Ep. 995 - Biden Destroys Everything To Build Back Better
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According to White House propagandists, we are in the midst of the greatest economic recovery in the history of the world. But according to our lying eyes, the economy is in the gutter. According to America s first quarter economic numbers, our Lying Eyes are right.
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According to White House propagandists, we are in the midst of the greatest economic recovery in the history of the world.
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According to our lying eyes, the economy is in the gutter.
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According to America's first quarter economic numbers, our lying eyes are right.
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GDP, first look, first quarter, is a nasty minus 1.4.
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We haven't had a minus sign since that nasty second quarter COVID-related in 2020.
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Consumption drops to 2.7, well below expectations.
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Although, sequentially, it's actually higher than last time, which was 2.5.
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That is unbelievable to find a higher number than 8%.
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And if you look at the personal consumption expenditure quarter over quarter, that was up 5.2.
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Now, that isn't so bad because the high watermark there is actually 6.1 from June of last year.
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It's always unexpected when liberal economic policies fail.
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But to the supposed experts, it is always unexpected.
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Just like it's always unexpected when conservative economic policies work.
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The New York Times is taking a different tack to cover for the Biden administration.
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And that is to say that the dismal economic numbers are actually a good thing.
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The US economy shrank in the first quarter, but the numbers may mask the recovery's resilience.
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The record inflation, the soaring gas prices, the soaring food prices.
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Great and glorious leader Joe Biden is secretly taking care of all the people.
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And he is the greatest and most popular president in the history of the world.
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We all joke about the absurd propaganda that comes out of North Korea, comes out of China, comes out of Russia.
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Pravda, at the height of the Soviet Union, had nothing on the New York Times.
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Actually, the New York Times was also covering for the Soviets at the height of the Soviet Union.
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I have bad news for you, and the fact checkers can censor me for saying it if they want to, but it's the truth.
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Joe Biden's policies have been catastrophic, and none of this is unexpected.
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In fact, you can mark my prediction now, before Biden's economy gets better, you can expect it to get a whole lot worse.
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The disinformation is at least as intense as anything we've ever seen in the world,
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but it's not coming only from tinpot dictators on the other side of the globe.
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Economy looks like it's in terrible shape according to every single metric, but actually that is good
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Strong Joe Biden recovery at the very same time that the White House has established a disinformation
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If the White House really were going to establish an actual disinformation board that were out to
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suppress disinformation, the New York Times would not exist today.
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The New York Times would, the entire newspaper would be disbanded.
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They would salt the earth where the building once stood.
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But the disinformation board that the White House is setting up is not really seeking to stop
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The disinformation board is seeking to spread disinformation.
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The way we know this is because the woman who was named to lead the disinformation board
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was a major purveyor of disinformation during the 2020 election.
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This woman propagated the claim that the Hunter Biden laptop was not legitimate, was Russian
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It wasn't real and all the evidence of the Biden family's crimes, nothing to see here.
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Now, even the liberals will admit that the Hunter Biden laptop was totally legit.
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There are some legitimate questions about Hunter's dealings in Ukraine, Hunter's dealings in China,
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and more importantly, Joe Biden's dealings in those places.
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The 10% equity that was being kicked back to the big guy.
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The $5 million, more than $5 million discrepancy on Joe Biden's financial disclosures.
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They'll admit that now after the presidential election when it doesn't matter.
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But at the time, the woman leading the disinfo board today was pushing all of that disinformation.
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A reporter said, hey, hold on, isn't it a little weird that you've got this peddler of disinfo
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She had previously called the Hunter Biden laptop a Trump campaign product,
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seeming to discredit its validity or validity of reporting surrounding that.
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How can you assuage concerns of people who are looking at this person who's been appointed to this position
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and wondering if she's going to be able to accurately judge misinformation
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now that a lot of that reporting has been proven to be factual in some ways?
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Well, I don't have any comments on the laptop, but what I can tell you is that it sounds like
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the objective of the board is to prevent disinformation and misinformation from
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traveling around the country in a range of communities.
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Even Jen Psaki's response is disinformation, because what she said is obviously not true.
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She said, one, I'm not going to talk about the laptop because it exposes the corruption of my boss.
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So I'm just not going to talk about it, even though it's a very important news story.
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But two, she says, well, look, it sounds like the purpose of the board is to stop disinformation.
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If it sounded like that, then the person picked to lead the board would not be one of the big peddlers
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of disinformation, which is the point of the question.
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So what it sounds like to me is that the point of the board is to encourage disinformation,
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which means suppressing conservatives, suppressing real true news stories,
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and just spouting the party line from the ruling class.
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You are the people that you are accusing of spreading disinformation.
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He doesn't seem like he's got all of his marbles.
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And he was never the brightest bulb in the shed, to mix metaphors.
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But the people who are running the establishment, they're not stupid people.
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Mayorkas at DHS, the army of faceless bureaucrats who run the actual government,
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Is it any coincidence that they announce the disinformation governance board, what,
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three days after Elon Musk announces that the libs aren't going to have a complete and
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Previously, the libs had a total monopoly over the flow of information around the country.
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Then Elon Musk comes in and he says, I'm going to give conservatives free speech.
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Three days later, the government says, yeah, we're going to have a disinformation board.
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Speaking of disinformation, and speaking of my predictive powers,
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the dark magic of Noel Stradamus predicting the future.
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Yesterday on this show, I talked about how one of the silliest lines in public discourse
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is this line when people who have 17,000 vaccines and booster shots and took the jab and they're
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And then they contract COVID, which they weren't supposed to do if they got the vaccine.
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Remember Fauci, Walensky, Biden all said, if you get the vaccine, you won't catch COVID
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And then the line they always use is, well, thank goodness I got the vaccine.
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They said, no, well, it would have been a lot worse if I didn't have the vaccine.
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Today, I've received a positive test result for COVID.
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Just like most people who catch COVID has no symptoms at all.
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I am following all protocols as recommended by the Office of the Attending Physician and CDC guidance.
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I'm grateful to be fully vaccinated and to receive two booster shots.
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Thankfully, I'm feeling fine and recommend everyone get vaccinated if you've not done so already.
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But when I was growing up, what a vaccine meant was a vaccine was a medical intervention to prevent you from contracting a malady.
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And that's what our entire ruling class promised us that this vaccine was going to do for COVID.
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And they said that a vaccine actually does not seek to stop you from contracting or spreading a virus.
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It just seeks to mitigate the symptoms, which is not what a vaccine is.
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You could call that a pre-contraction therapeutic.
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You could call it medicine you take before you catch the thing.
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Our genius ruling liberal elites are not persuading anybody.
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That's why they've got to control the narrative.
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That's why they've got to censor conservatives.
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That's why they've got to control the algorithms on social media.
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That's why they've got to control the establishment news media and Hollywood.
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They have to do it because they're not really persuading anyone.
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And so their views are not going to become popular organically, if they can ever become popular at all.
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This is why the minute that conservatives get even a little foothold into social media, the whole narrative shifts.
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This actually began in the early days of social media.
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In the very early days, the late 2000s and then early 20-teens,
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conservatives absolutely crushed it on social media because they'd been kept out of the establishment media for so many decades.
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At the moment that there was a chance for conservatives to spread a message, it spread like wildfire.
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And then this led pretty much directly to Donald Trump getting elected president.
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And right after that, all the libs lobbied the big tech companies.
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And they said, you can't let this happen again.
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Conservatives are doing too well on your platform.
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Elon announces that he's going to take over Twitter and make it fairer for conservatives.
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Overnight, conservative accounts jump by leaps and bounds.
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I've gained something like 80,000 followers in the past few days on Twitter.
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Just the moment that conservatives get any shot at a fair break, the message spreads much more clearly.
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Because look at the spokesman who the left has.
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Not only are the claims that they're making preposterous, they're saying the economy's in recovery.
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When we all go to the gas tank, we all, or the gas pump rather, we all go to the grocery store.
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We've got millions of people pouring over the border.
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We have the first major war in Europe since World War II.
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We, we see facts on the ground things are not going well.
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Oh yeah, because you're transing five-year-olds.
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You're reading porn to little kids in elementary school.
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You're telling white kids that they're evil by virtue of their race through critical race theory.
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Parents don't think that that's great around the country.
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He is the most prominent Democrat in the country, president of the United States.
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Here is the kind of soaring Periclean rhetoric that we're getting from President Joe Biden.
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I'm also sending to Congress a comprehensive package that will enhance our underlying effort
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to accommodate the Russian oligarchs and make sure we take their, take their, their ill-begotten gains.
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We're going to seize their yachts, their luxury homes, and other ill-begotten gains of Putin's
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kleptocracy and the guys who are the kleptocracies.
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When Joe Biden just stumbles over his own words, has no idea what he's saying, can't
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pronounce certain words, uses words in a way that don't make any sense whatsoever, repeats
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When they, when he does all of that, when he shows obvious signs of cognitive decline,
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the libs say, oh, well, you know, that's his childhood stutter.
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They, they trotted this line out during the 2020 election.
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And specifically at the Democrat National Convention in 2020, they had to explain Joe Biden's obvious
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And so they said, well, it's because of this childhood stutter.
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I actually, I had liberal friends and relatives tell me, they said, no, Michael, you know, what
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we hear is that's just the way Joe Biden always was.
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What, a childhood stutter that disappeared for 70 years and then just came back in the
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It cannot be overstated how dramatic the cognitive decline of Joe Biden has been in recent years.
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Just to compare it, I'm just picking a clip at random.
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There's a clip that was going around the internet.
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This is Joe Biden 20 years ago yelling at a US Marine while he was senator from Delaware.
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Listen to this man and tell me that the only thing that's wrong with Joe Biden today is
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I respectfully suggest they have a responsibility slightly above your pay grade, slightly above
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your pay grade to decide whether or not to take the nation to war alone or to take the
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nation to war partway or to take the nation to war half halfway.
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I'm not trying to be flip because I think, and that's what I said at the outset, the reason
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why I'm glad you did what you did, we should come to our milk.
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But in terms of whether the secretary of state has no more to consider than you do as the
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arms inspector, you didn't get in, didn't get my job done, get me in, period.
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So Joe Biden is the same nasty man that he's been his whole career.
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We kind of forget that because he's created this image.
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Really, the establishment media have created this image of nice old happy Uncle Joe licking
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He's a very, very nasty man who's done very nasty things throughout his career.
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And so those sort of weird colloquialisms, folky sayings, that has been part of Joe's
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When Joe Biden says, then the Russian yachts and the kleppy, kleptum, Winona Ryder and the
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When he does that, it's not a stutter that's happening, okay?
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It's not just some lifelong speech affliction that he's had.
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It's because he's in clear, clear cognitive decline.
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He's got one one thousandth the energy today that he had 20 years ago.
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Forget 20 years ago, five years ago, six years ago during the Biden administration or during
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When he was the vice president, Biden had much more energy and acuity.
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He's never been the brightest bulb in the pack, but he at least had a kind of political
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He's an empty suit to run the show at the whims of the liberal establishment.
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And things are not going very well as a result.
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It's a good thing that your gas prices are way up.
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It's actually a sign of a strong economy when you really think about it, when you really think
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about it in the long term, Mark Ruffalo, the liberal actor, is making this argument explicitly.
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He's saying the high gas prices, that's a good thing.
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He's saying the war in Ukraine is a gift to Joe Biden because that'll spike the price of gas
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and that will give Biden an opportunity to move to a green agenda.
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This is a moment for President Biden to take this, our momentum, people's fear, they're
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disgust with the war, they're disgust with energy prices, and use that to solidify a message
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to the American people that now is the time to transition.
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And this is a gift to the president as we see it.
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Now, did Mark Ruffalo consciously mean to say that it's a good thing that Ukrainians are dying?
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Did he mean to say it's a good thing that thousands and thousands of people are dying
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No, I don't think consciously he meant to say that, but that's what he said.
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It's a gift, and Biden can really make the most of it.
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What he's saying is something that liberals have said and believed for a very long time,
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which is that people are the problem, which is that nature, whatever we mean by nature,
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The traditional view of our relationship to the created world is that we are stewards of it,
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that the world is for us, for our delight, and we have to be responsible stewards of that.
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And what the left has done is flipped that entirely.
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According to the left, we are not the highest of creation, such that the birds of the air
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and the fowl and the fish of the sea, that's all for us.
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They flipped it such that human beings are parasites on the earth.
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And you know, if some people get killed so that gas goes up and increases more suffering
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for people who can't heat their homes and who can't fill their gas tanks, well, hey,
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that actually, that's probably a pretty good thing, because that'll force the people to move
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to solar energy or windmills or whatever, that's what they really believe.
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And it's not because of any scientific argument or anything like that.
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They care a lot about humanity in the abstract, but they don't care about actual people.
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Conservatives, pro-human, pro-people on lots of issues, on abortion, on environmentalism,
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There's a woman who's gone viral, a pro-abortion activist who's gone viral,
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thanks, of course, to our friends at Libs of TikTok,
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for defending the use of aborted babies to make biofuel.
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Aborted babies being burned and then used for electricity?
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The real answer to that question is nobody really f***ing cares, actually.
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You could bake them, fillet them, fricassee them, barbecue, roast.
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If we could burn those suckers for actual, like, lights and power,
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It's a resource we're going to have no matter what.
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I mean, it's better than going into a landfill, though, right?
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So this demon is making some conflicting arguments here.
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The first point is she's doubting the veracity of what that pro-life activist at the top is saying,
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namely that abortion activists are sending aborted babies to bio-waste facilities to be turned into biofuel.
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I am strongly inclined to believe that that is still happening.
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But at the very least, even liberal media outlets, very established liberal media outlets,
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I've got the CBC right here, have admitted that it has happened.
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Tissue, fetal tissue, aborted babies have been sent to bio-waste processing facilities to be turned into energy.
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Okay, so just on her factual claims, yes, that is happening.
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And then she says, well, I don't care if it's happening.
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I don't know if it's better or worse than sending aborted babies to a landfill.
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I think they should be buried and they should be given funerals because they've been killed and they're people and people deserve funerals.
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And just like when your grandma or grandpa die, you're not going to leave them in the streets to be eaten by dogs and you're not going to send them to some dystopian facility to power your television set.
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Just like you would treat them with respect because we recognize that there is something sort of sacred about a human body.
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So, too, we should do the same thing with aborted babies, innocent little babies who have been killed.
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But I suspect she really believes this because her argument is it rests entirely on denying that the babies are babies.
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They have individual human processes outside of the mother.
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Even when they're connected by an umbilical cord, they have separate individual human processes.
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That's why you have to kill them in order to have an abortion.
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Don't have the abortion and nothing will happen, right?
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Then, no, of course what will happen is they will continue to grow and then they will be born because they're alive.
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So her argument rests on denying that and saying, well, it's just a clump of cells.
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You sometimes hear this argument with regard to eating dogs.
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We all know there's something wrong about eating dogs.
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There seems something wrong about eating an animal that has grown and been trained to be man's best friend,
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to trust human beings, and then we turn on them and eat them and kill them.
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How infinitely more wrong would it be to do that sort of thing to human beings?
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But if you have no respect for human dignity, for the moral order, for the idea that humans are more than just flesh and blood,
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or more than just big sacks of chemicals, that we actually have souls and spirits and that there are things in this world,
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namely everything that really matters to us, our hopes, our dreams, our loves, our joys that are beyond the material world.
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But if you deny all of that, then, yeah, I guess her argument makes sense.
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It's just, unfortunately, it's just completely wrong.
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You're seeing this kind of radicalism from not just kooks on TikTok, but from elected Democrats and Democratic candidates.
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John Fetterman, Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, Democrat candidate for Senate, he just said there should be no limits on abortion.
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If I'm in the United States Senate, I would immediately support the first campaign to support the elimination of the filibuster
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to make sure that we codify women's reproductive freedom in law to make sure that even if the Supreme Court does go down that road
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and eliminate or revoke Roe v. Wade, that we already existingly codify that into law and make sure that we can't go back.
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Like, abortions are going to continue in America, whether it's legal or not.
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They just won't be safe if they're illegal, and we can't ever go back to that. We just can't.
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And are there any limits on abortion you would find appropriate?
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So this guy is either stupid or dishonest, or maybe he's both.
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His argument doesn't make sense philosophically.
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You could say, well, home burglaries are going to happen in America.
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So we can either do it in a safe way where we don't, where the homeowner is not allowed to protect himself
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and they roll out the red carpet for him, or we can do it in a dangerous way where people might get hurt.
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So it's going to happen. You're never going to stop that.
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I guess it's true. I guess it's going to happen, but when you pass laws against things, you get less of those things.
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They say you get more of a certain behavior when you outlaw, but that's not really true.
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There's no such thing as a safe abortion because every abortion kills a baby.
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And a lot of abortions imperil the lives of women.
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And when abortion became legal, you had a lot more abortions.
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The kind of radicalism, there should be no limits whatsoever, he says.
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Up until the very moment of birth, no limits whatsoever.
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You want to talk about disinformation, forget about this guy.
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This guy's adult, even though he does wield some political power.
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I'm sorry, they had an abortion reporter named Kate Smith.
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She was supposed to be the disinterested reporter, not opinion columnist, reporter covering abortion in America.
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She's going to go now and work at Planned Parenthood.
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She's going to go be the top propagandist for Planned Parenthood now, the biggest abortion mill in America.
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Now, I'm not even specifically knocking her here for supporting abortion, though she should be knocked for that, right?
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But there's a further problem here, which is she pretended to be a disinterested journalist for years.
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But in our totally unbiased, disinterested mainstream media outlets like CBS News, and she's not.
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She literally is a propagandist for Planned Parenthood.
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The next time I hear about those brave, intrepid reporters, the fourth estate speaking truth to power, they're not.
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They are as preposterous sort of propagandists that you see in North Korea, okay, and here in the United States.
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You know, at the Daily Wire, we're trying to fight back.
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We're really happy to publish books that actively fight the left's monopoly on storytelling, such as Fiery But Mostly Peaceful, The 2020 Riots, and The Gaslighting of America by Julio Rosas.
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In it, Julio exposes the Black Lives Matter riots that broke out across the country in the aftermath of George Floyd's death for the sham that they were.
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Rosas, who is reporting from the ground, gives his firsthand experience and illuminates the media's attempts to convince Americans that the fatal and destructive riots were peaceful.
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The media gaslit the American people for all of 2020 as the riots unfolded.
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George Floyd, Kyle Rittenhouse, Rayshard Brooks, Chaz in Seattle.
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Windshields being smashed, giant rocks that were being thrown, businesses that were starting to be looted.
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The mainstream media, they were trying to call them protests.
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CNN with that chyron saying, fiery but mostly peaceful.
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They're trying to push a narrative of don't believe your lying eyes.
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Welcome back to my favorite time of the week when I get to hear from you in the mailbag.
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I am a huge fan of what you say and the points that you state in politics and how it is tied with faith.
00:34:20.540
It has been nearly impossible to meet someone with the same values that I believe in,
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especially with the guys at my college in the hookup culture.
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There is one guy who has the same beliefs as me who attends the Newman Center on campus.
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I want to at least get to know him, especially since I've had a crush since I first met him.
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The dilemma is that I have never talked to him.
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And he's older than me, so he'll be graduating sooner than I will.
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Should I say hi to him before the end of the semester or should I be patient to see if he does first?
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Asking for a hopeful answer from a hopeless romantic.
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You should go introduce yourself and say hello.
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First of all, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this guy wants to talk to you too and he's just a little shy.
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And, you know, young men in general can suffer from a lack of confidence sometimes.
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And also with the craziness of our dating scene these days, he might not exactly know how to do it.
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Back in my single days, I liked it when girls would come up and say they liked me.
00:35:38.080
I have a relationship question which feels strange to write.
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My question is, when it comes to my female co-workers, when is flirting appropriate for
00:35:56.760
And flirting often feels like the female version of guys joking around and bashing each other
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However, I also realize there is always a point at which anything can turn from appropriate
00:36:09.540
What are your thoughts on flirting with people while in a relationship and where is the line?
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I am of Sicilian extraction, as I may have mentioned once or twice.
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We are known traditionally as some of the most flirtatious people in the world.
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New Yorkers have a reputation of being a little bit flirtatious, okay?
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All right, that can actually be a sort of lovely aspect of life.
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But it has to be couched within real standards.
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And the standard that I would recommend to you is the standard of chivalry.
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I'm going to take this in kind of a weird direction.
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It's probably the most famous line in Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.
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He is long credited with being the founder of modern conservative political philosophy.
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It is 16 or 17 years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphinus at Versailles.
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And surely never lighted on this orb a more delightful vision.
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Surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch a more delightful vision.
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And he goes on to talk about how awful it is that the radicals would go after Marie Antoinette.
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And he should have thought that a thousand swords must have left from their scabbards to avenge even an insulting look at Marie Antoinette.
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Now, is that him being licentious and lustful after Marie Antoinette?
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Is that him thirst posting the Queen of France or being unfaithful to his wife or anything like that?
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Just as a general rule, you should be even more restrained at the workplace in general.
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Back in the old days when there weren't a whole lot of women in the workplace,
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when it was mostly kind of a boys club, you could be a little looser maybe with your language.
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You could be a little looser with your behavior.
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But when you're in mixed company, generally it's an important thing to do to keep things together.
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And two, you don't want to end up in front of HR.
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And then three, you kind of tip your hand here a little bit, which is you say, nothing's gotten physical.
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There's a bit, you know, look, if you go up to some lady on the street, say, that's a beautiful dress.
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That doesn't need to imply anything about your sexual desire for that woman.
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You might just say, oh, you're looking lovely today.
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But if you're saying now, look, I haven't let anything get physical.
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Now you're implying, okay, I really have a strong desire for this woman.
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I would, I say this even as, you know, man from the same culture as Giacomo Casanova.
00:38:59.640
Hey, Michael, I'm a longtime listener and a first-time subscriber.
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My wife and I have been married for seven years and have three children together.
00:39:06.060
We're Florida residents and the parental rights and education bill and Disney's response have led us to having some intense,
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though not heated, discussions around the content that our kids are consuming from Disney.
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She doesn't believe any of this warrants completely excising Disney from our lives
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and still wants to take the kids to Disney World and let them watch their content
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and have an overall Disney childhood like we had.
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Her solution is just only let them watch content that we approve of.
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I believe the Disney childhood we wanted for them cannot happen so long as Disney overtly pushes a sexual ideology
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into their kids' entertainment and theme parks.
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We were just debating this in our own household.
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And then one day I'm at work and I get an email.
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Your Disney Plus subscription has been canceled.
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I'm not saying don't show your kid Fantasia or something.
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But the reason it'll be hard to raise your kid on a steady diet of good old Disney,
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but not new Disney, is that the point of these cartoon childhood universes is that you develop
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So then you want to see the characters in everything else.
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So Disney, you know, Mickey Mouse 50 years ago was a great wholesome cartoon.
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Disney and Mickey Mouse today is pushing transgenderism.
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The kid is not going to be able to distinguish between good old Mickey Mouse and new creepy,
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So I would just recommend more or less cutting out Disney.
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They go into institutions that are important, that have prestige,
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that have a long legacy, that people are attracted to.
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And then they pervert those institutions and they play on people's affection for that institution.
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And that's exactly what they're doing at Disney.
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What is your advice for dealing with people who refuse to see those of us who chose not to
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Now that there is less segregation between vaxxed and unvaxxed because most of the mandates
00:41:31.400
have been dropped, it seems that it is now socially acceptable for liberals to associate
00:41:36.180
However, I still don't feel comfortable after being ostracized for so long.
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You can say, look, I don't want to go join your stupid club or I don't want, you know,
00:41:51.420
for people who are just the average lib who ostracized you in society.
00:41:56.460
But if you talk about your friends and family and they went through some neurotic break during
00:42:00.140
COVID because they believed Dr. Fauci, as a lot of people did, a lot of gullible people
00:42:04.600
believed the lab coats because they spoke from a position of authority, even though they
00:42:10.420
And you were fortunate that you knew better than to follow these very corrupt people who
00:42:16.780
But, you know, if because of their neurosis, they didn't want you over for Thanksgiving
00:42:20.140
and now they're saying, come back over and it's your friend or your family, just go back
00:42:36.760
I recently told a story about a guy I kind of dated in college.
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We were in the same friend group and tried dating at the end of my sophomore and senior
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Both times I moved back home when school ended and felt like he wasn't right for me.
00:42:52.460
I basically told him that it just wasn't working for me and that we make better friends.
00:42:56.740
However, after telling this story to some of my guy friends, I received a lot of backlash
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I thought by not leading him on, I was being nice.
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And what is the best way to end things with a guy?
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Say, yeah, you know, man, I'm just not interested.
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The only thing I think you did wrong is you dated him twice.
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You got bored and you started dating him again because nothing better was.
00:43:31.920
That kind of ambiguity is not really nice to him.
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But if you're going to say, hey, look, we tried it.
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You can pretend that you'll remain friends, but you almost certainly won't.
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You know, that's just the way, that's just the way these things go.
00:43:54.200
I recently just graduated early from the University of Delaware.
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Since then, I've been contributing to society as an engineer.
00:44:00.840
Unfortunately, my family all wants to go see me graduate.
00:44:06.580
I feel like it's not worth going since I've been out of school for some time now,
00:44:09.700
but my parents and grandparents still want me to go,
00:44:11.920
even if it means they have to sit through a Biden speech.
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I really don't want to listen to a Biden speech either,
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Sincerely, if only the Daily Wire hired mechanical engineers.
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With all the rain in Nashville, maybe we'll need some soon.
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You should especially go because the president is speaking.
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I think this guy is a big dummy and extremely corrupt.
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And I don't want to listen to him say a single word either.
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And I'm not convinced he can articulate a single word.
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And it'll especially be cool for your parents and grandparents.
00:44:58.680
Also, because forget Biden, forget your family for a second.
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You might say, well, college is worthless these days.
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I'm not defending college or Joe Biden or even your family's desires.
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And therefore, it actually is a big moment in your life to graduate.
00:45:36.040
But we're not just brains floating in the ether, right?
00:45:43.440
And you're going to look back on it and say, I remember my college graduation.
00:45:49.940
Michael, I've been a Daily Wire member for well over a year.
00:45:52.440
And I am now one of those new followers of you on Twitter.
00:46:00.880
I've never had a Twitter or even cared about Twitter.
00:46:03.060
I have a theory that the reason for the uptick in followers for conservatives has to do
00:46:08.500
Conservatives now see a space where they can get information without the big tech overlords
00:46:12.840
and are now following all their faves, including yourself.
00:46:18.240
At first, I took a dimmer view, more skeptical view.
00:46:21.240
And I said, no, it's just all these bots flooding in.
00:46:25.360
But just the increase in engagement with real people who are writing real things,
00:46:28.800
and even with blue checks who are theoretically verified humans,
00:46:35.040
A lot of us got extremely angry when they kicked Trump off.
00:46:38.680
We thought that was so egregious, so outrageous.
00:46:41.360
And then furthermore, Twitter itself would start banning conservatives for saying innocuous things.
00:46:46.680
When Elon was announced as the new head of Twitter,
00:46:49.740
I just started tweeting out things you previously weren't allowed to say.
00:46:56.980
The public health authorities have lied to us for two years.
00:47:03.100
And so I suspect a lot of people who previously had their accounts banned just came back on.
00:47:08.960
I was born and raised in New York with the high crime rate, insane taxes, and leftist lunacy.
00:47:15.840
I'm wondering if you have any suggestions on places in the United States
00:47:18.720
that would be good for young, adult, conservative Catholics to live.
00:47:35.960
Michael, what drives the culture of educators to think that it is appropriate to share personal
00:47:40.040
information of any kind in the workplace, in any office space, structured business, or corporation?
00:47:46.640
To have a conversation with a coworker about a romantic relationship is a great way to get sent to HR
00:47:54.720
Sincerely, pre-order, speechless, controlling words, controlling minds.
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I am not convinced that it's always at all times wrong for teachers to share aspects of
00:48:12.100
If you call a teacher Mrs. Smith, you know that she's married.
00:48:17.640
Okay, so I know a lot of times we want to say that we don't want teachers talking in any way
00:48:23.620
about any of their romantic relationships, but that's not exactly true.
00:48:27.640
We just don't want them talking about the weird, unusual, creepy stuff, and we don't want them
00:48:32.120
talking about the stuff that is morally debatable, and we don't want them talking about the stuff that
00:48:37.060
huge swaths of the population view with moral opprobrium, and that traditionally America is
00:48:43.240
And this is why the argument of don't say gay isn't really about LGBT.
00:48:51.160
Teachers, it's not that teachers need to completely shut their mouths up and can never mention that
00:48:56.740
Teachers need to be appropriate, and appropriate implies standards, and we need to enforce
00:49:00.480
traditional standards, or else we're going to get the wacko stuff from the libs, and we're
00:49:06.840
And that is, since you signed it, since you signed it with pre-order, Speechless, Controlling
00:49:10.420
Words, Controlling Minds, you know, that is the thesis of my book, which is available
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