Ep. 968 - Ketanji Jackson Groped Me At A Party In The 80s
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Ketanji Jackson has been accused of groping a teenager at a party in the 1980s. She denies the charge. But Senate Republicans have uncovered evidence that shows she has a soft spot for some of the worst sex offenders in the country.
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Joe Biden's radical Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Jackson, took to Capitol Hill yesterday
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for the first day of her confirmation hearings. And Republicans kicked off the hearings by
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promising to take the high road. And then most of the members of this committee remember the
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confirmation hearing of Brett Kavanaugh, one of the lowest moments in the history of this committee
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where Democrats on this committee sat on allegations, didn't refer them to the FBI,
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didn't ask for investigations, hid them, and then leaked them against the wishes of the
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complainant. And we began a circus that featured Spartacus moments, featured such nuts as Michael
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Avenatti, whom CNN breathlessly for some months described as a possible Democratic presidential
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candidate. That's before presumably he became a felon in recent months.
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Judge Jackson, I can assure you that your hearing will feature none of that disgraceful behavior.
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Senator Cruz can assure her of that, but I cannot because as I have said many times already,
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Judge Ketanji Jackson groped me at a party back in the 80s. PJ was there and Squee was there.
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And Judge Ketanji Jackson was there. And her manhandling of me has caused tremendous trauma
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in my life. I demand to see her seventh grade yearbook. And I have exactly as much evidence
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against her as Christine Ford and Julie Swetnick and Michael Avenatti had against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
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But Senate Republicans have actually unearthed some dirt on Ketanji Jackson that is significantly
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more damning. Senate Republicans have evidence that Judge Jackson has a soft spot for some of the
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worst child abusing criminals in the country and that she thinks the Constitution is rotten to the
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core, which is a far bigger problem than any grab happy indiscretions Ketanji Jackson may or may not
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have perpetrated against me as a teenager. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Colleen Santos, who says,
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get you someone who looks at you the way Michael looks when saying Fauci might retire. I know that's
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true. You want to talk about love in your eyes, doe eyes. That's that's the sort of spell that comes over
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me when Fauci says he might retire. But there's that big caveat because he says he might retire
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unless COVID keeps going on. And then he says COVID is going to keep going on, which is why you really
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ought to check out my series, Fauci Unmasked, doing really, really well on Daily Wire. Head on over to
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dailywire.com to do that. Ketanji Jackson probably will not be spiked as a nominee because of what she
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did to me at that party in Georgetown in the 80s. That's fine. Look, OK, it's that life isn't fair.
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All right. I'm not surprised that she won't be held to account for that horrible way she made me
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feel back at that party with all that evidence that I have of it. But the Senate Republicans are
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focusing on some other indiscretions from Justice Ketanji or Judge Ketanji Jackson, probably future
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Justice Ketanji Jackson. Republican Senator Josh Hawley has discovered while going through Judge
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Jackson's judicial history that she's soft on child pornography. Here are, I hope, in the next
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couple of days, some of the cases from your time on the court, the district court, the federal district
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court that I hope that we can talk about. Let me just run through a few of them so you know exactly
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which ones I mean. United States versus Hawkins. This was a child pornography case where the defendant
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distributed multiple images of child porn, possessed dozens more, including videos. The federal
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sentencing guidelines recommended a sentence of 97 to 121 months in prison. Prosecutors recommended
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24 months in prison. Judge Jackson gave the defendant three months in prison. As near as we can tell,
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all of Judge Jackson's case is dealing with child pornography from her time on the district court in
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which she had some discretion to hand down a sentence. There's some other cases in which the law,
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she didn't have any discretion. The law bound the sentence that she had to give. And what concerns me,
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and I've been very candid about this, is that in every case, in each of these seven, Judge Jackson
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handed down a lenient sentence that was below what the federal guidelines recommended and below what
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prosecutors requested. And so I think there's a lot to talk about there, and I look forward to talking about it.
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This is a pretty good political attack. When I say political attack, I don't mean it's an unfair
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political attack. You know, the Republicans attack the Democrats, the Democrats attack the Republicans.
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When the Democrats attack Judge Kavanaugh, it was over some completely made up nonsense from two
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lunatic women and their dirtbag lawyer, Michael Avenatti. When the Republicans are attacking Judge
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Jackson here, it's over something real, which is that she went soft on criminals,
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not just any criminals, sex criminals, not just any sex criminals, child sex criminals,
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criminals who committed sex offenses against children. Now, it wasn't child rapists. It was
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people who possessed and in some cases transmitted child pornography. And some people on the right,
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shockingly, have opened up this whole debate over whether or not our sentencing on child pornography
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is too harsh. That is besides the point, guys. The question is over Judge Jackson's record. When
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there were sentencing guidelines on a particularly heinous crime, she sided toward the absolute lowest
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end of the spectrum that she possibly could, especially at this moment where parents' issues
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or kids' issues are the top of the heap. Just look at what got Glenn Youngkin elected in Virginia.
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What was it? It wasn't cutting taxes. It wasn't immigration. It was CRT and gender theory in
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schools. Just look at what's been playing in Florida, the parental rights in education bill.
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Just look at these bills around the country. This is a pretty good line of attack against Judge
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Jackson. But people have debates. You'll sometimes see, especially more on the libertarian side of the
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right, you'll see people say, oh, sentencing for porn, even for child porn is too high. If you're
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not producing the stuff, if you're not kidnapping the child, if you're not actually performing the
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abuse yourself, maybe it should be lower. Okay, fine. I think that's a crazy argument, but that's the
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argument to be had. There's something even, frankly, more concerning about Judge Jackson's nomination
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than her weakness on crime, which is a big problem in America. Don't forget, we don't have an
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over-incarceration problem in America. We have an under-incarceration problem. We're too soft
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on crime. But the more concerning thing is that Judge Jackson apparently supports critical race theory.
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So this same issue, the same issue of indoctrination, the same issue we saw playing out in Virginia,
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we're seeing this play out in Jackson's nomination. There is an article in the Daily
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Wire, you can go read it, Biden's Supreme Court pick championed advocates of critical race theory
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in lectures and speeches. It's by Tim Pierce. Apparently in a lecture that Judge Jackson gave
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at the University of Michigan Law School, not 20 years ago, not 10 years ago, two years ago in January
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of 2020, the speech was called Black Women Leaders in the Civil Rights Movement Era and Beyond.
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Judge Jackson said she took inspiration from the works of Derrick Bell. Derrick Bell is one of the
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creators of critical race theory. It's Derrick Bell, Kimberly Crenshaw, a few other people
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developed critical race theory. Critical race theory is an academic lens that views America as
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fundamentally wrong, broken, bigoted, evil, racist. It's all a rigged system to benefit white supremacy
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and to attack black people. That's what CRT says right down to our economics. Our very economic system
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is rooted in white supremacy. So says critical race theory. Well, Judge Jackson says she takes a lot of
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inspiration from the people who invented critical race theory. It's not just that. She said that she
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supports the New York Times' 1619 Project. She referred to Nicole Hannah-Jones, the fabulist behind the
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1619 Project as a, quote, acclaimed investigative journalist and lauded this project, the central
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thesis of which was a complete lie. The central thesis of the 1619 Project was that the American
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Revolution was fought to protect slavery. It's complete nonsense. Even left-wing academic historians
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debunked it. Even the New York Times eventually had to acknowledge that it was a lie. Of course,
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they run the story on page A1. They run the retraction on page Z7000. And they still spent
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millions of dollars to get this put into school curricula all around the country. But Jackson
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supports this kind of thing. This is more damning than going light on child porn. It is because the
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libs go light on virtually every crime. Other than the guy in the horn hat walking into the Capitol on
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January 6th. That's the worst crime in the history of the world. That person needs to be sent to the
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Hague and go meet the guillotine. But basically every other crime, violent crimes, robbery, murder,
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rape, hardcore child pornography, all other crimes you got to go really light on because we've got a
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quote unquote over-incarceration problem. So that, it's upsetting, it's disconcerting for people who
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respect the rule of law. But that's to be expected from a liberal judge. This is something we haven't
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seen before. We have not seen even Democrat Supreme Court nominees who openly support critical race
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theory, who openly support the lies of the 1619 Project, who are saying that America is evil, that the
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Constitution is rotten. This is the woman that Joe Biden has selected to be the great defender and
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interpreter of the Constitution on the bench. This is the most radical Supreme Court nominee perhaps we have
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ever seen in American history. And she looks good and she talks good and she's got all the good
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credentials. So people are pretending that this is totally normal. It's not. We have never seen
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It seems that everybody in Biden world is either radical or stupid. Say what you will about Ketanji
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Jackson. The woman isn't stupid. She's got impeccable credentials. She presents herself
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very well. She's been in a very difficult field and apparently has performed quite well in it.
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She's a radical. Stupid people don't know who Derrick Bell is, right? Smart people don't know
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who Derrick Bell is because they spend their time on more fruitful pursuits. But stupid leftists,
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they don't know who invented critical race theory. They agree with all of the precepts of critical
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race theory because it's filtered down to them. But they don't read this stuff. This woman does.
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She is the radical side of Biden and the Democrats and the liberals. Then there's the other side.
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And this brings us to our vice president, Kamala Harris, who has some really profound thoughts for
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your Tuesday morning. The governor and I, and we were all doing a tour of the library here and
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talking about the significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of
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time. So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time in terms of
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what we need to do to lay these wires, what we need to do to create these jobs. And there is such
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great significance to the passage of time when we think about a day in the life of our children.
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Where is my bong? Where did the producers put my, I keep a bong under my desk just so that when Kamala
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Harris starts speaking, I can understand what she has to say. And I look under my desk and somebody
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took my bong. Now, I mean, this is a young company. There are a lot of people in their twenties here.
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I'm not surprised it went missing, but now I have no idea what Kamala Harris was saying.
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Right. The time, you know, man, you know, man, you ever think about time and the passage of time,
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man, and the significance of the passage of time. And then what she did, it's not even that she was
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talking like a stoner so much as she was talking like a student in class who's just stalling for
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time because she doesn't know the answer to the question. So I'll say, you know, hey, Kamala,
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what happens in chapter four of war and peace? She didn't do the reading, you know, and she'll say,
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well, you know, it really got me thinking about time and the passage and the significance. And
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you know, do you ever think about the significance of the past? Like she's writing an essay and she's
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got a 1000 word count minimum that she's got to hit and she's only on word 700. So she just keeps
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repeating the same thing. That's what Kamala Harris is doing. You got people in the administration
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who are radical. You've got people in the administration who are stupid. And generally,
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if you've got those two choices, you probably favor the stupid side of things because the
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radicals are effective. This is what worries me about Judge Jackson's nomination. It's that she
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does know what she's doing. She knows exactly what she's doing. And she's probably going to be pretty
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good at remaking our law and pushing a radical leftist agenda from the bench. You see someone on the
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stupid side of things, not naming names. Well, I will name names. Joe Biden. Joe Biden would be the
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example of this par excellence. No one thinks Joe Biden is a genius. He's always been a doddering
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simpleton. He's got air blowing in between his ears. And I think a lot of people actually voted for him
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because that made them feel more comfortable. That made them fear at peace. Oh, he's not a radical.
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He's just kind of a dumb guy who goes along with things. But the end result of the stupid people in
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politics on the left is the radicalism. Because they don't know anything. So what does Joe Biden
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do? He wakes up every day. He doesn't read Derrick Bell. He doesn't read Kimberly Crenshaw. He doesn't
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know who these people are. But he licks his finger. He puts it up in the wind. He figures out which way
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the wind is blowing. And then he just goes along with that. So that's how you get Joe Biden, who does
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not give much thought to serious matters of politics or culture or faith or anything. And he just goes
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along with whatever's popular. And because the intellectuals on the left have totally set the
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agenda, because the critical race theorists on the left have totally set the agenda, he just goes
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along with that. And now you've got the most radical president that we've ever had. Not because
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of some intrinsic radicalism of Joe Biden, but just because he has no integrity and he doesn't have
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very much intelligence and he has barely any education. And so he just goes along with what
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smarter, more effective people tell him to do. And he's the president. So it works. Same thing goes
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with Kamala Harris. She doesn't know anything about anything, but she also doesn't have any
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integrity or principles. So she just goes along with it. This is how the passage of time is
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significant because as time goes on and the left becomes more radical, then the people who just blow
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in the wind become more radical as well. Now, speaking of time, some people are about to get a lot
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of time behind bars, not child pornographers who go up before Judge Jackson, but the much worse
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miscreants, the much more dangerous insurrectionist terrorists in America, the people who showed up to
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the Capitol on January 6th. There's a guy just to show you the kind of person who is now having the
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book thrown at him. There's a guy named Brady Knowlton, no relation. Brady Knowlton entered the Capitol
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at 2.35 p.m. on January 6th. He did not smash a window to get into the Capitol. He did not use
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a crowbar. He just walked right into the rotunda. He walked right into the rotunda as cops waved him
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in. He walked by cops as he was going in and the cops kind of laughed. They said, oh, hey, don't break
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anything, you know, and whatever. Have a good time. He's a 40-year-old law student. He walks into the
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Capitol through the Upper West Terrace doors, walked by several cops that we've got. We've got
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this on video footage. The cop said, you can go in just so long as you don't break anything. He didn't
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break anything, and he left after 18 minutes. He was in there for 18 minutes. He now faces 20 years
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in prison. 20 years in prison for walking into the Capitol after the cops told him it was fine
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and leaving in less than 20 minutes. His law degree has been withheld from him. Airbnb has
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banned him and his wife from using that, from using those accommodations. U.S. Customs and Border
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Protection stripped his global entry access, so he's lost one of his privileges when he travels. He's
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not on a no-fly list yet. The FBI arrested him. The DOJ charged him with obstruction of an official
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proceeding, entering or remaining on restricted building or grounds, and disorderly conduct in
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the Capitol building. They're accusing him of breach and unlawful entry, even though the cops waved him
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in, of conspiracy planning or preparation, of maps and diagrams, materials, devices, or tools used to
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breach the Capitol. And this is just one of at least 800 people charged in the Capitol insurrection coup d'etat.
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Now, thankfully, Mr. Knowlton has Alan Dershowitz as his lawyer. Alan Dershowitz, one of the best
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lawyers in America, Harvard law professor for a very long time, lawyer to O.J. Simpson, got O.J. Simpson
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off, okay? O.J. Simpson did a lot more than Mr. Knowlton did. He was lawyer for Donald Trump,
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defending the Constitution during Trump's impeachment. There are a lot of these cases. There are a lot of
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these cases right now. Child pornographers get off the hook, but Midwestern dads walking into the
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Capitol, as the cops wave them in, they get the book thrown at them. They get 20 years in prison.
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Why? Because our ruling class is punishing political dissidents. We see this overseas all the time.
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We say, China punishes political dissidents and puts them in jail on trumped up charges.
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Russia punishes political dissidents and puts them in jail on trumped up charges.
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Regimes in the Middle East, in Africa, yes, that's all true. They do. So do we. So do we.
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We are, and I don't say, we are not doing it. The conservatives are not the ones doing it.
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It's the liberals who run the government. They run the entire power structure of the United States.
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Even when Republicans win one house of Congress, even when Republicans sort of kind of have a
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majority on the Supreme Court, even if Republicans win the White House, the Democrats still run the
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bureaucracy, the administrative government. They run the media. They run big tech. They run all of
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the real power centers and they ruthlessly punish political dissidents. And they throw ordinary guys
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who get waved in by cops, who walk into the people's house that his tax dollars pay for and do
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nothing and then leave within 20 minutes. They throw them in prison for 20 years if they can.
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This brings us to Ukraine because there's a headline out of Ukraine that is really shocking
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people who think that the war in Ukraine is a totally clear cut, very simple matter.
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And the story is that Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, who is heroically fighting
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against the Russian invasion and standing up to Vladimir Putin and refusing to back down. So
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everyone in the West loves him and they're saying he's, he's the great savior of Western freedom.
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Zelensky just banned opposition parties from his country. Wait a second. That doesn't sound very
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democratic. That doesn't sound very freedom. That doesn't sound, hold on. What do you mean?
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President Zelensky just introduced, just banned, not even the fringe opposition parties,
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but Ukraine's main opposition party as one as, as well as 10 others as part of an anti-Russia
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crackdown. The four life party, the left opposition, the progressive socialist party,
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the socialist party, the socialists, the union of left forces, the party of Cherie,
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the opposition bloc, our state and Volodymyr Saldo bloc. They've all been banned by decree for at least
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as long as martial law remains in place. This is obviously a big knock to the argument that Ukraine
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is a liberal democratic country. But before you go blame Zelensky, just like I say, before you go
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blame Xi Jinping or you go blame Vladimir Putin, before you go blaming Zelensky, take a look at what
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we have done in the United States. You know, there's a lot of censorship. There's a lot of banning in
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back with a lot more. Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky has banned opposition parties from the
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country, which throws a wrench into the argument that Ukraine is this pristine, perfect democracy
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utopian democracy and is single-handedly fighting against autocracy all over the world. In a way,
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it does. But actually, Zelensky might have his reasons, okay? They have declared martial law
00:26:42.780
there because the country is at war right now. And the country is at war. And so democracy,
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perfect pristine democracy is not going to exist right now. There might not be a government. There
00:26:53.660
might not be much of a country left after this war. And so Zelensky is doing what he needs to do.
00:26:58.500
And he's showing that perfect, pristine, utopian democracy doesn't really exist all the time.
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We've done the same thing here in America. We've done the same thing here. Back in, what was it,
00:27:08.060
1918 in America, there was a socialist candidate for president, Eugene Debs. He was fairly popular,
00:27:15.040
actually. And Woodrow Wilson threw him into prison. He threw him into prison because he believed that the
00:27:20.620
socialist, Eugene Debs, was so far out of the mainstream of American politics as to actually have
00:27:27.140
broken the law. And he put him in prison and would not let the man seriously compete to become
00:27:32.380
president. You don't need to go all the way back to a hundred years ago. You can go back to just a
00:27:38.160
couple of years ago. Donald Trump was never thrown in prison, but the left did their best to do it.
00:27:43.600
They tried to impeach him twice and remove him from office. Now they're using the courts to try to
00:27:47.680
arrest him, to throw him in prison for some trumped up tax charge or some financial crime or for whatever
00:27:53.120
they can. They're trying to punish their political opposition and make it such that Donald Trump
00:27:57.520
can never run for president again. They already kicked him off of social media, which is the
00:28:02.040
public square, which is how we engage in democratic politics. In a self-governing republic, speech is
00:28:08.880
politics. Politics is speech. If you take away a person's ability to speak in the public square,
00:28:13.460
where 90% of the information that moves around our country goes, then you are taking a huge,
00:28:18.880
huge chunk out of their ability to compete in democratic politics. Which is why when I point
00:28:24.780
out an inconvenient fact about Ukraine, namely that it's not really a democracy, that increasingly
00:28:31.460
it's not particularly liberal or democratic or that they're banning opposition parties. They'd already
00:28:37.360
done this in the past. They had banned opposition media. They've arrested journalists. Okay. I'm not
00:28:42.700
even saying this as a criticism. I'm not even saying this. I'm saying it to give context when we're
00:28:48.240
talking about a regime in China, who's a geopolitical foe of the United States. When we talk about the
00:28:54.520
regime in Russia, geopolitical foe of the United States. When we talk about the regime in Ukraine,
00:29:00.140
such as it is, is it on our side? Is it on Russia's side? Is it a buffer state? I think it is much more
00:29:05.420
helpful to talk about politics in terms of practical goals than it is to talk about pie in the sky,
00:29:13.240
democracy versus autocracy, freedom versus slavery, good versus evil. I'm not saying that those things
00:29:22.320
don't exist. I'm not drawing a moral equivalence between regimes on earth. I'm simply pointing out
00:29:27.060
that when we want to get into actual statecraft, actual statesmanship, how are we going to resolve
00:29:33.520
this war in Ukraine? It's not going to be terribly helpful to use these really overly simplistic
00:29:39.600
descriptions or caricatures of these various countries. They sometimes apply more clearly
00:29:48.620
and sometimes less clearly. And in this conflict, I don't think that really, that tweeting,
00:29:53.840
that changing your profile picture to blue and yellow, to putting the little flag in your Twitter,
00:29:58.100
that's not going to do anything. Even canceling Russia and pulling all the corporations out of
00:30:02.760
Russia, is that going to help? I don't think that's helped at all. Even, we've talked about this from
00:30:07.440
the beginning of the Ukraine conflict, the sort of endless expansion of NATO and the European
00:30:12.160
Union. Has that helped? Has that made the West stronger? Has that made Russia weaker? Has that made
00:30:16.500
Ukraine stronger? No, I don't think it accomplished any of those goals. What is wanted here is not
00:30:21.700
simple condemnations, hashtag slacktivism. What is wanted is wisdom. The Chinese ambassador to the
00:30:28.020
United States was just invited on CBS's Sunday show on Face the Nation. And it was one of the saddest
00:30:34.120
performances I've ever seen, not by the Chinese ambassador, but by the CBS anchor, because they
00:30:40.260
invite this guy on to describe the situation, which now involves a lot more than just America and Russia
00:30:46.440
and Europe and Ukraine. It involves China, it involves India. We're really talking about a
00:30:51.400
potentially global conflict. And every time this guy tried to make a statement, an observation about
00:30:57.720
what's going on. This anchor woman cut him off and demanded that he condemn Russia.
00:31:04.360
And we are in the opinion. Would you be concerned if Russia amassed more than 150,000 troops
00:31:10.260
at China's border? Well, that's why we want to have a good, friendly, good neighborly relations with
00:31:20.160
Russia. But you would recognize that's not good, friendly, neighborly relations, but 150,000 troops on
00:31:25.540
the border of a neighboring country and then to send those troops into that country. In those
00:31:31.080
circumstances, why can't you condemn this as an invasion? Well, let's don't be naive. Condemnation.
00:31:40.280
It sounds naive to say that's not an invasion. It doesn't solve the problem. I would be surprised
00:31:46.860
if Russia will back down by condemnation. What is urgently needed. Will they back down if your
00:31:54.880
president asks Vladimir Putin to back down? Will your president ask Vladimir Putin to back down?
00:32:00.820
We have done so. They will lie on you. And we will continue. Condemnation
00:32:04.100
only doesn't help. We need wisdom. We need wisdom. We need courage. And we need good diplomacy.
00:32:15.820
So while this babbling woman is, is running her mouth, cutting him off, he's making a very good
00:32:23.340
point. The Chinese ambassador is saying, don't be naive. I don't think that condemnation, and she
00:32:29.500
cuts him off. She won't even let him get the point out. She says, well, no, but it's, you're being
00:32:33.300
naive. No, you, no, we need to condemn. Why does it? And he says, lady, God, condemnation is not going
00:32:40.400
to solve the war in Ukraine. If condemnation were going to solve the war in Ukraine, the war in
00:32:46.440
Ukraine would be over by now because everybody's condemned Russia. Everybody's condemned Putin,
00:32:51.060
not just the nations. The, the companies, the corporations have all pulled out of Russia.
00:32:56.760
We've got major sanctions on Russia, not just ordinary sanctions. They sanctioned the central bank.
00:33:01.180
They destroyed the economy. They destroyed the Russian ruble. And yet the war keeps going on.
00:33:05.240
But the strategy of condemnation hasn't done very much of anything. That's the point the Chinese
00:33:12.060
ambassador is making. She says, well, why won't your, why won't your boss, why won't Xi Jinping
00:33:16.520
tell Putin to pull out of Ukraine? And the Chinese ambassador said, well, he's done that. Now he's
00:33:22.240
probably done that. He's done that publicly, but he doesn't really mean it privately. And he's, he's
00:33:26.220
making exactly the same point he's been making the whole time. He says, lady, your slogans are not
00:33:32.500
doing it. Maybe your slogans, maybe your condemnation, maybe you're changing your profile
00:33:37.440
picture and putting the little flag in your avatar. Maybe that makes you feel better as you watch the
00:33:43.780
carnage unfolding Ukraine, but it's not doing anything to stop the carnage. What is wanted now
00:33:50.400
is wisdom and diplomacy. Russia is winning the war. Ukraine is losing the war. It's not even close.
00:33:59.200
Western propaganda is trying to convince people that Ukraine is winning the war. And they make
00:34:04.520
up a bunch of BS stories about the ghost of Kiev and the snake Island people who told Russia to go
00:34:11.820
F themselves. And then they were all blasted away and they make up a bunch of stuff to try to win
00:34:16.340
the propaganda war. Oh, well, that's fine. There's propaganda in every war, but we shouldn't believe
00:34:20.920
our own propaganda. Okay. Because we're going to feel really good and really indignant. And we're going
00:34:26.200
to feel so wonderful about our condemnations until Ukraine doesn't exist anymore. And then we're all
00:34:30.300
going to be surprised because we believed our own hype and BS. Or here's another strategy. We could
00:34:36.820
deal with the reality on the ground. Frankly, this ties into what we were talking to yesterday and what
00:34:41.820
we've been talking to for weeks about the transgender swimmer at the NCAA championships. It's what we're
00:34:48.960
talking about with the radicalism in our schools and the way that policies have been presented around
00:34:56.720
the country. The way we've talked about COVID even. The huge chasm between the narrative and reality.
00:35:03.100
Well, if you're just dealing in the fantasy, you're not going to solve any problems in reality. So
00:35:07.400
I wish that the Chinese ambassador had been able to get more words out before that babbling lady on CBS
00:35:14.640
cut him off because I think there's actually quite a lot of wisdom in what he's saying. If you want to
00:35:20.400
stop the encroachments of Russia westward, if you want to defend the nation of Ukraine,
00:35:26.180
if you don't even care that much about Ukraine, but you want to defend American hegemony and you want
00:35:31.840
to defend the strength of the West, then start dealing in facts. Okay. And maybe you won't feel as good
00:35:37.660
about that. Maybe you won't get as many likes on Facebook and Twitter, but it will do a lot more
00:35:42.420
to actually help the situation on the ground. When you watch that man, that Chinese ambassador to the
00:35:50.180
US speaking to that woman, you can see the effects of two kinds of education, two different education
00:35:57.040
systems. The Chinese education system, which didn't start out all that great, but has been
00:36:02.420
rapidly improving because they're focused on making their country much stronger and their citizens much
00:36:07.020
smarter. And then the American education system, which fills our kids' heads with lies and fantasies
00:36:12.140
and talks about critical race theory and how little five-year-old boys can really be little
00:36:16.040
girls all day and talks about structural racism, how terrible America is. And doesn't even teach
00:36:20.520
people basic manners like let your guest finish before you interrupt him. And it's pathetic because
00:36:26.480
that Chinese ambassador seemed much smarter and much wiser and much more in command of himself
00:36:35.520
and world affairs than that news anchor did. And that's her job. She's supposed to be in
00:36:40.360
command of those things. She's a TV host and a news anchor. And yet she doesn't seem to know much
00:36:45.500
about anything. I think it comes down to an education problem. And is it any wonder?
00:36:51.160
Sometimes I wonder, do conservatives exaggerate the problems in our schools? My kid is not in school
00:36:58.500
yet. I have not been in school for some years now when I graduated college about 10 years ago. So it's
00:37:03.540
been a while since I've been in schools. Are things really as bad as we make them out to be?
00:37:07.320
And the answer is yes, because we have videos from school board meetings. Sometimes we have
00:37:12.600
videos from classrooms. There was a school board meeting in Cherokee County, Georgia,
00:37:16.820
where a mother stood up. She was irate because of the materials that were being handed out to
00:37:25.120
students in this school. And so she decided, she said, look, you all think it's fine for the kids to
00:37:31.080
be reading this obscene material. Let me just read you some of this material. And the school board
00:37:36.280
ruled her out of order for reading material that should not be heard by anyone in the audience.
00:37:43.000
One person in the committee thinks that it's the same. It does. Like the one child has learned
00:37:50.400
the appeal to me, which I look at. But her one must stay because of the 18 to play a green
00:37:56.240
actress. Then the next thing is going to be a green child. It's not a green issue. I told her now,
00:38:02.920
what was the question. For M Witchiler, she put her in his procedure. Yes, she is a lot more
00:38:16.800
tear. Susan said, fly it, Sami A Stick. Step nine, let me give the burden and care of all
00:38:50.180
I'm reading the material that you are requiring our students to read, and then I'm reading
00:38:55.320
it back to you, and you're saying, don't read it back to me.
00:38:58.660
I love the absolute obliviousness from the school board.
00:39:02.960
And the mother, she can't contain herself anymore.
00:39:08.620
If material is too obscene to be read at a meeting of the school board, which is 99%
00:39:16.720
or more for adults, then the material is too obscene to be read to the kids, to the children.
00:39:26.560
And the school board members don't seem to process this.
00:39:29.800
Because the school board members aren't really making the curriculum, right?
00:39:32.400
The curriculum is being created by radicals, and it is being pushed into the schools by
00:39:39.560
And then the school board and the administrators and often even the teachers really don't know
00:39:43.720
anything about it, and they don't know how to fight back.
00:39:45.420
I bet those school board members are just as shocked as anyone to hear that that kind
00:39:52.960
That's how effective the left has been at taking over our education system.
00:40:07.900
We talk about, we see it in Ukraine right now, banning all the opposition parties.
00:40:16.680
You see in a lot of other worse regimes around the world, banning their opposition parties.
00:40:20.940
I think the breaking news just came through that Vladimir Putin just sentenced the main opposition
00:40:26.320
leader in Russia, who's not even all that popular, sentenced him to another nine years
00:40:31.420
But it's not just in those really bad far away places that you see that.
00:40:36.060
You see child pornographers getting off the hook, and you see January 6th people going
00:40:42.320
You see BLM people throwing Molotov cocktails at federal buildings, and they get a little
00:40:48.260
Usually they just get released without any question.
00:40:55.040
You see the Clintons, the Bidens making a boatload of money through corruption, not just
00:41:01.420
in America, but overseas as well, taking money and bribes from some of the worst people
00:41:06.300
And then Donald Trump, without any crime that I can actually see the left point to, they
00:41:11.220
go in, they bring in the Southern District of New York, they try to get this guy, they
00:41:18.920
We are living in a real political regime that really does have limits, and the limits are
00:41:26.200
And if you are outside of those limits, the ruling class is going to come for you.
00:41:33.940
At that NCAA swimming championship the other day, the one where that hulking dude beat all
00:41:39.320
the little girls and everyone had to applaud for this, that was not the end of the transgender
00:41:47.920
It was not just one confused kid showed up and swam.
00:41:50.540
This has become a cause celeb for all of the transgender activists, both the people who
00:41:59.920
So there was a woman who showed up, Kelly J. Keene, Posey Parker, who is a really terrific
00:42:09.300
And she showed up, and she asked a giant hulking man in a dress, not the swimmer on the team,
00:42:17.380
just an older man who was there, asked him not to go into the women's bathroom, not to
00:42:24.060
And this man treated Kelly with absolute contempt.
00:42:29.060
On the basis of the comfort and dignity of girls and women, I'm asking you, I'm telling
00:42:38.820
My girls and the other women I am with are very comfortable with me in the bathroom.
00:42:43.900
Well, fortunately, I'm not your daughter, and my daughter is also not your daughter.
00:42:58.420
I would like to, I would ask you to please call up your daughter.
00:43:02.780
I am asking you, as a mother, I'm asking you of a mother, do not use female's faces.
00:43:09.480
It makes women and girls feel very uncomfortable.
00:43:25.500
You'll never, and this man is there just treating her, excuse me, hey, call off your dogs.
00:43:32.500
Treating her so contemptuously, and it's, he's bigger than her.
00:43:36.680
When you hear these stories, you think, oh, quit picking on the sexually confused people.
00:43:41.460
Oh, you know, come on, you mean old feminist woman, stop.
00:43:44.680
But then you look at the reality, and it's a big hulking dude putting a woman in her
00:43:49.280
place and saying, no, I don't care if you want to use the bathroom on your own.
00:43:54.780
I don't care if your daughter wants to be able to change without my prying eyes, my sexually
00:43:59.460
disturbed eyes looking at her, and me getting naked too with all of my male body parts visible.
00:44:08.660
And you call off your dogs, and you shut your mouth, and you let me do it.
00:44:16.560
The chasm between the narrative and the reality is pretty big.
00:44:26.960
If you're listening to this clip, you can at least hear it in his voice.
00:44:33.980
He's a big dude who lived for 50 years as a man who fathered three children and who now
00:44:45.740
And he's saying, I'm going to go in, and I'm going to get naked.
00:44:48.820
If I want to go to a locker room, I'm going to get naked in front of your daughter, and
00:44:53.220
If you want to have a bathroom, you go to the bathroom by yourself, too bad.
00:45:07.760
There's an amazing contradiction that we're seeing right now.
00:45:12.460
Andrew Garfield, the actor, is demonstrating this contradiction.
00:45:16.500
He was asked if he should be allowed to play a gay character because he's not a gay guy.
00:45:20.400
So should he be allowed to play a gay character?
00:45:23.360
Should a non-transgender person, whatever that means, play a transgender person?
00:45:30.780
Should a non-Asian person be able to play an Asian person?
00:45:34.520
What if they're Hispanic and they look kind of Asian?
00:45:39.240
Should you be able to play anybody who has qualities that you do not have?
00:45:45.880
And this is such a funny part of this debate because the definition of being an actor is
00:45:50.640
that you pretend to be someone that you're not.
00:45:52.840
So if you tell actors they can't pretend to be people that they're not, then they can't
00:45:58.580
Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.
00:46:05.620
So Garfield says, quote, if we only allow people to be cast as exactly who they are,
00:46:15.500
So the two separate conversations have to happen simultaneously, meaning, you know,
00:46:18.980
talking about whether we should have more movies with more diverse casts and also should
00:46:24.220
people be able to play people that they're not.
00:46:26.440
I'm not willing to support the death of empathic imagination.
00:46:29.620
It's what we need most as a culture and it's beautiful.
00:46:32.180
It's the only thing that's going to save us right now.
00:46:39.380
And the craziest, it didn't hit me until Andrew Garfield put it this way.
00:46:44.900
But what we are told is that imaginary things have to be real.
00:46:52.780
We're being told that men who think they're women, we have to pretend that they're actually
00:46:56.880
women, that people with all sorts of disordered delusions, we have to indulge those delusions.
00:47:13.600
So we're not, you're not, the actor, the actor whose job it is to play pretend is not allowed
00:47:20.700
But the person living in real life has to play pretend all the time.
00:47:26.400
The man who thinks that he's a woman or for whatever reason wants to present himself as a woman.
00:47:34.020
But if that same man were cast in a movie, he's not allowed to play a woman.
00:47:38.860
Unless he's pretending to be a woman in real life.
00:47:42.000
It's this complete invert, what should really happen is that imaginary things are imaginary
00:47:57.560
Her name is Kim Mangone, who has just put up a giant billboard with Democrat PAC money.
00:48:08.320
Gay, because you know how you're, you can't say gay in Florida.
00:48:16.540
The bill they say says don't say gay doesn't even say the word gay in it.
00:48:20.560
But the Democrats have created this completely fictitious narrative that you're not allowed
00:48:23.900
to say gay in Florida now, thanks to Ron DeSantis.
00:48:25.720
So they spend a lot of money on this billboard and says gay.
00:48:29.220
And she writes, she goes, how many of these billboards do you want me to put up in Florida?
00:48:36.840
I am 100% in favor of Democrat activists wasting their money on gay billboards that don't say
00:48:43.960
anything about candidates, that will not be popular, that are opposing a bill that is
00:48:48.700
extremely popular in Florida, and that is pushing a radical agenda that has caused America's
00:48:55.720
of all stripes and all affiliations to sway heavily to conservatives in recent years.
00:49:01.600
Give me the gay billboards that finally we've got some political compromise.
00:49:11.600
I want the Supreme Court nominees saying that they support critical race theory.
00:49:16.920
I want Democrats all over the country saying they support hulking dudes going into little
00:49:27.860
I want Democrats coming out against curriculum transparency.
00:49:32.780
And then we're going to see who wins in November.
00:49:42.740
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