Ep. 877 - Who's It Gonna Be, Virginia？
Summary
Terry McAuliffe is running for governor of Virginia, and the race is neck-and-neck with Republican Glenn Youngkin. The race has come down to one issue: education. Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe has promised to get rid of a lot of white teachers in Virginia schools, and he wants them replaced with people of color.
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The Virginia gubernatorial election is upon us.
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Despite the Democrats' major electoral advantage in Virginia, the race is neck and neck.
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Some polls even have Republican Glenn Youngkin up over Democrat Terry McAuliffe.
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The race has come down to one issue above all the others.
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McAuliffe declared during several public appearances that parents have no rights when it comes to their kids' education.
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Youngkin promises to give parents a voice in their kids' education and kick the radical racial and sexual stuff out of the classroom.
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So, in his final salvo to Virginia voters, what did Terry McAuliffe do?
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He promised to get rid of a bunch of white teachers.
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I promise you, we've got to diversify our teacher base here in Virginia.
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50% of the students at Virginia schools, K-12, 50% are students of color, and yet 80% of the teachers are white.
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We all know what we have to do in a school to make everybody feel comfortable in school.
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If you'll teach for five years here in Virginia in a high-demand area, whether it be geographic or coursework,
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we will pay room, board, and tuition at any college, any university, any HBCU here in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Because we all know you can't be taught by someone who's a different color than you are.
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You know how you had all those teachers who were different colors than you,
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and you were just shaking and terrified all day long.
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You want your kids to be indoctrinated into radical racial and sexual ideologies,
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My favorite comment yesterday from Matty Ice, 113, who says,
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the Democrats needed a black man to play a white supremacist.
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And that's not even the last dirty trick they pulled.
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The McAuliffe campaign pulled another dirty trick before the polls opened today.
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There was one last dirty trick, one last dirty trick before the big election day in Virginia.
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All right, they've been pushing the racial stuff the whole time, and they're still pushing
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And the final salvo from the McAuliffe campaign was about how black kids can't learn from white
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But then the final shot, after the Charlottesville hoax, the Tiki Torch guys sent to the Yunkin
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campaign, after the, we got to fire the white teachers, there was someone who showed up at
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one of the final Yunkin rallies wearing a Confederate flag on the back of his jean jacket.
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This guy, who the Democrats obviously sent in, at least he wasn't a black guy.
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They made that mistake with the Tiki Torch stunt at the Yunkin rally.
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The Democrats, who obviously sent this guy in, made a few mistakes.
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First of all, the Confederate flag that is on the back of this jean jacket was obviously
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There's no dirt, no lint, no wrinkle, no rip, no nothing.
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They probably ironed this thing on about an hour before they sent the person into the
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Now, ordinarily, when someone does a racism, you know, there's the racism and then it trends
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The person who is implicated in the racism gets doxed.
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And yet, for this photo, no one seems to have identified who this person is because this
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The only thing on the jean jacket is the Confederate flag, which was purchased about three hours
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Collar popped up, long hair, and a giant cowboy hat covering up.
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And then, if you look at it, there are thousands and thousands of people at this Yunkin rally.
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I don't see, I mean, this is Virginia, first of all, and it's Glenn Yunkin.
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So I don't even think if you're, if you are the sort to be interested in more racial, racially
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minded, sort of hard-nosed politics, I don't think that you'd be showing up to the Glenn
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There's just this one dude right in front of all the reporters.
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So then you get these three reporters who just take the photo of the guy who showed up
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in the brand new Confederate flag thing right in front of them.
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And they push, they push the narrative, the completely false narrative that, you know,
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But I think, my takeaway from this, other than the Democrats need to get better at their
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dirty tricks because they, they used to be a lot better at these things and now it's
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My big takeaway is there, there must not be a single white supremacist left in America.
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And Richard Spencer, maybe, who are almost certainly feds.
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And these guys who like, they go there, they go on CNN to play white supremacists on CNN.
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If, if there were white supremacist, racist, bigot, evil, Nazi, whatever, if there were any
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of those guys actually in America, don't you think the Democrats could wrangle one of them
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and push them toward going to a Glenn Yunkin rally, but going to a Glenn Yunkin campaign
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stop, they can't, they can't find any of these guys.
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Speaking of dirty tricks and election integrity, I felt that Bill Maher was a little
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Conservatives really like applauding Bill Maher now because occasionally he attacks wokeism,
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He is still a lib and he still pushes for things that are really ridiculous.
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So Bill Maher had Sean Spicer on his show and Bill Maher took the opportunity not to discuss
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what's going on right now, not to discuss the, the relevant political issues to today,
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but to focus on the 2020 presidential election and the January 6th, the worst event ever in
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This was looked at by people from both parties and they, that people have come down on the
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idea that Trump lost this election and you won't say it.
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And if you're, you're either part of the big lie or you're, there is not, or you're part of the
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The Wisconsin State Audit Committee just released a report.
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No, you're afraid of being on his, yes, you are, you're afraid of being, you said, I've
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What I did say, and what I'm telling you is that in certain states where they sent out
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ballots that were not requested in violation of a law that should concern everybody.
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It wasn't, it was, it was the election was rigged.
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They changed all the rules right before the election.
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Now, are you saying the election was rigged and Trump actually got more votes?
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I didn't, you know, they didn't prove it in court.
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Jeremy, Jeremy Boring, the God King of the Daily Wire made this point.
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Jeremy said the election was rigged, but he doesn't think the election was stolen.
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There actually is a distinction to be had here.
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Rigged is the Democrats set up everything to give them an advantage,
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In Pennsylvania, they changed the election rules in violation of the state constitution,
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for goodness sakes, by pushing the widespread mail-in ballots.
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Does this mean that Trump actually got more votes?
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I don't, you know, I mean, what, to Sean Spicer's point, Biden is the president.
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But please do not tell me that the election was the most above board election in history.
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And if you question it, you're an insurrectionist, terrorist, whatever.
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Terry McAuliffe, who is running for governor of Virginia, former governor of Virginia,
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who is now running again, during this election,
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refused to acknowledge the results of the 2000 presidential election.
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During this election, during, in the year of our Lord, 2021,
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refused to acknowledge the results of the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election.
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Do you know who coined that phrase and where he did it?
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And he used the phrase to accuse the Jews of pushing a big lie to blame German general
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Eric Ludendorff for losing the first world war for Germany.
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When you use the phrase, the big lie and weaponize it against your political opponents,
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you are putting yourself in the position of the Nazis, which the Democrats are doing right
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And they're so historically illiterate, including Bill Maher, that they don't even realize that
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they're doing it enough with the ridiculous, shallow talking, good grief people.
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Everything is just an accusation of racism, white supremacy, Nazism.
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The left is getting more hysterical than usual with the Confederate flags and the fake Charlottesville
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white supremacists and the big lie Nazi comparisons.
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They're now comparing the phrase, let's go Brandon, to the phrase, long live ISIS.
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Asha Rangappa, who is a CNN contributor and faculty member at Yale's Jackson Institute,
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tweeted out, quote, as an experiment, I'd love for a Southwest Air pilot to say, long live
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My guess is that one, the plane would be immediately grounded, two, the pilot fired, and three, a
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statement issued by the airline within a matter of hours.
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This is, this is just the modern version of everyone I disagree with is Hitler, right?
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Except now it's everyone I disagree with is ISIS.
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To compare a pro-conservative, anti-Biden chant, it's kind of a cheeky one.
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And you, you certainly would expect this from someone on CNN.
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You'd hope that someone at a prestigious university would, no, I guess you would expect that from
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The point I think that this woman is making, or I think it's a woman, I don't know actually
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I don't, I've never seen a picture of this person and I'm not familiar with the name Asha.
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The point that this person is making is that the, the two phrases are, they're both political.
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They're both, I guess, expressing some antipathy toward the ruling party right now in the United
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That the form of them, because they're both political chants, the form is similar.
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So therefore they're comparable, but they're not because the substance is quite different.
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But this is a problem on the left and the right that we, we don't understand that.
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We don't need to rehash the debate, but you saw this with the, the debate a few years ago
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Squishes on the right said if, that if we ban drag queen story hour from the library, why
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then that'll make us no different than the left who wants to ban us from going to church.
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No, it makes us quite different because drag queen story hour and church are different.
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Yes, the form of banning something is the same, but the substance really matters here, folks.
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And the chant, let's go, Brandon, which really means F Joe Biden is different than the chant
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I mean, frankly, the longer that Joe Biden stays in office, probably the better shot ISIS is going
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Speaking of fighting our wars, Senator Josh Hawley filed an amendment just yesterday to prevent
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We covered this when it first went into the big bill.
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Democrats are requiring women to register for the draft, or at least they want to.
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This is unjust, uncivilized, deeply un-American.
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And so Josh Hawley says, we got to take this out.
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Now, there are a lot of conservatives who want to argue, some conservatives actually will
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The feminists say that men and women are exactly the same.
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No, the problem with the feminists are wrong, right?
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Men and women are not exactly the same, and I don't want to live in a country that sends
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our women to go fight our wars for us and get killed by terrorists.
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Sometimes you'll hear conservatives argue this from the numbers.
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They'll say, well, women are, you know, less strong, and their muscle mass is different,
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and they're not as heavy, and they're not as tall, and they're, yeah, sure, that's all
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I think we also need to make these arguments, not just from egghead accounting and spreadsheets
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and numbers, but also from justice, also from civilization.
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But as long as we're talking about the numbers, there's an incredible statistic that just came
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There was an Ipsos poll on the question of drafting women into the military.
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In January, 45% of Americans support drafting women in the military.
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When this poll was taken in 2016, 63% of Americans supported drafting women into the military.
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In 2016, we hadn't seen a whole lot of hot military action.
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We've just seen that debacle in Afghanistan where 13 servicemen were killed.
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All of a sudden, I think people are remembering the reality of war.
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Men who were surveyed favored drafting women at 55%.
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Men were much more likely to support drafting women than the women were.
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And also, I think it shows you something that might be a little bit unexpected here, which
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is that when it comes down to it, women are more likely than men to know that men and women
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What I mean by that is, you look at the TERFs, the trans-exclusionary radical feminists.
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Men don't need to think about the differences between men and women all that often because
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we're stronger and bigger and faster, even those of us who are not particularly athletic.
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Women are aware of that because women have to think about that when they're going out alone
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at night, when they're deciding whether or not to cut down that dark alley to get back
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to their car, when they are in a room with men.
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So much of the Me Too movement talked about how women felt intimidated, even if men were
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unaware of the fact that they were intimidating.
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Women know very well that they are at the physical disadvantage when it comes to men, okay?
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And so when push comes to shove, when you get down to those numbers, the women do not want
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to be drafted because they know it's not right.
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And men who are probably just lazy, either lazy and just not thinking about it at all,
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or who are thinking in very shallow ways, or who want to seem feminist and hip and cool.
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And so they say, of course we should draft women.
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They need to get a little more tuned in with reality, kind of like the women are.
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Speaking of women, the Biden administration just can't learn any lessons.
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The Biden administration has just pushed one of the spookiest campaigns, just right after
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Halloween, one of the spookiest campaigns I've seen, specifically around women.
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Now, the Obama campaign did something similar in 2012.
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They pushed something called the Life of Julia.
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And the Life of Julia was this really creepy video graphic campaign where it talked about
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how Obama's government was going to take care of this woman, Julia, from cradle to grave.
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And it was spooky because the only meaningful relationship in her life ever was with the
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And there was such backlash to it in 2012 that they basically scrubbed it from the internet.
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I've tried to find the Life of Julia in recent years.
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The world wasn't ready for the Life of Julia in 2012, but the left is nothing if not persistent.
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So they're going to try it again nine years later.
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She works at a local manufacturing facility as a production worker and earns $40,000 per
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Is Linda going to stop working when she has her kid?
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She's got probably what Joe Biden considers to be a clump of cells in her belly.
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It's weird that they would name a clump of cells, Leo, because Joe Biden supports abortion
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at this point, basically up until the point of birth.
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So it's weird that he wouldn't have, but okay, fine.
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Once Leo is born, Linda is going to receive a child tax credit of $300 per month, $3,600
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annually to help cover essential costs like groceries, rent, and medicine.
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We were wondering earlier, if Linda's married, if Leo has a father who's stuck around, doesn't
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He's going to take care of those things like groceries, rent, and medicine.
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Joe Biden, Big Daddy Biden is there for Leo as well.
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We'll get back to the life of Linda in just one second.
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First, though, make sure you check out Ben today.
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Ben is going to be talking about this race in Virginia really, really heating up.
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I'm also heading down to the National Conservatism Conference.
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This is, I think, my 5,000th trip to Florida this year.
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We will be discussing, though, the future of conservatism.
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I'm sure there will be clips and transcripts and videos released later.
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But Yoram Hazoni, the great contemporary political philosopher, is running the thing.
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It's going to be a lot of fun, so I hope to see you there.
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So this is the new Biden plan for how he's going to take care of your kid and you,
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and the only meaningful relationship you're ever going to need is with him.
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As Leo grows up, the government helps cover the costs for his daycare,
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guaranteeing that Linda doesn't need to pay more than 7% of her income on child care.
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We'll get to the real troublesome aspects of this in a second.
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When Leo turns three, he attends a high-quality pre-K program for free.
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When Leo leaves high school, he's able to enroll in community college,
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Thanks to his community college training, Leo lands a good-paying union job as a wind turbine
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Leo's job is one of 4 million new jobs a year that are supported by President Biden's economic plan.
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Then we can talk about your brilliant economic plan.
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Later in life, Linda needs home care and hearing care.
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Thanks to President Biden's plan, Linda can access affordable hearing care through Medicare,
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and Leo is able to afford at-home elder care for his mom.
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I am not of the opinion, as so many Republicans have been for a long time,
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that the big problem with this is it's too expensive.
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This is economically, this doesn't make any sense.
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That's not my, you know, these are legitimate concerns, but it's not my primary concern.
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Mama doesn't get to raise her kids because there's no daddy in the picture.
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She's got to work until she, at the very end, she can take off, have the kid,
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So that she can pay some other woman to raise her child.
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So she, right away, ships the kid off to daycare.
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Then, then, you know, that's, that's the first step.
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The second step is by the time he's three, he gets to go to Joe Biden's school.
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He gets to go to Biden-funded government school.
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I started going to school at five, I guess, kindergarten.
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My dad started going to school at six, first grade.
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I have a friend of mine, sends her two-year-old daughter to school.
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But what this is about is removing the ability to educate your child from the parent to the state.
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This is what the election in Virginia is about, too, folks.
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At different stages in life, but it's the same issue.
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So in the life of Linda, the state gets to raise Linda's kid.
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Then the kid goes to another government school, and then the kid gets a union job.
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And then the great part of the union job is the kid gets to pay someone else to take care of his mother.
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As the life of Linda expands, as the government program, the life of Linda expands, the family disappears.
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I don't care about spending money on school or, it's a very rich country.
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Okay, it might not be for long, depending on how long Joe Biden's in office.
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If I thought that it were good for, for Leo or Linda or the American people to have pre, pre, pre-K funded by the state, I guess I'd be fine with that.
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Or to have these massive programs, I guess I'd be fine with that.
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When, when, conservatives are just right about everything.
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When, when we say, hey, if you keep going in this direction, progressives, you're going to destroy the family.
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And they say, oh, please, that's a slippery slope.
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Hey, if you redefine this thing, then pretty soon you're going to redefine marriage.
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No, that's a crazy, that's a slippery slope argument.
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That's exactly, well, you know, if we, we redefine marriage, pretty soon we're going to be redefining sex itself.
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Oh, you're just crazy, hysterical conservatives.
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And oh, that's exactly what happened like five minutes later.
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Speaking of women's issues, Mary Margaret Olihan at the Daily Caller has a delightful video out where she, she goes out and interviews the Catholics for Choice lady.
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So there, there is a group called Catholics for Choice.
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I got to put this in, in quotes because the, the group is not Catholic.
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The group is in grave error and is in, is contradicting very basic Catholic teachings.
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And so you could not call them practicing Catholics by any chance.
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This is a fake Catholic group that is pushing for abortion underneath the Catholic banner, which actually incurs another sin, which is the sin of scandal.
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So anyway, a delightful video out here asking the Catholics for Choice lady how to defend her views.
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So we represent and amplify the majority of Catholics in the United States who support abortion rights.
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68% of Catholics in the U.S. do not want to see Roe vs. Wade struck down.
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So we thought it was very important for us to be out here today.
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What about, doesn't the Catholic Church teach that abortion is a crime against human life?
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Well, the teaching on abortion has changed quite a bit over the centuries.
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As you know, the Catholic Church is an old institution.
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And the fact is, two of our major theologians, Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine, believed abortion was licit within the first trimester.
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So we're here to tell Catholics that it's more complicated and the Church's teaching on that is more complicated.
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That's so funny. I've never heard that in my life.
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I've heard my whole life that the Catholic Church teaches that abortion is a crime against human life.
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And then if you get one, you're excommunicated.
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But and I have never heard that that teaching changed.
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That's so weird. By the way, I just I just know I said the Daily Caller, but I just noticed on the microphone is the Daily Signal.
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So I want to give credit where credit is due for this very entertaining video.
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Obviously, what this woman, this leftist activist who runs Catholics for Choice, what she's saying about abortion is not true.
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She's saying that the Catholic teaching has changed a lot and it used to the Catholic Church used to support abortion.
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But now the Catholic Church doesn't support abortion.
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And so it's kind of up in the air and up for grabs.
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The Catholic Church has condemned abortion and prohibited it since the first century.
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Since the very first years after the crucifixion and the resurrection, the earliest catechism we have, the didache, explicitly condemns abortion.
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This argument about Thomas Aquinas and Augustine, also bogus stuff.
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I mean, this is an example of a half-truth or a quarter-truth being perverted to completely misrepresent one's view of things.
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St. Thomas Aquinas believed that conception was a process that took place when the sperm served a formative function on the menstrual blood of women.
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I hate to be gory here, but this is his understanding of the physical act of conception.
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Okay, and he's basing that on Aristotle's physics, which was the physics they had at the time.
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Obviously, they didn't have modern medical science at the time.
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So when you're describing the physical act of conception, it was unclear to someone like St. Thomas Aquinas.
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Even a great genius like St. Thomas Aquinas, one of the greatest theologians ever.
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So the view was that the sperm acts on the menstrual blood and then creates this kind of vegetative thing that is not ensouled until quickening.
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Okay, St. Augustine has a similar view of this, as this woman alludes to.
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What we know with modern medical science is that the sperm does not merely serve some formative function on the menstrual blood.
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But that the sperm and the egg come together and that the act of conception, which previously in the Aristotelian world, the Aristotelian model would have taken weeks and weeks, actually occurs almost instantaneously.
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And we know now, again, just because of modern medical science, that the sperm contains unique genetic information and the egg contains unique genetic information.
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And when the sperm and the egg come together, they both cease to be and a new being is formed.
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And that new being is the first iteration of human life.
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By applying the metaphysical principles of St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas to the modern understanding of physics, we know that life begins at conception.
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And you can't call Augustine and Thomas Aquinas dummies.
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They were operating on the physical understanding of the world at the time.
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But what is so disingenuous is, well, one, maybe this Catholics for choice lady seems a little confused.
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So maybe she just doesn't understand what I have just explained.
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And maybe she's just being a little clever here or trying to be a little clever.
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And maybe she's just trying to use Aristotelian physics to justify her indefensible position on abortion.
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Do you think this woman defers to Aristotelian views of the physical world in other questions?
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Or just when it comes to abortion because of a mistaken view, a manifestly mistaken view of how conception takes place?
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I think this woman probably says she loves to follow the science.
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And she's very modern and follows all the modern science.
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There she follows the most ancient and mistaken science that there is.
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The bigger question, though, beyond the obvious nonsense that this woman is spouting,
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is why does she want to be considered Catholic?
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She disagrees with the church on life, an essential, non-negotiable teaching.
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She disagrees with the church on women ordination.
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She disagrees with the church on a great deal of things, a great number of things.
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Why can't she just be, I don't know what category she would put herself, leftist for choice.
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Why can't she just be regular old leftist who disagrees with the Catholic faith for abortion?
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Because, because the Catholic church is the fundamental institution in the West.
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Even if you're Protestant, even if you're agnostic, even if you're atheist, the church formed the West.
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Okay, the church endured from antiquity into modernity.
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No other organizations or institution in the West can claim that.
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As Hilaire Belloc put it, the faith is Europe, Europe is the faith.
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And so, if you want to transform the civilization, you've got to get to the heart of it.
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And I suspect this woman has a natural longing.
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She just, she wants, she wants all the good stuff that comes with the faith.
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But she doesn't want the things that are necessary to the faith.
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She doesn't want to tamp down her basest appetites.
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She doesn't want to circumscribe her individual autonomy.
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Speaking of abortion, an Ohio city has just voted to make abortion a crime.
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The city council of Mason, which is just north of Cincinnati, voted on Monday, last, I think
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Council members voted four to three to make the city, quote, a sanctuary for the unborn.
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Now, Mason does not currently have any abortion clinics within the city limits.
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The people who pushed for this ban said that now that there is a ban, no abortion clinics
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Some people will say that the city has no right to ban abortion.
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Abortion is a federal right that was discovered in the Constitution in 1973.
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You'll hear leftists make that argument and some kind of squishy types will make that
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Well, you know, look, I don't I don't agree with the Supreme Court's decision, Roe versus
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Wade, but but we can't just go around, you know, contradicting the court and we need to
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They were they were right on just about every aspect of this first to use the left's sanctuary
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The left loves to violate federal law and create sanctuary cities for illegal aliens, for foreign
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nationals who are living in our country in contravention of our laws, but they won't do
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They are in Mason standing up for what is right, what is truly right, defending the right of
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life for the unborn, and they're going on the offense politically.
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Saving these lives in the future is very important.
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But going on offense politically is something that we could all learn from.
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How about we start setting the standards and the taboos?
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How about how about we start using our political power?
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A student at Yale Law School is doing that, which is really wonderful to see.
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There was a Yale Law student who sent out a letter.
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He's a member of the Federalist Society, which is a at least somewhat conservative law society.
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He sent out a letter inviting people to a party, and because he's a conservative, because
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he's in the Federalist Society, some people read the letter and pretended that it was racist
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I think he made a pop culture reference to a trap house, which is a perfectly ordinary pop
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culture reference, and this was then used by leftists on campus to say, he's racist.
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You're not allowed to use that phrase, trap house, or what?
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I mean, they were just looking for an excuse, and so he was called in by the diversity deans,
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and the diversity deans said, the student recorded it, thankfully, so we had the recording.
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The diversity deans said, listen, you were just accused of racism, and it's not as bad
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for you as it would be for a white guy, because you're Native American, but look, you should
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But look, you don't want your career to be hurt.
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You don't want people to start saying things about you.
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You should have nothing to apologize for, but we drafted it up anyway, and you're going
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He has now said, quote, instead, an apology should be a sincere expression of remorse and
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The Yale administrators did not believe I had been racist by using the phrase trap house,
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They urged me to placate students via public submission.
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I don't believe that the now common ritual of compelled apology, complete with promises
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to grow and do better, their words, but ones I'm sure you've seen many times before, helps
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If we continue to indulge this culture of performative denunciation, the very idea of
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What the Yale administrators are saying is that an apology is no big deal.
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Look, you didn't do anything wrong, really, but, you know, these kids are offended, and
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If it's not a big deal, why are the Yale diversity administrators so dead set on this kid signing
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If it's not a big deal, why are these thugs, these diversity, inclusion, and equity thugs
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threatening this kid's career if he doesn't sign it, if it's not a big deal?
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Now, this is like when leftists say, or even some squish conservatives say, oh, just use
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Yeah, the guy is a guy, and he thinks he's a woman, and that's ridiculous, but just call
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Why, if it's not a big deal, why are you so insistent that I use the word?
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Don't worry, it's not a big deal, so it's cool.
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You can call him her if you want to, and then that's fine.
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No, no, it is a big deal, because words carry whole premises.
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And the idea of an apology will lose its meaning.
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As the late Roger Scruton pointed out, society in many ways runs on apologies.
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Our ability to apologize to one another and have that apology accepted is a good measure
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of the health of society, because it requires something of both parties.
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When I apologize, when I ask forgiveness, I am sacrificing my pride.
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When you accept my apology, you are sacrificing your resentment.
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But then you do it, and then you move along together in society.
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But we're not really allowed to do that anymore.
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And young people are being really perverted with this kind of illogic.
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This really shocked me, speaking of young people.
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A mother has apparently locked her kid up in the house, effectively locked her kid up
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in the house since the start of the 15 days to slow the spread almost 600 days ago.
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The mother just posted a video to TikTok or Instagram Reels or one of those, where she
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has the little kid, the nine-year-old daughter, read the news that the kids can now get the
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The COVID vaccine for kids is, next week should be clear for kids to do 5 to 11.
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I thought it was going to be like in a couple months.
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The girl who statistically faces an almost 0% risk from the coronavirus?
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A girl in an age group that has an infection fatality rate of anywhere from 0.003% to 0.001%
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is why I need to get vaccinated, even though the vaccine does not prevent me
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According to the CDC, at the end of July, that's why the vaccinated people are now supposed
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That's why we're told the vaccine protects you against hospitalization and death, but
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does not necessarily prevent you from contracting or transmitting the virus.
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The girl who is least at risk from the coronavirus that you have locked up in a house for almost
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600 days, who is now giddy and hugging you because you might let her go outside next week.
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That is madness, and that is a form of child abuse that our politicians have pushed upon us,
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and that gullible and cowardly and sick people have accepted.
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And that, I know it seems a little disconnected, that is what this race in Virginia is about.
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Okay, the race in Virginia is about how we raise kids.
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Do we raise them with the crazy racial theories and the sexual theories and CRT and the vaccine
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craziness and the COVID neurosis and the public health tyranny and the locking them away in a
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hermetically sealed cage and do whatever the state says? Or do we raise them more in line with
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tradition, more in line with human nature, more in line with our own religious lights? Which way?
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