Ep. 886 -Â Be More Like The Brave Anti-Mask Girl
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The White House is finally opening up about the most significant, widespread phenomenon to hit the country all year: Let's Go, Brandon. The phrase has been chanted at sporting events and on signs attacking President Biden. What does the president make of that?
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The most significant, widespread phenomenon to hit the country all year.
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The White House is finally addressing the social contagion of Let's Go Brandon.
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Across this country, we've seen this new phenomenon lately, chanted at sporting events and on signs.
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The phrase is, let's go Brandon, a sort of code for a profane slogan attacking President Biden.
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I don't think he spends much time focused on it or thinking about it.
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He doesn't spend much time thinking about that.
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Maybe he should spend a little time thinking about it.
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Maybe if he spent a little more time thinking about why tens of thousands of people at every
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game and concert in the country have for weeks been telling Brandon to go-go himself.
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Maybe then his approval numbers wouldn't be at historic lows and setting the stage for a
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potentially historic drubbing in the midterm elections.
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My favorite comment on Friday is from Real Life Outdoors who says,
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you know what the best part of this whole Rittenhouse trial is?
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Remember the day when you realized that you live in a Kafka novel.
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I get, look, something has to be the best part, even if it's just terrible, right?
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What's the best part of, you know, getting a flat tire?
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And here, at least it looks like Rittenhouse might get off the hook.
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The fact that this trial can happen in the first place is an indictment of the country
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and it really overshadows whatever that silver lining is going to be.
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And we always say, well, maybe I don't believe the polls.
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So the fact that the numbers are this bad for Democrats means they're even actually worse
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for Democrats in reality than are reflected in the surveys.
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If the midterm elections were held today, the GOP would be in an historic,
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Right now, this poll, this was released on Sunday, found that if the midterms were held
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today, registered voters would vote for Republicans for Congress over Democrats by a 10 point margin,
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WAPO calls this, and quote, historically strong result for Republicans.
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Only 41% of registered voters approve of the job he has done as president.
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I promise you the GOP will find some way to squander this.
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The Republican Party will find some way to squander this huge advantage they have right now.
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They're going to make it about socialism or some other nonsense.
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They're going to take all of this historic momentum and support and the grassroots movement
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on the ground to protect kids in schools and to get the CRT and the transgender theories
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They're going to find a way to squander it and make this about corporate tax cuts.
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Now, are they going to so squander their advantage that they actually lose the election?
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Probably not, but they will figure out some way to screw this up.
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This is just what they do because they believe that it is much better to avoid all of the
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social issues that actually help them win elections.
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And if we talk about critical race theory, that might turn off some suburban people and,
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you know, and it might not seem really fancy and make us seem like, you know,
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And we better not talk about any, you know, abortion.
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And we better not talk about family and marriage.
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Let's just talk about cutting taxes for billionaires who hate our guts.
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The thing you got to remember, and the thing I hope the Republican Party remembers as it
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looks toward the midterms, is that sometimes the apparently safest issue is not the safest
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The safest tactic very often is not the safest tactic.
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Talking about tax cuts or running a campaign like Romney 2012, that might seem like the
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safest campaign because you're not making any sudden movements.
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But it's, it's only going to safely put you into second place.
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Sometimes when you're driving, and I don't want to sound sexist about it, but this might
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be a little bit of a difference between male drivers and female drivers, right?
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Just to talk about the difference between men and women.
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Sometimes male drivers will be more aggressive.
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And sometimes female drivers, such as my wife, will not like this very much.
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And she'll say, don't, don't hit the accelerator so much.
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But sometimes when you're driving, to be a little more aggressive is actually the safer
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If it's you and a Mack truck, and the Mack truck is, is about to enter onto the highway, and
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you're driving, you want to get a little bit ahead of it.
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It's actually safer for you to accelerate a little bit, get ahead of that truck, so that
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it's not going to come and smack you in the side.
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Sometimes you've got to accelerate on an issue like education, critical race theory,
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When you're playing blackjack, you are guaranteed to lose.
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You are guaranteed to lose, unless you play the, the good hands you get in the right way.
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You double down when you're supposed to double down.
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But if we press our advantage, if we press the few advantages that we get, we actually
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Speaking of goofy swamp Republicans, Liz Cheney, Liz Cheney, she's at it again.
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Ted Cruz, our, our pal Ted Cruz made a joke about Liz Cheney.
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And CNN asked implausibly if Liz Cheney has a lane for the 2024 presidential race.
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And Cruz made a joke and said, yeah, she has a lane in the, in the Democrat primary.
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I know you're posturing for the secessionist vote, Ted, but my party, the Republican Party, saved the union.
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You're a fake Republican, all the people who actually still vote Republican and support the people the Republican Party supports.
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But me, Liz Cheney, frequent appearance, guest on, on CNN and ABC and NBC and in the Washington Post.
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I, who do Nancy Pelosi's bidding, I'm the real Republican.
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I know that Liz Cheney is still registered with the Republican Party.
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I know that historically she's cast at least a lot of votes for Republicans.
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Most votes for, not, you know, she's not the most right-wing person, but most votes, sure, she's voted with the Republicans.
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But practically speaking, Liz Cheney is a Democrat.
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This is, when I talk about the court jester conservatives, people like her, like Adam Kinzinger, like the never Trumpers.
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I think there are three of them left in the world.
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They might vote Republican 99% of the time, and they can still be these court jesters.
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They can still practically be Democrats because at the crucial moments, on the crucial votes, at the decisive places, they side with the Democrats.
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Yeah, Liz Cheney, she'll vote for all the tax cuts in the world.
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But when it comes to the January 6th commission that seeks to delegitimize half of this country, she's going to side with the Democrats.
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When it comes to the presidential contest, the Republican versus the Democrat, she's going to side with the Democrat, and has in recent years.
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Okay, and so there's nothing, look, there's nothing really unusual about someone leaving a political party.
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Okay, I don't begrudge Liz Cheney leaving her political party or spending all of her time criticizing the Republican party that she still stubbornly won't leave.
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But it is ridiculous to pretend that she is now still representing the Republican party.
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The only people who even pretend to support her at this point are Democrats, and they're going to throw her out the second she's no longer useful to them.
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Liz Cheney doesn't support Republicans or the Republican party, so she's gone.
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You've got to get aggressive, okay, and you've got to be able to push forward on the issues that are going to help Republicans right now.
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You're seeing this happen around the country, but especially in Florida, okay?
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Ron DeSantis right now, through government force, through public relations, through the backbone that he's got,
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A Florida school district has finally, finally dropped its mask mandate for students.
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This is after the school district suspended an eight-year-old girl 38 times, 38 times for not wearing the mandate.
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Now, you'll remember that Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, said that schools do not have the right to issue blanket mask mandates without exceptions.
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The school district said, forget about Governor DeSantis, we're going to do it anyway.
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The little girl said, and I assume the girl's family, said, no, we're going to follow what the governor said.
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And second grader Fiona Lachels was suspended 38 times.
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This is following a ruling from Division of Administrative Hearings Judge Newman,
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who declared that the Department of Health's emergency rule, the DeSantis rule, is valid.
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Here is the little girl appearing side by side with Governor DeSantis.
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I'm not wearing a mask because you touch it and you have germs on your hand,
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and then you put it on your face and breathe in all the germs.
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So, Governor, I remember in the summer you signed an executive order that mask wearing was optional in the public schools,
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but then the Palm Beach County schools said, you know what, you've got to wear a mask.
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So, you know, kids like Fiona are caught in the middle.
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Fortunately, we're winning all these cases, Steve.
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And I'm going to have a legislative session come in, a special session,
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primarily to deal with protecting people's jobs against COVID vax requirements.
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But we're also going to address this issue of our parents' Bill of Rights
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and making sure that we have strong teeth in it so that if you have a situation where Fiona is forced to do this
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and that's not something her mother wants her to do, then the parent ultimately makes a decision.
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So we are going to strengthen that and we're going to make sure that folks are able to go to school
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in the best possible way for them and for their learning experience.
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He just, one, he knows how to keep himself in the national conversation just about every single day.
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Two, he knows to appear on screen with this very sympathetic young girl,
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this eight-year-old girl who's being attacked by her school district for just trying to breathe the fresh air.
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And three, and this is the most important one, this is the lesson we need to take.
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Most Republicans go squishy basically from the beginning and they negotiate against themselves
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and they don't fight that hard and they let the Democrats run all over them.
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Some Republicans will push hard for a little bit and they'll get an executive order through
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and they'll get, maybe they'll get some ruling through
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and it'll just be one thing and then it's done.
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all those Republican victories just get chipped and chipped and chipped away at.
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What DeSantis is doing, he issued his mask mandate saying,
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or his anti-mask mandate saying that the schools don't have the right to implement these kind of policies.
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Every single time a school would violate his rule,
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he would take them to task in the court of public opinion, in the court of law.
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And because of that, because he's matching the Democrat persistence with his own,
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And I strongly suspect other Republican politicians are going to follow him.
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Because I think they're learning the lesson that sometimes being cautious is not the most cautious policy.
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Sometimes playing it safe is not the safest way you can play it.
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Sometimes actually getting a little aggressive is a safer way to play it.
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Now, speaking of Democrats abusing kids, they're doing it.
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The libs, like we said they would, like we all predicted, the libs are defending pedos.
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And you always hear about the conspiracy theories of the Democrats and the pedophiles.
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And the Democrats, I shouldn't say the Democrats, I should say the libs more broadly,
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A non-binary, also known as very confused, professor of sociology and criminal justice
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at Old Dominion University, someone named Alan Walker, has now gone viral,
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defending pedophiles and pedophilia and attractions toward kids,
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which he says we need to be far more sensitive about.
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We need to stop using this loaded term pedophile and start calling these people MAPs.
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I use the term minor attracted person or MAP in the title and throughout the book for multiple reasons.
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First of all, because I think it's important to use terminology for groups that members of that group
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And MAP advocacy groups, like Before You Act, have advocated for use of the term MAP.
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They've advocated for it primarily because it's less stigmatizing than other terms like pedophile.
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A lot of people, when they hear the term pedophile, they automatically assume that it means a sex offender.
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And it leads to a lot of misconceptions about attractions toward minors.
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I've definitely heard the idea that you brought up, though, that the use of the term minor attracted person
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suggests that it's okay to be attracted to children.
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But using a term that communicates who someone is attracted to
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doesn't indicate anything about the morality of that attraction.
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And we shouldn't have any stigmas around anything at all, according to our modern liberal society,
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And, you know, let's follow this guy's logic, illogic, to its logical conclusion.
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Why is an attraction toward a minor, why is it immoral?
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If you're not sexually abusing the minor, why is it?
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Let's say you're just looking at, you're looking at a bunch of kiddie porn.
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Okay, well, you could say it's immoral because, obviously, children were abused in the production
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Let's say that it's, and now, you know, technology is so advanced.
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Let's say it looks real, but it's not actually real.
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No children were harmed in the production of this creepy stuff.
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We all know deep down that that would be immoral to do that, to look at that kind of material,
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to indulge those kinds of thoughts and attractions.
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In our modern world, we're told that the only thing that matters is consent.
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And so, okay, you're going to tell me that kids can't give consent.
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And first of all, the libs don't even believe that themselves.
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Libs not only believe that the kids can consent to sexual acts, they believe they can consent
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They believe a five-year-old can mutilate his own body so that if he's a boy, he can look
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He can know his true gender, even if his true gender has nothing to do with reality.
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But okay, let's say that now you're back to kids can't give consent.
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Well, why is it wrong for an adult, creepy man like that person or someone like him to
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look at material that depicts children in sexual acts, even if it doesn't use real children?
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You need consent, but there are some things that are objectively wrong and objectively disordered.
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Not just as some quirk of psychology, but morally as well.
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And if those desires are unwilled, if those desires are involuntary, we all have certain
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involuntary desires, whether it's for some creepy stuff like this guy or whether it's
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Some of our desires are going to be disordered.
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And so if we don't will them, it's not a sin exactly.
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But we certainly shouldn't indulge, it would be a sin to indulge those desires or those
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But because we don't have any of that moral language anymore, because we're not allowed
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to talk about sin and grace and vice and virtue.
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All we ever talk about is this kind of basic, shallow consent or the kind of materialistic
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stuff about quirks of psychology or mental health, because we can't actually talk about
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Now you've got the libs defending pedophiles, because they were born that way, they say.
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And because we're told that our desires never change and we can't shape our desires.
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You're just, you're born that way and you've always got to indulge your desire.
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Well, okay, if that's true, I think that's crazy.
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But that is the idea of the sexual revolution that's been building for 70 years now.
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So if that's true, then we should destigmatize the pedophiles, right?
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And if we shouldn't destigmatize the pedophiles, because I think we could probably all agree
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we shouldn't, then maybe we need to rethink all the other premises of the sexual revolution
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I've heard a criticism from the left that accusations of pedophilia from the right are like accusations
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of racism from the left, and all the farthest fringe theories on the right.
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They very often come down to pedophilia, and the furthest fringe theories on the left, which are now
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completely mainstream, they often come down to race, and everybody's a racist.
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I mean, the only thing I'll say is it's not just fringe lunatic professors on the left who are
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covering up and encouraging the sexual abuse of kids.
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This headline from the New York Times astounded even me, and my expectations for the gray lady
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How a school district got caught in Virginia's political maelstrom.
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Loudoun County tried to address racism and promote diversity within its schools.
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The media institution that took down Loudoun County and affected the election was not that
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It was the Daily Wire, and it was our story that was not about addressing racism and promoting
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It was a story about a rape in a transgender bathroom.
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It was a story about a guy wearing a skirt raping a ninth grade girl in a bathroom, and it wasn't
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It was about the cover-up that the school then engaged in.
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Evangelical Christians objected to a proposal to give transgender students access to the
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Complaints that were magnified when a male student wearing a skirt was arrested in an assault in a
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He was, a male student wearing a skirt was arrested in an, oh, you mean a dude raped a girl.
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And people didn't bat an eyelash that he was in there because boys are now allowed in the
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girls' room because of the transgender bathroom policies.
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This is the extreme version of Republicans pounce.
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This is when Democrats get caught in a scandal or a crime, and the headline is not Democrats
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The headline is Republicans pounce on Democrats committing the crime.
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All of the focus is on the Republicans taking what they suggest to be an illegitimate advantage.
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They're exploiting Democrats committing this crime.
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I'm not saying that the New York Times is eager for kids to be abused or anything like that.
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I'm saying they don't care about kids being abused, and they are much happier with kids
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being abused if that is the price of them pushing through their agenda than they would
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be in sacrificing their agenda to protecting kids.
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When it's, you know, just the usual Democrat gets caught in some usual scandal and then Republicans
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But this, to turn the real story, the work that the New York Times should have been doing
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themselves on Loudoun County to then attack other media organizations, and they don't even
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Speaking into the mainstream media, going into overdrive to reclaim the narrative, Don Lemon.
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Don Lemon is very, very upset about the biggest story.
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I can't, this is the longest we haven't talked about it in any show in probably two weeks.
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The Rittenhouse story, you know, where all of the evidence is on the side of Kyle Rittenhouse,
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that young man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who shot the Antifa people who were trying to murder him.
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None of the evidence is on the prosecution side.
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It seems like the case is falling apart before our very eyes.
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He wants to know what would happen if Kyle Rittenhouse were a black kid.
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Imagine if Kyle Rittenhouse was an 18 or 17-year-old black kid.
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What about the people on the right who are making Kyle Rittenhouse out to be a choir boy
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because he went across state lines, inserted himself into a situation that he had nothing
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to do with, was carrying a gun that he wasn't supposed to carry because he was too young.
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What would happen if a young black man, let's say a young black man in these very riots that
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Kyle Rittenhouse went to, what would happen if he had a gun or some weapon and were committing
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That's what's been happening for most of the people that were involved in the BLM riots
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You saw it especially in the Bronx and in Manhattan.
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People pleading down, having much more serious charges now, just be minor trespassing or some
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What would happen if a young black man were looting or robbing or mugging people or killing
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They'd face very lenient prosecution and they would get cover from the media who were saying
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they were involved in anti-racist protests, which is not what happened.
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Let's not just compare things that share some similarities.
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Let's say that Kyle Rittenhouse himself were a black guy.
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So not a young black man showing up to the BLM side and protesting for BLM, not a young man
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showing up and joining Antifa, but a young black man showing up to his place of business
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He's a young black man who shoots some Antifa people who are trying to attack him.
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The right would defend that guy every bit as much as they are Kyle Rittenhouse.
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One, because the evidence would be on his side.
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But two, because the guy would be on our side, right?
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Of course, conservatives love black people who support conservatives.
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I thought the left was just attacking us for that, that we like Thomas Sowell too much,
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or we like Candace Owens too much, or we like this woman who won in Virginia, the lieutenant
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Remember, there were all these headlines, white supremacists always love black conservatives.
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So what would happen if the Kyle Rittenhouse case, if that were a young black guy?
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Well, all those conservatives who the left says are white supremacist evil, they would,
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by their own logic, they would support him, right?
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Right now, it just so happens all the evidence would be on his side too.
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And it just so happens that the right wingers are not white supremacist evil, whatever nonsense.
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But I just think even on the point Don Lemon's making, he's not right.
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Because the thing that matters here is substance as well as form, okay?
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Just about how someone looks, the kind of superficial similarity.
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If a guy shows up to a BLM rally or an Antifa rally with a gun and starts aggressing on people,
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I'm going to have a very different view of him than if someone shows up to that same rally
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on the side of the business owners, on the side of the civilians, on the side of the conservatives,
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and is not aggressing, but actually just defending himself.
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I guess they both, in both cases, they both look like a guy with a gun.
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But what they are there doing is very, very different.
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You know the libs are getting desperate because now they're just making it all about race.
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By the way, Kyle Rittenhouse, the only people Kyle Rittenhouse shot are white guys.
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If he had shot a black guy, there would be, the MSM would turn the demagoguery up to 11.
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But because he only shot white guys, they can't really do that.
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Now, what Kyle Rittenhouse's tears reveal about white America.
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They say, Kyle Rittenhouse, the 18-year-old on trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin,
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for shooting three people and killing two of them,
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represents the epitome of white privilege in America run amok.
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This guy was having people tell him they were going to murder him,
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And then only then did he shoot them in self-defense and he's still on trial.
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In a sane society, this would never have gone to trial.
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In a really sane society, when you've got three criminals attacking a 17-year-old boy,
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criminals with a long rap sheet, serial child rapists, that sort of thing,
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it wouldn't, it's not that we would put Kyle Rittenhouse on trial, we'd give him an award.
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And so maybe he'll get through this trial by the skin of his teeth.
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CBS Morning tweeted out that Kyle Rittenhouse, quote,
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Of course, the trial is there to determine whether or not he murdered two men.
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And all the evidence says he didn't murder them.
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But CBS News, this is network news, just reports it as fact that he's guilty.
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This is not really, I made this point on backstage the other night.
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This is not really working because every single detail here is in Kyle Rittenhouse's favor.
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Now, every single second of this interaction, which was captured on drones and actually there was
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quite a bit of evidence that we actually hadn't even been told about in the public
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before the media had completely convicted him in the court of public opinion.
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If he had done anything wrong, if he'd fired one bad shot, if he had been a little bit reckless,
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if he had, this would be a completely different story.
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They're so desperate now, they're trying to accuse the judge of being a racist
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It isn't on one of those boats in Long Beach Harbor.
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So they were having some Asian food for lunch that day at the trial.
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And the judge made a nerdy dad joke about the supply chain.
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He says, oh, well, you know, I hope the Asian food is not on the container ships
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with all those other Asian products in the Long Beach Harbor because then we won't get it.
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It's not exactly Don Rickles, okay, but he's no Bob Hope, but it's a perfectly fine anodyne
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Anytime a white guy ever says anything about race that we, and if we don't like that guy,
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And frankly, what I, I mean, this gets back to the election point here.
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I think this stuff redounds to the benefit of Republicans and conservatives if we can press
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If we, if we just run on this, if we run on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial and the character
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assassination of people with the R word, with the racist word who, who do not deserve that
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word at all, and we run on critical race theory in schools, and we run on little boys and girls
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being told that they're evil because of the color of their skin, and we run on little boys and girls
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being told that they're not really the sex that they are, and we run on little boys and girls being
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told to mask up constantly and not see any smiling faces.
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If we run on this kind of cultural stuff, we're going to win, okay?
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It's the worst thing you can be called in America today.
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They don't want to be called that, even if it's disingenuous, even if it's not true,
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even if it's as frivolous as someone accusing this judge of racism for making a joke about
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And it's not even actually a joke about Asian food.
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And if they play it safe, they're going to safely lose.
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Speaking of race as a political issue, the North Dakota governor right now just banned
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And you're seeing a lot more of these bans cropping up.
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Because what the left is going to say is there's no such thing as critical race theory.
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They say, oh, he even knows what that term means.
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They've been pushing critical race theory for decades.
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And at the, out of the other side of their mouth, they'll say critical race theory is
00:40:08.140
And then from the other side, they'll say, no, it's not even being taught in schools and
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it's not really anything and it doesn't really exist.
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A school district or public school may not include instruction relating to critical race
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theory in any portion of the school's required curriculum or any other curriculum offered
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For purposes of this section, critical race theory means the theory that racism is not
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merely the product of learned individual bias or prejudice, but that racism is systematically
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embedded in American society and the American legal system to facilitate racial inequality.
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You know, I've got a book somewhere here around my desk.
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I've got basically the definitive book of essays and documents outlining critical race theory
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And this is something Republicans and conservatives should embrace.
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They don't want to because they're all about the free marketplace of ideas and liberty and,
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you know, which isn't really liberty, but a kind of licentiousness masquerading as liberty
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and the idea that we should never ban any phrase or word or anything
00:41:20.860
because we've gone way too far in the other direction on free speech.
00:41:25.160
And we actually have kind of taken free speech beyond its historical boundaries
00:41:32.040
And now we say you should be able to say anything you want,
00:41:33.700
but you shouldn't be able to say anything you want,
00:41:35.280
especially not in high schools and middle schools and elementary schools.
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And yeah, now what this needs is teeth, though.
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It's not enough to say, okay, now we've banned critical race theory.
00:41:54.740
Probably most schools are going to violate that.
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You got to fire the teachers or the administrators or both.
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And you've got to go through the long legal process
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and you've got to take it to court and you've got to get the win.
00:42:09.300
DeSantis bans the mask mandates, the blanket mask mandates.
00:42:13.980
And then the school suspends this girl and then she keeps it up.
00:42:17.740
She gets suspended 38 times and DeSantis goes on national television with her
00:42:22.340
And then finally, finally, the law's got some teeth.
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That's what's going to have to happen here in North Dakota.
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You've got to push it so that it actually can be effective.
00:42:39.680
It's not just CRT and the gender theory that is going to help us.
00:42:42.900
Biden is losing on every single issue right now,
00:42:47.720
when they buy their groceries, when they go to the gas pump.
00:42:55.740
but I went to pick up some things at the grocery store yesterday.
00:43:13.100
Now they're saying, actually, it's like it's either not a big deal
00:43:30.240
Well, listen, Willie, nobody knows exactly when they're going down,
00:43:38.640
And the government predicted it was going to be a challenging recovery,
00:43:45.580
So it's why you see things like that expanded child tax credit.
00:43:49.160
You've got the families of over 60 million kids on average
00:43:52.360
getting $430 a month for people on fixed incomes,
00:43:58.300
They're getting those fixed payments adjusted next year of 5.9% for inflation.
00:44:04.640
And the dirty little secret here, Willie, while nobody likes to pay more,
00:44:11.620
Household savings hit a record high over the pandemic.
00:44:14.740
We didn't really have anywhere to go out and spend.
00:44:17.340
This is actually, you know, look, you look at all this inflation and actually,
00:44:20.680
maybe it's just because you guys got so much money, huh?
00:44:26.940
And look, the people who are on the government dole and relying,
00:44:30.360
not just on the dole as though they're welfare cases,
00:44:32.680
but people who've paid into the system who are now on fixed incomes from the state,
00:44:36.420
the state's going to give you a little bit more money.
00:44:39.780
You know, they're going to print, they're going to print up a lot more money.
00:44:42.360
You know, the thing that got us into this mess in the first place,
00:44:47.260
And we've got, we're all really rich and it's really not a big deal.
00:44:49.880
I don't think that's a winning campaign line for Democrats.
00:44:56.480
I, I don't, I don't think, hey, you're complaining about the gas prices and the,
00:45:02.600
and your Thanksgiving dinner costs and it will shut up.
00:45:08.820
I don't think people are prepared for record high inflation.
00:45:13.680
It doesn't matter how much, whether you've got a really modest resources or whether you're
00:45:18.760
I mean, you're, you're tend to scale your lifestyle to those things.
00:45:22.460
And so when prices go up 10%, 20%, in some cases they're doubling $7 gas in California,
00:45:33.460
Now, speaking of campaigns, I got to get to the story before we go.
00:45:38.760
There's a rumor that New York governor Andrew Cuomo, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo,
00:45:45.580
disgraced New York governor Andrew Cuomo, might run for attorney general of New York.
00:45:51.540
There's already a governor there and multiple other people are running for governor,
00:45:55.620
So Andrew Cuomo, who already was the attorney general, might run for that post again,
00:46:08.040
All I will say on this point is people are laughing.
00:46:20.580
The Cuomo's have dominated New York politics for the better part of 40 years.
00:46:29.040
And the Democrats know persistence and they've used it very effectively.
00:46:32.580
And the Republicans who are winning right now are persistent as well.
00:46:37.480
And all the rest of us, all those of us who are not governors or senators, but all the rest
00:46:42.140
of us here who care about the direction of the country, we should take note too.
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