Ep. 966 - Pelosi's Slam Poetry Vs A Nuclear Power
Summary
A poem written by Bono about the Ukraine war, and the Democratic response to it. Michael Knowles explains why the poem is better than the one written by Nancy Pelosi, and why it s better than Bono's.
Transcript
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But Nancy Pelosi has figured out how to end the war.
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and she has not managed to get those Polish fighter jets to the Ukrainians or anything like that.
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Later at the lunch, just maybe you might want to watch,
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I'm going to be reading a poem written by Bono about Ukraine, which you might find interesting.
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You want a global military effort to save your country?
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Yeah, the best I'm going to be able to do is a poem from Bono.
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They say as we get older, we become more ourselves.
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Apparently, this is the case with Nancy Pelosi.
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This is the most caricaturish Pelosi experience I could possibly imagine.
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Here's my answer to this global, potentially nuclear conflict.
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I want to, I got this message this morning from Bono.
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And most of us, we're always, whether we're in Ireland or here, whatever it is,
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Oh, St. Patrick, he drove out the snakes with his prayers, but that's not all it takes.
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For the smoke symbolizes an evil that arises and hides in your heart as it breaks.
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And the evil from, listen from, friends, from the darkness that lives in some men,
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but in sorrow and fear, that's when saints can appear.
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And they struggle for us to be free from the psycho in this human family.
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And Zelensky is not a fifth century Roman Christian missionary or a saint of any kind
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And Bono's babbling and Nancy Pelosi's babbling didn't do anything other than make Democrats
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feel better about their disastrous policies that triggered this war in the first place.
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There once was a man named Joe Biden who, when he first started presiding, gave in to Vlad's
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Joe Biden's strategic perversion incentivized Putin's excursion.
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He invited invasion of a sovereign nation, but only a minor incursion.
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Folks, I could be here all day and I promise you every one of my poems will be better than
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Bono's and will, more importantly, be more accurate than Bono's.
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This was such, it was a revolting display to see the Democrats pretending that they're in
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You're not doing, you caused the freaking war in the first place because your political
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party lifted the sanctions off Putin's Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
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This is what Vladmore Zelensky, the man you're calling a saint now, he actually said, this is
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And now you're making yourself feel better by reading some babbling nonsense.
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I can't get over the poem because it's not just Pelosi.
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They are extremely emotional and confident in the things that they don't know anything about.
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They're extremely vindictive if you raise any questions about whatever crusade they've taken on that day that they're just going to change tomorrow.
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If you go to your liberal friend's Facebook profiles, try this experiment.
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Go to a random liberal friend's Facebook profile.
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And you'll notice very often it's the same profile picture.
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And it'll just be different images superimposed on top.
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Now today it's Ukraine, which is probably the worthiest cause they've had ever in the last 20 years.
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It's the French flag, superimposed over the same picture.
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Oh, right, because of the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
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Then before that or maybe after, I kind of forget which order, then it's the gay flag.
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Remember when the Muslim guy shot up the gay nightclub?
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That was one of the first social media meme slacktivism campaigns where you change your profile picture and you feel like you're doing something.
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No one knows anything about any of these crusades.
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You feel all of this emotion, but you don't know anything about what's causing it other than just propaganda from the mainstream media.
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And you don't, even more importantly, you don't do anything to help or change anything.
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The clearest example of this I've seen in years, actually, was a post from the American Federation of Teachers.
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And it was these two union bosses holding up a sign, yellow and blue, so in the flag of Ukraine.
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So this was designed somewhere and they printed out a bunch of these signs.
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And the most ridiculous part of the image is that the flag is upside down.
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Is there any greater summation of the American educational system today than two union thugs holding up a foreign flag upside down as though they are the great moral leaders?
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They're gung-ho to jump on whatever the crusade is of the day.
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And they're confidently smiling, tweeting this out.
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Later, you saw a picture of a bunch of other of these teacher union people holding up the flags.
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And then when you looked closely at the ones that were accurate with the blue on top of the yellow,
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you noticed they photoshopped it because they were all printed wrong because these teacher union people don't know a damn thing about anything.
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And then they did a crappy job photoshopping it.
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And what you see in classrooms, what you see on campuses is a crystal ball.
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So what you see there is what your country is going to look like 20 years from now.
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This degradation of our education system has been going on for decades already.
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And so now we're seeing the fruits of that in our government, which is why our government seems completely feckless in the light of this geopolitical crisis and pretty much all the other ones, too.
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Because there's really no difference between the completely ignorant educators that are teaching these generations of students and now the completely ignorant political leaders who were taught by them.
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It's it's as though these people are not really teachers.
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Well, actually, the teacher union thugs are not teachers.
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They they just play teachers on TV and their main job is to keep schools closed.
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That's what they've been doing for the past two years, even after the science showed that covid wasn't a big deal for kids.
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So pretty much ever that the risk to kids was lower than the risk to basically anybody else from covid.
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Even after that, the union thugs said, no, you're not going back to school.
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Now we're going to keep it closed because they don't advocate for students.
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They advocate to get more vacation time for their union members.
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When you think of great statesmen throughout history, Winston Churchill, Metternich, you think of all these statesmen throughout history.
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Kamala Harris knows even less than Joe Biden does.
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So he was never the brightest bulb in the pack.
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But he came of political age at a time when you did kind of have to know a little bit about government and politics if you wanted to be in the government.
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We are we are now living in virtual reality government.
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We are now living in a time where you don't really need to know much of anything to be in the government.
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Probably the greatest example of this is Stacey Abrams, the pretend governor of Georgia.
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She gained the presidency, the chancellorship of the entire universe, according to an episode
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And nothing could make me happier than to say those words.
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I don't watch Star Trek, and I certainly don't watch Stacey Abrams.
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They would never be so ambitious as to say she's president of the universe.
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She's the president of Earth, and she's united the whole Earth.
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And now they're going to join, I guess, the Galactic Federation with Darth Vader.
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The first thing I noticed about this clip from Stacey Abrams, if you're only listening,
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They only ever have the camera on Stacey Abrams for about two to three seconds at a time.
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Presumably, this is because her performance was terrible.
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And so they had to just construct her performance.
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So even as she's speaking, it'll cut to a clip of someone else.
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It'll cut to a clip behind her because she's not an actress.
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She's a politician and a failed politician at that.
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But the libs are so desperate to get her into office that they are going to use everything
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Not just the legacy media, the news media, to lie about her and lie about that election
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and give her the biggest boost she can get in her race to try to get the governorship again.
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They're going to use everything available to them to meme her into office.
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Why should Stacey Abrams be the governor of Georgia?
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Even if you're, I doubt there are very many Stacey Abrams supporters listening to this show.
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What is it about Stacey Abrams that makes her qualified to be the governor of Georgia?
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What does she do that means she should be the governor of Georgia?
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If Stacey Abrams' supporters are being honest with themselves, they will admit nothing, nothing,
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no accomplishment, no particular quality about her means she should be governor other than
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That's why people like her or that's why people pretend to like her.
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This is the only reason Kamala Harris is the vice president.
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Meaning I think it's electorally beneficial to me to purely play identity politics, pick
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And he only had three options available to him.
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It was Karen Bass, who's that communist congresswoman, like an actual literal communist congresswoman.
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Kamala Harris, who was extremely unlikable, first out in the Democrat primary.
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Or Susan Rice, who was Obama's fall guy for Benghazi.
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So of three bad options, he picked Kamala Harris.
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She's the least popular vice president in recent history.
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She's less popular than Dick Cheney was after he shot a man in the face, after the Iraq war,
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He said he only picked her because of the color of her skin and her sex.
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Why is Ketanji Jackson the Supreme Court nominee?
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The only reason is because of the color of her skin and her sex.
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Only because of the color of her skin and her sex.
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She's done a pretty good job of remaining in the news, even after she just keeps losing.
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So she's a clever and shrewd politician in that way.
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But the only reason that people are supporting her is because of these superficial, virtual things.
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Oh, she should be the governor of Georgia because she's the president of the earth.
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When you're living in a virtual world, then when real life problems come at you, you're not going to be prepared for them.
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When we're living in a world of virtual problems, transgenderism, white supremacy, systemic racism, problems that are completely fictional that only exist in people's imaginations.
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Then when Vladimir Putin rolls tanks into Ukraine, people have no idea what the hell to do.
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People still roll tanks into foreign countries?
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I thought that our biggest problem now was making sure that hulking dudes can swim in the Ivy League Women's Swim Championship.
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Wait, you're telling me we still have to deal with real problems like territory and geography and weapons and buffer states and strategic interests and alliances?
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And that's why we seem impotent and feckless on the world stage.
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I'm not opposed to polities, to states using propaganda, especially in times of war.
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But just in general, that's what all states have done throughout history.
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But what's so crazy in this world that we're in now where we're constantly consuming information, where we're scrolling all day long, is that we are the victims of our own propaganda.
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It's not like in the Cold War when the U.S. would beam propaganda into the Soviet Union and other states.
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And so then when we believe our own propaganda, we're violating the most important rule my mother ever taught me.
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I was getting a head that was a little too big because, I don't know, I was doing well in school or something like that.
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And she said, hey, Michael, don't believe your own press releases.
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And they're talking about that guy, Nick Fuentes.
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But they're talking about a lot of other people.
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Enrique Tarrio, who is the head of the Proud Boys, right?
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The Proud Boys is a white supremacist organization.
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Well, how come the head of it is a black Cuban guy?
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First thing I noticed about this article, I thought we weren't supposed to use the word Hispanic anymore.
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Just refers to the Spanish language, but not to race or ethnicity.
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But they say, oh, because Latinx is for the good ones.
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Of Mexicans, Guatemalans, you know, all the people who count as Hispanic or Latino or whatever.
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Hispanic, that's for the old conservative right wing bad ones.
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The implication is that there are these people who are not white, but they want whites to rule the world.
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Well, I guess the implication is that the Hispanics, they'll become part of the whites.
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And something a little deeper animates us than just race.
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If the Hispanics and the whites, which were separate groups, and there were all these power dynamics and oppression and intersectionality, if they can become the same thing, isn't that good?
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Then there's a second question that comes from this, which is Axios and the left is looking at this issue of the white nationalist.
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Why is a black Cuban guy running the Proud Boys?
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They could never come to the conclusion that it's actually not a white supremacist group, which is the real conclusion.
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Axios is asking, why would a Hispanic guy behave in the way that I'm calling white supremacist or white nationalist or whatever the term is?
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The better question is, why do the white nationalists accept these Hispanic guys?
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In the case of Enrique Torrio, a black Hispanic guy.
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Why do the white supremacists accept these guys as their leaders?
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The obvious answer is because they're not white supremacists, because they're not anti-Hispanic, because they're not anti-black.
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Okay, now I'm, I don't know anything about Enrique Torrio.
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I don't really know anything about Nick Fuentes.
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So I don't, you know, I don't, I don't, I'm not saying anything about these groups.
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Maybe race is not playing the role in, forget the groups, in our whole politics that the left says that it is playing.
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Just maybe, I don't know, I'm throwing that up.
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Maybe the, maybe the left has believed its own propaganda a little too long and now they're having trouble grappling with reality.
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The, the propaganda issue is not just what is said, but also what we are not allowed to say.
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Well, uh, if, if we do have this free, open press, uh, how come they keep censoring stuff?
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You remember, you remember during the 2020 election, you had the Hunter Biden laptop story.
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There was this Hunter Biden laptop that was discovered.
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It had a ton of compromising material, not just a bunch of stuff with drugs and hookers and potential personal lurid crimes like that,
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but a bunch of stuff about Hunter Biden's dealings in China, a bunch of stuff about Hunter Biden's shady dealings in Ukraine,
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a bunch of stuff that implicated Joe Biden in Hunter's shady business dealings in China and Ukraine.
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And when you tried to post that article on social media, you weren't allowed to.
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Twitter, Facebook, Google, all these places shut it down.
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When you tried to privately message your friends with this article, you weren't allowed to.
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Because the official story coming out of our press was this is dangerous, false, hacked, Russian disinformation.
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We do know that the way that this information is getting out is through Steve Bannon and Rudy Giuliani.
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Well, source matters a lot and the timing matters a lot, I think.
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And to me, this is just classic textbook Soviet-Russian tradecraft at work.
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They understand that the president and his enablers crave dirt on Vice President Biden, whether it's real or contrived.
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And so all of a sudden, two and a half weeks before the election, this laptop appears somehow without and emails on it without any metadata.
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Do you think stuff like that could just have been planted in there and be completely fake?
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That's not just some random talking head on CNN who is giving that opinion.
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Well, the anchor, she is just a random leftist propagandist on CNN.
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But the guy who was giving his opinion was the former director of national intelligence for Barack Obama, James Clapper.
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This is a guy with a lot of credibility, or at least he's got credible credentials.
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He personally doesn't have very much credibility at all, especially because he was totally wrong.
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Oh, yeah, not even just all the videos and pictures we see with Hunter Biden, obviously in it, doing lots of creepy stuff with drugs and sex and young girls.
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The New York Times admitted in a headline, Hunter Biden paid tax bill, but broad federal investigation continues.
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The real story is the laptop, which the New York Times in this article admits was legit.
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So you've got now the way that this was being presented yesterday is New York Times confirms that the Hunter Biden laptop was real.
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We already knew the Hunter Biden laptop was real.
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The New York Times did not do any investigative journalism to show that the laptop was real.
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That the New York Times, except they admitted it after it didn't matter.
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Oh, whoopsie daisy, we got it wrong and censored all of you and suppressed your information and rigged the election.
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Okay, it's not just our enemies overseas that use this kind of propaganda and censorship.
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Now, Russia, speaking of Russia, collusion, the Bidens, the Clintons, Russia has just sanctioned Joe Biden, senior members of his staff and his cabinet.
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The United States sanctions Russia and top Russian leaders and now Russia is sanctioning the United States.
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But there were a couple people that Russia sanctioned who are not in the government right now.
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Russia sanctioned Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton.
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Even Hillary was former Secretary of State a long time ago.
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The reason that Russia is sanctioning them and nobody is talking about it, it's to call attention to the fact that they both have had very shady dealings in Ukraine.
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The Clinton Foundation's top donors by nationality were Ukraine.
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Ukraine is a corrupt country, just like Russia is a corrupt country, just like a lot of Eastern Bloc places are corrupt.
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So top, very wealthy Ukrainians were the top donors to the Clinton Global Initiative.
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Hunter Biden had a no-show job on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.
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No, he doesn't have expertise in Ukraine or energy.
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It's because they were trying to curry favor with Joe Biden while his dad was point person on Ukraine issues for Obama.
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And so Russia's sanctioning them to call attention to that fact.
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Speaking of Hunter, there was a little tweet about sex work that I do really want to get to.
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It was this girl, just this random girl, though it kind of went viral.
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I think Libs of TikTok posted it, said, I'm so effing discouraged.
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This month from subs, I made pretty much what most people would make in two days at a normal job.
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I'm obviously not good enough, not pretty enough, not skinny enough.
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Like, this is my third year doing sex work and I feel like I'm going insane.
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All I think about is how everyone else is having so much success and I can't even pay one bill with the amount I make in a month.
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Sad story for her, but shows you the problem here.
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In a way, I'm limiting you from selling your body like flesh and treating yourself like you're an object.
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This is how most morally compromised deals work.
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You'll sometimes hear people say who are in the sex industry.
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They'll say, well, I can just make so much more money as a stripper than I can working as a barista.
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That's how these deals with the devil work is, yeah, you think you can gain a lot and it's not worth it.
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It's not worth selling your soul and your dignity and your integrity and your reputation.
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And the most ironic part is usually, almost in the long run, never, but even in the short run, usually it doesn't really work out.
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One last thing I want to get to before we get to the mailbag is this issue of abortion drugs.
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AOC and a bunch of house dams are writing to the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make it easier to get abortion drugs.
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Some conservatives, I doubt very many, but maybe some more libertarian type conservatives, socially liberal, fiscally conservative, they'll say, this is great.
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The commodification of sex, like that sex work, and the commodification of babies is a really bad problem in America, okay?
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A baby has certain rights that we have to respect.
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A baby has the right to his natural father and mother, okay?
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This is why we don't make technology the center of human procreation.
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This is why we have long had bioethical moral strictures against these sorts of things, okay?
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This is a really bad problem, not only because of the children.
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That's a real concern, but not only because of that, not only because of what it does to the individuals who are involved in it,
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but because of what it does to the way we view humanity in the world, okay?
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We are not just objects to be treated like meat, to be used for each other's pleasure and to fulfill our desires.
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We need to realize that when we're talking to people, we're dealing with eternal beings, okay?
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Otherwise, we're all just meat puppets trying to pursue our own desires until we turn into worm food and take a dirt nap.
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The third and final episode of the Fauci Unmasked docuseries, I Am Science, dropped this morning.
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In it, I take off the final layer of Fauci's mask, revealing his unnatural rise to the top.
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It is a tremendous episode, if I do say so myself.
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I really appreciate everyone who has already watched the series.
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I've gotten lots and lots of great feedback from all of you.
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He's the highest paid employee in our federal government.
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And beginning in the spring of 2020, Dr. Fauci began to set national policy that affected the way that 330 million Americans lived their lives.
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For goodness sakes, I'm telling you, wear a mask, keep social distancing.
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People who have conspiracy theories, those are people that don't particularly care for me.
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In this short series, we will do what the establishment media have refused to do.
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We will give you an unvarnished look at the career of the most powerful politician in America, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
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Welcome back to my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in The Mailbag.
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I've really enjoyed all the movies and series coming out of The Daily Wire.
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And any behind-the-scenes stories that you can tell?
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We decided to do it because Dr. Fauci, first of all, gaslit us all for two years and just
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And we were still supposed to call him not only an expert, but the science.
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When in fact, he was nothing more than a craven politician.
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But two, because he was the most powerful politician in America.
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And he was so powerful that he actually hid a lot of his power.
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He's the highest paid employee of the federal government.
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He's served under, what, seven presidential administrations.
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And Joe Biden, the current president, said that he would never fire him.
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I thought, just from a political standpoint, I said, how the hell does someone get this
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It's a three-part series, a little extra part at the end, too.
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My favorite episode is actually episode two because it's the episode with, I felt, stuff
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I mean, I think every episode has stuff that has not been covered anywhere.
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But episode two, you just trace this guy's rise from the 80s to the present.
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He didn't become the most powerful guy in America overnight, okay?
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And I think it's important to learn how he did it so that we can, one, stop him come
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November, and two, prevent others like him from rising up.
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Noel Stradamus, since you continue to prove you know best, I need some advice.
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I went out with a guy who was nice enough but felt no type of romantic feelings at all.
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He texted me after saying he'd like to hang out again, but I just don't see my feelings
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There is no great way to deliver rejection, and ghosting him just feels cruel.
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You're going to think that's easier, and it's not.
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So you could say, honestly, that right now you're actually sort of involved with someone
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else, and that's sort of maybe going somewhere.
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But two, we're all involved with other people, and our relationships with those people are going
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So it wouldn't be a lie, but I would make it very clear.
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You don't have to say, hey, I think you're ugly.
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But if you come out and just say, hey, I am romantically interested in someone else.
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It's a way to kind of, okay, well, maybe she was with this guy before me, or maybe whatever.
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But it's a clear line, okay, I'm not going anywhere here.
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He might think just because there's a goalie doesn't mean he can't score, but that's his
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At least you, I think, were as direct as you could be.
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Love both of your books, even the one with words.
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I want to ask your opinion on tattoos, and if it's immoral in the Catholic faith to get
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Personally, I've had issues with depression and have some scars I want to cover up, but I am
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Thanks, another soar, the Italian conservative.
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You know, I'm not the biggest tattoo guy myself.
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So, you know, I don't think I can totally pull it off.
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But there's nothing immoral about tattoos, as far as I can tell.
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I don't think there's any, there is one sort of commandment against it in the ceremonial
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But I don't think this in any way extends to the moral law.
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That certainly is not traditionally the teaching of the church.
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So I think you're, you're okay to get a tattoo.
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My only hesitation in your case is you say you're getting a tattoo to cover up this tough thing
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I don't know that covering it up isn't necessarily the way out.
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You, maybe you try to get some kind of cosmetic surgery to lessen whatever scars you've got.
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But, and look, maybe the tattoo is the way to go.
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You've moved past whatever emotional problems you had had, psychological problems, and now
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But don't, don't just try to paper over a problem.
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If that problem is still a real problem, don't focus on the tattoo.
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Focus on the problem and making sure that that is all the way gone.
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But if you're afraid that if you get a tattoo, you won't go to heaven, I do not think that
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I have sort of an out of left field question, but I figured you're the master of giving advice
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My friend is gay and he invited me to a gay bar birthday party.
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I love my friend and enjoy hanging out with him, but I'm Christian and feel it would not
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be appropriate to attend a gay wedding, but a gay bar party feels like a gray area.
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The issue you're talking about here is the issue of scandal, right?
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Presumably, you're not going to be participating in some gay orgy at this party, but you're worried
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about the idea that you are a Christian and you would feel dishonest and perhaps that you
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You would be giving into the sin of scandal if you showed up to this.
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It's a gray area because I don't even know exactly what you mean by gay bar.
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There's an infamous bar in West Hollywood called The Abbey.
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This is probably the most well-known gay bar in all of LA and LA is a pretty gay town.
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The Abbey is an extraordinarily sacrilegious gay bar because it's built to look like an
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It's built to look like a church with all this Christian symbolism, but inverted.
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I mean, quite literally perverted to serve not a higher religious purpose, but to serve
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So if the birthday party were being held at the Abbey, I would say, no, don't go.
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You forget the sex issue is almost beside the point here.
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It's because it would be so sacrilegious and so scandalous to go.
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If the party were at just a bar that has a reputation, right?
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And it just happens to be known in town as a gay bar.
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All sorts of bad things happen at all sorts of bars.
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So if you're going to go to a bar anyway, I'm not sure that that is a total impediment
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If it's a bar that is not, you know, making a mockery of Christianity with, you know, crucifixes
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If it's a bar that is not just a regular bar with a reputation, but let's say it's a bar
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that makes the rainbow flag part of its theme, right?
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That makes gay LGBT political advocacy part of its theme.
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I actually like my more right-wing gay friends, really don't like the rainbow flag.
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I think the rainbow flag is a horrible political symbol and I don't want to be associated with
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And there are people with same-sex attractions, even who act out on those same-sex attractions,
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who would agree with that statement and say, oh, I hate the rainbow.
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Well, so if the bar has got that flag, I'm probably not going to go.
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You're going to have to tailor your response to wherever you feel the bar itself and the
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Beside the four years I spent at Texas A&M, I've always lived within a 20-mile radius of
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I'm dating slash in love with a guy that works for the government and relocates every five or
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I see a future with him and an amazing life for myself and my future children, but I'm
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struggling with the idea of having my kids grow up away from the rest of their family.
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We're an extremely close family that gathers all the time.
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My question for you is, how important do you think it is for family to be physically present
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I am doing my kids a disservice if they grow up outside of the States away, am I rather,
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doing my kids a disservice if they grow up outside of the States away from grandparents'
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Being with him means my kids only seeing family a few times a year.
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Thank you and congrats on the upcoming tiny human.
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You asked me, and so I'm going to give you what I did.
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I live very far away from my extended family and from my father and from my cousins and
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from my stepbrother and from my grandparents and from, I live in Nashville.
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No one in my family lives in Tennessee other than my immediate family, my wife and my kids.
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I moved all the way, from New York, I lived in LA.
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I moved as far away from New York as you can within the continental United States.
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My grandparents have the greatest marriage and family I've ever seen in my life.
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They moved every few years all over the place, all throughout the United States,
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And that meant they couldn't see extended family.
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But that was my grandpa's career, and I'm very focused on my career.
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And that's important, and we're prioritizing that.
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You could just call up, you know, auntie so-and-so, and then you get free child care.
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That's the price that I'm paying for my career.
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I think it's really good and conservative and healthy to live near your extended family.
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The price for that might be that you don't get to have that career you want.
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Or in your case, you might not get to have the husband you want.
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You know what I chose because I'm professionally ambitious, all right?
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That's been a focus of mine since I was very little.
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The advice I have for you is not, this is better than this.
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So you've got to ask yourself, what price are you willing to pay for this guy and for his career?
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Or what price are you willing to pay to be near your extended family?
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You're not going to be getting out of this without paying some price.
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I had a conversation with my neighbor the other day about religion.
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That he also believes that the world would be better off without religion.
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And religious divisiveness is what started the Crusades.
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I agree with him that certain religions can be exclusionary as they should be in order to maintain traditions, etc.
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But I never thought that the core reason for war and unrest starting would be because of religious divide.
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Could the world be more peaceful without religion?
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I think your friend is right in that the wars of the world begin because of religion.
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And I don't think it's possible to get rid of religion because we are rational beings.
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And we don't just think about what food we want to eat.
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We think about what is good and what is bad and what is right and what is wrong.
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It's one of the great tragedies in history that the Christian West did not win the Crusades.
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It was a defensive war against Muslims who were invading everywhere they could invade.
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Religion is not some awful thing to be discarded.
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People very often say, I'm spiritual but not religious.
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I'm spiritual, which really means I'm interested in myself.
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God explains how he wants to be worshipped with the tabernacle, the ark, the dress for the priests.
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Religion, far from making our spiritual life superstitious or unnecessarily complicated,
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Religion allows us to think much more clearly about who God is, who we are, how we relate to him.
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It actually reigns in the crazy superstitious eccentricities of spirituality and allows it to be grounded in something real, something tangible.
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So, no, you're not going to get rid of religion.
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You just need to work through religious questions and come to religious truth.
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Hey everybody, this is Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show.
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