Ep. 839 - The American Taliban
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Summary
After 130 years, a famous statue of Robert E. Lee has fallen in Richmond, Virginia. To add insult to injury, those who support this taking now plan to cut it into three pieces and throw it into storage prior to its complete desecration.
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After 130 years, a famous statue of Robert E. Lee has fallen in Richmond, Virginia.
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The great general, one of the most important figures not only in the Civil War,
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but also in bringing the country back together after the Union Army won,
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will be hidden away in storage for the foreseeable future.
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And while the Libs celebrate the demise of General Lee, we are left to ask ourselves a simple question.
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Is America a better place now that the statue has been torn down?
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Is it possible even that America is actually a worse place because of this desecration?
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Is it possible that, I don't know, maybe there's a reason that we might all be missing right now
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as to why the statue was put up in the first place?
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Just like the Taliban, the Libs will tear down the historical monument and get ready to destroy the next one.
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President Trump is being excoriated for his statement on the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue.
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Oh, Robert, the historians are making fun of him.
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Just watched as a massive crane took down the magnificent and very famous statue of Robert E. Lee on his horse in Richmond.
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It has long been recognized as a beautiful piece of bronze sculpture.
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To add insult to injury, those who support this taking now plan to cut it into three pieces
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and throw this work of art into storage prior to its complete desecration.
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Robert E. Lee is considered by many generals to be the greatest strategist of all.
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President Lincoln wanted him to command the North, in which case the war would have been over in one day.
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Okay, folks, not like those other crappy generals.
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Robert E. Lee instead chose the other side because of his great love of Virginia.
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And except for Gettysburg, would have won the war.
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He should be remembered as perhaps the greatest unifying force after the war was over.
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Ardent in his resolve to bring the North and South together through many means of reconciliation
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and imploring his soldiers to do their duty in becoming good citizens of this country.
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Okay, and of course he won't get credit for saying it, but it's very important.
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Just like Chesterton's fence, people should be very careful about tearing down these Civil War monuments.
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Chesterton's fence, this idea, I'm oversimplifying a little bit, but the idea that when a reformer
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walks into the middle of a field and sees a fence there and he has no reason, no understanding
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as to why the fence might be there, and he says, we're going to tear it down, the wise thing
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to do is to say, no, no, no, you can't tear it down.
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First, you have to understand why it was put up in the first place.
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Then, and only then, should you consider whether or not you want to tear it down.
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Is it just because Robert E. Lee is this great, wonderful American?
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Well, in many ways, he was a wonderful American.
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Lincoln did want him to fight for the North, but he didn't because he had this love of Virginia.
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But that last point there, I think, might be the most important.
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He was among the most important figures after the war to bring the North and South back together
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And when President Lincoln called for malice toward none and charity for all, this is what
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The South, much to the left's consternation, is part of America.
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The left wishes it were not part of the country, but it is.
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So either you're going to live together, you're going to love one another, you're going to
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recognize that this is a fallen world and there are going to be bad things that happen in this
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world, but we're just going to move on together and try to pursue the good and try to avoid evil.
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Or you can tear down everything and tear down your fellow Americans and preen and stand on the
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shoulders of giants and pretend that you're flying.
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As Trump called it four years ago, he said, they're not just going after Robert E. Lee.
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They're going to tear down Jefferson and Washington.
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And then two seconds later, they're tearing down Jefferson and Washington.
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We whine and cry and rend our garments because the Taliban blow up Buddhist statues in Afghanistan.
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Speaking of the Taliban, you know, there's been a lot of talk because of this abortion law in
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It's just what's the difference between Texas and Afghanistan?
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OK, not just because the libs are tearing down all our statues and burning down the country
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and committing vigilante terrorist violence, but also because they are very difficult to understand.
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And Donald Trump was on Greg Gutfeld's show and he was describing his interactions with
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It's very difficult to deal with these people because they're they're pretty hard to understand.
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And when I first spoke to him by phone, I said, nice to speak to you by phone, Abdul.
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And he goes, you know, they're ferocious people.
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You know, like you go to Broadway shows, they fight.
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They've been fighting for about a thousand years.
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There was a journalist, Aaron Rupar at Fox dot com, and he was very upset about this.
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And he tweeted out, Trump suggests Taliban leaders communicate in primitive grunts and
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I think instead of the word suggests, he meant to say observes this plain fact that's before
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OK, because I've seen some wild reactions here.
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Some people on the right, because of how awful our culture has gotten, some people have on
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the right on the right have said, oh, you know, the Taliban, they're painting over the
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The libs are very conflicted about their feelings toward the Taliban because they hate America.
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But the Taliban are this regressive, traditionalist Islamic culture.
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So they don't know if they can quite like that.
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What what Trump understands that the libs don't is that different peoples are different.
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With what the libs believe is that the Taliban are basically just sort of misunderstood or they
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just they just don't have enough iPhones or, you know, which they actually do have iPhones
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If they had more McDonald's, then they would they would act just like us.
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He said the reason that there are problems in the Middle East is they don't have enough
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money and gadgets and gizmos and, you know, modern Western dress and movies.
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I know it's difficult for Western libs to understand this right now because they don't believe in
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anything that all they're after is just making money and pleasuring themselves.
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But people actually do have beliefs and they act on those beliefs.
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And we first really went up against the East and the Muslims when the Muslims tried to invade
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This is going back to 732 that the Battle of Poitiers, also called the Battle of Tours.
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And then a few centuries later, you see this in the Crusades, a clash of two different
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cultures, both of whom really believe in something, both of whom really are willing to die for
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something, for a belief, for their understanding of God.
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And now there's a lot of revisionist history that's trying to figure out any sort of reason
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that the Crusaders might have gone to war, whether it was for money, whether it was for land,
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other than the one that's obvious, that they actually believed in something.
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But we can't understand that in the West anymore.
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He's describing them as a sort of savage type of person who is not civilized in the way that
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Though there's not a ton of civility going on here in the West these days either.
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A lib in a gorilla mask just threw an egg at Larry Elder.
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Larry Elder, you see, is the black face of white supremacy.
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And, you know, he's not just a sort of amiable libertarian black guy from South Central.
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No, he's the far right, radical, white supremacist black guy.
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And that's why political violence is justified to stop him.
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And that's what they're perpetrating against him right now.
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Well, if the roles were reversed, if the situation were reversed.
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The problem here is that the hypothetical doesn't do us any good.
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We know that there are different standards here.
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I mean, they're willing to call Larry Elder a white supremacist.
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The positive takeaway from this should be when they call you a racist, just who cares?
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Wear it as a badge of honor to be called a racist by some dishonest idiot lib.
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It means they fear you and they fear Larry Elder.
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Do you know other white supremacists I just found out about is Shapiro.
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Last I checked, the white supremacists, not so hot on the chosen people, but there was
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a meme that was going around listing Ben as a white supremacist.
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I said, okay, this has got to be from some far left radical group, probably some group that
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It's the Center for Progress and Advancement and Antifa and, oh no, it's from Google.
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It's from Google, the most powerful company on earth.
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Google is holding a quote unquote anti-racist training for its employees and it claims that
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there's a direct link between Ben Shapiro and mass murder.
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There's a graphic, it's called the White Supremacy Pyramid.
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It shows that at the bottom of the pyramid, this is the sort of broadest level of white
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So if you say that white people shouldn't just be summarily executed, you're a white supremacist.
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So all lives matter, you're beginning, then you move up to Ben.
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Ben is right above that, that's on minimization.
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That's the white supremacy thing and some other guys next to him whom I don't know.
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Now, then two spots up, you see Trump and then, I don't know, some other people of violence
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So Shapiro, I do, look, I'm not saying that Ben is totally innocent, okay?
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He does have murder in his heart every time he looks at me, but otherwise, I don't think
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He's a sort of mild-mannered Orthodox Jew, generally not welcomed by the skinheads.
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This is what we're up against and we can, we're laughing about it, it's funny.
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Google has more power than just about any institution in the country.
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I would say the government sort of has more power, but Google and the government are not
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Google and the government own multiple properties together.
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Google, in many ways, is part of the government.
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They're a proxy for the government to do the government's dirty work very often.
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The, the disparities of power are unprecedented right now.
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Google's power compared to the power of the American people is, is so radically greater.
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I don't think there's any comparison in history.
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They know more about us than we know about ourselves.
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And they're calling some people mass murderers.
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What happens if you are successfully labeled a white supremacist, a mass murderer, a genocidal
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You can very easily be censored, ostracized, or have violence committed against you.
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The implication here from the Google slide is that if you kill Ben Shapiro, it's self-defense
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It, it only followed, they, they won't come out and say it outright, but that's the inevitable
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There, there are people who are to the right of Ben Shapiro, many of them, all of those people.
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Absolutely not permitted in the public discourse.
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Now, there is a little, you're getting a little bit of pushback.
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The, the left is getting so aggressive that even people who are generally liberal, some
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of them are beginning to feel a little uncomfortable.
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I'm, I'm thinking in particular of the, a cardinal of the Archdiocese of Washington.
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So this is Joe Biden's Catholic cardinal, cardinal, the guy who is sort of responsible for Washington,
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Cardinal Gregory is pretty liberal as far as Catholic prelates go.
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Cardinal Gregory famously, infamously attacked Donald Trump while he was president for going
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He was offended that, that Donald Trump went to visit the shrine of St. John Paul II.
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That's, that's how liberal and left this cardinal is.
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And yet even this cardinal has finally broken his silence on Joe Biden's formal heresy on
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Last week, President Biden said he did not agree that life begins at conception.
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And can you clarify the church's teaching on when life begins?
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The Catholic church teaches and has taught that life, human life begins at conception.
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Uh, so the president is not demonstrating Catholic teaching.
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Um, now among the theologians, uh, there's all kinds of medical issues about when does conception
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Is it, uh, at some point when the sperm and the ovum come together and, and, and create a
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Uh, and, and, and theologians have debated that and continue to debate that.
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As respectfully as I possibly can, I've got to point out here, Cardinal Gregory is doing
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everything he can, everything he possibly can to defend Joe Biden's indefensible heresy.
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So he's saying, well, Joe Biden is not demonstrating Catholic teaching.
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Well, yes, though there is debate over when conception takes place.
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Even if that were the case, that's not what's at issue here.
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Regardless of whether you want to parse the nuances of whether conception is when the, the
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new baby implants, which it's not, or when the sperm and the ovum come together to create
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a new reality, also known as a human life, uh, which it is.
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No one, no one is suggesting right now that, uh, we should permit abortion before implantation,
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So you, after the, after the sperm and the egg come together, you can, no, none of that
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And what Joe Biden is saying is explicitly, he said, I do not believe that life begins
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So regardless of where you say the moment of conception is, it doesn't matter.
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Biden is regardless engaging in formal heresy, but he doesn't want to do it.
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And even, I don't mean to go after Cardinal Gregory too much here.
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I'm glad that he is articulating the church's plain teaching on this to our heretic president,
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the second man who at least pretends to be a Catholic, even though he's not a practicing
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I wish he weren't even giving Joe Biden that much wiggle room.
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It's, he doesn't deserve that much wiggle room.
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And if the church cannot speak out clearly on life, it can't speak out on anything at
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That's why Cardinal Gregory is saying, yes, Biden is not, not going along with Catholic teaching
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Now, among all of these various debates, does it begin at the fertilization?
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All of the people who are debating this are still less confused than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is demonstrating the most delightful tension of this abortion debate.
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Namely, the left pretends that men can get pregnant, but the left also demagogues abortion
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as a women's issue and pro-life as an example of the patriarchy, which can't exist because
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men and women are no longer to be distinguished, except when it's convenient for the left.
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The new 70th anniversary edition of God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley Jr.
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This is the book that started the conservative movement.
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I'm very honored to have been asked to write the new introduction to this edition.
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Man at Yale, Michael Knowles, or something like that.
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I'm glad that we're bringing Bill Buckley back to being a bestseller 70 years later.
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It's a bunch of men saying that women can't kill their children.
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And so it's anti-woman, except for the men who can get pregnant, because they can, and
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What this is about is controlling women's bodies and controlling people who are not
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This is about making sure that someone like me, as a woman, or any menstruating person
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in this country cannot make decisions over their own body.
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And people like Governor Abbott and Mitch McConnell want to have more control over a woman's body
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than that woman or that person has over themselves.
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Hold on, wait, is it a woman's body or a menstruating person's body?
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Or it's a woman or a person, and it's the men who, first of all, in the spirit of reconciliation
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and compromise, I'm willing to make a deal right now with AOC.
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Any menstruating person who wants to get an abortion, I'm fine with that.
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If you are a person right now who is menstruating and you want to get an abortion, that's fine.
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So, you know, generally speaking, people who are menstruating are not pregnant.
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I don't, you know, AOC, I thought she would know the fundamentals of biology here, at least
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Also, menstruating person seems a little sexist to me, doesn't it?
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How about whopper-daughter-struating per daughters?
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I see your woke language, and I raise you a whopper-daughter-struating per daughters.
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And Anderson Cooper has to pretend that this is serious, by the way.
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Now, the, what's funny about it, of course, is that you have these two ideas that are in
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The idea that men and women are not different at all, that men can become women, women can
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A woman needs a man like a fish, needs a bicycle.
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And the idea that women are this special class of victims, and they're oppressed by men, and
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you've got the oppressor and the oppressed, and you can't change that, and it's just an
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And people notice that these things are in conflict.
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You see the same type of conflict in the debate between homosexuality and transgenderism.
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Homosexuality says that men are men, and women are women, and some boys like
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other boys, and some girls like other girls, and you're born this way, and there's nothing
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And transgenderism says, actually, there's not even any such thing as boys and girls.
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Boys can be girls, and girls can be boys, and men can be women.
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And so, if you were to apply the logic of transgenderism to homosexuality, then you would
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lose the idea that you're born this way, and you can't change it.
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Because not only can you change your sexual desires, but you can change your sex itself.
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So, the solution then to homosexuality, and the question that used to be asked, which
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You're a boy who likes other boys, well, now just, you know, be a boy that likes girls,
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But you can just change it, because it's all fluid, right?
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Or, if you were to apply the logic of homosexuality to transgenderism, you would lose the entire
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People are pointing this out as, maybe this will be the moment that the left comes undone
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Because it actually, it all kind of goes back to second wave feminism.
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When second wave feminism says a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, there's
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The only difference is some people have long hair or something.
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So, if man equals woman, that leads naturally to the homosexual rights movement, and even
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to gay marriage, because if there's no difference between men and women, then, of course, men
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should marry men, and women should marry women.
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The word marriage would be redefined just by that very premise.
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And if there's no difference between men and women, then, of course, a man can become
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a woman, and a woman can become a man, because those categories don't mean anything.
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So, unfortunately, it actually does sort of make sense.
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The reason that when you listen to AOC, she's getting a little tongue-tied, and she sounds
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The reason she's doing that is because her argument doesn't have logic to it.
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Unfortunately, some so-called conservatives are a little confused on sex and gender and
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I guess he's still running for governor of California.
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And Mr. Jenner goes on CNN, and he's asked about his opinion on abortion.
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I am also for a state having the ability to make their own laws.
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But as far as being a woman's right to choose, I don't see any changes in our laws in California
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But you're fine with the Texas law, even though you say that you support abortion rights.
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You are fine with a law that essentially outlaws abortion.
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I think they have the right in their state to do what they want to do.
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No, to be honest with you, I actually probably do not agree with the decision.
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But I agree with they have the right to make their own decision.
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I don't agree with this answer, but I like this answer.
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Because what Jenner has done here is flip the usual Democrat mealy-mouthed answer on its
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The Democrat mealy-mouthed abortion answer from putative fake Catholics like Mario Cuomo
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or Joe Biden, at least in previous years, is, listen, I personally do not support abortion.
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But I would not force my opinion on the people.
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And what Jenner has done here, it's actually quite clever, is he says,
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But I would never force my views on the people of Texas.
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Now, much like the Democrats' argument, ultimately, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
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It makes enough sense in that Jenner is a Californian, and she's talking,
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But what he's also pointing to here is federalism, is subsidiarity, is the idea that it's not
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only that the government, the federal government has rights, and it's not only that the people
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And we forget that a lot, especially as we tear down statues of Robert E. Lee.
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We'd certainly forget that a lot, that the states do have, they don't have unlimited rights.
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They don't have the rights to do anything they want, but they do have some rights.
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And it seems to me the people of Texas have the right to pass their own laws on abortion.
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It seems the same to me, someone who opposes abortion, and to Jenner, who supports abortion.
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Some other putative conservatives, mainstream conservatives, seem to be confused.
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The View always has some, at least nominal conservative on the panel.
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The View is that gaggle of liberal women, and they have one woman, at least, who's at least
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And so Meghan McCain was filling that spot for a while.
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So Mia Love, who was being talked up in recent years as a major Republican figure,
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oh gosh, she could run for president, that sort of thing.
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She goes on The View, and she offers up what I'm sure The View producers consider to be
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the arch-conservative position on abortion and life and the sexual revolution.
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Instead of actually taking care of the story from the beginning, they're trying to pick
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Why not giving them more options when it comes to their reproductive health?
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Like providing over-the-counter contraceptives, birth control pills, instead of condoms, and
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I've always been pro-life with the exception of rape, incest, and the life of a mother.
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I don't think government should be going into families when it comes to making a decision
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about such important issues and personal issues that are damaging to women.
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Why not treat women like assets that can be developed instead of liabilities that need
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Not sure I understood all of that word salad, but I think she's right in the first part,
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I think The View is giving its audience false choices here between liberals and people who
00:36:16.860
I don't think the conservative view on abortion is that we need to pump women full of contraception
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I think the conservative view on abortion is, and forgive my radicalism here, that we shouldn't
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kill any of the babies and we should encourage life and the openness to life and stable relationships
00:36:44.640
and marriage and monogamy and a stable society with the stable fundamental political element
00:36:55.980
I think, I think that would be the conservative argument, not what we're getting from The View.
00:37:03.960
But this, it just reminds me, anytime I tune into a show like The View, it reminds me that
00:37:19.200
It is a liberal regime with a few court jesters, the court jester conservatives whose job it is
00:37:28.060
to provide the appearance of opposition when in fact what they do is they serve to legitimize
00:37:36.140
Phyllis Schlafly, a great American conservative woman, famously called in the 20th century for a
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I want there to be a choice between liberals and conservatives, not just between liberals
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And when The View presents this argument as the wide choice between a liberal and a conservative,
00:38:05.500
when actually they have the same premises, the same basic ideas about life, about the sexual
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revolution, about the family, about individual autonomy, they agree on everything basically.
00:38:16.060
They just agree, they just disagree on how many babies should be killed and they disagree
00:38:26.960
No one is suggesting we promote life, really, just some saying, well, maybe we should kill fewer
00:38:34.740
And that's, there was an interesting character, Curtis Yarvin, went on Tucker Carlson's show,
00:38:39.840
on his Fox Nation show yesterday, and Curtis Yarvin is a more radical right-wing thinker.
00:38:46.420
I've read a bit of his stuff, and he makes the same point, actually, that so much of our
00:38:53.540
We think that the real battle of our government is between Trump and Biden, when in fact, the
00:39:00.020
president himself has relatively very little power, even compared to presidents 100 years
00:39:05.480
ago, that the actual political fights are sort of hidden, and they don't really change.
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That actually, actually, the fight, the political battles that we're seeing on The View, that's
00:39:16.780
not, that's not really what's going on, because they're all within the dominant regime.
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Speaking of squishy conservatives, President Trump is set to endorse the opponent of Liz Cheney
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No surprise here, there's no love lost between Trump and Cheney, and so he's, I think he's
00:39:38.480
going to endorse Harriet Hageman, who's a Wyoming attorney.
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It brings me to a point that people brought up.
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I mentioned it, too, when Cheney was being ousted from leadership.
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People pointed out that Liz Cheney actually has a relatively conservative voting record
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Not perfect, but she was relatively conservative.
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We would, we would generally agree with her voting record in Congress, more so even than
00:40:08.260
the woman who replaced her in Republican leadership, which is a little bit of a problem.
00:40:12.760
But on this decision to primary Liz Cheney or to support the primary challenger, what we're
00:40:18.720
really talking about here is not your opinion on tax cuts, not even your opinion on abortion,
00:40:26.140
It's about whether you're a real conservative in practice, in effect.
00:40:32.560
Are you, at the crucial moments, going to stand up for half the country, for the, for traditional
00:40:40.240
Americans, or at the crucial moments, are you going to cave?
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And are you going to be her prop and clown for, for instance, the January 6th commission?
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That the problem with Liz Cheney, like Romney and others, is at the crucial moment, they
00:40:58.360
They're good 90% of the time, but at the crucial moment, well, the crucial moment is when we
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Speaking of Republicans who sometimes go a little squishy, there's some good news out of the GOP
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Republican Governor Kristi Noem has just signed an excellent executive order on abortion.
00:41:21.340
Now, Kristi Noem hit the national circuit during the coronavirus lockdowns because she wouldn't
00:41:27.820
So everyone really liked her and she is an attractive woman and she's articulate.
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And so people started talking about her as a potential presidential candidate.
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I know now you're not allowed to mention that Kristi Noem is attractive.
00:41:39.060
Matt Walsh did that and she like yelled at him for it and called him a sexist.
00:41:42.260
But it's true, she is attractive and that's one of the reasons people talked her up.
00:41:48.660
There was a transgender bill that went before her desk.
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It was a simple bill that said, don't let men compete in women's sports.
00:41:57.900
She wouldn't sign it, presumably because her corporate donors called and threatened her
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I don't know that for a fact, but that seems to be what happens.
00:42:04.940
A similar thing happened to Asa Hutchinson down in Arkansas, Republican Governor there.
00:42:09.540
That really makes me doubt that she could be a strong national leader.
00:42:13.140
Then when she went after Walsh in this very lib way of saying, you're a sexist.
00:42:19.380
You know, I just thought, okay, that's pathetic.
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So now I think Noem realizes that she's losing her conservative support.
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The whole thing that brought her up to become a national figure.
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She's lost that because she's presumably caving to special interests in South Dakota.
00:42:39.720
She just signed an executive order banning telemedicine abortions in South Dakota.
00:42:45.380
The order directs the South Dakota Department of Health, quote, to establish rules preventing
00:42:53.720
It says that abortion drugs can only be prescribed or dispensed by a physician after an in-person
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examination from a physician licensed in South Dakota.
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It blocks receiving abortion drugs in the mail.
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It prevents abortion drugs from being dispensed in schools or on state grounds.
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And it reiterates that licensed physicians must ensure informed consent laws.
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I know, you know, sometimes conservatives, they spend more time attacking each other than
00:43:27.240
And I get it, especially when conservatives are out of power.
00:43:29.880
There's a question of what is the vision here that it has to be done.
00:43:33.360
But something we really admire about the left or that we're impressed by, at least, is that
00:43:39.520
The left knows how to come together at the crucial moment and do things.
00:43:51.760
If Kristi Noem went a little squish for a while, the pressure was tough, you know, okay,
00:44:00.820
She sees what side the bread is buttered on, okay?
00:44:05.720
Other governors should copy what Governor Noem did here.
00:44:10.640
Now, speaking of murder in various states in the northern part of America, Kamala Harris,
00:44:17.740
you'll recall, during the George Floyd riots, not only encouraged people to riot in the streets,
00:44:22.920
not only gave spiritual and political support to these rioters and arsonists and looters
00:44:30.000
and killers, but she gave financial support as well.
00:44:33.000
She posted around the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which is a fund to bail out violent people who
00:44:46.340
The Minnesota Freedom Fund just posted bail, posts bail for a lot of criminals, not just
00:44:52.160
the ones associated with the George Floyd riots, including 47-year-old George Howard,
00:44:56.340
who was being held on domestic assault charges.
00:44:58.900
So, Kamala Harris says, support this jailbreak fund.
00:45:03.780
The jailbreak fund bails out this wife beater, George Howard.
00:45:08.180
Now, according to Minneapolis police, George Howard has just shot and killed 38-year-old
00:45:14.480
Luis Damian Martinez-Ortiz during a road rage incident in Minneapolis.
00:45:19.540
Surveillance video shows Ortiz and Howard getting into an altercation on an on-ramp.
00:45:23.480
And then this guy that Kamala Harris bailed out just killed this other guy, 38 years old,
00:45:31.540
That, she's not going to get any pushback for it and no mainstream outlets, I suspect,
00:45:36.680
are going to report on it or very, very few, but you'll hear it here.
00:45:41.500
Someone is dead today because of these jailbreak movements.
00:45:49.180
Jailbreak movements that are not only supported in general by Democrat politicians, some Republican
00:45:53.340
politicians too, I'm sorry to say, but that are supported specifically by them.
00:46:02.440
They break out wife beaters so that the wife beaters can go shoot people on the street.
00:46:06.700
In San Francisco right now, they've got a new method to try to reduce crime because crime
00:46:12.560
You thought it was bad that some Californian threw an egg at Larry Elder.
00:46:17.840
So the new attempt to reduce crime is not my, now look, I'm not an expert on criminology,
00:46:25.200
but my suggestion would be arrest the criminals and keep them in jail for a long time and for
00:46:30.180
the ones who commit capital offenses, kill them.
00:46:37.160
I don't, I don't, I, I'm not such a genius that I could pursue what they're doing in San
00:46:46.780
San Francisco, they're going to pay criminals $300 a month not to shoot people.
00:46:53.780
If you don't, if you don't shoot people in San Francisco, you can make $300 a month.
00:47:00.180
I, I promise not to shoot anyone in San Francisco, not just now, but ever.
00:47:14.620
One, I don't think it's going to work for me to get the check.
00:47:16.420
And two, I don't think this is going to work to reduce crime.
00:47:19.300
I think that the left is getting this just totally, totally backwards here.
00:47:24.780
And I think that crime is going to shoot through the roof and we're now subsidizing
00:47:33.280
I think our elections are not going to be considered fair.
00:47:37.000
Neither side has faith in the elections right now.
00:47:41.160
We talk about the mean old Taliban over there in Afghanistan.
00:47:48.400
It worries me more to see these kinds of things going on here.
00:47:51.660
The sheer control, the capriciousness, the whims of the regime.
00:47:57.700
And we, what, what do we have to fight back against it?
00:48:01.420
I think we still have a little bit of time, but not so much.
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