0:00

In the light of recent Supreme Court decisions

0:03

upholding the Constitution, Democrats

0:05

are seeking ways to get the court to

0:07

stop doing that. The controversy

0:10

began after the court issued rulings forbidding

0:12

racism in college admissions, allowing

0:15

people to express opinions of which the state

0:17

disapproves, and denying Joe

0:19

Biden the right to steal our money to pay

0:21

for college loans we didn't take out.

0:24

The Democrat Party feels these decisions

0:26

are unfair because without racism,

0:28

censorship, and stealing people's money, there would

0:30

be no Democrat Party.

0:32

Then Democrats would no longer be able to help

0:34

people, they'd lose their jobs, and they'd

0:37

be forced to live on the streets with all the people

0:39

they've helped.

0:40

Young people especially are pressuring the Biden

0:42

administration to take measures to stop the

0:45

court from enforcing the Constitution. The

0:47

young people argue that some stupid

0:49

18th century document written on weird

0:52

crinkly brown paper in a font that

0:54

isn't even on their cell phones should not

0:56

outweigh the uninformed opinions of

0:58

a bunch of self-certain cretins who have enough

1:00

time on their hands to create elaborately produced

1:03

TikTok videos about purple Grimace milkshakes

1:05

and then wonder why they can't pay back their student loans.

1:08

One Democrat's suggestion on how to fix

1:10

the court's upholding the Constitution problem involves

1:13

expanding the court from nine justices

1:16

to nine justices, three Barack Obama

1:18

bobblehead dolls, and one Bose sound

1:20

link playing Don't Feel Right at full volume

1:22

to distract from Democrats' racism, censorship,

1:24

and stealing our money. Another

1:27

suggestion is that Congress should pass a new

1:29

code of ethics for the court so they can impeach

1:31

any justices who have ethics. Still

1:33

yet another idea came

1:36

from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,

1:39

who delivered an impassioned speech in Congress

1:41

while the men in the chamber attempted to click

1:43

on her, hoping to see more pictures of women with

1:45

large breasts, only to be disappointed by

1:48

some boring slideshow of black and white

1:50

photographs of turn-of-the-century New York.

1:52

Ocasio-Cortez said, quote, I

1:54

have some very serious thoughts about how to curtail

1:57

the power of the court, and I believe, but

1:59

they never did.

1:59

Everyone stopped listening to her because really, who cares

2:02

about turn of the century New York? Another

2:04

suggestion came from Rhode Island senator

2:07

and thuggish lowlife Sheldon Whitehouse, who

2:09

wrote a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts

2:11

saying, quote, as the Supreme Court

2:13

is an essential part of our democracy, it

2:15

would be a shame if it was sprayed with machine gun

2:18

bullets tomorrow, unless the court delivers the

2:20

correct decisions to my office before noon

2:22

in an unmarked brown paper bag, unquote.

2:25

In a statement released to the press, Senator

2:27

Ted Cruz criticized Whitehouse, saying

2:29

his letter constituted a subtle threat

2:32

against the court.

2:33

Senator Whitehouse responded to the statement

2:35

by sending the press a pair of Cruz's pants wrapped

2:38

around a dead fish. Amazingly,

2:41

the news media has reiterated the Democrat

2:43

party's ideas without the Democrats moving

2:45

their lips even once. In fact,

2:48

NPR smeared Clarence Thomas for

2:50

fake ethics violations, even while

2:52

Nancy Pelosi was drinking a glass of water. MSNBC

2:56

host Joy Reid protested the Supreme

2:58

Court's anti-racism decision by

3:00

saying she could never have gotten into Harvard

3:03

if it weren't for affirmative action, as if anyone

3:05

had ever thought for even a moment that Joy Reid

3:07

could have gotten into Harvard without affirmative action.

3:10

The Washington Post, where democracy dies

3:12

in darkness after the Washington Post pushes

3:15

it down a flight of stairs into darkness, has

3:17

repeatedly tried to sell the narrative that

3:19

Joe Biden will lose the votes of young

3:21

people if he doesn't destroy the freedom of

3:23

the court.

3:24

Although it might also help if Biden stopped

3:27

firing buckshot at young people and screaming,

3:29

get off my lawn. Meanwhile,

3:31

the court is facing another session of important

3:34

cases that will decide, for instance,

3:36

whether states can require you to show proof

3:39

of age before pretending to listen to Alexandria

3:41

Ocasio-Cortez, whether the Second

3:43

Amendment guarantees the right of Supreme Court justices

3:46

to bear arms while exchanging gunfire

3:48

with Sheldon Whitehouse, and whether the First

3:50

Amendment protects the right of the Washington Post

3:53

to say democracy dies in darkness, or

3:55

if coming from the Washington Post,

3:57

that's actually kind of a threat. Trigger

3:59

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Can the West be won?

6:00

Yeah! Woo!

6:06

Yeah! ["The

6:12

Star-Spangled Banner"] Name

6:17

that movie. All right, I hope you all

6:19

had a wonderful Fourth of July. Not

6:22

everyone celebrates the Fourth of July,

6:24

apparently. A Fox News poll has showed that for

6:26

the first time, fewer than half

6:28

of voters think America's best days

6:31

are ahead of us. 43% think

6:33

our best days are ahead of us, the rest think they're behind.

6:35

That's a nine point drop from two years ago, a 19

6:38

point decrease since 2017, down 20

6:41

points since 2012. So our best

6:43

days are behind us, a majority thinks, overall 64%, it's

6:46

not a majority,

6:47

a plurality thinks that, I believe. Overall, 64%

6:50

of voters say the US is the best country in the world

6:52

to live in, that's down from 69% in 2021, and

6:55

a high of 84% in 2011. And

6:59

everyone obviously thinks the country is heading

7:01

in the wrong direction, except for Joe

7:03

Biden, who said it was heading in the right direction and

7:05

then banged into a wall, bounced backwards,

7:07

and fell over the sofa, reeled into

7:09

the Rose Garden and started walking west

7:12

to Delaware, even though he was in Washington, D.C. So

7:15

maybe he's not the best person to ask

7:17

if we're heading in the right direction. What's

7:19

the problem?

7:20

And what can we do about it besides shaking

7:22

our fists at the clouds? I'm in favor

7:25

of leaving angry remarks and comment sections saying,

7:27

we're done, it's over, it's finished. But is there

7:29

any other idea that might help? Today,

7:31

we're going to start talking about France,

7:33

where thugs spent last week burning the place

7:36

to the ground, not because we give a rat's ass

7:38

about France, let's face it, but because it tells us

7:40

something about America, where something similar happened when

7:42

George Floyd was killed. Then we're gonna take a look

7:44

at what the left had to say about recent court

7:46

decisions, and then I will show you one

7:48

simple trick for saving Western civilization

7:50

that you can do at home.

7:53

All right, chapter one, Paris. Paris

8:00

is burning.

8:01

All right, move on. Nothing

8:03

to see here. Please

8:06

disperse. Nothing

8:08

to see here, please. One

8:11

of the best novels of the last

8:14

few years that I've read is called Submission by Michel

8:16

Hillebak. He's a terrific

8:19

French novelist, a kind of a provocateur. I

8:22

have been, several reviewers have

8:24

compared him to me, but

8:26

I'm much, much better looking. If you

8:28

want to find out, you might want to pre-order House

8:30

of Love and Death. But in the novel Submission, there's

8:33

a political crisis in France. The left

8:35

is desperate to stop Marine

8:38

Le Pen from winning an election.

8:40

They don't want the far right to take over the presidency, so

8:42

the left teams up with an Islamic

8:45

party, and they elect as

8:47

president this kind of charming Muslim man,

8:50

and he transforms France into a Muslim

8:52

country. And one of the ways he does this, first he fires

8:55

anybody from influence positions

8:57

from the Sorbonne, for instance, who

8:59

won't accept Islam,

9:02

but then to tempt people, especially men, obviously,

9:05

to support Islam. He gets rid

9:07

of gender equality, so there are no women teachers

9:09

anymore, and he offers men two

9:12

young submissive wives. As the narrator

9:15

says, one

9:16

thing you can say about patriarchy

9:18

is that it works. And so the guys

9:21

say, yeah, we'll take the deal, and they

9:23

begin to accept a

9:25

couple of wives, and they begin to preach Islam

9:27

from the Sorbonne. And the

9:30

president then moves on to take over

9:32

the EU to get the EU to bring Muslim countries

9:34

in, so he's really going for a Muslim takeover of the world.

9:37

Like all of Willa Beck's novels, they aren't so much

9:39

about, the Submission is not so much

9:41

about evil Muslims, and the Muslims

9:44

are villains, not at all, really. It's about the emptiness

9:46

of Western culture. It is about the fact

9:48

that all Western people do, especially

9:50

French people, is have sex and

9:52

take drugs, and then they wonder why

9:55

the Muslims move in to this

9:57

empty cultural space that they have

9:59

left there. the protagonist of submission is a literary,

10:02

literature professor, he tries toward the

10:04

end to recover his Christian

10:06

faith, but he just can't. He's not connected

10:09

to Christianity anymore. And at the

10:11

end of the book, as he's considering

10:13

whether he maybe should accept the two submissive

10:16

wives and start preaching

10:19

Islam, he says, this is the last

10:21

line of the book, he says, I'd be given another chance,

10:23

and it would be the chance at a second life

10:25

with very little connection to the old one, I

10:28

would have nothing to mourn. In other

10:30

words, the West is not being destroyed

10:32

by evil Muslims, the West is

10:34

empty, it is dead, and Muslims being

10:37

Muslims are just moving into an empty space where

10:39

faith is gone, a new faith will come in just like

10:41

it did in ancient Rome. So when I

10:43

look at these riots, I see something very much

10:46

like this, not evil Muslims, but I

10:48

see an empty space that they're moving in.

10:50

In France, these have been some of the worst

10:52

riots in French history since the revolution.

10:55

45,000 cops deployed, cities around the country burning,

10:58

the country's ministry of the inferior, of

11:01

the interior says roughly 1,105 buildings, including

11:05

police stations, town halls, and schools have

11:07

been assaulted since riots began. French

11:09

economy minister Bruno Le Maire told

11:12

a CNN affiliate that more than 1,000

11:14

businesses have been vandalized, attacked or set on

11:16

fire, damages over a billion dollars,

11:18

and just old people terrorized

11:20

and people attacked. Now the instigating incident,

11:23

we have some clip of it, it was a

11:25

17-year-old French born kid of Moroccan

11:27

and Algerian descent,

11:28

and really I think it's

11:30

fair to identify these kids as coming from Islamic

11:33

cultures. He's too young to drive,

11:35

this police stop him, he's driving a stolen

11:37

car with Polish

11:39

plates,

11:41

and that's important because apparently this

11:43

is stolen German cars with Polish plates are

11:45

used by drug dealers, and this kid had a lot of arrests,

11:47

he had no convictions, but he was known

11:50

to be part of the drug world, and the

11:52

cops, one of the cops positioned

11:54

himself on the hood of his car, and the kid

11:56

stepped on the gas to get away, and

11:58

the cop fired. and he killed him. He

12:01

says he wanted to wound him, but the cops have had

12:03

it with these people. The country's top two

12:05

police unions, the Alliance Police

12:07

Nationale, and you have to forgive my terrible French accent,

12:10

and UNSA police, said in a statement,

12:13

today police officers are at the front line

12:15

because we are at war, faced

12:17

with these savage hordes. It's the savage

12:20

hordes, he's calling them. It's no longer enough to call

12:22

for calm. Calm must be imposed.

12:24

Now is not the time for industrial action, but

12:26

for fighting against these vermin.

12:29

That's Civil War talk. They think

12:32

they are really in for a long fight. Now

12:34

interestingly, as I was trying to find out what exactly

12:36

was happening, I started with American papers,

12:39

and every single paper, and every single

12:41

American, I shouldn't call them papers anymore,

12:43

every single American news site,

12:46

developed a discussion, just

12:48

like with George Floyd, about whether the

12:51

police officer did the right thing or not,

12:54

and talking about this poor kid's sad

12:56

life and the poor life that people live

13:00

in these suburbs, Bannou, they're

13:02

called.

13:03

But that's not the story at all. The cop doesn't matter.

13:06

I'm not the first person to

13:08

point this out.

13:09

There have been hellish crimes committed by

13:11

illegal immigrants, and by unassimilated

13:14

immigrants in France. The one that's

13:16

most

13:17

often cited is Lola Davia,

13:20

who was sexually assaulted, tortured, mutilated,

13:22

and murdered last year by a woman

13:24

illegal from Algiers. There have

13:26

been other crimes like that, lots of rapes.

13:29

There have been no riots in response, just

13:31

like there are no riots. There are riots for George Floyd

13:33

when he gets killed by a cop, but there are no

13:35

riots over the children who are being

13:37

killed in Chicago every single

13:40

damn weekend by black criminals.

13:43

So blaming the police is a narrative. Even discussing

13:45

the police and discussing this is a narrative.

13:48

It is not what is happening. It's not what's

13:50

going on. We know they're bad cops. We know the life in

13:52

the slums is tough, and I'm not saying these things

13:54

shouldn't be addressed, but to make the police

13:57

the story is suspicious, right,

13:59

because the police...

13:59

These are the last guys on the

14:02

policy totem pole. People make

14:04

policy, politicians make policy.

14:06

Those policies have an effect. They either

14:08

cause crime to go down or they cause

14:10

crime to go up. And the last guy dealing

14:13

with that crime is the cop on the

14:15

beat. He's gotta do something to stop the crime

14:17

because most of the people are not criminals.

14:19

They're the victims, right, of all colors.

14:22

And this is true, you know, it's not the cop's fault

14:25

that they are unassimilated Muslims

14:27

in France who are angry with the culture. It's

14:29

not the cop's fault that black people

14:31

commit so much of the crime in America.

14:33

It doesn't call them racist because they're

14:35

the guys who get caught picking up the policy

14:38

decisions,

14:38

making up for the policy

14:40

decisions of the people in Washington and

14:42

in the capitals of the states. It's just,

14:45

it's a dodge. Any journalist who

14:47

does this is an idiot. Any reporter

14:50

who sticks a

14:51

microphone in a cop's face and

14:53

says, well, you know, what's going on

14:55

here? The cop doesn't know. He just knows he's supposed

14:58

to stop the crime. It's the policymakers

15:00

who make the conditions that cause that crime.

15:04

As I said this last week, it's a leftist trope to

15:06

start to

15:07

deal with problems at the end instead of

15:09

at the beginning because the beginning is them

15:12

and their policies and their philosophies and they don't wanna

15:14

deal with that, obviously, so they blame the

15:16

cop, so they abort the child, so

15:19

they have affirmative action and say, instead

15:21

of saying, oh, maybe we should kick the teachers'

15:23

unions in the butt and get some education

15:26

for kids in K through 12, no, no, no, we'll

15:28

just play unfair racist games at

15:30

the college level. They never wanna go back to

15:32

the beginning. It's the policymakers and the

15:34

policies that are the problem and

15:36

here, a major

15:37

policy both in America and in France

15:40

and in Europe is unfettered

15:42

immigration without assimilation.

15:45

You can call this racist, but if you transported

15:47

all of Italy to Britain and all of Britain, all the

15:49

British people in Britain to Italy,

15:52

Italy would no longer be Italy and

15:54

Britain would no longer be Britain. There would still be

15:57

the Big Ben and there'd still be

15:59

the Colosseum.

15:59

but the countries would change because the people

16:02

would be different. They would be developed by a different culture.

16:04

If you are going to invite people in,

16:07

then you've got to get them to assimilate. And

16:09

here's the question, why don't we? Why

16:12

do we not insist? Why do we not work

16:14

around the clock to make sure people, if

16:16

we're gonna let them in, obviously I think

16:18

there should be border security, I think there should be limits

16:21

how many people come in, but if we're going to let

16:23

them in, why don't we insist on

16:25

them learning our rules, playing by our rules,

16:27

doing the things that you have to do in America

16:30

or in France to become successful.

16:32

Instead, we blame this country

16:35

that everyone's trying to get to. You know, I was watching Douglas Murray,

16:37

great guy,

16:37

really good writer. He was

16:39

on Piers Morgan's show, I believe

16:41

it was, and he was talking about something else. He

16:43

was talking about reparation, but he made this point

16:46

cut for.

16:47

It's always the countries that people

16:49

want to come to who are put through

16:51

this struggle session. Britain like

16:53

America and France are

16:55

the most desired destinations

16:58

for migrants worldwide and have

17:00

been for centuries. Why

17:03

is that? It's not because we're racist,

17:05

it's because we're better, it's because

17:07

we're good, it's because when we see racism,

17:09

we actually call it out and recognize it as

17:11

a sin. Try finding that across

17:14

Africa, try finding that across the Middle

17:16

East or in China,

17:17

nobody would hear. So what

17:19

we have is a situation where the more virtuous

17:21

countries are presented as the worst

17:24

countries. It's sick and most

17:26

of us are tired of it. It's a brilliant

17:29

point. You only have to look at individuals

17:31

that you know. Good people feel guilty,

17:34

bad people don't. My wife loses

17:36

sleep. If she feels she may have hurt somebody's feelings,

17:39

I sleep like a baby because I couldn't care less,

17:42

right? It's the good people who

17:44

worry, and the left then tells us that those worries

17:46

mean we're bad

17:47

instead of the truth that we're

17:49

in fact good. They call us hypocrites

17:52

because we don't live up to our ideals, but

17:54

we have the ideals because we're

17:57

good and we're tearing ourselves up over our flaws

17:59

without pausing.

17:59

to celebrate the decency so we don't

18:02

take time to basically

18:04

say, first, we have something worth protecting, so

18:07

we should protect our borders, and second, if

18:09

you're gonna come in, you're gonna have to become

18:11

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Please don't speak, please.

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All right, now

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the fact is, we had a great Fourth of July

20:09

week. Those Supreme Court decisions, some of them

20:11

were coming in as I was doing my show, I didn't really get

20:13

a chance to talk about them. They

20:15

were great decisions and they could really change

20:18

the landscape. And there have been a couple of great federal

20:20

court decisions coming down, really

20:23

interesting and positive stuff that

20:26

could start to restore the idea of what America

20:29

is supposed to be. And I wanna look at the arguments

20:31

against those decisions because it tells us something

20:34

about why

20:34

people are losing faith in America.

20:38

Let's take this wonderful decision about

20:41

the 303 creative case

20:43

out of Colorado. This is the case where

20:45

the woman wanted, Lori Smith was her name,

20:48

she wanted to expand her graphic design business,

20:50

303 creative, to include

20:53

services for couples who want wedding websites.

20:55

You've seen all these wedding websites, but

20:57

she worried that the Colorado Anti-Discrimination

21:00

Act would compel her to create

21:02

websites celebrating marriages. She doesn't

21:04

endorse gay weddings, right? She doesn't wanna do that and

21:07

she wanted to notify people that she doesn't want

21:09

to do that. So she brought a lawsuit

21:11

because she didn't wanna spend the money knowing that she

21:13

was gonna get in a fight. And a lot of people on the left,

21:15

the left never cares about process when

21:18

they win, but when they lose suddenly, oh,

21:20

this was terrible because she wasn't even

21:22

under the gun, but she had

21:24

every reason to expect Colorado

21:27

was coming after her because she could look out her

21:29

mirror and see the cupcake maker,

21:31

Jack Phillips, hanging from a tree outside

21:34

her windows or she knew that Colorado was oppressive

21:36

and they were gonna come after her.

21:38

Now, she serves gay people, no

21:40

sign in her window saying no gays allowed. She just believes

21:43

that God's story about marriage, it

21:46

is for a man and a woman. This is what she

21:48

says. So

21:50

Judge Gorsuch, Justice Gorsuch wrote

21:52

the

21:53

opinion and said what seems

21:56

to me obvious that this is agreeing

21:58

with the lower court saying this is expressive.

21:59

This is a speech that is expressing

22:02

her opinion when she makes these websites.

22:05

He said if any business can be compelled

22:07

to express these things, and a Muslim movie

22:09

maker could be forced to make a Zionist movie.

22:13

In my mind too, Gorsuch didn't give this example, but

22:16

I thought if I'm a photographer, I

22:18

may photograph a picture of you holding up a sign

22:20

that says God bless America, but not a sign

22:23

of another guy holding up a sign that says

22:25

kill all the Jews. Or I don't wanna

22:27

have a sign of a guy holding up

22:29

a sign that says God bless America,

22:31

dressed in a Nazi uniform. That becomes

22:33

an expression of my work,

22:36

and I don't want that to be the expression of my work.

22:38

But what I'm interested in here is the dissent from

22:40

Soto Soto My Year, and it's an

22:43

incredible

22:44

mess. I mean, it gets the facts wrong. I

22:46

don't have time to go into the whole thing. It gets the facts wrong,

22:48

it gets the logic wrong, gets the course previous

22:50

decision wrong. It's all emotion

22:53

and mythology. The emotion is sad

22:56

victims. Jackie Robinson can't stay at a hotel

22:58

with the rest of his team. A gay couple

23:00

can't find a funeral home when one of them dies. Definitely

23:02

sad and definitely wrong in my opinion.

23:05

But there's no broader sense that these

23:08

things are taking place on the field of American

23:10

values. Listen, you've heard me say

23:12

this before. I believe with all my heart racism

23:15

is a fence against almighty God.

23:17

We are made in his image, and if you don't like the fact

23:19

that he put his image into the body

23:21

and face of a person who looks different than you, send

23:24

God your complaints and good luck to you. But

23:27

I do think you have the right to express that wrong

23:29

opinion. You have the right to express that wrong

23:31

opinion, and it is in the context

23:33

of that that you have to judge each of these

23:35

cases. The second is that the

23:38

dissent is filled with mythology, and this

23:40

is so typical of left-wing

23:43

argumentation. The mythology that can't

23:45

be challenged or else you're racist, and

23:47

the emotion that cuts out everything

23:50

around it, it's just focusing on this one

23:52

person, the victim. Here

23:55

we have this whole detail that Sonia

23:57

Sotomayor goes into about how inclusion.

23:59

and civil rights have been expanding, they

24:02

expand. And now they've expanded to include

24:04

the gays. As if there were no difference, for instance, between

24:07

a gay person, between including a gay person,

24:09

and including a black person. It's just civil

24:12

rights, it's just inclusion. It's all one

24:14

blurry, wonderful pink thing.

24:16

And then she starts to give examples, because

24:19

she's gotta get the emotion, who could forget the brutal

24:21

murder of Matthew Shepard? Matthew was targeted

24:23

by two men, tortured, tied to a buck

24:25

fence, and left to die for who he

24:28

was, namely a gay person. This is just not

24:30

true. I mean, Stephen Jimenez, who's an award-winning

24:32

gay journalist, wrote a book called The Book of Matt. Talks

24:35

about the fact that these guys were drug dealers.

24:38

There was a rumor that the killers knew that

24:40

Matthew Shepard had access

24:43

to a shipment of crystal meth with a street value

24:45

of $10,000. Matthew

24:47

had known one of the killers prior to the attack.

24:50

All of these things were never explored in court,

24:52

and he's become a sort of martyr of the gay movement,

24:55

but he very probably was

24:57

not. Just like the angelic life

24:59

of George Floyd, the mythology requires

25:01

silence. You have to censor people if they say, hey,

25:03

that guy had enough drugs

25:05

in his system to kill a horse. Maybe

25:07

it wasn't the cop. No, that's all racism. This

25:12

wasn't the only instance of this in the way, in these dissents.

25:14

Katonji Brown Jackson had a thing where she said, we

25:16

need to have affirmative action, because

25:19

for high-risk black newborns, having a

25:21

black physician more than doubles the

25:23

likelihood that the baby will live and not

25:25

die is absolutely absurd, but

25:27

it's a leftist mythology. Black infants

25:30

have a 99.6% survival rate

25:32

with black doctors and a 99.8% survival rate with

25:34

white doctors. It

25:38

may be the other way around. I think they have a slightly

25:40

tiny higher survival

25:42

rate with black doctors, but that may well

25:44

be because there are more white doctors and

25:46

intensive care units for babies

25:49

where they're more likely to die. So it really

25:51

is not a very interesting statistic

25:53

at all. And in the 303 case, Jackson

25:55

said, with let them eat cake obliviousness

25:58

today, the majority pulls the record. and

26:00

announces color of blindness for

26:03

all by legal fiat, but deeming race irrelevant

26:05

in law does not make it so in life. I'm sorry, that was the

26:08

affirmative action case. Anyway,

26:10

racism

26:13

is not irrelevant in life. It should be irrelevant

26:15

in law. That's exactly right, it should be irrelevant

26:17

in law. So

26:19

all of these things, you know, freedom includes

26:21

the right for people to do bad things,

26:24

and that is tough and it's bad, and we should speak

26:26

out against the bad, we should boycott businesses

26:30

that exclude our fellow citizens and

26:32

all these things, but the right to do

26:34

those things is still open for argument.

26:37

What it just seems to me is the lower

26:39

court said, and even some of the

26:42

people involved in this 303 lawsuit

26:44

stipulated, that the thing

26:46

that Laurie Smith wanted to do was expressive

26:49

speech,

26:49

that the state was trying to shut it down,

26:51

and they were trying to shut it down because they wanted certain

26:54

ideas to disappear from public discourse.

26:56

And for Sonia Sotomayor

26:58

and all the left wing, all three of

27:00

the left wing judges on the court,

27:03

that's okay because they

27:05

know better. She's a wise Latina and

27:07

she knows better, and she looks down

27:10

upon the people who disagree. She quotes

27:12

with, I thought, a tone of derision, Laurie

27:14

Smith's feeling that she wanted to do what

27:16

God wanted her to do, and she

27:18

wanted to represent what God wanted her to

27:21

represent. They derived this because

27:23

they think they know what's

27:25

right and wrong, and that's what makes the next case I

27:27

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28:51

silencing

28:54

the deplorables.

28:56

Up, up with people, you meet

28:58

them wherever you go. Up,

29:02

up with people, they're the best

29:04

kind of folks we know. The racist,

29:07

sexist, homophobic, xenophobic,

29:10

Islamophobic, you name it. Ha

29:13

ha, so slight difference between

29:15

the up with people point of view and the

29:17

Democrat party, they think, they

29:20

do think that we're deplorable, they think that they

29:22

have got this, they're the wise Latinas, they're

29:24

the wise black people, they have lived experience, they

29:26

know what's what, you can't speak if you

29:28

don't have a womb, you can't talk about abortion, if you

29:30

don't have a black face, you can't talk about oppression, if you

29:33

don't have their opinions, you can't

29:35

talk. And that is because they

29:38

despise you, they despise you. But that means that

29:40

they think that they're pretty good and that's what makes this

29:42

next case. This

29:43

is not a Supreme Court case, this is a case

29:45

in a Louisiana federal court, the

29:51

US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.

29:54

It is a lawsuit called Missouri et al

29:56

versus Biden.

29:57

They have alleged that through both public

30:00

and private messages and meetings, White House officials

30:02

coerced social media platforms to suppress

30:05

protected free speech. The complaint

30:07

alleges that on some occasions, executive

30:09

branch officials threaten social media companies

30:12

with antitrust legal actions or even eliminating

30:14

Section 230, the law that protects platforms

30:17

from liability for users' posts.

30:19

So this suit is just beginning,

30:22

but Judge Terry Dauti, who everybody

30:24

keeps pointing out, especially the left keeps pointing out, is a Trump-appointed

30:27

judge. He said that

30:29

he was going to bar these

30:31

government officials from contacting social

30:33

media to stop them from intimidating

30:36

people, the people from the Department of Health and Human Services,

30:38

Federal Bureau investigation, DOJ, they

30:40

can't talk to social media companies for,

30:42

quote, "'the purpose of urging, encouraging,

30:45

pressuring, "'or inducing in any manner the

30:47

removal, deletion, suppression, "'or reduction

30:49

of content containing protected free

30:51

speech.'" There are a couple, I believe,

30:53

of Supreme Court decisions saying that is

30:56

violation of the First Amendment for the government

30:58

to try and get

30:59

private industry to silent

31:02

speech for them.

31:04

So Judge Dauti said the agencies could not

31:06

flag specific posts to the social media platforms.

31:08

They couldn't request reports about their

31:10

efforts. The ruling said that the government could still

31:13

notify the platforms about posts detailing crimes,

31:15

national security threats, or foreign attempts

31:18

to influence elections. He said the government's

31:20

efforts to push back against disinformation

31:22

campaigns related to COVID-19 were

31:25

arguably the most massive attack against

31:27

free speech in United States history,

31:29

in which it almost exclusively targeted

31:32

conservative speech and blatantly

31:34

ignored free speech rights. He compared

31:37

it to 1984, the Ministry of Truth. The

31:41

press, and this is genuinely disappointing,

31:43

so we know that the government was trying to silence,

31:46

intimidate into silence, and

31:49

trick even into silence the

31:51

social media companies and get them to ban

31:54

speech. And what is the most depressing

31:56

thing about this is that this

31:58

is obviously the right thing to do. The DOJ. is going

32:00

to appeal, maybe they'll get a judge, maybe

32:02

they'll get it overturned. But

32:05

the terrible thing is that the press agrees with this.

32:07

The press agrees that the government should have the right

32:09

to silent speech. People,

32:11

these are the people who are supposed to be speaking truth to

32:13

power with the

32:15

hunters cocaine in the White House, and they're not even speaking

32:17

truth to powder, but they're supposed to be

32:19

speaking truth to power. And instead,

32:22

they think, oh my gosh, these crazy

32:24

deplorable

32:26

conspiracy theorists are trying to

32:28

get people to listen to their conspiracies.

32:30

Here's just as an example, NBC News'

32:34

national security guy, David Rhodes, cut eight.

32:36

Look, there were mistakes made by public health

32:38

officials in the beginning of the pandemic, but

32:41

there wasn't a vast plot to

32:43

sort of miss, to trick the American

32:45

people into taking a vaccine that would harm

32:47

them. And so you have a kind of talking

32:50

point, a political talking point, turning

32:52

into a court ruling. And

32:54

that's what's so different about this. It's sort

32:56

of reinforcing these theories

32:58

about what the government did and now restricting

33:01

them. So should FEMA not warn

33:03

people about a hurricane? I mean, this was

33:05

a public health emergency.

33:06

It's sort of a basic thing about

33:08

the government trying to counter disinformation. And the second

33:11

thing is I've talked to current government officials who

33:13

are very concerned about foreign

33:15

interference or just deep fakes in the 2024

33:17

election. So, yeah,

33:20

so he's talking about COVID-19. Let's

33:22

forget all the leaks about Trump, Russian collusion,

33:25

was the FBI spreading a dirty

33:28

trick by Hillary Clinton? That was what that was. That

33:30

was intelligence officers and the FBI

33:32

going to the press anonymously and spreading

33:34

a dirty trick by Hillary Clinton to overturn,

33:37

to stop Trump's election. Let's forget about Hunter

33:39

Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation, which

33:42

was the press spreading a lie by Joe

33:44

Biden's team and former spies. Let's

33:46

forget about, you're not allowed to question

33:48

the election's validity, or you're not allowed to question

33:50

whether transgenderism refers to anything other than

33:53

a bizarre fantasy. If you say transgenderism

33:55

is a bizarre

33:55

fantasy, they take you off YouTube. Let's

33:58

forget about all that censorship because it...

33:59

It really does seem to me that the government is

34:02

not trying to stop misinformation.

34:04

It's trying to stop competing misinformation. They

34:06

want their misinformation to be the only

34:08

misinformation. But since he's talking

34:11

about COVID-19, and that is the center of this

34:13

lawsuit, let's just take a look. Our

34:15

friends from Grabian compile these

34:18

collections of things. Let's look at Dr. Anthony

34:20

Fauci, who was the main spokesman. Remember,

34:22

they were writing songs to him. They were lighting candles

34:25

to him. They were doing 60 Minutes tributes

34:27

to him. What

34:29

a wonderful guy he was. We were interviewing

34:32

his children. Oh yes, my

34:34

father. Some people just think of him as a stiff kind

34:36

of science nerd, but he's really so much fun. And

34:39

all of that stuff that the press does because they're

34:41

such dishonest

34:43

corporate

34:44

hacks. Just take

34:46

a look at him. Here's a little bit of his

34:49

speaking about the lockdowns effect on kids

34:52

during the pandemic, cut 12.

34:54

Particularly for kids who

34:57

couldn't go to school, except remotely, that

34:59

it's forever damaged them.

35:02

Well, I don't think it's forever irreparably

35:04

damaged anyone. The US Surgeon

35:07

General has called it an urgent public

35:09

health crisis, a devastating decline

35:11

in the mental health of kids across the country.

35:14

According to the CDC, the rates of suicide,

35:17

self-harm, anxiety, and depression

35:20

are up among adolescents.

35:21

So let's look at whether Fauci

35:24

recommended a lockdown. This is a cut 13.

35:28

The record will show, Neil, that

35:30

we didn't recommend shutting

35:32

everything down. First of all, I didn't recommend

35:35

locking anything down. I recommended

35:37

to the president that we shut

35:39

the country down. And

35:42

that was very difficult decision because

35:44

I knew it would have serious economic consequences,

35:47

which it did. Yeah. Because

35:50

if you look at the people that are politicizing

35:53

me, there's somebody that all the way

35:56

over on one level. But

35:58

there are a

35:58

lot of other people look upon

36:00

me the way they should as a

36:02

non-political person that I am.

36:05

They're not doing it because they say they don't want

36:07

to get it. They're Republicans, they don't like to be told

36:10

what to do. And we've

36:12

got to break that. So

36:16

that's your government at work. You

36:18

have to remember this. This is really important. Every

36:20

single time

36:22

you read a news story or hear one on

36:25

wherever you listen to your news stories or see

36:28

one on TV where they say this

36:30

happened because of the

36:32

pandemic. You have to remember it

36:35

didn't happen because of the pandemic. One thing happened

36:37

because of the pandemic. People got sick and died. That

36:39

was a real thing. People actually got the disease. People

36:42

actually did die. It was not a very large

36:44

percentage of people and it was people who had comorbidities,

36:47

but it was a dangerous, terrible thing

36:49

and it did kill people and they did die. Everything

36:52

else was bad, stupid

36:54

and dishonest decisions by the government,

36:57

including Trump's administration who

36:59

let Fauci have his head

37:00

and then the Biden administration

37:02

who just made it worse and worse and worse and certainly in

37:05

these states where they never changed

37:07

their mind. They never stepped back.

37:09

I could understand them panicking in the first month,

37:11

but after that they never stepped back in all

37:14

of those states where their results weren't

37:16

any better than in Florida where he did change his mind

37:18

and did step back.

37:20

All of that was officials

37:24

doing something stupid, doing

37:26

something wrong and then insisting

37:29

that anyone who stood against them was Republicans.

37:31

They're just conservatives. They're just deplorables.

37:34

Let's put those two things together. What we're talking about

37:36

in the last chapter was the fact that they despise

37:39

you because they think they really

37:41

know the answer and two, the fact

37:43

that they don't know anything. They don't know Jack

37:45

Diddley's squat because there are a bunch of incompetence

37:47

who have stumbled their way into the privilege

37:50

of governing the country and haven't got

37:52

the first clue how to do

37:54

it. They are incompetent buffoons. So imagine

37:57

this just for a moment. Imagine

37:59

we have a president.

37:59

and just you can name him anything

38:02

you want. He can be Trump, he can be DeSantis, he can

38:04

be Mr. X. Doesn't matter. Imagine we

38:06

had officials, the governor of

38:08

your state, this mayor of your city, who

38:10

came out and said,

38:12

here's this disease that's coming, here's what

38:14

we know, here's what might happen.

38:17

These are the things that we think are dangerous. Last

38:20

week we said this, but now we have found out this,

38:22

we're changing our mind on that. We're not gonna lie

38:24

to you to get you to affect your behavior.

38:27

We're not gonna do what Fauci did and say, masks

38:29

don't work because we wanna keep the masks. We're

38:32

gonna tell you we're holding the masks back because

38:34

we need them for first responders, but

38:36

they might help what we don't know. We're

38:38

going to tell you what we don't know. When somebody

38:41

like Jay Bhattacharya from Stanford

38:43

comes out and says, we're doing the wrong thing, you know what we're gonna

38:45

do? We're gonna call him to the White House or we're gonna have a

38:47

debate on TV between Fauci and

38:50

Jay, and that's how we're gonna figure that out. We're gonna

38:52

let the information flow into you.

38:56

Then when some clown comes

38:58

on who just has a Twitter medical degree and

39:00

says, if you even look at the vaccine,

39:02

your face will turn to mud.

39:05

You don't listen to him because you're hearing from

39:07

all the experts and you can trust your government

39:09

to tell you what they know. We know

39:12

that the government, and nobody always knows

39:14

the truth. Science is like this. It moves,

39:16

things move quickly, more quickly than we

39:18

can figure out the information. If they had said

39:20

to us, we didn't test this vaccine,

39:23

but we think it's gonna work, you decide.

39:26

We don't know what's gonna happen. These

39:28

are the things that might happen, but we think it's gonna

39:31

be better to take the vaccine. I think people would have taken

39:33

it, more people would have taken it

39:35

without protesting.

39:37

Instead, it was all coercion.

39:39

It was all force and it was all disdain.

39:42

This disdain permeates everything

39:44

they do. What are you talking about? God, there's no

39:47

God. There's only gay people. What are you talking

39:49

about? You wanna express yourself. You don't wanna

39:51

say what the state says. It's the state. What

39:53

do you mean that you think the vaccine, you don't wanna

39:55

take the vaccine? What do you mean that you're a young person,

39:58

so maybe the vaccine is more dangerous.

39:59

for you than COVID is, we don't care.

40:02

We're gonna shut you down. When they talk like

40:04

that, when they despise you, and then on top

40:06

of their despising you, they're

40:08

clearly buffoons. They're

40:10

incompetent buffoons. They don't know

40:12

what they're doing.

40:14

What are you supposed to do? Why wouldn't you listen

40:16

to a conspiracy theorist when the conspiracy

40:18

theorist is right more often than they

40:20

are? You know, I hate some of these conspiracy things.

40:22

I really do. Some of them are genuinely dangerous,

40:24

genuinely stupid, genuinely constructed

40:28

out of whole cloth, out of nothing, but

40:31

still, it's still,

40:32

when you're dealing with people in power

40:35

who despise you, why should

40:37

you not despise them back? It just doesn't

40:39

make any sense. They behave badly because

40:41

of their philosophy, which is that you are

40:44

behaving badly and they know best, both

40:46

of which happen to be incorrect. There

40:48

are people in the public who behave badly, people

40:50

who behave well. There are people in the government who behave

40:52

badly,

40:53

period. That's it. These guys really do

40:55

not know what they're doing and they hate you and think

40:58

they're better than you. Two things that are simply in

41:00

conflict. Now obviously, we have to fight

41:02

back and this is the thing. There are ways, there

41:05

are big ways of fighting back. You should get out and vote.

41:07

You shouldn't listen to people

41:08

like Donald Trump at one point said that he was telling you not

41:10

to vote because it's all rigged. You shouldn't despair.

41:13

You shouldn't let conspiracy theories keep you

41:15

away from the voting booth. You know, you shouldn't

41:17

let people tell you, oh, it doesn't matter what you do because

41:19

they've all got it rigged because that's not true

41:22

and you should really get out and do this. Obviously,

41:24

we fight back here all the time. We try to be

41:26

brave. We try not to worry about losing

41:28

friends, we try not to worry about being attacked.

41:30

We try not to worry about getting thrown off YouTube even though it costs

41:32

money. We do all kinds of things here. You

41:35

support us, that's huge. But

41:37

you know, there's something about

41:39

the culture that is so important. I've

41:41

been talking about the culture now for at least 20, more

41:43

than 20 years, almost 25 years. And

41:46

when I start out, I make speeches about it and people

41:48

would say, well, what can we do? And what

41:51

they meant was can we give you money? And I always say, I

41:53

want money. I want to create art and sell it

41:55

to people and make my money that way. I want to

41:57

do what I do and make my money that way.

42:00

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42:02

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42:04

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42:08

You call your wife an idiot, that's

42:10

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42:12

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42:14

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42:16

part of the culture. So what I wanna do is take

42:18

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42:21

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42:23

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42:25

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42:28

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42:30

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43:48

All right, final chapter, thou hypocrites.

43:51

So we started off in France, I hope you remembered everything,

43:53

there is going to be a quiz, but we will bring it all together,

43:55

we're gonna weave it all together. We started in France, we're gonna

43:57

finish in France. To the end of the 19th century.

43:59

in kind of a reaction against

44:02

stuffy Victorian middle class

44:04

values, there arose what

44:06

was a movement

44:08

that had a lot of gay people in it,

44:10

interestingly enough, and other sexual outsiders.

44:13

That was called the Decadent Movement.

44:15

In England there was Oscar Wilde and Algernon

44:17

Swinburne, and in France there were poets

44:20

called, they called themselves the Decadents, Baudelaire

44:22

and Rambeau. They were

44:25

into drugs, sexual deviance, homosexuality,

44:27

and a kind of

44:29

over aesthetic appreciation for art,

44:31

for art's sake without values.

44:33

In France, the bar word of the Decadents was

44:36

epitès la bourgeoisie, and again, forgive

44:38

me, my poor French accent, but it

44:40

meant shock the middle classes, shock

44:42

the middle classes. So what is it about

44:44

the middle classes? Hating the middle classes is

44:46

a sport, especially on the left. Artists

44:49

all hate the middle classes. The suburbs, oh,

44:52

yuck, the suburbs, remember? Pete Seeger,

44:54

when the suburbs became a big thing, he was saying

44:56

that song about tiki-tack, all your houses look

44:58

alike, and they're made of tiki-tack. Well, it turned out

45:00

he was a Soviet spy. I mean, Karl

45:03

Marx, he was, Pete

45:03

Seeger, was a Soviet spy, Karl Marx, because

45:06

those houses were better than working class

45:08

and middle class people had ever had in the history of the world,

45:11

but yes, they all did look alike. That's how mass

45:13

production worked. Now Karl Marx

45:16

gave some credit to the bourgeoisie. He said

45:18

they modernized an industrialized society,

45:21

but he said they

45:22

hoarded all the resulting wealth and they

45:24

would be destroyed in the workers' revolution. So

45:26

as our government got more leftist, as

45:28

it got more Marxist-right, the government

45:31

and the artists have come together.

45:33

The people who used to be against the government, the artists

45:36

are now part of the government. Hollywood is just

45:38

an arm of the government. And all those

45:40

Hollywood actors who get up when they're winning awards

45:42

and wearing their glamorous costumes and

45:44

tell you, you're deplorable because you voted for

45:46

Donald Trump, they're now just part of the power

45:48

structure because the power structure is left against

45:51

the middle classes, out to shock the middle classes.

45:54

So when you saw it begin, in our country, it kind

45:57

of began or had its heyday in the

45:59

sixties.

45:59

It's not this thing like this routine by George

46:02

Carlin that people on our side are quoting

46:04

all the time, and I've referred to it a number of times because

46:06

it's so powerful, it's cut 14.

46:09

What are these words that I'm talking about? They're

46:11

just words that we've decided, sort of decided

46:13

not to use all the time. That's about the only thing you

46:15

can really say about them for sure. That

46:18

they're just some words, not many either, just

46:20

a few, that we've decided,

46:23

well, we won't use them all the

46:25

time. Sometimes, well,

46:27

hell yeah. Sometimes

46:30

it's okay, but not all the time. And

46:32

they're the only words that seem to have that restriction. I

46:34

mean, there are a lot of words you can say whenever you want, you know,

46:36

pneumonia. Nobody gives you a lot of, all

46:39

right, you can't yell at my husband a great deal, but

46:41

what the hell? There are words

46:43

that you can say, no problem, topography.

46:47

No one has ever gone to jail for screaming topography.

46:50

But there are some words that you can go to jail for.

46:53

And then the rest of the routine, you all have, well, they've

46:55

heard this routine is very famous, he just starts

46:57

to speak all these curse words, the seven words

47:00

you can't say on TV. And

47:02

he repeats them again and again until they seem

47:04

to become meaningless. And so he had,

47:06

he's saying is shock, shock, the middle class, the middle

47:08

class is stuffy. They don't say these words,

47:11

but you can say them sometimes. You can say them when you're killing

47:13

a Vietnamese person, but you can't say them

47:15

when you're in good society. And

47:18

people love this. People on our side love this.

47:20

The libertarians say, yeah, this is great. And if you

47:22

notice, everybody curses now. And no

47:25

one, if you watch a comedian, he

47:27

basically cannot get through a sentence without

47:29

using four-letter words.

47:32

Now this routine is funny.

47:33

George Carlin was funny. And it does point out

47:35

something that feels kind of irrational.

47:39

And I know I've said this before, but it's worth repeating.

47:41

It's also wrong. It's wrong as philosophy.

47:43

It's wrong as an idea. Why?

47:46

Because words communicate things. This is the entire

47:49

thesis of the left, is that words don't really

47:51

communicate things. They have no fixed meaning. Woman

47:53

has no fixed meaning. That's why they

47:55

were caught off guard when somebody asked them to define it.

47:58

Because in college, you learn words.

47:59

Ideas have no fixed meaning. Ideas have

48:02

no truth. There is no truth. The story

48:04

is everything. The narrative is everything. And that's

48:06

basically what George Carlin is discovering

48:08

here. But it's not true. If I

48:10

say oak tree, yeah,

48:12

it's not an oak tree. It's

48:14

a rude tool for conveying oak

48:16

tree. But if you've ever seen an oak tree

48:18

and I say oak tree, you know pretty well

48:20

what I'm talking about. So when I use

48:23

a four-letter word for sex,

48:25

you know not only what I'm referring to in terms

48:28

of an action, but you know that I'm referring to it

48:30

in a degraded and completely physical

48:32

way. One of my old-fashioned

48:35

ideas, and I admit it's old-fashioned, but I will

48:37

not break it, is I don't curse in front of

48:39

women. Why? Because their role

48:42

in sex is kind of more spiritual

48:44

and much more costly than a man's role

48:46

in sex. And so when you talk about it with using

48:49

a four-letter word, you're degrading them.

48:51

And I think when women talk like that, they degrade

48:53

themselves. These words have meaning.

48:55

See, this is what the left tries to tell you, that they don't

48:58

have meaning, but they do. And

49:00

so there is a reason we say, don't say

49:02

those words on the air. We're saying be polite

49:04

about these things that are private and that are difficult

49:06

and that are spiritual as well as physical. Don't

49:09

just make them physical because that's offensive

49:12

really to everybody, to every human being, but to women

49:14

I think especially.

49:16

Now, along with this came a movement

49:18

to say that we don't want the

49:21

middle classes

49:22

and we don't like the upper classes because they're the

49:24

toffs. What we want are

49:26

basically the working classes and they were raised

49:29

up by rock and roll. You remember the Beatles saying, it's

49:31

been a hard day's night. So instead of Fred Astaire

49:33

saying, I wear a top hat and tails, I'm

49:36

putting on the ritz, you had him saying, I've

49:38

worked all night, I'm working a night shift, but

49:41

I can still express my love for you. And that's

49:43

kind of that Beatles song. Now in America,

49:45

class and race are very much intertwined.

49:48

And that is why Marxist on the

49:50

left, like Barack Obama, use

49:52

race because we feel, we

49:54

always used to feel, I don't know how much

49:56

we still do, but we used to feel that you could

49:58

move your class,

49:59

you could become a rich person, and then

50:02

the class wouldn't matter, but you can't change

50:04

your race, and that's why the Marxists focus on race. But

50:06

still, class and race are kind of intertwined.

50:09

This was the point of J.D.

50:11

Vance when he wrote his Hillbilly Elegy that

50:13

really, in a poor white community,

50:16

the values are not that different from in a poor black

50:18

community, and the dysfunctions are not that

50:20

different from in a poor black community, and

50:23

that is why, and the values are not

50:25

that different. The value is supposed

50:27

to be to get out, and

50:30

make money, and to have all the good things

50:32

in life that the rich people have. And

50:35

so black and white culture really came together

50:37

in the person of Donald Trump. One of the things that

50:39

Donald Trump did

50:41

was he

50:42

noticed that white working

50:44

class people were being screwed in this country

50:46

by globalization, and he brought them together. These

50:48

were the guys who were called the Reagan Democrats

50:51

because they believed in Ronald Reagan. They felt they

50:53

had been screwed by the left, and so they voted Republican

50:56

with Ronald Reagan, and they voted Republican again

50:58

with Donald Trump because he spoke for them,

51:00

and he spoke in their tone, he spoke in their angry

51:03

voice. He used bad words, he called

51:05

people names. He still does it. And

51:08

blacks, before he became a political

51:10

figure, loved him. They were always including

51:12

him in their rap songs.

51:15

Here's just a version of

51:17

that called Money Is My

51:19

Bitch, meaning I love money, he's

51:21

cut 16.

51:22

All the fun we have together, I keep you

51:24

in my pocket, there's so much of you, I

51:26

share you and speak to you in private. You

51:28

got me carrots on my wrist, I'm a savage

51:30

for your kiss, embarrassed when I'm not with you,

51:32

I'm off guard. Always expect

51:34

to see us too together stable. The

51:37

best couple they seen since Trump and Marla

51:39

Mabel. Don't need no green up, cause when we

51:41

hump, we do it up. Make sure we both are, the

51:43

dollar sign

51:44

up. So where were the best couples since

51:46

Trump and Marla Mabel? There's

51:48

over 300 rap songs that mention Trump

51:50

because his values and their values are very much

51:52

the same. You're a loser if you don't have money, if

51:54

you have money, you have women, if you have women,

51:56

they'll let you grab them because you have the money.

52:00

kind of stick around. You know, there's a very funny bit

52:02

by a comedian named Demetri Martin

52:04

who talks about the fact that when they

52:07

started, remember when they started like in blurred

52:09

lines, they would have a song and then in the middle of the song there

52:11

would be a rap song. So he said, what would happen if you

52:13

transferred that to literature? Here's that

52:16

clip.

52:16

I heard this R&B song, came

52:18

on the radio, I was in a rental car, I turned the radio

52:20

on, the song comes on, this guy's like kind

52:22

of telling a story, he's like kind of whining, but okay,

52:24

I'm listening. All of a sudden in the middle of the song,

52:27

a rapper shows up. Because

52:30

these guys are friends or something, he shows up, he

52:32

does a whole rap, just his own thing, finishes

52:35

up, he takes off.

52:36

We never hear from him again, he's gone. First

52:39

guy comes back and he finishes the story and then the

52:41

song's over. I just thought that was

52:43

hilarious because I've never seen that in any other art

52:45

form. You know, not

52:48

like in literature, you know, you're reading a book. What'd

52:50

you think of that novel? Pretty good, you know, I like,

52:52

I got into the story in the first seven chapters, then

52:54

in the middle, there was a really angry first

52:57

person essay.

53:00

This other writer, I don't know if they're friends or

53:02

something, but you know, this

53:04

guy has a big, he's gonna sleep with all these women, it's

53:06

a whole thing and he's

53:09

not gonna buy him stuff though. He made that clear, he'll sleep

53:11

with them, but he's not looking to get tied down.

53:15

All caps, very, very confident.

53:19

A lot of it rhymed and then the essay was over and

53:22

then went back to the story, yeah, that's all right. Oh,

53:25

the joke of course is that literatures for the

53:27

middle classes, literatures for educated

53:29

people, is for people who

53:30

are civilized and wanna rise

53:32

up in society and be part of the upper classes.

53:35

And you don't stick a rap song in there because

53:38

it comes from a different class of people. So

53:40

shock the middle classes, shock the middle classes,

53:42

and we all participate in this. We all think it's

53:45

not cool to be part of the middle classes

53:47

and it is cool to spew

53:50

foul language, to imitate the rappers, to

53:52

go with the values, if not the values,

53:54

then the behaviors, to go and watch, you

53:57

know, there's a sex comedy out called No Hard Feelings

53:59

and all the right people. People are saying yes, well it's filled with

54:01

curse words and nudity and all this stuff, but it has the right

54:03

ideas. But obviously the part of the

54:05

medium is the message, where the way

54:07

those ideas are conveyed is part of the message. What's

54:10

wrong with the middle class? The middle class is stuffy, they believe

54:12

in marriage, they believe in good manners, they believe in

54:14

hard work, they believe in religion, putting

54:17

on ties, and they're hypocrites because

54:19

they believe in marriage but they cheat and

54:21

they look at porn. They say rude things

54:23

in the locker room while they're pretending, when they're

54:26

in church, they pretend they're better than they are.

54:28

They talk about Jesus

54:29

but then they go out and hate people, they're hypocrites, and

54:32

their values therefore are to be destroyed.

54:35

You can also look at it a slightly different way and say

54:37

the thing about the middle class is that they came

54:39

up,

54:40

at least within a generation, out of the lower

54:42

class and they realize that marriage, church,

54:45

good manners, hard work, those things

54:47

elevate you and they're scared, they

54:49

don't wanna fall back, so they cling to those

54:51

things and they look down on those things.

54:54

But they fail in embodying

54:57

those things and sometimes they're hypocritical. So

55:00

the other day, I've been sick off

55:02

and on these last two weeks and I haven't been able to get

55:04

to church on Sunday because I've just been on my back,

55:07

you know? So I went out to a mass

55:10

on Wednesday and the

55:12

reading was the reading that I love so

55:14

much that everybody was always yelling at me about judge not,

55:17

that ye be

55:17

not judged, for with what judgment ye

55:19

judge, ye shall be judged, and with what measure

55:21

ye meet, it shall be measured to you again, and

55:24

why behold this thou the moat in your

55:26

brother's eye, but consider not the beam that

55:28

is in thine own eye, or how wilt thou say

55:30

to thy brother, let me pull out the moat out

55:33

of thine eye, and behold the beam is in thine own

55:35

eye, thou

55:36

hypocrite. The priest got up,

55:39

terrific priest, he gave this very beautiful homily

55:42

and he pointed out two things. One, Jesus

55:44

is talking to his disciples, so it's not them,

55:46

he's talking to us, he's talking about his friends, it's

55:48

not the bad guys, he's talking to the good guys.

55:51

And the word hypocrite

55:54

comes from a Greek word, meaning stage

55:56

actor, somebody who is pretending to be

55:58

something that he is.

55:59

He is not, and that's how it comes to be, hypocrite.

56:02

So go back to the Douglas Murray clip. I told you this was gonna

56:04

be a quiz, and his point that good

56:07

people feel guilty about racism, not bad

56:09

people. Good people are hypocrites,

56:12

not bad people. In other words, they're trying

56:14

to be something, and they fail. Now,

56:17

obviously a real hypocrite is somebody who's

56:19

pretending to be something and isn't that

56:21

person, but all of us are pretending to

56:23

be something better than we are. All of us,

56:25

when we go to church, we know we're not saints.

56:28

We're in there pretending

56:29

to be saints. We are acting

56:32

like saints. We all know that

56:34

we may wanna look at porn, but when we don't

56:36

look at porn, when we in fact save our

56:38

erotic energy for our spouse, we are

56:40

pretending to be something better than

56:42

we are in our hearts. And what Jesus

56:45

is saying to people is we are all,

56:47

not him, but the rest of us, are all

56:50

playing a role. We are embodying

56:52

a value that is better than who we are.

56:54

We are lifting ourselves to pretend

56:57

to be something that

56:59

we

56:59

know in our hearts we're not. So we have no basis to make fun

57:02

of somebody else who's doing that and failing, because

57:04

we have to look at the way we are failing so we can

57:06

become more of the thing that we

57:08

pretend to be. What would you be like

57:11

if you did what Jesus said instead

57:13

of writing, saying, no, we're supposed to judge people. We

57:15

must judge people all the time. If instead of doing that,

57:17

you lived, you acted out that life.

57:20

You spoke without using the words that

57:23

mean these grotesque and degraded

57:25

things. What if you did, in fact, treat

57:27

your wife and the queen you tell her

57:29

she is sometimes,

57:29

or you say in the paper she is, what if,

57:32

and you did all of those things, you

57:34

showed up at church, you worked hard, you did

57:36

the things that you're supposed to do without

57:37

judging other people,

57:40

without condemning other people, without being on Twitter

57:43

and on the comments section,

57:46

screaming at other people. What would you

57:48

be now? What would you be

57:50

now? You would be a beautiful,

57:53

beautiful example of what it is

57:55

that you want the culture to be. You

57:57

would be the living power of the country.

57:59

So you think, then you'd be an advertisement for the

58:02

country. Then the people who get up and they say, this country's

58:04

no good, this country, you shouldn't assimilate,

58:06

because this country sucks, this country's

58:08

racist, so you shouldn't assimilate. You know, you

58:10

don't have to assimilate. You don't have to speak politely.

58:13

You don't have to stop committing crimes. You

58:15

shouldn't be punished for your crimes, because this country's so bad,

58:17

they deserve the crimes. Those people,

58:20

they own the communications industry.

58:22

They own the government, they own the corporations, they

58:24

own everything, they've taken over all

58:27

the cultural high places. The only thing,

58:29

they own Hollywood,

58:29

the only thing you have left is

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you, yourself, your life, every

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way you behave, the way you speak. And

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you know,

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that's the culture. That is the culture.

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everybody says to me all the time, you create culture,

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tell people that.

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all of you, all of it, your life

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though you know you're only playing that thing, even though you

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know you're only acting that thing, you become

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a weapon.

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They really do have so much power, but

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All right, from Michael Copeland

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referring to King David as a horrible Iron Age

1:01:22

warlord and your description of Abraham's thoughts when commanded

1:01:24

to offer Isaac as a sacrifice, which is pure speculation

1:01:27

on your part, betrays your utter lack of knowledge

1:01:29

of things Jewish. There's a vast Jewish literature

1:01:31

on these subjects among many others, which would be very

1:01:33

interesting to you. First of all, the kind

1:01:35

of ironic thing about that is the part about Abraham's

1:01:38

thoughts is actually part of the Talmud.

1:01:40

It's part of the discussion, which is all speculation

1:01:43

on what people were thinking and doing. That's

1:01:45

what it is. And so I was actually borrowing from that.

1:01:47

It is true that my feeling

1:01:50

about King David is not widely shared,

1:01:52

but when I read, I've read how

1:01:55

many times, a zillion times have I read the story of

1:01:57

King David, he does seem to me a

1:01:59

horrible Iron Age.

1:01:59

and age, Warlord, and of course the

1:02:02

story of David.