Ep. 892 - There Is Nothing More Dangerous...
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The criminal who killed 5 people and injured so many more was released on $1,000 bond. He shouldn t have been out on bond. This is criminal justice reform in practice, not just in words, but in practice.
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At least five people dead, another 48 injured after a man drove his SUV into a Christmas parade.
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He was charged just last July with two counts of reckless endangerment and possession of a dangerous weapon as a convicted felon.
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But he was released on $500 bail last February.
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Then he was charged again just a couple of weeks ago with resisting or obstructing an officer, bail jumping recklessly,
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endangering safety, disorderly conduct, and battery connected to domestic abuse.
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Then he was released just six days after that on a $1,000 bond.
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This is the compassion being peddled not just by Democrats, but by many Republicans as well.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Squeevy Plays, who says,
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The only way to end the endless cycle of sins of the father is forgiveness.
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But who needs forgiveness when you can destroy someone's life for clout?
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I mentioned this great thinker, Rene Girard, who has this idea that culture begins with a sort of founding murder.
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Cain and Abel, Romulus and Remus, and the definition of human culture is mimetic rivalry, where we just kind of mimic one another and it gets worse and worse and worse.
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And the only way to end it is by scapegoating somebody or with a unanimous ritual killing or with this kind of violence, this war of all against all until Christianity.
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Christianity comes in and says, No, we're not going to do that anymore.
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The criminal who killed those people and injured so many more people was out on a $1,000 bond.
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He shouldn't have been out on the bond, obviously.
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He shouldn't have been out even the last time because he got out on a bail for the last charges.
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He should have been rotting away in prison, but we have calls for criminal justice reform.
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We have calls openly to abolish prisons, and we're told this is compassionate.
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It's very wrong to lock up dangerous criminals.
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It's wrong, and it's racist somehow, and it's mean-spirited, and it's cruel, and so we've got to let them out.
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And because the compassionate thing is to let five people be struck by an SUV, well, I'm sorry, dozens of people struck by an SUV, five killed, and many, many more injured.
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Even the DA in Milwaukee County, John Chisholm, now admits the bail was a little too low.
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They were a little too compassionate, don't you think?
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Quote, the state's bail recommendation in this case was inappropriately low in light of the nature of the recent charges and the pending charges against this guy, says John Chisholm, the Milwaukee DA.
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Okay, whoopsie-daisy, yep, oops, it was a little too low, ah, yeah, maybe it should have been $2,000, oops, whoopsie, that's it, that's it, that now, no, I don't, I don't think that's it.
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I think that, first of all, this guy, John Chisholm, should resign or should be chased out of office, and I think that we need to take a moment here and pause and figure out what got us into this mess in the first place.
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Obviously, the guy who drove the SUV is the person primarily at fault here.
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Through gross negligence, through criminal negligence, if you ask me, of our law enforcement, of our, really of our elected officials, and of the people of Milwaukee who voted for these people and who voted for this kind of stuff.
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I want to do my best to mitigate scapegoating the left here and scapegoating the Democrats.
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Remember the First Step Act, which I referred to at the time and still do as the jailbreak bill?
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We were told it's somehow deeply conservative to spring criminals from the clink.
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Even the Republicans, even right-wing conservative Republicans bought into this lie that we have an over-incarceration problem in the United States.
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Crime is going through the roof, especially violent crime.
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Obviously, we don't have an over-incarceration problem.
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When crime's gone up, you have an under-incarceration problem.
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How did we get to the point where, obviously, the libs were leading the way on it?
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But how did we get to the point where even the right-wingers were peddling this kind of insanity that leads to such horrific results?
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Well, here is the logic peddled by, articulated by Rashida Tlaib.
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She is, I guess she is sort of the George Harrison of the squad.
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And so I guess Rashida Tlaib is the George Harrison of the squad.
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She just sat down with Axios and was questioned about her bill supporting the emptying of prisons.
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In 2020, you endorsed the BREATHE Act, which is a series of proposals to transform America's criminal justice system and create, quote, a roadmap for prison abolition.
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The BREATHE Act proposes emptying federal detention facilities within 10 years.
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To what extent have you wrestled with any potential downsides of releasing into society every single person who's currently in a federal prison?
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Again, I think that everyone's like, oh, my God, we're going to just release everybody.
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Yeah, but did you see how many people are mentally ill that are in prison right now?
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No, I know, but the act that you endorsed actually says release everyone in 10 years.
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But in 10 years, but think about it, who will release you?
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So, but you're saying, do you mean that you don't actually support that?
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No, I endorsed the BREATHE Act in looking at federal, the policies and how we incarcerate.
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But you cannot, you cannot, you cannot just blankedly say, oh, look, she wants, that's not what I'm saying.
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You got to give it to Jonathan Swan over at Axios.
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He is a pretty dogged interviewer and he's, he's basically fair.
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I assume he's on the left, but he's basically fair.
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And he, obviously he's much, much more intelligent than Rashida Tlaib, who is not the brightest bulb in the pack.
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So she endorsed this bill that literally said empty out the federal prisons.
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And so he says, do you really support emptying it out?
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Like child rapists and mother killers and all the psychos and all these people.
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And she goes, no, but think about how many mentally ill people there are.
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So, oh, so you, so you're admitting that you want, you're, you're saying the reason we need to let everyone out is because they're mentally ill, even though there are plenty of criminals who are not mentally ill.
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And the ones who are mentally ill, I'm not sure we want them on the streets either if they're, if they're criminally insane.
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And he says, okay, so you, you do want to let them all out.
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She goes, no, but it's not, it's not fair to say we're going to let them all out.
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And so she's just got this smile on her face and she's saying things that don't make any sense.
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You don't want to let every single person, and she won't take the out.
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What I'm saying is look at who's in prison now.
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No, look at the folks that are mentally ill, that have substance abuse problems.
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But I'm not disagreeing with you that there are people who should be in prison.
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Yeah, but then why aren't you asking me about them?
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You're asking me about the human traffickers and others that should be able to be held accountable.
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What I'm trying to understand is your proposal is so sweeping.
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Within 10 years, and obviously there's a process of looking at how can we get away from mass incarceration
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But what I'm trying to understand, because it is such a sweeping concrete proposal,
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do you believe that there are still categories of people who should be behind bars?
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There are absolutely folks that I don't under, you know, I don't know,
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because right now the way the prison system is supposed to be like rehabilitary.
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You know, it's supposed to be rehabilitation, right?
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I don't think there's any rehabilitation happening right now for those that might actually have,
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you know, and again, a majority, there's so many that have mental health issues.
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And he says, right, no, but the issue with your bill is not exactly the poor.
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What about the child rapists and the mother killers and the psychopaths?
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And then finally, he says, will you at least admit that there are some people,
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Jeffrey Dahmer, I don't, just some people who should be in prison.
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And she goes, well, I will admit that there are some people, yeah, yeah, who, and we need
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She won't do it because her logic is not a single person should be in prison.
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First of all, that's a purpose of criminal justice, but it's not the primary purpose.
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The primary purpose of criminal justice is retribution.
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You commit a crime, you are punished to satisfy justice.
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It's very important, but rehabilitation is not the primary purpose because you need to
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Plenty of people need rehabilitation who haven't committed crimes.
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Deterrence would be another reason, but deterrence is not the primary purpose.
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Otherwise, you can just make an example out of anybody, but there's a higher threshold.
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You've got to commit a crime, and then you send them there to satisfy justice, and there
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And I don't want to just say that this woman is an idiot or her moral lens is completely wrong.
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She is making this very same argument that we were talking about earlier, about victimhood,
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about mimetic rivalry, to use the technical term.
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She is trying to take the side of the victim, and she's saying the victim in this case are
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the people who were failed by society, who grew up in bad homes, who had bad examples.
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And yes, they went to a life of crime, but they're victims too.
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And as a result of that myopic view, she is ignoring the other victims of the criminals.
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Joe Biden, as the head of the Democrat Party, doesn't want any part of this issue in Wisconsin,
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of this attack that left five people dead and over 40 people injured.
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He doesn't want to get into it because it exposes problems in the left's agenda.
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Yesterday, he was giving some remarks and he knew he had to address it a little bit,
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but he said, I don't want to get into it before the facts are out.
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Before I begin, I want to comment on the tragedy that occurred last night during the
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While we don't have all the facts and details yet, we know this morning that five families
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in Waukesha are facing fresh grief of a life without a loved one.
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At least 40 Americans are suffering from injuries, some of them in critical condition.
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And an entire community is struggling, struggling to cope with the horrific act of violence.
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He doesn't want to talk, though, until the facts come out.
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He's certainly not going to talk about how the attacker appears to be a leftist who made
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And he's not going to talk about any how he was out on bail and all that.
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Joe Biden put video of Kyle Rittenhouse into a campaign ad and called him a white supremacist
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Forget about waiting for the facts to come out.
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Kyle Rittenhouse was just exonerated by a court.
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But in this case, Joe Biden wants to wait because he knows how bad this looks for them.
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This is what's so difficult to understand about wokeism.
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Wokeism is, we think of it as anti-Christian or anti-conservative or anti-American.
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In a way, though, it's just, it's too Christian.
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The wokeism is trying to out-Christian the Christians.
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This is why you'll, you'll very often see people on the left who don't believe in Christianity,
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who don't go to church, who don't believe in Jesus.
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They will always, they'll attack Christians and they'll say, you hypocritical Christians.
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I mean, I don't either, but you especially don't.
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I'm more, I'm going to out-Christian the Christians.
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I'm, I'm going to out-compat, I'm, and what they do is they take one of the, if not the central
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anthropological feature of Christianity, taking the side of the victims, that God himself in
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the Passion is a victim and takes the side of the victims and, you know, destroys this
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kind of unanimous scapegoating mob violence on the cross, right?
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They, they take that and they point to any instance where a Christian has ever done anything
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wrong and it's a fallen world, so everyone, all Christians have done something wrong and
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they say, yeah, see, you're not, you're hypocrites.
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You're, you're not really living up to your standards.
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We're going to take that side of the victim and we're going to divorce it from Christianity.
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So in this case, you are being cruel to the victims of this killer in Wisconsin, to the
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victims of crime, or, you know, at the, at the broader social level, you're saying, look,
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we're going to take the side of the victims, black people and women.
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White men are going to be the cause of all of the problem.
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The only way you can get out of that is with God.
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He, that, this is, this is the essence of Christianity.
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Mankind is not able to overcome this kind of thing on his own.
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And this is why all of the attempts to recreate Christianity in the modern world without God,
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humanitarianism, wokeism, liberalism, progressivism, whatever ism, they're all bound to failure
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and they're all going to make all the same mistakes that the pagan world made before Christianity
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So by good old compassionate Joe Biden, he's going to keep his mouth shut about Wisconsin.
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He knows it because he knows how bad it looks for him.
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Even the would-be future governor of Texas, Beto, Beto O'Rourke is fleeing Joe Biden.
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He was asked, do you want the president to come campaign for you?
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A recent poll shows, though, that just 35% of Texans approve of his performance.
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Would you like the president to come and campaign with you?
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This campaign in Texas is not going to be about Joe Biden.
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It's not going to be about anyone from outside of our state.
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This is going to be about the people of Texas and what the people of Texas want.
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And I told you, they want the big things like jobs, great schools, and making sure everyone
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But they also want to see some competence in their government.
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Does that mean that you would prefer that he not come based on what you just said?
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It means that I'm focused on Texas and on my fellow Texans.
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There's no other person from outside of this state who can help to change the course of this
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So, first of all, credit to the CNN lady for pushing Beto on the point.
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She says, hey, Beto, do you want Biden to come help you?
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And he was like, no, look, listen, man, hell no, I don't.
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Because no, this is going to be about the people of Texas.
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And he gives this ridiculous platitude, which is just a polite way of saying, Joe Biden,
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Are you saying you actively do not want him to come?
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And he says, there's no politician who could help us.
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There are plenty of non-Texas politicians who are popular in Texas who could come and help.
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You always have politicians from out of state flying in to help various candidates, not just
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Unless the politician's not popular, and we know Joe Biden's not popular, his approval
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rating's at about 38%, even though he's basically a rock star compared to Kamala Harris, whose
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approval rating is 27 or 28%, lower than Dick Cheney after he shot the guy in the face.
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But Joe Biden's still underwater in terms of his approval rating, and so Beto doesn't want
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His last two races he lost for Senate and for president.
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What are they going to do in 2022 all around the country?
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What are they going to do in 2024 when Joe Biden may be running, may not be running, if
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his vice president is the one running, she's in an even worse position.
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They don't seem to have anyone on the bench other than Pete Buttigieg, who's going to be
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You know, and no one's even going to miss him when he's away.
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So the Republicans are in a very strong position right now.
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For the Democrats out there listening to this show right now, do not worry about the strong
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They will find a way to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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You can almost always trust Republicans to make, at least the Republican leadership, to
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Story out from Nate Hockman at National Review.
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They are pushing something called the Fairness for All Act.
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This is an all-Republican bill that would make sexual orientation and gender identity a federally
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protected class according to the Civil Rights Act.
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Now, in return, what the GOP would get would be certain carve-outs for the right to discriminate
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against those things for religious institutions, for instance.
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But no one really thinks that's going to hold up in court anyway.
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There aren't any Democrats who support this bill.
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The Republicans who are pushing it are saying, well, this is our version of the Equality Act
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and we're going to avoid the worse Equality Act.
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But there are no Democrats even agreeing to this.
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It's just a concession to radical transgender ideology for no reason.
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We just won a governorship in Virginia on transgenderism.
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On saying that boys are not girls and girls are not boys and you shouldn't let boys into
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We just deprived a blue state, blue commonwealth, of a Democrat governor and got a Republican
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And these idiot Republicans, pardon my blunt language, I hate to be so direct, but they're
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Either they're political idiots and they can't make the right calculation or they're moral
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idiots and they don't see that actually boys are not girls and girls are not boys.
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I'm not going to get any of those leftist tears today because of these damned Republicans
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who are trying to clutch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Remember, we had Liz Cheney in there and she became a big lib and she started shilling for
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And so we got Elise Stefanik and she was supported actually by Donald Trump and by other people.
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And at the time I said, watch out for this one.
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On the political matters, you know, on the partisan matters, she tends to side more with
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And there are 20 other Republicans who are supporting transgenderism.
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We're not going to allow the weird stuff and we're just going to do the normal stuff.
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We're not going to let criminals out of prison.
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We're actually going to have law and order and a peaceful, normal, good, orderly society.
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Look at what's going on in San Francisco right now.
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three stores were ransacked and emptied out by mobs of looters in the same night.
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So a mob of people armed with hammers entered a jewelry store in Hayward,
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which is about 35 miles from San Francisco, at 5.25 p.m. on Sunday night, according to police.
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So you can see they just, the bust in there is about, what, four or five guys in hoodies.
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So say about 10 or a dozen guys with hoodies, they're smashing open cases of jewelry and
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they're all running out of there with the goods.
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Then in the nearby town of Walnut Creek, about 30 minutes outside of San Francisco, 80 people
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wearing ski masks and carrying crowbars robbed a Nordstrom on Saturday night.
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They pepper sprayed and assaulted the employees.
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They grabbed a bunch of merch and they drove away.
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It was over like a, I don't know, 36 hour, 36 to 72 hour period.
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Eight people were arrested Friday after a Louis Vuitton outlet was robbed in San Francisco.
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Multiple people broke the windows, emptied out the shop, according to Fox.
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The people who are weak on crime, the compassionate people, the criminal justice reform people,
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The store owners, they probably have insurance.
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And they got their windows smashed up a little and they, you know, they're going to have to
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close the shop for, you know, a week or two, but it's fine.
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They actually, a lot of these weak on crime people think that this is just to allow this
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to happen in particular because the perps are black.
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I'm not sure if they were all black in all of the instances, but in the one that, that
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And so a lot of, especially white liberals and a lot of people who are weak on crime will
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say, well, this is because of historic racism, because of slavery.
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The, these, they have to rob the jewelry store.
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The people robbing the jewelry store, they're the real victims.
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And the people who own the jewelry store, who might be black, who might be some other
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race, but they're, you know, they're evil because they have, they have property and they've
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And so really we should just let these criminals off the hook.
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And if they are arrested, let's let them out on a really low bond.
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And if they commit more crime, hey, that's just, that's, that's justice, huh?
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I'll get to that point that Rashida Tlaib mentioned when she was talking about how we,
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how she doesn't really want to empty all the jails, but she does want to empty all the
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But in the jails, they don't have enough nice programs and they're not playing enough games
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Including capital punishment, by the way, hanging concentrates the mind.
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The, the very fact of being punished for a crime is rehabilitative.
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This is not to bring up too many of my old dead friends, but this is what Plato talks about
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There's a great dialogue by Plato and in it, Socrates, the character of Socrates explains
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that it is actually cruel not to punish people for crimes because it's not in their interest
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because the people who are committing these crimes have obviously disordered desires and
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And they're basically on the road straight to hell.
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And it is an act of mercy and compassion to punish them and get them back on the straight
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You think it's good for these robbers to let them just continue in their life of crime?
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It's going to, and if they continue in their life of crime, they're either going to get
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They're going to end up in some gang shooting or some, some burglary gone wrong and they're
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Or eventually they're probably going to get arrested and they're going to end up in prison.
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Or even if they get away with all of the crimes in this life, they're going straight to the
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They actually do have souls and the care of their souls is important.
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There, there is a false compassion in letting these guys off the hook because of whatever
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kooky racial or historical theories you have, but it is a false compassion and it's cruel.
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This is Adam Smith actually, the, you know, from, from whom we get much of our economic
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Adam Smith said cruelty, mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
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It's a very stark way of putting it, but there is some truth to that.
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But it's actually, it is actually, it's cruel to the victims of these people.
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It's cruel to the future people that these criminals are going to harm.
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Speaking of mercy and charity, Catholic University of America seems to, to really get this victim
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They seem to have abandoned, at least in, in the artwork they're putting on the walls,
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Christianity, their faith that's supposed to animate the university for the rival religion
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And this is from Mary Margaret Olihan at the Daily Signal.
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She pointed out that there are icons on the walls of the Catholic University of America
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that portray George Floyd as Christ, or Christ as George, George Floyd, and the Virgin Mary
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There's a painting of a sort of pieta, and it's George Floyd, blasphemous, sacrilegious,
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And, and yet, this is very popular, even in the woke Christian circles.
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I, I just did an event at the Catholic University of America, maybe a month ago.
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They put us in a green room, and they had stations of the cross, you know, the, the depictions
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And my eyesight from far away, it's not all that great.
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She said, Michael, look closely at those pictures.
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So I zoomed in, and all of the people, Christ, Mary, the apostles, were all Native Americans
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I mean, in just, you know, in a, I thought, this is blasphemous.
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It's not, I don't have anything against Indians, but Jesus is not an Indian.
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And what all of this is trying to do, I'm trying to make the best argument I can for, for these
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people, is, is they're saying, look, Jesus is just kind of an idea.
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And it's just the idea of compassion for victims.
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And so if we portray Jesus as a Native American, that's, that's fine.
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If we portray Jesus as a, as a black career criminal, that's fine.
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Of course, an important fact about Jesus is that he is sinless.
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Because it's just the idea of being nice to victims.
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If Christianity were merely the idea of being nice to victims, then it wouldn't be worth
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It certainly wouldn't have shaped a civilization.
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It certainly wouldn't be enough to overcome human nature and sin and death.
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If Christianity means anything at all, it has to be a fact.
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He's got to actually have features that are not just the features of whoever you want him
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He had to live at a real time and die and actually be resurrected.
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Before Christianity, before Judaism, you had myth, just myth, all these kinds of myths
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that maybe have some basis in historical fact, but they're really just kinds of legends.
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And you tell themselves, you tell Norse myths and Greek myths and Roman myths.
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Then you have Christianity, which is not myth, but fact, right?
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It's a myth that happens to be true and hasn't really happened.
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And then now in what the left wants to be post-Christianity, you just take these kinds
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of insights about Christianity, but you make it myth again.
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It reveals wokeism for what it really is, which is an alternative religion, a rival to
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Christianity and not a rival to Christianity quite in the same way that paganism is, but
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a rival to, as Rene Girard says, a rival to Christianity on its left flank, trying to
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The killer in Wisconsin was allegedly posting talking points from the woke establishment media.
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Heavy.com, which is a fact-finding website, along with a number of other journalists online,
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and Andy Ngo pointed this out early on, highlighted posts that the suspect in Wisconsin had on his
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I have to say, whenever you're talking about a story where all the facts have not been totally
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sussed out, you just have to say allegedly like 500,000 times.
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The posts appeared to express anti-Christian sentiment, disdain for Republican politicians
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I don't know if yours truly was included, but who knows, you know, the conservative media
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And those are all, those are all big problems in America.
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We have, we have big problems with anti-Muslim, if Islamophobia, that's a terrible evil.
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You hear all of the establishment liberal outlets, they'll say, we have to get rid of
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That's a little bit weaker because the libs also hate Israel, but still, but anti-Christianity,
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Disdain for Republican politicians and conservative media, that is encouraged.
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If you ever say anything negative about a Democrat politician, you're called an insurrectionist
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or you're called a white supremacist or a whatever, a sexist, racist, whatever.
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White, white nationalism, we're told is the most evil thing in the history of the world
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All these guys, they're really, these are cool guys.
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This reminds me of a problem that Republicans fall into as well, where everything we don't
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Nazism, I guess, is the most evil thing in the world.
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If you wore a t-shirt with Benito Mussolini's face on a college campus, you would almost certainly
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If you wear a t-shirt with Che Guevara's face on a campus, well, that's the ordinary flow
00:38:40.440
Now, from the Daily Wire store, you can wear a t-shirt with Fauci's face on Che Guevara's
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The same way that Republicans look at Antifa and they say, Antifa, they say they're anti-fascist,
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There are more bad things in the world than fascism.
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But because fascism is a movement that is sort of broadly on the right, that's the evil
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And because anarchism generally is on the left and communism certainly is on the left, that's
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And we only in this, we scapegoat only the things that are on the right and we never look
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We, in our liberal culture, the other is always wrong, you know, to use left-wing language,
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We always other the right-wingers or the Christians or whatever, but the liberal establishment
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never looks in the mirror and takes stock of itself.
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I think what a lot of the squishes want to do is they just want to back away.
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The squishes either want to use the left-wing's preferred rhetoric, whether it's on gender
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or on race or on, you know, everything that we don't like is fascism or whatever.
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They either want to go along with the left or they want to avoid it and they say, you know,
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never mind, I'm going to retreat, but you can't do that.
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And actually, this is something that Kyle Rittenhouse is dealing with right now.
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Now, Kyle Rittenhouse was exonerated in the court of law, but that's not the end.
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What's he going to do for the rest of his life?
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This is the defining event probably of his life.
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He already is a sort of cause celeb, so he could become a conservative celebrity.
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He could just persevere and live his life and do whatever he was going to do.
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Or he can change his name and try to start again.
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And his lawyer has firm thoughts on the matter.
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Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyer just went on TV, was asked, what are we going to do about Kyle Rittenhouse?
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And he says, the best thing this kid can do, change his name and start over again.
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I think there's a lot of people who want to use Kyle for their own means.
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I think the way that Rittenhouse's name right now has trended on Twitter, and that's what we live in as a Twitter society.
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People want to use his name, get it out there so they can get some publicity.
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My advice would be to change his name and start his life over.
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There's a lot of people who I don't think have his best interests at heart
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and probably want to make him a symbol of something I don't think he wants to be necessarily associated with.
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And once you give up your name and your likeness and you join those causes,
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I think a lot of people will use you for their own purposes and you won't be able to control it.
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We've had that talk with Kyle, and it's going to be a fine line where he decides to go.
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So, ultimately, I hope he makes the right choices.
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You know, I hope, I would think his life would be a lot easier being anonymous and going on with his life
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as opposed to try and keep some of his fervent supporters happy.
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So, the part that this lawyer gets right is, yes, there are going to be a lot of vultures who want to use Kyle for their own purposes.
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And that's bad, and Kyle should be very careful, and his parents and his lawyers should be careful not to let that happen.
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But he's even almost right that Kyle would probably have an easier life if he could just change his name and become anonymous
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First of all, in our social media age, in our age of facial recognition, in our age of the internet where everything he ever did is recorded for all time,
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does anyone really think that this kid can just completely start over and change his name and he'll just, never mind, forget about Kyle Rittenhouse?
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I don't think, I don't think that's ever going to happen.
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And furthermore, changing his name and starting this new life and trying to run away from his identity and his past
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implies that he did something wrong, implies that he was guilty, implies that he has something to be deeply ashamed of.
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And now he's being threatened, he was exonerated in the court of law, he's now being just threatened by the mob, the left-wing mob.
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And what the lawyer is saying is, run away from the mob.
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Give the mob what they want, or run away from the mob, or turn, that's a bad idea.
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I know it would be easy if we lived in this ideal world where you could just run away from your problems.
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And it implies something that isn't true, namely that the kid was guilty.
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I don't think the kid, I think he should cash in on slander and libel lawsuits, and I think he should sue every one of those outlets,
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you know, CNN and the Washington Post and all the people who smeared him.
00:44:25.760
He should sue them into the ground like Nick Sandman did.
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I don't think he should become a new celebrity.
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I don't think he should start campaigning for people.
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A lot of people do that, and you can make easy money, and it's very attractive, especially to young people.
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People I know who got very famous, very young, it has almost never, I don't know that in a single case it's ever turned out well for them.
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I don't think you can run from your past and your identity and from politics that way.
00:45:16.880
A lot of conservatives, the squishy, nice types, they want to fall into a kind of quietism.
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Let's retreat to the farm and never engage in politics.
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We're the political animal, according to Aristotle.
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You might not care about politics, but politics cares about you.
00:45:44.540
You might not care about the culture, but the culture cares about you.
00:45:49.460
Speaking of people disappearing, I got to get to this before we go today.
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There was a Chinese tennis star who just me-tooed one of the members of the Communist Party in China.
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She said that he sexually assaulted her and pressured her and all sorts of things.
00:46:10.060
And as they started talking about this, they had a video of their feed in China.
00:46:16.480
The Communist Party censored the feed from CNN in China.
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The WTA says they simply don't have evidence right now that Peng Shuai is not being silenced,
00:46:31.140
They say none of the proof that has been provided by Chinese state media, John,
00:46:35.780
gives them any comfort that she's actually in a position where her interests are being best represented.
00:46:43.000
So, Will, I want to explain to our viewers what's happening on our screen right now,
00:46:45.920
because underneath your face, they can see a box, which is the actual live feed of this broadcast in China.
00:46:56.740
And it went to color bars the minute you started talking.
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I have lost count over the last eight years here in Asia covering China of how many times CNN's coverage of controversial issues has been censored.
00:47:13.500
Now they've upgraded and they go to color bars.
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But nonetheless, it is a live, real-time example of the censorship that's happening in the mainland.
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So American state media was criticizing Chinese state media because the Chinese state media censored the story about how they obviously disappeared this poor girl.
00:47:29.520
I think she just appeared on some video call, but I don't buy it.
00:47:32.640
She's obviously being controlled by the Chinese Communist Party.
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I don't think there's anything like getting off the hook.
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You can't just let all the criminals out and expect everything to be hunky-dory.
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You can't just run away from the mob or try to hide with the mob or try to placate the mob and assume that everything's going to be hunky-dory.
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You can't just run for the hills and expect that your country will deal with its problems on its own and you'll be fine.
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We have got to engage in these political battles.
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If we don't hold together and stand up now, we'll all fall separately.
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