The Michael Knowles Show - Ep. 985 - Elon Musk's War For Twitter

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00:00:27.260 For years, the Libs told conservatives that if we don't like the way that they censor us

00:00:33.140 on big tech platforms, that we should build our own.

00:00:36.980 Build your own Twitter.

00:00:38.620 Build your own Facebook.

00:00:39.960 Build your own Google.

00:00:41.780 The suggestion is absurd.

00:00:44.640 Maybe in the very earliest days of social media, there was room for competition.

00:00:49.620 Remember MySpace, LiveJournal, Zanga, Friendster, lots of other sites.

00:00:55.660 Those days are over.

00:00:56.600 They've been over for a long time.

00:00:58.300 Eventually, a handful of platforms reached a critical mass and ensconced themselves in power.

00:01:04.840 And they formed cozy relationships with the federal government.

00:01:08.460 And they exploited legal liability protections.

00:01:11.880 And they even outright defrauded the user base that gave them the critical mass in the first place.

00:01:16.600 With the understanding that they would be able to see and post whatever they wanted to.

00:01:20.800 Then the big tech companies pulled the rug out.

00:01:22.600 It is simply not possible to build our own Twitter.

00:01:26.560 It hasn't been for years.

00:01:28.040 And leftists know it, which is why they keep making the suggestion.

00:01:32.060 Conservatives could try to wield the government to bring these massive corporations into line. 0.84

00:01:37.020 But that's very difficult, if not impossible.

00:01:40.180 And lots of conservatives don't have the stomach for it.

00:01:42.700 And even those of us who do have the stomach for it don't have any real political power in a system dominated almost entirely by the left.

00:01:50.100 But it turns out there's a third option beyond build your own Twitter and break Twitter.

00:01:56.580 And that is buy Twitter.

00:01:59.560 Buy Twitter, which is what Elon Musk is apparently willing to do.

00:02:03.380 Spending more than $41 billion right now on offer.

00:02:09.160 And why is he doing it?

00:02:10.460 My strong intuitive sense is that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization.

00:02:29.100 But you've described yourself.

00:02:30.540 I don't care about the economics at all.

00:02:32.720 OK, that's that's cool to hear.

00:02:35.540 Bingo.

00:02:36.060 So republics govern through speech in the public square.

00:02:40.140 Twitter makes up a huge portion of the public square.

00:02:44.060 And Twitter is keeping lots of Americans out of the public square, including really prominent ones, including Donald Trump, right?

00:02:51.220 Including the duly elected sitting president when they took him out.

00:02:54.300 Which means as a practical matter that right now we are no longer living in a functioning republic.

00:03:00.760 So Elon Musk is going to mount a hostile takeover to take it back.

00:03:04.680 And what happens if that takeover attempt doesn't work?

00:03:08.820 OK, so so you don't like to lose if in this case you are not successful in the board does not accept your offer.

00:03:17.580 You've said you won't go higher.

00:03:18.880 Is there a plan B?

00:03:23.760 There is.

00:03:28.680 I think I think we would like to hear a little bit about plan B.

00:03:32.320 For another time, I think.

00:03:38.780 Another time?

00:03:39.620 Yeah.

00:03:39.880 All right.

00:03:40.880 I love it so much.

00:03:43.060 I don't think I'm going to tell you my plan B.

00:03:45.720 Elon, of course, could have anything up his sleeve.

00:03:48.600 He's currently got more than 9% of the company up his sleeve, meaning that he could sell all of it and tank the stock.

00:03:54.800 Or he might have something even more creative planned.

00:03:58.340 Or, or it might all just be a giant troll to expose the hideous corruption at Twitter and throughout Silicon Valley.

00:04:06.400 Either way, it is the most hopeful moment for conservatives that we have had in politics since election night 2016.

00:04:13.860 I'm Michael Knowles.

00:04:14.880 This is The Michael Knowles Show.

00:04:15.800 Welcome back to the show.

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00:06:28.420 Twitter.

00:06:29.420 Twitter is so upset.

00:06:31.980 Not Twitter users.

00:06:33.060 Twitter users love the potential Elon takeover.

00:06:35.700 But I'm talking about the staff of Twitter.

00:06:38.100 I'm talking about the leadership over at Twitter.

00:06:41.380 They are so-it.

00:06:41.980 Just to be sure that we're not here knocking down straw men, that we're not here stuck in our own echo chamber.

00:06:48.500 I'm really pleased to be joined right now by the staff and leadership over at Twitter headquarters.

00:06:54.960 Hey, guys.

00:06:56.820 Thank you, one, for being here.

00:06:58.380 And two, what is your reaction to the news that Elon Musk might be taking over Twitter?

00:07:02.460 That's pretty articulate.

00:07:14.940 It's about as articulate as I thought it was going to be.

00:07:17.320 No, no.

00:07:18.520 They are really, really upset right now.

00:07:21.500 And they're upset because they're going to lose a lot of political power.

00:07:25.220 This is not about the financials at all.

00:07:27.540 The stock soared when Elon Musk announced that he had bought some of it.

00:07:33.420 So it's not about the financials.

00:07:34.540 It's about the real value of Twitter, which is that Twitter allows you to control discourse in America.

00:07:41.020 By the way, Twitter is the smallest of the big tech platforms by far.

00:07:44.220 It doesn't have a particularly large user base.

00:07:47.000 Facebook, for instance, has a much, much larger user base than Twitter.

00:07:50.380 And Google controls way more information, really, than either of them.

00:07:53.540 But Twitter sets the news cycle because of the people who are on Twitter, you've got a ton of journalists.

00:08:01.280 You've got a ton of those blue checks who have a lot of influence. 0.52

00:08:04.720 And so if you can control the narrative on Twitter, in many ways, you're controlling the news cycle.

00:08:09.500 That's the reason that Elon's going in there to buy it right now, I suspect.

00:08:13.260 That's at least why people are excited that he's going to do that.

00:08:16.060 And there's a lot of powerful entrenched interests who want to make sure that that doesn't happen.

00:08:22.640 One of the wildest examples was Saudi Arabia. 1.00

00:08:27.160 So in response to Elon Musk's potential takeover, Saudi Arabia has just come out and said,

00:08:33.560 listen, the kingdom has a lot of stock in Twitter.

00:08:37.100 And we don't think that the price that Elon is offering, which is at a huge premium, by the way,

00:08:42.180 over what the stock is actually worth today.

00:08:44.780 He's offering something like $54 per share.

00:08:47.380 It's way up.

00:08:48.040 It's over 50% over what the price was when Elon bought into Twitter and the 38% over what the price

00:08:54.860 was right before Elon announced that he had bought into Twitter.

00:08:58.200 But the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for whatever reason, says, no, we don't think this is high

00:09:01.700 enough.

00:09:02.200 Why is that?

00:09:02.860 Well, Elon Musk asks the question.

00:09:04.540 He says, interesting.

00:09:05.620 Two questions here, if I may.

00:09:07.400 How much of Twitter does the kingdom own directly and indirectly?

00:09:11.200 And two, what are the kingdom's views on journalistic freedom of speech?

00:09:15.400 And that second question is important because we know that Saudi Arabia likes to take a hacksaw 0.99

00:09:22.360 to journalistic freedom of speech.

00:09:24.780 And notably, in the case of Jamal Khashoggi, who was not merely just some independent journalist

00:09:32.140 shedding light on issues.

00:09:33.600 Jamal Khashoggi did write for the Washington Post.

00:09:36.300 He also was a Saudi regime insider.

00:09:38.440 He also was a spy for the regime.

00:09:40.180 He also was on the wrong side of political issues in Saudi Arabia.

00:09:43.440 This became a big political football a few years ago.

00:09:46.480 But the question is a good one from Elon Musk.

00:09:48.880 What is it, Saudi Arabia, about Twitter that is so valuable to you?

00:09:54.640 Saudi Arabia just pumps money out of the ground.

00:09:57.680 Some, the smallest big tech company doesn't matter as a financial issue to Saudi Arabia.

00:10:02.340 It matters as a political issue to set the agenda.

00:10:05.500 And so frankly, even if the Elon takeover doesn't work, or even if he backs out in the end,

00:10:09.900 the fact that he's exposing all of this corruption there is a service into itself, unto itself rather.

00:10:16.180 And you're seeing this kind of bare knuckle politics throughout the system.

00:10:22.440 The RNC has just made an excellent announcement.

00:10:25.760 So rare to say that about the RNC, which usually only does extremely stupid things and clutches defeat

00:10:31.100 from the jaws of victory.

00:10:32.020 But the RNC made a great announcement.

00:10:34.420 The RNC is going to pull out of the Nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates.

00:10:41.480 That commission, it sounds really nice, doesn't it?

00:10:44.480 It's nonpartisan, so they say.

00:10:46.860 It's just a way that we can all come together.

00:10:49.040 What are you, oh, you awful Republicans.

00:10:51.220 What are you, you're afraid of debate.

00:10:53.060 You refuse to work across the aisle.

00:10:55.160 You're putting party before country.

00:10:57.080 No, the commission on presidential debates is a rigged game.

00:11:02.360 It has been for a long time.

00:11:03.960 Bob Dole pointed this out in 2020.

00:11:06.560 Bob Dole, who was the 1996 Republican nominee for president.

00:11:09.940 Bob Dole, major force in Republican politics for half a century.

00:11:14.620 Dole came out and he said, this is not fair to Trump.

00:11:17.000 Because yes, while technically the nonpartisan commission on presidential debates

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00:11:23.500 Dole said, no one on the commission supports Trump.

00:11:28.140 Even the Republicans on the commission are those squishy Republican types

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00:11:34.840 So it's just a totally rigged system.

00:11:36.840 And we know this in all the major presidential years.

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00:11:45.600 In the big presidential debates,

00:11:48.740 the debate moderators have tried to throw the debates for the Democrat.

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00:11:58.580 You saw this with Candy Crowley.

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00:12:00.800 Candy Crowley during the debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

00:12:04.960 Also lied on behalf of Barack Obama,

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00:12:11.160 Possibly through the election.

00:12:12.280 Probably wasn't that.

00:12:13.580 It probably wasn't sufficient to actually throw the election.

00:12:15.600 Romney didn't run a great campaign.

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00:14:04.040 Okay, more great news for the right. 0.86

00:14:08.700 We're going to take the wins when we can get them.

00:14:10.600 There's always so much bad news for conservatives,

00:14:12.840 for the right, for a traditional way of life.

00:14:15.120 Let's take the big wins when we can get them.

00:14:17.020 Ron DeSantis, down there in Florida,

00:14:20.180 has just signed a major abortion ban.

00:14:23.840 And not only that, but they say flattery will get you nowhere.

00:14:27.640 That's not necessarily true in politics.

00:14:29.560 Ron DeSantis, as he's signing this major abortion ban,

00:14:33.000 cites Daily Wire as one of the inspirations.

00:14:36.700 You see how that type of mindset has led to things

00:14:43.580 that really shocked the conscience in our society.

00:14:46.720 We just saw this terrible scandal in Washington, D.C.

00:14:51.740 Is Mary Margaret here from the Daily Wire?

00:14:55.940 There's Mary Margaret.

00:14:57.060 She did this great expose.

00:15:00.360 They found all these remains of babies,

00:15:05.140 and they found five who were basically infants, premature.

00:15:09.340 They would have been, but they would have been able to survive,

00:15:12.340 you know, outside the womb.

00:15:13.660 And yet Washington, D.C. is treating that

00:15:17.020 just like we would treat the trash from our lunch or something like that.

00:15:21.620 And it's really horrifying to see that that could go on in our country,

00:15:26.160 but particularly in our nation's capital.

00:15:28.540 And so that is callous.

00:15:30.360 That is wrong.

00:15:31.660 And I want to thank her and Daily Wire for exposing it.

00:15:36.360 So great stuff.

00:15:38.320 I'm glad that Governor DeSantis recognized Mary Margaret Olihan,

00:15:42.060 who's doing really great journalistic work.

00:15:44.060 It's nice that he mentioned Daily Wire.

00:15:45.400 But the law itself is just great.

00:15:48.320 He's banning abortion after 15 weeks.

00:15:52.200 Really important stuff.

00:15:54.660 There is a good chance that Roe versus Wade will be overturned

00:15:58.440 in a matter of a couple of months.

00:16:00.920 This would be the most important political development,

00:16:05.260 I guess, in my lifetime.

00:16:06.860 If you're talking about now saving hundreds of thousands of babies per year,

00:16:10.640 at least, that would be great.

00:16:12.420 And so the states are setting the stage.

00:16:14.320 One, they set the stage for the court challenge.

00:16:16.280 And then two, what happens in a post-Roe versus Wade world.

00:16:20.940 And DeSantis is doing a great job on this.

00:16:23.380 One, because it's the right thing.

00:16:24.940 And I think DeSantis has a really good political compass.

00:16:28.420 And I think as far as politicians go, at least,

00:16:30.220 he does seem to have a good moral compass.

00:16:33.360 The other reason he's doing it is because it's a political winner.

00:16:36.360 And frankly, this is even more important to me

00:16:38.540 because it means that there are now real incentives

00:16:41.000 for Republican politicians around the country to follow this stuff.

00:16:46.200 If you are a Republican governor right now

00:16:48.680 and you have higher political aspirations,

00:16:51.600 pass one of these bills.

00:16:53.400 Do it.

00:16:53.940 Not only is it the right thing to do,

00:16:55.980 but it is in your political interest.

00:16:59.260 That is where the public opinion has gone.

00:17:01.340 That is where the culture is moving.

00:17:02.940 That is where the country is moving.

00:17:04.540 And oh, by the way, it's the right thing to do.

00:17:06.340 Really, really good stuff out of Florida.

00:17:08.900 What's the other side offering?

00:17:11.000 For years, the other side muddied the waters on abortion

00:17:13.280 by saying, look, we don't support abortion.

00:17:16.120 We just think it should be safe, legal, and rare.

00:17:19.580 Abortion's a really bad thing,

00:17:21.360 but it should be legal for some reason.

00:17:24.340 Why is it a bad thing?

00:17:26.480 Oh, because it murders babies. 0.99

00:17:27.860 Well, then if it murders babies,

00:17:29.220 why should it be legal?

00:17:30.460 They never explained that,

00:17:31.400 but they used enough squishy language

00:17:33.440 that the old Clinton answer, safe, legal, and rare,

00:17:36.140 that it muddied the waters.

00:17:38.240 That's not the message of the left anymore.

00:17:40.520 The message of the left is celebrate abortion

00:17:42.580 on demand without apology.

00:17:44.760 There was a tweet that went viral

00:17:46.820 from a woman who was celebrating an abortion

00:17:50.160 she had just had.

00:17:51.760 And the story looks legit to me.

00:17:54.400 The woman took a picture of a cake. 0.98

00:17:56.260 The cake said, it's a boy.

00:17:57.580 And then over the Y, she wrote,

00:18:00.360 orted.

00:18:01.600 So it's aborted.

00:18:04.220 And the woman wrote, quote, 1.00

00:18:06.300 abortion is healthcare and also traumatic,

00:18:08.920 so if you do have one,

00:18:09.980 please gather all of your closest friends

00:18:11.580 after to celebrate.

00:18:12.900 Be around endless love and happiness

00:18:14.760 for your decision.

00:18:16.060 Thanks to everyone who came last night.

00:18:21.960 Two major problems here with what she just said.

00:18:24.400 I suspect, given how sad and desperate

00:18:26.600 this post is,

00:18:28.060 I actually suspect this is real.

00:18:29.340 I don't think it's a troll or a setup.

00:18:31.220 She says, you gotta be around

00:18:32.320 endless love and happiness.

00:18:34.780 Well, the only way you're gonna get

00:18:36.420 endless love and happiness

00:18:37.420 is in the life of the world to come, okay?

00:18:39.860 You're only gonna get that in eternity in heaven.

00:18:42.180 Here, we live in a finite world.

00:18:43.880 And in a finite world,

00:18:45.140 eventually the party's over.

00:18:46.700 And eventually the friends go home.

00:18:48.500 And eventually the lights go out.

00:18:50.600 And then what are you left with?

00:18:52.340 If you are so desperate to manufacture

00:18:55.380 some artificial sense of celebration and happiness,

00:18:58.920 how long can you keep that up?

00:19:01.660 Eventually, once the party's over,

00:19:04.500 what are you gonna be left with?

00:19:05.960 That same nagging feeling

00:19:08.200 that you were trying to paper over

00:19:09.740 with the balloons and the streamers

00:19:11.700 and the festivities.

00:19:12.880 And what is that nagging feeling?

00:19:14.300 The nagging feeling comes

00:19:15.420 from what you say is a traumatic event.

00:19:18.400 That's my one question here, lady.

00:19:23.200 Why is abortion traumatic?

00:19:26.020 Why is it traumatic?

00:19:27.740 It's healthcare, you say?

00:19:29.700 It's a good thing.

00:19:31.620 It's something to celebrate.

00:19:34.080 So then why is it traumatic?

00:19:37.400 Well, because it's a difficult decision.

00:19:41.680 Right.

00:19:42.420 Why is it a difficult decision?

00:19:44.760 Well, because it's a,

00:19:47.760 look, it's a complex issue.

00:19:49.500 Sure.

00:19:49.820 Okay.

00:19:50.000 You're just asking,

00:19:50.940 you're just making the same statement

00:19:52.180 over and over again.

00:19:52.960 Why is it a complex issue?

00:19:54.620 Because it involves a mother killing her child.

00:19:59.560 That's why.

00:20:00.320 That's where the trauma comes from.

00:20:02.240 We're not just talking about physical trauma.

00:20:04.720 We're talking about emotional trauma here, right?

00:20:06.820 That's why you've got to be around the love

00:20:07.880 and the happiness and the festivities

00:20:09.100 and everyone telling you,

00:20:09.800 telling you you made the right decision,

00:20:11.020 even though you didn't.

00:20:11.680 So if it is traumatic,

00:20:15.400 if you're being eaten away from the inside

00:20:19.840 and you just know it's so awful

00:20:21.080 that you've got to try to manufacture

00:20:22.520 some semblance of happiness,

00:20:24.960 how about we just be honest

00:20:26.200 and say you shouldn't have done it

00:20:27.340 in the first place?

00:20:28.500 You're going to be a lot happier

00:20:30.080 if you just face up to that.

00:20:32.660 If you have an abortion,

00:20:34.040 that doesn't mean that your life is over

00:20:36.100 and you're condemned to hell 0.64

00:20:37.080 and you'll never have a moment of happiness

00:20:40.060 or joy again.

00:20:40.720 You actually do have the prospect

00:20:42.480 of happiness and joy available to you,

00:20:44.340 but you've got to be honest with yourself

00:20:46.400 about what you did

00:20:47.420 and you've got to repent.

00:20:49.840 You have to change your mind.

00:20:51.000 That's what repentance means.

00:20:51.800 It means changing your mind.

00:20:53.300 You have to turn your mind.

00:20:54.760 You have to turn the way you're thinking about it

00:20:56.080 and be honest.

00:20:57.040 And if you're just going to live in delusion

00:20:58.560 and denial

00:20:59.140 and beg all of your friends to come

00:21:01.700 and pretend that this horrible, horrific act

00:21:03.960 is somehow other than it is,

00:21:06.060 you're never going to be happy again.

00:21:08.020 That's always going to be eating away at you.

00:21:09.780 Now, there's an abortion activist 1.00

00:21:11.360 who just made a similar kind of post.

00:21:13.600 Prominent abortion activist.

00:21:15.240 She said, quote,

00:21:17.020 posted a picture of a book called

00:21:18.540 What's an Abortion Anyway? 1.00

00:21:19.860 It's a little children's book

00:21:20.880 and you've got a couple of kids in the background.

00:21:22.760 Her kids, I guess.

00:21:23.760 And she says,

00:21:24.280 this has been our family's bedtime story

00:21:25.920 on our vacation this week

00:21:27.060 as my niece loves this book

00:21:28.620 and reads it to her little sister every night.

00:21:31.020 Okay, I guess it's her nieces.

00:21:32.500 Our family was created by abortion,

00:21:35.220 adoption, and parenting decisions.

00:21:38.220 I love our family.

00:21:40.760 And then she plugs the book.

00:21:44.080 Whatever else might be true or sincere

00:21:48.420 in this woman's understanding of what happened,

00:21:51.320 the one thing that I know for a fact was a lie

00:21:53.640 is that she says,

00:21:56.120 our family was created by abortion.

00:21:58.400 No family is ever created by abortion.

00:22:00.840 Families are destroyed by abortion.

00:22:02.200 That's all abortion can do 1.00

00:22:03.620 because abortion means killing someone in your family, right? 0.94

00:22:06.980 Presumably, the mother is the one

00:22:10.240 who's getting the abortion. 1.00

00:22:11.620 And so the abortion is destroying your family.

00:22:13.800 It's so ghoulish.

00:22:14.700 I mean, the Post itself is saying,

00:22:16.820 hey, kids, hey, kids, read this book

00:22:19.200 and be happy I didn't kill you.

00:22:20.560 Be happy it was only your siblings.

00:22:23.560 Ghoulish.

00:22:24.260 And we all know it's ghoulish.

00:22:25.440 And this woman knows it's ghoulish. 0.94

00:22:26.720 And the lady doth protest too much, me thinks. 1.00

00:22:30.040 If she or the cake lady, 0.83

00:22:32.660 if they were really confident in their decision,

00:22:36.540 if they were really secure

00:22:37.620 and they felt this really is the good thing,

00:22:39.500 they wouldn't be lighting up a freaking cake.

00:22:42.800 And they wouldn't be making these posts.

00:22:44.900 And they wouldn't be writing books

00:22:46.600 about how great it was

00:22:48.260 that they're now trying to show to kids

00:22:50.280 to convince the kids

00:22:51.580 who obviously know better.

00:22:53.560 and they wouldn't be posting it constantly

00:22:56.040 all the time.

00:22:56.880 I'm so good.

00:22:57.660 I made the right decision.

00:22:58.960 I'm ready.

00:22:59.400 You can read them gritting their teeth

00:23:02.460 in the posts.

00:23:04.960 Because they know it's wrong.

00:23:08.780 It's not.

00:23:10.740 The guilt that you feel for this

00:23:12.760 is not coming from me.

00:23:15.100 I suspect neither of these ladies watch my show

00:23:17.400 or listen to my show

00:23:18.560 or listen to many other conservatives.

00:23:19.920 I suspect they've probably ensconced themselves

00:23:22.880 in as much of a bubble

00:23:24.520 as they possibly can ideologically.

00:23:27.840 And I bet they just invite

00:23:28.820 all of their pro-abortion friends

00:23:30.300 to constantly affirm them

00:23:32.060 in their bad decision.

00:23:33.360 And yet they still know it's wrong.

00:23:34.980 They are still wracked

00:23:36.400 by this nagging guilt.

00:23:38.560 That is called your conscience.

00:23:40.940 And you are not,

00:23:42.200 oh man,

00:23:42.880 you are not ever going to feel better

00:23:44.420 by trying to ignore

00:23:46.320 and suppress your conscience.

00:23:48.560 By trying to deny

00:23:50.080 the shame and the guilt

00:23:51.760 that you feel.

00:23:53.340 Shame and guilt

00:23:54.040 are a healthy thing.

00:23:55.540 They can be a healthy thing at least.

00:23:57.620 Because they're telling you

00:23:58.620 you're going down the wrong path.

00:24:01.060 You can turn around.

00:24:02.120 The shame and the guilt

00:24:02.660 is not the end of the story.

00:24:04.280 But you,

00:24:05.480 it's like how we feel pain.

00:24:08.660 Right?

00:24:09.240 It's good that we feel pain.

00:24:10.800 It's good that we feel pain

00:24:11.680 because we know that we're in danger.

00:24:12.980 When I put my hand on a hot stove,

00:24:15.100 I'm glad that I can feel pain

00:24:16.580 because I know,

00:24:17.600 get my hand away.

00:24:18.300 Do something different.

00:24:19.920 Same thing here

00:24:20.780 with our moral conscience.

00:24:24.660 Guilt,

00:24:25.820 shame,

00:24:26.140 they can be very,

00:24:26.920 very good things.

00:24:27.860 Speaking of guilt,

00:24:30.240 this is on a,

00:24:31.480 this is still regards the leftists,

00:24:33.420 but it's on a completely different issue.

00:24:36.320 BLM is in a lot of trouble. 0.98

00:24:38.220 And BLM is in a lot of trouble

00:24:39.740 because BLM,

00:24:41.700 which we once believed

00:24:42.560 stood for Black Lives Matter,

00:24:45.080 actually,

00:24:45.720 it turns out,

00:24:46.280 stands for

00:24:46.720 Buy Large Mansions.

00:24:49.080 BLM raised 0.99

00:24:50.600 tens of millions of dollars.

00:24:53.920 Something like $90 million

00:24:55.580 a couple of years ago,

00:24:57.740 you know,

00:24:57.980 especially at the height

00:24:58.680 of the George Floyd riots.

00:25:00.740 And no one seems to be able

00:25:02.420 to track

00:25:03.020 where all of that money went.

00:25:05.100 And when the financial

00:25:06.500 irregularities popped up,

00:25:08.020 the leaders of the organization

00:25:09.160 all headed for the hills.

00:25:10.340 And now we find out

00:25:11.360 that BLM

00:25:12.580 spent upwards of $6 million

00:25:14.260 on just one mansion

00:25:15.760 in Los Angeles.

00:25:17.160 And whenever we ask

00:25:17.860 any questions about it,

00:25:19.360 the co-founders of BLM

00:25:20.860 say,

00:25:21.300 hey,

00:25:21.960 that's a triggering,

00:25:24.500 dangerous question.

00:25:27.800 Patrice Cullors,

00:25:28.900 who is one of the co-founders

00:25:31.400 of BLM,

00:25:31.940 there were three co-founders,

00:25:33.020 all of them

00:25:33.680 avowed Marxists.

00:25:36.520 And,

00:25:36.960 but pretty clever

00:25:37.520 were political operatives.

00:25:38.380 Obviously,

00:25:38.780 they made a lot of money.

00:25:40.560 Patrice Cullors

00:25:41.160 was just responding

00:25:42.280 to a question

00:25:43.100 about the Black Lives Matter

00:25:44.580 Global Network Foundation,

00:25:46.480 which has come under scrutiny now,

00:25:48.120 in particular for the purchase

00:25:49.280 of one mansion in Los Angeles

00:25:50.780 worth $5.8 million.

00:25:53.760 And she was asked,

00:25:54.920 hey,

00:25:55.120 what's going on

00:25:55.760 with your financial disclosures?

00:25:57.260 How come you guys

00:25:57.920 seem to have been hiding

00:25:58.620 all this stuff?

00:25:59.480 Where are your 990 forms?

00:26:01.600 Right,

00:26:01.800 990 forms,

00:26:02.560 the basic tax form

00:26:03.920 that nonprofit organizations

00:26:05.220 have to fill out.

00:26:06.800 And this woman,

00:26:08.560 credit where credit's due

00:26:09.820 for the sheer chutzpah,

00:26:11.060 for the sheer audacity

00:26:12.020 of this answer.

00:26:12.720 She says,

00:26:13.400 it's such a trip

00:26:15.280 to hear the term 990.

00:26:18.040 This is like

00:26:19.200 deeply unsafe.

00:26:21.520 This is literally

00:26:22.660 being weaponized

00:26:24.400 against us,

00:26:25.580 against the people 0.98

00:26:26.400 we work with.

00:26:28.540 She says,

00:26:29.020 BLM has been, 1.00

00:26:30.220 quote,

00:26:30.640 attacked and scrutinized

00:26:32.400 for the financial activities.

00:26:34.120 Quote,

00:26:34.580 people's morale

00:26:35.340 in an organization

00:26:36.320 is so important.

00:26:38.200 But if their organization

00:26:39.300 and the people in it

00:26:40.040 are being attacked

00:26:40.880 and scrutinized

00:26:41.780 at everything they do,

00:26:42.760 that leads to deep burnout.

00:26:44.540 That leads to deep

00:26:45.980 like resistance

00:26:47.580 and trauma.

00:26:49.340 So,

00:26:50.060 her argument

00:26:51.280 is that

00:26:52.480 the IRS

00:26:54.020 doing the same

00:26:56.160 sort of analysis

00:26:56.980 of BLM

00:26:57.760 that it would do

00:26:58.300 of any nonprofit organization

00:27:00.300 or any individual

00:27:01.120 for that matter,

00:27:01.840 is triggering

00:27:04.180 and unsafe

00:27:06.080 and it should not happen.

00:27:08.220 Not only

00:27:08.920 should BLM

00:27:10.660 be permitted

00:27:11.400 to burn the country down

00:27:12.620 with impunity

00:27:13.300 as they suggested

00:27:15.340 in 2020,

00:27:16.700 but BLM

00:27:18.180 also should be permitted

00:27:19.420 to launder money

00:27:21.580 and engage

00:27:22.800 in all manner

00:27:23.560 of financial corruption

00:27:24.580 without the IRS

00:27:25.920 looking into it.

00:27:26.700 Anything else

00:27:27.180 would be racism,

00:27:28.420 would be triggering,

00:27:29.580 would be violent,

00:27:30.200 they're just saying,

00:27:33.000 hey,

00:27:33.740 we're a criminal organization

00:27:35.160 and you better

00:27:36.760 not look into us.

00:27:38.740 That's a nice

00:27:39.880 political order

00:27:40.560 you got there.

00:27:41.160 Sure would be a shame

00:27:42.060 if something happened to it.

00:27:43.100 This woman

00:27:43.580 makes Al Capone

00:27:45.020 look like

00:27:46.040 a Boy Scout.

00:27:48.300 And you gotta,

00:27:49.140 in a way,

00:27:49.580 you gotta kind of

00:27:50.180 respect the game.

00:27:51.320 At least she's being

00:27:52.100 open about it.

00:27:52.760 This is a woman

00:27:53.200 who's gone on camera

00:27:53.940 and said,

00:27:54.200 yeah,

00:27:54.280 I'm a Marxist.

00:27:55.200 I want to completely

00:27:56.080 upend society.

00:27:57.500 Yeah,

00:27:57.740 it's fine.

00:27:58.140 I'm not gonna make

00:27:58.680 any apologies

00:27:59.260 for BLM burning

00:28:00.120 the country down

00:28:00.780 or committing

00:28:01.160 all sorts of violence

00:28:02.160 or threatening people

00:28:03.380 or embezzling money

00:28:04.940 and funneling money

00:28:06.180 into all these crazy ways

00:28:07.940 and enriching myself.

00:28:08.940 I'm not gonna apologize

00:28:09.780 at all.

00:28:10.220 What are you gonna do

00:28:10.940 about it?

00:28:11.360 Take the gun,

00:28:11.940 leave the cannoli.

00:28:12.640 We're outta here.

00:28:14.620 Now,

00:28:14.840 you have to have

00:28:15.420 a kind of grudging respect

00:28:16.440 for that brazenness,

00:28:17.600 for that audacity.

00:28:18.360 Are we gonna do

00:28:18.820 anything about it?

00:28:19.660 This group,

00:28:20.560 BLM,

00:28:20.960 is a criminal organization.

00:28:22.980 There should be

00:28:23.680 RICO cases

00:28:24.900 against these guys.

00:28:26.160 This is,

00:28:26.480 this is racketeering.

00:28:28.000 This is,

00:28:29.060 these guys are doing

00:28:29.740 everything that the

00:28:30.460 five families did

00:28:31.280 in New York,

00:28:32.280 except on a much

00:28:33.020 larger scale.

00:28:34.560 Are we gonna do

00:28:35.100 anything about that?

00:28:35.840 Are we gonna investigate

00:28:36.720 and prosecute them?

00:28:38.800 Not as long as

00:28:39.900 this ruling class

00:28:40.700 is allowed to maintain

00:28:41.580 their power

00:28:42.500 because the ruling class,

00:28:44.220 the Democratic Party

00:28:45.180 in particular,

00:28:46.540 relies on BLM

00:28:48.160 to be its militant wing.

00:28:50.120 It's the terrorist wing

00:28:51.160 of the political elite.

00:28:52.840 Speaking of crime,

00:28:55.700 a really strange story

00:28:56.740 out of a female prison. 0.95

00:28:58.860 This is a women's only

00:29:00.060 prison in New Jersey

00:29:01.120 where two of the female 0.99

00:29:04.880 inmates were just

00:29:06.700 impregnated by one

00:29:09.000 of the other female

00:29:10.480 inmates.

00:29:11.860 Now,

00:29:12.120 I,

00:29:12.660 like a future

00:29:14.160 Supreme Court Justice

00:29:14.960 Ketanji Jackson,

00:29:16.340 I am not a biologist.

00:29:18.720 I suppose

00:29:19.680 this could be

00:29:20.660 miraculous

00:29:21.260 or there could be

00:29:21.940 some development

00:29:22.560 in by,

00:29:23.000 or,

00:29:23.940 oh,

00:29:24.280 right,

00:29:25.400 right,

00:29:25.960 that female inmate 1.00

00:29:27.060 is not really a female.

00:29:28.820 She is a he, 1.00

00:29:30.360 it's a dude

00:29:30.960 who's pretending

00:29:31.480 to be a woman

00:29:32.080 who has now just

00:29:33.520 knocked up

00:29:34.040 two of the inmates.

00:29:35.920 This occurs

00:29:36.760 less than a year

00:29:38.500 after the state

00:29:39.060 began to adopt

00:29:39.760 this new

00:29:41.100 transgender theory

00:29:42.060 into the prison system

00:29:43.520 which places inmates

00:29:45.340 in the system

00:29:46.240 in,

00:29:47.320 based on their

00:29:48.460 gender identity

00:29:49.320 rather than

00:29:49.840 their actual sex.

00:29:52.140 This story

00:29:52.980 is going to be

00:29:53.560 suppressed

00:29:53.960 because it

00:29:54.540 is just another

00:29:55.920 example

00:29:56.560 exposing

00:29:57.560 the transgender

00:29:58.820 nonsense

00:30:00.840 for what it is

00:30:02.140 which is an absurdity.

00:30:04.020 This story,

00:30:05.140 apparently,

00:30:06.000 the inmates

00:30:07.400 who were impregnated

00:30:08.420 were impregnated

00:30:09.540 willingly.

00:30:11.060 Apparently,

00:30:11.660 that's not totally

00:30:12.480 clear,

00:30:13.060 but I think

00:30:13.820 that's generally

00:30:15.300 what's being reported.

00:30:17.320 But let's

00:30:18.620 take it

00:30:19.040 further.

00:30:20.560 What is one

00:30:21.360 of the main

00:30:21.980 things that

00:30:22.580 occurs in prison?

00:30:25.200 Rape.

00:30:26.500 Rape.

00:30:27.020 It occurs

00:30:27.420 so frequently

00:30:28.120 in prison

00:30:28.600 that it's a joke.

00:30:30.020 Right?

00:30:30.300 The joke is,

00:30:30.960 hey,

00:30:31.100 you're going to prison.

00:30:31.840 Don't drop the soap.

00:30:33.100 Hey,

00:30:33.320 you're going to prison.

00:30:34.260 You better punch

00:30:35.020 the strongest guy

00:30:35.920 in there

00:30:36.300 because you're

00:30:36.720 going to be

00:30:36.940 made somebody's

00:30:37.600 girlfriend.

00:30:38.360 You're going

00:30:38.720 to be the

00:30:39.120 girlfriend of

00:30:39.680 Bubba

00:30:40.000 when you go

00:30:40.540 in there,

00:30:40.980 buddy.

00:30:41.540 Right?

00:30:41.760 This is a joke

00:30:42.880 in movies

00:30:43.400 just throughout

00:30:43.940 our culture.

00:30:45.800 And I guess

00:30:48.120 it's bad enough

00:30:49.080 when we're talking

00:30:49.580 about single-sex

00:30:50.440 prisons.

00:30:51.440 But now,

00:30:52.160 let's say

00:30:52.420 you've got

00:30:52.800 hardened male

00:30:54.720 criminals

00:30:55.280 going into

00:30:56.940 female prisons. 1.00

00:30:59.060 It's a little

00:30:59.400 less funny,

00:31:00.180 isn't it?

00:31:00.560 It's a little

00:31:00.920 more,

00:31:02.020 it's a lot

00:31:02.760 more jarring.

00:31:04.420 Well,

00:31:04.820 this could never

00:31:05.300 happen,

00:31:05.700 they tell us.

00:31:06.340 You're just

00:31:06.780 arguing about

00:31:07.300 some slippery slope.

00:31:08.220 No,

00:31:08.340 of course,

00:31:08.680 it's not only

00:31:09.560 is this stuff

00:31:10.520 going to happen.

00:31:11.060 It is happening

00:31:11.620 now.

00:31:12.200 So what is

00:31:12.880 your absurd

00:31:13.820 false gender 0.83

00:31:15.040 ideology worth

00:31:16.240 to you?

00:31:16.700 Is it worth

00:31:17.220 lots of

00:31:18.160 prisoners?

00:31:18.680 Well,

00:31:18.860 one,

00:31:19.140 getting knocked

00:31:19.580 up,

00:31:19.820 that creates

00:31:20.140 a huge

00:31:20.480 problem in

00:31:20.960 and of

00:31:21.100 itself.

00:31:21.400 Think about

00:31:21.620 these poor

00:31:21.940 kids.

00:31:22.500 These poor

00:31:22.860 kids are now

00:31:23.280 going to be

00:31:23.580 born to

00:31:24.420 women in 0.62

00:31:25.340 prison.

00:31:26.180 It's a

00:31:26.520 horrible

00:31:26.780 situation for

00:31:27.780 the women 0.97

00:31:28.120 and for

00:31:28.540 the kids.

00:31:29.520 Or the kids

00:31:30.180 are going to

00:31:30.380 be killed

00:31:30.700 through

00:31:30.860 abortion.

00:31:32.020 Or they're

00:31:32.600 going to be

00:31:32.960 sent into

00:31:33.340 the foster care

00:31:33.900 system.

00:31:34.540 This is a

00:31:35.000 horrible

00:31:35.300 situation that

00:31:36.860 only exists

00:31:38.560 now because

00:31:39.520 of the

00:31:40.280 absurd

00:31:41.000 selfish

00:31:41.940 sexual

00:31:42.580 theories

00:31:43.100 of

00:31:43.600 radical

00:31:44.020 degenerates 0.95

00:31:44.620 who are

00:31:44.820 running

00:31:45.020 our

00:31:45.200 country.

00:31:46.160 So that

00:31:46.860 shouldn't

00:31:47.160 happen,

00:31:47.780 period.

00:31:50.080 What's it

00:31:50.740 worth to

00:31:51.060 you?

00:31:51.380 Is it

00:31:51.560 worth,

00:31:51.940 is your

00:31:52.360 radical

00:31:52.720 crazy

00:31:53.400 sexual

00:31:53.840 theory

00:31:54.180 worth

00:31:54.720 getting

00:31:54.960 women 1.00

00:31:55.220 raped? 0.97

00:31:56.540 Because

00:31:56.740 that's

00:31:56.920 what's

00:31:57.060 happening.

00:31:58.160 It's

00:31:58.300 what's

00:31:58.460 going to

00:31:58.660 happen.

00:31:59.620 Of course,

00:32:00.100 we know

00:32:00.940 actually that

00:32:01.900 a transgender

00:32:03.080 bathroom

00:32:04.420 policy in

00:32:05.820 Loudoun County

00:32:06.500 led to

00:32:07.060 multiple

00:32:07.460 rapes of

00:32:08.260 young girls.

00:32:09.520 We know

00:32:10.000 that.

00:32:10.980 Is it

00:32:11.180 worth that

00:32:11.840 to you?

00:32:12.260 What the

00:32:12.680 left would

00:32:13.020 say is

00:32:13.360 yes.

00:32:15.400 We know

00:32:15.940 they would

00:32:16.220 say that

00:32:16.580 because they

00:32:17.020 know the

00:32:17.320 risks and

00:32:17.800 they're pushing

00:32:18.140 this stuff

00:32:18.500 anyway.

00:32:19.020 Can't make

00:32:19.440 an omelette

00:32:19.760 without breaking

00:32:20.280 a few

00:32:20.580 eggs.

00:32:21.160 And the

00:32:21.360 omelette,

00:32:21.740 I guess,

00:32:22.000 is having

00:32:22.260 men dress

00:32:22.680 up like

00:32:22.980 women. 0.81

00:32:23.420 Before we

00:32:23.800 go,

00:32:24.020 I have

00:32:24.360 to get

00:32:24.540 to this

00:32:24.760 story.

00:32:25.400 Before

00:32:25.600 we get

00:32:25.860 into the

00:32:26.140 mailbag,

00:32:27.000 a New

00:32:27.220 York Times

00:32:27.760 pushing

00:32:28.260 this gender

00:32:28.980 bending

00:32:29.280 weird stuff.

00:32:30.520 This is

00:32:30.920 from the

00:32:31.180 style section

00:32:31.780 of the

00:32:32.000 Times.

00:32:33.060 Sexy

00:32:33.500 lingerie

00:32:34.380 for men

00:32:35.100 is here.

00:32:37.420 Lacy

00:32:37.700 thongs 0.97

00:32:38.140 and sheer

00:32:39.240 undergarments

00:32:39.740 designed for

00:32:40.320 men's bodies

00:32:41.080 are shaking

00:32:42.280 up the

00:32:42.860 traditional

00:32:43.320 lingerie

00:32:43.920 market.

00:32:45.800 I'm no

00:32:46.560 expert,

00:32:47.440 but I don't

00:32:48.260 think they

00:32:48.560 are.

00:32:49.380 I don't

00:32:49.860 think so.

00:32:50.280 I don't

00:32:50.560 think men

00:32:51.080 are going,

00:32:51.620 maybe a

00:32:52.780 very small

00:32:53.820 minority

00:32:54.420 of homosexuals 1.00

00:32:57.140 are doing

00:32:57.580 this.

00:32:58.240 A very

00:32:58.820 small minority

00:32:59.500 of an

00:32:59.820 already very

00:33:00.400 small sexual

00:33:01.000 minority

00:33:01.420 maybe are

00:33:02.460 doing this

00:33:03.340 kind of,

00:33:03.840 but this

00:33:04.800 isn't really

00:33:05.440 happening.

00:33:06.380 The Times

00:33:06.900 is just

00:33:07.420 trying to

00:33:08.040 make this

00:33:08.440 happen.

00:33:09.200 The Times

00:33:09.780 like all

00:33:10.580 of our

00:33:11.240 political

00:33:11.820 institutions,

00:33:13.360 all of our

00:33:13.820 major

00:33:14.520 centers of

00:33:15.600 power in

00:33:16.200 the established

00:33:16.640 institutions

00:33:17.200 are trying

00:33:18.780 to push

00:33:19.240 this gender

00:33:19.860 bending

00:33:20.220 weird stuff

00:33:20.980 that the

00:33:21.500 vast majority

00:33:22.160 of Americans

00:33:22.740 don't want.

00:33:24.460 Quit

00:33:24.700 cramming it

00:33:25.320 down our

00:33:25.780 throats.

00:33:26.380 Quit

00:33:26.580 grooming the

00:33:27.120 kids and

00:33:27.520 trying to

00:33:27.940 trans the

00:33:28.360 five-year-olds

00:33:28.920 and quit

00:33:29.260 trying to

00:33:29.600 get me

00:33:29.920 to wear

00:33:30.180 lingerie.

00:33:30.700 I'm not

00:33:30.920 doing it.

00:33:31.840 Darn it.

00:33:32.880 Now as you

00:33:33.280 know,

00:33:33.480 the Daily

00:33:33.840 Wire is

00:33:34.380 intent on

00:33:35.040 changing the

00:33:35.620 culture,

00:33:36.160 which is why

00:33:36.740 we are

00:33:37.140 actively

00:33:37.600 changing it

00:33:39.420 in as many

00:33:40.320 ways as we

00:33:40.900 can.

00:33:41.280 We're doing it

00:33:42.440 in books,

00:33:42.860 we're doing it

00:33:43.220 in movies,

00:33:43.680 we're doing it

00:33:44.080 in everything.

00:33:44.780 So we've got

00:33:45.140 this publishing

00:33:45.640 winning DW

00:33:46.180 books.

00:33:47.100 We're really

00:33:47.460 happy to

00:33:47.820 publish books

00:33:48.260 that are

00:33:48.460 actively

00:33:48.840 fighting the

00:33:49.360 left's

00:33:49.620 monopoly on

00:33:50.180 storytelling,

00:33:51.200 such as

00:33:52.100 Fiery but

00:33:52.920 Mostly Peaceful,

00:33:53.620 the 2020

00:33:54.040 Riots and the

00:33:54.700 Gaslighting of

00:33:55.280 America by

00:33:55.820 Julio Rosas,

00:33:56.640 who pulls back

00:33:57.600 the curtains on

00:33:58.320 the BLM

00:33:58.860 riots that

00:33:59.420 broke out

00:33:59.780 across the

00:34:00.200 country and

00:34:01.620 burned city

00:34:02.500 after city

00:34:02.940 down.

00:34:03.500 Rosas exposes

00:34:04.260 the media's

00:34:04.820 attempts to

00:34:05.560 convince Americans

00:34:06.320 that the fatal

00:34:07.400 riots, the

00:34:08.500 destructive violent

00:34:09.400 riots, were

00:34:10.820 peaceful.

00:34:11.360 Here's the

00:34:11.620 trailer.

00:34:11.820 The media

00:34:13.300 gaslighted the

00:34:13.980 American people

00:34:14.680 for all of

00:34:15.340 2020 as the

00:34:16.220 riots unfolded.

00:34:17.140 They did not

00:34:17.540 give you the

00:34:18.080 full story.

00:34:19.380 I was there.

00:34:20.460 George Floyd,

00:34:21.120 Kyle Rittenhouse,

00:34:21.800 Rayshard Brooks,

00:34:22.660 Chaz in Seattle.

00:34:24.240 I saw all the

00:34:25.460 riots with my

00:34:26.300 own eyes.

00:34:27.140 Windshields being

00:34:27.940 smashed, giant

00:34:28.640 rocks that were

00:34:29.400 being thrown,

00:34:30.320 businesses that

00:34:31.000 were starting to

00:34:31.960 be looted.

00:34:32.780 The crowd started

00:34:33.440 to become hostile.

00:34:35.500 All the cops were

00:34:36.480 trapped and

00:34:37.200 surrounded.

00:34:37.780 Police were being

00:34:38.660 ordered to retreat.

00:34:39.760 I experienced the

00:34:40.920 tear gas, I

00:34:41.680 experienced the

00:34:42.280 smoke.

00:34:43.060 This was very

00:34:43.640 real to me.

00:34:45.240 The mainstream

00:34:45.660 media, they were

00:34:46.680 trying to call

00:34:47.240 them protests.

00:34:48.100 CNN with that

00:34:48.880 chyron saying

00:34:49.640 fiery but mostly

00:34:50.520 peaceful.

00:34:51.180 They were trying

00:34:51.680 to push a narrative

00:34:52.320 of don't believe

00:34:53.760 your lying eyes

00:34:54.820 because they were

00:34:55.420 trying to appease

00:34:56.500 that very dedicated

00:34:57.560 Antifa movement

00:34:58.860 that's there.

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00:35:18.160 We will be right

00:35:18.920 back with the

00:35:20.480 mailbag.

00:35:33.400 Welcome back to

00:35:34.260 my absolute

00:35:35.060 favorite time of

00:35:35.800 the week when I

00:35:36.260 get to hear from

00:35:36.840 you in the

00:35:37.600 mailbag.

00:35:37.980 First question up

00:35:39.420 is from Sam.

00:35:40.460 Dear Michael,

00:35:41.540 I'm in my 30s and

00:35:43.000 a wife and mother

00:35:44.400 of two small

00:35:45.240 children.

00:35:45.720 I'm doing my best

00:35:46.480 to live a wholesome

00:35:47.040 life and raise our

00:35:47.800 children well but

00:35:48.840 when I was younger

00:35:49.540 I had multiple

00:35:50.320 abortions and all

00:35:51.380 I can say is that

00:35:52.340 it destroyed my

00:35:52.960 life and any

00:35:53.960 semblance of

00:35:54.600 self-respect I

00:35:55.300 may have once

00:35:56.040 had.

00:35:56.980 My feelings about

00:35:57.820 it get worse and

00:35:58.540 worse as I get

00:35:59.180 older and the

00:35:59.800 thought of what

00:36:00.240 I participated in

00:36:01.200 makes me almost

00:36:02.000 physically ill.

00:36:03.240 There were even

00:36:03.900 times over the

00:36:04.820 years that I felt

00:36:05.500 suicidal.

00:36:06.080 I still struggle

00:36:07.220 with the feeling

00:36:07.840 that I do not

00:36:08.560 deserve to be

00:36:09.080 alive and don't

00:36:10.260 deserve my

00:36:10.980 beautiful children

00:36:11.920 I now have.

00:36:13.060 I cannot change

00:36:13.680 the past but it

00:36:14.360 is consuming me and

00:36:15.620 I want to be a

00:36:16.360 strong and happy

00:36:17.020 person for my

00:36:17.660 kids.

00:36:18.200 How in the world

00:36:18.680 can I move beyond

00:36:19.500 these disastrous

00:36:20.100 feelings and stop

00:36:21.060 hating myself?

00:36:23.260 I'm going to give

00:36:23.980 you a specific

00:36:24.820 religious answer

00:36:25.720 that I think will

00:36:27.060 help you a lot.

00:36:28.420 I don't know your

00:36:29.160 religious views or

00:36:30.120 what church you're a

00:36:31.040 part of.

00:36:31.840 I would just

00:36:32.420 strongly recommend and

00:36:34.020 I say this from my

00:36:34.940 experience as a

00:36:35.700 Catholic you should

00:36:36.880 go to confession

00:36:37.760 and receive

00:36:38.380 absolution.

00:36:39.500 That's my very

00:36:40.820 practical advice.

00:36:43.200 Now I'll broaden

00:36:43.860 that out a little

00:36:44.420 bit philosophically

00:36:46.240 and historically.

00:36:49.720 St. Paul was a

00:36:52.260 murderer.

00:36:54.200 St. Paul who is

00:36:57.340 one of the most

00:36:58.560 important men to

00:36:59.320 ever walk the

00:36:59.960 earth, one of the

00:37:00.440 greatest evangelists

00:37:01.260 in history, wrote a

00:37:02.240 lot of the New

00:37:02.680 Testament.

00:37:03.580 St. Paul was

00:37:05.200 present at, sort

00:37:06.280 of participated in

00:37:07.280 the martyrdom of

00:37:09.180 St. Stephen, the

00:37:09.880 first Christian

00:37:10.440 martyr.

00:37:10.900 He was there, the

00:37:11.680 people who were

00:37:12.520 throwing the rocks

00:37:13.180 at St. Stephen

00:37:13.780 put their coats by

00:37:15.220 St. Paul to watch

00:37:16.660 their clothing.

00:37:18.200 This guy was a 1.00

00:37:19.320 really tough

00:37:20.420 persecutor of

00:37:21.220 Christians. 0.51

00:37:22.120 And then he had

00:37:24.160 his conversion on

00:37:25.380 the road to

00:37:25.720 Damascus and he

00:37:26.760 turned his life

00:37:27.300 around.

00:37:30.220 And then he

00:37:30.980 became one of the

00:37:31.480 greatest men in

00:37:32.000 history.

00:37:32.420 You can't change

00:37:33.060 the past.

00:37:33.540 You can change

00:37:34.640 what you're

00:37:34.920 doing now and

00:37:35.500 what you're

00:37:35.740 doing in the

00:37:36.000 future.

00:37:36.220 It sounds like

00:37:36.680 you've already

00:37:37.000 done that.

00:37:39.180 If grappling

00:37:40.640 with what you

00:37:41.560 did, and I'm

00:37:42.200 not going to

00:37:42.700 sugarcoat it,

00:37:43.260 what you did

00:37:43.700 is just

00:37:44.420 terrible.

00:37:45.440 But one

00:37:47.380 perspective that

00:37:48.240 I have gained

00:37:48.780 from Christianity 0.62

00:37:49.480 that has really

00:37:50.780 changed the way I

00:37:52.140 view the world

00:37:52.620 is that Christians 0.54

00:37:56.340 are in one

00:37:57.620 sense the most

00:37:58.360 judgmental people

00:37:59.280 on earth because

00:38:00.560 they have an answer

00:38:01.980 for everything

00:38:02.520 because they

00:38:03.540 have a very

00:38:04.180 cogent, coherent

00:38:05.440 understanding of

00:38:06.880 the moral order

00:38:07.580 of actions that

00:38:08.440 seem small and

00:38:09.080 trivial and actions

00:38:09.780 that seem very

00:38:10.480 large and public.

00:38:12.020 But on the other

00:38:12.620 hand, at the same

00:38:13.900 time, paradoxically,

00:38:15.360 Christians are the 0.90

00:38:15.980 least judgmental

00:38:16.740 people on earth

00:38:17.320 because all sin

00:38:19.240 and fall short of

00:38:19.860 the glory of God.

00:38:21.640 And I know that

00:38:22.880 when I have lust in

00:38:23.640 my heart that I'm

00:38:24.380 committing adultery.

00:38:25.980 When I'm angry at

00:38:26.860 my brother, I'm

00:38:27.420 committing murder.

00:38:29.140 And we know that

00:38:30.120 we're not perfect and

00:38:31.860 we sin all the

00:38:32.440 time.

00:38:33.480 And so the great

00:38:34.420 hope there is that

00:38:35.840 there is the

00:38:37.020 opportunity for

00:38:37.780 repentance and

00:38:39.100 forgiveness and

00:38:39.900 absolution of your

00:38:40.700 sins.

00:38:41.220 And that's not just

00:38:42.040 soft soap and

00:38:42.700 wishful thinking.

00:38:43.660 That's a fact.

00:38:46.300 If you're a 0.88

00:38:46.940 Christian, that is,

00:38:48.040 you are basing that

00:38:49.580 on an historical

00:38:51.120 event called the

00:38:52.360 crucifixion and the

00:38:53.380 resurrection.

00:38:54.800 Funny, coincidental,

00:38:56.300 providential, perhaps,

00:38:57.280 that you're asking me

00:38:58.300 this question on Good

00:38:59.000 Friday, which is when

00:38:59.800 we commemorate the

00:39:02.300 crucifixion, where

00:39:04.120 Christ conquers death 0.99

00:39:05.040 on the cross and is

00:39:05.920 resurrected.

00:39:06.760 And those who

00:39:07.880 believe in Christ and

00:39:08.640 follow him can have

00:39:09.800 eternal life and be

00:39:11.000 forgiven their sins.

00:39:12.820 So that's my answer

00:39:14.300 for you.

00:39:14.700 I know that some

00:39:15.300 people out there who

00:39:16.380 are more secular or

00:39:17.920 who they want me to

00:39:19.240 give some kind of

00:39:20.080 atheist, rationalist

00:39:21.400 answer for that.

00:39:22.180 I can't.

00:39:23.040 I can't do that.

00:39:24.320 If we lived in a,

00:39:25.520 if we lived in a

00:39:27.120 world that really

00:39:28.460 was atheistic,

00:39:29.760 where then I

00:39:31.420 couldn't give you an

00:39:32.700 answer to how to

00:39:33.400 feel better that

00:39:34.600 made any sense.

00:39:35.420 Actually, nothing

00:39:35.880 would make sense at

00:39:36.560 all.

00:39:36.960 There would be no

00:39:38.520 logic to the

00:39:39.120 universe.

00:39:40.160 But luckily,

00:39:42.320 that's not,

00:39:42.820 the atheist delusion

00:39:44.060 isn't real.

00:39:44.840 So there is an

00:39:47.220 actual real hard

00:39:48.320 fact of repentance

00:39:49.640 and atonement.

00:39:50.680 And some of the

00:39:51.580 worst, people who've

00:39:53.480 committed the worst

00:39:54.040 crimes in the world

00:39:54.800 have become some of

00:39:56.460 the holiest people

00:39:57.140 on earth.

00:39:58.280 St. John Vianney

00:39:58.840 said, the saints did

00:39:59.980 not all start well,

00:40:01.540 but they all ended

00:40:02.460 well.

00:40:03.520 And you can too.

00:40:05.040 And the way to do

00:40:05.640 that is not to deny

00:40:06.740 or suppress or try to

00:40:07.560 put out of your mind

00:40:08.180 what you did, but to

00:40:09.420 grapple with it head

00:40:10.440 on.

00:40:11.080 From Kerry, hey

00:40:12.240 Michael, I'm a 17

00:40:13.540 year old girl.

00:40:14.120 My best friend of

00:40:14.780 nine years is an

00:40:15.600 18 year old boy.

00:40:16.760 We have never had any

00:40:17.920 interest in dating each

00:40:18.800 other.

00:40:19.360 The thought isn't even

00:40:20.300 in the realm of

00:40:20.940 possibility.

00:40:21.900 Recently, my friend

00:40:22.760 has started to date a

00:40:23.560 girl.

00:40:23.760 I don't know.

00:40:24.880 I'm very happy for

00:40:25.840 him, but I'm worried.

00:40:27.200 Not only did he tell me

00:40:28.300 very suddenly one day,

00:40:29.480 but he has since

00:40:30.420 started talking to me

00:40:31.520 significantly less.

00:40:33.060 The girl said she felt

00:40:34.020 uncomfortable by how

00:40:35.280 good friends he and I

00:40:36.540 are when we met at

00:40:38.340 prom.

00:40:38.920 I knew stuff like this

00:40:39.820 could happen when we

00:40:40.520 date other people since

00:40:41.400 we are not the same

00:40:42.160 sex, but I feel so 0.99

00:40:43.760 unprepared to lose touch

00:40:44.640 with my best friend.

00:40:45.680 Any advice is welcome

00:40:46.520 and desperately needed.

00:40:47.500 Sincerely, too worried

00:40:48.500 to say something witty.

00:40:49.760 Sorry, Carrie.

00:40:53.640 That's the way it goes.

00:40:55.620 That's the way it goes.

00:40:56.660 You have to ask yourself

00:40:57.660 one question first.

00:40:59.780 When you say, he and I

00:41:00.800 would never even consider

00:41:01.720 dating each other, that's

00:41:03.060 nuts.

00:41:03.400 We would never do that.

00:41:04.260 Do you really mean that

00:41:05.200 or is that just a thing

00:41:06.000 you say because you met

00:41:07.260 at a very young age and

00:41:08.960 you hadn't made sense of

00:41:10.460 sexual attraction yet and

00:41:12.740 so now you're just so used

00:41:13.880 to doing that and you

00:41:14.480 don't want to risk a great

00:41:15.300 friendship to possibly date

00:41:16.600 him?

00:41:16.720 Because that happens

00:41:18.040 sometimes, too.

00:41:19.560 And if that's the case,

00:41:20.440 you and he should

00:41:20.960 actually date.

00:41:22.480 But if that's not the

00:41:23.240 case and you actually

00:41:24.500 don't have any sexual

00:41:25.960 attraction to one another,

00:41:27.180 then you're just going to

00:41:28.240 have to deal with the

00:41:28.960 fact that you and he

00:41:31.400 are not going to be as

00:41:32.360 good friends moving into

00:41:33.960 the future because men 1.00

00:41:38.140 and women are different 1.00

00:41:38.860 and because when guys

00:41:40.300 start dating other girls

00:41:41.160 and certainly when they

00:41:41.840 get married, their

00:41:44.080 friendships with women

00:41:46.700 and especially with

00:41:47.600 single women just don't 1.00

00:41:51.240 work as well because

00:41:52.800 it's weird.

00:41:53.420 It's the Mike Pence rule.

00:41:54.600 It's weird for a married 0.98

00:41:55.820 man to have to go on

00:41:58.420 dates with women.

00:41:59.760 It's just weird and

00:42:00.380 you're really not

00:42:00.880 supposed to do that.

00:42:01.640 Doesn't mean that you

00:42:02.420 can't have any friendship

00:42:03.320 moving into the future

00:42:04.240 even in the current

00:42:06.500 circumstance.

00:42:06.980 It's certainly while he's

00:42:07.580 dating people and before

00:42:08.940 he's married.

00:42:10.480 But one way that this

00:42:12.180 could work is he's got

00:42:14.260 some girlfriend and you

00:42:15.000 guys are hanging out.

00:42:15.660 Maybe you get some

00:42:16.420 boyfriend and then all

00:42:17.720 four of you hang out.

00:42:18.640 That would be a way to

00:42:20.120 spend time together that

00:42:21.800 would be a little more

00:42:23.340 wholesome and less open

00:42:25.500 to the prospect of you

00:42:26.580 and he having a few too

00:42:28.160 many cocktails one night

00:42:29.200 and whatever happens

00:42:30.460 happens.

00:42:30.880 Oh, I never expected it

00:42:31.720 and then maybe it does

00:42:33.200 because that sexual

00:42:34.160 difference really does

00:42:35.200 matter.

00:42:36.160 That actually is a

00:42:36.920 powerful force that you

00:42:37.860 can't merely deny just

00:42:39.240 because you've been

00:42:40.120 friends for a long time.

00:42:41.940 That's one thing.

00:42:42.840 Maybe you become friends

00:42:43.900 with his girlfriend.

00:42:44.820 I don't know.

00:42:45.920 Or maybe she's a jerk 1.00

00:42:48.060 and you don't like her

00:42:48.660 very much and you want

00:42:49.320 him to dump her and get 1.00

00:42:50.100 some better girlfriend 0.99

00:42:50.760 or date you instead.

00:42:52.080 But there's not going to

00:42:54.180 be any sugarcoating it.

00:42:55.900 That is inevitably what

00:42:57.480 happens to friendships

00:42:58.960 between men and women 0.90

00:43:00.100 that are platonic and not

00:43:01.640 sexual at all.

00:43:03.540 Because we're going to

00:43:04.960 grow closer to our

00:43:06.540 boyfriends and girlfriends

00:43:07.480 and then ultimately to

00:43:08.580 our spouse.

00:43:09.660 And if you want to

00:43:10.420 maintain that, I have lots

00:43:11.660 of female friends.

00:43:12.700 So, and many of whom

00:43:14.060 I've been friends with

00:43:14.680 for many, many years.

00:43:15.980 But if you want to

00:43:16.780 maintain those friendships,

00:43:17.900 they're going to have to

00:43:18.540 evolve and change.

00:43:19.380 And it's not just going to

00:43:20.160 be you and him anymore.

00:43:21.960 It's going to involve

00:43:22.560 other people.

00:43:23.420 Because if it's just you

00:43:24.160 and him, then, you know,

00:43:25.020 date and get married.

00:43:26.100 From Mitch.

00:43:26.940 Hey, Michael, I know

00:43:27.940 the rest of the hosts

00:43:28.720 at DW don't want to

00:43:29.740 hear this, but you have

00:43:30.440 the most style.

00:43:31.340 Stop it.

00:43:31.760 Get out of here.

00:43:32.540 Come on.

00:43:32.940 Why would you say

00:43:33.680 something like that?

00:43:34.820 So where did you get

00:43:36.620 your impeccable taste?

00:43:37.760 Thank you for that

00:43:40.000 flattering question.

00:43:41.960 I got it from

00:43:42.980 Elvis Presley.

00:43:45.420 I've been an Elvis fan

00:43:46.340 since I was five years old.

00:43:48.500 Frank Sinatra.

00:43:49.520 Same thing.

00:43:50.040 I've been a Sinatra fan

00:43:50.840 since I was five or six

00:43:52.140 years old.

00:43:53.280 And

00:43:53.500 Jay Press.

00:43:56.560 You know, the kind of

00:43:57.540 more waspy,

00:43:58.980 American,

00:43:59.940 old school style.

00:44:01.080 Those are the preppy

00:44:01.860 kind of.

00:44:02.420 Those would be the

00:44:03.380 three places.

00:44:04.960 You get the kind of

00:44:05.660 slick,

00:44:06.080 slick stuff from the

00:44:07.860 mid-century

00:44:08.440 Italians and showbiz

00:44:11.220 and then a little more

00:44:12.780 put together from that.

00:44:13.860 That nice preppy style.

00:44:15.120 It never goes out of style.

00:44:16.980 That's the great thing

00:44:17.780 about all of that.

00:44:19.440 From Daniel.

00:44:20.360 Dear Michael,

00:44:20.920 I have heard you say

00:44:21.640 several times that

00:44:22.380 moderation is a virtue.

00:44:23.920 I have struggled with

00:44:24.700 moderation when it comes

00:44:25.680 to drinking alcohol

00:44:26.560 at times.

00:44:27.660 I know many people

00:44:28.500 struggle with socially

00:44:29.420 acceptable vices such as

00:44:30.640 food, caffeine, tobacco,

00:44:32.420 or the aforementioned

00:44:33.240 alcohol.

00:44:34.180 Could you please expound

00:44:35.520 upon the idea of

00:44:36.180 moderation as a virtue?

00:44:37.700 As a Christian,

00:44:38.300 do you have any wisdom

00:44:39.140 on accepting grace for

00:44:40.080 God for falling short

00:44:41.880 versus getting upset

00:44:43.700 with myself for lack

00:44:44.500 of moderation?

00:44:45.340 I've become more

00:44:46.100 temperate as I've gotten

00:44:47.000 older, but I think that

00:44:48.540 if I gain some insight,

00:44:49.760 I could enjoy some of

00:44:50.560 life's pleasures without

00:44:51.400 some of the regrets.

00:44:52.460 P.S.

00:44:53.040 Listening to your show

00:44:53.960 every morning and you

00:44:56.340 turn me on to cigars.

00:44:57.860 I love them and thankfully

00:44:59.000 have only overindulged

00:45:00.120 a couple of times.

00:45:00.820 Oh, that's great.

00:45:01.300 I'm glad to hear it.

00:45:01.980 I do fear, though,

00:45:02.780 that I've turned so many

00:45:03.840 of my friends on to cigars

00:45:04.940 at this point that

00:45:06.040 statistically I've probably

00:45:07.120 killed a few of them.

00:45:08.000 I hope not.

00:45:08.660 I hope not.

00:45:09.240 I hope everyone has it

00:45:10.900 in moderation and we

00:45:11.700 avoid the dangers of that.

00:45:13.460 But glad to hear that.

00:45:15.880 And look, what you're

00:45:16.560 describing is something

00:45:17.360 that's really common.

00:45:19.460 I don't know very many

00:45:21.360 people who have not

00:45:22.380 overindulged in booze

00:45:24.300 in their younger years,

00:45:26.220 late teens, early to mid-20s.

00:45:28.720 I mean, that sort of thing

00:45:29.440 happens.

00:45:30.080 I certainly drank way more

00:45:32.280 when I was in college

00:45:33.300 and in my early 20s

00:45:34.420 than I do now.

00:45:35.960 Now I don't really have

00:45:36.660 time to drink because

00:45:37.660 I have a screaming baby

00:45:38.760 who I have to tend to.

00:45:41.480 So that happens.

00:45:43.460 But really,

00:45:45.460 you should pursue moderation

00:45:47.140 even in drinking,

00:45:48.200 which is so socially acceptable

00:45:49.500 because it's the right thing

00:45:52.080 to do intrinsically

00:45:52.720 and you're going to feel

00:45:53.380 terrible the next day.

00:45:54.420 When you drink too much

00:45:55.980 during the night,

00:45:57.480 then you're just

00:45:58.640 borrowing happiness

00:45:59.740 from the next day

00:46:00.700 because the next day

00:46:01.280 you're going to wake up

00:46:01.840 and you're going to have

00:46:02.220 a terrible headache.

00:46:04.020 And you're going to do things

00:46:05.040 that you don't want to do

00:46:05.940 and you're going to say things

00:46:07.780 that you don't want to say

00:46:08.640 and it's just not a good look

00:46:09.740 and you're going to regret it.

00:46:11.280 So I don't have

00:46:13.300 a particularly addictive personality.

00:46:15.560 So I know people

00:46:17.000 who are addicts

00:46:17.880 who have extremely

00:46:18.460 addictive personalities.

00:46:19.680 It is never hard for me

00:46:21.480 to say,

00:46:22.500 okay, I can't have

00:46:23.320 any more booze. 1.00

00:46:23.940 Okay, I'll put this down.

00:46:25.540 It's never hard for me.

00:46:26.660 You know how much

00:46:27.560 I love cigars.

00:46:28.340 For me to say,

00:46:28.920 okay, I can't smoke cigars

00:46:30.020 this week.

00:46:30.500 Okay, no big deal.

00:46:32.820 So for me,

00:46:33.760 I'm not really worried

00:46:35.480 about it.

00:46:36.280 But I do know people

00:46:37.320 who if they have one drink,

00:46:39.020 they need to have 10 drinks

00:46:40.420 and there is no middle ground.

00:46:42.480 There's no two 0.78

00:46:43.220 or three drinks for them.

00:46:44.880 And so for those people,

00:46:45.960 you might have to abstain.

00:46:47.680 You might just have to say,

00:46:48.700 okay, if one means 10,

00:46:50.660 then I'm just going to abstain.

00:46:52.180 If one cigar means

00:46:53.960 I'm going to start smoking

00:46:54.860 two packs of cigarettes a day

00:46:55.940 and I can't stop,

00:46:56.660 then you just can't smoke cigars.

00:46:58.180 And that's too bad.

00:46:59.120 And maybe it's because

00:47:00.300 of your genes

00:47:00.940 and maybe it's because

00:47:01.800 of your experiences,

00:47:03.120 but that's too bad for you.

00:47:06.160 And it seems unfair.

00:47:07.480 I think Norm MacDonald

00:47:08.140 made this point.

00:47:08.700 He says,

00:47:08.920 it seems really unfair

00:47:09.880 that alcoholics

00:47:13.160 who really,

00:47:14.060 really like booze

00:47:14.880 can't have any booze.

00:47:16.440 And I,

00:47:17.320 who am not an alcoholic

00:47:18.160 and I don't really like booze

00:47:19.320 that much,

00:47:19.660 I'm allowed to have

00:47:20.220 as much booze as I want.

00:47:21.180 Yeah, that's true.

00:47:21.720 It's unfair.

00:47:22.100 But that is sort of

00:47:24.180 the point of moderation

00:47:25.200 is it is a little bit

00:47:26.560 contingent on you

00:47:28.160 and your tastes

00:47:29.540 and your discipline

00:47:30.260 and your ability.

00:47:31.500 So if it's just that,

00:47:32.740 you know,

00:47:33.060 you're in your early 20s

00:47:34.140 and you're drinking

00:47:34.560 a little too much,

00:47:35.440 maybe you don't need

00:47:36.440 to worry about that.

00:47:37.500 But if you're finding

00:47:38.960 that it's a real problem,

00:47:39.940 you might just have to abstain.

00:47:41.380 From Peter.

00:47:42.320 Hey, Michael,

00:47:42.820 I was hoping

00:47:43.440 you could clear this up for me.

00:47:45.740 You told Ethan Behrman,

00:47:48.120 if sexual ideology

00:47:49.000 is not being taught,

00:47:50.220 then why would you oppose

00:47:51.240 the parental rights

00:47:51.820 and education bill?

00:47:52.840 Because if it's not happening,

00:47:54.160 then this doesn't change anything

00:47:56.080 and it shouldn't be an issue.

00:47:57.320 But couldn't the left

00:47:58.440 use that same argument

00:47:59.800 against us

00:48:00.540 with regard to

00:48:01.380 the anti-lynching bill?

00:48:02.680 If lynching isn't happening,

00:48:04.120 then why are you voting

00:48:04.840 against the bill?

00:48:05.880 To me,

00:48:06.380 the statement made

00:48:07.100 to Ethan Behrman

00:48:07.880 is better left unsaid

00:48:08.900 because it can be used

00:48:09.740 to undermine the reason

00:48:10.780 for voting against

00:48:11.860 the anti-lynching bill.

00:48:12.840 And instead,

00:48:13.260 we should focus on the fact

00:48:14.140 that sexual ideology

00:48:15.880 is actually being taught,

00:48:17.860 which is what makes

00:48:18.460 the bill necessary.

00:48:19.360 Thoughts,

00:48:19.780 thanks,

00:48:20.180 and love the show.

00:48:21.020 Well,

00:48:21.460 that's a good question

00:48:22.680 and your point

00:48:23.780 is almost totally right,

00:48:25.280 but there's another

00:48:25.940 difference here,

00:48:27.000 which is

00:48:27.600 the anti-lynching bill

00:48:30.100 that just came up

00:48:32.200 that the Democrats

00:48:32.780 only passed

00:48:33.660 to portray Republicans

00:48:35.640 as pro-lynching 0.93

00:48:37.280 or to pretend

00:48:37.860 that lynching

00:48:38.340 is still a problem

00:48:39.120 in America

00:48:39.660 and that's why

00:48:40.160 we need all of this

00:48:40.800 anti-racist activism.

00:48:42.620 Lynching is already illegal.

00:48:46.420 Not only is lynching

00:48:47.680 not happening

00:48:48.720 and no lynching

00:48:50.540 has happened

00:48:50.960 for many decades

00:48:52.040 in America

00:48:52.560 and that was only one

00:48:53.620 and before that,

00:48:54.400 really the last time

00:48:55.440 that lynching

00:48:55.820 was anything

00:48:56.420 even near

00:48:57.200 a frequent problem

00:48:59.900 in America

00:49:00.300 was in the 40s

00:49:01.020 and 50s,

00:49:02.340 but it's already illegal.

00:49:04.220 It's already illegal

00:49:05.140 to murder people. 0.71

00:49:07.200 There are federal laws

00:49:08.260 against murder,

00:49:08.880 there are state laws

00:49:09.460 against murder,

00:49:10.100 and so the anti-lynching bill,

00:49:11.440 there are laws

00:49:11.900 against hate crimes

00:49:13.260 as opposed to what?

00:49:14.020 Love crimes.

00:49:14.780 And so it's already illegal

00:49:16.480 in many ways,

00:49:17.980 so there's no reason

00:49:18.800 to add that.

00:49:19.800 Whereas,

00:49:20.480 right now,

00:49:21.660 until this law

00:49:22.520 was passed in Florida,

00:49:23.680 it was not illegal

00:49:24.760 to teach kids about sex.

00:49:27.200 So even beyond

00:49:28.040 the question of

00:49:28.940 is this actually happening

00:49:30.220 is another question,

00:49:31.260 is this legal

00:49:32.060 or illegal?

00:49:33.420 In the case of lynching,

00:49:34.140 it was already illegal,

00:49:35.020 so why pass a law

00:49:35.820 to outlaw a thing

00:49:36.900 that's already illegal?

00:49:37.880 Whereas in Florida,

00:49:39.620 whether it's happening

00:49:40.420 or not,

00:49:40.900 it was not illegal,

00:49:42.180 and so that law

00:49:42.780 is clarifying it.

00:49:43.960 So I don't think

00:49:44.660 they're comparable,

00:49:46.060 and I think it's why

00:49:46.960 it's important

00:49:47.900 to point out

00:49:50.260 the hypocrisy

00:49:50.920 of the libs here

00:49:51.460 or the contradictory stories.

00:49:52.860 This isn't being taught

00:49:53.820 in schools,

00:49:54.300 and it's a good thing

00:49:55.040 that it is.

00:49:55.480 I think you can point that out

00:49:56.560 with any risk of hypocrisy

00:49:57.960 for conservatives.

00:49:58.920 All right,

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