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Left Demands Return of MS-13 Gang Member (Ep.182) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, welcome to Bungina Report Early Edition. You guys
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  Speaker 1: are all in the chat saying, late, late as always.
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  Speaker 1: the countdown starts at 9 a.m., that is not late.
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  Speaker 1: You guys, you're just, you're out of control in the
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  Speaker 1: chat here. It's like, have some patience. We're getting the
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  Speaker 1: But this is, in fact, good things do come to
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  Speaker 1: those who wait. But this is, in fact, on time,
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  Speaker 1: just so you all know. This is on time. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to these headlines. El Salvador President Bukele refuses, thankfully,
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  Speaker 1: to return an MS-13 gang member to the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony is released on reduced bond. The world's oldest
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  Speaker 1: known Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 106.
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  Speaker 2: San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: unveils a 45-foot nude female statue titled Our Revolution to
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  Speaker 1: promote tourism in the city. And Katy Perry and an
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  Speaker 1: All this on Bongina Report, early edition. In just under
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  Speaker 1: three months, the Supreme Court has swooped in six times
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  Speaker 1: to slap down rogue federal judges for crossing the constitutional line.
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  Speaker 1: And the latest showdown I think is probably the most
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  Speaker 1: explosive yet. At the center of the storm is an
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  Speaker 1: MS-13 gang member named Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, deported to El Salvador
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  Speaker 1: by the Trump administration. A Maryland judge... Obama-appointed, of course,
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  Speaker 1: Obama-appointed Paula Zinnes took it upon herself to order President
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  Speaker 1: Trump to bring Garcia back to the United States by
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  Speaker 1: April 7th, claiming that his removal violated due process. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Trump team pushed back very hard. They argued that
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  Speaker 1: not only had Garcia's asylum claim been lawfully denied, but
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  Speaker 1: no judge has the authority to force the president to
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  Speaker 1: negotiate with a foreign government, especially to re-import a known
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  Speaker 1: gang member. Seems pretty obvious. Now, the case rocketed to
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  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, which issued a tepid ruling. The Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court has been very cowardly recently. They said, delay the deadline,
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  Speaker 1: but let most of the order stand while asking for clarification.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of backing off, Judge Zinnis doubled down. She rewrote
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  Speaker 1: her order to demand the government take all available steps
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  Speaker 1: to bring Garcia back as soon as possible, and then
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  Speaker 1: gave the Trump admin 14 hours to explain how it
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  Speaker 1: planned to do that. And when the Trump admin replied,
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  Speaker 1: did not comply, she accused the admin of stonewalling and
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  Speaker 1: imposed daily reporting requirements, demanding declarations from officials about what
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  Speaker 1: they were doing to free Garcia from El Salvador's most
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  Speaker 1: notorious prison. Garcia's lawyers went further. asking the court to
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  Speaker 1: force the U.S. to charter a flight, escort him from custody,
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  Speaker 1: grant him parole, and even turn over diplomatic contracts and
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  Speaker 1: provide live testimony from top DHS, DOJ, and State Department officials,
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  Speaker 1: all to help repatriate an illegal convicted gang member. Again,
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  Speaker 1: illegal convicted gang member, all this, have a plane, bring
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  Speaker 1: him back. You're going to have the DHS, DOJ, State
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  Speaker 1: Department officials testify. So basically, Judge Zennis is acting like
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  Speaker 1: she runs U.S. foreign policy. She's just bossing around the executive.
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  Speaker 1: And the Supreme Court's vague, half-hearted, and like I said,
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  Speaker 1: cowardly ruling opened the door. So unless the high court
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  Speaker 1: steps in decisively and reasserts the boundaries of judicial authority,
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  Speaker 1: we are headed backwards. for a full-blown constitutional crisis. Not
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  Speaker 1: because the Trump admin is overstepping here in any way,
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  Speaker 1: but because we have activist judges in a Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: who refuses to actually give clarification on this important issue. See,
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  Speaker 1: the stakes aren't just one deportation case. They're the separation
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  Speaker 1: of powers itself. It's the Constitution that is at risk here.
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  Speaker 1: As Margo Cleveland, very intelligent woman, writes in The Federalist,
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  Speaker 1: The justices should have foreseen this standoff and defuse the
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  Speaker 1: situation last week by clearly defining the limits of the
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  Speaker 1: lower court's authority. The Supreme Court's continuing failure to do
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  Speaker 1: so is wreaking havoc over the reputation of the courts
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  Speaker 1: and our constitutional order. To the credit of the Trump admin,
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  Speaker 1: they are remaining firm. El Salvador President Bukele joined President
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  Speaker 1: Trump in the White House yesterday, and explicitly stated that
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  Speaker 1: he refuses to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Here is Bukele
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  Speaker 1: maintaining that facilitating Garcia's return would equate to smuggling a
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  Speaker 1: terrorist into the United States. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: President, can President Bukele lay on this? Do you plan
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  Speaker 3: to return him? Well, I'm supposedly not suggesting that I'll
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  Speaker 3: smuggle a terrorist into.
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  Speaker 4: The United States, right?
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  Speaker 3: How can I smuggle... How can I return him to
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  Speaker 3: the United States? It's like, I smuggle him into the
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  Speaker 3: United States, or what do I do? Of course, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going to do it. It's like, I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: question is preposterous. How can I smuggle a terrorist into
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  Speaker 3: the United States? I don't have the power to return
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  Speaker 3: him to the United States. Yeah, but I'm not releasing,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're not very fond of releasing terrorists into
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  Speaker 3: our country.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we just turned the murder capital of the
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  Speaker 5: world into the safest country in the Western Hemisphere, and
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  Speaker 5: you want us to go back? and to the releasing
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  Speaker 5: criminals so we can go back to being the murder
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  Speaker 5: capital of the world. That's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they'd love to have a criminal released.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's a fascination.
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  Speaker 6: They would love it. These are sick people.
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  Speaker 2: Marco, do you have something to say?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Stephen outlined it.
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  Speaker 7: I don't understand what the computer thinks.
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  Speaker 1: This individual is a citizen of El Salvador. He was
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  Speaker 1: illegally in the United States and was returned to his country.
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  Speaker 4: That's where you deport people, back to their country of origin.
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  Speaker 1: Except for Venezuela that wasn't refusing to take people back
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  Speaker 1: or places like that.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you this, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: President.
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  Speaker 1: No, the foreign policy of the United States is conducted
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  Speaker 1: by the president of the United States, not by a court.
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  Speaker 4: And no court in the United States has a.
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  Speaker 1: Right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States.
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  Speaker 5: It's that simple.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing that they would ask Bukele, who has, again,
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  Speaker 1: turned his country around. One of the most dangerous, violent
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  Speaker 1: places in the entire world. And now it's one of
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  Speaker 1: the safest countries ever. in South America. And they're saying,
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  Speaker 1: just release him onto the streets. Why would he do that?
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  Speaker 1: And why would he release him back onto our streets?
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  Speaker 1: Why would a political judge and CNN and protesting leftists
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  Speaker 1: desperately want a terrorist back in this country? And I
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  Speaker 1: think this is the central question here. It's not just
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  Speaker 1: this specific case. Like I said, there's a constitutional issue
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  Speaker 1: with the courts. There's almost a spiritual crisis happening as well.
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  Speaker 1: So many fail to understand that the defining impulse of
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  Speaker 1: the modern left is to side not with the innocent,
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  Speaker 1: but with the transgressor every time. In their inverted moral order,
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  Speaker 1: the criminal is not a threat, but a victim of society,
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  Speaker 1: of systems, of you. Law-abiding citizens are painted as privileged oppressors,
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  Speaker 1: while those who violate laws harm communities destabilize order are
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  Speaker 1: rebranded as martyrs of injustice. It's why the left romanticizes
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  Speaker 1: looters as protesters, shields illegal gang members from deportation, and
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  Speaker 1: demands sympathy for predators over their victims. In elevating the
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  Speaker 1: lawbreaker above the law abider, the left betrays not just
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  Speaker 1: public safety, but civilization itself, again replacing justice with pity
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  Speaker 1: and citizenship with chaos. I want you to take a
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  Speaker 1: listen to how Bukele brilliantly reframes the narrative so that
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  Speaker 1: law-abiding citizens are once again the priority, the focus of leadership.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: And we're very eager to help. We know that you
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  Speaker 3: have a crime problem, a terrorism problem that you need
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  Speaker 3: help with. And we're a small country, but if we
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  Speaker 3: can help, we will do it. And we actually turned
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  Speaker 3: the murder capital of the world, that was the journalist's call,
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  Speaker 3: murder capital of the world into the safest country in
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  Speaker 3: the Western Hemisphere. And, you know, sometimes they say that
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  Speaker 3: we imprisoned thousands. I like to say that we actually
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  Speaker 3: liberated millions. So, you know, like, it's very good.
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  Speaker 2: Who gave him that line? Do you think I can
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  Speaker 2: use that? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope Trump does use it because that is
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  Speaker 1: the correct framing. Not just a frame, that is just
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  Speaker 1: the correct way to view this situation. Bukele is right.
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  Speaker 1: Deportation isn't about removing a few violent gang members. It
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  Speaker 1: is about liberating millions of law-abiding El Salvadorians, Americans from fear, chaos,
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  Speaker 1: and decay. I think for too long, the conversation has
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  Speaker 1: been framed around what's fair to the criminal, the trafficker,
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  Speaker 1: the cartel foot soldier. But what about the families trapped
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  Speaker 1: in neighborhoods plagued by MS-13 violence? What about the mothers
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  Speaker 1: who can't let their kids walk to school because their
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  Speaker 1: streets have become war zones. And I think that we
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  Speaker 1: just had the lights go out for a second. What
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  Speaker 1: happened here?
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  Speaker 8: Nothing?
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Guy just got back and he was checking the lights.
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  Speaker 1: Guy was just checking the lights. Guy sat down and
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  Speaker 1: he was like, let's just turn all the lights off
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  Speaker 1: on the show. That's okay. If you're listening on Apple
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  Speaker 1: or Spotify, you have no idea what's going on, but
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  Speaker 1: the lights just turned off. No worries. But like I said,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you have these mother's who want their kids
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  Speaker 1: to just be able to walk to school or go
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  Speaker 1: play in the park, and they can't because, again, the
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  Speaker 1: streets have become war zones. Every deportation of a hardened
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  Speaker 1: foreign criminal is not just an act of law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: It's an act of justice, a reclaiming of safety, dignity,
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  Speaker 1: and peace for the forgotten American citizen. He's right. It
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  Speaker 1: is time to stop apologizing for wanting our country back.
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  Speaker 1: This is not regressive or evil or bigoted. This is
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  Speaker 1: what every civilization is called to do if it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to destroy itself from within. And on that note,
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  Speaker 1: here is the incredible, wonderful Stephen Miller ripping CNN's Caitlin
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  Speaker 1: Collins two shreds in the Oval Office over this question
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  Speaker 1: of bringing back an MS-13 gang member to the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to this. It is, again, brilliant.
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  Speaker 4: Stephen Miller, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Could you just also respond to that question?
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  Speaker 4: Because, you know, it's asked by CNN and they always
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  Speaker 4: ask it with a slant because they're totally slanted because
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  Speaker 4: they don't know what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: That's why nobody's watching them. But would you answer that
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  Speaker 2: question also, please?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. So, Pam mentioned there's an illegal alien from El Salvador. So,
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  Speaker 4: with respect to you, he's a citizen of El Salvador.
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  Speaker 9: So.
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  Speaker 4: It's very arrogant even for American media to suggest that
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  Speaker 4: we would even tell El Salvador how to handle their
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  Speaker 4: own citizens as a starting point. As two immigration courts
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  Speaker 4: found that he was a member of MS-13, when President
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  Speaker 4: Trump declared MS-13 to be a foreign terrorist organization, that
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  Speaker 4: meant that he was no longer eligible under federal law,
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  Speaker 4: which I'm sure you know, you're very familiar with the INA,
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  Speaker 4: that he was no longer eligible for any form of
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  Speaker 4: immigration relief in the United States. So he had a
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  Speaker 4: deportation order that was valid which meant that under our law,
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  Speaker 4: he's not even allowed to be present in the United
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  Speaker 4: States and had to be returned because of the foreign
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  Speaker 4: terrorist designation. This issue was then, by a district court judge,
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  Speaker 4: completely inverted, and a district court judge tried to tell
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  Speaker 4: the administration that they had to kidnap a citizen of
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  Speaker 4: El Salvador and fly him back here. That issue was
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  Speaker 4: raised to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court said
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  Speaker 4: the district court order was unlawful, And its main components
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  Speaker 4: were reversed 9-0 unanimously, stating clearly that neither Secretary of
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  Speaker 4: State nor the president could be compelled by anybody to
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  Speaker 4: forcibly retrieve a citizen of El Salvador from El Salvador,
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  Speaker 4: who again is a member of MS-13.
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  Speaker 1: Ever knowledgeable, Stephen Miller put the media to shame yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Over and over again, he put them to shame. That
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  Speaker 1: was a masterclass fact check on the truth about the
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  Speaker 1: MS-13 gang. illegal gang member, Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Here is Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Because I think we can fact check them all we want,
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  Speaker 1: but the problem is we have an entire section of
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  Speaker 1: the media, formerly the most powerful section of the media,
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  Speaker 1: lying about the situation, refusing to report on the facts
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  Speaker 1: to their viewers because they hate this admin, because they
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  Speaker 1: hate safety, because they want chaos in this country. So
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  Speaker 1: here is President Trump. calling out the hacks at CNN
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  Speaker 1: specifically and explicitly for never covering the positive U.S. border
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  Speaker 1: security achievements like the drastic reduction in border crossings. CNN
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  Speaker 1: was not too happy about this one. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 8: You know, like CNN over here doesn't want to put
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  Speaker 8: them out because they don't like putting out good numbers.
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  Speaker 2: They don't like putting out because I think they hate.
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  Speaker 1: Our country, actually. He said, I think they hate our country.
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  Speaker 1: I think they hate our country too. They do. Why
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  Speaker 1: else would they frame every story as America hatred? Why
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  Speaker 1: else would they refuse to report on the facts of
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  Speaker 1: even this story specifically? So CNN didn't like that very much.
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  Speaker 1: They took some offense to it and decided to hit
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  Speaker 1: back yesterday. Here was Dana Bash live reacting.
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  Speaker 8: Before I get to you, I just want to say,
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  Speaker 8: for the record, since we heard President Trump say in
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  Speaker 8: the Oval Office that CNN hates our country, CNN does
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  Speaker 8: not hate our country. That should go without saying. I've
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  Speaker 8: been here for 32 years, and I see a rhetorical
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  Speaker 8: device in him trying to say such a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, it's just a rhetorical device. CNN doesn't hate
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  Speaker 1: our country. How could President Trump possibly... say such a thing.
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  Speaker 1: CNN loves America, and they would never push narratives that
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  Speaker 1: demonize this nation or cultural heritage. They would never sow
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  Speaker 1: division or hatred among various groups based on political party
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  Speaker 1: or race or sex. Oh, that's actually all CNN does?
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  Speaker 1: That's actually the entire brand? That's the entire jig? That's
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  Speaker 1: actually how they make money? Let's take a listen to
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  Speaker 1: CNN actually espousing America hatred on a daily basis. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to this.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a breaking news. We live in a racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic,
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  Speaker 2: anti-Semitic country.
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  Speaker 1: Everything they're doing runs against making America great.
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  Speaker 5: It was never great, so I'm not going to say
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  Speaker 5: the again part, but making America great.
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  Speaker 10: Kicking off the Independence Day weekend, President Trump will be
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  Speaker 10: at Mount Rushmore, where he'll be standing in front of
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  Speaker 10: a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled
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  Speaker 10: away from Native Americans, told that he'll be focusing on
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  Speaker 10: the effort to, quote, tear down our country's history.
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  Speaker 8: They strongly believe, these human smugglers, that this is their
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  Speaker 8: chance to enter the United States.
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  Speaker 11: This is their chance at the American dream.
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  Speaker 8: That's why they risk everything, only to find out that
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  Speaker 8: it's all a lie.
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  Speaker 6: And when we got our freedom, our quote-unquote freedom, we
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  Speaker 6: were never restored whole, which is why you hear about reparations.
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  Speaker 6: So until the United States atones for that and makes
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  Speaker 6: good on that, we're still living in a racist country.
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  Speaker 1: America hatred is the business model The people who demonize
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  Speaker 1: the founding fathers, smear everyday Americans as racist, defend violent,
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  Speaker 1: illegal gay members, and push for divisive policies like reparations
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  Speaker 1: aren't trying to fix the country. They are clearly trying
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  Speaker 1: to destroy it. And when they call America irredeemably racist,
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  Speaker 1: and they excuse brutality from MS-13 while criminalizing border enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: when they pity identity groups and pit them against others,
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  Speaker 1: they rewrite history to class our founding as shameful, They're
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  Speaker 1: not offering a critique. They're not trying to make America
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  Speaker 1: better as they say, oh, we just want it to
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  Speaker 1: be as good as it can possibly be. No, they
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  Speaker 1: are fueling contempt. They are fueling hatred. Trump is right.
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  Speaker 1: These aren't patriots. They're agitators who hate what this country
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  Speaker 1: is and what it was built on, and that being
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  Speaker 1: Christian faith, liberty, moral law, and authentic equal justice. But
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  Speaker 1: their goal isn't justice. Like I said, it's revenge. Their
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  Speaker 1: vision isn't unity. It is permanent grievance. And their target
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  Speaker 1: isn't just the past. It is the very idea of
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  Speaker 1: America as a nation and a distinct people who share
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  Speaker 1: a unique cultural heritage. That is actually something to be
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  Speaker 1: proud of. And they would prefer we be steeped in
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  Speaker 1: constant shame. Let's take a quick break. When we come back,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about something else that the left
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  Speaker 1: is pushing for that is incredibly divisive and horrific. It
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  Speaker 1: lets you know exactly where their priorities are. It reveals
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  Speaker 1: the intent. Don't go anywhere. We're going to continue talking
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  Speaker 1: about the left sympathizing with evil because it just seems
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  Speaker 1: to be a reoccurring pattern. Last week, we discussed the
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  Speaker 1: horrific murder of Austin Metcalf, a young white high school
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  Speaker 1: boy who was stabbed in the heart at a track
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  Speaker 1: meet by Carmelo Antony, a 17-year-old black boy for, uh,
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  Speaker 1: he's all, he was, Anthony's from the opposing school at
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  Speaker 1: this meet. Now I will say the race probably shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be relevant in this case. Somebody stabbed another person in
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  Speaker 1: the heart. Doesn't matter what the race is, but apparently
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  Speaker 1: to the left, it does matter what the race is
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  Speaker 1: because Carmelo Anthony is black. Therefore he deserves all of
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  Speaker 1: our sympathy in the situation. He is actually the victim
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  Speaker 1: in this horrific murder. Anthony has been again, incessantly defended
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  Speaker 1: by many leftists who claim, with zero evidence, that Anthony
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  Speaker 1: was acting in self-defense against racially charged bullying by Metcalf. Again,
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  Speaker 1: there's no evidence of this. They're just saying that this
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  Speaker 1: was somehow racial and that Anthony was defending himself against racism. Now,
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  Speaker 1: according to some, Metcalf actually deserved to die because of
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  Speaker 1: the racially charged bullying. Anthony's family has somehow raised hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of thousands of dollars on this murder. People supporting the
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  Speaker 1: family of the murderer. Let's throw up that gift, send, go, Michael.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a good thought. It's a gift, send, go.
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  Speaker 1: And it is absurd, obscene, the amount of money that
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: they have raised. What's the amount now? I didn't even
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: want to write it down last night because say $ 429, 000.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And they say that the goal is $ 500, 000. That's actually
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: gone up. I think the original goal was like $ 200, 000 something.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: So they're just raising the goal because people just keep
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: giving this murderer money. for some reason. The narrative is
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: that the victim is not the dead boy who died
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: in his twin brother's arms after a stabbing to the heart. No,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the victim is Anthony and his family somehow. Just yesterday,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Anthony's bond was reduced from $ 1 million to $ 250, 000 by
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Judge Angela Tucker. The reduction was granted during a court
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: hearing where arguments for self-defense were made on behalf of Anthony.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Anthony posted the bond and was released, and he is
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: now under house arrest with the ankle monitor. Again, the
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: fundraising efforts for Anthony's family well surpassed the new bond amount.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: This is presumably why he was able to be released,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: because he had raised all this money from people who
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I guess want to donate to a murderer and his family.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Here is Austin's father, Jeff Metcalf, responding to this development.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: The sad part about it is he died in his
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: brother's arms. They were twins, identical twins. And his brother
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: was holding on to him, trying to make it stop bleeding.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: And he died in his brother's arms. And I rushed
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: up there, and I saw him on the gurney. And
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: I could tell. They said he wasn't breathing. I could
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: see all the blood. I saw where the wound was.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to judge, but what kind of parents
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: did this child have? What was he taught? He brought
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: a knife to attract me, and he murdered my son
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: by stabbing him in the heart. The guy was in
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: the wrong place. They asked him to move, and he
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: bowed up. This is murder.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: A good parent would be ashamed of their child for
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: stabbing a young boy in the heart. It's horrifying. It
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: is such a brazen act of evil. And yet, Anthony's
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: parents are raising money off of their son murdering an
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: innocent person. We're living in a time of moral inversion where, again,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: guilt is reframed as victimhood and virtue is pathologized. The
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: left's obsession with race Marxism demands that every confrontation be
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: reduced to power dynamics between oppressor and oppressed. Facts, evidence,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: basic decency, doesn't matter. So in this framework, Austin Metcalfe
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: wasn't an innocent boy stabbed through the heart. He was
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: a symbol of white aggression, stripped of his humanity and condemned.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Carmelo Anthony, by contrast, becomes the vessel of the left's
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: redemption narrative, a marginalized teen whose actions must be justified, excused,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and even celebrated. just because he's black. This is why
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: his give-send-go thrives while Metcalfe's family mourns. The movement doesn't
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: grieve with victims, it capitalizes on them, unless the victim
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: fits the ideological script. See, modern leftism is no longer
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: about justice, like never has been, but about the erasure
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: of moral clarity itself. When criminals are lionized and victims forgotten,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: when violence is reframed as resistance and innocence as provocation,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: society descends into moral chaos. The left's relentless defense of
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: those who break the law, so long as they belong
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to the right group, betrays a deep contempt not only
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: for law and order, but for truth itself. This is
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: not compassion. It is sabotage. A culture that rushes to
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: defend a teenage killer or an MS-13 gang member is
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: not simply sick, it is spiritually inverted. I want to
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: talk about where we've seen this happen in the past,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: where we've seen the inversion come to full fruition. During
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, a woman named Bian Zhongyun was
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: a deputy principal at an elite girls' school in Beijing. Bian,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: an educator, Communist Party member, and respected intellectual, was, again,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: part of this movement. She was part of the Communist Party.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: But In the ideological frenzy of the Cultural Revolution, where
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Mao encouraged students to form Red Guard groups to purge
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: reactionaries and bourgeoisie elements, Bien became a target.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Well, she was seen as counter-revolutionary simply because she upheld
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: academic standards, discipline, old-fashioned respect, and that was enough to
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: condemn her. In August 1966, Bienne was dragged by her
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: own students into a courtyard. Over several hours, they beat
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: her with nail-studded wooden clubs, poured ink on her head,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: and forced her to kneel on broken glass. They mocked her,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: spat on her, screamed slogans about purging the four olds,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: old customs, culture, habits, ideas. Do we have a picture
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: for Michael that we could throw up of Bienne? Oh,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: we don't? All right. We're good with that, Michael. She
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: eventually collapsed and she was bleeding from the head and dying.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: And she died soon after this horrific beating. And her
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: body was dumped in a hospital corridor with no effort
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: at medical aid. No one was punished. And in fact,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the students were celebrated as revolutionary heroes, praised in state propaganda,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: sometimes even promoted within the Communist Party. Bián' s husband, a
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: military officer, was threatened and told not to speak about
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: her death. This was not an isolated case. It was
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: the model. During the Cultural Revolution, over 1.5 million people
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: were killed. Many in very similar humiliating public rituals of violence.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: The perpetrators were almost never held accountable. Victims were class enemies.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: murderers were progressive youth. Mao's regime did not just permit
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: this upside down moral order. It engineered it. The more
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you conform to the ideology, the more you were licensed
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: to destroy. It was the inversion of morality at a
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: national scale. And if you really grasp how cannibalizing the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: ideology is, the left eats its own is truly based
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: in reality. That's not just something we say. It's real. See,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: according to our own account, Bien joined the Communist Party
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: in 1945, 21 years before her death at the hands
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: of the Communist Party. In 1947, Bien served on a
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: land reform work team in a CCP-occupied region. And as
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: part of that campaign, her team executed four landlords by
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: dragging them to a riverbank, stoning them to death in
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: order to conserve bullets and dumping their bodies in the river.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: And their only crime, these landlords, was belonging to the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: so-called black class, the CCP's label for supposedly oppressive or
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: exploitative landlords. See, yesterday's oppressed are always given license to
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: become today's executioners. So the cycle of violence never ends.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: She was a part of this violence. And then it
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: came for her. The left ate its own. It is cannibalizing.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: And it always is. You think you're on the end.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: You think you're on the same team. You're part of
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the group, and then they turn on you. This is
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: what always happens. Race Marxism does the same thing here
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: in the United States, casting killers like Carmelo Anthony and
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: MS-13 gang members like Kilmara Bregoet Garcia as victims and
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: elevates them as heroes so long as their violence serves
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: the narrative, as long as it's in the name of progress.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: If it's in the name of progress, anything goes. You know,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of voices at CNN and elite universities rushed
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to label America's history as irredeemably racist, as corrupt and evil.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: And they often conveniently forget the men who fought and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: bled to preserve this country. This country was built not
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: on shame, but of course on sacrifice, on the belief
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: that our cultural heritage is worth defending, that it's not evil.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: The veterans who stood in the line of fire did
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: so not for oppression, but for a nation founded on
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Christian moral values and unprecedented respect for human life and
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: natural rights. Von P. Drake Jr. was one of those men.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: This week, Drake Jr. believed to be one of the
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: world's oldest living Pearl Harbor survivors, died at 106, and
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: his death marks the end of an era. At just 23,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Drake was serving as an army engineer at a naval
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: air station in Oahu when the Japanese launched their surprise
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: attack on December 7, 1941. At first, he and his
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: fellow soldiers thought it was just another drill until the
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: unmistakable red insignia of Japanese airplanes came into view. And
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: that moment would catapult the U.S., of course, into World
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: War II and change the course of history. Drake went
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: on to receive numerous military honors, including the World War
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: II Victory Medal and a congressional commendation for Pearl Harbor veterans.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: And after the war, he returned to Kentucky. He built
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: a beautiful life for himself. He was an engineer. He
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: raised a family. And he stayed with his wife for
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: 65 years until, of course, he died. It was really
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: a beautiful story. And what a blessed man, of course.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: And though he rarely spoke of his experience, his family
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: remembers him not just as a war hero, but as
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: a devoted husband, a loving father, a humble man. And
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: with his passing, only 15 Pearl Harbor survivors remain. And
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I think in moments like this, it is fruitful to
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: reflect on everything that's happened since that time. A lot
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: of people are doing that these days. We're reflecting on everything,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: including World War II. In an essay in American Mind
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: titled Power in the Age of Fracture, Ronald Dodson explains
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: that at the end of World War II, Europe was
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: physically and morally bankrupt, its cities in ruins and its
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: institutions hollowed out, while America stood civilizationally intact, of course, relatively,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: and infused with a providential sense of purpose. And through
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the Marshall Plan, the U.S. transferred capital, technology, and moral
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: vision into the very soil of post-war Europe. And the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: goal was not only material recovery, but spiritual reorientation toward
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: a West defined by liberty, dignity, and law underpinned by
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: a fading Christian moral order. That was the purpose. But
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: that unity, Dodson argues, was conditional on shared strategic and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: metaphysical assumptions, assumptions that have since collapsed in the decades
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: following the Cold War. Europe has drifted into technocracy and
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: secularism and post-nationalism. It has embraced, as Dodson writes, a
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: worldview increasingly at odds with the older moral grammar that
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: once undergirded transatlantic cooperation. So while cloaking itself in humanitarian universalism,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Europe has invited mass immigration that erodes the cultural cohesion
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: required for democratic self-rule, and its leaders now speak a
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: different civilizational language than their American counterparts, at least outside
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: of the Washington-Brussels elite bubble. Dodson rightfully points out that
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: the EU has, in his words, structured a protectionist regime
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: that disadvantages American businesses even as it benefits from access
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: to U.S.
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: Markets.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: He points to the carbon border adjustment mechanism, a de
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: facto climate tariff on U.S. goods, sweeping regulations like the
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: GDPR and the AI Act that burden American firms, while
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: of course favoring European industries. And meanwhile, Europe continues to
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: underfund its own defense, criminally relying on U.S. military might.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Think about what's happening in Ukraine and the way that
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: they have demonized and condemned the United States for trying
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: to facilitate peace Meanwhile, Europe has done virtually nothing to
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: contribute to the Ukraine war effort compared to the United States.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: We were giving billions of dollars over, and Europe is
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: condemning us. We're not giving more while they give very little.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Europe remains a strategic free rider, is how Dodson puts
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: it bluntly. The core insight of the essay lies in
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Dodson's application of game theory. Europe pursues policy independence. cultural divergence,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: and economic self-interest while expecting the U.S. to uphold the
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: security and bear the costs. Continued cooperation under these conditions is,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: of course, irrational. We have to recognize that the spiritual
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: bond forged in the ashes of World War II has frayed.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Europe is no longer the moral bellwether of the West.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: And as Dodson puts it, the United States is not
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: condemned to eternal guardianship of a continent that no longer
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: believes in itself. And for many reasons, we need to
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: move beyond the nostalgia of the 20th century and construct
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: new alignments in the 21st century. Partnerships rooted not just
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: in shared interests, but in shared metaphysical assumptions. Ideology, Christianity, religion,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: it matters in these alliances. Dotson concludes that if Europe
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: wishes to repent of its technocratic apostasy and recover the
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: old moral grammar, it will find in America a willing friend.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: But until that day comes, strategic decoupling is not a retreat.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: It is the beginning of a strategic adulthood. And I
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: bring that up in the context of this hero who,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: of course, died at 106, oldest Pearl Harbor veteran, because
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: reassessing The aftermath of World War II is not a
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: betrayal to men like Von Piedrake Jr. who fought in
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: World War II. It is an act of respect. I
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: think we owe it to the veterans who stormed beaches
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: and liberated nations to ask whether the world that we
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: built from their sacrifice is one they would recognize or
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: be proud of today. Again, strategic decoupling from a Europe
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: that has abandoned the very moral convictions of that defined
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: that war is not a rejection of their legacy. It's
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: a defense of it. These men didn't risk their lives
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: or even lay down their lives so that Europe could
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: trade its Christian soul for bureaucratic technocracy or mock the
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: nation that rebuilt it. We're not required to perpetually fund
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: a group of people who we share nothing in common with,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: who frankly spit on the legacy of what we fought
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: for during World War II. To question the long-term outcomes
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: of the post-war order is to care enough about our
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: veterans to ensure their sacrifices serve something enduring and true,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: not just fleeting alliance, but a civilization worthy of preservation.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: All right, let's switch gears here a little bit and
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: discuss San Francisco. Yes, San Francisco used to be a wonderful,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: beautiful place. My mom lived there in the early 90s
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: when she was on the reality show, The Real World
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: San Francisco. And if you go back and you watch
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the footage from that time, it was a beautiful place.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: The buildings, the topography is very hilly. And so it's
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: just very interesting. And like I said, very beautiful. And
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: it's a very beautiful part of the country. Michael and
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I were recently in California and just talking about what
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: a beautiful place, naturally, California is, and just how unfortunate
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: it is to see what it's become, and specifically what
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: San Francisco has become. So in the midst of all
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: of this, as San Francisco has destroyed itself from within,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: as California at large has destroyed itself from within, San
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Francisco has unveiled a 45-foot-tall statue of a nude woman,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: this was last week, to attract, apparently, tourism. And the
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: statue is named Our Evolution. And the obvious point to
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: be made here is that San Francisco would get a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: lot more tourism if they dealt with crime, with homelessness,
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: with all the illegals. But instead, they are spending their
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: time erecting a statue of a naked lady, faceless naked lady. Now,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the sculpture is a public art project. And the sculptor
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: of this project recently told the examiner, San Francisco examiner,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: that the sculpture is meant to empower women and encourage
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: freedom of expression. Now, by the way, the sculptor here
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: is a guy, and some leftists are actually pretty upset
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: about this, that the sculptor does not do enough for
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: representation because it was created by a man, again, left
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: cannibalizing itself. But again, Instead of addressing real civic decay
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: in San Francisco, city leaders chase this abstract empowerment through
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: empty symbolism. Ironically, with a sculpture made by a man
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: in the name of female liberation. And I was thinking
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: yesterday about the statue and how it doesn't seem like
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: a coincidence to me that a city as disarrayed as
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: San Francisco, which was, again, once arguably one of the
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: most beautiful cities in America, is... now erecting a giant
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: naked faceless statue of a woman. There's something almost like
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: occult about it, religious about it. And then I remembered
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: a book I read called Sexual Personae. Sexual Personae was
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: written by feminist scholar Camille Paglia, a great book, highly recommend.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: And in this book, Camille argues that when a civilization
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: loses confidence in its order, its masculine vitality, and its
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: moral clarity, it often turns to worship of the feminine,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: not in a healthy, complimentary way, but in a chaotic,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: pagan sense. And the feminine becomes sort of unmoored from
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: its role in creation and beauty, and instead it's elevated
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: as a symbol of raw, destabilizing power, like fertility without form,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: emotion without reason. freedom without responsibility. That's what we see
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: with this statue. Not an honoring of womanhood, but a
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: hollow idol of expressive chaos. It's a city in decline,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: exalting a faceless feminine figure while the streets collapse under
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: the weight of real suffering. And in Paglia's view, this
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: kind of aesthetic decadence is not just misguided, it is
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: a symptom of of civilizational exhaustion, the final gesture of
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: a culture that has forgotten how to build, protect, or
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: restrain itself. And in many pre-Christian civilizations, goddesses like Ishtar, Kali,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Artemis were associated with wild nature, destruction, sex, death. And
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: these figures represented the untamed, overwhelming power of the natural world.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Fertility and life, yes, but also storm, blood, madness. The
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: worship of these goddesses often came with the ritualistic excess,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: moral ambiguity, and even human sacrifice. And you see these
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: kind of things today as we start to worship the
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: pagan feminine in a lot of ways. I would say
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: for human sacrifice, look to abortion. Paglia argues that when
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: societies feel spiritually and morally exhausted, they often revert to
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: this kind of primal iconography. That's why a crumbling modern
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: city like San Francisco would erect a towering nude woman
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: and call it empowerment. It's not so different from the
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: temples and fertility idols of collapsing empires of the past.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: It reflects a post-civilizational impulse that when a society can
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: no longer build or protect, it begins to worship the
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: elemental forces that it once restrained. And by the way,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: another deeply related theme that Camille Paglia also often discusses,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: is the collapse of cultural memory. This is connected. How
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: modern societies, especially in the West, are severing themselves from
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: their classical, religious, and artistic roots. She sees this as
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: both a symptom and a cause of civilizational decline. So yesterday,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Katy Perry and five other celebrities launched into space on
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: a short flight aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and capsule.
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: And the all-female flight crew, which also included Gayle King,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: CBS Morning's co-host, and then Lauren Sanchez, a former journalist,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: but also Jeff Bezos' fiancee, launched into space. This was
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: applauded as this achievement for femininity, for womanhood, and the
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: divine feminine, as Katy Perry puts it. Here she is
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: before launching into space.
• 42:24
  Speaker 9: It is the highest high. And it is surrender to
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  Speaker 9: the unknown, trust. And this whole journey is not just
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  Speaker 9: about going to space. It's the training. It's the team.
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  Speaker 9: It's the whole thing. I couldn't recommend this experience more.
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  Speaker 9: This is like up there with all the different.
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  Speaker 9: Tools that I've learned in my life from meditation to
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  Speaker 9: the Hoffman process. This is up there because what you're
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  Speaker 9: doing is you're fine. You're like really finding the love
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  Speaker 9: for yourself because you got to trust in yourself on
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  Speaker 9: this journey. And then you're feeling the love when you
• 43:04
  Speaker 9: come down for sure. And you're feeling that strength. So
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  Speaker 9: I feel really connected to that strong, divine feminine right now.
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  Speaker 1: So she's not really saying a lot, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: she's like talking about herself and how just what an
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  Speaker 1: experience it is. But you're starting to get an inkling
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  Speaker 1: of other elements coming through here when she discusses divine
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  Speaker 1: feminine energy. Here was Katy Perry before launching into space.
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  Speaker 1: And you'll see what I mean a little more clearly.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 9: I'm really excited about the engineering of it all. I'm
• 43:40
  Speaker 9: excited to learn more about STEM and just the math about.
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  Speaker 4: What it takes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: To accomplish this type of thing. I was winding down
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  Speaker 9: from a rehearsal the other day and I was listening
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  Speaker 9: to Cosmos by Carl Sagan and reading a book on
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  Speaker 9: string theory.
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  Speaker 8: And yeah, I was like going to bed.
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  Speaker 9: That was definitely like helping. I was like Pythagoras, Pythagoras. But,
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  Speaker 9: you know, I've always been interested in astrophysics and interested
• 44:14
  Speaker 9: in astronomy and astrology and the stars. I feel like
• 44:20
  Speaker 9: we are all made of stardust and we all come
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  Speaker 9: from the stars and it'll be exciting to see them
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  Speaker 9: twinkle from that site and also have such a an
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  Speaker 9: appreciation for Mother Earth when we see it in that way.
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  Speaker 1: And Michael said she's definitely never read a book about
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  Speaker 1: string theory. And she definitely hasn't. This is a ridiculous interview.
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  Speaker 1: This is a ridiculous project. What is she talking about? Stardust,
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  Speaker 1: Mother Earth, divine feminine energy. She's talking about astrology at
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: one point. Vague references to math stuff. This was not exploration.
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  Speaker 1: This was a performance. Paglia has long warned that when
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  Speaker 1: a civilization loses its cultural memory, its connection to classical art, religion,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: and reason, it can no longer produce greatness, and instead
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: it drifts into narcissism, performative identity, and spectacle. That's exactly
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: what that was. We stop creating and we start curating
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: myths about ourselves. The 45-foot-tall nude statue in San Francisco,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the all-female space flight, the hollow rhetoric about divine feminine energy,
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: these are not signs of strength but symptoms of a
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: society that that has traded reality for symbolism. Why don't
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: you take a listen to this clip featuring Dr. Macy
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Jemisin discussing this all-female space launch.
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  Speaker 7: So explain to our audience why even a trip like
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  Speaker 7: this one, all the trips that we take in this
• 45:52
  Speaker 7: space benefit mankind.
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  Speaker 11: So it benefits humankind. And I'm going to keep correcting
• 45:58
  Speaker 11: the mankind and the man-made and the man-missions because this
• 46:02
  Speaker 11: is exactly what this mission is about, is expanding the
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  Speaker 11: perspective of who does space.
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  Speaker 1: Performance. It's all performance. You have to say humankind. You
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: can't say mankind. Or you say womankind. That's okay, but
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: you can't say mankind.
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  Speaker 2: It's absurd.
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  Speaker 1: The Western canon... represents a combination of chaos, the feminine,
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  Speaker 1: into structure, the masculine. And when we forget how to
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: honor that tension, we descend into incoherence. And you'll say, well, Avita,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: how can you say that? Clearly we are advanced. Look,
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  Speaker 1: they just went to space. They weren't doing that in
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: the classical times. They weren't doing that in the Middle Ages.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: So obviously we're an advanced civilization. And what I'll say
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: is technological advancement is not the same as moral or
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: spiritual advancement. When man becomes capable of doing almost anything
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: the urgent question becomes not, can we, but should we?
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: And even more deeply, why? We may be sending celebrities
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: to space and unlocking AI and gene editing, but what
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: animates those pursuits? For what purpose? When that foundation is missing,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: technology becomes untethered from wisdom. As Katy Perry praises Mother
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Earth and divine feminine energy, The Dan Bongino Show.
• 47:20
  Speaker 7: I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump
• 47:23
  Speaker 7: effect in this midterm. You've heard it yourself. Act like
• 47:26
  Speaker 7: I'm on the ballot. Why is he saying that? You
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: think he doesn't know what he's doing? That is the
• 47:32
  Speaker 7: X factor. Folks, elections are a math issue. That is it.
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: This is not a football game. If you vote, we
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: will win.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: It is not complicated. The Dan Bongino Show.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Follow and listen on your favorite platform. She participates in
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: a regression, not toward the sacred, but toward a sanitized,
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: commercialized paganism. And chaos and mythos are not inherently evil,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: but they must be ordered toward logos, the divine reason
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: at the heart of the universe. I think in the
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Catholic Church, the Blessed Virgin Mary is the true female archetype,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: not a symbol of primal force, but a symbol of
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: humility and obedience and cosmic harmony. If we could throw
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: up that picture, Mikey. I don't think that she demands,
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: she doesn't demand worship. She says, let it be done
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  Speaker 1: to me according to thy word. That's the difference. The
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: stars are not deities. They are the handiwork of the creator.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Technology too is not to be adored, but to be
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: mastered and subordinated to truth and the good. So yes,
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: our rockets are reaching the heavens. but our souls are
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: drifting farther from them. And we reconcile this not by
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: rejecting science or progress, but by rooting it once again
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: in metaphysical order. Because without truth and beauty and virtue,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: our achievements become empty pageantry, idols in orbit, monuments to ourselves.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: You see all the narcissism in what Katy Perry was saying,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: the narcissism in correcting someone for saying mankind. But if
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: we return to the source, to logos and tradition, then
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: space and art and gender and sex can all once
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: again become instruments of glory rather than evidence of decline.
• 49:27
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  Speaker 1: So with that, I will see you all tomorrow.