Ep. 639 - Fly The Flag Or Burn It
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Summary
It's election day, and there's no question that the election is over for Donald Trump. That's bad news for the rest of us, but it's not just bad news. There's a lot of data pointing to a possible change in the nature of rulership in our presidency.
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I know that's bad news to start at election day, but I don't want to sugarcoat it.
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We have been consulting the experts here at the Daily Wire.
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We have been talking to all the great prognosticators and
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there's just no way that Trump can win because Mercury is in retrograde or something like that.
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I still stand by thinking that Joe Biden will win,
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but that there will also be an unprecedented change to the nature of rulership in our presidency.
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Biden is having eclipses in his first house, seventh house axis.
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This has happened to every presidential winner going as far back as I've researched.
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Literally, like Trump in 2016, Clinton Carter, like it goes back.
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First house of self, it's supercharging identity forward.
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There are other things that affirm this, but this is a big indicator.
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Along with Senator Harris entering the literal biggest peak period of her entire life,
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which is not only a peak, but like a very, very impressive one for any human being.
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Alongside that, the Jupiter-Saturn conjunction is happening on December 21st into 2020.
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They meet every 20 years and now it's a 200 year cycle in air signs.
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Historically coincides with transitions of power in a very dramatic way.
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It looks like a literal new reality for the U.S.
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So obviously we can't keep our old president in the new reality.
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That is what all social scientists sound like to me.
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My favorite comment from yesterday from Chosen Bard.
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By the left's logic, would waving a gay pride flag on a gay pride parade also be like ISIS?
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I wondered it because yesterday they said that anyone waving a flag, you know,
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so Trump supporters waving the American flag, it's just like ISIS waving the ISIS flag.
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But I think the difference might be the trucks.
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You know, ISIS had kind of a little bit older, not so nice, but there were still trucks.
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And then the Trump supporters obviously have these giant trucks, you know,
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The gay pride flag, though, usually is being waved in like really nice, like Teslas.
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So I'm not, I don't know, maybe that would change it, but probably.
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I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure the left would call gay pride flags ISIS flags if they were being
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waved by Trump supporters, which they often are.
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It's a very complicated issue and tensions are going to be running high all day.
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Probably we're going to need to chill it back, tune it back a little bit, try to relax.
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So everyone's making fun of this woman on the internet for talking about how mercury
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and retrograde and the eclipse and that's why Trump is going to lose.
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There is nothing more frivolous about that than there is about social science generally
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You know, we're all trying to pretend that the people who predict the future using, I don't
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know, charts or something are somehow less silly than the people who try to predict the
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The polls were right in 2016 because the polls are always right.
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If the polls are wrong, like for instance, the polls say Trump is going to lose in 2016 and
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then he wins, they say, well, no, the polls were really right because it was kind of close
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And look, if, if the polls just say that, let's say he's got a 90% chance of losing,
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This social scientific world, polling and everything attached to it is part of the same
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progressive apparatus as the mainstream media, as the modern university, as big technology,
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And we know that the mainstream media are fake news.
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We know that the universities teach fake education.
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We know that big technology suppresses certain stories that they don't like, like the Hunter
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And yet for some reason, we still believe the social scientists because they have science
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And even conservatives are conditioned to love the word science and to follow science and
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The models are only as good as the data that go into them.
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This is the one thing Dr. Fauci got right about the entire coronavirus fiasco, which is that
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the models take whatever you put in and then churn out results.
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You have to have correct information going into the models.
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Do we have correct information going into the models?
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We've been told that the polls are oversampling Democrats.
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That's the one thing you're not allowed to say in modernity.
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But that's what we have to acknowledge when we look at social science.
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Do you know which poll of presidential candidates has a better record than even Nate Silver,
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538, certainly than New York Times or Washington Post or CNN or any of these top outlets with
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Do you know what has a better record than all of them combined?
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It's a bakery in Pennsylvania that sells cookies with each candidate's name and then they decide
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based on which candidate's cookie sells the best, who's going to win the election.
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The cookie poll is more accurate than Nate Silver.
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And yet for some reason we all listen to Nate Silver.
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A Pennsylvania bakery, this bakery is owned by, or the bakery rather is called Loachell Bakery
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owned by Kathleen Loachell, has predicted the last three presidential elections correctly.
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This year, the Trump cookies are outselling the Biden cookies 6 to 1.
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I know you've all been listening to CNN polls and Nate Silver polls, so you're a little bit
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But I've got the cookie poll for you and the cookie poll says Trump is going to win.
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I don't, I do care what happens in tonight's presidential election, but that is actually not the
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The point I'm making, what I would like to convey to you is that you should put much,
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much less effort and time into reading all of those polls that everyone's trying to get
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The cookies are legitimately a better predictor than the world's most famous statistician.
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I got, I got in trouble on this show maybe a month or two ago because I said that statistics
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And I don't know, maybe it's because I use that kind of lurid language people got upset
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Statistics, relatively new category of scholarship.
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It developed with the modern progressive state.
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It comes from the German word statistic and the Italian word statista.
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So as the modern progressive administrative state develops, you get statistics, which are
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That's how the universities play such an important role in the shaping of our modern progressive
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state is because they feed the statistics that the experts who are the bureaucrats and
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the administrators of the state can then use to work public policy all without any kind
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of democratic input whatsoever, all without any of the kind of traditional politics where
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The difference between social science and reading tea leaves is one of perspective.
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Reading tea leaves and horoscopes and crystal balls and whatever else you want to look at
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Neither of those things will actually give you the power to predict the future.
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So this is my other, beyond the cookie pole, this is my other favorite piece of science.
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Social science that, because of the spiritual humor of the world, tells us something.
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Karen's, women named Karen, tend to support Joe Biden.
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And men named Richard tend to support Donald Trump.
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The New York Times has been conducting polls with Siena College for two months now to look
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So if you, if you look here, you've got the, the most common name, the most likely popular
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name to support Biden all the way down there is Karen.
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Michael is up, up toward the Trump line of things.
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And then Richard, Dick, most likely popular name to support Donald Trump.
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Now you can look a little more closely at this and find out that there are a few women who are
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Those are women who will, are more likely to vote for Trump.
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Trump, which I guess should make sense, tends to be the, and some women then vote for Trump
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because married women tend to vote Republican and single women tend to vote Democrat.
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Is that going to convince you that Trump is going to win?
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And I don't mean an expert who wears a lab coat and he's a social scientist and he's,
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I mean, an actual expert with actual experience in politics.
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One of the best political analysts in the country, he is predicting a Trump win,
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Beyond the cookies, beyond the horoscopes, beyond the Karens, there is a guy with experience
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Most politicians prefer to stay vague about everything.
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This guy always just runs headfirst into the burning building.
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Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, former presidential candidate,
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all-around great political analyst, he is coming out and predicting that Trump is going to win
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and he's going to tell you exactly where and how he's going to win.
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I think that the left will be in total shock by the end of the evening.
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Trump will get a much larger share of the black vote than any Republican since 1960.
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He will have an enormous, almost unimaginable turnout in rural and small-town America.
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I was just being told a while ago about a Trump rally in Arizona that had 96 miles of cars with Trump flags.
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You watch two or three Biden events and then you watch two or three Trump events.
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You can't have any doubt about where the weight of enthusiasm is.
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And obviously none of us would have that doubt either.
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I mentioned, I think yesterday on the show, I went to vote in Los Angeles and I had a MAGA hat on.
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And I was a little nervous, you know, because we could be shot, you know, we were in a very liberal precinct.
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And he yelled at me to tell me how excited he was for Trump to win.
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And he was yelling at me to not put my ballot in the place where the liberals were going to steal him, but to put it in the safer place.
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So you got four conservative people, all happened to be in line at the same time at a very, very liberal precinct in LA.
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Doesn't mean I'm predicting LA is going to go for Trump.
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Doesn't mean I'm predicting Greenland would go for Trump, even though that would be the most absolutely delicious thing that could happen
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in political reality, you know, on earth right now.
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Heads would explode if California went conservative.
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But I am saying there is a big, big enthusiasm gap.
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Now, it may well be the case that, sure, nobody likes Joe Biden, but there just are enough Democrats.
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And the Democrats are motivated enough to vote, even though they don't like the guy, even though Kamala Harris is also awful,
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that they're just in the numbers, they've got it.
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And experience is a kind of expertise that is, I think, much better than some guy who studied statistics or something for too long.
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Now, I love listening to predictions from people with that kind of experience.
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I hate listening to predictions from people who are actually involved in counting the votes because this election very likely could come down to Pennsylvania.
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And the attorney general in Pennsylvania, a guy named Josh Shapiro, is already calling the election for Joe Biden.
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If he is, I would urge Ben to call Cousin Josh and say, Josh, stop being such a jerk because Josh Shapiro, who is, he's not a campaign operative there.
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He says, quote, if all the votes are added up in PA, Trump is going to lose.
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That's why he's working overtime to subtract as many votes as possible from this process.
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Highly inappropriate for someone who's the attorney general.
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This is supposed to be a fairly by-the-books, judicious position to be so nakedly partisan and to say that they're going to keep counting these votes until they get the answer that they want, which is what he's saying, isn't he?
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Part of these court fights that have been going on in Pennsylvania regards when to stop counting votes.
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Because we now have universal unsolicited mail-in ballots.
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We've never had that sort of thing before in the history of the United States.
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Then we made it an election week and then an election month.
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But now, even ballots that are mailed after the due date are going to be counted in the election.
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Wait, are you going to keep mailing ballots until the end of November?
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Are you going to keep mailing them in December?
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If you don't like something Trump did, can you mail in some ballots then?
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And if you don't get your ballot in by the deadline, just like if you didn't show up on election day, that's it.
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Except, unfortunately, the courts have sided with the liberals here.
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Because of people like John Roberts, that turncoat chief justice of the Supreme Court, who was nominated by a Republican, now he's a liberal.
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Which is why it's important to have actual strong conservative presidents who have chutzpah to nominate actual strong conservative judges, unlike weaker Republican presidents in the past.
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Now, the one thing I do love about this tweet from Josh Shapiro is this is going to be great grounds to challenge whatever corruption, crooked practices they have while they dig up a bunch of fraudulent votes in Pennsylvania if the Democrats try to steal the election.
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This is going to come in real handy, because it's basically the Attorney General of Pennsylvania saying, hey, I'm committing election fraud.
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The left justifies this by saying that President Trump is as bad as Hitler.
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And actually, there's one prominent leftist who just said that President Trump is worse than Hitler.
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This woman, Dr. Bandy X. Lee, is the president of the World Mental Health Coalition.
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And a frequent guest on CNN and MSNBC, much less ironic.
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And she is saying not only is Donald Trump similar to Hitler, he's actually worse.
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At least Hitler improved the daily life of his followers, had discipline, and required more of himself to gain the respect of his followers.
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Even with the same pathology, there are varying degrees of competence.
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So, I guess I see the joke that she's trying to make.
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First of all, just as a general rule, it's probably not good in mainstream public life to make jokes about Hitler for millions and millions of people.
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If you're a public health expert, if you're sort of a mainstream analyst, it's just not a good idea.
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She's saying, oh, gosh, you think Hitler's bad and you're comparing Trump.
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Because at least Hitler was disciplined or something like that.
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But then she goes on, she's so effusive in her praise of Hitler that you start to think, hold on, does this lady have a, this is going beyond the joke now.
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And yeah, and at least Hitler had those beautiful, wonderful blue eyes that you would just get lost in all that.
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Also, she's wrong about Hitler is the other thing because people don't know anything about history.
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Hitler, let me check through the list, did not improve the daily life of his followers.
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Wasn't he a kind of, he loses temper all the time and he committed suicide, not very disciplined.
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He required more of himself to gain the respect of his followers.
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I don't, I don't know that that's, I don't even know what that means, but if it means anything, I don't think it's true.
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I think Trump is a much better fella than Hitler.
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She is expressing a view that many people think.
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I mean, I have, I have friends and family who are liberals who tell me that, that Trump is a Nazi, you know.
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And I guess the implication is that Trump supporters are Nazis, which is more than a little bit offensive.
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The Atlantic writer Ann Applebaum just, just tweeted out some, some truly varsity level gaslighting.
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If you're in a major metropolitan area right now, you might notice that buildings are boarded up.
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If you go, if I go to Beverly Hills right now, Rodeo Drive, most famous road in, in Beverly Hills, one of the most famous roads in the world, is boarded up.
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Stores have taken their merchandise, put it into warehouses because they're afraid of riots and looting.
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The kind of riots and looting that we've seen for the past seven or eight months.
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Do you know who Ann Applebaum at the Atlantic blames?
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When conservatives celebrated Trump's election four years ago, did they know that in 2020 we would board up shops, prepare for riots and the arrival of militias, game out ways he might steal the election, protest aggressive voter suppression?
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Does anybody really believe that the riots and looting that people are preparing for tonight would come from conservatives?
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Nobody believes that wild gangs of, of Trump supporters are going to go steal Gucci handbags on Rodeo Drive.
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It's going to be the same Biden supporters that have been looting and rioting and burning down the country for the past seven months.
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Not one of them, not one of the people who stole a Gucci handbag is supporting Donald Trump.
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All of them, if they have a preference at all among candidates, are supporting Joe Biden.
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Hillary Clinton said that Joe Biden shouldn't concede under any circumstances.
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Democrats are openly, aggressively trying to steal the election.
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The attorney general in Pennsylvania is calling the state for Joe Biden before the votes have been cast, before election day.
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There, there, Trump is going to steal the election.
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The Democrats refused to concede the 2016 election up to today, up to today.
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On election night, 2016, Hillary Clinton would not come out and concede.
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She sent John Podesta out there to very limply say, thanks for showing up.
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Hillary's always been here for you, except now when she's supposed to be here the most.
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And then later she had to sort of concede, but she hasn't really.
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She said it was an illegitimate election that was stolen from her.
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And then the bureaucracy, in collusion with the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign,
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tried to overturn the Trump election for three and a half years.
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Show me how Donald Trump is trying to perpetrate voter suppression.
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Well, he thinks that you shouldn't be able to vote, you know, after election day.
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Look, listen, I, maybe I didn't, I don't like how the 2008 election turned out.
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Maybe I want to vote now because I, and I want my vote to be heard.
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And this, to me, is the choice on election day.
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Michael, not all Biden supporters are burning the American flag.
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I'm not saying all Biden supporters burn the American flag, but all the people burning the
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No, no Trump supporter has ever burned the American flag.
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In fact, Trump supporters treat the American flag with great respect.
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I remember, I forget if it was Hillary or Obama.
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During one of their campaigns, some stupid staffer took a photo at an election setup.
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The Democrats didn't understand why it was controversial.
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Because the Democrats don't realize that you're not supposed to let the flag touch the ground.
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Patriots, people who respect our country and respect the symbols of our country, know that.
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Whenever, if I was at a Fourth of July parade or something and the flag touched the ground,
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Many people in this country don't know that anymore.
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And when you have no respect for the symbol, you have no respect for the symbolized.
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And if you disrespect what is being, if you disrespect what is representing the thing,
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And now, I mean, I think we know this intuitively.
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Why else protest the flag, like at NFL games or at Democratic caucus meetings?
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No, it's because it's a symbol of the thing itself.
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And they've been engaged in a more than century-long campaign to undermine this country.
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Because they believe it's rotten from the beginning.
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They believe the founding was not in 1776 or 1620 when the Mayflower arrived.
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They think it was 1619 when the slaves got here.
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That this country is defined by every rotten thing it's ever done and none of the good things.
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And that all of our country's enemies are defined by only the good things they've ever done and none of the rotten things.
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And if they can't find enough rotten things to accuse America of committing, they'll make them up.
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Now we've got to move into the future and the future is going to be so much better.
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Thank goodness we're here to liberate us from that awful oppressive past of America that gave us our lives.
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Those awful forefathers who gave us everything we have in this country.
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And lighting the flag on fire and destroying stores and assaulting people in the street.
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But Michael, Trump's a, or Biden rather is a sort of moderate guy.
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But what I do know is he has sided with the people who are attacking this country and who are lighting the flags on fire.
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It's amazing the, the degree to which anti-Americanism has, has affected our country.
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So much so that full professional sports teams are now pretending that this isn't even the American country at all, which we will get to in one second.
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Many people don't believe that this even is our country.
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And this is not just some radical left idea that you learn in some critical studies class in college.
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So the Chicago Blackhawks, now, before any of their matches, I don't even know what are they, games, matches,
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This is a statement that they will now read before every single one of these games.
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The Chicago Blackhawks acknowledge that the team, its foundation, and the spaces we maintain, work and compete within,
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stand upon the traditional homelands of the Miami, Sauk, Fox, Ho-Chunk, Menaminie, and the Council of the Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi nations.
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We understand that this land holds immense significance for its original stewards, the Native nations, and the peoples of this region.
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We would also like to recognize that our team's namesake, Sauk War leader Blackhawk, serves as a continuous reminder of our responsibility to the Native American communities we live amongst and draw inspiration from.
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First of all, the original inhabitants of this land, what is an original inhabitant of this land?
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Is it the tribe? Is it the sub-tribes, the tribes within the tribes? Is it the tribes that conquered the other tribes?
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If I go down to the southwest United States, which is the United States now, by the way.
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It's not Apache land, it's not Comanche land, it's not whatever land.
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And I go down there, and all of a sudden I get some pang of American guilt.
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I think I'm immune to that, but let's say I did.
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Would I then read a statement and say, I acknowledge that I am standing on Comanche land?
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I guess I could, because we did take it from the Comanche.
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So should I, who should I acknowledge in my statement of guilt?
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Who are we, which tribe are we, I guess they're going to acknowledge all of the tribes.
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Because every tribe and every other people and every other place and every other country on the face of the earth,
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from the beginning of civilization to the present, has been so much better than us.
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The crime that they're accusing the United States of committing is the crime of conquest.
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Which, in some instances is true, in some instances isn't true.
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In some instances we had treaties that we upheld, in some instances we had treaties we didn't upheld,
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and in some places we just won territory through outright war.
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But you know what I do know about the law of conquest?
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Every other people throughout all of human history has exercised it as well.
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Why uniquely is the United States to feel sorry for this, to apologize, to rend our garments and gnash our teeth?
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The reason is because we're the most advanced country in the history of the world.
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I'm not saying we're this absolutely perfect virtuous country.
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We are much more advanced and sophisticated in any broad sense of that term, country, than anyone else.
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So we have to pretend that we're not, and we have to pretend it was all ill-gotten gains.
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Part of the reason why our civilization has been able to advance so much,
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and, by the way, to be really nice to everyone else in the world,
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and let people come in at a higher rate than anyone else ever on Earth.
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The largest mass migration of human beings has occurred over the past 60 years ever in recorded history.
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And it's occurred into the United States because of how generous we are in immigration.
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So the United States has been able to achieve that degree of prominence
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because of a specific culture and a specific civilization, specific ideas and specific people,
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And that will not make the world better off for everybody else.
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That will plunge us all into even greater barbarism.
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So my map is all, it's going to be all red and plus Greenland.
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So a lot of people talking about 538, 538 electoral votes.
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I'm going to say 623 because I'm going to give Greenland 85 electoral votes.
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I don't know how many people are there, but that's fine.
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I'm only, I don't, I don't think the whole entire country is going to vote for Trump.
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If, if I wake up tomorrow, well, I guess I'll still be on set tonight.
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If I find out tonight that Joe Biden won narrowly, wouldn't be surprised.
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If I find Trump, Trump won narrowly, wouldn't be surprised.
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If I find out that Biden won in a big way, you know, he got a huge number of electoral votes.
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That would, that would surprise me a little bit more.
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And if I found out Trump won 40 states or some, some crazy, you know, some insane number
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The models are only as good as the data you put in.
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And we're in such a bizarre year with the unprecedented widespread unsolicited mail-in
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We've had epidemics like this and actually much worse than this before.
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But the lockdowns, the politicization of the coronavirus by the left, mostly, is unprecedented.
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The degree of fraud that you've seen, and I'm not talking about fraud even at the polling
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places, although Attorney General Shapiro should make us a little worried about that
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in Pennsylvania, but I'm talking about the fraud in the bureaucracy itself.
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What happened in 2016 to the present is the first attempted coup in my lifetime.
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There have been others in the United States, but first one since I've been alive.
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So I don't know how to factor that into my calculations.
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There is a strange phenomenon going on, which is these organic Trump parades.
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You know, because there haven't been quite as many rallies, I think Trump's done something
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I mean, he's just absolutely killing it in the last few days on the campaign trail.
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But because there haven't been as many rallies and formal events as there have been in years
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past, people are just creating their own Trump parades.
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People get in their cars or their trucks, and they have an American flag, and they have
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a Trump flag, and maybe a Gadsden flag, something like that.
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And they go down, and they go on for miles and miles and miles.
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That shows you that something is going on in the country.
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I suspect that enthusiasm difference is going to factor into the election results, even if
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And let's say that there isn't fraud for a second.
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That still tells you something about our politics, because you've got a country that is so starkly
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divided, and not just about this issue or that issue, not just about taxes, not just about
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certain rates of immigration, not even about really serious issues like abortion, but about
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Some people like the country, want more of it, have loyalty to their country, love it, and
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I'm not saying this even as like a cheap political shot.
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If you ask them, they'd say, yeah, I hate this country.
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I love what this country, what they would usually say is this.
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I hate what we were, but I love what we could be.
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I hate what we are now, but I love what we could be if we only live up to the ideals that
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Not that George Washington or Thomas Jefferson invented, but that I invented.
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Sure, if you hate what a country is now, and you hate what a country was in the past, and
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you enjoy what you think the country could be in the future because you've got a crystal
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You like your daydreams, and you hate your country.
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Chesterton famously said that there's a thought that stops thought, and that's the only thought
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that ought to be stopped, that there are principles that we have to take on faith.
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There are axioms that we need to begin with in this country, in any country.
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And one of them is you have to love your country.
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And we're having a disagreement over that question right now.
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You've seen the mayhem from the military wing of the Democratic Party, known as Antifa or BLM.
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Just the other day, the cops were getting ready for the election unrest.
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Listen to the sort of things that these leftist activists scream at cops.
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I hope all of your children get raped and killed.
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This is a national problem and an ideological problem and a political party problem because
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all of these people are aligning with the Democratic Party and not one of them is aligning with
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And, and the way that we deal with these cultural problems is not to throw our hands up in the
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air and say, well, okay, I guess we've got to just do better at persuading our citizens.
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The way that we deal with these political questions is in politics.
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All too often, conservatives have tried to make this neat distinction between culture
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And there's something to be said for that because the movies, I guess, are different
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The mainstream media is kind of in the middle there, right?
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Politics is not just some tiny little thing that we should, we should surrender power on.
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Politics is how we live together as people and how we persuade one another and how we can
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Comes from the Greek polis, the city states, how citizens come together.
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Politics is a much broader realm than I think many conservatives have been willing to admit.
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And today is the day that we express our views on that.
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And that is why the great Taylor Swift, our hero, is coming out to sing our country back
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Why are so many powerful people trying to make it so difficult for us to vote?
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It keeps me awake, the look on your face, the moment you heard the news.
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And the big bad man is big back and their hands are stained with red.
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You gotta hold on to that for the rest of your life.
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Why are so many people trying to make it so hard to vote?
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You probably don't need to be an American citizen.
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You can vote basically whenever, apparently after the election, perhaps, or at least after
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It's much too easy to vote right now because the system itself is open to such fraud.
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And the men, these men are just enriching themselves.
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He's lost a billion dollars in office helping the country.
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I hope it's just desperation from our friends on the left.
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We're obviously going to have that election coverage.
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In any case, I would like to express a little bit of gratitude for how fun the past four years
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I hope we get another replay of election night 2016.
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So I will say goodbye to you for now until our election night later.
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And I will play you out on a glorious montage from 2016.
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Just last week, he confirmed to the National Review that he is again considering a run in 2016.
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I will personally write you a campaign check now on behalf of this country,
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which does not want you to be president, but which badly wants you to run.
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Which Republican candidate has the best chance of winning the general election?
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President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States,
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Well, at real Donald Trump, at least I will go down as a president.
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So right now, we have Hillary's about 75 or an 80 percent favorite.
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We have different versions of the forecast you can look at.
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The poll has Hillary Clinton up by double digits nationally, 12 points, 50 to 38 in a four-way race.
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I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president.
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And so, right now, Mr. Trump, to answer your call for political honesty,
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I just want to say, you're not going to be president, all right?
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Donald Trump, while we project, will win in Kentucky, in Indiana, with its 11 electoral votes.
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West Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, North Dakota,
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And South Dakota, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, the state of Montana, North Carolina, Georgia,
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Iowa, Utah, Wisconsin, Arizona, Kansas, with its six electoral votes.
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We're not, we are not going to be taking any questions.
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