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President and venal houseplant Joe Biden

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launched his re-election campaign last week

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with a fiery speech near Valley

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Forge, Pennsylvania, in which he declared,

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quote, Donald Trump is not

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fit to be president and then wandered off

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stage, tripped over his own shoe heel, tumbled

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down a flight of stairs, rolled out

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the door while flailing his arms and blinking

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rapidly with an empty expression on his

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open mouth face, and finally awoke two days

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later in a truck stop in Lancaster County

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wearing an Amish hat and a Guns

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N' Roses t-shirt before being led back to

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the podium by First Lady Dr. Mrs.

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Jill Biden, whom he mistook for his grandmother

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and sobbed because he thought she had passed

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away in 1943, or at

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least it was very difficult to wake her up from her

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nap. The speech was

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delivered on the eve of January 6th,

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exactly three years, eight months and 20

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days after leftist riots claimed at least

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25 lives and caused

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around $2 billion in damage, making

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them the most costly political violence

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in the nation's history. And

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also three years after that thing at the Capitol

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where all the idiots ran around stealing furniture and

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stuff. Speaking in tones

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so sonorous with righteous anger, they

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made the drool on his chin

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quiver. Biden said, quote, we

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stand today at Valley Forge. Never

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forget what happened here. No,

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really what happened here? I don't remember. Oh,

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yeah, something about George Washington and feet. And

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there was blood on the snow just as there

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would have been blood at the Capitol on January

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6th if people had been standing in the snow

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with no shoes on, which let's face it is

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a pretty stupid thing to do. And George Washington

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should have known better. Always wear

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boots when you're in the snow. This is America,

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for God's sake. It gets cold here, especially in

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the winter at Valley Forge. But

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meanwhile, in Washington on January 6th,

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we almost lost our entire democracy.

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And sure, for that to happen, it would

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have taken some unimaginably extraordinary series of events

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where like someone in the Capitol accidentally butt

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dialed his mistress at the Pentagon, who then

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the i thought this would be good time to

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step back and ask me just take a look

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at the fields and talk about why would I

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see and why I see as the way i

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do with some different than i think everybody else

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but. I don't have. You watched

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the debate the other night and the debate and

9:08

simultaneously the Donald Trump Town Hall. Long as light

9:11

of everything was Chris Christie dropping out of the

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risks. That was the right thing for him to

9:15

do. It is when you know you're not going

9:17

anywhere. the right thing to do is get away

9:19

with the people, choose between the people who can

9:21

actually win for Chris Christie to the right thing.

9:24

but then write every did as he got caught

9:26

on a hike thought might. Be

9:28

the only person to speak the

9:30

truth, but Mchale uses been for

9:32

months now. The. Stabbed.

9:34

Which meant right. Media like a Wall Street

9:37

Journal has been trying to convince us that

9:39

Nikki Haley's the things and the people are

9:41

going. Nobody wants Nikki Haley. A. Lot

9:44

of things that he so she's assange is of not

9:46

of they. So here is Chris Christie telling the truth

9:48

on a hotline. For the want to hear

9:50

it when they don't want to hear it, we

9:52

know we're right. But. then on here

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at my him and there's enough we could have

9:57

been unclear if my if we should have any

9:59

more more director worked any harder

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so you know yeah

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well when you get landed China and places

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like that yeah that's what you get yeah

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I mean look she spent 68 million so

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far just on TV spent 68

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million so far 59 million by DeSantis

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and we spent 12 I mean

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who's punching above their weight and who's getting a

10:22

return on their investment you know and she's gonna

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get smoked and you and I both know it

10:27

she's out of today still

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20 points behind Trump in the winter

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yeah oh yeah and he's gonna we're gonna

10:34

carry out yes always I thought I

10:36

talked to this DeSantis calling me petrified

10:40

I would he's probably getting out

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of half of Iowa I

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went doing to say that if Chris Christie is

10:47

punching above his weight all the other kids kicks

10:49

will be dead big bunch it's a heavy punch

10:51

but come to think of it that's almost true

10:53

the other candidates almost are dead I was watching

10:56

the debate and kind of switching

10:58

over to Donald Trump and to

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me at this point Haley and

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DeSantis could be phoning it in I mean

11:05

Haley has this thing where she does the

11:07

the cute obviously rehearsed and written insults

11:10

here's just a clip of Haley rather

11:13

than have him go and tell you all these

11:15

lies you can go to just Santa's lies calm

11:17

and look at all of those

11:19

there's at least two dozen lies that he's

11:21

told about me and you can see where

11:23

fact-checkers say exactly what's gonna happen and

11:25

exactly why it's wrong so it will cover

11:28

the fact that he's only mad about the

11:30

donors because the donors used to be with

11:32

him but they're no longer with him now

11:34

and that's because he's upset about the fact

11:36

that his campaign is exploding you're gonna see

11:38

the fact that he has switched his policies

11:42

multiple times and we'll call that out

11:44

tonight but every time he lies Drake University don't

11:46

turn this into a drinking game because you will

11:48

be over served by the end of the and

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then DeSantis that's the stuff she's

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been doing quotable written obviously prepared

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and DeSantis has his Florida band

11:58

camp thing where he says that

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one time in Florida, he was cut three. I'm

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the only one running that's delivered on

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100% of the promises that I've made.

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We've delivered huge victories in the state

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of Florida, things that Republicans have been

12:11

asking for for a generation. I'm also

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the only one running that has beaten

12:15

the left time and time again. We

12:17

beat the teachers union on universal school

12:19

choice. We beat Soros on crime. We

12:21

beat Fauci on COVID. We beat the

12:23

Dems on election integrity. And I beat

12:25

the left by banning China from

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buying land in the state of Florida.

12:29

Now, Nikki Haley

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is running. We don't

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need another mealy mouth politician who just

12:36

tells you what she thinks you want

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to hear just to try to

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get your vote, then to get in office and

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to do her donors bidding. Now, I

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have to tell you, in all honesty, I

12:46

think everything that DeSantis just said is true.

12:48

I think if he were to win, which

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seems to me unimaginable, if he were to

12:53

win, he would by far be the best

12:55

president of anybody running. I think he is

12:57

a great executive. He thinks he's done a

12:59

great job in Florida. I think everything he's

13:01

saying about himself is true. There is something

13:03

about the guy that is not commanding

13:06

as a candidate, as a governor. Great. But

13:08

as a candidate, there's something about him. I

13:10

think that maybe Trump spoke to him. And

13:12

you can see why, because you turn over

13:14

to Fox News, where they have this Trump

13:16

town hall. And I will say

13:18

that ethically, I don't think they should have done that.

13:20

They shouldn't have counter-programmed Trump against the debate. I think

13:22

Trump should be pressured to debate. He's a candidate. I

13:25

understand that he's so far ahead, he doesn't feel he

13:27

has to debate. I understand that's a good strategy for

13:29

him. But for America, it's not. He should be forced

13:31

to debate. He should be in the debate. And Fox

13:33

News was ethically wrong, I think, to put him on.

13:36

But Money Talks, and they did put him on. And

13:38

I just have to tell you, the guy is

13:41

just, he is riveting. He is

13:43

the greatest show in American politics. I

13:45

mean, at one point, the Santis supporter

13:48

stands up and asks him about a real question. You've

13:50

been so mean to people, because he just really treats

13:52

people like crap. And he said, she says, you've been

13:54

so mean to people, how will you get good people

13:56

to work for you? This is Trump's response. We're

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going to have no trouble. We had great people. We

14:02

had a couple that were not great,

14:05

stiffs as I would call them, but

14:07

that's true with anybody. But now

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I've gotten to know Washington. I've gotten to know

14:11

the people. I know the best. I know the

14:13

smart ones, the dumb ones, the weak ones, the

14:15

strong ones. And I think

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you're going to see something like you've never seen before.

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And the people in this room know it.

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We did an amazing job. And

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the reason we have support is because

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of the job we did. You

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like Ron DeSantis, but he wouldn't even be

14:31

around today. He'd be working in a pizza

14:33

shop or perhaps a law firm if I

14:35

didn't endorse him. And by the way, and

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I'll get to this, that's true. DeSantis

14:39

would not be DeSantis without Donald Trump. Most

14:41

of what he says about DeSantis is false.

14:44

Trump says, I didn't close down the country. He did. He

14:47

bragged about closing down the country. He says DeSantis

14:49

was governed by Fauci. That's not true. DeSantis

14:52

was caught on almost as quick as anybody in the country.

14:55

But even the mean way he talks, this guy's

14:57

a stiff, this guy's dumb, this guy's all

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of the way he talked. You know what it's like?

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It's like if you're at a beauty contest and you're

15:03

watching a beauty contest on TV and one of the

15:05

girls stands up and the guy says, well, what are

15:07

your goals if you become Miss whatever you are? And

15:10

the woman says, well, you know, I don't

15:12

really care about suffering people that I don't

15:15

know, but I'm just, I have really nice

15:17

breasts and I'm hoping that'll get me through

15:19

and maybe I can marry a millionaire. And

15:21

you'd go, you'd go like, whoa, whoa. Did

15:24

she say that? The honesty, at least she wasn't talking

15:26

about the starving children of Africa, which we know she

15:28

doesn't care about. At least she said something

15:30

true. And that's what watching Trump is like.

15:32

And the same is true about him with

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the prosecutors. Now I've told you that I've

15:36

read the indictments against him. I think every

15:38

single one of them is either trash or

15:40

something where Hillary Clinton or someone else did

15:42

much worse and was not touched. So they're

15:44

all bogus. And they he was, he's in

15:46

the closing arguments, had the

15:48

closing arguments in this absurd New York fraud

15:51

trial where he's charged with hurting no one,

15:53

doing nothing anybody complained about. That's what he's

15:55

charged with. The judge who should be impeached

15:58

already convicted him with no evidence. evidence whatsoever,

16:00

he said he's guilty, and told

16:03

him to shut up in his court. So

16:05

afterwards, Trump gave his own

16:08

press conference, cut 14. Well, see, my

16:10

legal issues, every one of them, every one,

16:12

civil and the criminal

16:14

ones, are all set up by Joe Biden,

16:16

crooked Joe Biden. This is something

16:18

that's never happened in this country. Even when you

16:20

look at this, this is all about Biden and

16:22

her meaning. So even the civil ones,

16:25

this is civil, they're set up by

16:27

Biden. Every single,

16:29

just about, case that I'm involved in is

16:31

set up by Biden. They're doing it for

16:33

election interference. And

16:36

in a way, I guess you'd consider it part of the

16:38

campaign, because if you really look at it, they are

16:40

doing this. It's never been done like this in

16:42

this country. It's like we're

16:44

a third world country, a banana republic. But

16:47

every one of the things that you write about

16:50

are Biden indictments. And

16:53

I don't know, you know, I just got a poll. We

16:55

just had a poll. It just

16:58

came out and we're leading massively in Iowa.

17:01

We're leading very big in New Hampshire.

17:03

We're leading because the people understand this stuff. The

17:06

people do understand this stuff. And it really is

17:08

like they brought out, they actually unleashed

17:11

lawfare against the main politic,

17:14

their main political opponent, something that really truly

17:16

has not happened in this country to this

17:18

degree. It is a terrible banana republic thing

17:20

to do, just like he says it is.

17:22

And they kind of walked into a buzzsaw

17:24

because he doesn't lie down and he won't

17:27

take it. He says exactly what he means.

17:29

And it's true. I mean, the DA in

17:31

the Georgia RICO, she's charging

17:33

lawyers with a RICO conspiracy for

17:35

being lawyers, for representing their client

17:37

and doing what they were supposed

17:39

to do. She's now accused of

17:42

paying $700,000 to her lover for

17:44

working on the case when he's completely

17:46

inexperienced. And there's a report that

17:49

this guy, Nathan Wade, who's supposed to

17:51

be shtooping the Fannie Willows, met

17:54

with the Biden administration officials on two

17:56

separate occasions before any charges were filed

17:58

in Georgia against Florida. former president Donald Trump,

18:00

wonder what they were talking about. So everything he says

18:03

about this is absolutely true, and the fact that he

18:05

says it, and the fact that he doesn't lie down

18:07

is what makes him, I'm

18:09

sorry, he's just a great show. He

18:11

has transformed the Republican Party. He is

18:14

the OG of the new Republican Party.

18:16

He likes to say that this

18:18

wouldn't have happened without me, and that wouldn't

18:20

have happened without me, and he's got this

18:23

point. And I'm telling you, I believe that

18:25

he's passed his prime. I believe that losing

18:27

this election has ruined him. I don't believe

18:29

that he can do the job like Ron DeSantis

18:31

can do the job, because I don't believe he has

18:33

the organizational skills to do it, but

18:36

I can see why the people like him. You

18:38

know, let me read you something

18:41

from the New York Times. We

18:43

like to go to the New York Times, a

18:45

former newspaper will want to know what the leftists

18:47

think. We go to their op-ed page, which I

18:49

like to call Knucklehead Row. Oh,

18:52

Eddie, hey, oh,

18:54

Eddie, oh, let it

18:56

go, open down to Knucklehead

18:58

Row. All right,

19:01

now, Brett Stevens is not a knucklehead. I've met him

19:03

several times, very right guy, very civilized, but he hates

19:05

Trump, and he hated Trump so much that he left

19:07

his great job at the Wall Street Journal and went

19:09

to the New York Times, where he is more conservative

19:11

than anybody else, and sort of, I think, has had

19:13

to curtail himself a little bit, but

19:15

he just couldn't stand saying nice things about

19:17

Trump. He wrote this column the other day,

19:19

the case for Trump by someone who wants

19:21

him to lose. Maybe it's time

19:23

for readers of this newspaper to think

19:25

a little more deeply about the enduring

19:27

sources of Trump's appeal and to do

19:29

so without calling him names or disparaging

19:32

his supporters or attributing his resurgence to

19:34

nefarious foreign actors or the unfairness of

19:36

the electoral college. What

19:38

a thought, right? You know, on the sea,

19:40

the Times readers falling down on their fainting

19:42

couches all across Park Slope. All right, he

19:44

says, begin with fundamentals. Trump got three big

19:46

things right. One was immigration. Many of Trump's

19:48

opponents refused to see virtually unchecked migration as

19:50

a problem for the West at all. Some

19:52

of them see it as an opportunity to

19:54

demonstrate their humanitarianism. Others look at it as

19:56

an inexhaustible source of cheap labor. They have

19:58

the habit of denouncing. those who disagree with them

20:01

as racist. It's a basic

20:03

requirement of statehood and peoplehood

20:07

to enforce control of the border. It is

20:09

not racism. So this is Trump's enemy, remember?

20:11

But he gets it. He hears

20:13

what the people hear. This is the second

20:15

big thing Trump got right, was about the

20:17

broad direction of the country. Liberal elites insist

20:20

that things are going well while overwhelming majorities

20:22

of Americans say they are not. And

20:24

he points out that more than 12% of all adult males had a

20:26

felony conviction on their record. And I'm sorry, that

20:34

was not the one. There was a

20:36

rising death rate among middle-aged white

20:39

people and declining life expectancy at

20:41

birth in part because of sharply

20:43

rising deaths from suicide, alcoholism, or

20:47

drug addiction. That's an amazing thing.

20:50

And I don't think it gets half the

20:52

attention it deserves. I mean, remember, when you

20:54

read the founding fathers, when you read the

20:56

federalist papers, all they talk about is the

20:58

obligation of the government to secure

21:00

the happiness of the people. So

21:03

while Obama is fundamentally transforming the

21:05

country, people are killing themselves at

21:07

such rates that life expectancy is

21:09

down. All right, here's the third

21:11

thing that Brett Stevens

21:13

says Trump got right. There's the question

21:16

of institutions that are supposed to represent

21:18

impartial expertise from elite universities and media

21:20

to the Centers for Disease Control and

21:22

Prevention and the FBI. Trump's

21:24

detractors, including me, often argued that

21:27

his demagoguery and mendacity did a

21:29

lot to needlessly diminish trust in

21:31

these vital institutions. But we should

21:33

be more honest with ourselves and

21:35

admit that those institutions did their

21:37

own work in squandering through partisanship

21:39

or incompetence, the esteem in which

21:41

they had once been widely held.

21:43

And finally, Brett Stevens says, much

21:46

of the elite media, mostly liberal, became

21:48

openly partisan in the 2016 election

21:50

and in doing so, not only

21:52

failed to understand why Trump won,

21:55

but probably unwittingly contributed to his

21:57

victory. This to me, this thing

21:59

about the So

24:01

this wonderful lady that I love at my

24:03

church, she's older than I am,

24:05

which I know that's hard to conceive of, but she

24:07

actually is older than I am. She came up to

24:10

me and she said, and you have to picture, you

24:12

know, this older lady at church,

24:14

she said, you've got to go see Godzilla

24:16

minus one, this movie. And I was like,

24:18

you're kidding. You saw Godzilla? She said,

24:20

go see it. So I went and saw it, right? And

24:23

the thing is, American

24:26

culture right now sucks. I know I keep hammering

24:28

this, but it's just true. It's dishonest. It's dead.

24:30

The two best movies I saw last year were both

24:33

foreign films, Anatomy of a Fall, which is

24:35

French and then the Godzilla film. And the

24:37

reason is, they were honest films about honest

24:39

people doing things that people really do. I

24:42

mean, America has so much talent. I would

24:44

never say we don't have a lot of

24:46

talent. Oppenheimer was a powerful, beautifully made film,

24:48

beautifully acted. Christopher Nolan was a great Cillian

24:50

Murphy. Ruth Christopher Nolan directed great Cillian Murphy

24:52

with great acting. But it was dishonest. Oppenheimer

24:54

was a security threat and a communist and

24:57

Truman was right about him. And Barbie, which

24:59

was also watchable

25:02

and interesting, it was a

25:04

mess because no one can say what a woman is. And there was

25:06

just – our culture is like that.

25:08

Remember that James Taylor song, Sweet Dreams and Flying

25:10

Machines and Pieces on the Ground? That's

25:12

what our artistic culture looks like to me. But

25:16

foreign films are now coming up with

25:18

some kind of honest view of the

25:20

world. And this Godzilla film, which

25:22

is called Godzilla Minus 1, took me a while

25:24

to figure this out. Godzilla Minus 1, because it

25:26

comes before the first Godzilla movie, which was made

25:28

on my birth year, 1954. This

25:31

one takes place at the end of World

25:33

War II and in the aftermath in Japan.

25:36

And while all the girl boss

25:39

crap that was coming out in superhero movies

25:41

here, all the girls who can't get into

25:43

fights, who chase down men and run faster

25:45

than they do, who punch men and the

25:47

men go real, all of that stuff, left-wing

25:50

propaganda bombed and bombed and bombed.

25:52

And that's what Hollywood spent on it. It just went down

25:54

the drain. This film, which cost under

25:56

$15 million to make, which

25:58

is amazing. for a monster movie and

26:01

the special effects are pretty good, you

26:03

know, they're definitely watchable. This

26:05

thing cleaned up at the box office and all

26:07

the critics said, well, it's because of the human

26:09

story. The human story is so good. The

26:12

reason the human story is good is because it

26:14

has a woman in it and the woman is

26:16

a woman. She's played by a woman named Minami

26:19

Hamabi. She's feminine.

26:21

She's real. She's like a woman you'd

26:23

actually meet. She's feminine. She rescued, but

26:25

she's heroic. She rescues a baby. She

26:27

sacrifices herself. She's modest. She's beautiful. And

26:30

even though when it comes time to do the

26:32

fighting against the monsters, it's the

26:34

men who go out and do the

26:36

fighting as they would in real life.

26:38

The whole movie revolves around this woman.

26:40

She is what they're fighting for and

26:42

she's the only person in the movie

26:44

you actually remember because she's the reason

26:46

everything happened. And you know someone tweeted

26:49

at me, you

26:51

believe in individuality. Why do you think all women

26:53

should be homemakers? Absolutely true.

26:55

I don't think that at all. I

26:57

don't care what women do as long as I get my

26:59

dinner. As long as I get my dinner, I don't care

27:02

what women do. What I think

27:04

is that homemaking and mothering are the

27:06

most important jobs and many, possibly a

27:08

majority of women, would find those jobs

27:11

rewarding if people would

27:13

honor them as they deserve rather than denigrating

27:15

them in favor of time-wasting nonsense that seems

27:18

to them feminist and fair. That's what I

27:20

think. Okay, so it has nothing to do

27:22

with what I want to order women to

27:24

go off and do things. I truly, it's

27:26

nothing to me. I just don't want them

27:28

flying planes or anything where I'm in danger.

27:30

But really, I'm just, all I'm saying is

27:32

I think mothering and homemaking are the important

27:34

things. They're the reason everything else happens. The

27:37

other thing that makes this Godzilla movie so great is

27:39

this. In every

27:42

Godzilla movie, Godzilla always represents

27:44

some human evil that has

27:46

had an effect on the

27:48

psyche or the lives

27:50

of the people who then have to

27:52

fight Godzilla. Godzilla is always the avatar

27:54

of some act of human malfeasance.

27:57

So in the original 1954 film, He

28:00

was a prehistoric beast, he was

28:02

awakened by nuclear radiation, and obviously

28:04

it was a Japanese film, and

28:06

obviously this was in the wake

28:08

of Hiroshima, and this was basically

28:10

the psychic damage and psychic fear

28:12

that had been created by dropping

28:14

a nuclear weapon. On

28:18

Japan, on two islands, and just the

28:20

terrible radiation that went through everything and

28:22

the terrible death toll, Godzilla

28:25

represented that sort of coming

28:27

back, the sin of mankind coming back

28:29

into play as a monster. In most movies

28:31

he represents something like that, represents global warming,

28:34

or pollution, or nuclear weapons, nuclear testing, whatever

28:36

is the going thing that people are interested

28:38

in. But in this

28:40

movie, he represents the death

28:43

wish caused by losing the war

28:45

and the shame of not dying

28:47

in the war. In other words,

28:49

if the idea

28:52

of the Japanese at that time, the ethos

28:54

of the Japanese at that time was the

28:57

kamikaze pilot, we are going to die

28:59

because death is better than dishonor. But

29:03

this guy in the movie is a kamikaze

29:05

pilot who chickens out and they lose the

29:07

war and he survives. Now the

29:09

reason this matters is Japan is dying. Now, right

29:11

now, while we're talking, not in the movies, in

29:13

real life, in one year their population, which is

29:15

only about 125 million, their population fell 800,000 in

29:17

one year. They're

29:21

in a death spiral. Their population is

29:24

older, getting older all the time

29:26

and is aging out and nothing's being done

29:28

about it. They've kind of given up on

29:30

it. And I think everything takes 70 years

29:32

to kick in. I believe that when communism

29:34

comes in, it takes 70 years to fail.

29:37

And when bad ideas start, it takes 70

29:39

years. Only the current left is basically at

29:41

the end of the 70-year cycle in America

29:43

and that's why everything is coming apart for

29:45

them. We were placed

29:47

after the war. We destroyed their culture. We dissected

29:50

it. We took it apart and we replaced it

29:52

with ours. And we think, hey, ours is better.

29:54

I agree. I think ours is better too. But

29:57

it's not theirs. You took away from

29:59

them everything. Everything they were, everything they

30:01

believed in, everything they had, everything

30:03

that informed their cultural idea, and

30:06

they're dying. They're dying from it. I believe

30:09

that. There's an old saying, if you're going

30:11

to take away man's culture, you better replace it with something of

30:13

value. But I think the spirit went out of it. So

30:16

Godzilla in this movie, Godzilla minus one,

30:19

represents the sort of will to die and

30:21

the shame at their loss and their failure.

30:23

Like I said, the hero's a kamikaze guy,

30:25

and in order to defeat, who chickens out,

30:27

he decides I'm not going to kill myself,

30:30

he's not going to kill himself, and he lives. In

30:33

order to defeat Godzilla, he has to learn to

30:35

live again. That's why the woman is the secret

30:37

hero of the movie, because women are the givers

30:39

of life. They are the makers and

30:41

nurturers of life. In

30:44

order to love her, which he can't do, the

30:46

hero can't do, in order to love her, the

30:48

main character has to want to live. He can't

30:50

defeat Godzilla until he learns to want to live

30:52

again. It's a very beautiful human, honest story, and

30:54

it depends on a true view of femininity as

30:56

the failure of American culture. The

31:01

reason American culture is failing is because we have

31:03

a false view of femininity and therefore a false

31:06

view of humanity. Donald Trump

31:08

is Godzilla because he is

31:10

the avatar of a human

31:12

sin, which is our culture

31:14

of lies. He's

31:17

not a good man. I mean, look, he's

31:19

a serial adulterer, he's a liar, his ethics

31:21

are bad. I

31:26

don't feel he's an utterly corrupt person. There are people

31:28

far more corrupt than he is. But

31:30

he's not a good guy. You wouldn't leave your daughter alone in

31:32

a room with him. He's a blundering

31:34

beast like Godzilla. But he

31:37

is the living cry of a people

31:39

who have been lied to

31:41

and lied to and lied to

31:43

by toxic, arrogant,

31:45

elitist, entitled corporate

31:48

media who

31:50

are basically standing up for

31:53

the regime. And

31:55

not just standing up for the regime, but telling

31:57

them that they are bad. what

32:00

they're being told, if they speak their own

32:02

truth, they should be censored, they should be

32:04

cut down as misinformation, as racist, as sexist,

32:06

all those things, be silent,

32:08

shut up. And

32:11

this is the monster that that creates. They

32:13

think, oh, this is gonna do it, we're

32:15

gonna silence everybody, no one will know that

32:17

women are unhappy, no one will know that

32:20

men are killing themselves because they're so miserable,

32:22

no one will know that we're making a

32:24

fortune while the middle class is vanishing, no

32:26

one will see because we'll tell them it's

32:28

not there and we'll tell them if they

32:31

speak and say that it's there, they're

32:33

bad people. If they are our systems which

32:35

made us rich and powerful have destroyed the

32:38

lives of black people so that black people

32:40

are now in these high crime areas, but

32:42

if anybody says they're high crime areas, who

32:44

know you're a racist, what do you think

32:46

that does to people? What do you

32:48

think it does? It makes them furious. Listen

32:51

to this, listen to, here's Francis Collins,

32:53

who was the head of the National

32:55

Institutes of Health during the pandemic. This

32:57

is the guy who was, because he was

33:00

theoretically an evangelical, this is the guy who

33:02

was used to rope in the churches and

33:04

tell them if they wanted to be winsome,

33:06

if they wanted to be Christian, they should

33:08

shut down their churches. Here's what he's saying

33:10

now about the job he did, cut seven.

33:13

If you're a public health person and you're trying to make

33:15

a decision, you have this

33:17

very narrow view of what the

33:20

right decision is and that is

33:23

something that will save a life. Doesn't

33:25

matter what else happens. You

33:28

attach infinite value to

33:30

stopping the disease and saving a life,

33:33

you attach a zero value to

33:35

whether this actually totally disrupts people's lives,

33:38

ruins the economy and has many kids

33:40

kept out of school in a way

33:42

that they never quite require for a

33:44

public health. Collateral damage. Yeah, collateral damage.

33:47

This is a public health mindset and

33:49

I think a lot of us involved

33:51

in trying to make those recommendations had

33:53

that mindset and that was really unfortunate.

33:56

That's just another mistake we made. Now

33:58

listen, that's on. At

34:00

least that is pretty honest. And I

34:03

don't think he'd be going to prison or anything

34:05

like this, but I think that there should be

34:07

a cost for causing that much

34:09

damage. And I think I

34:11

really do give him credit for coming out and just saying

34:13

that. Fauci, on the other hand,

34:16

on a closed door session with Congress, who

34:18

still thinks he's the God's gift to America,

34:20

said at one point, oh, you know that

34:22

thing where we said everybody had to be

34:24

six feet apart? That had no basis in

34:26

science. That just kind of happened. I

34:29

don't know who pushed that. Well, that was the

34:31

reason the schools closed. That was the reason

34:33

businesses were destroyed, because you couldn't hold people

34:35

far enough apart. That was the

34:37

reason every church had to set its chairs out in

34:39

the middle of nowhere and why churches closed and nobody

34:42

could get together. So

34:45

we watch this happen. And

34:47

the reason I'm talking about the press is

34:49

OK. Let's give

34:51

Francis Collins the benefit of the doubt, say, OK,

34:53

he's taking responsibility. Let's say Fauci's a jerk and

34:55

he's not taking responsibility, but at least he's sort

34:58

of telling the truth. All

35:01

of that would have been OK to have

35:03

incompetent bureaucrats if the

35:05

press didn't basically

35:07

get on the bandwagon instantaneously

35:10

without any science, without any

35:12

knowledge, without any information and

35:14

basically shut down everybody who

35:16

said, no, this isn't

35:18

true. You don't have to vaccinate young men.

35:20

You only have to vaccinate all guys. You

35:22

know, why was it that it's still happening

35:24

now? I talk about this all the time

35:26

in YouTube. If you talk about the fact

35:29

that there's absolutely no science behind transgenderism, it's

35:31

just an academic theory, they cut you off.

35:33

They censor you. Even if you talk about

35:35

the pedophilia, they basically

35:37

knock down your algorithm. It's like

35:39

this thing, this silencing, they think

35:42

it has no effect.

35:45

If you tell somebody, oh, maybe

35:47

you should curtail your sexual desires

35:49

in some way, the left

35:52

immediately thinks, oh, well, then they just blow out through your

35:54

ears. It's this force running through you. If you dam them

35:56

up here, they blow out through your ears. Well, maybe so.

35:58

But what happens when you dam up? the right of

36:00

people to tell the truth, the right of

36:02

people to say what they see right in

36:04

front of their eyes. What do they think

36:06

happens to that flow, that desire that human

36:08

beings have to tell the truth, to think

36:10

their way through things, to not have their

36:12

businesses closed down, to not have their kids

36:14

kept home from school, to be able to

36:16

say, that guy Francis Collins is full of

36:18

it. That guy Joe Biden is corrupt. What

36:21

do you think happens when you shut those people down? You think

36:23

there's no cost to that? Yes, there

36:25

is. Yes, there is. The same cost as

36:27

when you drop nuclear bombs on people, when

36:30

you lose a war, even though we believe

36:32

the Japanese were utterly in the wrong, they

36:34

still lost a war. It's still a very

36:36

traumatic thing to have happen to people. I'm

36:38

not saying it's a bad thing. I'm just

36:40

saying that it's a traumatic thing. When those

36:43

things happen, there is a reaction. If

36:45

we had a media, see all of these

36:47

things, you know, you think about Joe Biden,

36:49

right? Joe Biden gets up

36:52

and says, oh, January 6th, it was the worst

36:54

thing. Oh, we almost, he actually said this in

36:56

his Valley Forge speech. We almost lost it all.

36:58

We almost lost it all. What the hell is

37:00

he talking about? He's talking nonsense. If the press

37:02

would just come out and say, well, that's nonsense.

37:04

Yeah. And allow people to

37:07

come out and say it's nonsense, not

37:09

suppress them on Facebook, not suppress them

37:11

on YouTube, not silence people who are

37:13

just basically saying he's a pal. He

37:15

lies. I don't have a problem

37:17

with Joe Biden being a corrupt pal who lies. I

37:19

think most polls are corrupt and lie. I don't

37:21

have any respect for most politicians. But

37:23

still that was the whole point of

37:25

having a free press. It was to

37:27

call them out. It was to call

37:29

them out. And when you have a

37:31

unified mono press, a unified mono media

37:33

that silences people, ultimately,

37:36

ultimately all those lies,

37:38

all those lies are going to come up

37:40

and burst forth in the person of

37:43

a truth telling unrestrained

37:45

guy like Donald Trump. That is

37:47

why this is exactly why

37:49

I believe that when you switch over

37:52

to Fox News and you see Donald

37:54

Trump suddenly you blink and

37:56

you go, whoa, whoa,

37:58

this is real. This is reality. Ron

38:01

DeSantis, I'll say it again. I think he'd

38:03

make a much better president. I

38:05

don't think he would have made a better president before Trump.

38:07

I think Trump cleared the way for him. I'm giving him

38:09

credit where it's due, but I think

38:11

he's obviously an executive. A guy who knows how to

38:13

run government. A guy with an organized mind. A guy

38:15

who can gather a good team around him. Trump is

38:18

none of those things. I think Ron DeSantis would make

38:20

a much better president. But I get it.

38:22

I get it. This guy stomps on and

38:25

he says what's on his mind. You watch

38:27

Ron DeSantis, you can see him calculating. This

38:29

is why I told you, I got reamed

38:31

for this by the DeSantis team when I

38:34

talked about the fact that DeSantis looked left

38:36

and right before he raised his hand. Can

38:38

you imagine for even one second Trump looking

38:40

left and right before he did anything? Before

38:43

even thinking, before he spoke. And even when

38:45

he says these terrible things, like I was

38:47

saying about the beauty queen, if she says

38:49

she doesn't care about people

38:52

suffering, she just wants, she's hot and

38:54

she just wants to win a contest and

38:56

maybe marry a billionaire or get a movie

38:58

career. If she said that, you'd just go,

39:01

wow, at least she's honest. Even though she

39:03

was saying something, that's not all that admirable.

39:05

And this is why I blame the press

39:07

specifically. It's about speech. It's all about free

39:09

speech. And it's also about humiliation,

39:14

which the Godzilla movie is about too. It's

39:16

about, it's insulting to have people do this

39:19

to you. It's insulting to have people say,

39:21

oh, January 6th, it was an insurrection. My

39:24

ass. And the

39:26

fact that when you say that, it's like, oh,

39:28

you're MAGA Trump, this or that. And

39:31

it causes a reaction on the right where

39:33

they say, if

39:35

you say, well, Trump is bad because of

39:38

this, oh, you have Trump derangements and, no,

39:40

I'm telling you what I see. I'm telling

39:42

you what I see. The anger and frustration

39:45

grows. People, especially Americans, especially Americans, people

39:47

have a natural desire to see

39:49

what they see, to say what

39:51

they feel, to tell and know

39:54

and share the truth. And that

39:56

has been stifled mostly,

39:58

mostly by the press. And

40:00

the result, it has backed up, that force

40:02

has backed up and out of the sea

40:04

has come this gigantic beast, Donald Trump. And

40:07

you know what? He has a

40:09

very good chance of becoming president, President

40:11

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Speak of the Devil. Now

41:52

before I get into this, I'm going

41:54

to watch this Lil Nas X new

41:56

video, the rapper video about, it's called

41:59

J. Crichton. And I just want to

42:01

warn you if these things offend you if you feel you

42:03

shouldn't be watching them We feel you shouldn't be listening because

42:05

I'll be describing them to Obviously

42:08

don't watch don't torment yourself, but I want

42:10

to react and I want to see it

42:12

fresh so that I can give you my

42:14

fresh reaction Obviously,

42:16

you'll remember Lil Nas X put out

42:18

that video where he went to hell

42:21

and What did he

42:23

do? It was called the Montero Is that what

42:25

it's called? And he was dressed very provocatively and

42:27

he went down a pole into hell and he

42:29

did gave Satan a lap dance Which

42:32

my feeling was it's probably predictive and

42:35

and he also like pushed a line of

42:37

Satan themed sneakers that featured a pentagram and

42:39

an inverted cross and boasted about having a

42:41

drop of real human blood so this is

42:43

now going to be his Jesus

42:46

Christ thing so we can be sure it's gonna be

42:48

blasphemous and ugly and The

42:50

only point I want to make before I

42:53

watch it is remember to that this too

42:55

is reaction I'm I've

42:58

been saying for many many years that we're going

43:00

to have a Revival of religious feeling and it's

43:02

going to come down from the intellectual top now

43:04

It's obviously not going to come down from the

43:06

universities because they're not the intellectual top anymore There

43:08

are a bunch of DEI hires who wouldn't know

43:10

culture from a hole in the wall but the

43:13

people who truly think the people who are intellectuals

43:15

and and reasoning people and well-read

43:18

people are going to suddenly realize

43:20

what I've been telling you that

43:23

the Excuse of for

43:25

atheism the materialist science has

43:27

vanished that it is now

43:29

time to start to reconsider the fact

43:31

that the Bible describes everything accurately and

43:34

That that is a revolution going to happen. So

43:36

as that happens, you're going to see more Blasphemy

43:41

more attempts to shout that down because they

43:43

feel it coming and it's gonna walk wipe

43:45

these guys away and make them Irrelevant, which

43:47

they already are so will now sex desperately

43:49

wants attention And this is the

43:51

way the best way to get it because he

43:53

understands he's doing something that people care about So

43:56

let's watch this video and I'll listen into I

43:59

Sorry for those who you can't see it. These

44:01

people are white and white are ascending

44:04

the stairway to heaven. Very

44:07

beautiful. Pac

44:11

guy looks like a farmer. Guy looks like Kanye.

44:14

Lil Nas X, J. Christ it says. There's

44:17

kind of a ziggurat, a little tower at the

44:20

top. He's

44:26

dressed in a white, like

44:29

a woman's dress. Looks like a girl's got

44:31

a thing. And

44:38

to be honest with you, the lyrics which I'm

44:40

reading off a sheet are very gay, very fem.

44:43

He's in hell from the

44:45

last video. And

44:55

now there's a battle between devil and his...

45:00

We saw those sneakers. Don't forget to sell the sneakers

45:02

for having a basketball game and

45:04

the guy in white. And the

45:07

ball for the golden hoop dressed as

45:09

a cheerleader. I'm saying

45:11

this for if you're not watching. Very,

45:15

very effeminate, very gay, and now he's Jesus,

45:17

of course. Crucified.

45:23

What are you

45:27

talking about? Because it's impossible to understand

45:30

his own career and how it's been a quiet year

45:32

and now he wants attention. Basically, that's what he's saying.

45:37

So this is less actually

45:39

coherent than his devil video. This is less coherent

45:42

than his devil video because this

45:44

is basically... And

45:50

now he's no one. Because it's basically just

45:52

him being gay in bible stories. That's basically

45:54

what it is and it's really there just

45:57

to offend you. And

46:03

I can tell you exactly what's going to happen to this guy in

46:05

real life, but I'm not going to say it because I don't want

46:07

it. He's cruel. He's

46:09

obviously in trouble. He's obviously in

46:11

big trouble. Special

46:14

effects of the flood. So

46:24

this is Noah's Ark flashing from

46:26

Noah's Ark to Jesus. So

46:30

I guess it's the kind of the flood of the apocalypse

46:32

maybe. It's the best I can do for you. Day

46:35

zero. A

46:38

new beginning. All the bad

46:40

stuff is washed away. Therefore if anyone is in

46:42

Christ, he is a new creation. The oldest passed

46:44

away behold the newest come which is 2 Corinthians

46:47

written and directed by Lil Nas.

46:49

So obviously this is a

46:51

kind of interesting video because it's

46:54

not as cynical

46:56

in some ways as the devil

46:58

video. It actually, if I were

47:01

a psychiatrist, I would say it was a

47:03

cry for help. Seriously. I mean this

47:05

is a guy who obviously lives for

47:07

and by the attention that he gets.

47:09

He gets the attention by offending conservatives,

47:12

by having people get shocked. Already

47:15

Christian rappers have come out very upset that he's

47:17

doing this because of course it's going to suck

47:19

all the air out of the room. He's going

47:22

to get all the attention and people are going

47:24

to say it's also by the way like almost

47:26

all rap music. It's just trash. It is just

47:28

absolute trash. That repetitive, dull,

47:32

unmoving music. The

47:34

lyrics, I mean I can read them to

47:36

you but they don't mean anything. What

47:39

they really say is basically he is making

47:41

a comeback like Jesus after being out of

47:43

the public eye or not so much as

47:45

the public eye ever since he did that

47:47

video and he says, you know what I'm

47:49

on? I'm on a break. You know when

47:51

I'm back, it's all for take. You know

47:53

that I'm ready for everything. You know when

47:55

I play, it's all for keep. So it's

47:57

basically about him. It's about him as being

47:59

relevant. was erected. And the reason I say it's

48:01

a cry for help is because ultimately,

48:04

if you are a

48:07

believer, does this have

48:09

any effect on you? Is this going to hurt you? Is this

48:11

going to harm you? Is it going to harm God? I

48:13

mean, really, is this going to harm God?

48:15

God is sitting there watching, oh, wow, I

48:17

wish he hadn't made that video. Is it

48:19

going to lead anyone who knows anything, who

48:21

has any thought in his head, any feeling

48:23

in his head away from salvation, away from

48:25

Christ? No, it's going to have no effect

48:27

except in the press. And so I'm glad

48:30

I watched it. I'm sort of in

48:32

my head, I'm sort of thinking, should I have even put that

48:34

on? Should I have even given it any attention? But no, I

48:36

think cultures is where I think

48:38

it's at right now. And I think that

48:40

this is actually a sign of change for

48:43

the better. And I think it

48:45

is a reaction. I think just like the ardent,

48:49

urgent attempts to censor Jesus out of people's

48:51

lives. So you make a Johnny Cash movie

48:54

of Biopic, but you cut

48:56

Jesus out of there because you don't want him

48:58

to speak. They don't even want him to be

49:00

seen. They don't even want him to be heard.

49:02

So powerful is the name above all names that

49:04

they will not speak it. They cut it out.

49:06

Nobody says, grace at dinner on anything, but any

49:08

show, but blue bloods. Nobody, you know,

49:11

no movie is about God. No movie questions

49:13

God. No movie wrestles with the issues

49:16

that come up when you deal with

49:18

God. And so the only people left

49:20

to talk about God are people who were,

49:22

you know, are discussing whether a calendar with

49:24

pretty girls on it is interesting.

49:27

And I'm sorry, but I don't think that that's why the creator

49:30

of heaven and earth allowed himself to be

49:32

incarnate and destroyed so that people wouldn't

49:34

look at calendars with pretty girls. I do

49:36

not think that that was what the

49:38

gospel are basically moving towards. So this, I

49:41

actually think this is a desperate move,

49:43

a desperate idea. And kind

49:45

of like I said, the Trump is the

49:47

reaction to something. I think this is the

49:49

reaction to something that is not quite visible

49:52

yet, but it's just around the horizon, which

49:54

is that faith is going to make a

49:56

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chapter, how a novelist sees

51:28

politics. So I want to

51:30

respond to a couple of negative comments I've been

51:32

getting, I'm repeatedly getting. And I

51:34

have to tell you, the comments about the show, especially

51:36

since we rearranged it, we

51:38

rejiggered it a little bit, have been so

51:41

enthusiastic and even loving that I am genuinely

51:43

moved and inspired and encouraged by them. I

51:45

will not lie to you. I think the

51:47

things that you have been saying to me

51:49

have really inspired me. And

51:52

I try to ignore the occasional hate

51:54

mail and death threats, since they're all coming from

51:57

Michael Mowles. So, you know, what's the point? There

52:00

is one comment that comes up again and again, especially after a

52:02

show like this one, or at the end of a show, to

52:04

cap off a show like this one, I wanna respond. And that's

52:06

that, why am I so hard on Donald

52:08

Trump, and why do I, oh, I

52:11

can't mention him without criticizing him, and I'm

52:13

not showing respect for the people, because the

52:15

people want Trump, and I'm treating the people

52:18

like they're fools. And that, by the way,

52:20

is totally untrue. It's the people's country, I

52:22

think if they want Donald Trump, they're gonna

52:24

get Donald Trump. But, one

52:27

of the delusions created by

52:29

both democracy and capitalism is

52:32

that the most popular thing is the best

52:34

thing. The thing that people buy

52:36

is the best thing, the thing that people

52:38

vote for, that they like. Someone today, I

52:41

think it was on Twitter, Megyn

52:43

Kelly played a clip of me criticizing Taylor

52:47

Swift, and somebody said, she's the most popular

52:49

pop star in the country, and you're just

52:51

a podcaster. And

52:53

I felt like that actually is meaningless, but

52:56

it doesn't matter. Sometimes, it doesn't say

52:58

anything either way. Popularity means nothing about

53:01

quality. Sometimes a novel on the bestseller

53:03

list is great, like when you guys

53:05

put the winter books on the bestsellers,

53:07

sometimes the best-selling novel is a piece

53:09

of trash. Sometimes it's just garbage. Sometimes

53:12

the guy who wins the election is

53:14

Reagan. Sometimes the guy who wins the election

53:16

is Carter. Popularity tells you what's popular, and

53:18

that's a piece of information, but

53:20

it gives you zero information about quality.

53:24

This show is a novelist's

53:26

view of politics, and not just a

53:28

novelist, an extraordinarily good novelist, okay, as

53:31

it happens, just telling you the way

53:33

it is, all right? And what extraordinarily

53:35

good novelists like myself do is

53:37

we just try to show you the world as we

53:39

see it, we can only show you the world as

53:41

we see it, but without

53:43

our personal egos and opinions getting

53:46

in the way. So for instance,

53:49

I obviously Believe in God

53:51

very deeply, and I believe very strongly that

53:53

there's a spiritual meaning to physical things, But

53:55

I Also know, because God wants us to be

53:57

free, that the world can be interpreted as

53:59

saying. Impacts can be interpreted and

54:01

purely material away by very good

54:04

very intelligent people's Dostoevsky was the

54:06

be the greatest Christian novelists. You

54:08

stand and stare at a picture

54:11

of the Buried Price by Hans

54:13

Holbein because it was so grim,

54:15

so death like. so. Despairing

54:17

that is helped him to develop

54:19

great arguments against his own Christianity

54:22

so he could create real characters

54:24

who said real things right? I

54:26

do the same thing I what

54:28

people who go totally disagree with

54:30

me have their say in my

54:32

novels is different ways to see

54:34

things and you pay a price

54:36

for which ever way you choose.

54:39

So. For instance is transgender kids. they

54:42

have been essentially materialise. Rule do. It feels

54:44

like their body just happens to them. Those

54:46

of us who have faith know that our

54:48

body is given to us and that means

54:51

something. It actually is a word the speaks

54:53

our souls. So we think if something's wrong,

54:55

we want to deal with it from within.

54:57

But what they do is they basically distance

54:59

themselves from their bodies to themselves becomes this

55:02

kind of gnostic ghost that they have. but.

55:06

But. Either way is a price to pay, right?

55:08

If you're of person who thinks your body

55:10

this happening to you, you don't understand that

55:12

when you go through puberty, things are going

55:14

to change and that's a beautiful thing, not

55:16

an assault on your beans rice. If you

55:18

believe that your body has meaning then you're

55:20

going to get the struggle with what you

55:22

think God wants you to do with your

55:24

body and what your body's wants to do.

55:26

and sometimes I struggle to be misguided and

55:28

tormenting and very painful. Whatever you do, you're

55:30

going to pay a price to like waste

55:32

precious minutes of your life worrying about girls

55:34

on it's So when I read. a novel

55:36

i try to show all the different ways

55:39

people live in suffer really without commentary obviously

55:41

to my vision is going to come through

55:43

divisions that there is a god but still

55:45

a going to write it without commentaries the

55:47

people who have or atheists are going to

55:49

fall down and die to the people who

55:52

believe in god or not going to be

55:54

happier and rise of the haven't because that's

55:56

not the way the world works rights you

55:58

can see the world in different

56:00

ways. I mean, a while

56:03

back, I said something to the

56:07

effect of that

56:09

good people could believe in

56:11

abortion, could support abortion, just like George

56:13

Washington, one of the great people, a

56:15

truly great person in terms of virtue

56:17

and stature, who

56:20

believed in liberty with all his heart. He

56:22

would still hire people to hunt down his

56:24

escaped slaves, because it's very hard to burst

56:27

out of the narrative of your time. Someone

56:29

on Twitter, again, said, Clayvin believes that good

56:31

people can believe in abortion. He scum. Well,

56:33

no, no. The reason I write novels is

56:36

to try to show all

56:39

of reality, as much of reality as my books

56:41

can contain, the way it is,

56:43

the way people live, the way they suffer,

56:45

the prices they pay for the things they

56:47

do and the things they believe, because that's

56:49

what the world is about. And I believe

56:51

that there is a benefit, an

56:54

inherent benefit to being a grownup

56:56

and seeing the world as it

56:58

really works before you decide what

57:00

price you want to pay. Vote for

57:02

Joe Biden is going to be a

57:04

price. Vote for Donald Trump is going

57:06

to be a price. Before you decide

57:08

that, you should see the world as

57:11

it is. Good novels, good art are

57:13

designed to make you grown up and

57:15

wise. Politics is designed to make you

57:17

stupid and child like so that you'll

57:19

do what powerful people want you to

57:21

do. And that means Joe Biden or

57:23

Donald Trump, every word out of their mouth, Biden

57:25

in a calculated way because he doesn't know what he's saying.

57:27

Somebody has to write it for him. And

57:29

Trump in an instinctive way, they're saying

57:31

things to give you simple,

57:34

stupid emotions that will make you do what

57:36

they want you to do. Donald Trump saying,

57:38

oh, everything I did was perfect. My vaccine

57:40

was perfect. This was perfect. That was perfect.

57:44

You'd be a child if you believed it. There

57:46

were a million examples

57:48

of this. I mean, and

57:50

the way it affects us is that

57:52

we react to it. So it's infuriating.

57:55

I did this, I talked about this

57:57

in the opening. It's infuriating that they

57:59

talk about January 6 as an

58:01

insurrection and that the press chimes in

58:03

and they play it the way the

58:05

Nazis played the Reichstag fire They're trying

58:07

to terrorize and demonize

58:09

MAGA and get their voters to

58:11

ignore the fact that Joe Biden's

58:13

administration is a disaster But

58:16

then to react against that because it's so

58:18

infuriating people start to say no January 6

58:20

was nothing It was nothing the police let

58:23

us in the feds engineered the whole thing

58:25

It was really Antifa or baloney the people

58:27

who went in there did a terrible thing.

58:29

It wasn't an insurrection It was a lot

58:32

of demonstration that got out of control, but

58:34

still it was a bad thing to do

58:36

I I have seen the videos of what

58:39

happened, you know There were there were women

58:41

inside and all right Democrat women are probably

58:43

the most frightened people in the world But

58:45

they were crying for their lives. I heard

58:47

these footsteps these people shouting people shouting hang

58:49

my pants Women

58:52

were crying. I don't want to die. I

58:54

don't want to die That's not the way our country should

58:56

work and it was shameful that Trump

58:58

didn't react fast enough to try and stop it

59:01

and don't tell me he did this either It's

59:03

you know, it's not true. It's not true It's

59:05

it's not what they say it is and it's

59:07

not what the right says it is in reaction

59:09

in order to see what you're Gonna do you

59:11

have to know both things you

59:13

have to have it I'm not saying this because I

59:15

hate Trump or because I think January 6 was the

59:17

worst thing since the Civil War I don't think it

59:19

was I think it was much less bad than

59:22

the George Floyd riots. I Think

59:24

was much less much much less bad than the George

59:27

Floyd riots I'm just telling you that because you

59:30

want to be a decent person That is really

59:32

what it's all about you want to be a decent

59:34

person who acts under your own

59:36

steam knowing what the world is This

59:40

is the thing We don't

59:42

have a choice about the world we're born into

59:44

We don't have a choice about a lot a

59:46

lot of the things that happen in that world

59:48

We have very limited choices an election

59:50

is binary. You have two choices You vote for one

59:52

you vote for the other even if you vote for

59:54

a third party You're essentially voting for one or the

59:56

other that's what binary means. You don't

59:58

have a lot of choices Bad

1:04:00

thing that the way that it should have

1:04:02

been gotten rid of was by acting in

1:04:04

a christian way because she that they're christian

1:04:07

way toward your slave slavery. The.

1:04:09

Case I was asked of you know that

1:04:11

I was pointed out to dig that there

1:04:13

was no instruction. To. Only

1:04:16

marry one woman. In.

1:04:18

The Gospel of nowhere in the bible

1:04:20

is there any rule that you can

1:04:22

only marry one whites and he said

1:04:25

yes that's true but the logic of

1:04:27

the bible leads to monogamous so he

1:04:29

saying essentially the same thing logic of

1:04:31

the bible least ultimately getting rid of

1:04:33

slavery which is it'll make you can

1:04:35

disagree with up a not anything hateful

1:04:38

and his point about. Abusers,

1:04:40

sex abusers And you know the reason

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I look the stuff up all the

1:04:45

time as because everybody wants the silence.

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Conservative believers. Everybody was sit in silence

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conservative lovers of Christ and they will find

1:04:51

anything they do and it doesn't Some another

1:04:53

was You have to be perfect to not

1:04:56

be attacked as as a guy who supports

1:04:58

a sex abuse and he doesn't It's just

1:05:00

not true. Essentially what he says is in

1:05:02

the old days they would have killed pedophiles.

1:05:04

That would have been. you know, fine in

1:05:06

that moment. But that's not what happens now

1:05:09

and sometimes the sex abusers wind up coming

1:05:11

to church and he believes that they should

1:05:13

be. Given the ministry of the church.

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If you to save a man from even the

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most terrible since then what an what are we

1:05:19

here for? This basically what he safe Again, you

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can disagree, but there's nothing hateful about that. and

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I do not believe that he has. Abandoned.

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Victims I think says the things that people

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Today's my would mean last week really took

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I had a really, really funny line

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Big Mike. I do not believe that, but I do believe

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Barack Obama is gay. I do. I

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believe, I believe at least that he has had a gay

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