Ep. 851 - Tell Democrats Child Sacrifice Is Still Evil
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In just the past week, House Democrats have voted to legalize abortion up until birth, spend $3.5 trillion dollars to entrench their own power, and make women sign up for the draft. In fairness to Democrats, on this last point, 135 House Republicans joined the Democrats in preparing America s daughters to strap on combat boots.
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In just the past week, House Democrats have voted to legalize abortion up until a point of birth,
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spend three and a half trillion dollars that we don't have to entrench their own power,
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and make women sign up for the draft. In fairness to Democrats, on this last point,
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135 House Republicans joined the Democrats in preparing America's daughters to strap on combat
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boots. The Biden administration has admitted to releasing at least 10,000 illegal aliens into the
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country in just the past week, and that's the number they're admitting. So the real number is
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almost certainly higher. And even the liberal media are admitting that the Capitol riot, supposedly
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the gravest insurrection in U.S. history, was orchestrated, at least in part, by the feds.
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I never believed the lying leftists or the naive squishes who insisted that the Biden administration
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would govern in a moderate way, that it would represent some kind of return to normalcy.
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But this degree of radicalism is shocking to even the most hard-nosed conservatives. And the
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biggest gut punch of all is how many self-styled conservatives are helping to push the agenda
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along. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment on Friday is from Jeff the Hokie, who says,
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the border patrol needs to say, these aren't horses. They identify as cows. Wow. What a genius
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strategy. Because the Biden administration is now saying that the border patrol can't,
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can't use horses, even in the areas where the cars can't get to, they can't use horses because they
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don't want them to actually arrest the illegal aliens coming over. So that's fine. They're not using horses.
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They're using cows. They're using, they're using equine beings that identify as Volvos. Great idea.
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Really good idea. You know, when you want to protect the most basic rights that we've got,
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when you want to protect the most basic right to life, I would strongly recommend you check out
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40 Days for Life. When the topic of abortion comes up, the left has a lot of talking points.
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Some of them are morally confused. Some of them are factually confused. They're just simply not
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true. If you are struggling on what to say or how to say it when abortion is the topic of the
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conversation, you need to check out a recent book. It's called What to Say When, The Complete New
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Guide to Discussing Abortion. Since its release, it has already been a number one Amazon new release
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and a number two Amazon bestseller. It's already on its second printing. It's an easy book to use,
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tells you what to say, what not to say, and its proven arguments have worked with just about
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everybody, people on the fence, abortion supporters. These arguments have even worked
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on Planned Parenthood workers. Go check it out today, What to Say When, The Complete New Guide
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to Discussing Abortion, How to Change Minds and Convert Hearts in a Brave New World. You can go to Amazon
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or you can get it directly from 40 Days for Life at 40daysforlife.com. With Republicans like the
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ones we've got, who needs Democrats? Who needs Democrats when you've got Republicans who are
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much more radically left-wing or much more inclined to go along with radically left-wing ideas
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than even the Democrats were five or 10 years ago? Key example here, the House of Representatives
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just passed a $768 billion defense bill. This comes up all the time. It's the NDAA, the National
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Defense Authorization Act. And it's always somewhat controversial because it's very expensive and
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some of the money is going to some wars that we're in or some aspect of the military that the
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liberals don't like or that the conservatives don't like. Okay, that's fine. And then they always
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argue about it and then they end up passing the NDAA every single time. This year was a little bit
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different because this year the NDAA included a requirement for women to register for the military
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draft. 181 Democrats voted for this bill. Okay, I'm not surprised about that. The logic of the
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Democrats is such that they are going to make women, the daughters of the United States, sign up for the
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military draft, be drafted into war to go die to protect the men or something. I don't know. I don't know
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what they're thinking. But the most scandalous and dispiriting part of it is that 135 Republicans
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voted for this as well. This is absolutely unacceptable. Absolutely unacceptable. I understand.
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I have some sympathy for the Republicans who thought this is a tough vote in my district.
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They're going to run ads saying I don't support the military. Oh, who cares? It's not a big deal.
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Oh, women are going to have to sign up for the draft, but they probably won't be drafted.
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Hey, actually, it's equality. Men and women are exactly the same. It's no big deal. Don't. It's
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a huge deal. It's a huge deal. This is absolutely unacceptable. This is evidence of very, very poor
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judgment on the part of these Republicans. Thankfully, there were some Republicans who
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recognized this, notably Chip Roy, who tends to be correct on a whole lot of things. Chip Roy
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explained why, despite the many attractive features of voting for this bill, he just couldn't do it.
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I thank the gentleman for Louisiana. I thank the chairman. I thank my colleagues for joining us
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here today. You're going to hear a lot over the next coming days from our Republican colleagues about
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why we should all be in lockstep in supporting the NDAA. Now, everybody here on this stage, certainly
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speaking for myself, we support our men and women in uniform. I represent Port Sand Houston. I
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represent the Army Futures Command. I represent about 80,000 veterans. I stand alongside our men
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and women in uniform, whatever the pay raises and whatever material supplies that they need in order
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to carry out their job. But what I do not support is blindly supporting legislation that is critically
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flawed at its core because of, oh, we're in the minority. Look, right now today, if you vote for the
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NDAA, you are voting to draft our daughters. There is no other position you can take. The current law
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of the land does not have a requirement that our daughters be drafted. Okay. If this NDAA is passed
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and signed into law, then our daughters will be required to sign up in selective service and make
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themselves available for the draft. That's it. That's it. And so to me, this is a line in the sand and
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there are a lot of Freedom Caucus members there with him. You'll notice Marjorie Taylor Greene is
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standing to his right. And I know people say, well, Marjorie Greene, she's said kooky things.
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She acts in sometimes an eccentric way. Yeah, that's sure. That's totally true. I agree with
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that. She has said kooky things. At least Marjorie Taylor Greene recognizes that it's unacceptable to
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draft your daughters. Okay. And a lot of fancy Republicans who went to really fancy schools and they're
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very urbane and they're very witty. A lot of them think it's perfectly fine to draft your daughters.
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So if you're asking me, who's the real kook here, I'm going to have to go with the people who think
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it's a good idea to make your, the daughters of America strap on combat boots. And actually I think
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Marjorie Greene is the reasonable one here. Absolutely. This, if you don't stand up for this
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as a conservative, I don't know what you stand up for. I don't know what you represent. I don't know
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what your values are. Insane. And by the way, I've heard a line of argument on this, where they'll
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say, sometimes you'll hear this from kind of cheeky conservatives. They'll say, look,
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the feminists want equality. Well, that's equality. Okay. Hey, what we're going to totally look,
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this is going to totally own the libs because what's going to happen is they said they wanted
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equality when it comes to pay and when it comes to certain political rights and when it comes to
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professional life. But now they need equality when they need to go get shot at overseas. That'll show
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them. I don't want to show them. What? Come on. But that's what they wanted. I don't care what
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they wanted. Since when do I care what feminists want? Since when do I care what radical leftists
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want? I don't. I care about what's right and wrong in our public policy. And this is wrong.
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And I don't think it's a wise idea to give in to the libs on the thing that they're clamoring for
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just to show them down the line when our daughters are being strafed by jihadis, that it's actually bad.
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Let's just stop it right now. Let's just have some spinal fortitude here and maybe some other
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anatomical type of fortitude here to say no. Contrary to popular propaganda, men and women
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actually are different. And a nation that sends its women to war to fight and die for the men
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is a sick nation. That's not just, that's not right at all. Speaking of women's issues,
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the House on Friday passed legislation that would make abortion a national right. Now I know that
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abortion is already legal at the national level, but that's only because the Supreme Court invented
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a pretend imaginary constitutional right to abortion in Roe versus Wade. It was affirmed in Planned
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Parenthood v. Casey, but it's not actually a law. So because now there are these wonderful work
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around pro-life laws in Texas, there's one coming up in Florida. There are going to be others,
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I hope. The House Democrats passed a law saying that, and look, this law is so preposterous. I
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don't see any way in which it's upheld. Unless of course the libs just really clamp down on their
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power. They throw logic out the window, which they had been known to do before. But what they're
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saying is that now there's a national right to an abortion up until the moment of birth everywhere in
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the country. Okay. This is called the Women's Health Protection Act. Doesn't protect the health
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of the female babies who are being slaughtered, roughly half of the babies, but it's the Women's
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Health Protection Act. It was approved by the House 218 to 211. So this at least was more of a party line
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vote. Faces tough odds in the Senate. I don't think it's going to go anywhere in the Senate, but who
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knows? It's up in the air. The way that they're thinking about this law is more interesting than the
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law itself. Because the measure states that healthcare providers have a statutory right to
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provide and patients a right to receive abortion services without these limitations. Okay. So this
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is from the bill. Since 1973, the Supreme Court repeatedly has recognized the constitutional right
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to terminate a pregnancy before fetal viability and to terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability
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where it is necessary, where it's necessary, in the good faith medical judgment of, in the good faith
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judgment of someone whose job it is to kill babies. Okay. Of the treating healthcare professional
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for the preservation of the life or health of the person who is pregnant. Not of the woman,
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because it's not women anymore. It's the person who is pregnant. The good faith medical judgment of
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someone whose job it is to kill babies. I don't think they have a lot of good faith.
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What this does in practice, even though it says there might be some limits on that, in practice,
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it says there is no limit. Because if the mother says, you know, I might get a little depressed if I
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have to have this baby, then you can kill the baby up till the moment of birth. Second part,
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many abortion specific restrictions do not confer any health or safety benefits on the patient.
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Well, it confers some benefits on one of the patients, namely the baby who's being killed.
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And third, this is the craziest part. I know that's saying quite a lot given how crazy the
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rest of the bill is. It says, Congress has the authority to enact this act to protect abortion
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services pursuant to A, its powers under the Commerce Clause of Section 8 of Article 1,
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and its powers under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment. Okay. So the reason this is so crazy is,
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Congress should have no right to do this. This is not an interstate matter. This should be a matter
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for the states, right? At least according to the Commerce Clause. But they're saying, well,
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because abortion exists in multiple states, it's interstate commerce, so we can regulate it.
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But then the craziest part is they cite the 14th Amendment, equal protection under the law.
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What about the equal protection of the babies? Actually, the 14th Amendment makes a strong
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argument for banning abortion nationwide, but they don't care. This is the radicalism that we are
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talking about. This would have been unthinkable in the Democratic Party, even, I don't know,
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four or five years ago, it would have been unthinkable. But that's how far the country's
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for 25% off. There's a really touching story that's come out of New York, and it's a really touching
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story that I think shows us a new angle on one of our biggest national problems. Here's the story.
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Two newborn twins were abandoned in an alleyway, wrapped in brown paper bags,
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and killed in a rat-infested alleyway in the Bronx. Really, really sad story. Cops found
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the babies. They were newborn. They just came out, just newborn babies, abandoned in an alleyway. This
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does happen more often than people would recognize. And so what the cops decide to do, around 20 cops in
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New York, they held a funeral for the babies. They did this at eternity funeral service in the
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Williams Bridge section of the Bronx. They named the babies Zeke and Zane. Zeke, short for Ezekiel,
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means God's strength. Zane means God's gift. And it was a really beautiful ceremony, okay, where these
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two babies had a funeral. Not by the parents, obviously, who were degenerates and killers,
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but by these cops. You know, we're told the cops are very evil, you know, and they're racist and
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well, this is a beautiful, beautiful scene. And one of the lieutenants says, I've never seen a case
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like this. These were two newborn babies who were full term and then put in garbage bags and thrown
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in a rat-infested backyard. Their little bodies had fractures. This has weighed heavy on every
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detective that has worked on the case. Wow. Yeah, it's a horrific case. Horrific case. But it's not
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particularly horrific. The reason it's not particularly horrific is that this happens
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every single day in this country. And it doesn't just happen once a day in this country. It happens
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on average 2,362 times each day. The little newborn baby abandoned in the alleyway and killed.
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What do we say? One day after birth, maybe on the day of his birth. If that baby
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had been killed a few hours earlier, that would have been not just tolerated, that would have been
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not just protected by law, that would have not just, not just been conducted in a medical facility
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with some guy who has an MD doing the butchery. It would have been lauded and celebrated as a woman's
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right, as reproductive health, as a beautiful, wonderful expression of liberty and freedom and
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emancipation and gender equality. If you want to think about the abortion issue, because I know
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that there are apparently a lot more squishes in the Republican Party, and they're a lot squishier
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even than I thought that they were. Just recognize that abortion is this. Abortion is, it's not,
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it's not even throwing your kid into an alleyway in the Bronx. It's worse than that. At least those
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kids got to breathe the air and live a little life for, I don't know, an hour or so. With abortion,
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it's, you don't even get that. You get, with the true, to use a popular phrase, banality of evil,
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you get a medical doctor in a fluorescent lit room performing the butchery to the adulation and
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applause of the population. Really puts that in perspective. 2,362 times per day. And the cops,
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the cops can't get over this. These are, you know, this is their job is to see awful, terrible things,
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the underbelly of society. And they see this crime in particular, and they say, oh my God,
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this is so heinous that we're going to, we're going to throw a funeral for, we're going to actually
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take our time and our money and go out and recognize that we need some ritual mourning for
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this. That's how bad this crime is. Happens almost 2,400 times a day. Speaking of kids,
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the New York Times. Oh, the New York Times. The New York Times has a kids section. This is news to me.
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I do not read the New York Times. I don't make a habit of that. Fewer and fewer people read the New
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York Times each day. So they have a kids section and it's got a little cartoon of a kid on there.
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And it says, and by the way, it's not a kids section, like it's for adults to read about kids.
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It's the New York Times for kids. You know, adults don't read this section. It says what
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school is actually like this year, according to 29 kids who they interviewed. And on the cover,
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it's got this kid, his name is Arnov, alleged, it's a cartoon. His name is Arnov. He's 13. He's in
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Pennsylvania. And the quote coming out of his mouth says, I think the COVID-19 regulation should be
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stricter. Cases are already rising. Do you think that this is what the students of America are
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saying? Do you think? No, this is such pathetic propaganda. Pravda in the Soviet Union could not
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have done better, could not have done a more ridiculous job of propaganda. It's like the New
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York Times reports from our nation's classrooms, kids want more homework. Oh yes, no, we've been
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talking to all of the kids and they want more homework and they want, they don't want dessert
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or recess anymore. Yes, yes, that's what our, no, I don't think so. I think the kids hate the stupid
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masks. I think they hate the vax mandates. And I think that they have in many ways, a justified resent
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of their teachers and administrators and even parents who are going along with this stuff. Okay.
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But the New York Times, just, just showing the left wing impulse to exploit children for their own
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political gain and how heinous that is. I've called that out for a long time. Called it out on television
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one time too. And the left doesn't like it when you call them out on that sort of thing.
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Now, speaking of the New York Times, the New York Times has a little piece out here that is probably
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not going to be noticed by a lot of people, but it should be noticed because it gives away the whole
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game. It's a piece acknowledging that on January 6th, January 6th, the worst, the worst insurrection
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in American history, that, that event was coordinated at least in part by the feds. Do you remember there
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was the justice for January 6th rally that happened a week or two ago? And the only people who showed up
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were the press and undercover feds, it was really the FBI picnic is what I referred to it as.
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There were no actual people there, you know? So here's the headline from the Times. Among those
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who marched into the Capitol on January 6th, an FBI informant, gee, you don't say, you don't say.
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I mean, we, anyone with two brain cells called this basically from the very beginning. They said,
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you know, I bet the feds were involved in this. This seems like a total setup. A member of the far
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right proud boys texted his FBI handler during the assault, but maintained that the group had no plan
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in advance to enter the Capitol and disrupt the election certification. And you're seeing images
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come out now, videos of the way that the alleged insurrectionists entered the Capitol. It was
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actually in many cases, somewhat orderly. In many cases, they were actually let into the Capitol.
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We know that the, the chief accusation against the Capitol rioters that day was that they killed a cop.
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It just didn't happen. Even the New York Times later had to admit that that was a lie.
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So yes, this is what happens. The feds do this sort of thing. And to me, the story here is not that
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the New York Times is admitting this. It's not that the feds actually were involved in this. I think
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sensible people already knew that. To me, the real story is what are they not telling us?
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If they're going to acknowledge this degree of fed coordination, what are they not acknowledging?
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What's the next shoe to drop? What's out there? It seems to me that almost every, not everything,
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but almost everything we were told about January 6th was a lie, was a lie and just was not true.
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And speaking of that day, I've got to get to my absolute, would I say my favorite or my least
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favorite of the squishy Republicans? The squishy Republican court jester, conservative par excellence,
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response, Liz Cheney. Liz Cheney just did an interview on 60 Minutes. Now I will sum up
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most of the interview. This is because it was a long interview. It touched on a broad array of topics,
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touched on, oh my gosh, touched on gay marriage. It touched on transgenderism. It touched on all these
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various issues. The main thrust of the interview was this. The Capitol, January 6th. Right? So that
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was basically that I just saved you a long time of watching that interview. But just to show you
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how much further it goes than that. They then get to the question of marriage. Now Liz Cheney very
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famously supports the traditional definition of marriage. The definition of marriage that has existed
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everywhere at all times, everywhere on earth, throughout all of human history until about
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five minutes ago here in the West. Now Liz Cheney says, absolutely not. She was wrong.
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Your sister's gay. She's married. She has children. And in 2013, you came out against same-sex marriage
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while your father went the other way. And it was looked upon as courageous when he did that.
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How do you defend what you did? I was wrong. I was wrong. I love my sister very much. I love her
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family very much. And I was wrong. It's a very personal issue and very personal for my family.
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I believe that my dad was right. And my sister and I have had that conversation.
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You weren't expecting that? I'm waiting for her to adopt every other lib position too. What Liz Cheney
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did just here is so much worse than just changing her position on this issue because she is implicitly,
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not so implicitly, condemning Republicans for holding the normal view on this issue that everyone's
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held everywhere else. It's just one more bit of evidence that the Republican Party is rotten to
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the core, which we'll get to in one second. First though, you got to check out Ben's show today.
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Ben's going to be talking about how Biden's got all these awful budgetary issues and his awful
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what you hear, we'll be right back with a lot more. Liz Cheney just came out on 60 Minutes to say
00:24:26.500
she was wrong about redefining marriage. She opposed redefining marriage to include same-sex
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monogamous unions. Her father even supported redefining marriage. It was a contentious issue
00:24:41.480
in the Republican Party. Her sister is a lesbian. That complicates things. She just said,
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I was wrong. I was wrong. I love my sister. This is personal. I was so wrong. Mea culpa,
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mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. This is so much worse than just advocating for defining marriage because
00:24:59.360
what Liz Cheney is doing here is buying into the lie that people who believe that sexual
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difference has something to do with marriage, maybe a lot to do with marriage, are somehow
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irrational or bigoted. This is so much worse than saying, look, we have a difference of opinion on
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this. I think even though marriage has always meant one thing, I think we should radically redefine
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marriage and here are my reasons why. And I understand that you have your reasons why,
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but here's why I think I'm right. What she's saying is, no, I was wrong. Oh, I was so wrong.
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My dad was right. I love my sister. And what I did was, implicitly she's saying, what I did was
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hateful toward my sister. It was cruel to my sister. It's not. It's not. Opposition to gay marriage or,
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you know, same-sex marriage or redefining marriage is not grounded in people hating gay people
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or an irrational animus as some judges have said. It's based on a simple conviction held by all
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people everywhere that marriage as an institution, whatever it's going to mean in whatever social
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context, with polygamy even in some cultures or without polygamy or with the toleration of divorce
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or without the toleration of divorce, whatever variation on it you're going to say, that sexual
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difference, the difference between men and women has something to do with that, okay? That's not
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irrational. That's not bigoted. That's not hateful. That is quite simple and quite obvious, if you ask
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me. Now there's this new idea that has arisen in the last 40, 50 years, very slowly, that men and
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women are not different, that men and women are, for all intents and purposes, exactly the same.
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And so as a result of that logic, you get movements like second wave feminism, you get
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movements like the gay marriage movement, and you get movements like transgenderism.
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And I see how those movements arise out of the claim that men and women are exactly the
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same. But we disagree with that claim, and it's not hateful, and it's not bigoted, and
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it's certainly not irrational to pretend that men and women, or to acknowledge that men and
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women are not the same. Frankly, I think it's irrational to suggest that they are the same,
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okay? So Liz Cheney has not just changed her opinion on a political issue. She has gutted the
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central core of, in any way, a reasonably conservative view of the world. And she is
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smearing her fellow Republicans, as she has wanted to do. But she goes even further, by the way.
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At least she has the integrity to go further. She follows this radical idea to its radical conclusion,
00:27:31.060
which is, she seems to be upset that Republicans are not embracing radical transgender ideology,
00:27:38.080
This is an issue that we have to recognize, you know, as human beings, that we need to work
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against discrimination of all kinds in our country, in our state. We were at an event a few nights ago,
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and there was a young woman who said she doesn't feel safe sometimes because she's transgender,
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and nobody should feel unsafe. Freedom means freedom for everybody.
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What? Does anybody understand what that word salad means? She goes, we need to fight all forms of
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discrimination, including transgender discrimination, because some people feel unsafe,
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whatever that, I have no idea what that means. They feel unsafe, and that's why we need to abolish the
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legal distinction between men and women, and let men go into the women's bathroom. What about the
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women who feel unsafe when men go into their bathroom? What about the little girls who are
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at the changing room at the public pool who feel unsafe when grown men walk in there? Well, but the
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grown men feel like women, and they are women. And we need to, freedom means freedom forever.
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What about the freedom of the little girl to not change in front of a grown dude? What about that
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freedom? Is that a freedom? No, it's only freedom in the liberal, leftist direction.
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This is, this, behold your principled Republicans. This is what we're told, that the Liz Cheney's of
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the world and the squishes, the squish caucus, they are the principled, dignified Republicans
00:29:08.180
in the traditional Republican, not this crazy, irrational Trump kind of Republican way.
00:29:15.720
They're the rational ones who think that men and women are exactly the same.
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They're the rational ones who spend all of their time attacking fellow Republicans. And they're
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the rational ones who are stumping for Joe freaking Biden, the most radical presidential
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administration we've ever had in our country's history, because they're so dignified and rational.
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They're the true conservatives. With Republicans like this woman and the people who support her,
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we don't need Democrats. We don't need them. There's no difference. It's like men and women are the
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same. Republicans and Democrats are the same when you look at people like this woman.
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Pathetic. And you'll always hear that it's, it's the Marjorie Greens of the world who are the kooks.
00:29:53.800
They're the threat to the Republic. I, I don't know. At least, at least Marjorie Green recognizes
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we shouldn't draft women, right? Liz Cheney, by the way, voted for that, voted to draft women.
00:30:03.020
Of course she did. Of course she did. She just admitted there's no difference between men and women
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in her view, her mistaken view. Pathetic stuff. Pathetic stuff. This is a, to use a phrase from
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Ronald Reagan. And this is a time for choosing folks. Which way Western man, which way American?
00:30:20.480
Are we going to go the Liz Cheney route or are we going to preserve any semblance of political
00:30:26.900
opposition to radical liberal agendas? Jen Psaki, speaking of feckless Republicans, Jen Psaki is
00:30:34.220
accusing Republicans of not offering any solutions to the immigration crisis. Yeah, they're really good
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at criticizing Joe Biden over the border, but what are their solutions?
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There are a lot of Republicans out there giving speeches about how outraged they are about the
00:30:48.160
situation at the border. Not many who are putting forward solutions or steps that we could take. So
00:30:54.040
we're a little tired of the speeches. We'd like to partner on solutions and working together to
00:30:58.800
address this problem that has not been partisan in the past. Where are your solutions, Republicans?
00:31:04.260
Come on, give me one. Name me one. Okay, build the wall. Okay, well give me two. All right,
00:31:11.460
deport the illegal aliens. Okay, Republicans, well give me three. Stop giving them government IDs.
00:31:21.140
Stop giving them government benefits. Tax their remittances. Maybe even revoke birthright
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citizenship. Maybe defund sanctuary cities and sanctuary states. Maybe require refugees to apply
00:31:31.940
for asylum in the first safe country that they enter rather than just going through those countries
00:31:35.900
to the United States. I don't know. How many more? What is that? That's like seven, eight
00:31:38.980
concrete policy ideas. How many more do you want? Well, what? You just don't. Give me a real one
00:31:46.180
though, guys. Come on, give me. I think we're the only people who are proposing any solution to the
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border. And I think the people who are not proposing solutions are the Democrats. And they're doing so
00:31:55.360
not merely because they're incompetent, but because they don't want to solve the problem at the border.
00:32:01.940
Actually, the open border is their solution. It's a solution to a political problem that Americans
00:32:07.660
don't want these foreign nationals flooding over here, among other aspects of their radical agenda.
00:32:12.720
So the solution is flood the country with people who are much more likely to vote for us.
00:32:18.340
Total projection. As is often the case, the left will accuse the right of the things that the left is
00:32:23.940
doing. The most transparent example of this is colluding with the Russians, right? The left has spent
00:32:30.980
100 years in this country, just about, colluding with the Russians. Let's be fair. Let's call it,
00:32:36.340
I don't know, 70, 80 years, taking the side of the communists in Russia. And then 2016 rolls around.
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They say, the Republicans are colluding with the Russians. You're the ones. You're the people.
00:32:49.260
And actually, really, it does go up to 100 years. Do you remember the Russian reset from Hillary
00:32:52.420
Clinton? Do you remember Barack Obama making a shady deal that was caught on a hot mic saying,
00:32:56.960
don't worry, I'm going to go soft on Russia. I just got to get through my election. I got to lie
00:33:00.260
to the American people. So it is, it does go almost exactly 100 years. But you Republicans
00:33:05.900
are colluding. They do this all the time. And they're doing it here. You have no solutions
00:33:10.560
on immigration. We're the only people with solutions. I just rattled off, just here very
00:33:15.840
quickly in the show, seven, eight solutions. If you gave me 10 more minutes, I could probably give
00:33:21.780
another half dozen solutions, but they don't want any of them. And, and they're deflecting not just
00:33:29.120
on what are our solutions. They're deflecting even on Joe Biden, acknowledging the problem.
00:33:33.080
Peter Doocy, or one of the, one of the few journalists remaining in America asks Jen Psaki,
00:33:37.940
Hey, is the president, you know, at the midst of this intense border crisis, is he considered like
00:33:43.540
going down there and looking at it? Why hasn't president Biden ever visited the Southern border?
00:33:48.960
What would you like him to do at the Southern border? And what impact do you think that would
00:33:53.140
have on the policies? Why doesn't he want to go? I don't think it's an issue of wanting to go. I
00:33:57.760
think it's an issue of what's most constructive to address what we see as a challenging situation
00:34:02.940
at the border in a broken immigration system. And his view is the most constructive role we can play
00:34:08.520
is by helping to push immigration reform forward, helping reform the broken policies of the last
00:34:14.220
several years and listening to his team of advisors who have been to the border multiple times about
00:34:20.500
what the path forward should look like. Why is this the one crisis then that he thinks he can
00:34:24.700
manage better from here without having seen it than going to the Southern border? I can assure you the
00:34:30.040
president is well aware of what the challenges are in our broken immigration system, something he
00:34:34.180
watched closely over the last four years. So he's watched this problem closely for the past four
00:34:40.280
years. That's not quite true. It's partially true. He's actually watched this problem closely for
00:34:46.620
the last 50 years. Joe Biden has been in the government at the national level now for almost
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exactly 50 years. And the problem has gotten worse and worse and worse and worse as have most problems
00:35:04.180
since Joe Biden has been in office in the Senate than the vice president. Now, apparently the
00:35:10.900
president, we don't see him very much. So he's not going to go down there. He knows, he knows what we
00:35:17.000
need to do. Okay. What is it? You just said you don't have any answers. And then you tried to deflect
00:35:23.220
and said the Republicans don't have any answers. He's not going down there because he's trapped between
00:35:27.220
Iraq and a hard place. The radical left-wing base, the arch progressives want to keep the border open
00:35:35.540
because they hate America and they don't think America deserves to be a nation. The democratic
00:35:39.680
operatives want to keep the border open because they think they're flooding the country with their
00:35:42.980
future voters. And very likely they're right, depending on which country we're talking about.
00:35:47.440
And then you've got the more moderate types who broke for Biden in some places. They want to seal
00:35:54.920
up the border, but he can't appease both of those groups. So he's going to, or all three of those
00:36:00.600
groups. So he's going to back away. This is why he gave Kamala Harris control over the border. Do
00:36:06.080
you remember? It was one of the most vicious things I've ever seen a president do to a vice president.
00:36:10.500
So you're in charge of this now. He's setting her up completely for failure because obviously those
00:36:14.040
two do not like each other very much. She opened her presidential campaign by accusing Joe Biden of
00:36:18.600
being a racist. Okay. I don't think there's any love lost between those two. And what has Joe,
00:36:22.460
what has Kamala Harris done? She hasn't gone down there either. Because the Democrats are
00:36:27.520
intrinsically incapable of solving the problem at the border because the incentives are too screwed up.
00:36:34.160
They can't, they can't possibly do it. Most, all of the incentives are aligned for them to do nothing.
00:36:39.840
And, and in as much as there is an incentive to do one thing or the other, it's to keep the border
00:36:44.700
even more wide open. So there's, there is nothing that a Democrat can do on this particular
00:36:52.080
issue. Meanwhile, you know, things are bad because the administration is admitting
00:36:57.380
that they're releasing at least 10,000 illegal aliens just last week into the interior of the
00:37:04.620
country. Of the 17,400 that weren't deported back or didn't return on their own to Mexico,
00:37:11.460
how many of them either, well, first, how many have been released into the U S? Uh,
00:37:16.500
they're released on conditions and approximately, I think it's about 10,000 or so, 12,000 have been
00:37:23.220
released. Yes. And of the 5,000 that are still in process, we will make determinations whether they
00:37:29.720
will be, uh, returned, uh, to, uh, Haiti, uh, based on our public health and public interest
00:37:37.580
authorities. So are we talking about a total of 12,000 or could it be even higher?
00:37:43.580
It could, it could be even higher. The number that are returned could be even higher. What we
00:37:49.200
do is we follow the law as Congress has passed it. So that's the most egregious lie we've heard
00:37:56.240
all show. What we do is follow the, no, if you followed the law, you'd deport all of these people,
00:38:00.220
but you're not, you're not following the law at all. You would enforce the law. You wouldn't
00:38:03.160
punish your border patrol for enforcing the law. I love, I actually love this question from Chris
00:38:08.240
Wallace. He says, how many people? Mayorkas, the head of Homeland Security says 10 to 12,000.
00:38:14.440
Chris Wallace says, that's the total 10 to 12,000 or could it be a little higher? Well,
00:38:18.320
yeah, it could be a little higher. It's just like the New York times saying, yeah,
00:38:21.060
there were some feds involved in January 6th. If, if the head of Biden's DHS is telling us
00:38:27.720
that he released 10 to 12,000 into the interior of the country, you know that the real number is much,
00:38:33.720
much higher than that. Probably multiples higher than that.
00:38:37.320
Speaking of numbers, the Democrats, in addition to drafting women into the military with the help
00:38:46.440
of Republicans, and in addition to legalizing or attempting to legalize abortion up until the
00:38:51.040
moment of birth nationwide, they're also about to spend three and a half trillion dollars on some
00:38:55.840
budget madness. This is an unpopular type of bill, but it's so, it's so complicated that people
00:39:04.580
probably are not going to be paying a ton of close attention to it. It used to be that when Congress
00:39:09.240
would pass bills, they were relatively narrow bills and they would pass a lot of them.
00:39:12.520
But now, because Congress doesn't really govern in a particularly direct way, they,
00:39:17.960
they just give a lot of money to the executive agencies and then the agencies create all the
00:39:22.380
rules that govern us. You know, all the alphabet agencies and all those, the FDA and OSHA and all
00:39:28.880
of these various regulatory groups. So what, what they do is they just pass one big bill. So this is
00:39:35.460
one of these gigantic omnibus bills. It's a $3.5 trillion budget bill. Pelosi asked about this on
00:39:42.300
ABC and she gave an answer that is shocking to many, but I actually think it was brilliant. She
00:39:47.680
said, don't worry about the numbers, worry about the values. This will be paid for. So when some say,
00:39:56.540
oh, well, what about inflation? It will be paid for. And that's the beauty of it by having those in our
00:40:03.100
economy and society who have not paid their fair share, paying their fair share. So again,
00:40:08.900
the Senate and the house, those who are not in full agreement with the president's right,
00:40:14.480
let's see what our value, let's not talk about numbers and dollars. Let's talk about values.
00:40:21.700
So when she says that the bill's paid for, that's just a lie. I mean, that's, that's preposterous,
00:40:26.200
not, not even the rosiest sort of optimism on, on the way these numbers are going to shake out.
00:40:31.280
We'll, we'll suggest that it's, it's paid for, but put that aside for a second. That's just typical
00:40:35.360
left-wing lying about budget bills. What she says here,
00:40:40.820
let's see what our values, let's not talk about numbers and dollars. Let's talk about values.
00:40:46.800
That is brilliant. And that is right. And Republicans should take notes. Republicans,
00:40:51.460
lawmakers, especially the confused ones that just voted to draft women, take out your pen,
00:40:56.960
watch Nancy Pelosi, take some notes. You should not be talking about numbers and dollars and cents.
00:41:03.560
You should be talking about values. The, the Republicans who went along with that
00:41:10.800
defense authorization act, I know what they were thinking. They were thinking, well,
00:41:16.480
look general overall, 99% of this defense bill is fine. And you know, the numbers shake out pretty
00:41:23.300
well and we got to pay our troops and we don't want to be accused of not giving a raise to our
00:41:26.660
troops and that won't look good. And then I might dip in the polls for a little bit and that might not
00:41:31.080
be nice. And there'll be a campaign. And you're thinking in dollars and cents, folks, think in
00:41:35.080
values, think in values. If the situation had been reversed, right? I know this is a silly hypothetical
00:41:42.420
and it's an overused one, but I actually think it's kind of illuminating here. If the situation
00:41:48.060
had been reversed, I think what the Democrats would have done is they would have renamed this
00:41:51.540
national defense authorization act. They would have renamed it the draft women, make women die in
00:41:56.500
combat act. And they would go on TV and they would, and they would have the protection of the
00:42:00.360
mainstream media. And they would say, yeah, Republicans are trying to make us vote for the
00:42:03.820
make women die in combat act. And we think that's a bad idea. So we're going to oppose it. And they
00:42:08.720
would have made the battle about values, about right and wrong, about justice. They wouldn't have made it
00:42:13.160
about the little itty bitty details of the defense authorization bill and raising the money here and
00:42:18.520
this and that. They would have made it about values and they would have won. But we don't win because
00:42:22.100
we don't understand that because you've got the left, which is offering an actual moral,
00:42:27.240
it's an immoral vision for the country, but it involves moral arguments. And then you've got
00:42:31.760
some right wingers, we try to do it on this show, who try to put politics in those terms as well.
00:42:38.240
And then you've got, I would say probably the majority of elected Republicans, not the majority
00:42:42.680
of Republican voters, but the majority of elected Republicans who just think in these utilitarian terms,
00:42:48.200
like eggheads with a spreadsheet who say, well, actually, you know, but if we cut that
00:42:52.080
taxes, that it'll increase receipts to the federal government, but actually, who cares? Who
00:42:56.760
cares? I don't care about that. I don't care about that when the actual business of the government
00:43:02.540
right now is sending women into freaking combat, you idiots. You myopic, narrow-minded, materialist,
00:43:15.340
craven idiots. I can't, Democrats would not have made this mistake. Is it a mistake? I don't even know
00:43:21.480
if it's a mistake. You want to talk about values? Before we go, I have to get to this.
00:43:25.960
PETA, PETA, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an ironically named group because they
00:43:32.860
actually kill a lot of animals. They are involved in the killing of animals, but that's neither here
00:43:37.660
nor there because there aren't enough people to take care of them. Anyway, neither here nor there,
00:43:41.140
at least for this ad. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals are, I just put out a video.
00:43:45.360
The video was trying to persuade people that if you go vegan, you'll have a better sex life. It's
00:43:51.200
better for your, you know, blood flow or whatever. And so the video involved, I mean, if you're, you
00:43:56.640
know, we've only got about a minute and a half left here. So if you've got, if you've got young
00:44:00.600
children watching, listening is fine, but watching, maybe close their eyes for a second.
00:44:04.800
It's a video of people molesting fruit. Take a listen. It says, want to spice things up in the
00:44:13.580
bedroom? It's people would like a kiwi and a pepper. Chili peppers will have you hot and heavy
00:44:17.780
in no time. A squirt of OJ can increase blood flow to important organs. I'm going to look away
00:44:24.500
from this. Get a load of the zinc to increase your libido. Avocados, well, this is disgusting.
00:44:30.400
We'll give you the stamina to keep going. Go vegan. Your partner will thank you.
00:44:34.800
Sounds like molesting a cantaloupe. And now someone lay this. Just stop it. Stop it. Stop
00:44:39.360
it. Turn it off. This, uh, this is the values that we're looking at now. First of all, it's
00:44:46.200
not very persuasive to me when we're told to adopt the, you know, adopt our ethical system.
00:44:53.540
And we're being told that by people who are molesting fruit. I don't, that doesn't seem
00:44:57.340
like I want to adopt their ethical system, but this is a lot. This actually has to do with
00:45:01.580
the political strategy of the left. What the left is doing, they always make these
00:45:04.780
jokes like, well, if you oppose our reviews, you probably don't have enough sex. You're
00:45:08.840
an incel or you have small genitalia or you don't get, you pick up enough chicks or you
00:45:14.040
don't, or you're not, I don't know, whatever. It's all like, it always comes down to sex.
00:45:17.520
And the reason they do this is because their view of liberty is one of, of licentiousness
00:45:23.020
and it just comes down to lust and, you know, whoever you can sleep with and just doing a
00:45:27.780
bunch of weird sex stuff to appease your own appetites. That's their view. I mean,
00:45:30.740
that's what they do. They enslave people by, by enslaving them to their own lusts and getting
00:45:37.400
them out of their rational mind so that they can think that a video of someone molesting
00:45:42.080
fruit is somehow persuasive. What we're looking for is a higher form of liberty. Okay. And
00:45:46.420
that's a lot different that you're not going to get to that exalted spirit of freedom that
00:45:50.160
Edmund Burke talked about. If you are merely some egghead idiot looking at a spreadsheet and
00:45:55.240
making some Craven calculations, listen to Nancy Pelosi. Please take notes. You've got to talk
00:46:01.780
about values. You've got to talk about justice. You've got to talk about true and false and right
00:46:05.980
and wrong. Otherwise we're all going to end up like Liz Cheney. I'm Michael Knowles. This
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