Ep. 954 - Trans Ukraine Or Die
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As the body count mounts in Ukraine, as Vladimir Putin is reportedly attacking even residential areas in his conquest of the breadbasket of Europe, the American establishment news media are focusing on issues that really matter, like the effect of the invasion on transgender acceptance.
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As the body count mounts in Ukraine, as Vladimir Putin is reportedly attacking even residential
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areas in his conquest of the breadbasket of Europe, the American establishment news media
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are focusing on issues that really matter, like the effect of the invasion on transgender
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acceptance. CBS News is reporting that, quote, transgender acceptance in Ukraine is not widespread
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and changing legal documents to match gender requires a long process with psychiatric
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evaluations. I suspect the psychiatric evaluations go something like this. Sir, do you think you're
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a woman? No. Okay, you pass. Yes, you do. Sorry, you fail. Would seem like a pretty straightforward
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psychiatric examination. I digress. The network goes on, quote, CBS News spoke with one woman
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in Kiev who is now battling a war within a war amid Russia's invasion. The woman, of course,
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is a man, and the war within the war is a sexual delusion presently being crammed down everyone's
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throats by an increasingly decadent secular West. But the news report is actually a helpful reminder
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to the warmongering globalist liberals who two weeks ago couldn't have pointed to Kiev on a map.
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It reminds them, Ukraine is not your toy. It is not merely the area of the world where you can
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superimpose your own delusions and your own preferences. Ukraine is a nation and a people
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with its own beliefs and customs and interests and way of viewing the world. And maybe if our leaders in
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the West had had even a modicum of humility and prudence, maybe if they had shown just the teensiest,
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tiniest bit of respect for those national differences and for Ukraine's unique and uniquely vulnerable
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place in Eastern Europe, perhaps we wouldn't all find ourselves today on the brink of World War III.
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But I suppose that sort of basic competence and judgment is too much to ask of a ruling class
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that can't tell the difference between boys and girls. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael
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The libs make everything about creepy sex. They make everything. Every single thing
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is about their own weird sexual hangups. School. You go to school now. You don't learn your reading,
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writing, and arithmetic. You learn about transgenderism and throuples and all sorts of
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weird kinky sex stuff. Even a war in Europe, the first major land war in Europe since World War II,
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they somehow make it about creepy sex because I'm sure that's what the grandmothers who are
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in their bunkers right now in Kiev, that's what they're worried about is, oh boy, can the drag queens,
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do they really feel they can express themselves with the bombs going off? I sure hope. We got to fix
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that problem first. Then we can deal with the tanks that are rolling into our city.
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The left is obsessed with weird, creepy, destructive sex. You saw this the other day
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with John Oliver. John Oliver, whose show I have never watched, but his clips go around and so
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occasionally I am forced to watch them. John Oliver made an argument that is not a fringe argument. It's
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very much a mainstream left-wing argument that a pressing social problem is that we must right now
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legalize prostitution. Basically, consensual sex for money on camera is legal porn and consensual
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sex for money off camera is illegal sex work. Makes sense, right? Wrong? Well, exactly. Everything
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about the way we regulate sex work in this country is confusing and counterproductive. And when we talk
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about it, it's often either demonizing, patronizing, or just plain wrong. And in some cases, all three
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at once. But a human history's worth of sh** laws hasn't changed the fact that one, sex work has always
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been part of society, appealing to every interest and every kind of clientele. And two, sex workers
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are not a monolith. People from a variety of backgrounds do it for a variety of reasons.
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And the fact is, our current system of criminalizing the trade and driving everyone underground is
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actually only making life harder for the most vulnerable involved.
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So the point of his self-righteous monologue is we need to legalize prostitution. That'll be really,
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really wonderful. He's right that prostitution has always been around. It is the oldest profession in
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the world. It's really tied with politics for being the oldest profession in the world. And as Ronald
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Reagan pointed out, the two professions have a lot of similarities. They look pretty similar when
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you compare them side by side. That's all true. Why would it follow then that we should encourage
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more prostitution? He says, all these laws against prostitution, they don't do anything to actually
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reduce prostitution. That's, I think, what he's insinuating. No, they just make the whole thing worse.
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This is this typical pie in the sky, magical thinking, liberal argument that if you pass a law
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against something, you're not going to get less of it. You're going to get more of it. That's why we
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need to take away the laws against drugs, for instance. If you take away, look, you got laws
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against drugs. They don't do anything. So we got to take, actually, if you want to reduce drug use,
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you got to, you got to legalize drugs. If you want to, if you want to minimize prostitution,
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you got to legalize prostitution, because laws give you more of a thing, right? Except that isn't
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true. That isn't true about any aspect of society. If it were true, we would get rid of laws against
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murder, wouldn't we? Because, well, if the law gives you more of the thing, then we better repeal
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those laws against murder tomorrow. We're getting so much more murder than we need. Let's legalize
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murder. Let's, we'll regulate it. We'll legalize murder. We'll regulate it. And then we'll get a lot
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less of it, right? No, of course not. We pass laws against things. These laws actually do
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disincentivize those activities. Okay. When you have laws against prostitution, you actually do get
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less prostitution. Now we don't really enforce these laws. There are lots of difficult problems
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with them. Sure. Okay. You can try to reform criminal laws. You always try to do that.
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Beyond the legal point that John Oliver is making here is a philosophical one,
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which is really bad. His argument is to really be free, we need to be able to treat ourselves like
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we're meat puppets. To really be free, we need to be able to accept money for people to pursue their
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basest, most animalistic sexual desires, and for us to be treated not like dignified human beings made
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in the image of God, but like meat, like little sex toys to be merely vessels for someone else's
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temporary pleasure to be used and discarded and thrown to the side. That's the argument here,
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that we have some natural right to do that, that we've got, that that's the true height of liberty.
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But of course, that's not the height of liberty. And you see it beyond, I'm really not picking on
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sex workers as the new politically correct term. I'm really not. It actually is the world's oldest
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profession, but it's not good. It's not conducive to virtue. It's not conducive to the virtue of the
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sex workers. It's not conducive to the virtue of the clients. It's not conducive to the virtue
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of society. There is no right to prostitution, whether you're the person buying it or you're
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the person selling it. It's not, it just isn't good. Just outlaw it. It's just bad. And you
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should enforce the laws and everyone would benefit from that. Okay. When John Oliver makes this point,
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he says, well, how come it's, it's legal if you have a camera in the room, right? And we call that
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the pornography industry, but it's not legal if you don't have a camera in the room. Great question,
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John. You're right. Ban porn. You make a great point. Yeah, that's dumb. That's a,
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that's a ridiculous distinction. And we should, we should heavily regulate if not ban outright
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pornography as well. Sure. Okay. That's a good idea. Not, but it goes even beyond the sex work.
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We are told now our kids are taught in classrooms that to be truly free, you need to pursue every
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weird sexual desire you ever had any like weird, destructive, kinky thought that ever popped into
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your head. You have to pursue it because if you don't, you're going to be repressed and you shouldn't
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be repressed because then you won't be free. And if you, you're a man and you think you're a woman to
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be really free, you've got to chop up your body and take medications to, to maintain these open wounds
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and, and pretend to enforce society to pretend that you're something that you're not. That's the only
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way to be free. But of course that's not true. The way we're, we're now entering into a period
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of Lent. American Christians are at least Christians around the world, I suppose. And, and I think it's
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even for non-Christians, this is a good period to reflect and think, okay, what is the real way to be
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free? The modern libs tell you the way to be free is do whatever you want. No, the way to be free is
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self-denial. It's education. It's tamping down those face desires, cultivating your higher will, but we
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don't live in a serious country anymore that recognizes that. Remember we, we used to talk in our
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country about sacrifice. We used to talk about not being little children, growing up, be a man,
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do what you got to do. You find your duty, ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can
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do for your country. We're going to be a nation of tough men who are going to leave a better country
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to our children. Well, that's not the country we're in right now. It was, this was so clear last
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night at the state of the union address, the most depressing, sad, pathetic state of the union I have
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I do want to get back to Ukraine because that matters a lot more to world security and the prospect
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of World War III than whatever nonsense Joe Biden was talking about last night in the State of the
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Union. But there are a few things I've got to cover because they were alternately hilarious and
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pathetic. The saddest part of the State of the Union, very few people have pointed this out,
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was this moment where Joe Biden was trying desperately to name, he didn't have any
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accomplishments that he could name, so he just kept talking about things in the future.
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Right? He would say, instead of talking about the State of the Union right now and as a result of the
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last year of his leadership, he'd just say, you know, in the future we're going to do this and next year
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we'll cure cancer and five years from now we're going to have a gumdrop Candy Mountain. That's
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going to be really great. At one point, though, the Democrats started chanting USA, USA.
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So that was coming from the Democrats, USA, USA, USA. And when I heard it, it struck me as so
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foreign and artificial. I said, why? Why is this so strange to me? Because I've never heard Democrats
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ever chant USA, USA. Neither have you. Even for our liberal listeners out there, our Democrat listeners
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out there, I think if you're being really honest with yourself, you can admit Democrats don't do
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that. That's a Republican thing to do. Right? Because what Democrats do is they protest the
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American flag. They teach in schools that America is a racist, bigoted, terrible country that's always
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been awful to black people and minorities and Indians and women and everyone who's not a straight
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white man with blonde hair and blue eyes. America's just really been awful. They spread evil all around
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the world. We're just the worst country ever and we've got nothing to be proud of. That's what the
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Democrats teach. Okay. But what I think happened is the Democrats got their pollsters out there and
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they know that this is a midterm election year and they realized that hating America doesn't play very
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well in Peoria. And so they said, okay, we've got to change this. Hey, Democrats. And all the members
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of Congress have a script for these things. So they've got the little script. Okay. Applaud here,
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stand up here. And I guess one of them was chant USA, USA. Just do an impersonation of a
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Republican. Do an impersonation of a conservative during the Trump administration, standing up USA,
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USA. You could see on the dais up there behind Joe Biden, you have Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris,
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and they're there for the USA, USA, and they don't know what to do. They don't, they're not chanting.
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They're kind of clapping in the rhythm. There's, oh, I've never heard this before. Ah, you,
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USA, you, as it reminded me during COVID, you remember Andrew Cuomo before he fell from grace,
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Andrew Cuomo was caught on camera and he said, uh, you know, uh, Donald Trump says make America great
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again. America was never that great. America was never that great. That's what he said. Damning
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line. I think he was speaking for a lot of Democrats. Don't forget, Andrew Cuomo is considered
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a moderate Democrat. So it wasn't even some fringe line, but they just believe America was never that
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great. And then that got him into a little bit of trouble. And then he goes to the Democrat
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national convention and he gives one of the speeches and he says, we're America strong.
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We're to, we're America. America always does great stuff. We're the, you think, buddy,
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you don't really believe that it rings hollow and it rang hollow last night. The creepiest moment I
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thought of the whole state of the union was at the very end when Joe Biden started to ratchet up
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the radicalism a little bit. And he started pushing his radical abortion law to codify Roe versus
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Wade, which very possibly could be overturned in the new Supreme court session. He wanted to codify
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that into law. So even if the court gets rid of the fake constitutional right to abortion,
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it'll still be a national law. And every state in the country is going to have to kill babies
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and no state, no people has the right to say, no, we don't want to kill babies in Texas or Tennessee.
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So Joe Biden was talking about that. He came up with a new euphemism for abortion.
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Advancing liberty and justice also requires protecting the rights of women. The constitutional
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right affirmed by Roe v. Wade, standing precedent for half a century is under attack as never before.
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If you want to go forward, not backwards, we must protect access to health care,
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preserve a woman's right to choose and continue to advance maternal health care for all America.
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Maternal health care. We've heard a lot of euphemisms for abortion over the years.
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We've heard reproductive rights. Ironic because abortion stops reproduction and it's not right.
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We've heard women's health care, which is very, very vague, right? I call my grandmother. I say,
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hey, grandma, how you doing? She doesn't say, well, Michael, you know, my hip hurts and my friend died
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and the car broke down. But hey, at least I have my right to abortion, right? That's not what all
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women mean by health. Quite the opposite. But this was the first time I'd ever heard this one. And it's
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the most ghoulish one of all. Maternal health care. See, the Democrats use these euphemisms for
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abortion because they don't want to admit that abortion necessarily involves killing a baby.
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So they won't even acknowledge that the baby's real most of the time. They'll say, no, it's just
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women's health. Oh, it's just a minor medical procedure. It's just, it's reproductive rights,
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right? They'll equate it with contraception. The idea that you're not even, you're going to stop
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it before it even becomes a baby. But maternal health care is acknowledging that the woman getting
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an abortion is already a mother. Maternal health care is acknowledging that the baby really is a baby
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in the fullest sense of the word. You're calling the woman getting an abortion mommy.
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And mommy is going to snuff out her little baby if Joe Biden has his way. And mommies aren't even
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going to have the right to get together and pass laws in their states to outlaw killing babies if
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Joe Biden gets his way. That is some spooky stuff from allegedly the moderate Democrat,
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from allegedly the Catholic Joe Biden. I'm allegedly, I'm, you know, I'm personally pro-life,
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but politically I'm pro-choice. He used to do that. You remember that? That was a little song and
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dance that Democrats came up with decades ago to get themselves out of that tight spot
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on abortion, especially Catholic Democrats. Mario Cuomo did it in New York. But now they've totally
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gotten rid of that. And Joe Biden doesn't believe a damn thing that he pretends to believe in.
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All he cares about is saying the things that are popular in his party and maintaining power.
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So now he says, yeah, it's maternal health care. Yeah. Yeah. It's a baby. Yeah. You pro-lifers,
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you were right. It's a baby and we're coming for him. Spooky, spooky stuff. And then the silliest line
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of the night was when Joe Biden said that what Democrats support is not defunding the police,
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not abolishing the police. Actually, Democrats want to fund the police.
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Proven strategies like community violence interruption, trusted messengers, breaking the
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cycle of violence and trauma and giving young people some hope. We should all agree. The answer
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is not to defund the police. It's to fund the police. Fund them. Fund them.
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Yeah. Fund the police. That's what we support. We're Democrats. We support funding the police.
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Even though we just spent two years actual, not only threatening to defund the police,
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not only having AOC say abolish the police means abolish the police. It doesn't mean move money around.
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It means you're actually going to get rid of the police. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, not just them,
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but DAs, Democrat governors, mayors all around the country actually defunding the police. That's why
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we have an historic crime surge right now. You've got murders in particular, violent crime way,
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way up over the last two years because of actual Democrat policies that were already implemented.
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And then Joe Biden gaslights everyone and says, we support funding the police.
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No, you don't. No, you don't. Like prove it, buster. Well, no. And then all the Democrats,
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they stand up there and they applaud. They haven't changed one iota of their policy. They haven't
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pushed for a tough on crime bill in the Congress. Those people who were in that,
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that room just there, I haven't seen a Democrat tough on crime bill anywhere in the country.
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So it's just a lie. It just, they realize that voters around the country don't like it that now
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the gangbangers are shooting bullets through their windows and that they know that Democrats are
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directly responsible for this. And so they say, okay, guys, hey, let's get us through November.
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We support funding the police, don't we? No, you don't. It's just total BS.
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And then I'm not even, that's all I'm going to play of the, of the state of the union. I can't
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bear it. I sat through it once. I don't need to sit through it again. All right. I did,
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I did my duty to you people because I know that you didn't watch it. So I, I sat there,
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I took the slings and arrows. It was a good way to get ready for this penitential season. I sat there
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and I did it, but I'm not watching it again. The first 10 to 20 minutes of it though,
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we're not a state of the union address. The first 10 to 20 minutes were a state of the Putin address.
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I don't, did he even mention America during the first 20 minutes? I don't, I don't think so. I
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was waiting for him. I said, it's the state of the NATO state of the European union.
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All he was talking about was Ukraine and he didn't offer any, anything productive on Ukraine. He
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didn't say, here's how we're going to end this war. Here's how we're not going to escalate and avoid
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world war three. Here's how, here's what we should have done differently because very specific
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Biden policies led to this moment in Ukraine, as I covered on the show some days ago.
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No, he didn't talk about any of that. He just talked vaguely about this war in Ukraine. And
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because the war in Ukraine is the best thing to happen to the Biden administration.
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I'm damning with faint praise. He's failed on every single front,
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but it's the best thing that happened. Previously, the best thing that happened to Biden was COVID
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because he could blame all of his problems on COVID. But then a lot of his predictions about
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COVID didn't come true. A lot of his prescriptions turned out to not work at all. And so COVID's no
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longer a positive for him, even in the polls. The best thing he can do now is say, I'm a wartime
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president. I'm going to avoid world war three. I'm going to stave it off for my genius state
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Joe Biden did not stave off World War III during his State of the Union. He staved off my alertness
00:26:18.440
during the State of the Union. He brought me to sleep during most of the State of the Union.
00:26:23.060
I did get some relaxation for that hour. But the situation in Ukraine remains very, very dangerous.
00:26:29.480
And it's getting more dangerous because the head of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
00:26:35.160
is now applying for membership in the European Union. He's been applying for membership in the
00:26:40.660
European Union for a long time. Actually, his aggressive application to join the European Union
00:26:45.480
might be one of the reasons that this war broke out in the first place. The war is the fault of
00:26:51.640
Vladimir Putin. There's no question about that. He is the aggressive party. He's the invading party.
00:26:55.440
But wars are complicated. And foreign policy is very complicated. And one of the events that led
00:27:03.460
to this moment was the aggressive turn of Ukraine away from Russia toward the West, toward NATO,
00:27:09.680
toward the European Union. So Zelenskyy says, okay, our country is being invaded. We want to join
00:27:14.120
Europe immediately. The European Parliament just voted to advance Ukraine's petition to join the EU.
00:27:21.860
They voted 637 in favor, 13 against, 26 chose to abstain.
00:27:30.960
So this is going to be my least popular opinion today. But you know, look, I'm not going to pander.
00:27:35.640
I'm not going to lie to you. I'm not just going to say things to get the applause of the crowds.
00:27:39.180
I'm going to give you the truth, darn it. And the truth is this. Ukraine should not be in the European
00:27:43.740
Union. It's a terrible idea. It's a terrible idea. And frankly, if Ukraine had not been pushing for
00:27:49.240
this, it's not just Ukraine's fault. It's not even maybe primarily Ukraine's fault. It's Europe's
00:27:53.680
fault. It's NATO's fault. It's America's fault in some ways that Ukraine has been pushing for this.
00:28:00.500
As a result of that push, the situation in Ukraine is much more dangerous. As a result of that push,
00:28:06.440
which was pushed almost exclusively by Democrat politicians, the situation in America, in Europe,
00:28:12.940
in the West generally is much more dangerous today. What do I mean by that? Foreign policy is not so
00:28:20.700
simple as us versus them. Us good, them bad. We take over more territory. They lose territory.
00:28:31.040
Everything's hunky-dory. Foreign policy is not that great. I totally understand why Ukraine wants to
00:28:38.000
join the European Union. If Ukraine joins the European Union, Ukraine's younger citizens in
00:28:43.400
particular can leave Ukraine. And that's what a lot of it is about. They want to leave Ukraine because
00:28:47.480
Ukraine does not have a great economy, does not have great social prospects. So like a lot of people
00:28:52.280
in Eastern Europe, they want to flee their countries and go to the more prosperous Western states and
00:28:57.460
before Brexit so that they could go to the United Kingdom even and be wealthier and have a more
00:29:04.640
prosperous life. That's what a lot of it is about. Beyond that, Vladimir Putin is an autocrat and a
00:29:10.380
bully and a jerk. And so Ukraine does not want to be too closely tied to Putin. They want to be more
00:29:17.680
closely, some people in Ukraine want to be more closely tied to the West. And the West has welcomed
00:29:22.700
this and encouraged this. There is such a thing as buffer states, at least there used to be.
00:29:29.820
You know, I'll give you another good example of this. During this war that's broken out in Ukraine,
00:29:34.180
Switzerland did something really unusual. Switzerland took a side. Switzerland famously
00:29:41.840
remains neutral during wars. Not even the Nazis can get Switzerland to stop remaining neutral.
00:29:48.560
Switzerland has survived for so long as a unified political community in no small part because they
00:29:55.140
remain neutral. Why do they remain neutral? In part, it's because of their geography. In part,
00:29:59.240
it's because of their history. Neutral states and buffer states can be a very good thing. They can
00:30:06.300
help the world order. Do we think it's a really great idea for two rival powers, NATO slash the
00:30:14.900
European Union slash America because it's American leadership, right up totally sharing a huge border
00:30:21.980
in really crucial areas with Russia, its own power, which is not part of Europe, which is not part of
00:30:28.420
NATO, which is not part of the West as we understand it? Do we think it's a good idea for two really
00:30:34.140
strong rival powers to just be totally up against one another everywhere all along the border? No,
00:30:41.080
I think that's a dumb idea. That historically doesn't work out very well. That's why there's such a thing
00:30:45.320
as buffer states. And for buffer states to remain relatively safe, they've got to play both sides.
00:30:51.840
They've got to maintain decent enough relationships with both of the rival powers. That's what Ukraine
00:30:58.200
had been doing for a long time. Then the West believed leading up to 2013, 2014, that Ukraine was
00:31:04.320
a little too friendly to Russia or not sufficiently friendly to Europe. So what the Western powers did
00:31:10.880
was encourage protests and actually fund protests in Ukraine to oust the somewhat neutral, slightly
00:31:20.740
more pro-Russian government to install a more pro-Western government. Then in 2017, you saw a big
00:31:27.740
push by Ukraine to join NATO and the EU that has only increased in 2020 and 2021. And now you see war
00:31:35.760
break out. Why would war break out? Because yes, Putin is a jerk. He's a terrible guy. He kills
00:31:40.600
journalists. He's a horrible person. Vladimir Putin also sees that Russia has interests and is very
00:31:46.780
much not in Russia's interests for Ukraine to be a full-on EU, European NATO member state.
00:31:54.920
Vladimir Putin says it's an intolerable security threat. Whether or not that's true or not,
00:31:58.900
he might be exaggerating things. But in terms of Russia's interest, this is really bad.
00:32:03.160
Had Ukraine remained basically a buffer state, I seriously doubt there would be a war there right now.
00:32:09.280
I don't think Putin would have invaded as far as he did. I mean, frankly, his invasion of Crimea came
00:32:14.180
as a result of what happened in 2013 and 2014 in Ukraine. Would he have even invaded Crimea
00:32:20.680
had the government not changed then? I'm not so sure. Whether he would have or not, I don't think
00:32:26.180
you would have seen this full-scale invasion right now. I made this point much earlier about a week ago
00:32:32.060
when the war broke out. I said, if you want to understand your enemy, if you want to do well in war,
00:32:37.020
or if you want to have an advantage in war, you need to understand your enemy. It's not enough
00:32:40.780
to say, Putin Hitler, Putin bad. I hate Putin. He's crazy. He's a crazy person. And he's just
00:32:45.760
doing crazy things, so there's no way to understand him. Yeah, maybe he's got some problems, but I think
00:32:50.060
he is also largely a rational actor who is pursuing the national interest of Russia. And if you want to
00:32:56.380
maintain world peace, you've got to balance those interests. And just having NATO and the European
00:33:01.540
Union gobble up everything is not necessarily the most prudent strategy. Well, what about Ukraine?
00:33:07.900
They don't want to be tied to this lunatic Putin. They want to join Europe. Yeah, maybe they do.
00:33:12.600
But maybe that's not the most prudent thing for them to do. Buffer states are a good thing.
00:33:18.280
Yoram Hazony, the Israeli philosopher, pointed this out yesterday. He said, Jordan has remained
00:33:24.140
basically neutral. They've acted as a kind of mediator between Israel and the Arab world for
00:33:30.380
many decades. That's a good thing. It's actually kind of nice to have those buffers. It's nice to
00:33:35.480
have states where the great powers don't feel threatened and they can actually talk to one
00:33:41.460
another. But our leadership will not engage in that kind of sophisticated. It's not even that
00:33:47.540
sophisticated. It's kind of basic thinking. Today, it might be considered sophisticated. It used to be
00:33:52.020
considered elementary. They refused to do that. So Nancy Pelosi, she goes on television. She goes
00:33:57.500
on MSNBC and she says, you know the reason for this? You know what led to this invasion? It's
00:34:02.960
because Putin had COVID and his brain is all foggy. I don't know what is the matter there. I've talked
00:34:10.520
to heads of state who have met with him and they just take at face value the evil that he is putting
00:34:17.080
forth as something that we have to deal with. They're not making a diagnosis of his health.
00:34:22.380
Some people say he has cancer and some people say he has brain fog from COVID. Other people just think
00:34:31.700
he's a complete raging bully. But whatever it is, the people of Ukraine are paying the price for it.
00:34:39.240
Now, the only true thing she said there, well, a couple of true. Yes, he's a bully. Yes,
00:34:45.160
he's a bad guy. The people of Ukraine are paying the price. Does Vladimir Putin have cancer? I don't
00:34:52.380
know. Maybe. I'm not his doctor. Does Vladimir Putin, has he been feeling a little under the weather
00:34:56.700
since COVID? Yeah, maybe. I don't know. He didn't invade Ukraine because of brain fog from COVID.
00:35:04.520
You simple headed woman. You, oh my, this is why we got into this mess is because of this kind of
00:35:12.500
stupid sophomoric thinking about foreign policy. Vladimir Putin believes that it is in his interest.
00:35:21.200
He doesn't just have brain fog. He doesn't just have cancer. He doesn't just have some personality
00:35:25.380
disorder. He has interests. Okay. And mostly Democrats, mostly liberal politicians in the West
00:35:33.880
decided to recklessly upend all of those interests in Ukraine. And, and they might say, well, it was in
00:35:41.660
the interest of the Ukrainian people. Oh, is it? I don't think that bombs raining down on Kiev is in
00:35:46.020
the interest of the Ukrainian people. I don't think that needlessly provoking the other still
00:35:50.940
significant nuclear power on the other side of Ukraine is necessarily in the Ukrainians' interests.
00:35:56.760
I don't think that it is in the Europeans' interests. I don't think it's in America's interests. I think
00:36:02.020
that we're on the brink of World War III potentially. I don't think that's in anybody's
00:36:06.460
interests. Ironically, the only person whose interests this really seems to serve is Vladimir
00:36:10.980
Putin, who at the end of this very well may have greatly expanded his country and conquered the
00:36:15.500
breadbasket of Europe. That's what you get for your simple headed, compassionate, empathetic,
00:36:21.080
humanitarian policy in Ukraine is Ukraine doesn't exist. Countless civilians are killed.
00:36:26.440
Europe loses an important buffer state and Russia expands. Smart move. Really, really smart stuff,
00:36:32.080
guys. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Not that I'm convinced that the,
00:36:36.680
the Western liberals who have been pushing for this policy necessarily have good intentions.
00:36:40.720
I've got the funniest fact check I have ever read in my entire life. Okay. So here's the fact check
00:36:47.960
from USA Today. The fact check is about a claim that Ukraine not only had obviously been cozying up to
00:36:56.020
the West for many years before this invasion, but that specifically they'd been cozying up to liberal
00:37:02.960
politicians in the West because liberal politicians are the ruling elite in the West. And specifically,
00:37:08.140
they'd been cozying up to the Clintons. So here's the claim. You probably have seen it going around
00:37:11.900
Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. The claim is that Ukraine was the largest donor to the Clinton
00:37:19.600
Foundation from 1999 to 2014. Okay. And USA Today takes us up. Here's the claim. Similar rumors about
00:37:27.860
Ukrainian financial donations to the Clinton Foundation have gained traction on Twitter.
00:37:33.260
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene promoted an iteration of this claim during a February 19th
00:37:37.580
rally. Fact Ukraine was the single largest donor to the Clinton Foundation. It's gained a hundred likes,
00:37:43.820
but the post misrepresents a chart from 2015, which ranks individual contributions to the foundation
00:37:51.140
based on nationality. As factcheck.org reported in 2019, the Clinton Foundation hasn't received donations
00:37:57.220
from the Ukrainian government. I'm going to pause it right there. The post never said that the Clinton
00:38:02.340
Foundation got money from the Ukrainian government. By the way, Democrat elite political operatives have
00:38:10.540
gotten money from the Ukrainian government. When you think of Hunter Biden, for instance, has a no-show job
00:38:14.860
with a state energy company, Burisma in Ukraine. That is the Ukrainian government giving money to
00:38:21.500
Democrats. But okay, let's put that aside. The post never says the Ukrainian government was the largest
00:38:27.780
owner to the, it said Ukraine, Ukraine, the people of Ukraine, Ukraine through its various channels
00:38:35.440
was the largest donor to the Clinton Foundation. USA Today reached out to the social medias who shared this
00:38:41.520
claim for comment. Do you want to recant your claims, people? Your stupid, crazy conspiracy theory?
00:38:47.680
Wait a second, hold on. The Wall Street Journal, oh, hold on. So the headline says the post's misused reports
00:38:55.500
on individual donations. How do they misuse it? The Wall Street Journal published a report in 2015 on individual
00:38:59.880
donations over $50,000 made to the Clinton Foundation, 1999 to 2014. The article included a chart listing
00:39:06.360
the top foreign donors. Ukraine tops the list. But the graph doesn't support the claim in the social
00:39:12.500
media posts. Hold on. The social media post says from 1999 to 2014, Ukraine top donor to the Clinton
00:39:19.240
Foundation. The fact check says in this chart from 1999 to 2014, Ukraine tops the list.
00:39:28.180
But the graph doesn't support the claim. That is literally the claim. That is, in those exact words,
00:39:35.440
that is the claim. But no, fact check. No, because the graph doesn't reflect donations from the
00:39:41.560
governments, which the posts aren't really focused on. So therefore, you know, it's just, yeah,
00:39:47.340
Ukrainians contributed $10 million to the Clinton Foundation. Don't forget, by the way, Ukraine's a
00:39:52.260
relatively poor country. Where did this $10 million come from? I don't know. Do you think some of it
00:39:57.560
might have come from kind of dodgy, oligarchic sources in Ukraine? Oh, I don't know. I don't
00:40:01.900
know. I'm just asking questions. Ukrainians contributed $10 million more than any other
00:40:06.220
nationality. Most of that money came from Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist Viktor Pinchuk.
00:40:12.580
Viktor Pinchuk's foundation, based in Kiev, donated $8.6 million to the foundation between 2009 and 2013.
00:40:21.660
The article notes that Pinchuk has close government ties, and he served as a member of Ukrainian
00:40:27.380
parliament from 1998. Oh, and sorry, he's the son-in-law of former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma.
00:40:33.180
This, your fact check is proving the posts to be 100% completely correct. Therefore, these liberal
00:40:40.900
fact checkers, quote unquote, rate it. 17 million Pinocchios, total lies, fake news. Fake news, censor
00:40:46.500
anyone who reports on the truth between the Democrats' crooked relationship between Ukrainian
00:40:53.320
oligarchs and crooked politicians here in the United States. Fact check, fact check, totally false,
00:41:00.300
totally. All the facts are true, but the fact check is false. The reason, by the way, that liberals
00:41:07.620
post these ridiculous fact checks, where the headlines is fact check, Republican claim totally false,
00:41:13.760
false, fake news. And then in the article, they admit that the facts of the matter were totally
00:41:20.360
right. In the article, they note that there are things the Republicans actually said were totally
00:41:24.860
right. The reason they do that is because these fact checking organizations have relationships with
00:41:30.220
all the big social media companies. And the social media companies rely on the fact checkers to
00:41:35.460
determine what will be promoted or censored in the algorithm. So even if the fact checkers,
00:41:40.820
quote unquote, have even the modicum of integrity to admit that the claims are true in the article,
00:41:45.280
as long as the final verdict is that this is fake news, it will be censored. As this sort of
00:41:52.020
information has been now for years. I tell you though, even though the Clintons have a very crooked
00:42:00.060
relationship with the Ukrainian government, and even though Democrat politicians in many ways are the
00:42:05.640
single most responsible group of people for leading up to the geopolitical situation in which Vladimir
00:42:12.400
Putin invaded Ukraine. Even for all of that, I, in some ways, long for the Clintons. I long for the
00:42:19.140
days. I have nostalgia for the Clintons. And part of that is because at least the Clintons are smart.
00:42:24.280
At least the Clintons are relatively competent people.
00:42:27.680
Crooked, probably led to a much worse world now that we're, but at least they were sort of
00:42:36.080
intelligent. The same cannot be said for our current ruling class. Kamala Harris went on a radio show
00:42:44.920
just yesterday. She was asked to explain the situation in Ukraine and she, she did the best she
00:42:50.380
could. If you're watching any level of news, even social media, you're seeing everything that's going
00:42:54.960
on right now in the Ukraine. Break it down in layman's terms for people who don't understand
00:42:59.140
what's going on and how can this directly affect the people of the United States?
00:43:03.040
So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger
00:43:12.600
country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine.
00:43:18.460
So basically that's wrong. So the man said, break it down in layman's terms. He did not say,
00:43:28.700
explain this to a toddler. I don't know. Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations. I don't know
00:43:37.840
what Kamala Harris thinks of the listeners to this radio program, but I bet they've probably heard of
00:43:46.180
Russia before. I, I have enough respect for the listeners to this random radio. They probably know
00:43:52.140
like what a country is, you know, and what Russia is and layman's terms, darling. What does it mean?
00:44:00.000
Why did it start? What can we do about it now? Who are the political players? You don't need to go
00:44:05.260
into some high political theory. You don't need to be quoting Metternich to, to do this, but you can at
00:44:13.000
least treat people like they're respectable adults who know what the nation of Russia is. But Kamala
00:44:19.560
Harris can't do that. And frankly, I suspect that this explanation pretty much encapsulates her
00:44:23.940
understanding of the situation. Frankly, this is a little bit more sophisticated than most Democrats
00:44:29.580
have, have seemed to demonstrate in their understanding of the Ukraine situation in recent
00:44:34.860
years. Ukraine country, Russia country, share border. If, if Democrats had known that and
00:44:42.660
admitted that for the years leading up to this invasion, very likely it wouldn't have happened.
00:44:47.340
And maybe they wouldn't have been so aggressive about one, milking that country for all the
00:44:52.440
resources it's got, sending all of their politicians, kids there to, to get money out of the crooked
00:44:59.540
energy companies with obviously tacit promises that they're going to support Ukraine militarily,
00:45:05.320
financially, politically have them. Oh yeah. Oh, Ukraine, you want to join Europe? Oh, that sounds
00:45:10.380
great. You know, my, my son Hunter needs a job. Yeah, no, it sounds great though. And I, Joe Biden,
00:45:15.340
am the point person on Ukraine right now. And oh yeah, you want to join NATO? Wow. That sounds,
00:45:19.780
that'd be pretty nice for you, huh? If you join NATO. Yeah. Well maybe talk to my son Hunter. Maybe
00:45:24.020
he'll work out the details for you. Hey, have you heard of the Clinton Global Initiative? You heard of the
00:45:27.840
Clinton Foundation? Yeah, they could use, they're putting on a few fundraisers. They could sure use
00:45:31.800
$10 million if you've got it. And oh yeah, no, and oh, okay, that's great. Oh, we'd love to support
00:45:38.080
you. We have a great relationship. Let's deepen this friendship. What has that led to? That's led
00:45:43.380
to right now the Russian annihilation of that country. Great job, guys. Great job. Speaking of
00:45:50.100
laymen, speaking of taking complex subjects and trying to boil them down, Saturday Night Live is taking on
00:45:56.220
COVID. And it is at once the most gratifying and infuriating skit I've ever seen.
00:46:01.800
I think the biggest mistake the administration made was not providing more testing. But the UK
00:46:08.500
had done tons of testing and had even more COVID. Good. Well, at least Biden finally sent out all
00:46:15.600
those tests over Christmas. You mean the two tests for a family of eight that froze in the mail?
00:46:21.220
Good. Okay, well, at least we have the CDC. I mean, they haven't always been perfect,
00:46:27.420
but the science changed. How does science change? When I make a mistake at work, I don't get to say
00:46:33.960
the science changed. At least we had outdoor dining. Oh, you mean when they built a smaller
00:46:42.060
restaurant in the street? How is that outdoors? Oh, my God. Look, I went to a child's birthday party,
00:46:48.820
self-careful, and they did gymnastics in masks. Don't. And then they went into another room and took
00:46:56.800
off their masks to eat pizza. This is the end of me. So did they really need the mask or no?
00:47:11.260
Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha. All those things that we made you do for two years, that we, the actual elite in
00:47:22.480
America, the entertainment elite, the news media elite, ha ha ha. It was all dumb. Ha ha ha. And
00:47:28.800
all you conservatives who said it was dumb from the beginning, and we called you Nazis and killers
00:47:33.320
and murderers and took away your rights and censored you and tried to take your kids away from you in
00:47:38.180
some cases. Ha ha ha. You were right. Ha ha ha. Moving on. Ha ha ha ha. No, no. You don't get to
00:47:45.120
make that joke. That's not your joke. Sometimes you hear people say, that's not your word. That's
00:47:49.980
our word. You can't use that. That's not your joke, libs. That's our joke. That's our political
00:47:55.860
movement that we've been trying to do for two years. And you people in particular, on Saturday Night
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Live, you have been so vicious, so malicious in your persecution of anyone who didn't want to wear the
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dumb mask or take the Fauci ouchie shot that's so super duper safe and effective and it totally
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stops transmission and infection of the virus. Except whoopsie daisy, take your fifth one because
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the first four didn't work that well. You don't get, you don't, and they're just going to move on
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and they're just going to, well, okay, it's state of the union. Okay, COVID's over. And we're just going
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to move on to the next thing. This is a midterm election year. Please, please, please, people
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do not forget the state of our union is not particularly strong right now. We may still
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have it in our power to turn things around. Don't miss the opportunity. I'm Michael Knowles.
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