Ep. 732 - Mob Rule
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While President Joe Biden pretends that his policies have not created a crisis and a surge at the southern border, the criminal coyotes who his policies empower are saying otherwise. The gangsters are getting too rich off of this, say the gangsters.
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While President Joe Biden pretends that his policies have not created a crisis and a surge at the southern border,
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the criminal coyotes who his policies have empowered are saying otherwise.
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Take a listen. I'll translate since I'm such an expert in Spanish and I can read subtitles.
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Is business booming right now? Does it pay well? It does.
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Given the situation with the people, at least that's what these two young men say,
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having built a highly profitable business, this is Univision,
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by helping Central American families seeking asylum to cross into the U.S.
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We just come here to earn our daily bread like everybody else, says the criminal coyote.
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With the benefits your president is now granting,
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I'm just a small criminal coyote who abuses people and breaks the laws of multiple nations.
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My favorite comment yesterday from Austin Faust,
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who says, anytime a Democrat says it's not about politics,
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You know, the Democrats are very often misdirecting and the left usually projects.
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So what it accuses its opponents of doing is what it is doing itself.
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And it's the same thing, this irony of, hey, come on, this is not about politics.
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Just redefine sex, obliterate national borders and give us all the power.
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not supposed to call what is going on at the border a surge or a crisis. I'm not allowed to do that
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just because the numbers are surging, just because we obviously have a crisis,
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1500% capacity in some detention facilities. I'm not allowed to call it either of those things
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because that would make me a racist. They want to say, what about the surge?
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Well, first of all, just gut check, stop. Anyone who's using the term surge around you
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consciously is trying to invoke a militaristic frame. And that's a problem because this is not
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a surge. These are children and they are not insurgents and we are not being invaded, which by
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the way, is a white supremacist idea, philosophy. The idea that if an other is coming in the population,
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that this is like an invasion of who we are. Invasion is a white supremacist word. So for instance,
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when Genghis Khan's armies were taking over and conquering lands, that was white supremacy.
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When the Greeks invaded Troy, that was white supremacy. Were the Trojans white? Were the Greeks
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white? As just a technical matter, what is going on at the southern border is an invasion. Now,
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the reason that one can hesitate to call it an invasion, there are two reasons. One,
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the people who are coming in, the foreign nationals pouring across our border illegally
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are not armed. And usually that the idea of an invasion involves people being armed,
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preparing for armed conflict. And they're not, which ties into the second reason that one hesitates
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to call it an invasion. Namely, they're being invited in by Democrats. Joe Biden is actually
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saying, come surge, get over here. Come on. We want you to come. He's using all those white
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supremacist terms. But just as a, as a purely technical matter, take all the emotion out of it.
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When a, when a foreign people subject to a foreign state starts lawlessly pouring across your border
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in contravention of your, of your national borders, of your sovereignty and of your laws,
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what do you call that? Do you call that a dinner party? No. Is it closer to a dinner party or an
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invasion? I don't, it seems to me very much the latter, but, but she goes further than that.
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She says, you can't call it a surge. They're not, it's not a surge. It's children.
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Yeah. Children can surge. I guess if you, when we're talking about the surge, we're talking about
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a rapid increase in numbers. And that is just what's happening. Doesn't matter if you can call
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it a surge in bunny rabbits at the local park. It's not a surge. It's bunny rabbits, right? We're
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just talking about the massive increase in numbers that you're seeing because of Joe Biden. It's not
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a crisis. We're just, oh, right. Putting kids in cages. That same thing that AOC pretended to cry
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about when Trump did it. Even though the policy wasn't even originally a Trump policy. It's a policy
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that dates back all the way to the Clinton administration. So, so dishonest. And what she
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does, it works, obviously. I fell for it. She, she says things that are patently absurd. Like when
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people come in mass over a border illegally, you can't call that an invasion or you're a white
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supremacist. And when numbers increase, you can't call it a surge. And when you're in a, at a critical
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moment, you can't call it a crisis. So she says things that are just incoherent, indefensible.
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And then she gets all of us to be exasperated by it. But then the terms of the discussion are on
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her preferred battlefield, right? This is what the left always does. They get us to argue
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on their terms. And so, and we're doing it right now. I mean, the reason I'm, I'm bringing this
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story up right now is just to call your attention to this rhetorical and political technique and to
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call your attention to the central strategy of political correctness, which I detail quite a lot in
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my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order, which is that
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they believe that if you redefine the words, you can redefine reality. If I say it's not a crisis,
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then you know what? It's not a crisis. If I say that a whole lot of foreigners are, are not pouring
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across our border, I don't even know what the argument she's making is. Then yeah, then they're
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really not. It's not a surge. It's not a surge. Speaking of redefining reality, the actress Sophia
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Bush, who is that? I have no idea, but apparently she's a somewhat well-known actress. She just posted
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to her Instagram that, that not pumping little boys full of little girl hormones, not pumping
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little kids full of cross-sex hormones and mutilating their bodies is tantamount to murder.
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Yes. Hashtag trans kids are under attack across the country. AR, I guess Arkansas, just banned them
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from accessing healthcare. Oh, they can't, oh no, they can't, they can't get their annual checkup.
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They can't go to the hospital if they have appendicitis. They, oh no, they, they have healthcare.
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AR just won't, won't allow them to, won't allow pervert parents to pump their kids full of cross-sex
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hormones. This is tantamount to murder. Kids will tell us who they are. It's our job to support them,
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not demonize or harm them. No, it's our job to raise them and educate them. And kids won't tell
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us who they are because I told my mother I was Batman when I was four years old. Kids will tell
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us who they are. No, no, no. If, if you are relying on kids to teach you about the world and to educate
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you, then something has gone very wrong in your life. You are, you are living an inverted sort of life.
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But it, this does bring, I mean, who cares what some ridiculous actress says?
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There are three positions that you can take on this transgender issue. And it involves a whole
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lot more than just this issue of people who are confused about their sex, which is as a
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psychological matter, a very small number of people. As a social contagion, it's getting bigger,
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but there are three positions you can have. The one is the, the first one is the leftist position,
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which is men can be women. And therefore we ought to be able to mutilate anyone we want.
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If we want to pump adults full of hormones and chop off their body parts, that's totally fine.
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That's their choice. That's wonderful. We, we should do that actually. And if kids want to do that,
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then we should indulge kids in that too. That's the leftist position. Then there is the,
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call it the libertarian position, which is men cannot be women, but Hey, who am I to judge? You do you.
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I mean, look, I think men can't be women, but maybe you think men can be women. And so, you know,
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really who's to say, so you, you should mutilate adults, but you, you shouldn't mutilate children
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because they haven't reached the age of consent. And so you got to wait for them to decide to harm
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themselves. And then once they want to harm themselves, then they can do that. Libertarian
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position. Third position is the conservative position, which is men cannot be women. And therefore we
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should not encourage this. And therefore we should not mutilate anyone. This is the position of Dr.
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Paul McHugh who, or at least in his practice, this is his position. He was one of the pioneers of the
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gender reassignment surgery, the very sort of mutilation that we're talking about. He did this
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at Johns Hopkins and he stopped doing it. He shut, he shut that down because he realized it wasn't
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providing any medical benefit and it was wrong to do. I would strongly recommend the conservative
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position here. I think a lot of conservatives who want to be like nice guys and, you know,
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they don't want to tell people what to think and, Hey, come on, it doesn't affect me, man,
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or whatever. They, they believe that by arguing the number two position, the, the libertarian position
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that, you know, just don't do it to kids. Yeah. Men can't really be women, but whatever. Adults
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should be able to do whatever they want. So just don't do it to kids. They think that that is going
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to stave off the leftist position that we should be able to do it to everybody, including pumping
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little kids full of hormones. It won't. That second permissive position is just going to grant
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the premises that the first one relies on. There is such a thing as reality. We can know certain
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things about reality through our faculties of reason. We can know certain things about the moral
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universe, like doctors shouldn't mutilate patients. We can know that through our moral
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conscience, which is a judgment of reason. And if we're going to abandon our faculties of reason
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and our moral conscience, then we've just given the game away to the leftists who believe that they
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can redefine reality. However, they see fit. You are not staving off what, what you feel is the,
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the really bad part of this, which is really the worst part of it. The, the, uh, mutilating kids,
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you're not staving that off by adopting the live and let live. You do you position. You have to
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grow the cojones to stay. It's a kind of an interesting metaphor to use in this topic.
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You have to be able to grow those body parts. A spine too would be a good one to be able to state
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truths and have the confidence to stand by those truths in the public square and to stand by those
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truths through self-government, where we make our own laws rather than surrender the field to the
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radicals who are, who are engaging in vicious, vicious behaviors that are ruining countless
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the gender ideology, but still speaking of dubious medical advice, Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci is out there,
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the exalted doctor, peace be upon him. Our, our great spiritual leader in his beautiful white lab
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coat, telling all of us what we need to do. Not according to any traditional moral order or
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political order, just kind of whatever whims pop into his mind. Fauci is claiming credit for the
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vaccine. He is saying that this vaccine we got already, it's so great. This is the best decision
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that he ever made. When I saw what happened in New York City. Refrigerated trucks are now being
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mobilized as makeshift works. Almost overrunning of our healthcare system. It was like, oh my goodness.
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And that's when it became very clear that the decision we made on January the 10th to go all
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out and develop a vaccine. We have a number of vaccine candidates may have been the best decision
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that I've ever made with regard to an intervention as the director of the Institute.
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Wow. Thank you, Dr. Fauci. Dr. Fauci was the only person who thought that we should try to develop
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a vaccine to the new virus, right? He was the only person on earth who thought, oh no, everyone else
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thought that too. And president Trump was pushing for that more than just about anybody. Well, okay,
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fine. Maybe it wasn't his idea, Dr. Fauci's, but at least he was the one who said, this is what we're
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going to do. This is the timeline. Here's how we're going to get it done, right? He was the one leading
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the charge. He was the one who, who foresaw that we would be able to get this vaccine into, oh no,
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he didn't. He actually said it was absurd to think we were going to get a vaccine really even by
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right about now that we wouldn't, we wouldn't have a vaccine for a year, a year and a half,
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certainly not in the six months it actually took. One of the things the president said yesterday is
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that we're very close to a vaccine. Now I know this is something you know a lot about. This is
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your job. How close are we to a vaccine? Are we very close? Well, I mean, the confusion again is we're
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close to starting a phase one trial to determine safety. We're going to do that in about one and a
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half to two months, but that doesn't mean you have a vaccine in order to get a vaccine. That's
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practically deployable for people to use. It's going to be at least a year to a year and a half
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at best. So that interview was at the very end of February, two days before the end of February.
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And he said, you will not get a vaccine. You will not, you will not have a vaccine. Forget about
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widespread access to the vaccine. You won't even have the vaccine for a year. So that would bring
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us to right about now or a year and a half, a year and a half. Well, that would bring us to September
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of 2021. When did we actually get the vaccine? Got the vaccine in late October, early, I mean,
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ready to go sort of vaccine, late October, early November of 2020. Completely wrong about
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the vaccine. Like he was completely wrong about so many important aspects of this pandemic,
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but he's going to get the credit. He's going to get the nice CNN special. Dr. Fauci saved us.
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Donald Trump stood on a debate stage with Joe Biden being interrogated by Chris Wallace.
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And he was told Wallace, I wish I had the clip. Wallace said repeatedly, I've played it on the show
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before. He said, Mr. President, you've said we're going to get a vaccine by the fall, but all the
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medical experts say there's no way that's going to happen. Trump says, look, I don't know what to
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tell you. I talked to these companies. It's going to happen. No, it's not all the experts,
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all the geniuses, all the lab coats. Look, I don't know. I mean, look, man, I'm just Donald Trump.
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What do I know? I'm a reality TV show host, but I think I'm smarter than all these eggheads in their
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white coats. He didn't quite say that, but he, he implied it and he was right. And he was right.
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Right. Some people are benefiting from the continued lockdowns. And I think that is why
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some people, technocrats, politicians, certain people in corporate America are encouraging us
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to maintain the lockdowns longer and longer and longer. The lockdowns are not universally bad
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for business. We have this idea that all the lockdowns that shut down the terrible for the
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economy. What's the economy? What, you know, we have this abstraction of the economy. The economy is
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how we all get along in our livelihoods, how we all make some money, how companies thrive,
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how companies go under, and some companies are doing really, really well. What's going on in this
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lockdown is not that the economy is suffering. It's that big business interests, big political
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interests are getting everything they've wanted for years and little business interests and little
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political interests are getting absolutely wrecked. The power mad Democrats are getting everything they
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want. The administrative state, the public health apparatus getting everything at once. Giant
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corporations, Amazon notably, but many, many others have never been doing better because now we're all
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just at home ordering from them instead of going to our local, local shops. The CDC has now extended
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its moratorium on evictions through June. Okay, well that's good. That's good for the little guy,
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right? Maybe, maybe it's good for some people who can't pay their rent, but what about the landowners?
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What about the building owners? Now I know what you're thinking. Oh, who cares about my landlord? That guy
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drives me crazy. He always takes my money. Not all landlords are made the same.
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There are small landlords who maybe they own one, one apartment building. Maybe they own one
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apartment. I used to rent an apartment from a lovely couple that they owned one apartment and
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they rented it out. And so if you didn't pay your rent that month, that really mattered to them.
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They couldn't, they couldn't float you for a year or a year and a half. That would put them out of
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business. The same is true for small property developers. It's not like these guys are just
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swimming around in bathtubs full of money. A lot of them are pretty extended. You know,
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they need to collect that rent. For much larger land developers, it's a little bit easier because
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they divorce, diversify their portfolio. They are able to float cash a little, a little bit more
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easily. So large landowners, I don't think they, they mind this at all. Make sure, extend the eviction
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moratorium, extend it all you want because it's going to squeeze those small landlords out of
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business. And then the big guys are going to be able to come in. This is the theme of COVID. The
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little guy suffers and the big guy wins. The little guy has to wear the mask. The little guy can't go to
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Thanksgiving. The little guy can't leave his house and the big guy, he does whatever he wants. Just
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look at the Cuomo's in New York. Violated all of Andrew Cuomo's mandates. Chris Cuomo lied about it
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on TV, goes to the Hamptons, starts bicycling all around, sees people, gets fast tracked to all the
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special medical care, gets to go to work every day. But, but you, the little guy, the little guy
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doesn't get any of that. Speaking of the powerful, pressing the powerless, a theme we hear a whole
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lot, especially from the left in our politics. A Georgia police department, Gwinnett County PD,
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is requiring officers to complete an implicit bias training course. Okay, we've heard a lot about
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implicit bias. The course teaches that the criminal justice system was, quote, set up by white men to
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benefit white men. Quote, each of these systems were set up by white men to benefit white men. That is
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not to lay blame, simply to explain how practices that favor the majority tend to evolve. So the
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justice system, rotten to the core. Actually, it has nothing to do with justice. It's simply another
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interest group set up to benefit that dread element of society, white men. It does not have to do with
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justice, rotten to the core. Do you see the problem here? Do you see the problem with a totally rotten
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justice system that maintains its power through implicit actions? If the whole system is corrupt,
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and if the corruption is implicit, then the training ain't going to do squat. The training,
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it can't do anything. One, even if, under the best of conditions, if the whole system is corrupt,
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you got to get rid of the system. If there's nothing salvageable, if it's rotten really to its
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core, you've just got to get rid of it. You've got to, say, abolish the police. But furthermore,
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if the corruption is implicit, then there's nothing you can do about it because you can only do things
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about issues that come to the conscience, that are brought up in your reason, that you can think
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through because you can see them. You can only do things about these explicit problems. If they are
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implicit, by definition, you can't control it. This is how the left maintains power. They say,
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you're a racist. And I say, no, I'm really not. And they say, no, well, that's just what a racist
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would say. You see, because if you, if you say that you're not a racist, that's proof that you're
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a racist because the racism that you're not even aware that your racism is implicit. You're not even
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aware that you're not aware of your racism. Uh, okay. Well, if that's the case, then get rid of
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this police department. If it's really rotten to the core and there's nothing you can do about the
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behind her hot takes. We'll be right back with a lot more.
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As a matter of justice and crime, I can't believe we haven't even talked about it yet this week.
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The nation is on trial. Did you know that? I didn't know that. I thought, well, here's what
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I thought. I thought that that cop, Derek Chauvin, who was the Minnesota cop who was
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involved in the death of George Floyd. And some people are like BLM, for instance, is saying that
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Derek Chauvin murdered him and that they're therefore justified BLM burning the country down
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for six months. And some people are saying, well, actually, you know, George Floyd was resisting
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arrest because we saw that video and he had extraordinarily toxic levels of fentanyl in
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his system and he asked to be taken out of the car. And so maybe this is more complicated
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than people are letting on. I don't know. I don't want to get my studio burned down for
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saying something like that by the social justice warriors. But I thought it was a very specific
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criminal case. No. The journalists are telling me on ABC News, this is about the whole country.
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Of course, we have no idea over the course of this trial how much race will be brought
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up, how much the conversation that ensued in this country and really around the world
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after this. But there's no question that's the lens through which so many people are watching
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this unfold. Definitely about race. And I don't have to tell you, David, that this case is so much
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bigger than what happened 10 months ago in the corner of 38th and Chicago in Minneapolis.
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On its face, Derek Chauvin is on trial for sure. But for many Americans, this nation is on trial.
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Our criminal justice system is on trial. And for many, especially black people, this is about
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black and white. This is about justice for people who aren't specifically involved in this case.
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Yeah. OK, that might be true, according to some people in their perception. But the thing is,
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those people who think that are wrong. Because this case is not about black and white and a national
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reckoning on race and all these people who are not involved in the trial. This case is about whether or
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not the BLM narrative is true. Did in this particular case, even if it were true in this particular case,
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it wouldn't necessarily follow that it's true in all these other cases. But the question in this case,
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the BLM narrative is, this cop, motivated by racial hatred, murdered this guy who had done nothing
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wrong. And therefore, this was a hate crime. It was basically a lynching. Is that true?
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The evidence doesn't seem to suggest it's true. But I guess that's why we're having a trial,
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because evidence is going to be presented. And we're going to find out whether that narrative
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holds up to a jury or not. It's not about anything else. The left wants to make this
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about a national reckoning on race. And more specifically, because they don't want any sort
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of reckoning on race at all. They want to advance a narrative that says that white people are bad,
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and they're the source of all evil in the world. And as LeBron James said, black men can't leave
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their homes without being hunted down by racist whites. And that's what they're going to tell us,
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because that isn't an effective cudgel. There was a really horrific apparent hate crime in New York,
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just came out over the past few days. Anti-Asian violence is on the rise. We've been told the
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cause of this is white supremacy. So you can take a listen to what happened in New York.
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So an Asian woman walking by, yeah, we've blurred this too, because we don't, I don't want to see
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this woman getting pounded. So Asian woman walking on the street and a black guy walks up and just
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kicks her right in the face and then just keeps kicking her in the face. There is a security guard
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inside the building with the door open. So is he going to go help? They're not helping at all.
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Is he going to go out there and help her now? No, he closes the door, closes the door on her.
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Now, as far as I can tell, no white supremacy present anywhere in this video, as far as I can
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tell, no white people present anywhere in this video. And yet we are being told, I kid you not,
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that crimes such as this perpetrated by one racial minority group against another racial minority group
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are caused by white supremacy. Because white supremacy is not the conclusion of any argument
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the left is making. It's the premise. It's the lens through which they're viewing the world. So
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they'll say, yeah, okay, this black guy comes up and he says to this Asian woman, you don't belong
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here. And he kicks her in the head and he viciously beats her. And these, these, I don't even want to
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call them men. These things standing in this, this doorway, not helping her, closing the door on her.
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They do nothing. But this is caused by white supremacy. It reminds me of this rather Christian
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idea that man is the greatest of all beings, right? Of all created beings. And so when man turns toward
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God, he, he really shines, right? He really is the greatest, greatest of all beings. But when man
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turns away from God and embraces wrath and, uh, violence and viciousness like the man on the street,
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or when he embraces cowardice and selfishness, like those men in the building, he becomes the worst of
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all animals, the lowest of the created things. And that's, I think what we're seeing in this video
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is the issue that's going on in this video. Is it white supremacy? Uh, no, very obviously not.
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Is it race? Well, there's obviously a racial component there. The guy says to the Asian woman,
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you don't belong here. So it at least seems very likely that race plays some role. But is race even
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the primary issue here? I don't think so. I think the primary issue is a total breakdown of civil
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society. I think the issue is a complete breakdown of education. I suspect at issue here is a breakdown
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of the family, which teaches you love, loyalty, and obligation to the smallest political unit up to
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the larger political unions. And I suspect what's going on here is a breakdown of the justice system.
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That guy who kicked that woman in the face, apparently he's been arrested, thankfully.
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Apparently he, uh, he just got out of the clink a little while ago. He served 17 years after
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murdering his mother. The guy murders his mother, goes to jail for 17 years. If you murder your mother,
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I don't want to seem like I'm a crazy bloodthirsty pro capital punishment guy. If you murder your
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mother, I don't think you should get out of prison. I don't think you should go to prison. I think you
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should be executed by the state. I don't see any exception to that rule, right? Is that so crazy?
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Am I such a radical for saying that? But no, because we, we now are told we need to be compassionate.
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We need to, it's so compassionate. And it's actually a matter of justice to pull people out
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of the justice system and let them out on the street so they can kick Asian women in the head.
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Is that, is that compassionate? Is that justice? I, I don't think so. Speaking of potential crimes,
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under investigation right now for allegedly getting frisky with a 17 year old girl is Republican
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Congressman Matt Gaetz. Apparently under FBI or DOJ investigation, Matt Gaetz says that it's an
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extortion attempt involving a crooked DOJ official. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. I don't know.
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I mean, I don't know anything about this case. The only thing I know is that there is corruption at
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the DOJ. Plenty of fine people at the DOJ and the FBI, but also plenty of crooks. We saw a lot of them
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during the Trump administration. We know Matt Gaetz, very prominent Republican. We know Republicans have
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it pretty tough these days when it comes to the administrative state. So I'll give him the benefit
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of the doubt. I don't know. Maybe it didn't, maybe it did, maybe it didn't. I, I, I'm going to reserve
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judgment. I know that that's a crazy thing to do these days where we're all supposed to have a
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knee jerk reaction right away and, and, you know, throw people into the outer darkness where there's
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wailing and gnashing of teeth, but I'm not going to do that. You know, wait and see. They're going to
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do some investigation. We'll see what happens. What's more interesting about Matt Gaetz right now
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is that he has reportedly told several associates that he is considering leaving Congress and
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going over to Newsmax and becoming a Newsmax TV host. Now, really the only reason I even mentioned
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the sex scandal thing is that this might be one explanation for why he wants to leave Congress,
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but let's just say for a second, there's, there's separate issues. I think there's two reads on why
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a prominent member of Congress would want to leave Congress to become a TV show host.
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The cynical read is that he wants money and he wants fame. You can't make a whole lot of money
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in Congress, at least not if you want to do it the honest way. And, you know, you get sort of well
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known, but you, you can be just as well known, if not more well known in the media. And so, yeah,
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he wants more, more money and fame. So he's going to, going to leave public service. That's a cynical
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read. There's a sympathetic read too. And it's the one that I'm more inclined toward.
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The sympathetic read is that Matt Gaetz knows that he can have a greater influence in our public life
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from a desk at Newsmax than he can in Congress. And I, I think that's basically true.
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There, there have been a handful of times people write in, many of you have written in and said,
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hey, Michael, are you, are you, do you want to run for public office? You should run for,
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for office. And I, I think, well, yeah, if I, if I felt I could really do something,
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certainly I would do that. That'd be, that'd be great. If I felt that I could really influence
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the country in a way that I felt was really good and, and I could do, oh man, wouldn't that be
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fabulous? Can one do that? In certain instances, I think one can. Can you do that from Congress though?
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I don't think so because Congress doesn't really pass laws anymore. Certainly Republicans in
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Congress don't pass laws. Democrats do it a little bit more so, but mostly what you do if
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you're in Congress is you just do TV hits, right? You occasionally will get a good soundbite when
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you're grilling someone who's testifying and then you're flying back and forth all the time between
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your district and DC and you're just raising money. You're spending probably 60% of your time
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just calling up your friends and associates and begging for money. And then you're spending the
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rest of your time doing TV hits. So, and, and the, really the way you're influencing the public
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conversation is much more through the TV hits than through anything else. So I suspect what
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Matt Gaetz is thinking is, wait a second, why am I wasting all my time doing these things that are
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having no effect whatsoever when I could just spend all my time doing the TV hits and make it a TV show
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and have, have an influence that way? Obviously when it is the case that the media have more
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influence over our politics than elected members of Congress, something has gone a little weird in
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our constitutional order, but I, I do think that's happened. And I, I think Gaetz, I think there are
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plenty of unselfish reasons why he would want to go have a TV show instead of serving Congress.
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The left knows that people in the media can have a wider impact on our, you know, much more
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significant impact on our politics than people in Congress. That is why they spend so much time
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going after us in media. There are people who are watching this right now, I suspect,
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who are at organizations like Media Matters, which is an extraordinarily well-funded left-wing
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operative group whose job it is to watch this show. That's their job. Never say I'm not a job
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creator. Their job is to sit and watch this show and try to get me fired. And it's not just me, it's
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Ben Shapiro. It's Andrew Klavan. It's some of the Fox guys, some of the Newsmax guys, some of the
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Blaze guys, and they may have just claimed a scalp. There was a, a big recent coordinated effort for
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Media Matters to go after Steven Crowder. I guess there's always kind of a long coordinated effort
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to go after Crowder. Frankly, I'm an, I'm part of the effort to go after Crowder. You know, we got
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to bring that guy down a peg. No, there is. There's, the left has gone after Crowder a lot because he
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gets away with a lot because he's a comedian and he's a pretty funny guy. Now they're closing in on
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him. YouTube has blocked Crowder from uploading new content to his channel for one week. He's got a
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huge channel. It's got over 5 million subscribers, I think. He's got another separate channel
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called Crowder Bits that I think he's still streaming from. We'll see how long that stays
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up. They pulled one of his videos from the platform that's, that they said violated its
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rules against spreading misinformation about the 2020 election. YouTube booted Crowder from
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its YouTube partner program, which allows Crowder to monetize the show. It's not like he does the show
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as a charity, right? The show is his job. That's how he can produce a high quality show. That's gone
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for some other reason that they made up. He's being booted from Twitter. Maybe he's back on Twitter
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now. I'm not sure, but this is what happens is that all the tech companies, when they think
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you're vulnerable, when they think it's a good time to go out, they just, they go in on them.
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I had an interview with Steven yesterday when I was guest hosting Ben's radio show. You can find
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that over at my YouTube channel because he kind of explains what's going on here. The reason I bring
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this up is not just to complain about how big tech is going after conservatives. We all know that
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that's happening. The reason I mentioned this is Crowder is very, very mainstream. Okay. I spend a
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lot of my day reading things from the fringe of the fringe of the far left and reading things from
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the fringe of the fringe of the far right and reading a lot of arcane old political philosophy
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from the way old back timey days and reading a lot of what crazy people are saying now and watching
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all these crazy YouTube videos. Steven Crowder is about as mainstream as it gets. Okay. And if
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they're going after him, they're going after all of us. It's why I mentioned, I mean, I've been making
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a joke about it now that I keep plugging my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,
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whether it was coincidence or let's say providence. My book is about this, about what's going on right
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this very second, even though I started writing it a year and a half ago. And now that Amazon is
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booting conservative books, I don't know how much longer it's going to be up there. So it's
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available for pre-order now at other places and it's still at Amazon for now, but we'll see how
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long that lasts. Things happen gradually and then suddenly. So it might be, yeah, they're kicking
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off the fringe people. And then, you know, six months later, they kick off some other fringe guy.
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And then that's a little less fringe six months later. And you could see a world where, where it goes.
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Crowder, Blaze, Daily Wire, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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Because they know that the media can have great influence and they don't want us to have any
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say in the media. Speaking of getting canceled, you know, there was an attempt
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by Harry's Razors to cancel me the other day. You remember Harry's Razors, I used to advertise
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on the show, they make, they make good razors, don't they? I mean, a lot of people I know have
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bought razors through this show from Harry's and I know that a lot of people have canceled
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their razors from Harry's. So, so Harry's responded to a fake Twitter account. This account that had
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at the time two followers, who knows who's behind the account. It could be some high school kid or
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it could be a Democrat operative outlet like the ones we've just mentioned, which have lots and
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lots of Twitter accounts. Who knows? I don't know. I don't really care. That Twitter account dug up a
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clip from two years ago in which I, I went on Candace Owens's old show on Prager and Candace
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Owens made a point about transgenderism and I agreed with it. And this Twitter account said,
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Harry's, you're sponsoring Michael Knowles. This is terrible. Look what he did years ago before you
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even started sponsoring him. And Harry's wrote back and they said, this is inexcusable. We condemn
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these views. You know, the view that men are not women or whatever. And we condemn it and this is
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horrible. And we've ended our relationship with this show. And I thought, I think they believe
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they were just going to virtue signal to the left wing mob. It wasn't even a mob. It was this little
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fake account and that would be all good. And we'd let them get away with it. And if it were just a
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hit at me, you know, maybe I'd just take it and move on. But it was a hit at our listeners. It was
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a hit at our audience who said, said, you know, if you believe that men are not women, that you're
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an inexcusable vile bigot or something. So we decided we were not going to be quiet about it. We were
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going to mention that Harry's razors does not want the business of conservatives because Harry's
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razors thinks we're all vile and condemnable and inexcusable. Harry's razors hates us. They don't
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mind our money because our money is still green, but they don't really want our, they don't want any
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relationship with us. That's for sure. They said there's a values misalignment. So anyway, I've gotten
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at this point, I think thousands of messages from people who, who have written into Harry's to cancel
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their plans and have CC'd me on emails. Apparently for a while, some people were calling Harry's and
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saying, Hey, I want to, I just heard something on the Michael Knowles show and Harry's would preempt
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them and say, well, we're canceling your plan. So, so anyway, that's pretty funny. Good way to
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keep pressure up. Really, really too bad that Harry's doesn't, doesn't want our business.
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Speaking of getting canceled, Maryland, the state of Maryland, what could have been that great
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Catholic colony? That great Catholic state didn't, didn't remain very Catholic too long.
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Maryland is getting rid of its state anthem. The state song is Maryland, my Maryland. And
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you're going to see some commentary on this over the next few days. And it's, some people are going
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to say, this is cancel culture. And some people are going to say, this is wonderful that they were
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changing the song. And I think most of the debate is, is missing the point. Here's the song.
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Maryland, my Maryland. The despot's heel is on thy shore, Maryland. His torch is at thy temple door,
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Maryland. Avenge the patriotic gore that flecked the streets of Baltimore and be the battle queen of
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yore, Maryland, my Maryland. The despot that they're referring to here is Abraham Lincoln. So this,
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this song comes from, I guess, the 1860s. And it was made the state song in, in 1939, I believe.
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Maryland, my mother state to thee I kneel. Maryland for life and death, for woe and weal.
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The peerless chivalry reveal and gird thy beauteous limbs with steel. Maryland, my Maryland. Then it goes
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on and talks more about, oh yeah, Maryland, Virginia should not call in vain. Maryland, she meets her
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sisters on the plains. Six emper, tis the proud refrain that baffles minions back again. Maryland,
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the six emper, like six emper tyrannis, thus always to tyrants. It's what John Wilkes Booth yelled when
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he killed Abraham Lincoln. So this is pretty, you know, pretty hardcore. It obviously does have a
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relation to the Confederacy. It obviously doesn't take a good, good view of Abraham Lincoln.
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So should we keep the anthem in the interest of preserving our history? Should we get rid of the
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anthem because, you know, it's a, it's a Confederate battle cry basically? What's the answer? My, my problem
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is not exactly the repeal of the song. The song hasn't been the state song for all that long,
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considering how long Maryland's existed. And it's not, the song that wasn't even written all that long
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ago. My problem here is how contrived the whole thing is. I do not think that there is a popular
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movement to get rid of the Maryland state song. I suspect most Marylanders don't know the state song
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and have never heard of the state song. This is not an organic change. This is a, a, another example
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of feigning offense on behalf of allegedly oppressed people. This is, this is just another example of
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people pretending and pretending. This is also purely destructive. There's no, it's not as though
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everyone's always singing the state song and now, you know, but this has created a big conflict and so
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now we need a new state song and there's a battle between the state songs and one state song is on the
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rise. No, it's just some busy body liberal, probably a white liberal. If I just, if I had to guess,
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I'm only speaking anecdotally, it's usually how these things go, going in and saying, this is
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unacceptable. We can't have this song. And so we're just going to get rid of it because we're going
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to pretend to be offended on behalf of everybody, but there's nothing to replace it.
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It seems to me the conservative approach to something like this is if the state song no longer
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represents who you are, then you change it. You re, you replace it with something that is, has really,
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that is a true ritual that has become a tradition that actually means something in the hearts of the
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people. You engage in evolution, not revolution, gradual change from a, a real place of concern and love
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of state. I, I don't think that any of what's going on with the Maryland state song has to do with
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gradual change or organic change or love of state for that matter. I think it's people who think
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Maryland, racist, bad, evil. We've got to get rid of it. America, evil, racist too. Got to,
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got to get rid of that. Got to topple the statues. Got to destroy the old standards.
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This is the phenomenon I describe in, in the book, Speechless is it, there is this campaign
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campaign to, a purely negative campaign to destroy all the traditions. Imperfect, though some of our
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ideas might be. You know, not politically correct, though some of our behaviors might be. There's this
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campaign to get rid of all the old standards. And what are they going to be replaced with? I don't
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know. Speech codes that change every day doesn't matter. What it's about is the accumulation of power
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and the imposition of that power by the big interests in the private sector, in the government,
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in the culture that have really benefited from this crisis. Oops, dare, dare I say it,
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