200
From anonymous. Hi, Michael. I'm going to be married 10 years this October together for 12 and my wife
00:41:28.660
and I have a three-year-old son. Earlier this year, I found out she accumulated over 40 grand of credit
00:41:32.820
card debt and we had to refinance the house to pay it off. Further, she recently became pregnant.
00:41:37.340
And besides me begging and pleading, she went ahead to planned parenthood and took an abortion pill.
00:41:41.260
Oh my gosh. Uh, she's also been nasty to me and has said I'm needy and is threatening to leave me
00:41:45.660
when I've been victim here. I want to stay together for our son and to work through the issues we've had.
00:41:50.520
Uh, we've had many good years together. I'm simply at a loss at what to do here. I don't want to give
00:41:54.660
up on my son and family, but I've been hurt, wronged, and I've been blamed for the marriage failing.
00:41:59.140
She claims I'm controlling and wants to leave as I'm holding her back from achieving her career
00:42:02.640
dreams. I would appreciate your thoughts. Yeah. You need to get your wife in line. I'm very sorry that
00:42:06.620
you've gone through this. I mean, obviously the things you've described are, are horrific. Um,
00:42:13.020
you, you need to get your wife in line. Uh, you know, you, you've got to, you've got to lead the
00:42:19.660
family. I know that, I know that modern feminism and all this stuff might make this confusing, but,
00:42:25.820
uh, the, the, the idea that your wife could even get the thought of, I've got to, I've got to leave
00:42:31.480
my family because you're holding me back from whatever, making widgets at the widget factory
00:42:36.180
is, is preposterous in itself. And, uh, I don't know, either you've got to be persuasive,
00:42:43.040
you know, and, and show her why that's so wrong. I would certainly go into marriage counseling. I
00:42:47.140
mean, that, you know, she killed your child. You know what I mean? That, that is, uh,
00:42:54.120
it's, it's unthinkable. It's unthinkable that that sort of thing would happen. So you, you need to put
00:42:59.940
measures in place to make sure that doesn't, that that can't happen again. You, you know,
00:43:04.480
I'll, uh, taking that example aside, I mean, that's just so horrific. Let's just use the
00:43:09.300
credit card example. How did she run up 40 grand in credit card debt without you knowing
00:43:14.260
you, you should be seeing these financial statements. You, if, if she has a separate
00:43:19.700
credit card, that's obviously a bad idea for someone who's going to run up 40 grand in credit
00:43:23.860
card debt. She should not be permitted to have a separate credit card. You, you're, you're one flesh,
00:43:28.480
your finances should be the same anyway. So I would take control. I would just take control of the
00:43:33.960
situation. Ironically, what seems to, what, what she seems to think as, as you write in your note
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is that, you know, you're, you're too controlling, but I would imagine if you are not even looking at
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her credit card statements, you're not controlling enough, not nearly controlling enough. Uh, and,
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and I would, uh, I don't know, the problem would appear to be this kind of modern idea of
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feminism or how that relates to marriage. I think you've got to get a little bit more old school
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here in traditional. Probably the first step would be, would be marriage therapy. And I would
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just make sure that you go to a marriage therapist who isn't some lunatic feminist. You pick it,
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you call the shots, you're the head of the household. Uh, and, uh, if, if she leaves you,
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I hope she doesn't. Uh, that's on her. And, and, uh, you, you, you know, divorce is a horrible,
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horrible thing for a child. So I would not, I don't think you should leave. Um, but you need
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to lead your family. You can't, you can't let her do these sorts of horrible things. And you need to
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also acknowledge anything maybe that you have done that has led to this. You know, obviously you,
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generally speaking, it takes two to tango. So marriage therapy would be the place to start,
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but, but you need to lead, you need to take charge. And I, I don't think if, if your situation
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gets worse, I don't think it's going to get worse because you took too much control. You took too
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much of the lead. I think it will get worse because you've taken a back seat and you've,
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you've allowed her to, to, uh, to take the lead too much without knowing more details. That's,
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that's about the best I can give you. But, uh, very, very terrible situation. Sorry to hear that
00:45:13.100
you're in it from Aaron. One question I've always struggled with is Romans chapter 13 and the
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submission to the governing authorities. As a conservative, I've always struggled with being
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submissive to the governing authorities, mainly when thinking about the revolutionary war.
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I want to believe in a good argument for the colonies rebelling against the crown,
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but I do not believe that the Catholic or other confessional churches would have supported the
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overthrowing of that authority. Historically speaking, can a conservative have been a supporter
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of the American revolution and how? Thanks. This question comes up from time to time,
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even beyond, uh, just a Catholic question, even some conservative Protestants say, I don't,
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I wouldn't support the American revolution. Uh, St. Thomas Aquinas is pretty clear that there is a,
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there is a right of, of revolution in very limited circumstances. So the question is, does, uh,
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does the American revolution meet those circumstances? There's also a question of the
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nature of the American revolution. The American revolution didn't overthrow the King of England,
00:46:07.760
right? It didn't, it didn't depose King George. It separated the United States from Great Britain.
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It, in the revolutionary's words, it acknowledged that there was the separation, that these political
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bonds had been dissolved. And now you've got the separate country that already had its own governing
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institutions that already had its own culture for at that point over a century, a century and a half
00:46:28.980
or so. I, I think there is a conservative and Christian case for the American revolution. I,
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I don't care particularly to come down decisively on that issue. I think there's a good argument also
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that the revolution was not justified. And you, you, you could, I've heard both of those arguments.
00:46:44.340
That's fine. I think the more pertinent question though, is today, what is your view of the American
00:46:49.260
revolution? Where no one's going to get in a time machine and go back to 1776. So how do you look
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at it now? And I think it's very clear that, uh, in our, in our due submission to the, the civil
00:46:59.860
authority, uh, we certainly should respect the regime that was established in 1776. And that, that has
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been a, generally speaking, a wonderful, uh, political event in the history of the world. So I, I would,
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I would even kind of remove yourself from the historical question though. It's fun to kick
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it around. I think there is an argument for it and, and just think about the present political
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question. All right. I wish we could get to more, but typically I ran late. So we'll just have to
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wait until next week, or maybe we'll be able to chat on all access, or maybe we'll be able to chat
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