Ep. 906 - Biden's Brave New World
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Inflation is hitting record highs, and it s time to get used to the new normal. The Daily Wire's own Michael Knowles explains why. Plus, save $100 on your X Chair and get a free massage!
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Because everything is way more expensive now than it used to be?
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And the government isn't letting you run your business or do your job or even travel
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if you don't comply with a bunch of extremely burdensome and expensive regulations?
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Without even acknowledging the great successes of this administration?
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Without even admitting that gas has dropped 10 cents per gallon this month?
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So stop complaining and get used to the new normal.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Aaron Levitt who says,
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The dude beating everyone on the women's swim team reminds me of the Seinfeld episode
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where Kramer joins a kid's karate class and, when questioned by Jerry about it,
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claimed that it was fair because they're all at the same skill level.
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Kramer, of course, won every fight in the class and thought he was awesome.
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The only difference being Seinfeld was a sitcom and the dude on the Penn's swim team
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We've been told that the inflation rate is hitting record highs.
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And we've been told, for instance, that the consumer price inflation rate in the United
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States is 6.8 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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And that should really concern everybody because your wealth is just disappearing before your
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But I am here to tell you, the situation is actually much, much, much worse than that.
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Even that 6.8 percent number, even there's another number about wholesale price increases
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But even those numbers do not come anywhere near representing the scope of the problem.
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So this is the largest year-over-year increase in consumer prices since June of 1982.
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Since the early, early days of the Reagan administration, this is the sixth straight month in which inflation
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If you talk about fruits and vegetables, then the prices have gone up 4 percent year-over-year.
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I was talking to Sean Spicer yesterday, and he was complaining that the price of lemons,
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he loves lemons for whatever reason, he was complaining that the price of lemons has gone way up.
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Okay, so now we're at that, right around that number, where the consumer price inflation is 6.8.
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Home care, maybe cleaning, maybe those sorts of things.
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You need some new sheets for your bed, 11.8 percent.
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Now we're just getting into food, like meat and chicken and fish, is up 13.1 percent year-over-year.
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Does that, or 10 cents, 10 cents rather, not 10 percent.
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Does that make up for the 58.1 percent increase year-over-year?
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Even the numbers we're getting out of the establishment media and the corporate press
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Well, if you ask the White House, you ask Jen Psaki.
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The president thinks the way people across the country, American families, digest inflation
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And if you look at industry to industry, it's a little different.
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So, for example, the president, the secretary of agriculture have both spoken to what we've
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That is an area where people go to the grocery store and they're trying to buy a pound of
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That is, in his view, and the view of our secretary of agriculture, because of you could call it
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You could call it jacking up prices during a pandemic.
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There are other areas where we've seen increases because of supply chain issues, and we're seeing
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those increases around the world as it relates to gas prices, oil supply, and things along
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So, I would say there's some areas where we have seen corporations benefit, profit from
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the pandemic, and certainly the president would agree with that component.
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So, can you imagine the hotel greed, the used car greed, the gas greed?
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Stop being so greedy, guys, when the ranchers and the meat industry are raising their prices
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because their costs are increasing, and so they can't be just losing money, right?
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They've got to keep making a profit to stay afloat.
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When the Biden administration hikes your taxes during a pandemic, during a lockdown, during
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Biden right now is trying to hike your taxes a lot.
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That's actually, that's just you paying your fair share.
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But when the meat industry raises prices because their costs are going up, that's extremely greedy.
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When Joe Biden shuts down oil pipelines and raises the price of gas to pay for his ridiculous
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end-of-the-world climate change agenda, that's compassionate.
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When he charges you a bunch of, when he takes your money to pay for his delusions, that's
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When he takes your money to pay off teacher unions that vote for him, when he takes your
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money to put out little goodies in the hands of his political donors and his political
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But when some rancher in the middle of America raises prices because he has to, because his
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costs are rising, that it's always someone else's fault, right?
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Do you, do you remember, I'm sure Joe Biden does not, since he doesn't remember what he had
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for breakfast, do you remember that during the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden debating Donald
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Trump, Trump was nailing Biden, as a lot of Republicans were saying, you're going to shut
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We're the, we're the side of don't shut down the country.
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You, Biden, are the side of shutting down the country.
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And Biden said, I'm not going to shut down the country.
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What I would say is I'm going to shut down the virus, not the country.
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It's his ineptitude that caused the virus, caused the country to have to shut down in
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large part, why businesses have gone under, why schools are closed, why so many people
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have lost their living and why they're concerned.
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That's why he should have been, instead of in a sand trap in his golf course, he should
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have been negotiating with Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats and Republicans
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about what to do about the acts they were passing for billions of dollars to make sure
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So Biden's obviously a little confused about many things, including his history here, because
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at the beginning of the COVID nonsense, it was Trump and the Republicans who wanted to
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shut down the border, not the virtual border with China, wanted to shut down travel with
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And it was Joe Biden who called that hysterical xenophobia and wanted to keep the borders open
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and still has the borders open on our Southern border.
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It was Donald Trump who wanted to shut that down.
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It was Donald Trump who wanted to keep the country open after the two weeks to slow the spread.
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And it was Biden and all of the Democrats who wanted to keep the country shut down.
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And Dr. Fauci and the public health bureaucrats, they wanted to keep the whole country shut
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And now, and so Joe Biden in 2020 was trying to weasel out of it.
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He said, I don't want to shut the country down, even though that's what I've been advocating
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Well, all of that to say, the CDC director, Rochelle Walensky, has just gone on television
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to tell you that as we head into year two, we're not shutting the virus down.
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Shouldn't the messaging be, though, Rochelle, as we sit here, because we're going into year
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two, people think we're waiting for you to sound the trumpet and say it's all clear.
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We're not really going to get an all clear, are we?
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We just have to face the fact that we're going to have to live with this.
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But what I would say is we have a lot of control and power to do that as we come together,
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as we get vaccinated, as we do those prevention things that work to protect one another and
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ourselves and our family, we can bring down the amount of disease in this country and get
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We're just going to have to live with the virus.
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And I have to correct the lady who asked the question of Rochelle Walensky.
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She said, as we head into year two, and that seems like such a long time, right?
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I think it was supposed to be two weeks to slow the spread.
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So the CDC director goes out and says, no, you're not going back to normal.
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The White House comes on and says, yeah, your prices are going up, but hey, stop complaining.
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If you want to complain to somebody, go complain to the ranchers in Montana or something.
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Remember, he just, he wants you to take the 17th booster shot or whatever, whichever number
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He just, why won't you take, oh, because you want your freedom?
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You want, well, Joe Biden says, if you want your freedom, if you want your regular way of
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life, that just means you're not a patriot and you got to get over yourself.
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Everybody talks about freedom and not to have a, to have a shot or have a test.
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How about making sure that you're vaccinated so you do not spread the disease to anybody
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Be a patriot, says the guy whose party hates America.
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They constantly talk about how America is an evil, rotten country, the worst country in
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the history of the world, irredeemably corrupted because of the original sin of slavery and
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it's racist and bigoted and terrible and xenophobic and that's, it's the worst country ever.
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Now, of course, Biden is not applying particularly rigorous logic these days, but the left broadly
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You remember Andrew Cuomo back when everyone, everyone on the left was in love with Cuomo
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and they gave him that big multimillion dollar book deal and people were calling themselves
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Cuomo sexuals and he was being heralded as the greatest governor ever.
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And he was speaking at the Democrat National Convention in 2020.
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We're America tough and we're going to get together because we're great Americans.
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But just a few months earlier, he said that America was never that great.
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A few years earlier, I should be fair, he was talking about, about Donald Trump.
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On camera, he said, America was never that great.
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But then he totally switches and he says, we're America tough.
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For the left, it's just whatever is convenient.
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And then Biden says, what's the big deal about getting vaccinated?
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Let's hold you to that argument that it's not a big deal.
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So if it's not a big deal to get vaccinated, then it's not a big deal to not get vaccinated.
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The libs do this all the time with the gender pronouns.
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What's the big deal about calling a guy who pretends to be a woman, she?
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Then it's not a big deal for me to call him a he.
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Well, no, actually, it's a really big deal if you call him a he.
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In the case of the pronouns, it's a big deal because the pronouns carry with it whole premises.
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If I call a man who's pretending to be a woman, if I call that hulking dude from the Penn's
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women's swim team, if I call him she, I'm accepting the insane and politically very potent
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left-wing premise that men can become women and that sex is not real and that human nature
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And so I'm not going to do that because I think that's a big deal.
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If you're telling me that some egghead bureaucrat who has been around and in power for seven
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U.S. presidents, he's the highest paid employee of the federal government, if you're telling
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me that this guy can force 330 million people to take an experimental drug to maybe possibly
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protect against a virus that does not pose a particularly grave risk to the vast majority
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of people and he can just do that based on his own whims and his caprices, that would seem
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to be a fundamental restructuring of, of the constitutional order.
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That's the big, if you're telling me that the federal government can force you to inject
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yourself with morally compromised vaccines, that maybe it is permissible to take the vaccines,
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but it is still a remote cooperation with evil because all of the vaccines were at least
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developed, if not also produced using the stem cells of aborted babies.
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If you're telling me the government can just force you to do that, to, to possibly protect
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against a virus that does not pose a grave threat to the vast majority of people, I, that
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That's why they're putting all their political capital behind it.
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Just like they think the pronouns are a big deal too.
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And they're gaslighting you, even though gas is extremely expensive now, thanks in no small
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part to Joe Biden, they're gaslighting you into believing it's not a big deal.
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Speaking of patriotism, Governor Ron DeSantis, once again, doing the right thing.
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Ron DeSantis sent out a press release yesterday saying that Florida, quote, stands ready to
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aid the response efforts from all impacted states after those terrible, deadly tornadoes
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that ripped through a little bit, ripped through Nashville, but really hit mostly in Kentucky.
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The Florida Division of Emergency Management is coordinating right now with the offices of,
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quote, the nine affected states to identify resource gaps and offer support as needed,
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including urban search and rescue teams, ambulance strike teams, and recovery disaster specialists.
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There are so many aspects to this story, and they're all brilliant, okay?
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Just on the political, on the electoral politics level, Ron DeSantis, yet again, is figuring a
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way to put himself right at the heart of a national news story.
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Why is a Kentucky tornado putting Ron DeSantis in the national media spotlight?
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Well, because he's offering to help them, and then other governors are not doing that in a
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very public way, and so that's putting him there.
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If the guy wants to run for president, he's positioning himself very well to do so, but
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beyond just the electoral politics stuff, it's the right thing to do, and this is going
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There's a certain breed of libertarian who's going to say, this is just DeSantis illegitimately
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using his state resources and his constituents' resources to put himself in the national spotlight.
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He should just be focused on the people of Florida.
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This is, no, as is a bad use of resources, and no.
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Do you know what Florida has to do with Kentucky?
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And actually, actually, it's a good thing when states help out other states.
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And not only is that not some irresponsible, left-wing, big government dereliction of duty,
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that's the right thing to do because we're countrymen.
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The founding fathers thought the nation needed cohesion.
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We did have national cohesion until very recently.
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Now we have basically nothing holding us together.
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There used to be a little bit more racial cohesion, but, you know, it was always kind of complicated
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We no longer really have religious cohesion at all.
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We don't, religion is plummeting in America, and there's a lot of religious diversity.
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We don't even speak the same language anymore, both because of the growth of Spanish as an American language
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and because the libs just keep changing the meanings of all the words we don't.
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We don't even have a love of the same ideals or the same symbols or the same founding fathers or anything.
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Half the country is spitting on the American flag, and the other half is saluting the flag.
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Half the country, I suspect, identifies much more with the rainbow flag than they do with the stars and stripes.
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And so what DeSantis is doing here is he's saying, no, no, we are part of one country.
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We're going to go, we're going to go help out Kentucky.
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It's not only good politics, but it's right, and it gets to a much deeper kind of conservatism
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than the frivolous, you know, just cut my taxes and leave me alone stuff that we've heard for the past 20 years.
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Speaking of a more robust conservatism, you're not only seeing it from the conservative Republican governor of Florida.
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You're seeing a strange leaning into a kind of conservatism coming from pop music.
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You're seeing it come from someone named Billie Eilish.
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Okay, I've never listened to a Billie Eilish tune.
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I wouldn't really be able to pick her out of a lineup.
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But Billie Eilish has just come out and made a very conservative point.
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As a woman, I think porn is a disgrace, and I used to watch a lot of porn, to be honest.
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I thought that's how you learned how to have sex.
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And I used to be like the person that would talk about porn all the time.
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I'd be like, oh, it's so stupid that anybody would think that porn is bad or f***ed up.
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I was an advocate, and I, you know, thought I was one of the guys and would talk about it
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and think I was really cool for not having a problem with it and not seeing why it was bad.
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And, you know, I think it really destroyed my brain.
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And I feel incredibly devastated that I was exposed to so much porn.
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Am I listening to The Howard Stern Show or The Mailbag?
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Like, on this show, where a lot of young people, mostly men, but occasionally sometimes women,
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Right-wing retrograde activist Billie Eilish is coming out against porn.
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She's not a Bible thumper or a reactionary or retrograde or any of these things.
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She's about as pop, mainstream, lib as it gets.
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And she's saying that she feels that porn destroyed her brain because she, like so many people who are in Gen Z and millennials to a lesser degree.
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Millennials were exposed to porn at a pretty early age too, but less so than Gen Z where basically they're just saturated in it from the moment they're born.
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She says that being exposed to this at a young age and getting addicted to it is destroying her brain.
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People write into my mailbag all the time, as you have heard, on this topic.
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And they say, I know that I'm supposed to be cool and hip and we're all supposed to be fine with porn and actually pro-porn, but I think it's bad.
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And maybe we've got to do something about this problem.
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And they're recognizing that while the way that the porn industry and the sexual revolutionaries sold porn is that it's a way to increase your freedom.
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Don't let those old constraints and those old nasty preacher men tell you what to do, man.
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You know, just enjoy your freedom to watch women be degraded.
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And virtually everybody in the culture at some point has given into this temptation or even believed that lie outright.
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It gets you addicted to things and it warps your brain.
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And Billie Eilish was talking about how she got really addicted to this particularly violent kind of porn.
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And it actually does change your brain chemistry.
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So there are actually physical effects of this as well.
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And obviously extremely corrosive, psychological, and spiritual effects.
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And it seems to me the only people who don't get it are the squishy right-wingers.
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The hard left understands what this stuff does, porn and drugs and this culture of licentiousness.
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They know what it does and they are wielding it, actively wielding it to compromise your freedom and change the culture.
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I actually write about them writing about this in my book Speechless, which makes a great Christmas present, by the way.
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Number one national bestseller, great gift to give to your friends or family.
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The conservatives, the actual conservatives, know that.
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But it's just the, sometimes they're called the lullbertarians.
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You know, the very unserious, squishy, just you-do-you types who kind of fall on the right.
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They seem to be the only ones who don't get it.
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And when you legalize all porn, just like if you legalize all drugs, just if you legalize all manner of licentiousness and vice,
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that's not going to free you, it's going to enslave you and it's going to enslave you to bad dudes on the left.
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Speaking of licentiousness and creepy sex stuff, Abby Shapiro just got in trouble.
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Abby Shapiro was not doing anything creepy or not.
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Abby Shapiro got in trouble for a tweet in which she called out this kind of thing.
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So Abby, for those of you who don't know, Abby is Ben's sister.
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Obviously, friend of ours for many, many years.
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And Abby has her own channel called Classically Abby, where she advocates for a more traditional, normal kind of lifestyle.
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So she sent out this tweet, two pictures side by side.
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One is Nancy Reagan with her family, I guess at the Reagan Ranch, looks like it's at the Reagan Ranch.
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And one is of Madonna, who is now in her 60s, dressed up like she's a much younger woman doing much nastier things than 60-year-old women should be doing.
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Abby writes from the Classically Abby account, this is Madonna at 63, this is Nancy Reagan at 64.
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Trashy living versus classy living, which version of yourself do you want to be?
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Molly Jongfast, who is a left-wing writer, writing in the Daily Beast, said that Abby, Classically Abby and her brother Ben, they're just boomers.
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Molly, if you criticize Madonna, a boomer, for her boomer lifestyle, you're apparently a boomer.
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And if you criticize libs for indulging it, you're apparently a boomer.
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But even just on, then the left were attacking Nancy Reagan.
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They were pulling up some tabloid BS biography and saying that Nancy Reagan was actually herself promiscuous back in Hollywood, which is not true.
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There's no evidence that Nancy Reagan, the lady who became Nancy Reagan, was ever promiscuous.
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There is a fair bit of evidence that the other Nancy Davis was, perhaps.
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And so anyway, they're just getting that wrong.
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And then the left is, they're making all these sorts of ugly claims about Nancy Reagan.
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But furthermore, furthermore, anyone who is claiming that they would rather be like Madonna, alone, on a bed, dressed up like a hooker, intentionally dressed, she's dressed up like a hooker to be sexually provocative in her 60s, that that's what you want to be rather than having your family around you dressed up like a normal, respectable person on your nice ranch.
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Anyway, if you really think you'd rather be dressed up like a hooker on a bed alone at age 63 rather than standing around your nice family with, you know, everyone who loves you and, you know, dressed normally, then either that is evidence of a disordered will.
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Your will has been so corrupted, maybe by porn or maybe just by a lot of bad ideas and a lot of bad behaviors in your life.
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You are lying to yourself and trying to cope with your own bad views and decisions and way that you have lived your life.
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But nobody, I don't think anybody who is in their right mind could look at those two pictures and actually say, no, I really, no, I really do want to be like Madonna.
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Everybody's got problems, but everyone wants to end up like the picture on the right, not like the picture on the left.
00:32:48.260
Speaking of the sexual revolution, just yesterday, the state of Arizona requested that the United States Supreme Court weigh in on a new pro-life law.
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So there are these pro-life laws cropping up all over the country and there are different pro-life laws.
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The pro-life law in Texas, for instance, is a law that allows people, ordinary citizens of Texas, to sue abortionists and in this way effectively prohibit abortion.
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The pro-life law in Mississippi bans abortions after 15 weeks.
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So before viability is defined by the Supreme Court.
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This law in Arizona bans abortion that is done because of genetic abnormalities.
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So right now, it's very common to, when a woman becomes pregnant, the woman and hopefully her husband go into the doctor and they're talking about how excited they are about their little bundle of joy.
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And you look at a sonogram and at a certain point, the doctor, almost 100% of the time, will say, okay, now we're just going to screen for some genetic issues.
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And pro-life people tend to respond to that and say, why?
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What do you mean, why are you going to scan for a gene?
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Oh, well, just because then we'll just decide how to proceed.
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I guess that one thing you could do if you scan for certain issues, sometimes you can do surgery while the baby's in the womb.
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And that's not what most doctors are thinking of.
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What they are saying is, well, you know, we're going to screen for Down syndrome.
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Why do I, what are you not going to operate on the kid and cure the Down syndrome?
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Well, because then we'll figure out how to proceed.
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And what they mean is, they're going to do a test to figure out if your kid's retarded.
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And if your kid's retarded, you're going to kill it.
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And I'm, I'm using blunt language for a reason here.
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Because we have all these euphemisms, well, we're going to screen for abnormalities.
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And then we'll decide if you want to use your, your choice and your reproductive health to continue with the, no, what you're saying is you think that we should kill retarded people, is what you're saying.
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And you, you think that it's perfectly normal to do that.
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And that's what a just and serious society does.
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But of course, it's only a ghastly and cruel society that would do that.
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So Arizona, rightly, is passing a law saying, no, we shouldn't, we shouldn't kill retarded people or people who have any other sorts of difficulties or, and it's just wrong to do that and we're not going to do it.
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And of course, the libs are up in arms about it and it's going to go up to the Supreme Court.
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I'm glad it's going to the Supreme Court now while the Supreme Court is considering the more important abortion case, Dobbs versus Jackson Women's Health Organization.
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The kitchen sink approach, meaning I want there to be 7 billion different pro-life laws on the books, all challenging Roe versus Wade, all challenging Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
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And maybe they're for different reasons and maybe they've got different arguments and justifications and maybe they do different things.
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But the ultimate effect is going to be stop killing babies for whatever reason.
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Because they got Down syndrome, because of their sex, because of their race, because of, because the mother just doesn't like them, because the father doesn't like them, because we have this insane cult, whatever the reason.
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The way that abortion became codified unjustly into U.S. law was the kitchen sink approach.
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The libs just kept bringing cases for different reasons.
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They kept inventing new rights in the Constitution and then they would invent new rights based on those rights.
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So you'd have a right to an abortion found in the emanations and the penumbras of certain provisions.
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But because they threw the kitchen sink in, because they just used everything they had, abortion's been on the books for almost 50 years now.
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Now, Planned Parenthood v. Casey changes, this was the case in 1992, changes the reasoning for why we need to have abortion, why there's a fake constitutional right to abortion from Roe v. Wade in 1973.
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But we've ostensibly got six conservative judges.
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Roe v. Wade is probably the single most egregious decision in the history of the United States.
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Traditional views of human nature, really basic stuff like babies are babies and boys are not girls, are winning political issues.
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They've convinced not us, but they've convinced a lot of squishes that if you stand up and say don't kill babies, that's going to be a big loser when you're running for office.
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Oh, you can't go out and say that you think we shouldn't kill babies because, oh, you're going to lose votes.
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You've got to take the position that we should be able to kill babies up until nine months in the womb.
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If you dare say that men are not really women, you're going to look like a crazy retrograde reactionary.
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Don't you deny that there's such a thing as transgenderism and that the soul has nothing to do with the body?
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Transgenderism is probably the number one reason why Glenn Youngkin won his race in Virginia and beat Terry McAuliffe.
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Because a dude in a skirt walked into a girl's bathroom and raped a girl in Loudoun County.
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And then the school covered it up and sent him to another school.
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And my further evidence of this is that Kristi Noem, the governor of South Dakota, has just flip-flopped on transgenderism in the right direction.
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So you recall, there was a bill in South Dakota some months ago that prohibited dudes from playing in the girls' sports leagues.
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And she was willing to ban dudes from the girls' sports leagues in K-12 education, but not in college.
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It seems like a total political winner to me to ban that.
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It seems perfectly right and natural and electorally popular.
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She probably got a call from some donors who do not reflect the views of the American people or, I suspect, her constituents.
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You know, there are going to be some people who say, well, no, it's not real.
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I have no idea if she's being sincere on this issue or not.
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The people who are saying, well, she doesn't really believe it.
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That's the glass half empty view of what's going on.
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The glass half full view is, yeah, she flip-flopped to a better position.
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I want my, I want politicians who hold bad positions to flip-flop to better positions.
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And I don't, I'm not going to attack them for it.
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I'm going to say thanks, or I'm going to say good job.
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Or I'm going to celebrate that some politicians who are maybe a little less principled and
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more likely to just go whichever the winds will blow for their personal advantage.
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I'm glad when the winds are clearly blowing in the direction of what is right, as is obviously the case on this sexual identity stuff.
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Speaking of sports, there is a new documentary out from ESPN.
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And this is a documentary on one of the worst hate crimes in American history.
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This is a documentary about a hate crime almost as bad and almost as real as the attack on Jussie Smollett in downtown Chicago.
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You remember when the white supremacist, homophobic, gay Nigerian man attacked Jussie Smollett because Chicago is MAGA country.
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Well, this, this was not quite as serious as that, but it was, it was close.
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It took place at the Talladega Speedway and they found a noose hanging in the garage.
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I bet, you know, we didn't see it, but I bet there were burning crosses everywhere.
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I bet there's probably a Klan rally happening right outside the garage, right?
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Well, if you listen to the trailer for this documentary, that's probably the conclusion you would draw.
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The most incredible, non-competitive moment in sports I've ever seen.
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That moment, I could feel the weight of that moment.
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When I get out of the car, I look back, and I was like, holy s**t, it's the whole garage.
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In the midst of all the turmoil that was going on in the world, with the black and white,
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the hatred and everything that was going on, the entire NASCAR family rallied behind my son.
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Just brings a tear to your eye for how much the United States has completely lost its mind.
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Black men can barely walk out of their homes without being chased down.
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And this black NASCAR driver found a noose hanging in his stall from the hate crime.
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But, but, the, the drivers from NASCAR, the whole NASCAR family, they decided to overcome
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And they stood up and they said, no, we don't want to attack you, Bubba.
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We support you and we oppose all those racists and white supremacists.
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And Bubba was so overwhelmed because, because the default mode in America now is for all these
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white supremacists to just lynch black guys left and right.
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And amid all the turmoil and the hatred of the blacks and the whites, finally, finally,
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None of it, it had been there for months and months.
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Yeah, it was not surprising that all these NASCAR people came out to support Bubba Wallace
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over this fictional event because there aren't any white supremacists or Klansmen.
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There's no, the racial, the only racial turmoil in recent years was when BLM burnt the country
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It was BLM and Antifa at the encouragement of leftist politicians, very prominent ones,
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including the current president and vice president of the United States.
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And to be as fair as I can to BLM, I'm not talking about the radicals and the real leaders
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I'm talking about the regular old idiots who just go along with it.
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They did it in no small part because of the lie being perpetrated by these people, by ESPN
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and by the liberal establishment, that there's this pervasive problem of white supremacy and
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that nooses are being left around every black guy's house, none of which is happening.
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It is a lie being told as the truth by propagandists.
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It is a mass psychosis that we are watching go on.
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It is a kind of religious ecstasy that you're seeing happen on that track at NASCAR and in
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the movie and the people being moved to tears because finally there's a solution to this
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One, I don't blame the people who are under the spell of the media.
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But I don't even blame the people who are engaging in these performances.
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When you go out and you hold hands and you sing about the racial unity or frankly even
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when you go out and loot and burn like BLM did, it is a kind of religious liturgy.
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And we need some kind of religion because we know that we're not quite at home in this
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It's kind of weird that we didn't create ourselves.
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We know that there are things like beauty and truth and right and wrong and goodness and
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And we can't make sense of it because those aren't physical things.
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And so we know that there is a spiritual and metaphysical world.
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But there's no satisfaction to those longings in a world that tells you that religion is
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Neo-pagan religions that are divorced from reality such as the racial narratives going on
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It is no coincidence that right now, a new study that came out from Pew Research, three
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in ten Americans have what they think is no religion.
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This is up ten points over the course of ten years.
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They're calling this secularization, the de-Christianization of America.
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They just have a different religion because nobody has no religion because everybody's got
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It's just way weirder and way less true and way more destructive than the old religion
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