Tucker speaks at AmericaFest
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On this week's episode of Thick & Thin, we're joined by writer, comedian, and all-around entertainer, Charlie Chaplin. We discuss a variety of topics, including the 2020 Democratic primary field race, the Iran hostage crisis, and the Hunter Biden scandal. Plus, we talk about our favorite conspiracy theories about the vice president's father, Joe Biden, and why he's the most corrupt person in Washington, D.C. We also talk about why we're watching a lot of Hunter Biden and why we don't want to get rich, but we're also watching something darker than we're used to in our society. We're watching something we're not supposed to be watching, and we want to know if it's really as bad as we think it is or if we're just watching something that's a little bit darker than what we should be watching. We'll find out at the end of the episode. Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. Art by Skandalous. We are a production of Native Creative Podcasts. Our theme song is Come Alone by The Weakerthans, courtesy of Lotuspool Records, and our ad music is by Suneatersound. Please rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts! and leave us a review on Apple Music, wherever you get your listening device, and don't forget to rate and review our podcast recommendations! Thank you for listening to Gimlet Media! Subscribe, review and subscribe! We re listening to our new episodes of Thick And Thin, and share the podcast! and review it on Podulpsodism, too! if you like the podcast, we'll be listening to your thoughts on your favorite podcasting platform. and sharing it on social media! Send us your thoughts/tweet us your podcasting experience! we're listening to us on Podcharts! or share it on Insta! Thanks for listening and reviewing it! & we'll send it out to someone else's podcasting and we'll review it to you! :) Subscribe to your friends and subscribe on your Insta and share it so we can spread the word out there it's spreading the word about it on the podcast? we'll get it out there to the rest of the world! - Tomahawk!
Transcript
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This is like, this is like the scene in Spinal Tap with Stonehenge and they came out, it's
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Most of my life bears no resemblance to this at all, I can promise you.
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Oh, I don't know what you said, but I agree with you a hundred percent.
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Lady in the front row with the loud voice, thank you, um, thank you.
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I was, I have to say, I knew I was in the right place cause I've spoken, in fact I speak here
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every year cause I really enjoy it and I love Charlie.
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But, um, so there's never a question of whether I was in the right place.
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But when I heard Tulsi Gabbard mention the phrase Nikki Haley and people booed, I was like,
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oh yeah, we're in the right, but then it raised actually a philosophical question for me, which
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is should you put air quotes around Nikki Haley because otherwise you're just assuming this
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is a real person and not just a hologram put out there by Ken Griffin in the billionaire
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And actually now, I mean, I don't know, look, look, do I look like a biologist or a theologian?
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I don't know what is real, but I, exactly, exactly is funny.
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We were in the car coming here, we were doing like a thought experiment in the car, a couple
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of my producers and we're like, wouldn't it be fun?
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Now we actually can't do it cause she'll possibly see it.
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But wouldn't it be fun to call Nikki Haley and pretend that we're representatives, secret
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representatives in Geneva, the government of Iran and say, look, you've been pretty tough
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on the Islamic Republic of Iran, obviously, but we have some of the biggest oil reserves
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And like, what would it cost for you to become our advocate?
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Like, what is the number at which Nikki Haley would be like, you know what?
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And so you could, you could say, all right, we'll wire it, we'll wire it to Switzerland,
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And the next time the Republican candidates get together, just get up there and take up
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And I don't have any doubt in my mind that she'd be like, okay.
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And there'd be Nikki Haley being like, you know, I've been a little tough on Iran, but
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And I think of that every time the Hunter Biden story comes up.
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We were, we were early on that and it just has everything, you know, it's got the audio
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It's just got a lot of flamboyant components that I, as an inherent drama queen, just absolutely
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The only thing I don't like about the Hunter Biden story is that it may give some people
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the impression that he's the most corrupt person in Washington or his father is.
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And as someone who spent a long time there, like actually my whole adult life, I could
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say, and as someone who like lived right down the street from Hunter Biden and knew him
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well, uh, I can say, I didn't really notice how corrupt Hunter Biden was because he wasn't
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different from like most other people in my neighborhood.
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It, that's not that weird for Washington, which, which is the reason it's the richest country
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It's a whole city of Hunter Bidens, less crack, better teeth, fewer weird, incestuous affairs.
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However, that mode of behavior, that way of making a living is absolutely standard.
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If you live in a society where the people in charge just want to sell you out to get rich,
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that's bad, but that's not what we're watching.
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We're watching something much darker than that.
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So the objective of, I would say, the entire administration and its enablers in the Republican
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Party, which is most elected officials there, is to destroy the United States, the recognizable
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United States, the country you grew up in, the country you've been living in, say, 10
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So, and that's kind of obvious to everyone, but too few people pause and ask, well, what
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They don't all have secret island getaways, especially now that Epstein is gone.
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And so, if they succeed in their project of destroying the United States, where are they going to
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It's a little bit like burning your own house down.
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That's not just an act of destruction, it's an act of self-destruction.
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A political program is designed to help the people who institute it and their voters and
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If you successfully convince an entire generation of young people not to have children, what
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you're doing is denying yourself grandchildren, which I can tell you at 54 is kind of the only
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And it's not only the only thing you want, it's the only thing that anyone has ever wanted,
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because having children and continuing the species, passing on your DNA to future generations
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you will never meet, is the whole point of life.
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There is no other point, and there's no other accurate measure of wealth than your descendants.
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So if you are creating a society where, and that's not, that's not like some kooky evangelical
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That's like a very obvious thing that was obvious to everybody in all human history until
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So if you're doing that to your own country and your own children, and they are, and I
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know because I lived among them, their children aren't doing great at all.
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They may be rich, but they're totally screwed up.
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And they're totally loaded up with benzos and SSRIs and addled by porn, and they're as stupid
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and aimless and doomed as anyone else's children.
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And probably a higher percentage of them are trans or non-binary or two-spirit or whatever,
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which is to say doomed to a life of barren unhappiness.
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They assume that evil is something that you inflict on other people.
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And what they miss is that that's not exactly how it works.
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Evil's been around since the beginning of time.
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And certainly in the beginning of recorded history, we know that.
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And it's not something that people simply do to one another.
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And in the process of doing that, what happens to them?
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They are destroyed by the evil that flows through them.
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I mean, I remember as a kid, you know, reading books about the mafia.
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And they were bad and they killed people and they loan sharked and sold heroin and they did stuff that was bad.
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But the one thing about the people who ran the mafia, at least in New York, they looked kind of happy.
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They kind of retired to some restaurant in Brooklyn and pat their bellies and smoke and laugh and...
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You know, it was kind of working out pretty well for them before the FBI got involved and they did the RICO.
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And by the way, there are people who do bad things who seem kind of happy with their lives.
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But if you're channeling actual evil, if you're trying to destroy people for the sake of destroying them,
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if you are lying for the sake of lying, for the thrill of telling a lie,
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and if you are hurting people for the sin of telling the truth,
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if the idea that somebody somewhere might be saying a true thing enrages you,
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So the reason I'm going on about this is not to give you some, you know, half-baked theology lecture.
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Why would you, as the American economy sits on the cusp of collapse,
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when the U.S. dollar is worth less than it's ever been worth,
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when our debt service is more than our defense spending,
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and when robotics are eliminating entire classes of jobs for working-class people,
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why would you admit, illegally, tens of millions of people
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from the poorest countries in the world with no skills?
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Is there some crazy plan the Chamber of Commerce, which is for it, by the way,
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has, where this is going to, I don't know, make labor cheaper?
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That will destroy the country, and that's why they're doing it.
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And I think a lot of people who are doing that have no conscious awareness of this.
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I don't think the staff of the Atlantic magazine, many of whom I know,
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wake up every morning thinking, how could I destroy America, the country where my kids live?
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But there is no mistaking the effects of what they're doing.
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And so that lets us know that it's not even about the next election, which I think is pivotal.
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It's not about some political debate between, I don't know, pick the buffoons.
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It's not about whatever the dumb cable channels are doing.
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No, what do you do in the face of something this profound?
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And the first tool you need, it's not even money.
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In fact, you could look at successful resistance movements.
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Resistance movements that actually have made change in their own country.
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I mean, you know, a hundred years of the Raj ended pretty quickly under a nonviolent movement in India.
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And they did it because they sincerely believed they were right and they were strong inside.
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And this is a nonsectarian point, which is open to people of all backgrounds and faiths,
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And, but, but, but, but really telling the truth.
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Not just some truths, but being completely honest all the time, not just in your public-facing life, but in your personal life.
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One of the huge misconceptions about telling the truth is that it applies to your descriptions of other people.
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It's not hard to point out other people's shortcomings.
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And honestly, you take a kind of perverse, cruel thrill in doing so sometimes.
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And telling the truth can be a cover for cruelty to other people.
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That's easy, and it's not what I'm talking about.
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Telling the truth means the hardest truth of all, which is telling the truth about yourself.
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And that means revealing who you are without shame.
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And you will find, if you attempt this, the first thing you'll find is how unbelievably dishonest you are.
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It sounds easy, then you realize, actually, I really love Reese's.
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And you didn't really know how much you loved Reese's until you went keto, and then you're like, all I care about is Reese's.
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And then you realize, like, you really are kind of disgusting.
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If you wake up and you're like, I'm just going to, in every statement I make, in every word that my lips form, I'm going to be honest.
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When I describe something, I will not exaggerate.
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Because telling the truth does not obligate you to unload the contents of your brain on anyone else.
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And there are some things that are ugly and probably best kept inside your own head.
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But the words your lips form should be utterly true all the time.
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And if you do that, you will find, swelling in your breast, a power of unknown origin, but still unmistakably a power, a strength.
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You will find yourself empowered in the truest sense.
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It comes off you in waves like a jet engine on a hot day.
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It scares people if they know that you're strong inside.
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It doesn't mean, you know, you have to be huge or ripped or whatever, drinking that weird protein powder that all the kids drink.
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It's the parts of animals you're not supposed to eat.
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Not a self-righteousness, which is the opposite of moral strength.
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The guy who tells you how great he is is weak inside.
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I know how good you are because I can smell it like a dog can smell it.
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All of these perceptions and all of our deepest perceptions come to us at a level above words.
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We know what people are about when we're in their presence.
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The distance between a human being and an animal.
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The distance between our society and the animal kingdom is very small.
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Because we are entering a period of real volatility.
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Back when that was literally the greatest place on earth.
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You felt deep sympathy and sadness for anyone who didn't live there.
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For the billions of people who didn't live in Southern California.
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And there were a lot of people who didn't live in Southern California.
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And we honestly, we had a moment of silence for them.
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So I am not a person who looks for apocalypse on the horizon.
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But the evidence unmistakably shows an acceleration in whatever this dark force is in this country whose only impulse is to destroy.
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And the only way to stop it is with that moral strength I described.
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And when I hear Senator Dick Durbin, who might be the most evil member of the Senate, and it's quite a tight race for that title.
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When I hear Senator Dick Durbin say, maybe we should take some of the tens of millions of foreigners who've arrived.
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All of them seem to be about 23 and in great shape.
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And hand them automatic weapons in our military.
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And give them badges and guns in our police departments.
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Oh, you're assembling an army against your own people.
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By showing up and standing immobile in the face of their lies and not fearing them.
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And I felt it today as they announced they're going to tear down the monument commemorating the peace between North and South in the Civil War.
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And this is at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, right across the bridge from Washington, D.C.
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And I read that news that it was stayed by a judge.
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Where are the descendants of Civil War veterans, like me?
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Like many people in this crowd who had ancestors who fought in that war on both sides.
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To stand in front of that monument and say, it's not yours to destroy.
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It only takes three or four people with that crazy-eyed go-ahead look before they're like, whoa, wait a second.
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And I should say at the outset, I don't want to seem self-registered.
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And so I hate it being a case of like somebody should do that.
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But I guess what I'm really saying is everybody should do that.
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If there is, where's the evidence of their efforts?
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And that literally will change the whole story.
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And I have to say, as you look at Europe, because I was unemployed all summer.
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And I thought, you know, I can't fish all summer and bird seasons not until October.
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So I went and visited all these countries and a bunch in Europe.
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And one thing I noticed was when they have, like, some, you know, political turmoil in France, for example, that affects the farmers or the Netherlands, like, the farmers just kind of show up with their tractors.
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They're in the process of changing the government in Holland because people got out and said no.
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I'm old enough to remember when everyone on my side denounced the French as surrender monkeys and, you know, the French are weak.
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Is the police state in the United States so powerful that people don't dare to do it?
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And I think what it really is is that most Americans don't understand the terms.
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We've never had political volatility here at this scale, ever.
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Things have been absolutely fine since, well, Appomattox in 1865.
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We've had ups and downs, the Vietnam War and Occupy Wall Street and all this stuff.
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But, like, there hasn't been a moment where 100 million people felt like, wow, they could put me in jail.
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So it's time to recalibrate what we're looking at.
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Or else, the humiliation rituals will continue.
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And if they continue unabated, how does that end?
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If they're treating you like you're subhuman, what are their plans for you?
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If they won't let you say what you think, they don't consider you human.
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Free speech is what delineates a free man from a slave.
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The slave has to shut up and do what he's told.
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A free man, a citizen, can by definition express what he thinks.
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And there's nothing anyone in authority can do about it ever.
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A government that cares about you tries to elevate you, tries to make you stronger, more independent, as you would with your children.
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Any parent who inculcates dependency in kids is killing the kids.
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If you're 15 years old, your parents are like, oh, did you have a bad dream? Come sleep in bed with us.
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If you're 25 and your parents are like, you don't need a job, just live with us.
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They're trying to hurt you, whether they know it or not.
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Anyone who tries to make you dependent is trying to hurt you.
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Anyone who tries to make you weaker does not have your best interest in mind.
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And anyone who bombards you with ugliness hates you.
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And we are being bombarded with ugliness, and we don't even notice.
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This is the most beautiful country in the face of the earth, and I can say that with some, I think, certainty, having been to many, many countries.
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If you raise a child in an isolation room, what happens to the child?
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If you love your children, you raise them with lots of visual stimuli and beautiful things,
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so they will be inquisitive and bright-eyed and cheerful.
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The uglier you make an environment, the more you oppress the people who live in the environment.
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And it can't be accidental, because what is beauty?
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The truer something is, the more beautiful it is.
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There's no painting in the Louvre that's half as beautiful as your dog's face.
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And all great art is the closest approximation people can get to the things that God made.
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And the most beautiful thing of all, of course, is people.
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I'd say a woman's face, but opinions may differ.
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But the human face is the most beautiful thing.
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So to the extent they deface that, literally deface that,
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to the extent they make our environment uglier,
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they're trying to hurt us, and they are serving evil.
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It was such an offense against aesthetics that I thought,
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where's the architect, and why is he not in prison?
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that someone would be allowed to deface the public view,
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the landscape we all live in along a highway and get away with it,
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and we're like, actually, the real criminals were January 6th.
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The real criminals are the ones building dollar stores in your town.
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well, it's really important that poor people have cheap goods from China,
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that any economic system that produces that, I'm opposed to.
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If it increases the amount of ugliness and human degradation,
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And you can call your new economic system whatever you want.
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As long as it produces a prettier, more pro-human world,
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You would never treat a fellow human being the way they are treating you.
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And the last thing I'll say, which I've been thinking about a lot,
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but I do think we're looking at a very different worldview
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from the one that we assumed we were looking at.
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you don't have to be a Christian to live in that civilization,
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But we should not lie about where the civilization comes from
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because it's based on the precepts of a very specific religion.
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And that's not an indictment of people who live in the East,
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many of whom I love, the East of the globe, I mean.
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And a lot of them want to live in a Western civilization.
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the Christian worldview upon which Europe and the United States
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Well, the core idea is that the individual matters.
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And that's one of the reasons that in Western wars,
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even in the First and Second World Wars, which were atrocities,
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the amount of intentional war crimes is actually,
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on most sides, certainly on the American side, pretty low for a war.
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And the way that those civilizations were organized was always around the individual.
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but it didn't mean he could treat you as a subhuman.
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But above all, it meant that we punished the individual for the things that the individual did,
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Collective punishment is a foreign concept in Western civilization
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because it's a foreign concept of Christianity.
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Christianity and the West are open to everybody.
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And it's why, as much as I think our current immigration disaster will destroy our country,
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I will never stop feeling a lot of warmth for immigrants who, like,
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In fact, well, you have to have, well, whatever.
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You've had a lot of people out here, and some of them weren't born in this country,
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and they're, like, the most articulate defenders of our system.
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But the core of our system is that it revolves around the individual
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You're black, you're white, the dreaded white, you're Hispanic, Asian, trans, gay, straight, whatever.
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These are categories that, by their nature, dehumanize us and deny the primacy of the human soul.
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So there is no history of collective punishment in the United States.
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Well, in the East, in Russia, in China, in North Korea, where it's, to this day, considered normal to arrest the person for the thought crime
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and then to arrest his children and parents because they're all in the same family.
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Well, I mean, it was someone of the bourgeoisie.
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But the idea was they weren't just sinful because they had more than two cows.
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They were sinful because their parents did too.
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Nothing like that has ever happened in the West.
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For all the bad things that, say, Belgium, which I love to beat up on, has done.
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You know, they actually were a pretty crappy colonial power.
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But you are seeing a leadership class in this country, on both sides, who is starting to think that way.
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So just remember, what threatens you is not a political movement.
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The plan can only end in true sadness and tears and weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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There's no happy ending to the story that they are telling.
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And the third and most important thing is that you can only fight back.
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And by becoming more impressive, more honest, and as a result of that, stronger.
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Thank you, and I will take your hostile questions.
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Thank you, and I will take your hostile questions.
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I didn't see whether you did upper deck or lower deck.
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So yesterday, while speaking, Vivek Ramaswamy briefly mentioned the issue of a large influx
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of illegal immigrants coming to America and how it is affecting our economy and everyday
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And his solution for this was to send back all illegal aliens.
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So I wanted to present to you the circumstance that I have seen that has affected me in the
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state of Texas, where there are children that come here with their families at a very young
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age when they're not old enough to make that decision to come here legally or illegally.
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So while they're here, they're subject to the jurisdiction of the American government
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They receive their education here, and they are influenced by our culture here.
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And this is the only language and experience that they have in society.
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So with them being sent back, it would obviously be detrimental for them.
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Well, I would say just the obvious point first, since they call me Captain Obvious, that
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whenever you move large groups of people from one place to another, particularly if they
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don't want to move, there's a lot of suffering.
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Ask anyone who's made it through the Darien Gap, you know?
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Mass movements of people are bad, okay, in general.
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If you did that, you would cause some suffering.
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On the other hand, I don't really see how we have a choice.
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Because how can you say you're a nation of laws if people from other countries don't
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I mean, if I break the law, or if you break the law, especially now that they found out
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you came here, you know, you're going to be held to that standard ruthlessly.
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I mean, I have a friend, Peter Navarro, is about to go to prison for not responding to
00:36:21.880
a subpoena from Liz Cheney and her fake committee.
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So like, yes, if you want to restore the country to where it needs to be, which is
00:36:33.560
a fair country, fairness is the goal, okay, fairness, which means universal principles,
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universally applied, then you have to be serious about your laws and probably need like
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You know, can't smoke weed at the dinner table or whatever, you know, like the obvious
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So anyway, the point is you degrade your country and its justice system when you allow tens
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of millions of people to break the law without punishment, okay?
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The second thing I just know from traveling a lot is that I'm not sure how it helps any
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country to have its most ambitious people leave.
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And the funny thing, if I can just say, about American liberals is they're so convinced that
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They're like, well, you know, of course, anyone living here in some depressing suburb
00:37:24.640
of Houston on food stamps has a much better life than someone in El Salvador.
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Well, actually, I've been to El Salvador a lot.
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And I'm not convinced it's the worst place to raise your kids right now, to be honest.
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But more to the point, how is that compassionate?
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Syria had a civil war and like almost every single doctor in Syria left and went to the
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And if you talk to anyone who runs one of these so-called third world countries, some
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I mean, everyone should visit just like give you a little bit of perspective on, say, Baltimore.
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But if you talk to people who run these countries, they're like all the people with the most
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And so like, why doesn't, you know, if I think most immigrants now are not from Latin
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America, they're mostly coming from Africa and the Middle East, some from Asia.
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But I don't know how that helps Liberia or more likely Nigeria for everyone to come
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And there's no justification for it economically at all.
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And by the way, this country is so big and so spread out that most people have no idea
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But I would just, I honestly, if you have a free day, drive 500 miles in one direction,
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stay in a motel and drive back and tell me what you see.
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There are people living in the bathroom at the hotel.
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And how do we know it was, why didn't we know it was happening?
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I think if we deported a single person, it would be sad for that person probably, but we
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No, Nikki Haley isn't real, as I told you at the outset.
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The whole thing's a hologram designed by Republican donors.
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By the way, I would just, the marvelous thing about Nikki Haley is she gets so much attention
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She's, I hear, I don't have one, but apparently she's on television like every commercial break.
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And like, there's not like 27 Republican primary voters who aren't billionaires who
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She's running on things that are completely irrelevant to Republican primary voters.
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You don't want to live in a society where every politician has to have a personal billionaire
00:40:03.260
Where every cultural movement has to, because what is that?
00:40:20.520
Hi, I'm Jaden Rodriguez, more commonly known as the Gadsden Flack Kid.
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And I wanted to ask you again, just a few questions.
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Would you consider, um, consider doing, like, kids programming?
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And also, would you consider being vice president for Trump?
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And it's funny that you paired those two questions together because they have the same answer.
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So you asked, would I ever consider doing kids programming?
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And there's a phrase in Western Maine that I just love.
00:41:29.880
I feel like there's this weird temptation for people when they, like, do something for,
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I mean, I've done the same job literally for 32 years.
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So, you know, and you get good at something if you do it enough.
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That's why you want to go to the knee doctor who does it eight times a day.
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And if you, you know, get to middle age and you're like, oh, I've been, you know, relatively successful in my own stupid field.
00:41:52.200
I think I'd also be a great landscape painter or hip-hop artist or movie producer.
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You've got to shake yourself and say, no, actually, that's a very recognizable syndrome that afflicts mostly men,
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but also Nikki Haley, who may or may not be real, which is called hubris.
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And hubris means the belief that you are God and that you're somehow good at everything.
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And I check that impulse in myself on a daily basis.
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And I talk about the world and my dumb ideas and politicians and the hijinks that they're up to.
00:42:29.780
And I fulminate and scowl and stare blankly into the camera.
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But one thing I have never done, probably not very good at, is making children's programming.
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Didn't allow them to watch TV, so I have no idea what kids watch.
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And politics, well, I've followed it all my life, of course.
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With every passing year, I become more repulsed because it becomes ever more repulsive.
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And I don't just mean the system, just to be totally clear on this.
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I mean the actual people who participate in it because I know them personally.
00:43:12.100
I mean, I have a couple of friends in politics, amazingly.
00:43:14.520
But in general, I think they're probably the worst people in our society.
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A country of great people run by the worst people.
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And I honestly, I don't think I could be around that.
00:43:32.140
I mean, I think it's absolutely important, maybe like historically important, for Trump not to be stopped by this totally immoral, country-changing political vendetta.
00:43:43.780
You cannot use the Justice Department to knock the frontrunner out of the race on fake charges.
00:43:54.820
And you also can't allow a political party to choose a senile guy to, quote, run your country when every single person knows he's not running the country because he's senile.
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And no one's allowed to say so because it's mean.
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It's just impossible to imagine myself ever getting involved in something like that.
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And not because I'm afraid, because I'm not afraid at all.
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And I also, I think, I mean, I just can't imagine myself at a fundraiser or something.
00:44:35.660
And somebody's like, well, actually, Zelensky is a lot like Churchill.
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Zelensky has tried to get my country where my children live in a nuclear war.
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And anyone who tries to get my children in a nuclear war is my enemy.
00:44:58.120
And so I couldn't sit through that meal without making Ken Griffin mad.
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I interviewed a presidential candidate at one point who, like, said, what do you think of Ukraine?
00:45:12.520
Oh, well, I think, you know, Ukraine is a sad regional conflict.
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And Ken Griffin calls the guy up and is like, you can't say that.
00:45:23.800
And he's like, issues a statement the next day.
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And you're taking orders from some moron, some guy who doesn't know anything, who may be good at, you know, investing.
00:45:50.520
And wisdom is all that matters if you're running things.
00:46:01.920
Hello, I'm Jackson Robinson from Lafayette, Louisiana.
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And I started a Turning Point Club at Lafayette High School.
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Would you fully support a theocratical government structure based on the teachings of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?
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You know, of course, I have no idea what that means.
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I would say that, I mean, don't even get me going.
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I left the church that I grew up in over this question.
00:46:40.140
Christianity has to stand distinct from politics.
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Because when Christianity mingles with politics, Christianity dies.
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And watching these churches, many of which I support because, spoiler alert, I'm a Christian,
00:46:54.580
start pushing the vax at the demand of the CDC and others and the propaganda campaigns that individual churches,
00:47:03.340
conservative evangelical churches, inflicted on their parishioners,
00:47:07.540
telling them that Jesus would want them to take this vax, which was not tested longitudinally,
00:47:16.200
I'm sure they're nice people and I think they're sincere believers.
00:47:18.140
But the point is, when you mingle with people who are corrupt,
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if you're even a little bit impressed by their earthly power,
00:47:28.340
even a little bit impressed, you'll be corrupted.
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Runs Christianity, totally corrupted by politics, completely corrupted.
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And he's constantly thinking, well, will I offend this or that person in power?
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And if you think, even for a second, about what your witness, who will be offended by it,
00:47:59.200
And so I just, I'm very concerned with any intersection.
00:48:04.840
And I will say, finally, just having traveled a lot, that the death of Christianity in Europe,
00:48:09.240
which is one of the biggest things ever to happen, it was a Christian continent.
00:48:14.920
In Western Europe, it's totally atheist or full pagan.
00:48:17.620
That happened in part because the church was an organ of the state.
00:48:23.380
And people really came to hate the church as a result of that.
00:48:26.040
And that makes me sad because I like the church.
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I also, to be totally honest, even though I don't share their faith,
00:48:33.860
I kind of like religious people of a lot of different faiths.
00:48:36.820
And when I saw the Hasids in Brooklyn during COVID,
00:48:40.320
and they're like, we're going to our weddings because that's what we do.
00:48:44.080
And they don't want to fight with the government, but they're like, no, we're going to our weddings.
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I know you have your little pandemic or whatever, but we're still going to our weddings because we're Orthodox and that's what we do.
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I don't agree with that faith, but I respect them because they do believe their faith.
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So I would just be, I think our country, the last thing I'll say is,
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I do think that countries like people suffer consequences for immorality.
00:49:13.360
And if your country celebrates it, if it elevates abortion as a positive good, a means of freedom, it's just child sacrifice.
00:49:21.960
And mutilating children, discarding children, promoting prostitution, selling people's bodies.
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But that is a very dangerous thing to do and we are doing it.
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I don't know what that means, but I don't want the government anywhere near my church and I mean it.