Ep. 621 - The Afro-Cuban White Supremacist
Summary
Trump won t disavow white supremacists, and the media won t cover it. Plus, a new Supreme Court ruling on whether or not a teen should be allowed to vote, and why a 19-year-old should be able to do so.
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Can you believe Donald Trump won't disavow white supremacists?
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In case you missed the debate, this is the biggest story from that whole debate the other night.
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Here is just a little taste of President Trump.
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Here's just a little taste of President Trump, that racist, refusing to condemn white supremacists.
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Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK,
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neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.
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And you had people, and I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally.
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We are a nation founded on the truth that all of us are created equal.
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Those who spread violence in the name of bigotry strike at the very core of America.
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From the time I'm five years old, I rejected them.
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Now, I have been asked this question so many times.
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I guess he's condemned white supremacy and racism a zillion times.
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So my favorite comment from yesterday from Sean Murphy.
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Democrats say a 19-year-old who committed double murder should not be executed because his brain isn't fully formed.
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This is, there's always this contradiction here with the Democrats,
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which is the Democrats focus on consent, consent, consent, right?
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So that's the only moral standard they have with consent.
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And yet they're trying to extend consent over, over voting, over sexual matters, over gender, right?
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Gender identity to people who are below the age of consent.
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Sure, they're saying a 25-year-old, 40-year-old can't be executed for murder because when he was 19, his brain wasn't formed.
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Notably on this issue of race, where it's the same old trick they use against every Republican.
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They've used it against Donald Trump, even though he's condemned white supremacy a zillion times, including in the debate.
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But then I guess what he had some issue where he didn't then totally condemn this one group that we're being told is a white supremacist group.
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Joe Biden's already got an attack ad out about it.
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Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities, as we saw in Kenosha and as we've seen in Portland?
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I would say almost everything I see is from the left wing, not from the right wing.
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Do you know, I mean, the Proud Boys, what, they're, they're the successor organization to the Ku Klux Klan, right?
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They're a bunch of skinhead, neo-Nazi white supremacists, right?
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That's what I've been told by the mainstream media, aren't they?
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And then the first article that comes up is USA Today.
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They're left wing, but they're a little more balanced, obviously, in the New York Times or something like that.
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And I see right there at the top that the Proud Boys have ties to white supremacy.
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Okay, well, all right, they're white supremacists.
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Luckily, I read two paragraphs down where I found a fact that was very confusing to me.
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Apparently, the leader of the Proud Boys is a guy named Enrique Torrio.
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And then Enrique Torrio, the Afro-Cuban leader of the alleged white supremacist group, has come out and said that there are, quote,
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longstanding regulations prohibiting racist, white supremacist, or violent activity.
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This, according to the group's lawyer, Ronald Coleman.
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He's also a spokesman, it turns out, for the Proud Boys.
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Now, Torrio, the leader, the Afro-Cuban leader, says through Coleman, quote,
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We do not care what color you are or what your background is.
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If you love America, we consider you a brother.
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And then the group condemned racism, fascism, communism, and socialism.
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So, okay, we got the white supremacist Proud Boys run by an Afro-Cuban condemning racism, fascism, communism, and socialism.
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BLM, in particular, BLM, using explicitly racist language and forget condemning communism and socialism, openly embracing it.
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The leader of BLM went on television, Patrice Colores, and said, we are trained Marxists.
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Once again, I should have known the left is accusing the right of the very thing that the left is doing.
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Look around the country at the destruction, the violence, the looting, the arson, the statues toppling down.
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I don't think those guys are white supremacists.
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All of that is being done with the encouragement of elected Democrats.
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Now, I had a hunch about this because I remember, I followed the Proud Boys a little bit.
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I don't really know the group very well, but I remember Gavin McGinnis founded it.
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I only know him a little bit, but I've never known Gavin to be a white supremacist.
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And then I thought, because I've seen it at different, you know, big political rallies,
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And the thing that's a little weird when you see the Proud Boys, if you're told they're
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white supremacists, is you see a lot of black Proud Boys and you see a lot of Hispanic Proud Boys.
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And then it turns out their leader is an Afro-Cuban guy.
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Speaking of Hispanic guys, by the way, I think I know why the left is pushing this lie.
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Because there was a poll that came out after the debate.
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So for a Spanish-speaking audience, two-thirds of the Telemundo audience that was watching that
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debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, two-thirds thought Trump won the debate.
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Now, my view of this was that that was because these people didn't speak English.
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So they were just looking at body language or something like that.
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I thought Trump scored better points in terms of the issues.
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But because Chris Wallace kept bailing out Joe Biden, I didn't think it was such a clear win.
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But the Spanish-speaking audience thought that.
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Only 34% of the Telemundo audience thought that Joe Biden beat Donald Trump.
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I don't know what that means in terms of how they were watching the debate.
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But I do know what it means in terms of how Democrats are watching that poll.
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Democrats are very afraid that President Trump is making some inroads with Hispanic voters,
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possibly even black voters, two groups that the Democrats rely on.
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Don't forget, Donald Trump doesn't need to win a majority of these groups.
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He's just got to make inroads to crack the left's monopoly.
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The left has never understood how they thought when Donald Trump came down that escalator in 2015
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and said, we're going to end illegal immigration because drug cartels are sending rapists and
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murderers across our border and we're not going to do that.
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And some people are probably good people, but there are a lot of bad people crossing the border.
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He's saying that drug cartels are sending rapists and murderers.
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And then a lot of Hispanic Americans turned to them and said, he's right.
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And we, we don't support rapists and murderers just because of what, our skin color or something
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And this is the same issue that's gone on as the Democrats have taken the black vote for,
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Well, it seems that that is making some inroads.
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I don't know, but the Democrats are certainly going to continue to try to gin up those racial
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What they're now saying is that debates themselves, this is how I know they think President Trump
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Debates themselves, we are now told, are a, quote, threat to black life.
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She's been a prominent left-winger for some time.
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She was responding to someone who said if the presidential debates are just going to
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give Trump a platform to mobilize white supremacists, cancel them.
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White supremacists, I guess they're talking about the Proud Boys.
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But as we just said, look, the Proud Boys, they might be no good, terrible, rotten, dirty,
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By definition, they can't be white supremacists, right?
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And they explicitly condemn racism and white supremacy.
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And then Melissa Harris Perry responding says, yes, cancel them.
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The debates are now a danger to public safety and a threat to black life.
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They say, it's not that I need to shut you up because I can't bear to hear some hard truth
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Or I can't bear to refute some lie that you're saying.
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They're saying, your speech is a threat to my life.
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Well, because it's going to gin up violence, right?
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President Trump's ginning up white supremacist violence.
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Except all the violence of the last six months has been from the left.
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In fact, all of it, all of it, all of it, look around the different cities, Minneapolis,
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Portland, New York, DC, Chicago, always Chicago, Los Angeles, every, all over the place.
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It's all these left anarchists who are being encouraged by the democratic party.
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When Joe Biden comes out and says, we can't take four more years of this.
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And we're going to burn your country to the ground for another four years.
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Maybe, maybe Melissa Harris Perry is worried that Joe Biden is ginning up his base,
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All I know is that this white supremacist thing,
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this idea that America is a white supremacist country is a bizarre fantasy.
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We, we have one law in this country that does discriminate on the basis of race.
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That law is called affirmative action that discriminates on the basis of race,
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but it gives an advantage to people who are black or who are Hispanic.
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And it gives a disadvantage to people who are white or Asian,
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most notably in the college application process,
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which is why Asian students have been suing Harvard and Yale.
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This is why the department of justice is investigating places such as Yale for this very matter.
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College campuses are probably the craziest place for this sort of thing.
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There is a, a, a college professor, a guy named Matthew J. Mayhew,
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who just wrote a piece about how he likes college football.
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It's called why America needs college football.
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You know, we can, we can fight over silly things like football teams and we can all just sit down,
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maybe grill up some steaks, crack a cold one, be Americans again, right?
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Matthew J. Mayhew apologizes for an article that he recently wrote for, for Inside Higher Ed
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and describes beginning a long process of anti-racist learning.
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Anti-racist, by the way, is the scariest Orwellian term that has been invented since anti-fascist.
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Because obviously it doesn't mean what it pretends to mean.
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And even worse, I was uninformed, ignorant, and harm inducing.
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I am sorry for the hurt, sadness, frustration, fatigue, exhaustion, and pain this article has caused anyone,
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but specifically black students in the higher education community and beyond.
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I am struggling to find the words to communicate the deep ache for the damage I have done.
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I don't want to write anything that further deepens the pain experienced by my ignorance related to black male athletes in the black community,
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all capital B, by the way, at any time, but especially in light of the national racial unrest.
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I also don't want to write anything that suggests that anti-racist learning is quick or easy.
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Man, they're going to torture you until you finish it and figure it out.
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I learned that black men putting their bodies on the line for my enjoyment.
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See, this is the new thing because they're all materialists, so it's all about black bodies, not black people.
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And any time you have a body and it's used in sports, for instance, that's evil because there could be violence to the bodies.
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I learned that black men putting their bodies on the line for my enjoyment is inspired and maintained by my uninformed and disconnected whiteness.
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And, as written in my previous article, positions student athletes as white property.
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This is obviously really pathetic, really racist, really condescending, and really, really wrong stuff.
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All because some wimp, weirdo, creep professor made the completely obvious statement that college football is fun.
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He expressed his preference for college football.
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You want to see how crazy this national mania over white supremacy has become?
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Governor Gavin Newsom, Governor Patrick Bateman over here in California, just signed legislation yesterday that will establish a nine-member state task force to study slavery and explore the potential avenues for reparations for black people.
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The law does not say, should we or should we not have reparations, take money from some people and give them to black people today, some of whose ancestors were slaves, maybe, many of whose ancestors were not slaves, some of whom descended from slave owners like Kamala Harris or Barack Obama.
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It's not should they or shouldn't they, it's how much and to whom, reparations for slavery in California.
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I don't know how many of you are history buffs.
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A lot of people are missing the greatest irony of this California reparations bill.
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Look, the reparations argument is completely ridiculous, but a lot of people are missing the biggest irony here.
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California was a free state, was not a slave state, was a free state.
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Actually, the entrance of California into the Union was one of the causes of the Civil War.
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California entering the Union, the Compromise of 1850, is a moment where the United States is grappling with the fact that slavery is untenable because you're always in this tense situation where you have to introduce a state, a slave state and a free state, both at the same time.
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You can't have these two things running forever and ever.
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Ultimately, then, by the end of that decade, you have the Civil War, which, as far as I can tell, was pretty good reparations for slavery.
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National tearing apart 700,000 people, Americans, dead, grappling with this issue, grappling with this problem.
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And then, obviously, plenty of racially discriminatory laws that came up, Jim Crow, right, that actually were racially discriminatory on behalf of whites in certain areas.
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And then, after, to rectify that, you had laws that tried to, and this is Sandra Day O'Connor describes it this way.
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You had to discriminate back on the other side to rectify that.
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But now, all of that, none of that, all of that, including the Civil War, means absolutely nothing because California is going to take money from some people and give it to other people.
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Let me just give you one of the ironies of history that shows how crazy this reparations issue is.
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The first officially recognized slave owner of an arbitrarily declared slave for life, a guy who would be declared sort of the first slave owner in the system that became American slavery, was a black guy.
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His slave, who a court just declared, you're a slave for life, not because you committed a crime, not for some offense, not for debt, just, you're just a slave now, you're, you're his property for life.
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Do the descendants of Anthony Johnson, the slave owner, do they get reparations because of the color of their skin?
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Do they, can they go back to the descendants of Anthony Johnson and say, give me money because your great, great, great, great granddaddy owned my great, great, great, great granddaddy?
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If it's based on race, that's going to be pretty weird because there was an irony when Barack Obama became the first black president that he wasn't descended from any American slaves, right?
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He was actually descended from a slave owner on the white side of his family.
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This is not to say that there isn't historical injustice.
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Obviously, they won't have ancestors to receive reparations.
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The problem here is not a representation of historical injustice.
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The problem is a complete misunderstanding of, of what the world is, right?
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You can't, you cannot, you actually cannot make up for every injustice in history.
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Now, there is, there is a way to get out of this cycle.
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The way to get out of this cycle, this is going to be the most shocking thing of all,
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is Christianity because the son of God comes down to earth and dies for your sins and gives you redemption.
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That is the whole point of Christianity is to solve this problem that American leftists,
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All they have is the sin, the original sin, as we would call it.
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All you have is this sense that we are fallen, we are broken, this world is not perfectible.
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But when you get rid of the Christianity from the civilization, there's no redemption.
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There's just burning the whole damn thing to the ground.
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And that is, at bottom, the philosophical issue and the theological issue and the anthropological
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issue that we've been struggling with for not just the past six months, but since our sense
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And it's not going to get better until we recover that.
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A reparations bill isn't going to do a damn thing.
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Now, the good news, I do have some good news here, even as the left has totally rejected
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Minnesota, right now, there was a poll, the NPR News Star Tribune, KARE 11 Minnesota poll
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was just released on Saturday about views on Black Lives Matter, an avowedly Marxist organization
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that exacerbates this very issue we've just been talking about.
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But people were asked, do you have a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the Black Lives Matter
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46% of poll respondents said they have an unfavorable view compared to 42% who say favorable.
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More people dislike the BLM movement now than like it.
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It turns out when you burn down people's cities, they don't like you very much.
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They don't think that's particularly productive.
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Four out of five Black voters say we should not defund the police.
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There's a chasm opening up here between what the ideologues think people should want and
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One number, one statistic has me a little worried, though.
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I like that the Hispanic viewers of Telemundo thought Trump won the debate.
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I like that more people in Minneapolis and Minnesota are turning against BLM than support
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According to Deadline, the debate the other night drew just 27.3 million viewers, which
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This worries me because I fear that there will not be the same enthusiasm to go out there and
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beat Joe Biden as there was to beat Hillary Clinton.
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Listen, people tuned in in 2016 because Hillary Clinton is so, so, so unlikable.
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She's just people have not liked this woman for a very long, ever since she tried to destroy
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There were bumper stickers in the nineties said, impeach Clinton and her husband.
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And if people are not willing to tune in to watch Trump smack down Biden, right?
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And the way they were willing to smack down Hillary, they might not be willing to go show
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And by the way, we're still litigating the 2016 election.
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The Democrats still haven't accepted the results of the 2016 election.
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The administration spied on President Trump's campaign.
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And then those bureaucrats, those holdovers, those Democrats tried to launch a coup to overturn
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And a lot of this came down to James Comey, the former FBI director, who our pal Senator
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Ted Cruz absolutely slammed on the Hill yesterday.
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This investigation of the president was corrupt.
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The FBI and the Department of Justice were politicized and weaponized.
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And in my opinion, there are only two possibilities.
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That you were deliberately corrupt or woefully incompetent.
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This has done severe damage to the professionals and the honorable men and women at the FBI because
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law enforcement should not be used as a political weapon.
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Jim Comey, for all of his many flaws, does not appear to be a stupid man.
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It is not possible that the amount of lies, the amount of cover-ups, the amount of illegal
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activity that took place during and around the 2016 election, just whoopsie days he passed
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You saw during the debate, President Trump said, we're going to get to the bottom of what
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And by the way, by the way, Joe, you signed off on a lot of those activities.
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And you could see Joe Biden, he didn't know how to respond to that.
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He kind of, he didn't know how to respond to a lot of things.
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But he didn't get one of his barbs and he just kind of let that one go.
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But I had Senator Cruz come over to my channel.
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And they're all just dumb and they didn't even write it themselves.
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Usually they didn't have it, they didn't probably even read it themselves and they're just not
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They're his stories from consequential Supreme Court cases that hinged on one single vote.
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So I'm really enjoying it, reading it right now.
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Also, just another little plug, a new pro-life movie is coming out called The Order of Rights
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It's going to be released tomorrow, October 2nd on streaming platforms.
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Dear fiery yet mostly peaceful Catholic cult member and podcaster Knowles, in whom I should
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I have a question about the I paid more taxes than Trump stickers.
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Using their own arguments, the stickers should read, I paid more taxes to a system of white
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Yeah, it's the same issue that you hear from the left on guns, for instance.
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They say, Trump is a Nazi, so give the government all your guns.
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Trump is the head of the government and Trump is a Nazi.
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So you're telling me to give all my guns to Nazis.
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Because they don't pay attention to their logic.
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And at a base level, they don't believe in logic.
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I'm actually saying something a little more radical than that.
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They think that logic, and they've said this recently in popular pamphlets that have gone
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They think logic is a social construct that was invented by human beings to prop up white
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These are terms that are about white supremacy.
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And so, obviously, if they don't have any faith in logic, they can make an argument, but then
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they'll make the opposite argument out of the other side of their mouth, and it doesn't
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matter to them because it's all just fake anyway.
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That's what it is, where it's all about the rhetoric.
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It's all about the sound of the argument and the emotion and the passion, but it's not
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about the logic of the argument itself because there is none.
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From Andrew, hey, Michael, it came to mind that the government having marriage, whether
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it be gay or straight, is against the First Amendment, freedom of religion.
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Being that marriage is a religious institution, this should be, should have to be something
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for the people on their own to have to sort out, not something the government even has
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Murder is prohibited by the Ten Commandments, right?
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That's a religious statement that murder is evil.
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So therefore, the government has no business in murder laws, right?
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I don't know that we have laws against coveting one's neighbor's ox, but perhaps we should.
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I think what you're, you're kind of getting to this very, take your hands off kind of approach
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to government, kind of a libertarian approach maybe, even though there are a lot of problems
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with libertarianism, but it's a hands off, hey, you know, I don't, I don't want to be
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willing to make any claims about, substantive claims about the good because we can never
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And that doesn't work because all laws necessarily are moral laws.
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And when you get to the extreme of libertarians, they basically say it's all just about consent,
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So basically marriage is just a contract, right?
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So as long as you enforce contract law, it's fine or, or business, right?
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Now it's just about consent, but, but none of us actually believes that, right?
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If I, for instance, let's say I'm going to start a business, I'm going to start, uh, the,
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And I start a huge prostitution ring that would still be illegal.
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I start a huge prostitution ring and I put it next to your home in the suburbs.
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Government has no right to come in and stop me from doing that because I've consented to
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And your idea that there needs to be some separate space for residential living that's outside
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of the commercial world, your idea, most importantly, that there shouldn't be prostitution
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rings in your neighborhood, that's a religious idea.
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That gets down to your weird religious hangups about sex and stuff, right?
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So anyway, you, government has no right to die.
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And by the way, the mare, the marriage issue, there are even some quote unquote conservatives
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Not possible because marriage is a religious institution, I guess sometimes, but it's primarily
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Marriage predates, there are plenty of marriages that happen outside of a religious sphere.
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It's actually the bedrock political institution.
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So the debate over same sex marriage, as it became called, was not a debate over who
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It was no, at least if we're being honest about it, it's not a debate over who, who should
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And for all of human history, the marriage, the term marriage has had at its essence, sexual
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Then, like 10 years ago, it was suggested that we redefine that pretty radically to say
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sexual difference has nothing to do with marriage.
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But for some reason, monogamy still has to do with marriage.
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So if we can redefine it so radically to take out the sexual difference aspect, why does
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If one man loves three women, that certainly has much more historical precedent than taking
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Obviously, the state has a great interest in children, in propagating the next generation,
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regulating that, child abuse, all these sorts of things.
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There is a role for the child protective services to come in.
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And if our politics is to have any meaning at all, it must be able to discuss and establish
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a definition for the bedrock political institution.
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But we never got to have that debate because the left just begged the question.
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The left just assumed its own conclusion, namely that marriage is the monogamous union
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For a lot of history, love was not the central consideration in marriage, at least not romantic
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And now we've assumed our own conclusion and therefore we've proved it.
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We never had that debate and sadly, as our national presidential debate showed us the
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other night, we might not be serious enough anymore in this country to have real debates.
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From Danny, hey Michael, I consider myself a recovering leftist.
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I was converted to conservatism by my wonderful husband.
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When you often describe the crazy purple-haired feminist, that was me.
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Oh, hey, I'm glad we got a former purple-haired feminist to watch a show.
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I recently posted something about Breonna Taylor's case on social media.
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And my old college roommate, who I haven't seen in years, flat out called me a racist.
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How do you handle personal vitriol from those you may have once considered friends?
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And going back to what we were discussing earlier with regard to the only possibility of redemption,
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Christ comes into the world and he doesn't say, hey, I'm the way and the truth and the life.
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And when you proclaim me and when you are with me, then everybody will be really nice to you.
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He who thrives in this world for my sake will keep thriving.
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So very often people would rather live in darkness and shadows and not be in the light and not talk about the truth.
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So obviously we're just talking about a very narrow example here, which is over some political debates.
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But it gets to a broader example, which is that very often when you proclaim the truth, you will be persecuted for it because it's a fallen world.
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That's the cost of preferring the truth to lies.
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That's the cost of having courage to being a coward.
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I think the benefits of those virtues certainly outweigh the costs.
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But in the short run, your former friends are going to say all sorts of nasty, horrible things about you.
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My first political campaign I ever worked on was for a friend of mine.
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I was 18 or 19, so freshman or sophomore in college.
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In my hometown, I had been the golden boy my whole life.
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Always all the parents were very nice to me and everything.
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And very sort of, I don't know, I was very well liked.
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And the minute that I started working for a Republican, totally mainstream Republican candidate,
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just as an intern on a campaign, half the town called me all sorts of horrible things.
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Said, wait a second, two weeks ago you were saying I was a nice guy.
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Well, yeah, but now you're a Republican, so sorry.
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Sorry, you're a terrible, racist, awful, vicious, terrible, no good person.
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He was asked, does it bother you that people call you Darth Vader?
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And he said, when I was Secretary of Defense, I was the most popular man in the country,
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When I was vice president, I was one of the least popular men in the country.
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If I wanted to be popular, I would have been a movie star.
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Sometimes it's more important to be successful than to be popular.
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From Brian, it's clear at this point that we are two nations.
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We could live the way we want to without having to deal with the left.
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You can tell I'm Catholic in this answer because I don't think divorce is acceptable.
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Now, sometimes when there is a threat of, say, bodily harm or something like that, a separation
00:42:53.700
So I think, yes, there are some ways that we should lay off each other here in the United
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I think there are some ways that there might be, should be a little bit more separation
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You're actually seeing this happen, which is conservatives are going to red states and leftists
00:43:09.920
First of all, it's completely unworkable, right?
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The coasts are going to break off and then the middle of the country is going to stay
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so we're not going to have any seaports or anything?
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Certain cities are going to, but what about the people in those cities?
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National divorces, like familial divorces, are evil, evil things.
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So I wouldn't support that, just like I wouldn't support throwing my hands up in a marriage.
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Sometimes it happens because, again, fallen world, right?
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So I'm not saying that that won't happen, but I certainly wouldn't cheer it on.
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From Arun, dear Dr. Koffefe, most professional of Daily Wire podcasters.
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My employer is hosting a live virtual session on anti-racism with none other than Dr. Ibram
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This session is optional, and as someone who is morally opposed to racism, I'm considering,
00:44:08.980
To judge unjustly on the basis of race, which is an offense to human dignity, right?
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And human solidarity because all men are made in the image of God.
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It's like, I don't even want to say that anymore, that I'm opposed to it, because it gives them
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the premise that there are all these people who are super-duper racist.
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I'm considering not attending this session since I wouldn't want anyone to misconstrue my
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presence for assent to Dr. Kendi's racist philosophy.
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On the other hand, I do want to be informed about what my coworkers are being taught by this
00:44:45.240
man, and since no one is compelling me to attend, I'm somewhat more willing to give the
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Should I go to this thing, or should I spend the hour doing what my employer actually pays me
00:44:53.540
It will be a waste of your time in the sense that that man, Dr. Kendi, has nothing but
00:44:58.380
poison to spew, and he's just a complete huckster.
00:45:04.960
He's a con artist who is milking companies such as yours for money by selling racial grievance
00:45:14.300
But I probably would still go, especially if it weren't compulsory, because I want the information
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Are you at all concerned that Justice Barrett will turn out to be a more moderate judge
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and fall short of a lot of conservatives' expectations?
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Or do you think she'll be like Scalia and Thomas?
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No way to predict the future, and she hasn't been on the bench that long, so I don't know.
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She's at least written extensively about her views, and her views seem pretty solid.
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She's super-duper Catholic, so she is living her faith, a conservative faith, right, just
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We're not living in a world where I just get to pick any justice I want.
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The alternative is let the Dems have the court or leave it open, which will exacerbate the
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constitutional crisis that I suspect we're already in.
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I'm totally saying right now we can't know the future, but there's no other option.
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