Ep. 977 - New York Begs Perverts To Come Pay Taxes
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) delivers a speech in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night. He also delivers a blistering attack on Florida Gov. Rick DeSantis (R), who wants to ban teachers from talking about sex with first graders.
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Are you a teacher and a pervert? Are you frustrated that you can't preach transgenderism
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to five-year-olds? Well, have no fear. Just move on up to New York City and peddle all the creepy
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sex stuff you like. And we're partnering with WPPP to put up billboards in major markets across
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Florida to let everyone know. We're targeting Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa,
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and West Palm Beach. We believe we're going to get about five million impressions, and they're going
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to be up for an eight-week period celebrating the diversity and acceptance of New York City.
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We will show this in the billboards and the billboards you have here right now. Very clear
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statement, and we're proud of it. Other folks want people to hide their color. We like to show
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our color, and that's the rainbow that's representative of this community.
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That's our color, says the mayor of New York, now paying for billboards in Florida to lure people
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up who are opposed to the parental rights and education bill. He says, come on up to Florida.
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Come on up to New York, rather. Leave Florida. Take that, DeSantis. You want to ban teachers from
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talking about sex with first graders? Well, New York is going to swoop in and take those perverts
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out of your state. How do you like that? Oh, you do like that. You like that very much. Well,
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that's a win-win, I guess, except for New Yorkers, whose taxpayer dollars are now being spent trying to
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lure child predators to their state. We're not talking about gay. This is not about don't say gay.
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We're not talking about your average gay guys, people who want to keep their sex lives to
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themselves, especially when they're around kids. No, we're talking about perverts who insist on
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talking about genitals with kindergartners. Florida voted to protect kids. New York voted for people
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who want to protect predators. And now New Yorkers are going to have to deal even more acutely
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with the consequences of democracy. The system of government predicated on the idea that the
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common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. I'm Michael Knowles. This
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is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Eric
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Weininger, who says, I was hoping that as Thursday's top commenter, I'd get prime seating rights at your
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Washburn speech. I showed up an hour early and had no chance of getting in due to the great turnout.
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Come back soon. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. The speech was a lot of fun at Washburn.
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The only regret I have is that we only got a room that fit, I think it was 300, and then we stretched
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it and made it about 350. We turned away 200 people. We're going to get bigger rooms from now on,
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so very sorry. We've got some other speeches coming up. I'm going to be at Grove City College coming up
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kick out. That's a win-win, I guess. Everybody's happy about that. But some of these perverts
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who want to talk to eight-year-olds, seven-year-olds, six-year-olds, five-year-olds,
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four-year-olds, and three-year-olds about sex without their parents' consent,
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some of these people are refusing to leave Florida. They are refusing to follow the law.
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They are going to indoctrinate your kids in whatever weird sex hangups they have,
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whether you like it or not. So because I've been getting this question a lot lately,
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I am going to use this space to answer it. And that is, as a preschool teacher, a drag king,
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and as a member of the LGBTQ community, how do I feel about the new legislations
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for the Don't Say Gay bill or the reporting of transgender kids? And while I don't see things
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like that too much in preschool, my opinion on it is that I don't care what the government tells me to
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do. I am going to do what I think is best for the health and safety, and that includes mental health
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and safety, and emotional health and safety of my kids. I will never let any child come through my
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classroom feeling unloved or ashamed for who they are.
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A drag king who is becoming emotional to the verge of tears because Governor DeSantis and the voters of
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Florida don't want her to talk about sex with preschoolers is lecturing the rest of us on mental
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health. Isn't that an amazing thing? Slight side note, I did not know drag kings existed.
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Somehow this is even weirder to me than drag queens. Drag queens have existed throughout all of history,
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men who put on dresses and put on shows. They're sort of funny, right? They're certainly very eccentric.
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Drag king seems a little weirder because that's just a woman who's dressing up like a man,
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which is something that the feminists have been doing since at least the 70s.
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Even stranger somehow than some phenomenon like drag queen story hour. The point though is lawlessness.
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The point is we do not believe, we, the radical leftist sexual revolutionary community,
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we do not believe that Ron DeSantis has any right to sign this law, that the voters of Florida have
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any right to elect representatives who are going to pass this law, and that parents have any right to
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determine what kind of creepy sex stuff their kids are being taught in the classroom, and we're going to do it
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anyway. I'm so glad that this lady made this video. Lock her up. Lock her up. If she does this,
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which she's promising to do, one, she shouldn't be teaching anyone anyway. She is a disturbed
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individual. She needs to go get help. She should be kept 100 yards away from any children. But beyond
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that, assuming that she's still going to remain in the classroom for now, arrest her. She's violating
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the law. Reminds me of Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan, on a completely separate issue, he was faced with an
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air traffic controller strike. And the air traffic controllers were a public union, and they had no
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right to strike. It was illegal for them to strike. They struck because they didn't think the law was
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going to be enforced. And the law only has the force of its credibility, of the credibility of the
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people who are actually executing the laws. So the air traffic controllers thought they're never
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going to fire us. They're never going to actually enforce this. And Reagan walks up to the microphone,
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and he says, well, if the air traffic controllers don't get back in 48 hours, they'll be terminated.
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And he was asked a question by the reporters. He said, don't you think some lesser action
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is more appropriate here? He said, what lesser action can there be? They're in violation of the law.
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Well, Nancy, that's it. And he did. And he actually made good on that threat. And that was a win for
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the rule of law. And that was a win for our Republican form of government. And that was a win
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for we the people, for us the people who form our government, at least in theory. So it's very
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important. If this Florida law that is going to prevent pervs from indoctrinating little tiny kids
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and sex and gives parents some right in their kids' education, if that's going to have any teeth,
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it has to be enforced. People need to be made an example of. And I can think of no better example
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than this lady who it's not as though she's some sympathetic figure who's upset because she was
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talking about a nuanced and academic issue with some older student, a 17-year-old, an 18-year-old.
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She's talking about queer stuff, specifically queer stuff, capital Q, trademark over the R,
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with preschoolers. Make an example of her. Don't just fire her. Prosecute her for violating this law.
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Speaking of crimes, speaking of crimes on children, the most horrifying news story I have ever seen
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in my entire life just popped up on live action. And very few, if any, establishment media sources
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are talking about it because it's a politically inconvenient crime. I have lived through many wars
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all around the world have taken place in my lifetime, all sorts of terrible crimes, murders,
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and serial killings, and all sorts of things. This is by far, by far, the most horrifying crime.
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There have been discovered the frozen remains of five aborted babies in Washington, D.C.
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And the part of the story that gets a little weird is they were found in the apartment of an
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anti-abortion activist. Now, it's not really weird when you figure out what's going on here. A
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whistleblower at an abortion clinic tipped off this anti-abortion activist. They have the evidence
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of these abortions, which are potentially illegal abortions in that the babies may have been born
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or partially born before they were killed, which would be in violation of federal law. But even if
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it's not technically in violation of the civil law, it's obviously, it's a crime against humanity.
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It's a crime that cries out to God because these are babies. These are so undeniably babies who were
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in expressions of extreme pain, who are totally recognizable like any newborn baby, and they were
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killed through abortion. Frankly, if it's not in violation of federal law, that's an even greater
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indictment of us. There are photos of this. There's evidence. I have blurred the photos for this show
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because you'll have nightmares. I would say if you are already pro-life and you already oppose
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legal abortion, don't look up these pictures. Don't look them up because you'll have nightmares
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and there's no reason to. You already see the issue for what it is. If you are pro-choice,
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if you support legal abortion to any degree, look up the pictures. You can find them. They're just
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Google live action abortion Washington, D.C. You'll see they're kind of blurred out here.
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Look them up. If you support abortion and you think, well, it's a complicated issue. I don't
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like abortion personally, but it should be legal. To whatever degree you support abortion,
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click the photos and tell me you support abortion. I don't think anyone but an absolute stone-cold
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sociopath can look at these photos and tell me that they still support abortion. It's why it's
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so important the work that live action has done here, so important that the work that this anti-abortion
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activist has done here, and the response of the government tells you everything you need to know
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about this evil institution and the extremely corrupt people who are covering up for it.
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This anti-abortion activist, Lauren Handy, I believe her name is, has been indicted. So she was the
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one, she's the anti-abortion activist, the pro-life activist who was discovered to have these frozen
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bodies in her home that she was apparently given by a whistleblower. She has been indicted along with
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eight others on federal felony conspiracy charges. What are the charges? She's accused
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of blocking access to a DC abortion clinic in October of 2020. This blockade was broadcast on
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Facebook, and now she's up on federal charges. I'm sure she will now have new charges added to the list
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because of her storage of these bodies. Do you know who's not going to have any charges brought
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against them? Do you know who's not going to be held in any way responsible for these crimes that cry
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out to God? These, the, the, the absolute slaughter of children who have pained expressions on their
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face, frozen from this moment. Do you know who's not going to have any consequences? The people who
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did it. That's, that's who, the, the person who blew the whistle on it, the people who exposed these
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crimes to the world, they're probably going to send her behind bars for a long time. The people who
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committed these crimes outright infanticide, nothing is going to happen to them at all. Take a listen
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to the executive assistant chief of police in Washington, DC.
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This handy is, uh, been indicted on a federal investigation, uh, led by the FBI that MPD was
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not a part of. Um, so that's number one. The second piece is that we were led to that, uh, house that
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you mentioned. Uh, we did recover items that were, these are preliminary results. OCME, uh, looked at,
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took a look at those items. They are, have been confirmed as fetuses. Um, what we're seeing now is
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they, those fetuses were aborted in accordance with DC law. So we are not investigating this
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incident along those lines. Doesn't speak anything criminal in nature right now about that, except for
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how they got into this house. And so we'll continue to look at that.
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They were aborted. Oh no, I'm sorry. Let me rewind. These items that were found were fetuses.
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The, so the people, the little babies who were killed, they're, they're items. They're just
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objects. And turns out the objects are fetuses, which is the, uh, the Latin word for baby, but we
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have to use the word fetus so that we can dehumanize the babies. And the, and the babies were killed.
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They were killed with these pained expressions on their faces in accordance with DC law. So there's
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no crime there. Nothing's being investigated. The only crime is how they got to the house
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according to our authorities. I love America. I believe in America to quote the first line of
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the Godfather. Very hard. It's very hard to love America when you hear that kind of stuff. It's very
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hard. When you think about all the awful regimes in the world, there are lots of terrible regimes. We,
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we never stop, or our ruling class never stops talking about all the evil regimes around the
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world. And then you listen to one of our public authorities say that the five babies that we are
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looking at, we can look them right in their eyes and their cold eyes. We can look at what happened
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to them and say, there was no crime here. Totally in accordance with the law. The only crime was that
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this was exposed. If the babies are just items that were discovered in a home, what's the big deal?
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They're just, I have items in my home. You probably have items in your home, don't you? We all have
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items. Items, not a big deal. It's a big deal. And they're investigating the woman who had, had the
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bodies in their homes because their bodies, because they're human beings who were, whose dead bodies
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were being treated in this unusual way. That's why it's a big deal. But the, the criminals, the
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killers who killed the babies, they're not being prosecuted or even investigated because they're
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not bodies. They're just, they're just items. They're trying to have both sides of this. And
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they're trying to have both sides to, to attack the good guys, to persecute the good guys who are
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exposing the crime and to cover up for the killers. It's very hard. I still love my country. I still
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love America, but it's really hard to do that when you consider that America kills upwards of a million
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babies a year and speaks of it in such callous terms. And when you see the reality of it, when
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you can look the babies right in the eye and these psychos who run our country say, no crime here,
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they won't, they won't perform an autopsy. They can't perform an autopsy because to perform an autopsy
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would be to admit that these are babies. They're not going to perform an autopsy because by the way,
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what, what the assistant police chief just said here very likely isn't true. The babies may very
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well have been killed in violation of federal law. Partial birth abortions are, are a violation of
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federal law. And there's a lot of evidence that that's how they were killed. But nope, cover up, nothing
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to see here. Move along, move along, move along. Sick, sick. And it's spreading. There's a law that was
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just passed in Colorado. Legalizes, legalizes abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. You can be
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30 seconds away from birth. In the process of giving birth, you can choose to kill your baby in
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Colorado. So says Colorado Governor Jared Polis. This, this law defines abortion as a right. And it
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goes even further than just permitting abortion up until the moment of birth. This law in Colorado
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may very well force medical professionals to, to be involved in abortions against their will.
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There's no religious exemption. There's no moral exemption to this. If you are a Christian,
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Jew, Muslim, if you're, if you're just a regular, ordinary, agnostic person with a conscience,
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according to this law, you very likely can't even opt out of performing an abortion.
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Zero conscience protections at all. Sick stuff.
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I think this is one of the reasons that when we talk about regimes overseas, when we talk about all
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the awful tin pot dictators all around the world, when, when some of our ruling class tries to get people
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riled up for more regime change wars, the kind of regime change wars we saw under George W. Bush or we
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saw under Barack Obama. I think part of the reason that we, we can't get excited about that anymore
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is because our own ruling class is so hideously corrupt. So hideously psychopathically, when you
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talk about stuff like this, evil, so evil that it's, it's hard for us to summon the moral indignation
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that wasn't always true in America. We used to feel that we had the moral high ground and we
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relatively did have the moral high ground around the world. And we don't now. And if we want to gain
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that back, if we want to have any kind of beyond even the issue of abortion, you want to get your
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national mojo back, then stop doing the most evil things you can possibly do and stop enshrining it
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in law and just call it for what it is. We, there are a lot of squishes who want us to just cool down
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the rhetoric. Okay. We've no, this is just evil stuff. These people are the spawn of Satan. These
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are children of hell who are running Colorado right now, who are running Washington DC, and they ought to
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be utterly removed from power and they should spend the rest of their lives in jail. They should
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be prosecuted for what they're doing. Certainly the killers should be prosecuted in this case and
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they won't. They're going to be the most protected people on earth. It's disgusting. It's absolutely
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disgusting. No wonder, no wonder Americans think the country is going in the wrong direction. Does it
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have to do with gas prices? Yes, it actually does. It has a lot to do with gas. Does it have to do with
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inflation? Yes, it does. Does it have to do with the embarrassment that Americans feel because our
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president is incompetent and his brain has made a pudding? Yes, but it also has to do with the genuinely evil
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stuff that is going on in this country and that is getting worse in this country. It has something
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to do with that too. Okay. You can't, you can't live in a country where you have lots of evil things
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going on and lots of evil things getting worse and a ruling class that is openly encouraging it
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and have that country feel really good about itself. It's just not possible. No matter how many lies
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you tell, no matter how many politically correct euphemisms you use, no matter how many times you
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insist, no, it's a clump of cells. Look at the pictures. Tell me that's a clump of cells. Look
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at the pictures. If you're going to use that phrase, you can't do it. You can't reality reasserts
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itself in the end. Okay. And you can't, we've talked about this on another issue on transgenderism.
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We've talked about this on so many aspects of the left's political agenda. You can't live in fantasy
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forever. Okay. Reality is going to come, come nagging back at you, come poking back at you and you're not
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going to be able to suppress your conscience forever. There is some good news. There is some
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good news in politics. It's not all doom and gloom. It's not all bad. Hope springs eternal in the human
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breast. And there is on a completely separate issue, some really great news. One of the biggest
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challenges in America today is that we are a republic. At least we're supposed to be. That means
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self-government. That means that we govern ourselves by persuading one another, by debating,
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by speaking to one another. And, and we do that in the public square. Now we no longer really have
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physical public squares. We have digital public squares because we live in the internet age.
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So that means that when big tech platforms, which control the entire flow of internet,
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entire flow of information around the internet, when they shut people out, when they censor certain
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topics, when they censor certain points of view, when they ban, for instance, the duly elected
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sitting president of the United States, that is, is a major threat to our democracy,
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to our republic, to the whole form of government. Well, someone is doing something about that right
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now. Elon Musk, one of the most delightfully eccentric billionaires in the world, has had
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enough. He sent out a Twitter poll the other day. He said, free speech is essential to a functioning
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democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle? Yes or no? And he said,
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be careful how you answer. The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.
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So the majority of people believed that Twitter is not protecting free speech. They believe that
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free speech is very important to democracy. And so Elon Musk has bought 9.2% of Twitter. He is now the
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largest stakeholder in Twitter, and he intends to turn that company around. I'm very excited to
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announce today the release of Andrew Klavan's latest book, The Truth and Beauty. After years
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studying the Gospels and trying to find the true meaning of Jesus's words, Drew is ready to share
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what he has found. It's for anyone who's seeking to find renewed meaning in their faith or maybe striving
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for belief in a materialistic world. I really love this book. I read it months ago. I got an advance
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copy from Drew, but I'd been bugging him to read this book ever since he told me about it. It's such
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a weird book. It's part memoir. It's part theological meditation, and it's part writing about the romantic
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poets, this group of English poets from centuries ago. And it's written in that classic Drew way,
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which is just so straightforward, completely unpretentious. You've got some of the most
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profound ideas that could be understood by a third grader. C.S. Lewis has this gift too,
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and Drew certainly has it. So head on over to Amazon, wherever you buy books,
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00:24:31.340
Elon Musk now owns 9.2% of Twitter. To put that in perspective, Jack Dorsey, the founder and
00:24:54.360
former CEO of Twitter, owns 2.25%. So Elon Musk owns almost four times the amount of Twitter
00:25:05.500
that Jack Dorsey owns. As a result of this purchase, Twitter shares surged 26% in pre-market trading.
00:25:14.360
The stake that Elon has is about $2.89 billion. And what does this actually mean? Does this mean that
00:25:22.740
Elon Musk is going to make a lot of money on Twitter? I don't know. Maybe it will, maybe it
00:25:26.580
won't. He's a smart investor, so I suppose he'll probably make money. But I suspect this isn't
00:25:31.220
primarily about money. This is about Elon Musk going in and throwing his weight around and saying,
00:25:36.320
we are not going to let free speech die in America. This is so beautiful. And the context here,
00:25:41.180
why is this happening right now? The Twitter annual meeting is May 25th.
00:25:45.580
So when you own over 9% of a company like Twitter, you can force the company to do certain things.
00:25:56.260
Half of me wonders if the reason that Elon Musk bought all this Twitter stock is just to get the
00:26:02.400
Babylon Bee's account back. Because the Babylon Bee, which Elon has appeared on before, made some joke
00:26:08.640
about transgenderism and they were banned. And they said, you can get your account back if you delete
00:26:13.300
the joke. The Babylon Bee dug in and said, we're not going to delete the joke. And then in comes
00:26:17.320
Elon. And you know, it's real. You know, that Twitter is freaking out right now because the CEO
00:26:23.140
of Twitter, Praag Agrawal, just sent out a big announcement. He said, we're so excited to have
00:26:29.320
Elon Musk on board. He's on the board of directors now and we couldn't be happier. Please don't fire me,
00:26:35.980
Elon, please. And then Elon responds. He says, yes, we can't wait to make some changes over at Twitter.
00:26:40.480
It's just, it's just delicious. And the best part about it is something that has, that has bugged me.
00:26:50.200
And I know it bugs a lot of other people in the conservative movement, which is that conservatives
00:26:55.960
are pretty good at talking and pretty good at writing and even pretty good at raising money in
00:27:00.880
nonprofit organizations. But we're, we're less good at doing stuff out in the actual marketplace,
00:27:08.560
out in the actual political system. This is what Jeremy talked about when he launched the Razor
00:27:14.560
company. Jeremy came out and he said, conservatives are really good at whining and raising money and
00:27:19.240
then losing and then whining some more and then raising some more money and having a whole apparatus
00:27:23.140
of nonprofits that doesn't really do very much. Conservatives are good at that. But if we really
00:27:27.240
believe that our ideas are winners, that they're vibrant, that they have strength, we ought to throw
00:27:32.500
them right into the marketplace. We ought to actually try them out. We ought to throw our weight around.
00:27:35.920
We ought to, we ought to do more than just write long journal articles. I love journal articles.
00:27:40.640
I read them. I'm all about that scholarly academic life. It's great, but we have to do stuff in the
00:27:45.340
real world too. And so Elon, rather than writing a 10,000 word essay about the importance of free
00:27:49.920
speech, he just threw $2 billion around and now he's going to do it. And we can, we can debate the
00:27:55.960
philosophy of that a little bit later. We can debate the nuances of that a little later,
00:28:00.200
but he's going to do it and he's going to protect free speech for now. I strongly suspect
00:28:04.360
that's great stuff. Just do it. Learn from Nike. Take that Nike rule, conservatives. Just do it.
00:28:09.560
And we'll figure it out. You want to make sure things are just and moral and right and prudent,
00:28:13.980
but let's do some stuff and we'll let the chips fall a little later. We can do both.
00:28:21.580
Meanwhile, while we're winning on the business front, we've got to, we've got to do a better
00:28:26.600
job of winning on the political front as well. We are about to have a Supreme Court justice of the
00:28:31.220
United States. That is the farthest left justice ever in the history of the court. Not just of the
00:28:37.840
justices right now, though she will be the furthest left justice, but ever in all of history.
00:28:43.560
This is a woman who praises the 1619 project, which says America is rotten and evil from the
00:28:48.800
beginning. And it's based on a false thesis that the American revolution was fought to protect
00:28:52.700
slavery. This is a woman who explicitly praises the founders of critical race theory, notably Derek
00:28:58.820
Bell. This is a woman who lets child rapists off the hook. This is because she takes the
00:29:06.640
side of criminals and she doesn't take the side of victims. This is, this is a woman who
00:29:10.980
is real, real radical. And according to the prominent libs, according to Whoopi Goldberg and
00:29:18.400
the ladies on The View, the real reason Republicans oppose her is because she's a black woman.
00:29:23.680
You know what? Let me shut up. Lest I start some new stuff. You know, this is the most
00:29:33.620
ridiculous. Just say, I don't trust a black woman to do the job because I know that y'all
00:29:39.800
didn't have the same issues with Amy Coney Barrett. You didn't ask those questions. You don't have
00:29:46.320
those problems. And when Amy Coney Barrett answered the same way that Judge Katani Brown did when
00:29:54.060
you asked her if you thought they were going to need more people on the Supreme Court, nobody
00:30:00.460
seemed to have a problem with her answer. No. But so many of you have problems with Judge
00:30:06.060
Brown. You know what? I know what this is. Yeah. We all know what it is. We know what it
00:30:12.640
is. We recognize that we're used to this. But you know what? You can't take away what
00:30:17.820
this woman is and who she is and what she's done and how she got there.
00:30:21.980
Whoopi knows. Whoopi, we all know, but especially Whoopi knows what this is about. This has nothing
00:30:28.840
to do with Katani Jackson's radical record. This has nothing to do with Katani Jackson's judicial
00:30:36.320
philosophy, which all conservatives have opposed for decades. No, no, no. This has everything
00:30:42.280
to do with her race and her sex, but both together. It obviously doesn't have to do with her race
00:30:49.880
apart because conservatives love Clarence Thomas. He's probably their favorite justice on the court.
00:30:55.640
And it clearly doesn't have to do with her sex because conservatives just rallied and campaigned
00:31:01.820
to get Amy Barrett onto the court. That was the last judge we got on during the Trump administration.
00:31:07.000
But so Republicans are fine with the black people on the court and fine with women on the court, but
00:31:11.740
but it's black, black women. That's the problem. That's what we don't like, I guess, according to
00:31:18.800
Whoopi Goldberg. She is right. I wouldn't trust just any black woman on the court. I would not trust,
00:31:24.440
for instance, Whoopi Goldberg on the Supreme Court. I don't trust Katani Jackson on the Supreme Court,
00:31:29.980
but it's quite clear. It's quite clear that the opposition to Katani Jackson has nothing to do
00:31:35.100
with race or sex, as the Republicans have made very clear, and as is manifestly clear because of
00:31:39.700
the current judges that conservatives put on the court. But it's all the libs have got. And it's,
00:31:45.440
it's a lesson to conservatives, to the squishes, who are so, they are more than anything afraid of
00:31:53.420
being called racist and to a lesser degree sexist. And so they will just cave all the time.
00:32:01.100
You just saw this with Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney, of course, is voting to confirm Katani Jackson.
00:32:06.840
Katani Jackson, who has judicial philosophy issues, who has record issues on her record,
00:32:12.620
specifically issues on letting child rapists off the hook. Romney supports her and says,
00:32:17.540
oh yes, she'll, she'll be fine. She's great. I vote to support her nomination. Mitt Romney will,
00:32:25.320
will not endorse Mike Lee, his fellow Utah Senator and a good conservative, but he'll endorse Katani
00:32:31.400
Jackson because Mitt Romney's job is to put Republicans in their place. That's his job. His
00:32:37.160
job is not to support conservative policies. His job is not to promote a good, traditional,
00:32:43.600
free American way of life. His job is to pretend to sort of kind of be a Republican and then put
00:32:50.500
Republicans in their place and insinuate that Republicans are bigots and racist and thisist
00:32:56.040
and thatist. And he's one of the good ones. He's one of the good ones. He's going to make that stand.
00:33:00.680
What a maverick he is. But that's not it. No, no matter how hard the libs try, the Katani Jackson
00:33:08.740
confirmation process is not primarily about race and sex. Her nomination is about race and sex.
00:33:14.640
That's what Joe Biden said. He said, I'm just going to pick a black woman. I'm going to take a
00:33:18.040
dart, throw it at a dartboard full of black women. And I'm just going to pick one of them.
00:33:22.800
That's all I care about. But the Republican opposition is not about that because her nomination
00:33:28.480
is not historic. The libs are always trying to make the historic. This is historic. This moment in
00:33:34.280
history is so important. Finally, a black woman on the court. Politico said that Politico tweeted
00:33:40.520
out yesterday. This is a very mainstream publication. It's left wing, but it's very mainstream in D.C.
00:33:46.360
Katanji Brown Jackson will likely be confirmed as the first black Supreme Court justice by the end of
00:33:52.380
the week. Here's how we expect it to go. The first black Supreme Court justice. Not only is Katanji
00:34:02.100
Jackson, not the first black Supreme Court justice, she's not the second black Supreme Court justice.
00:34:07.020
We've had black Supreme Court justices for what, half a century now? What about Thurgood Marshall?
00:34:13.120
Thurgood Marshall has totally been erased. It's not even as though we previously had black Supreme
00:34:17.960
Court justices, but we haven't had one for a long time. We have one right now, and he's the most
00:34:22.860
prominent member of the court. He's the senior most member of the court, and he's not even a liberal
00:34:27.520
member of the court. He's a conservative member of the court, and he's probably the conservative's
00:34:32.080
favorite. This article, just completely wrong. Politico then clarified it and said, for the
00:34:39.580
record, this replaces an earlier tweet that stated that Katanji Brown Jackson could be the first black
00:34:43.640
Supreme Court justice. It should have said the first black female Supreme Court justice. We apologize
00:34:47.780
for the error. This actually raised a question to me. Is Politico a biologist now? How does Politico
00:34:54.640
know that Katanji Jackson is a woman? Katanji Jackson doesn't even know if she's a woman,
00:34:59.940
and Politico is going to assume her gender? And furthermore, Politico is going to assume the gender
00:35:06.860
of Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas? How do you know that Clarence Thomas isn't a dainty woman?
00:35:13.260
You don't know that, Politico. How dare you be so presumptuous? So the issues with Katanji's,
00:35:19.200
by the way, this is a slight point. I'm not going to refer to her as Katanji Brown Jackson,
00:35:26.380
just like I'm not going to refer to Amy Barrett as Amy Coney Barrett, just like I'm not going to
00:35:31.400
refer to Ruth Ginsburg as Ruth Bader Ginsburg. You get two names. Get over yourself. You get two names.
00:35:37.300
You get a first name and a last name. Your Christian name and your family name, but you don't get three.
00:35:43.040
You're not, I don't like that. It just rubs me the wrong way. I don't, this might just be an
00:35:48.920
emotional reaction, but I don't, it sounds pretentious to me. Katanji Jackson. That's,
00:35:54.540
and if I were in the United States Senate right now, I would not vote for her. Not because of her race
00:35:58.840
and sex, but because of her record. We focused a lot when we talk about Judge Jackson's record
00:36:03.220
on her extraordinarily low sentencing record for child pornography offenders. And some people have
00:36:10.920
come to her defense on that. They say, look, yes, obviously it's very, very bad to look at child
00:36:15.060
pornography. It's very, very bad to distribute child pornography. It's an abuse of children.
00:36:19.800
It's sexual abuse images. But in Katanji's defense, some of the perpetrators, they were young.
00:36:27.460
One of the defenses that Katanji made was that an 18 year old who was looking at a ton of kiddie porn
00:36:32.840
of kids who were eight years old, that they were peers. You know, eight, 18, what's the difference?
00:36:39.080
It's a freshman in college and a third grader. What's the difference? But okay, there are actually
00:36:44.260
some libertarians on the right who say that child pornography should not be prosecuted to a great
00:36:50.240
degree, that, you know, the images already exist. And then conservatives will come back and say,
00:36:54.940
well, actually, if you look at the images, it's feeding the market and it increases the abuse. But
00:36:58.220
okay, it's not just the child, it's not even just the child porn that Katanji has a bad record on.
00:37:03.580
Judge Jackson has apparently also got a very weak sentencing record on actual child rapists.
00:37:13.820
So Katanji Jackson, we've got the article right here, it's in the New York Post,
00:37:18.640
had a convicted child rapist come before her court. And he was in violation of some of his
00:37:28.020
sentencing previously for this child rape. This is a guy who raped his 13-year-old cousin,
00:37:34.260
I believe it was. Cousin or niece or something like that. The prosecutor in that case, Ari Redboard
00:37:39.720
said, this is not a butt grab, a misdemeanor kind of case. This is not consensual sex between a 20-year-old
00:37:45.620
and a 16-year-old. This is an individual who at trial was convicted of essentially violently
00:37:51.020
raping a 13-year-old child. So we're talking about a bad dude. And Judge Jackson sentenced him
00:37:58.960
for violating the conditions of his sentencing, his previous sentencing for the rape, to 12 months
00:38:04.720
with credit for time served, according to the transcript. Much, much lower than the guidelines
00:38:10.160
would suggest, much, much lower than the prosecutor was asking for. This is no longer even just an 18-year-old
00:38:18.460
who fell down a bad rabbit hole on the internet. We're talking about a guy who's really done this
00:38:22.960
in real physical life. Again, is this because Ketanji Jackson is a pedophile? I don't think so.
00:38:31.060
Is this because Ketanji Jackson has some strange sexual hangup with kids? I don't think so.
00:38:37.680
The left broadly does seem to have a weird sexual hangup with kids these days,
00:38:42.100
as we see it with the left wing in Florida right now and the reaction to the parental rights and
00:38:47.540
education bill. But what I think this is about is something even, frankly, even more disturbing.
00:38:52.880
This is about a radical political ideology that will always 100% take the side of the criminals
00:39:01.020
and the perpetrators to the complete neglect of the victims. This is a complete disordering
00:39:06.800
of justice in America. And the woman who's pushing it is going to be the next Supreme Court justice in
00:39:12.640
the United States. And she's going to do so with the guffaws and the seal claps and the applause
00:39:17.620
of the squishes like Mitt Romney. Absolutely pathetic. The child rape sentencing is not the
00:39:28.540
end of the radicalism that we've seen from Ketanji Jackson. Yes, she's weak on kiddie porn. Yes,
00:39:32.920
she's weak on actual child rape. She also, just within the last couple of years, tried to empty out the
00:39:40.140
jails in DC, tried to just completely empty them out. And as her excuse, she used COVID.
00:39:46.860
Ketanji Jackson said that in the early days of the pandemic, it would be reasonable, quote,
00:39:52.580
reasonable to release each and every person in Washington, DC jails. And then she went on to
00:39:59.360
grant COVID related releases to defendants and inmates who were implicated in very serious crimes.
00:40:05.640
Now, the problem with this too, just to put a little button on the child rapist story,
00:40:10.520
is when Ketanji Jackson let this child rapist off the hook with a much lighter sentence than people
00:40:17.120
were asking for, what do you think he did? Do you think he went out and became an upstanding
00:40:20.560
member of society and turned his life around? No, he assaulted another woman. He went out and he
00:40:25.440
assaulted his sister-in-law. He sexually assaulted her, tried to rape her. She initially was bringing
00:40:30.580
charges. Then she didn't, the woman ended up wanting to pass on that because apparently it was
00:40:35.620
very painful for her family. But the guy went out and offended again while he should have been in jail
00:40:40.560
if Ketanji Jackson hadn't let him off the hook. Then she wanted to bring that same philosophy to
00:40:46.000
every inmate in Washington, DC. And we're not talking about people who got, got thrown in the
00:40:52.660
clink for parking tickets. We're talking about pretty serious crimes here. She said, quote,
00:40:57.120
the obvious increased risk of harm that the COVID-19 pandemic poses to individuals who have
00:41:03.140
been detained in the district's correctional facilities reasonably suggests that each and
00:41:06.320
every criminal defendant who's currently in DC DOC custody and who thus cannot take independent
00:41:11.220
measures to control their own hygiene and distance themselves from others should be released. Each and
00:41:18.060
every. We've never seen anything like that. We're also coincidentally experiencing a major crime
00:41:25.740
spike throughout the country. Violent crime, murders, shootings, rapes, way up through the roof all
00:41:31.960
over the place. And, and they're way up, not because of some random turn of the weather and the wheel of
00:41:38.600
fortune, but because of specific Democrat policies, notably letting the criminals out of prison. Some
00:41:44.080
Republicans have supported this too. They've supported jailbreak bills as well, but it's being led by
00:41:48.100
Democrats who want to abolish the police, who want to defund the police, who want to abolish prisons.
00:41:52.360
Prominent DC members of the House of Representatives, Democrats in Congress are calling to abolish federal
00:42:00.300
prisons. Rashida Tlaib, the George Harrison of the squad is calling to abolish, abolish, just totally
00:42:05.680
get rid of federal prisons within 10 years. And there are others who are supporting her in that effort.
00:42:12.480
Well, what's the consequence? Turns out when you let the criminals out of prison, things don't get
00:42:16.600
better. What the left believes is that the criminals are only in prison. They only commit crimes because
00:42:21.660
society made them do it. Society failed them. They didn't get enough hugs. And so now they're
00:42:27.740
committing all these crimes. And if you just let them out and you give them a stern talking to,
00:42:32.200
if that, then they're going to stop committing crimes. And they don't, they commit more crimes
00:42:36.640
and our country falls to ash. And it gets worse and worse and worse until finally people have enough
00:42:43.320
and they vote in Republicans who throw the criminals in prison. And then we get a period of some good
00:42:47.480
years. You see the cycle play out in New York. Yet crime and mayhem and destruction and a terrible
00:42:53.620
experience, 70s, 1980s. Then you get a Giuliani. Giuliani cleans it up, throws the prisoners in the
00:42:59.520
clink. This isn't brain surgery. This isn't rocket science. And then things get much better. And
00:43:04.160
Bloomberg kind of maintains that. And then the libs get some power back again. People get sick of all
00:43:08.480
that peace and prosperity. They let the criminals out and you rinse and repeat. You do the same cycle.
00:43:13.080
Right now in Chicago, crime is through the roof. The place is like a failed Middle Eastern state.
00:43:22.160
Turns out 57% of Chicagoans who are arrested for carjacking are minors. More than half the carjackings
00:43:31.420
in Chicago are being committed by teenagers or children. That's how messed up that city is.
00:43:37.380
And when asked to explain what's going on, the mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot says,
00:43:42.020
it's just because the children don't feel loved. There are too many young people in this room who
00:43:49.380
do not feel loved. Too many. And we've got to change that around if we're going to change around
00:43:55.460
the trajectory of their lives. The mayor says we cannot arrest ourselves out of public safety problems.
00:44:02.560
We cannot, we cannot arrest ourselves out of crime.
00:44:08.320
I think we can. I, I'm pretty sure not in politics, lots of issues are kind of confusing
00:44:14.940
and nuanced, but this issue is pretty straightforward. If you arrest the criminals, you don't get crime.
00:44:21.860
That's how you, that's, that is the only way to fix it actually. Well, but what about the children
00:44:26.400
who don't feel loved? You're right. She's actually right on that point. Part of the reason that kids go
00:44:32.120
into crime, part of it is that it's a fallen world and it's an imperfect world and you're never on this
00:44:36.880
earth going to perfect human nature, but you can make it better and you can make it worse. And part
00:44:41.480
of the reason that you're seeing an increase in crime is because kids are not loved. So fix that.
00:44:47.920
You know, you know what's not going to fix that? Encouraging the dissolution of families,
00:44:54.400
encouraging single motherhood, destroying the very definition of the family,
00:44:59.560
sending kids to failing schools where they're not going to get an education,
00:45:04.220
discouraging the teaching of ethics and morality in schools, which is now all but against the law.
00:45:09.240
Teaching actual morality, actual ethics in schools, that's not permitted. The one book you're not
00:45:13.340
allowed to teach in school is the Bible. You're allowed to teach any craziness you want. You can
00:45:17.020
teach Ibram Kendi, you can teach critical race theory, transgenderism, you can teach Mein Kampf,
00:45:20.700
for goodness sakes. You can't teach the Bible. That would seem to be a problem.
00:45:24.680
Um, we kill 800,000 babies a year. That doesn't make children feel very loved. Lori Lightfoot
00:45:29.920
supports all that crap. So that's, I'm not even denying her premise entirely. Look,
00:45:36.000
you got to arrest the people committing the crimes. That's an act of love to them. If you allow
00:45:40.020
criminals, derelicts, bums to just live on the street and commit crimes, that's not an act of love.
00:45:46.840
That's an act of neglect. That's not helping them at all. They're going to further harm themselves,
00:45:52.340
body and soul. They're going to further harm society. They're going to further mess up their
00:45:56.160
lives. It's an act of love to correct them. We call it the correctional facilities. It's an act
00:46:02.640
of love to correct them for the society and for them as well. And then when we're talking about
00:46:08.140
how to form kids into not committing carjackings in Chicago, whatever, whatever they're doing in
00:46:14.740
Chicago right now, whatever the Democrat politicians are doing there, obviously it's not working.
00:46:18.580
Maybe we ought to try the opposite. Maybe instead of talking to five-year-olds about how they should
00:46:25.740
chop off their body parts and take cross-sex hormones, maybe we ought to teach them, well,
00:46:29.520
one, reading, writing, and arithmetic so they can become productive, accomplished members of society
00:46:33.460
and pursue excellence. And maybe we ought to teach them basic ethics and morality, the difference between
00:46:39.680
true and false and right and wrong and good and evil. Can you imagine? Can you imagine if they would
00:46:44.200
do that in Chicago? It's actually hard to imagine right now. So far gone is that city. So far gone
00:46:51.160
is the left. Maybe they ought to take it. Rather than condemning places like Florida and more
00:46:54.980
conservative states, maybe they ought to take notes. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael
00:46:59.060
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