Ep. 820 -Â Leftists Terminate Your Freedom
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As the Delta Sigma Phi Beta Kappa variant of the Wu-Flu virus spreads across the country, Democrat states and counties are turning the tyranny up to 11. Even some prominent Republicans are joining the calls to get you masked, vaxed and locked back in your home. Meanwhile, a federal judge tries to lock up Capitol rioters and throw away the key even as Minnesota Democrats celebrate the George Floyd arsonists.
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As the Delta Sigma Phi Beta Kappa variant of the Wu flu reportedly rages around the country,
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Democrat states and counties are turning the tyranny up to 11.
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Even some prominent Republicans are joining the calls to get you masked, vaxxed, and locked back in your home,
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including the governor, who does not think very highly of your freedom.
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And the only way we prevent it is to get vaccinated, to wear masks, to do social distancing,
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washing your hands all the time, and not just to think about,
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well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.
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No, screw your freedom, because with freedom comes obligations and responsibilities.
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We cannot just say, I have the right to do X, Y, and Z, when you affect other people.
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We've gone from, don't be a girly man, to wear your mask and hide in your home.
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Believe it or not, Schwarzenegger is actually moderate in his views compared to the rest of the world,
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where some different countries' health officers are calling for an end to conversation in the name of saving lives.
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Meanwhile, a federal judge tries to lock up Capitol rioters and throw away the key,
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even as Minnesota Democrats celebrate the George Floyd arsonists.
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Lots of people are going along with these new rules in the hopes of getting back to normal.
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How long before they all realize this is the new normal?
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Debra Gessner, who says,
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Though, frankly, I actually don't think that the stupidity and the inanity and the neurotic aspect of this whole virus
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is among the people so much as it is among the ruling class.
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I think people are pushing back against it, which is why you're seeing members of the ruling class come out and say,
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Screw your freedom or don't have conversations with your neighbors.
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When he says that with freedom comes responsibility.
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Does that mean that because there is a cough that's been going around the world, we need to lock people in their homes, out of their businesses, out of their churches, take away their civil liberties, and shut down travel, shut down Christmas, shut down Thanksgiving, shut down conversation among your neighbors.
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And don't forget, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a moderate Republican.
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And Arnold Schwarzenegger is articulating the excuse that the ruling class has relied on since the beginning of this lockdown.
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Namely, in the name of public health, we can do whatever we want.
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And this is being taken to an even crazier extreme, not among the Austrians like Schwarzenegger, but among the Australians.
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Australia's chief health officer, Dr. Carrie Chant, has a message for anyone who has the audacity to leave their homes to, I don't know, go grocery shopping or something like that.
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We need to consider, whenever we leave our house, that anyone with us, anyone we come into contact with, could convey the virus.
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So, whilst it is a human nature to engage in conversation with others, to be friendly, unfortunately, this is not the time to do that.
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So, even if you run into your next door neighbour, in the shopping centre, in the Coles, whilst you're at Coles Awards, or Aldi, or any other grocery shop, don't start up a conversation.
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Now is the time for minimising your interactions with others.
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Even if you've got a mask, do not think that affords total protection.
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We want to be absolutely sure that as we go about our daily lives, we do not come into contact with anyone else that would pose a risk.
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I suspect you do get what this is really about.
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I suspect if you're listening to this program, you've known what this is about since the beginning.
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From the beginning, many of us said, this is not about a virus.
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This is not about the unique, once-in-a-millennium global health threat.
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This is a political power grab to shut people up, isolate people, and to take away their way of life and their rights.
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It's literally, the symbol of the pandemic is a muzzle that you put over your mouth.
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And if you in any way contradict the liberal establishment narrative, you'll be ostracized.
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You'll be suspended from social media accounts.
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You will not be permitted to espouse these sorts of views in public.
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Now, what this woman is saying in Australia is, yes, yes, the muzzle is not just about keeping the variants and the virus.
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It's actually about shutting you up, about keeping you quiet.
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But from the beginning of the lockdown, I think there were well-intentioned and naive people who believed that if we just, if we just go along with it, if we just compromise a little bit on our rights and our way of life and going to church and having our businesses, if we just give them, okay, we'll just wear the masks.
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And what I said from the very beginning and what a lot of us said from the very beginning is, no, it's actually the opposite.
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Wearing the masks in public is not going to convince people to go back to normal.
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It's going to convince people that this is a once in a millennium, insane, terrifying, most dangerous event you've ever seen.
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When you see your neighbors running around like banditos, that does not tell you things are normal.
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That tells you that things are quite extraordinary and we've got to suspend our normal way of life.
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Every inch that we the people have given to the ruling technocratic elite from the beginning of this has only further harmed our situation, has only taken away more and more of our rights, has only taken away more and more of our way of life, has only encouraged them.
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The 15 days to slow the spread that we granted very quickly turned into, well, just maybe a couple more months to slow the spread.
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Well, maybe just another year to slow the spread.
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Well, now maybe actually we need to stop the surge.
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Well, now we need to, let me check my notes, abolish conversation.
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15 days to abolish conversation, but then we'll go back to normal, right?
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And this is coming to the United States, by the way.
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This isn't just staying down under in Australia and it's not just some questionable Austrian immigrants who once were the governor of California.
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This was an absolute unanimous vote for vaccine mandates at restaurants, movie theaters, and concert venues.
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And very thankfully, by a stroke of providence, I left France before the vaccine mandate went into effect.
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Fortunately, the country was not totally locked down yet.
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You can still come in from the United States without a ton of regulations.
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But the day I flew out, you had to start showing a proof of vaccination to get in anywhere.
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I wanted to get a cup of coffee at the airport.
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They demanded proof of vaccination to get into the little cafe at the airport.
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I said, all right, get the coffee on the airplane or something.
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I mean, LA right now is passing measures that are more draconian even than what's going on in New York.
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Unless we push back against that sort of thing.
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It's not going to be, well, let's wear our masks.
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The councilman at the LA City Council, Paul Koretz, said, quote,
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Frankly, I'm tired of our politicization of science and public health.
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While people outside this building are protesting that this is a violation of their civil liberties,
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I can tell you with 100% certainty we are going to die.
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But you are not going to get off this rock alive, okay?
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And what the left has done so spectacularly is they have taken this one virus that has caused deaths.
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I'm not saying that the virus hasn't caused deaths.
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But they have made it seem as though that is the only cause of death.
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And of course, the lockdowns have led to other deaths as well.
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Deaths of despair, deaths of drug overdose, deaths of not getting your treatment for various diseases,
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None of that, all that matters is if you die from this one particular virus.
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And as a result, you've got to take away people's civil liberties.
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I'm tired of our politicization of science and public health, says the politician.
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There is a fight going on right now between the people who want vax mandates at the restaurants
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and the movie theaters and in the schools and the mask mandates everywhere and the people
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overseas who want to abolish conversation and the handful of conservative politicians
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One of those conservative politicians that seems to have a spine, Ron DeSantis.
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He is threatening to withhold pay from Broward County school administrators who are violating
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the state anti-mask mandate rule by instituting a mask mandate.
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This is kind of complicated and there's so many layers to this.
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Some schools in liberal places want to force kids to wear masks.
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So some misguided conservatives have said, well, it's not government's place to tell people
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that they can or cannot have mask mandates, right?
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You know, in this, the usual way that we've talked about policy for the last 10 or 15 years
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is between big government and free choice, right?
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But, but it's a little more complicated here because sure, the big government of the school
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board wants to take away the free choice to wear a mask or not.
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But then you've got the big government of the state coming in and taking away the free
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So I don't think it's so simple as big government versus small government.
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I don't think it's so simple as tyranny versus slavery.
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I think it's actually a question of the substance of it.
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And so DeSantis goes in and he says, absolutely not.
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We will not permit school districts to force kids to wear these stupid masks.
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So now the school boards are fighting back against DeSantis, especially in Broward County,
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And they're saying, no, we're going to, we're going to do it anyway.
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So DeSantis is going in through the Florida Department of Education and is saying that
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if the school districts force the kids to wear the masks, he's going to take away their pay.
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People have been making a comparison between Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump recently because
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he's doing all the hand gestures, you know, and his skin seems to be getting slightly more
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He's, he's probably got a can of, you know, yellow hairspray in the corner.
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But my pal Andrew Klavan pointed out, it's, it's less Trump that, that DeSantis is going
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And this line to the school administrators, it, it reminds you of, of Ronald Reagan when
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the air traffic controllers illegally went on strike.
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I must tell those who failed to report for duty this morning, they are in violation of
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the law, and if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their
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Why are you taking such strong action as your first action?
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And as I say, we call this to the attention of their leadership, whether this was conveyed
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to the membership before they voted to strike, I don't know.
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But, uh, this is one of the reasons why there could be no further negotiation while this
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You can't sit and negotiate, uh, with a union that's in violation of the law.
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The negotiation has lost us everything because we thought that we could negotiate in good
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faith here on how to return to our normal way of life.
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They're, they're incompetent at best and they're liars and deceivers at worst and more likely.
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So I just don't think we should play that game.
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And it's also not going to be a battle between individual autonomy and strong government.
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The real battle is going to be between their strong government and our strong government.
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And one of the worst mistakes that the right has made in recent years is that we have given
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What we have done, we've taken Andrew Breitbart's basically true statement that politics is downstream
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of culture and we have allowed Republican politicians to use that as an excuse not to do their job.
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Politics is downstream of culture does not mean that you completely give up the government
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and the political sphere because it's somehow unjust ever to rule.
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It means you use the government, you use political power on the happy occasions that
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He's saying, oh, you're going to use your government power in Broward County to try to force
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Okay, I'm going to use my government power here in Tallahassee to stop you from doing that.
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We need to encourage the largely cowardly Republican politicians to do just that.
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The left is not very happy that people are pushing back against forcing the kids to wear
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Also, as far as I can tell, TikTok is just like 16-year-olds jiggling around, and I don't
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But there are great clips that go on TikTok, and so I'll see them on Twitter from Libs of
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Rachel Kessler is a liberal professor at Kenyon College.
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She also styles herself a priestess of some sort, some sort of kooky cult or something.
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The reverend professor, Rachel Kessler, has come out now screaming, crying, wailing, rending
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her garments and gnashing her teeth because at her children's school district, they're
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not going to force all the little kids to muzzle themselves.
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Instead, I'm sitting at my desk crying because we just got word from our superintendent that
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masks will not be required in our school district this year because the school has to respect
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the choice of parents that don't want to have their kids in a mask.
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And I'm so over it because there is no such thing as a personal choice in a pandemic because
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I have no choice now to send my child to school in a way that will be safe for them.
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Because my child's mask will do a great job of protecting the other kids around her.
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But I have no choice not to have my kid coughed on by her classmates.
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And we are never going to get out of this if we cannot start collectively thinking about
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That was the only thing she said that might very well be true.
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Now, her argument is we're never going to get out of this if we don't give in to all
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the new measures and give up all of our rights and upend the standards of society.
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We're never going to get out of this if we do constantly wear the mask and allow them
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to jab us with whatever they want and give up all of our rights and give up our churches
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That's the way we're never going to get out of it.
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Because when people take power, they usually don't want to give it back.
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She says, there is no such thing as individual choice during a pandemic.
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And so when the pandemic is ending, you've got to change the rules, which they have done
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So the goal has to go from flatten the curve to slow the spread to find a cure to spread
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They're already talking about the, what, the Lambda variant, the Sigma variant, the, there's
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going to be a million more variants and it will never end because they don't want you
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to have individual choice because they basically agree with Arnold.
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That's what they really believe is what Dr. Fauci said yesterday when he was salivating.
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You want your individual liberty, but we cannot have that now.
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And he just, you could, he was so thrilled that he could take more power from you for
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Dr. Fauci has never appeared on a ballot anywhere.
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He has been in his position of power for, I think, what, five presidential administrations
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Let's see, it was Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Obama, Trump, Biden, seven presidential
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So no, they don't want, they don't want you to have any of that.
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From the very beginning, the death rate was much, much lower than people warned us that
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Among children, which is what we were talking about right here, way, way, way, way, way lower.
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Beyond that, we know that the media and the scientific establishment and the politicians
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And when you compare it to other, not just other pandemics, but even just public health
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The schools are the epicenter of the fight right now because the schools are the intersection
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If you want to look at what your country is going to look like in 20 years, look at a classroom.
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And so now there are battles going on, not just over whether the kids have to muzzle themselves
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in class, but what the kids are going to be taught.
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But you've seen these battles on critical race theory, people showing up to their school boards
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to get the crazy gender theory and the crazy race theory out of the classrooms.
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You've seen teachers during remote learning say, hey, make sure that the parents aren't
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paying attention to what their kids are learning on the computers.
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You got to be very careful because if the parents knew what their kids were learning,
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they'd get the teachers fired as well they should.
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So there was a lesson plan that just popped up from Virginia.
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This is a third grade lesson plan from the Virginia State Education website, which glorifies
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Virginia Department of Education has third graders learning that police hate black men.
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They have them watch a video that seems to glorify communism.
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The lesson, first of all, the lesson plan is just written with typos, which at the most
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basic level shows you the state of American education.
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But it's provided for use by any teacher in the state.
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The lesson plan, which is very radical on gender theory, very radical on racial theory
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The lesson plan was developed by Chesapeake public school teachers.
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Their names are Candace Anthony Kazanov, Jamie Marquitz.
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They have children especially focusing on this book.
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A is for activist, a radical leftist book, has no place in the classroom.
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There's the leftist school of thought, which is yes, that's right.
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It's not about teaching them how to think in a critical way that's reasoned and based on logic.
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No, it's about turning them into activists to fight the system, even though we're the system, by the way.
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It's about turning them into radicals who are going to end oppression.
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This is basically all that they should be learning in schools.
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This is the view of the conservatives for the past 10, 15 years, which is, well, you know, this isn't, that's not good.
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They can read their radical gender racial theory in the classroom.
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But maybe could they also possibly read a history book or something?
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This is harming the children's understanding of the world.
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It should be banned from the classroom and the teachers behind it should be fired.
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A teacher doesn't have a right to go teach Nazism in the classroom.
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A teacher shouldn't have the right to teach communism in the classroom.
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I'm not saying teach about Nazism or communism.
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That's why, of course, they should teach about these things.
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But they shouldn't be able to teach through this lens of ideology.
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They shouldn't be able to teach you, yes, Nazism is good.
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Likewise, they should not teach you communism is good.
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The tenets of communism are wonderful and you should all become communist activists.
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Academic freedom, to quote William F. Buckley Jr., as mainstream a conservative as ever there was,
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It's never used to justify teaching things that are more conservative or right-wing.
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It's only ever used as an excuse to teach your little boy that he's a little girl or
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to teach white kids that they're evil or to teach every child that America's a rotten,
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terrible place and to teach them all that communism's terrific.
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Again, in Florida, they're actually doing a pretty good job at this.
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Because other Republican politicians need to follow suit.
00:30:44.220
Speaking of child abuse, you know, just a light topic for your morning.
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Speaking of child abuse, there was an image, an award-winning image that was going around
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That award-winning image was from the Netherlands.
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It's of a little kid, I guess a little girl, I can't tell.
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Sort of everyone's gender bending these days, so who knows.
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But, you know, a little child at a swing set with a bunch of creepy men wearing leather
00:31:16.740
sort of straps and little leather booty shorts behind them, obviously preparing for some sort
00:31:23.900
And they're all, you know, some of them, they're not really engaging in any overtly sexual act,
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but they're all sort of hanging around constantly.
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Preparing to go on some sort of perverted adventure.
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This is one of, you know, one of the Pride organizations in the Netherlands.
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This photo in its composition, Child in the Foreground, Men Preparing for Canal Pride in
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the Background, Everyone Busy with Their Own Activities and Fascinations, sublimely depicts
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what will hopefully remain self-evident, that we, unhampered by prejudices and almost unsuspectingly,
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You know, if the consequence of getting rid of prejudices is having kids play around among
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a bunch of sick leather daddies at a parade, maybe we could use a little more prejudice.
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Maybe people haven't stood up enough for prejudice.
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Actually, do you know who did stand up for prejudice is Edmund Burke.
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Not prejudice in the sense of, you know, I'm going to hate you because of your skin color.
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I'm going to, prejudice in the sense of pre-judgment.
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Prejudice in the sense of, we actually can know things.
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We actually know, when we have a natural visceral reaction to seeing a bunch of these sickos,
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like oiling each other up around a little kid, that visceral reaction, though it may not be
00:33:03.460
totally conscious and we might not have like a 10-paragraph reasoned argument as to why
00:33:19.740
The BDSM people like whipping each other should not exist side by side with the little children.
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But it raises a question also about the limits of autonomy, which is kind of what we're all
00:33:37.340
We all know, you look at that picture, if you're listening right now, you can Google the
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picture later, or maybe you shouldn't because it's just gross.
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But when you look at that picture, we all know that there's something wrong with that.
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If there's nothing wrong with what the guys are doing in their kind of like leather daddy
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costumes, if there's nothing wrong with that intrinsically, then why is it wrong that there's
00:34:07.880
If there is something wrong with what the guys are doing, with the kind of leather stuff in
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public and, you know, getting a little in your face, then why are we encouraging it?
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If there's something like so disordered about this that we should, that we should protect
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children from it, then why are we encouraging it for everyone else?
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And why are we pretending, by the way, that you can encourage all these sorts of things everywhere,
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ubiquitous, in the middle of Main Street for adults, but yet somehow protect kids from it?
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We do want to talk to people when we go outside, even though the Australian health minister doesn't
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Why are we encouraging the liberty to do things that we all agree are very bad?
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That, I think, that's actually a problem for the right to figure out.
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There's a big debate on the right over that, and I think the kind of desiccated libertinism
00:35:08.140
of the last 10 or 15 years, it's just complete, it's deader than disco, man.
00:35:15.220
Now, there is some good news, by the way, coming from the Departments of Health on this
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issue of radical gender theory and child sex abuse.
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The Texas Department of Health was just asked by Governor Greg Abbott a simple question.
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Abbott, deferring to the agency, said, is pumping little kids full of cross-sex hormones
00:35:34.740
and mutilating their bodies because their psycho mothers think that the little boys are
00:35:38.760
I think Governor Abbott used more clinical language than I did, but that's obviously the
00:35:44.360
Is performing gender surgery on kids proper medical treatment, or is it child abuse?
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This is a difficult question, apparently, for some Republicans.
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Asa Hutchinson, the allegedly Republican governor of Arkansas, says that it's a wonderful medical
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He refused to sign a bill banning genital mutilation gender surgery on little kids.
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Remember, he said, no, this is important medical treatment.
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So the Texas Department of Health came out and said, yes, it is child abuse.
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Quote, genital mutilation of a child through reassignment surgery is child abuse, subject
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to all rules and procedures pertaining to child abuse.
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Such mutilation may cause, quote, a genuine threat of substantial harm from physical injury
00:36:33.100
I mean, we should pursue this state by state by state to ban the genital gender reassignment
00:36:38.260
mutilation surgery for children, obviously, but there is an even further question here,
00:36:44.400
which is, if this is not medical treatment, if this really is mutilation when you do it
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on children, then why are we doing it on adults?
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It's not as though reality is one way if you're under 18 and then reality is completely different
00:37:05.780
It's not as though a surgery is completely different for people who are 17 and a half,
00:37:16.080
But we don't want to come to that term in part because we so value individual autonomy.
00:37:21.260
And we say, well, if you're a man and you want to be a woman, then you should, you should,
00:37:25.720
You have, you totally have, if you, if you're a man and you want to mutilate your body to look
00:37:29.680
more like a woman and harm yourself in that way, you totally have the right to do that.
00:37:39.480
Why is it cruelty and abuse when you do it on a child, but not when you do it on an adult?
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Because, just because of the issue of making a decision?
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No, there's more, I think there's more to good and bad and right and wrong than just who makes
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Speaking of transitions, I can't miss this today.
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Valparaiso U University has changed its mascot from crusaders to beacons.
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They used to be the crusaders, now they're the beacons.
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The crusaders, Christian soldiers who protected Christians in the Holy Land from Muslim invaders.
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The crusaders, the crusaders are bad because the crusaders represent Western civilization and so
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They've changed it to beacon because they say that their students should be a beacon of hope.
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Crusaders were a beacon of hope in the late 11th century to the Christians who were being
00:38:49.900
We take this for granted that anything that the West ever did is bad and anything that other
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We now take it for granted that Muslims should control the Holy Land.
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Christians and Jews were in the Holy Land a lot longer, way before the Muslims.
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Because the West is bad and everyone else is good.
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That is the sometimes not so tacit premise that our education begins with.
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And if you raise generation upon generation to hate its own civilization, you're not going
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to keep that civilization and you're not going to keep those rights.
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You're not going to keep that way of life for very long, which we're seeing happen to
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Speaking of political violence, an Obama-appointed federal judge has just come out against the
00:40:09.700
Biden DOJ, specifically with regard to the January 6th political insurrection coup d'etat,
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An Obama-era judge is now coming out against the Biden DOJ.
00:40:31.040
The problem is, this judge, she's coming out against the DOJ because she thinks the DOJ
00:40:37.140
is going too light on the Capitol rioter people.
00:40:44.320
Already, you see these guys whose worst crime is dancing around the Capitol in a horn helmet,
00:40:49.440
who, you know, come in and maybe they broke a window, maybe not.
00:40:52.880
They, the one smiley guy took Nancy Pelosi's lector and you remember that.
00:40:56.880
Not defending it, just saying there are worse crimes in the world.
00:41:00.580
And these guys are getting the book thrown at them already.
00:41:03.180
And she is saying that they, they need even harsher punishments for terrorizing members
00:41:10.060
Meanwhile, as we've reported on this show, actual terrorists, BLM leftist terrorists,
00:41:24.080
They killed infinitely more people than the Capitol Sixth rioters did because the Capitol
00:41:27.820
January Sixth rioters didn't, didn't kill anyone.
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The, the BLM people who also went after federal courthouses, burned down federal courthouses,
00:41:38.920
burned down police stations, they're basically getting off the hook.
00:41:42.300
In Manhattan and in the Bronx, they're being released without any charges in many cases.
00:41:49.760
And when they are being charged, they're, they're being charged with much less serious
00:42:03.580
I think a lot of conservatives believed that if we went really, really hard after January
00:42:08.860
6th, if we kind of bought into the leftist line that January 6th was the worst event in
00:42:13.000
the history of the world, why then maybe they'll recognize that BLM was bad too.
00:42:18.540
And they'll, and we'll all get, and we'll reconcile and, and it just didn't happen.
00:42:24.040
During the BLM riots, you had members of elected Democrats in Congress calling for more violence.
00:42:30.240
Actually, even before that, you had that sort of thing.
00:42:32.040
You had the, the now vice president of the United States bailing out the rioters from jail.
00:42:37.040
You had staff members for now the president of the United States bailing the rioters out from
00:42:42.560
And, and they basically want the Capitol conservative people to go to Gitmo.
00:42:50.320
What happened at the Capitol on January 6th is not even in the same galaxy as what happened
00:42:55.920
during the BLM riots, city after city, after city for six to eight months.
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It's nothing compared to what BLM did and BLM mostly gets off the hook.
00:43:11.080
There's not going to be a come together and you give a little and I give a little.
00:43:14.300
This is a bare knuckle political fight over who can wield political power more effectively.
00:43:20.060
That doesn't mean that it's absent logic and justice.
00:43:22.540
Obviously we want to wield political power with justice, with logic, but you've got to
00:43:29.360
Devin Hogan, chairman of the Minneapolis Democratic Farmer Labor Party, which is an affiliate of
00:43:33.680
the Democratic Party in Minnesota, has just said, quote, like it or not, setting the third
00:43:38.340
precinct on fire was a genuine revolutionary moment, an act of pure righteousness to open
00:43:45.440
The people declared themselves ungovernable and unilaterally took their power back.
00:43:49.220
The largest international human rights movement in modern history had begun.
00:43:57.380
The Democrat activist, a Democrat official, it's a part of an affiliate, but a Democrat
00:44:06.240
nonetheless in Minnesota, defending the burning down of police stations and saying, yeah, the
00:44:17.320
And there's something we can learn from him when he says the people declared themselves
00:44:19.820
ungovernable and unilaterally took their power back.
00:44:22.240
The way the left did that, the substance of what they were doing, was wrong.
00:44:34.980
We can declare ourselves ungovernable under these unjust laws.
00:44:41.260
We can, using logic and persuasion and not being terrorists like the left was, but we can
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We can do that, but it does require some courage.
00:44:58.980
It does, and that unfortunately is in short supply in a lot of places.
00:45:02.840
But speaking of terrorists, I can't leave today.
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Before I note some actual important news that's being swept under the rug, we just lost the
00:45:14.060
We've been fighting this war in Afghanistan for 20 years now, and we just lost.
00:45:25.640
The soldiers achieved all of their military objectives.
00:45:29.380
But the political leadership did lose that war.
00:45:33.520
And they chose to lose that war because they didn't even know what they wanted to win.
00:45:49.880
George W. Bush came out after 9-11, and he said, those who are harboring terrorists will
00:46:01.360
And what he was talking about was the Taliban harboring al-Qaeda terrorists, and we're going
00:46:05.520
to go in, and we're going to make no distinction, and you're not going to have a moment's peace
00:46:16.040
And what does Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, have to say about this?
00:46:20.040
Well, you know, they've just got to figure out what they want to do in the international
00:46:26.540
Your objective is to have a negotiated political settlement.
00:46:29.120
What gives you confidence that the Taliban is interested in that?
00:46:34.360
One, we have also said that there's no question that the Afghan National Defense Security Forces
00:46:38.800
would be strengthened, as would the Afghan political leadership, if they were to have
00:46:46.620
We're not hiding from that in any way, shape, or form.
00:46:49.180
The Taliban also has to make an assessment about what they want their role to be in the
00:46:54.500
And I know that Ambassador Khalilzad made comments when he was at the political negotiations
00:46:59.000
yesterday, making clear that the international community is going to watch closely how the
00:47:04.420
They have a range of tools in their arsenal as well to take steps should they choose.
00:47:08.340
Well, the Taliban just has to figure out what it wants its role to be in the international
00:47:15.060
Spoiler alert, the Taliban doesn't want a role in the international community.
00:47:19.540
Okay, it took 20 years for these ruling elites to figure that out.
00:47:32.160
I think we should, using every just and right and legitimate political tool at our disposal,
00:47:37.780
fight back against them tooth and nail before they terminate our way of life.
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