Ep. 958 - Democrats Are Living In A Fantasy
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Summary
Kamala Harris says we need to get rid of all our infrastructure, including the infrastructure that keeps our lights on and keeps our economy running, in order to have a low-carbon, zero-emission future. But what exactly does that mean, and why does she think it's a good idea?
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Hey guys, don't worry. I know things have seemed pretty bad in the past few weeks and months,
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what with the record inflation, the $4 and $5 per gallon gasoline averages,
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and the prospect of nuclear holocaust. But have no fear. Rest assured,
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Imagine a future. The freight trucks that deliver bread and milk to our grocery store shelves,
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and the buses that take children to school and parents to work.
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Imagine all the heavy-duty vehicles that keep our supply lines strong and allow our economy to grow.
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Well, you all imagined it. That's why we're here today.
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Because we have the ability to see what can be unburdened by what has been,
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Excuse me. Excuse me. I was just trying to put myself in a state in which I could understand
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From what I can tell, she is saying that we're going to have a fast-moving supply chain someday,
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and the way we're going to get it is by completely getting rid of all our transportation infrastructure
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and replacing it with, well, that part can be worked out later, maybe drum circles.
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It's not going to be windmills. It's not going to be solar. Those barely produce any energy.
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It's not going to be nuclear. That is extremely efficient, and it produces a lot of energy,
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and we know how to do it, but we're not going to do it for some reason that Kamala Harris can't quite explain.
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And it's certainly not going to be oil and gas, which are relatively very efficient and abundant.
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And we were just producing a lot of it a few years ago, but no more.
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In the meantime, we're going to pay record prices for gas with dollars that are worth nothing,
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thanks to the policies of a president who sounds like Lenin, both John and Vladimir,
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On the bright side, we may still get our free crack pipes,
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so at least there's a chance we can understand what in the hell it is that they think they're doing.
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You know, Kamala Harris isn't even the worst one. That's the crazy part. Kamala Harris,
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who doesn't make any sense, who sounds like she just ripped a bong in freshman philosophy class
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to solve the energy crisis. You know, man, just imagine, man. What if the color that I think is
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green, you think is blue, you know? Man, just imagine. And that's the way it is. Somehow,
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now, she is still more likable than a number of people in the Biden administration. Top of that
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list, top of the unlikable, I just, I can't deal with it list in the Biden administration.
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Top of the vapid platitude, give me a freaking break list in the Biden administration.
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It's Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who recently
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tried to sort of twist himself into a logical pretzel to explain how what he does at the
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transportation department is intrinsically tied up with civil rights.
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Now, some are asking what transportation could possibly have to do with racial justice.
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Some have been asking that very pointedly. So it's all the more fitting that we're here
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at this bridge, this piece of infrastructure that became a battleground in the struggle for equal
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rights. This place that reminds us how transportation and civil rights have always,
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always been related. From the ships that carried so many into bondage, to the ferries and wagons of
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the Underground Railroad that transported so many to freedom, from the train car at issue in Plessy
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versus Ferguson, to the bus where Rosa Parks decided to keep her seat. We are reminded again
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and again how deep is that relationship between the physical movement of human beings and the social
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movement that changed this country. Shut up. Shut up, Pete Buttigieg. You, oh, oh, I just,
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he just drives me crazy. He's just that teacher's pet trying way too hard. Just, actually, when you
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really think about it, I'm sort of like Martin Luther King. I, Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South
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Bend, and now the head of a minor cabinet department, I'm pretty much, I'm pretty much Frederick
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Douglas, actually. When you, in this paper, I will describe how, it's just, shut up. No, you're not.
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You run, you run a department of the government that is supposed to keep stuff moving on the roads,
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and you're failing at that, by the way. Probably the biggest, well, until a week or two ago, until
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the gas prices went through the roof and inflation hit a 40-year high, you were failing more than
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anyone else in the government because the biggest problem in the country was the supply chain issue.
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So you, you're not doing that. You're, you're, the ports are backed up as can be. The supply chain
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isn't really working. So that's fine. You're an incompetent government employee. There are plenty
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of those. But now you're comparing yourself to Rosa Parks. He is trying so hard to make
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transportation secretary a stepping stone to president. It is not. It is not that. Pete Buttigieg,
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good grief. It's so, it's not going to happen. It's like fetch. It's like fetch in Mean Girls.
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It's stop trying to make the transportation secretary thing happen, Pete Buttigieg. That
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is not a stepping stone to president. I know, look, right now the Biden administration is so
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deeply unpopular. Biden's approval's in the 30s. Kamala's in the 20s. Pete's is in the 30s. So
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relatively, it's fairly strong compared to the others. But it's just not going to happen,
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bro. This is, calm down, cool it with the ambition here. It's a complete disaster. And
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by the way, the transportation secretary like doesn't matter that much. So he can go off and
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make his stupid speeches and it's, it doesn't really matter. But the rest of the Biden cabinet
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secretaries are a disaster too. Notably the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, who cannot
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give a straight answer on what exactly we're seeing go on in Ukraine.
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The International Criminal Court is opening an investigation into Russian war crimes. The U.S.
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embassy said it's a war crime to attack a nuclear power plant. They tweeted that out, the U.S.
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embassy in Kiev. But then the State Department told other embassies around the world to not retweet it,
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which is a confusing step. Has the U.S. seen evidence that Russia is committing war crimes or not?
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Jake, we've seen very credible reports of deliberate attacks on civilians, which would constitute
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a war crime. We've seen very credible reports about the use of certain weapons. And what we're
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doing right now is documenting all of this, putting it all together, looking at it and making sure that
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as people and the appropriate organizations and institutions investigate whether war crimes have
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been or are being committed, that we can support whatever they're doing. So right now, we're
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looking at these reports. They're very credible and we're documenting everything.
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So Putin right now is committing war crimes in Ukraine. Putin is Hitler, right? That's what we've
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heard from the liberal establishment. Putin is Hitler. History has returned again. He's invading his
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neighbor. He's going to invade the rest of these countries. And we've got to stop him because he's
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Hitler and he's committing war crimes. But also, we shouldn't do anything. This has been the central
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problem for the administration and the entire liberal establishment with this Putin war in
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Ukraine. They can't decide what it is. Is he Hitler? If he's Hitler, I guess we better use the military to
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stop him, right? Because he's Hitler. Well, no. He's Hitler for the purposes of pushing through some
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sanctions. But he's not Hitler. He's not a big threat. And he's committing war crimes. But we're
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not going to really pursue the war crimes. And what is it? The administration is just vacillating
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because they don't want to make any of the hard choices. They don't want to go to war. The American
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people, I don't think, want to go to war over Ukraine. And so they just go back and forth. We're
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going to take the sanctions off Russia. We're going to put more sanctions on Russia. You go back and
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forth and back and forth. But if you stand in the middle of the road, you're going to get hit by a
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truck. Sometimes the wrong decision is actually better than indecision. Sometimes the wrong
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decision can at least clarify the situation. But if you just keep going back and forth, yes,
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we have clear evidence he's committing war crimes. But we're not going to do anything. We're just going
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to keep committing evidence or collecting evidence. He's committing war crimes, dude. Maybe we should do
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something about it unless you don't really believe that. Unless you're just stuck. Unless this
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administration is just stuck. They've got no answers for anything. Kamala Harris gets asked,
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what are you going to do about this very acute particular energy crisis? And she says, just
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imagine, you know, just imagine and close your eyes and imagine. And that's what's going to happen.
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What do you talk? Daydreams are not national policy, darling. You need to, you need to do stuff.
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Hey guys, transportation, I'm basically like Rosa Parks. Okay, Rosa, fix the roads then.
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Hey Martin, how about you get the trucks moving again and get the ports emptied out so that we get
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The one change that we've seen now with regard to this war in Ukraine in terms of U.S. policy
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is the United States, which has said, we're not getting involved. We don't want a no-fly zone.
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We don't, we're not going to take on Russia's military. They did, however, just agree to send
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NATO fighter planes to Ukraine. What more can the United States do here? If, for instance,
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the Polish government, a NATO member wants to send fighter jets, does that get a green light
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from the U.S., or are you afraid that that will escalate tension? No, that gets a green light.
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In fact, we're talking with our Polish friends right now about what we might be able to do to
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backfill their needs if, in fact, they choose to provide these fighter jets to the Ukrainians.
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So, hold on. We're not going to go to war. We're not going to send our planes over there,
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but we're going to have the Poles send their planes, and then we're going to backfill the
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Polish planes. So, effectively, we are sending our jets there. We're just doing it in a really
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inefficient way. We're having the Poles send the jets, and then we're giving the Poles some jets.
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Again and again, they want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want to be too clever by half.
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Well, too clever by half got us into this situation in the first place. What do the
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American people want? According to one poll from Reuters, almost three-quarters of Americans
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want a no-fly zone in Russia. But I don't believe that for one second. I think it's the same exact
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problem that the Biden administration has, which is we like the idea of a no-fly zone.
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We like, oh, good. Yeah, get those Russian airplanes out of the sky. Yeah, let's have a
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no-fly zone because it's bad that people are being hurt right now. So, let's stop the people
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from being hurt, and no-fly zone, and okay, we're good. I don't think most people know what a no-fly
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zone is. No-fly zone is you're at war. A no-fly zone is Russia sends their airplanes up in the sky,
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and we shoot those airplanes out of the sky. So, we are directly firing upon a nuclear former
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superpower. We somehow managed to get through the entire Cold War, basically without any direct
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action between Americans and Russians, no direct action that people acknowledged for a very long
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time. And now, we're just going to shoot them out of the sky over a centuries-long territorial dispute
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with Ukraine? Doesn't seem like the best idea in the world. Rubio made this point, too. Rubio said,
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a no-fly zone means war. Do you want to go to war? Do you want to go to World War III? I don't think
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so. And I think Zelensky, the head of Ukraine, has sort of given up on this. Actually, you know how
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much I hate to say I told you so? You know it pains me to do it, but I've got to do it, unfortunately,
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because I keep getting proved right on all of these things. So, I have said, for weeks now,
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I said, Joe Biden caused this war. Yes, Putin is the aggressor. Yes, Putin is morally responsible
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for the invasion. But Putin has wanted to invade Ukraine for a very long time. The reason he's doing
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it now is because of very specific actions that Joe Biden took, and some that he didn't take,
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actually, with regard to sanctions. And I said this, and I got a lot of criticism for it.
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I said, look, this is just true. What is happening right now is playing out because of Joe Biden.
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Well, you know who agrees with me? The Libs hero, Mr. Zelensky, Volodymyr Zelensky, the leader of
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Ukraine. He just told senators in the United States that if the US had started sanctions months ago,
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as conservatives wanted, as Ted Cruz was pushing, there would not have been war. He says,
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you tell me 100% that there will be war in a few days' time. What are you waiting for? We will not
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need your sanctions after there's a bombardment or after our state is shot at, or if we have no more
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borders, we do not have an economy, or parts of our state are occupied. This is exactly what we had
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been saying. Joe Biden is the one in charge of the sanctions. And the Democrats run the entire
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government at this point. You had bipartisan support for sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 Russian
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oil pipeline before Biden gets into office. Biden makes it a big push to get rid of those sanctions.
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And what happens? He invades Ukraine. I hate how right I am. Now, look, Putin has faced some pushback
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from the fighting among, from the Ukrainians against the Russian forces. He's faced some pushback from the
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international community, from nation states, and from corporations. But now I think he's just finished.
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Now he's done. Putin's over. And you'll know why he's over if you watched the 2022 Independent Spirit
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Awards a couple of nights ago, where Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally, okay, you remember Nick Offerman
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was the guy from Parks and Rec, and Megan Mullally was the saucy lady on Will and Grace. They told Putin
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to F off. Done. Over. No more war. The war is over now. They said, quote, I think we speak for everyone
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here when we say we were hoping for a quick and peaceful resolution. Specifically, F off and go home,
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Putin. F off Putin. They said they were going to send Putin off with a Spirit Awards salute.
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And then Mullally and her husband held up their middle fingers to the camera. That'll do it.
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Oh, man, I bet Putin hasn't recovered from that. It's been two days. That's right. You go, girl. You
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tell him. You know, well-behaved women seldom make history, okay? That'll do it. A bunch of liberal
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actors whining in a room, that's going to stop it. Frankly, it's about as effective as the Biden
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administration's policy has been. It's just people trying to make themselves feel better,
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but without wanting to do anything that involves cost. Okay, I'm going to change my Facebook profile
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picture. Now it's going to be blue and yellow. That'll show Putin. Yeah, I'm going to put the
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Ukrainian flag in my Twitter handle. Yeah, that'll show Putin. Hey, I'm going to tell Putin to F off.
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Yeah, that'll know. Do you know what would have showed him? If we had killed the oil pipeline
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before he invaded, that would have showed him. Or if, and I'm not advocating this, if we had
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sent troops in, that would have showed him. Or if we had taken a harder line on him for the entire
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Biden administration, that would have shown him. F off, change your Facebook profile picture.
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That doesn't show him. That doesn't show him anything. It tries to make you feel better
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about the fact that we're not really doing anything in Ukraine. Well-behaved women seldom
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make history. Do you know today is International Women's Day? And I was thinking about that phrase,
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which is so common now. We hear this all the time. We hear this, you know, when Trump called
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Hillary Clinton a nasty woman during the 2016 presidential election, then all of these feminist
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ladies, they said, yeah, I'm nasty. Yeah, I'm a disgusting, filthy, nasty woman. Yeah,
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that's girl power. Well-behaved women seldom make history. So I thought about that phrase.
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You know, it's not true. Actually, the women who make history are usually pretty well-behaved.
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I'm thinking in no particular order. Queen Victoria, Margaret Thatcher, Sandra Day O'Connor,
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Mother Teresa, the Virgin Mary, that would be the clearest example, Florence Nightingale,
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just on and on and on and on. Queen Elizabeth II, she's the most well-behaved woman in history,
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probably. And one of the most important historical figures alive today. The will, it's, you know,
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someone said in response, well, what about Hillary Clinton? Oh, you're talking about the first female
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pro. Oh, right. Oops. That's right. Yeah. But what about, you know, all those feminists from the
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seventies who, you know, what about Jane Fonda or something? Oh yeah, really? Yeah. Queen Victoria,
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Jane Fonda. I don't, I think one was probably more significant to history than the other.
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So happy International Women's Day. Be a well-behaved woman. If you are a woman,
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be a well-behaved woman. You have a better chance of making history. Do not be a nasty woman. No one
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wants to, to see a nasty woman. Now, speaking of men and women and all sorts of strange sexual
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ideologies, this might be the story on which I have been proven right the fastest ever. This shocked
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even me. Yesterday on the show, I mentioned that a lot of people think, look, with this LGBT ideology
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now, people think not everything has to be gay. And I said, everything does have to be gay because
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the left's ideology is one of radical liberation. And now they've liberated themselves from traditions
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and from bonds of community. And now we're liberating ourselves from nature itself. So men can
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be women and vice versa. Everything does in fact have to be gay. And the Florida Senate Democrat,
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the Florida Senate Democrats, they said, we've just got one thing to say.
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And you're right. You do. That's the only thing you have to say. Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay,
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gay, gay. That's all you've got. What else are you going to say? That's the, that's the, the final
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step in the emancipation and liberation from all the constrictions of our society is to emancipate
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yourself from nature. So even beyond gay, it's sort of, sort of like how Alex Jones talked about how
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they turned the fricking frogs gay, but they actually turned the frogs trans. That's what the studies
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showed. So the frogs were hermaphrodites. Really the final step in the LGBT ideology is the tea,
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is emancipating yourself from nature itself. Proven, I hate, you know, I hate to say it. It
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kills me to do it. Proven right within 24 hours. That's not bad. Now I have to tell you, since I've
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America's largest pediatric hospital is going to stop transing the kids.
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and putting them on all sorts of creepy chemicals.
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And it's just, it was horrible and a horrible abuse of children.
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And then Texas Governor Greg Abbott, uh, came in there and he said,
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uh, no, we're, we're going to classify transing the kids as child abuse,
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is to create a healthier future for all children,
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This step was taken to safeguard our healthcare professionals
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and impacted families from potential criminal legal ramifications.
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This is a great example of culture being downstream of politics.
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I frankly don't think that the distinction between culture and politics is all that clear.
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But, you know, there's this famous line from Andrew Breitbart,
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And obviously there's some truth to this because the movies and the media and,
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and rituals and behaviors that are not necessarily associated with the government
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But it is also true that laws will shape our culture.
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When you create other incentives for certain behaviors,
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such as the promotion of radical sexual ideologies in the law,
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And when you ban abusive surgeries like transing the kids,
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Very glad that the Texas governor pushed it this way.
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You're seeing a proliferation of radical ideology throughout non-governmental institutions.
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that is a radical ideology that's being pushed not exactly by the government, right?
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The hospital has some connection to the government,
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They are presenting training pamphlets for teachers
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racism exists within and beyond schools and communities of learning.
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The myth of a racial hierarchy remains a dominant part of America's culture.
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Acts of violence against black communities are often identified on social media
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Black men can't even walk out their doors without being hunted down,
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When will Little Caesars speak up against racism or whatever?
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Well, because Pizza Hut has this non-profit foundation,
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And it's not exactly affiliated with the government.
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But this is how the liberal establishment rules.
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They rule through a series of NGOs and non-profit groups that push their crap that are basically
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We should use the political process to bring them into line.
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I don't care if it is the government destroying my way of life and completely upending America's
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If someone is treading on me to give the image of the Gadsden flag,
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it doesn't make me feel any better if the organization that is treading on me is Google.
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It doesn't make me feel any better if it's Facebook taking away my rights and my liberties
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and my way of life rather than the government say.
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We've got to get better about this as conservatives.
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We, for a couple of decades, fell into this very stupid idea of,
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If you go back to the early days of the modern conservative movement,
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frankly, if you go back to some of the most libertarian figures in the conservative movement,
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they were advocating not just focusing on the government and letting quote unquote private
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They were advocating bringing private enterprise into line as well.
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Barry Goldwater as, for Mr. Conservative at the early days of the conservative movement
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and also extremely libertarian in that early alliance between the libertarians and the
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Barry Goldwater wrote in Conscience of a Conservative, quote,
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Of course, we're not going to just let random NGOs and very powerful corporations completely
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upend our society and just throw our hands in the air and say, well, they're private industry.
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And we're going to use the political order to do it in a way that is just and fair.
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Speaking of powerful non-governmental organizations, guess who's back in town?
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The Clinton Global Initiative was a slush fund for the Clinton family to collect money from all sorts of
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shady figures overseas and spend it as they see fit on the global initiative.
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And it was so crooked, it was so obviously crooked that Hillary shut it down in 2016
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because it looked like such a clear conflict of interest that they couldn't keep it running.
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One of the curious facts about the Clinton Global Initiative is that the number one donor
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I'm not saying it was the government of Ukraine.
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I'm saying it was Ukrainians, Ukrainians who had a lot of money.
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And they gave a lot of money to the Clintons and that was that.
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They're just really generous and they really, for some reason, liked the Clintons and they
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Now, why did people really give to the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation
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They gave to it because they believed that Hillary Clinton was going to be the president.
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And so they wanted to curry favor and they did that by just buying them outright.
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And then in 2016, it looked so bad that they shut it down.
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So what does it mean that they're opening it up again?
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Well, one, it's pretty interesting that the Clinton Global Initiative that had such a connection
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to Ukraine is relaunching now at this moment of peril for Ukraine.
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But two, and this is more important, I think, what this means is not necessarily that Hillary
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Clinton is running for president in 2024, but it means that the Clintons believe that people
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think Hillary is running for president in 2024.
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The only reason that the Clinton Global Initiative ever got money is because foreigners believed that
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People, even Americans, believed she was going to be the president and so they were purchasing favor.
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Now, it may well be the case that Hillary is not going to run and she's just reopening this thing to
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But the only way that it could make money is if people think she's running.
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So at the very least, the Clintons are creating the impression that she will be running in 2024 and
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You know, well-behaved women never make history.
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She tried to make this line her sort of catchphrase.
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Remember, she was in that debate with Mike Pence.
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And Pete Buttigieg is a joke and he's probably the most attractive of the people in the Biden
00:34:51.240
Hillary is still extremely unlikable, but compared to the presidents we elect these days,
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And now she's raising some money and we'll see where it goes.
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Speaking of guys running for president, one of the people who's making, taking the clearest
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Ron DeSantis just had this bill which was going to kick crazy sexual theories out of elementary
00:35:15.380
That's why those Florida Senate Democrats were chanting through the hallways, gay, gay, gay,
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He gave what I thought was a pitch perfect answer.
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I'm asking you to tell me what's in the bill because you are pushing false narratives.
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It says it bans classroom instruction on sexual identity and gender orientation.
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And the idea that you wouldn't be honest about that and tell people what it actually says,
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it's why people don't trust people like you because you peddle false narratives.
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And we're going to make sure that parents are able to send their kid to kindergarten
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without having some of this stuff injected into their school curriculum.
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You immediately put it back on the media, which is, does it say that in the bill?
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And this reporter used one of the cheapest tricks in the book.
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And some critics are saying that it's a don't say gay pill.
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Well, in the bill it says you can't talk about sexual identity and weird, creepy sex behavior.
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Yeah, five-year-olds shouldn't be learning about all the decadent, debauched, deviant sexual desires
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that people like you in the media have in your head.
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And so, the reason I bring this up, though, is DeSantis is getting better at this.
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He was already pretty good, but he's getting much better.
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And specifically on education, which is a smart bet because that's what got Glenn Youngkin elected
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This education issue is something that can really spread across partisan lines.
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People who don't want their kids being taught creepy, radical ideologies on race and sex.
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Now, on the other side of that, you've got the allegedly Republican governor of Utah, Spencer
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Cox, who has just vowed to veto a sports bill that would keep men out of the women's league.
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So, he's going to veto a bill that would point out that transgenderism is completely kooky
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and we're going to allow women to have their own sports leagues.
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House Bill 11 would require student athletes participate in sports based on their sex,
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And it passed the Utah Senate on Friday, passed the state legislature in February.
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And this quote unquote Republican governor of Utah, Spencer Cox, said, I just want them
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to know that it's going to be okay, talking about transgender students.
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With Republicans like this, who needs Democrats?
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If, if you don't understand this issue, if you don't, if you are unwilling to stand up
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for the fact that men and women are different, and you're, if you're unwilling to make that
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claim in public life, you are completely useless.
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You should be kicked out of the Republican Party.
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I don't, I guess my taxes will go up a little bit.
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And I suspect, look, either this guy's just an idiot who doesn't realize that men and women
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And he believes that, well, the social issues aren't going to play very well.
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And never mind that Utah is basically the most conservative state in the entire country.
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You're forgetting that right now, the social issues are winners for conservatives.
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Never mind that it's the right thing to do to keep men out of the women's locker rooms.
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You can't even conserve the women's bathroom, the women's locker room.
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But it's also a political winner for conservatives.
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Speaking of romance, speaking of men and women, I got to get to a story that I care about an unreasonable amount.
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It's the love triangle between Kanye and Kim Kardashian and Pete Skeet Davidson.
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Kim started dating this guy, this not very good looking guy from Saturday Night Live who somehow has dated all of the hottest women in the world.
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And Kanye is in trouble now because he made a music video in which he would appear to be attacking, physically attacking, Pete Davidson.
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The cameras watch the kids, I stopped taking the credit.
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Not custodial dad, I bought the house next door.
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What you think the point of really being rich for?
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When you give them everything, they only want more.
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Bougie and a ruler, y'all need to do some chores.
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Climb on your brother's shoulders, get that top ramen out.
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It goes on and on and he's got this little claymation figure of, of the man who took his wife from him.
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And he's, you know, sort of attacking the little, the little figure.
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And Kanye, for his part, he said, look, art is simply therapy.
00:42:08.620
Even though I said that God saved me from the crash just so I could beat Pete Davidson's derriere.
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And now a lot of libs are rallying to Pete Davidson's side.
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James Gunn, who is that, uh, fairly creepy film director.
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He, he said, quote, for the record, Pete Davidson is one of the nicest, sweetest guys I know.
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And he treats everyone around him with respect.
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He stole a dude's wife with whom that dude has four children.
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Kim and Kanye, I don't even think they're divorced yet.
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And he's stole this man's wife as this man is trying to put his family back together.
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I, I know I shouldn't care that much about Kanye and Kim Kardashian, but I do, I do,
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You've got this situation where you've got a reality TV star and she's married to this
00:43:22.400
sort of pop culture genius who is, I believe, bipolar.
00:43:27.900
He's got some psychological struggles that he deals with.
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And, but he's, he also converted to Christianity.
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He also is just somewhat more conservative than most people in his industry.
00:43:40.480
So a lot of the things that Kanye will say and do that people call totally crazy are actually
00:43:49.440
Like when he said, Hey, I like what Trump's doing.
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Uh, you know, half the country supported the MAGA hat, buddy.
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It's not, that's not evidence that you're schizophrenic or something like that.
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It's just that the left pathologizes any behavior that is in any way conservative.
00:44:07.500
Lionel Trilling once said many decades ago that conservatism is nothing more than a series
00:44:14.000
So that's, but, but sure, Kanye has got some problems.
00:44:21.500
Well, what happened to I, Kim, take the Kanye for my husband to have and to hold in good times
00:44:28.920
and bad and sickness and in health, unless that sickness is a mental sickness, in which
00:44:35.260
I'm going to go hang with the child from Saturday Night Live.
00:44:41.660
And the reason, the reason this story really strikes home for me is we've got plummeting
00:44:50.120
We even redefine marriage at the level of the Supreme Court.
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A society cannot survive without a sensible definition of the family and a strong family.
00:45:01.360
The family is the bedrock political institution.
00:45:04.440
And it's just so sick to see a man steal this dude's wife.
00:45:08.520
And then the dude is trying to get his wife back because they've got four children together.
00:45:13.940
She said, she actually had a big spread in a Vogue or some popular magazine where she said,
00:45:28.460
Keep your four kids away from their daddy so that you can pursue your own interests.
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Yeah, you know, well-behaved women seldom make history.
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And maybe you're more attracted to the dirty looking guy from Saturday Night Live.
00:45:51.320
Speaking of the family, more good news out of Florida.
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Florida has just passed a 15-week abortion ban.
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The measure prohibits women from receiving abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.
00:46:07.380
I guess it does provide an exception if the mother's life is in danger.
00:46:11.480
But it doesn't provide exceptions, you know, if the mother just says, well, you know, my mental health is in danger.
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The reason that this law is passing now is in preparation for the Dobbs case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
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This is the case that could overrule Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
00:46:33.900
This is the same sort of bill that brought that case in the first place.
00:46:38.500
I think it's more evidence that the Republicans believe that the court very likely could overrule this.
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But more importantly, it's evidence that the Republicans know that pro-life is a winner.
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And this should be a warning to any Republican lawmakers or candidates who are listening to this show right now.
00:47:05.480
But you've had a couple examples of people, a few examples now, of conservatives running away from the so-called social issues.
00:47:12.600
Asa Hutchinson in Arkansas wouldn't sign on to a bill getting rid of transgenderism in sports.
00:47:19.680
Kristi Noem in South Dakota, although she ended up reversing course on that.
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This guy, Spencer Cox in Utah, they're just running away from it.
00:47:37.280
They are, all they can do is spit out platitudes and weird rewrites of John Lennon songs.
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A fantasy world where babies aren't babies and men are really women.
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And that fantasy world does not play well in Peoria.
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Because in the real world here, things are not going well as a result of those delusions.
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