Ep. 629 - Big Tech Must Be Destroyed
Summary
A huge scoop in the New York Post reveals that Joe Biden knew about his son's crooked deal, and probably took a meeting with the oligarchs himself. But that's not the biggest story. The biggest story is that the largest media platforms in the world that control the flow of information around the internet, suppressed the story.
Transcript
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There's a huge scoop yesterday in the New York Post. Leaked emails show that Joe Biden has been
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lying about Ukraine, he knew about his son's crooked deal, and he probably took a meeting
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with the oligarchs himself. But that's not the biggest story. The biggest story is that the
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largest media platforms in the world that control the flow of information around the internet
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suppressed the story. They blocked major accounts, including the White House press secretary,
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for sharing. This is unacceptable, this is probably illegal, and this is the end of
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constitutional government if we don't stop it. There can be no accommodation. Big tech
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must be destroyed. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Very quickly, before we get to the real story, the real story is obviously the suppression of this
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on social media. I'll just quickly go over this dread, censored, dangerous New York Post
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breaking news. Headline, Biden's secret emails revealed Ukrainian exec thanked Hunter Biden for
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the opportunity to meet his VP dad. This Ukrainian exec, this corrupt Ukrainian guy is named Vadim
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Pozarski. He allegedly, according to this story, sent Hunter Biden an email on April 17th, 2015,
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about a year after Hunter joined the Burisma board. He was making 50 grand a month. Some reports actually
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say he was making a little bit more than 50 grand a month. And the whole time, Joe Biden has said that
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he did not speak to this guy, but we have an email here from Vadim Pozarski. It says,
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Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to D.C. and giving an opportunity to meet your father and
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spend some time together. It's realty and honor and pleasure. As we spoke yesterday evening,
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would be great to meet today for a quick coffee. What do you think? I could come to you office
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somewhere around noon or so before or on my way to airport best V. That's the email. There's more that
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was included here. How did they get these emails? Apparently, it was because Hunter Biden's
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computers were dropped off at a repair shop in Delaware. Biden never picked up the computers,
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so they became property of the repair shop owner, and then it leaked from there. Who knows? I mean,
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obviously, this is an October surprise, so we don't know how we got these emails. But the most
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important thing about the emails is they appear to be legitimate. They appear to be legitimate.
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First thing is, it proves that Joe Biden lied. Joe Biden said that he never spoke to his son,
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Hunter Biden, about his business dealings in Ukraine. How many times have you ever spoken
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to your son about his overseas business dealings? I've never spoken to my son about his overseas
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business dealings. He's never spoken to his son about his overseas business dealings. Well,
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unfortunately, his derelict son ended up contradicting him on that point. He contradicted him in an interview
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that he did with New York Magazine, where he described the conversation that he had with his father
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when he was talking about his overseas business dealings. And then he did a television interview
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on Nightline, I believe, and he's describing the situation. And he knows the talking point is that
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he never spoke to his dad, but he accidentally lets it slip anyway.
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No. As I said, the only time was after a news account, and it wasn't a discussion in any way.
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Your dad said, I hope you know what you're doing.
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And I said, I do. And that was literally the end of our discussion.
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Well, if that was the end of your discussion, that means that there was a discussion,
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which you had said there was at first, but then you remembered the campaign told you not to say
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that. So then you said, no, there was no discussion. There's no but. But there obviously
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was a discussion because you've talked about it at length and even your interviewer brought it up.
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What did Joe Biden say? He said, I hope you know what you're doing.
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Why did he say that? Because what Hunter was doing looked kind of shady because what Hunter was
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doing was corrupt. So why is Joe Biden lying about not about having this conversation now?
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Because obviously the whole thing stinks to high heaven. A tough story for the Bidens because it
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implies that his son engaged in corruption and that Joe himself engaged in very high level corruption
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as the sitting vice president. So of course, social media had to shut this down.
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Social media, Facebook first comes out and they say, we are going to limit the reach of this article
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because it hasn't been fact checked yet. Actually, the spokes spokesman for Facebook that came out and
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said, we're limiting the reach is a former staffer for the democratic congressional campaign committee
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for other democratic political action committees for Democrat Senator Barbara Boxer, one of the most
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left-wing people in the U S Senate. He's a Democrat operative using an ostensibly neutral tech platform
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to censor and suppress damaging information about Democrats three weeks before presidential election.
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It wasn't just Facebook though. I mean, that would be outrageous enough. It was Twitter.
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Twitter suspended accounts that were, that were posting this. So the first thing Twitter did was
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make it such that you couldn't even post the link. You got an error. I tried it myself and said, nope,
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sorry, you can't send that. Something went wrong. If you pushed a little harder, you saw it. Oh,
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sorry, this hasn't been fact checked. It could be dangerous. So they wouldn't let you post it.
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They then suspended James Woods, very giant Twitter account and a famous actor, James O'Keefe,
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conservative journalist, a daily caller, reporter, Andrew Kerr, others, and the white house press
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secretary. Twitter would not allow the white house press secretary to post news from a major
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longstanding news outlet that was damaging to Democrats. First thing to note about this,
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it's probably illegal for them to do that. Federal law prohibits any corporation from making a
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contribution to a federal candidate for office. And what is a contribution? A contribution is anything
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of value. Well, obviously suppressing the most damaging news report about the candidate this cycle,
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obviously that has value to the candidate and to the campaign. A pretty significant value when you
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are throttling the flow of this information around the internet. Josh Hawley made this point that it's
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very likely illegal. I suspect Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg are going to be dragged to Capitol
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Hill to answer questions about this. The way I know that they're going to be dragged to Capitol
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Hill, as a matter of fact, is that Jack Dorsey himself, the head of Twitter, immediately, well,
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I'm sorry, I shouldn't say immediately, by the end of the day, so many hours had elapsed in the
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meantime, but by the end of the day, he came out and said, wait, wait a second here. Sorry,
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we didn't mean that. Things were not great. Not great. That's his exact way. He goes,
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our communication around our actions on the New York Post article was not great. Not great.
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And blocking URL sharing via tweet or DM with zero context as to why we're blocking.
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Unacceptable. So he's not saying it was unacceptable to do it. He's not saying that suppressing the
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article was not great. He's saying our communication around. I just didn't explain to you.
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I did not suitably explain to you why we were interfering in a presidential election in a way
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that would make the Russians blush and trying to suppress important information by censoring even
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members of the presidential administration. Twitter safety, safety, oh, chill goes up my spine.
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Twitter safety tweets out. We want to provide much needed clarity around the actions we've taken
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with respect to two New York Post articles that were first tweeted this morning. The images contained
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in the articles include personal and private information like email addresses and phone
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numbers, which violate our rules. Oh, that's it, huh? Because what is, I guess one, maybe one of these
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emails has some personal information. I'm not even sure that they do. Some, I mean, I guess in some of
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the images, you can see some personal information. So that's why, that's why they suppressed it, right?
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Except that's obviously a lie because it contradicts the explanation they gave earlier in the morning
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when they blocked Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary that Twitter wrote, we have
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determined that this account violated the Twitter rules specifically for violating our rules against
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distribution of hacked material. There's no evidence, first of all, that this was hacked material.
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We were told that this explicitly was not hacked material, but let's say it is.
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First, you're saying it's because it was hacked. Then you're saying it's because it has personal
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information. You know what I think? I think that you guys wanted to suppress this information and
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you're making up the reason ex post facto as you go along. That's what I think. And now I think you
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hired some great crisis communications company because you realize that what you've done might be highly
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illegal. And now not even the most libertarian of libertarians is defending you people because you
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have stolen our politics and our discourse. You have completely taken it over as the public square
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with critical mass. No one can beat you. And you did that on fraud. You did that by fraudulent means
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where you suggested, you told people as, as part of the agreement to use your services, that you'll be
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able to post things. You'll be able to read things. You're a neutral platform exercising your
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liability protection in section 230 of the communication decency act, which we've talked
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a lot about on this show and on verdict and on other shows too. You did all of that. And then
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it was all a fraud because really what you are is political operatives. You are publishers deciding
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what information people are going to get. And that is simply unacceptable in the public sphere.
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because it was hacked. Yeah, Twitter, it wasn't hacked. Oh, it's because, yeah, it had private
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information. Really? Well, why didn't you say that in the first place? Oh, yeah, we didn't
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communicate well. Not great. Not great. Then Twitter added to their thread about how it was
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how it was including this private information. They said, and as noted this morning, we also
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currently view materials included this as violations of our hacked materials policy.
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Look, obviously this is BS too. How about Melania Trump's telephone conversation that was really
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perfectly innocuous. She just joked about how everyone was attacking her and how she had to do
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the Christmas decorations and how people were completely lying about the kids in cages issue.
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Remember that? That seemed like hacked material. How come Twitter didn't suppress that? The fake
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steel dossier that was cooked up by the Democrats. Complete lies. Demonstrable lies. How come that
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wasn't suppressed? That was going all around Twitter. The Access Hollywood tape. You remember that?
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Where he's, Trump is making jokes with Billy Bush. That was the October surprise in 2016. You remember
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that? I don't think that was suppressed. That was hacked. That was private. No, it's just obviously BS
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because Twitter got a lot of flack for not suppressing the president of the United States.
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And so now they're going to try to throw the presidential election. So big tech must be destroyed.
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This is very important. Some very ignorant, shallow thinking left-wingers on social media
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are accusing conservatives of hypocrisy here because they're saying, oh, now you like regulation. Now
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you like big government because you want to shut down big tech. They don't understand the conservative
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position. Now you like regulation. Now you like the conservatives like just laws and their
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enforcement. We like that. We've always liked that. We are not anarchists. We're not libertarians.
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Although frankly, libertarians are getting on board with this too. Why? Because these companies are
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almost certainly violating the law. And we just went through a couple of laws that they're violating.
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And as a broader issue, they are undermining self-government through fraud.
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We have a situation now where a few oligarchs control the flow of information. They are the public square,
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which perhaps can work fine if they are a public square. But when they pretend to be a public square
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and then decide to rip the rug out from under us and now are going to control that public square,
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we cannot permit that. If we were in the old timey days in the 18th or 19th centuries and some oligarch
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came in to the actual public square, to the physical public square, and started putting tape on people's
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mouths and starting deciding who can speak and who can't speak, we would not be able to tolerate that
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simply as a matter of constitutional government. The same thing is true here. People say, try Parler.
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I like Parler. I have a Parler account. There's no comparison. Parler will never get the critical
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mass that Twitter has. It's not Parler's fault. It's just that the only reason Twitter is Twitter
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is because it got that critical mass and it got that critical mass through a fraud. So Parler is good
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for what it's good for, but we can't simply throw up our hands and say, well, Twitter is a private company.
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Okay, well, this is our country. This is our self-government. And if we're going to allow
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a few highly ideological oligarchs to control our speech, which by the way, in self-government
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is politics. Speech and persuasion is politics in self-government. If we're going to allow them
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to censor us, including our duly elected representatives, we are ceding self-government.
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We are making it even clearer than it already is that we live in an oligarchy.
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It's also not hypocritical to use Twitter to oppose Twitter. It's not hypocritical to use
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these platforms to oppose these platforms. They are the, again, I mean, it all comes back
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to this issue. They are the public square. And the only way that you can advocate changing
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the public square is to be in the public square. You have to do it. Perfectly legitimate.
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Even, by the way, even someone with as libertarian an inclination or someone as deeply conservative
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as Clarence Thomas agrees with us here. Clarence Thomas has now weighed in on the issue of section
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230 protection with, you know, the publisher platform distinction. Thomas writes, when Congress
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enacted the statute, most of today's major internet platforms did not exist. And in the 24 years since,
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we have never interpreted this provision, but many courts have construed the law broadly to confer
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sweeping immunity on some of the largest companies in the world. But the Supreme Court's never weighed
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in. And obviously the situation is very different now. One need not feel any hypocrisy, any pangs of
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worry that we're now empowering the government to do something. I love, this is always the kind of
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silly, squishy Republican argument. They say, well, we cannot permit the government to enforce the laws
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that are already on the books. Because if we do that to stop the left from suppressing our speech,
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well, then when the left gets into government, they might suppress our speech.
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Right. They're already doing it. It's happening now. You're afraid that sometime in a hypothetical
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future, the left might do what they are currently doing now. And for that reason, you don't want us to
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stop them from doing it now. Doesn't make any sense. Also, there's nothing principled about not
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enforcing the law. Nothing principled whatsoever. There was more lurid stuff, by the way, in this New
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Some creepy sex stuff before we get to the mailbag. As part of this New York Post expose,
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it seems that there are now photos and videos of Hunter Biden in some compromising positions.
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Hunter Biden with a crack pipe. Hunter Biden filming sex scenes. Yuck. I mean, the photos look very bad.
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I actually think this is a bad route to pursue, though. I think this actually helps Biden,
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Joe and Hunter, because it's so pathetic. It's so pathetic to see Hunter Biden with a cigarette
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hanging out of his teeth with some woman somewhere off screen or him smoking crack or whatever. It's
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so, it's really pathetic in that it evokes pathos, right? Many of us know people who have died from
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drug overdoses. Probably all of us know people that are addicted to drugs in some way. It's so pathetic
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that I think it actually evokes some sympathy for him. I think we should avoid that and just stick,
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on the creepy corruption, not the creepy sex stuff. But speaking of creepy sex, not involving the
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Biden family, Katie Hill, who resigned in disgrace from Congress amid a sex scandal. She was having a
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thruple with her husband and one of her staffers. There were lurid photos of her posted everywhere.
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Katie Hill tweeted out about ACB. Prim and proper, beautiful, glorious ACB. Katie Hill writes,
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I hate to be someone who judges women on their clothes, but I'm sorry, ACB's outfits are all way
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too hands-madey. Referring to that Margaret Atwood book that she probably hasn't read, but it was made
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into a TV show, so she should maybe watch that. The Handmaid's Tale. Now, they keep using this word
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hands-made because the illiterate liberals probably have never read the gospel according to St. Luke,
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where the word hands-made is uttered by the Virgin Mary, who says, I'm the hands-made of the Lord.
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Let this be done to me according to his will. And Mary becomes incarnate with the second person of
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the Trinity, Christ, and this is a wonderful, wonderful moment. But this is transformed by Margaret
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Atwood's Psychosexual Trash, this paperback book that became a TV show. And now, hands-made is a bad term.
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Why is Katie Hill calling her this? Because she wore a red dress. Women are now not allowed to wear
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red dresses, apparently. I think if you gave reasonable people the choice between the sexual
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ethic of Katie Hill and of Amy Coney Barrett, I think they would probably choose the latter.
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They took their creepy sex, though, during the hearings yesterday to another level
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when they asked about more and more sexual issues. You see, some of these Democrat men were very worried
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that ACB was going to cut off the sexual revolution. They began with the issue of IVF,
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in vitro fertilization, particularly from Democratic Senator Dick Blumenthal.
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IVF, treatment, and I'm not going to ask again, just this last time, criminalizing it.
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Well, would it be constitutional? I think there's a clear answer.
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But, Senator, I've repeatedly said, as has every other nominee who sat in this seat, that we can't answer
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questions in the abstract. That would have to be decided in the course of the judicial process.
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Yes. Some legislature would actually have to do that, and then litigants would have to come to court.
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There would have to be briefs and arguments and consultation with colleagues and opinion writing
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and consideration of precedent. So an off-the-cuff reaction to that would just circumvent the judicial process.
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Well, again, I'm disappointed. I think Tracy would find that response somewhat chilling
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because she and thousands, maybe millions, of women, potential parents,
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would be horrified to think that IVF treatment could be made criminal.
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And I understand you're not answering the question.
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The simpler answer is, of course, you can pass a law to outlaw IVF.
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Why do I say that? Because there's no protection for IVF,
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this modern medical technology that has huge bioethical implications,
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There's no protection of that in the Constitution.
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Where is the protection for IVF in the Constitution?
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It's right next to the protection for abortion and right next to the redefinition of marriage.
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And what our framers decided to do is to protect our right of self-government.
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If you want to have IVF, you can pass a law, you have IVF.
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If you want to not have IVF, you want to ban it, you pass a law, you can ban it.
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Let's not forget, by the way, the thing with IVF is, in practice,
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Sometimes, often, actually, it involves selective abortion
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And if all of them take, then you might choose to, what is the phrase they use?
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You have a reduction or something to that effect.
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And in order to do IVF, in virtually all cases,
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You don't want to just have a bunch of souls on ice for eternity.
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Oh my gosh, are you saying that a free people have the right to debate this issue for themselves?
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And I can't just impose my radical, creepy sex will on the American people?
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well, it's a hypothetical, I'm not going to answer that.
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by your standards of constitutional interpretation,
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you're saying that there's not a sacred constitutional right to condoms and the pill.
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this is horrifying, because it means that now maybe some young women aren't going to pop the pill.
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which in turn also involves Eisenstadt v. Baird.
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I want you to keep in mind how many people are listening and watching
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because they may take a message from what you say.
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They may see what you say and be deterred from using contraceptives
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Well, Senator Blumenthal, the position that I've taken is whether a question is easy or hard,
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And I would be surprised if people were afraid that birth control was about to be criminalized
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but I am very, very nervous that women will stop taking the pill
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Some woman is convinced not to take birth control
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and then men will actually have consequences for sex.
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You better find the constitutional right to birth control pills.
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That's right next to the constitutional right to IVF
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and the constitutional right to abortion, right?
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It's all in the same section that was written in invisible ink, I think, right?
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It's very weird to watch a grown man nervously badgering a woman
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so that young girls hearing this might not keep popping those pills.
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To show you how pervasive this kind of thing is...
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Probably listening to Dick Blumenthal, you think,
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oh my gosh, how did we get to the point in the country
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where we just started inventing rights in the Constitution?
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We all went along with that as though that were the case.
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It's because the liberal establishment controls everything.
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The administrative government, big technology, obviously.
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The mainstream media, Hollywood, education, all levels of education.
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And for decades, they controlled the judiciary.
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And so they force their will on you by redefining reality.
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I mean, this is what political correctness is, right?
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They are changing words in an attempt to change the way we perceive reality.
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There were some Democratic senators who were furious.
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That Amy Barrett used the phrase sexual preference.
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They said this is very offensive to people who have unusual sexual preferences.
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It's just a kind of way you're fixed, way you're set.
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In fact, I don't know of many preferences that are chosen.
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A preference is something, I can't reason my way through it.
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I just happen to prefer, I prefer chocolate ice cream.
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But yet these Democratic senators are saying the term sexual preference is offensive because
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it implies that gay people choose to be attracted to the same sex.
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I mean, they don't understand the meaning of the word preference.
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Within 24 hours at most, you had the entire left, which was using the phrase sexual preference
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Because the word went out that that's offensive.
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All these different institutions, including the dictionary, Merriam-Webster's dictionary,
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included a definition of preference as orientation or sexual preference.
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Yesterday, they changed the definition to include the word offensive.
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The people who put the Webster's dictionary together heard the left come out and say,
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There's almost more a touch of Aldous Huxley, though, Brave New World.
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Our technology is, in a certain sense, getting better.
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And the technology has something to do with that.
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Because what pretty soon we're going to find ourselves in is a situation
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where we're distracted forever and ever by addictive apps.
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And we scroll, scroll, scroll all day drooling out of the side of our mouths.
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And all of our political liberties, our traditions, our institutions will have been stolen from us
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while we were all too distracted by that black mirror.
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Was abortion common in the founding era, and did founders ever comment directly on this
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I've been unable to find any direct quotes, and the only book on abortion from the era
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The thing that's difficult about this question is the term abortion, because when we talk
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about abortion, we're talking about a modern surgical procedure that did not exist back
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Now, there have, for all of human history, been women who wanted to get rid of their pregnancy
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There have been women who wanted to miscarry, and sometimes they wanted to induce that miscarriage,
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and there have been men who have wanted that for women as well.
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So there have always been kind of folk remedies, different sort of teas you would drink, different
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sorts of procedures and things, some of which are a little grisly, but some of which are also
00:36:31.560
You know, now with modern medical technology, we just know those sorts of things couldn't
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The idea of a modern surgical abortion is anachronistic.
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The idea of a legal modern surgical abortion is completely anachronistic and ridiculous.
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And most importantly to this issue, the idea of a legal protection for abortion is preposterous.
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Nobody in the founding era who's writing the Constitution would have believed that the Constitution
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Most of them wouldn't have any real sense of what an abortion is.
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Nobody for the vast majority of our history believed that that right existed.
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Just because a version of something may have been practiced at a certain time does not mean
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Actually, I'll give you a great example in one that the Democrats keep bringing up, which
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is Lawrence v. Texas, which banned sodomy laws, laws that prohibit homosexual actions.
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Now, these laws were on the books, I guess, as late as 2005.
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Were people prosecuted under sodomy laws to any significant degree, even a century before that?
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The role of sodomy laws, there was actually a feminist, Naomi Wolf, who just wrote a book
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about how people were killed under sodomy laws.
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And it turns out the thesis of her book was just completely wrong.
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And she got embarrassed in real time on a radio interview talking about it.
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The purpose of these sodomy laws was to acknowledge a certain understanding of sexual ethics or
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The purpose of those laws were not to jail homosexuals or kill homosexuals or anything
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That's really not how they were practiced historically.
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So, if you say that the Constitution does not protect the right to homosexual activity,
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which obviously it does not because there were sodomy laws on the books when the Constitution
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If you say that the Constitution does not protect that kind of activity, does that make you a
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It means that you have the same view of the government that the Founding Fathers did,
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namely, that the federal government is limited and bounded.
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And there can be all sorts of laws at the state level.
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But by the way, even when you look at those state laws, you have to see how those laws
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were actually enacted, how they were enforced, what the purpose of them were.
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Modern ideologues who are trying to radically reshape our country and our politics are counting
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So that they can pretend that, you know, I don't know, all these gay people are being
00:39:12.560
As always, the reality of the situation is much more interesting than the shallow ideological
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And the reason they're being told that, by the way, is to transform the politics.
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If there were really the seeds of this leftist ideology that we now see today, you know,
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in the words of Pete Buttigieg, the modern judges, they understand the true meaning of
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If that were so, they wouldn't have to transform it.
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They wouldn't have to hide the reality of it from you.
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Mr. Knowles, I just wanted to let you know you have stepped up your segue game significantly
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I think you should require your advertisers to pay more since viewers and listeners are
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You know, on that point, I will say, I decided, because I got bored with the way the ads
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were going, so I decided I was going to challenge myself to see how smooth I could make those
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And, you know, listen, Jeremy Boring, he does great segues.
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I do have a quick question as to why you and Mr. Shapiro have completely opposite views
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Are you cherry picking which polls you're looking at in order to be so upbeat about President
00:40:23.200
Well, first of all, I'm not saying I'm upbeat about it.
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But I think if the election were fair, were held fairly today, I would bet a small amount
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But I don't know that it's going to be held fairly.
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I mean, I suspect it won't be held fairly because of widespread unsolicited mail-in voting,
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And we have seen evidence that that could lead to fraud.
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So I don't know that it's actually going to work out that well.
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And I'm not, I wouldn't say bet the farm on President Trump winning.
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But yeah, I do think Ben and I look at this differently, which is Ben trusts data.
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You know, he actually, when I won an election bet in 2016, he wrote the check that he owed
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And in the memo line, he said, for ignoring data.
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But I just, I don't trust this kind of modeling.
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I think, you know, Ben comes at these things from a little bit more the perspective of,
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He comes at it more from the perspective of the social sciences, which I just don't,
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I don't really trust the social sciences much at all.
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And I think that polls very often are used not as a way to take a measure of what the
00:41:31.620
people are feeling, but as a way to form public opinion itself.
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Because the social sciences came out of the progressive project in America, I just am a
00:41:42.520
I mean, Ben is right about a lot of things and he's made, made some good predictions.
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Thankfully, not when we had money on the line, but you know, he's made good predictions.
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But I just, I come at it from a different angle because I think the social sciences very largely
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A majority of my friends and colleagues are on the leftist spectrum.
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I doubt I could convince anyone to vote red, but I could potentially sway a few people to
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My question is, given that I've already voted straight Republican donated to the Trump campaign,
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is it ethical for me to advocate for voting third party or sitting out the election?
00:42:23.860
You truly believe, you honestly believe it would be better for the country if your friends
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You would be, you think it would be better if Trump wins the election.
00:42:37.200
Ways to do that would be to get your friends to vote for, I don't know, some third party person
00:42:45.260
There's nothing intrinsically good or virtuous about voting.
00:42:49.940
If you're ignorant and you're voting, that's actually kind of a bad thing, right?
00:42:54.660
Because you haven't informed yourself on the issues.
00:42:56.340
So you're just kind of skewing this process of self-government without any reason.
00:43:02.060
If you are voting for a very wicked candidate, there's nothing good about voting.
00:43:07.440
But if I go into the polling place and I see that there's, you know, super Stalin Mao
00:43:18.920
If you do vote for that guy, that's a bad thing.
00:43:23.060
Voting is an instrument toward good government.
00:43:26.940
So I think absolutely you should tell your friends to vote for Kanye.
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If I weren't voting for Trump, I would certainly vote for Kanye.
00:43:32.940
From Dan, hey, Michael, I need your wisdom on how to define my relationship, okay?
00:43:38.980
My girlfriend only sleeps with seven out of every 100 guys she meets.
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Is that the proper way to view her commitment in the eyes of liberals?
00:43:54.240
I think actually the most precise way to describe your girlfriend is that she's fiery,
00:44:02.540
I mean, those, you know, seven out of 100, that's a significant minority of people.
00:44:12.600
From Chris, I noticed some drivel being repeated openly even in a few news articles about the
00:44:17.640
settlers from Europe giving Native Americans disease-infested blankets as an act of genocide.
00:44:23.600
From what I know of history, the settlers, though much rougher than our civilized society,
00:44:28.660
didn't harbor a genocidal bent toward the Native Americans.
00:44:33.440
In fact, during this period, I doubt either the Native Americans or the Europeans knew about
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pathogens beyond the outcomes that happened seemingly sent from God to punish.
00:44:40.500
This lie appears more and more each circle around the sun.
00:44:43.460
It might be nice to hear your thoughts on this.
00:44:45.180
Well, yeah, I'll temper that actually a little bit.
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During wars between the settlers and the Native Americans, they used all sorts of terrible weapons.
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It would seem including some bioweapons, some kind of primitive bioweapons.
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I don't think you need to discount those incidents to defend the settlers and to say that this country
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I think it actually diminishes the humanity of the Native Americans when we treat them like they are less than human, right?
00:45:17.980
When we treat them as though they're not dignified men who were engaged in battles over real things.
00:45:24.900
Whenever I hear that we need to give the land back to the Indians, I always say, well, which Indians?
00:45:29.940
Do we give the land back in the Southwest to the Comanche?
00:45:35.640
Okay, we can give them back to the Comanche, but the Comanche took it from the Apache.
00:45:39.480
So do we give it back to the Comanche or to the Apache?
00:45:41.500
Or do we give it back to the people who were in it before?
00:45:43.560
If we were to give land back in Central or South America, would we give it back to the Aztecs?
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Or would we give it back to the people that the Aztecs conquered?
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The people whose hearts they ripped out while they were still alive.
00:45:53.040
Are we going to give back the land in New York to the Iroquois?
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Are we going to give back the land in New York to the victims of the Iroquois?
00:46:00.920
Iroquois also practiced ritual cannibalism, by the way.
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This term, by the way, the term cannibalism, you know, comes from carib.
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It was a word introduced by these explorations in the New World.
00:46:15.600
When, you know, we're about to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the landing of the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock.
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When the settlers on the Mayflower, when the Pilgrims landed, they had a difficult relationship with the Indians.
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They saw a bellicose party of Indians come out.
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They didn't know how this was going to work out.
00:46:36.660
They found some corn that had been stored by the Indians.
00:46:43.320
They made peace in particular with an Indian chief named Massasoit, or with the people, the Massasoit people.
00:46:53.400
When they formed this alliance, this led to a whole broadening of the Indian nation in the area.
00:47:01.460
There was a good alliance that was made between real men who understood real diplomacy and politics.
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So, you had the settlers and the Indians getting along fairly well.
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Though, the Indians actually told the settlers about another group of Indians that were going to attack them.
00:47:19.040
Things broke down, in particular because of one Indian who was called King Philip.
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He took an English name, King Philip, who misunderstood the way that the settlers were behaving,
00:47:31.660
particularly with regard to his family, and came out and attacked them.
00:47:35.540
And basically led to the breaking down of peace there.
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As always, I mentioned this earlier, the real history is much more interesting and much fairer to all of the people involved
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Was there war between the settlers and Indians?
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And the victors of that war went on and formed the rest of the civilization.
00:48:02.520
You might not like that that's the way the world works.
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But that's the way that every single civilization, including the Indian civilizations, have worked since the dawn of time.
00:48:11.800
And I think we ought to at least show the Native Americans enough respect to treat them like men, like everywhere else, the rest of the world over.
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I can't wait, by the way, to do a show on the Mayflower.
00:48:23.400
That is going to be a lot of fun because you've heard a lot about the 1619 Project.
00:48:34.420
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