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Episode One Hundred Sixty Three: Single Issue Voter · The Death Of Journalism

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Welcome to episode number one hundred and sixty three of the Death of Journalism Podcasts.
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My name is John Sigler. I'm your host on today's show. Hunter
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Biden is convicted and the reaction of both presidential candidates is telling. Will immigration
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be the deciding factor in the presidential election? Caitlin Clark Talk continues to dominate
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the sports world, and on the eve of the US Open Golf tournament,
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what the hell is going on with Rory McElroy's personal life. We begin this
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episode of the Death of the Journalism podcast with the conviction of Hunter Biden,
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the son of President Joe Biden, on three gun and perjury felony counts.
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I will first say that I have to give some credit to the jury here.
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This was a jury that was majority black, then therefore seemingly rather liberal.
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This was a situation where the President of States went out of his way
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to try to influence that jury, maybe even to the point of jury taan
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bring with regard to the public narrative about what was going on, and it
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did not work. This jury was not fooled. The evidence was clear cut,
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which is why there had been a plea bargain in this case. Previously
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that was blown up because it was too much of a sweetheart deal, and
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it's that deal, the origins of how this trial even happened that is being
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almost completely forgotten by the mainstream news media, which is doing their best to
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try to spin all of this in Joe Biden's direction, claiming that this is
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an indication that he has a respect for the legal system and the process,
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and that in a weird way, isn't this a great thing that we live
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in a country where no one is above the law, and that even the
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son of the president will be convicted by a jury of his peers. And
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there's been some even comparisons between how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden have handled this
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in comparison to how Donald Trump handled his trial and his convict And of course
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they're very different situations because Hunter Biden is not actually running for president, and
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this is a situation where the DOJ tried to give Hunter Biden a sweetheart deal,
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but it fell apart because they essentially got caught with their hand in the
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cookie jar. They overplayed their hand, and that's why this trial happened.
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If they had not done that, if they had not tried to give Hunter
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Biden a sweetheart deal. He might be in a much better situation right now
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because maybe there would have been a plea bargain without these three felony convictions,
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where theoretically Hunter Biden could spend a lot of time in prison. Now I'm
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skeptical as to how much time he'll really be sentenced to, but there's no
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question that at least subconsciously, this may have an impact on the presidential election.
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Some of it might actually be in Donald Trump's favor, because, for
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one thing, it kind of takes away a little bit the ability for Joe
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Biden, for instance, at the debates, to be dropping the convicted felon
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line constantly against Donald Trump, because obviously, now Joe Biden's own son is
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a convicted felon. And so, you know, I don't know how much
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impact this is really going to have. A lot of it's based upon how
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it might influence the narrative of the campaign in a weird way, if you're
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Hunter Biden, I think, and I haven't seen a lot of speculation in
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this regard. Maybe it's out there and I just missed it, But to
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me, it's almost obvious if you're a Hunter Biden you're almost rooting now for
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your dad to lose, because if he loses the election, there's a hell
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of a lot better chance that he's going to pardon you. Joe Biden has
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said he's not gonna pardon Hunter. He's been very clear on that. If
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he were to do so, now, I really think that would be a
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death blow in an election that's this close. I don't know how you overcome
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that, and I doubt very seriously that Biden's advisors would even let him contemplate
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this. But if he loses, Biden loses, he's got plenty of time
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after the election with nothing to lose, literally nothing to lose, because he's
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not only done with his presidency, but you know, he's got another chapter
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left in his career at eighty one years old. So of course he's going
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to pardon Hunter Biden. So if your Hunter, you may actually be in
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the very strange position where you're kind of rooting, maybe clearly rooting for your
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dad to lose this presidential election. Now, the reaction to all this was,
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in my mind, very telling and at times hilarious. The first part
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of the reaction I want to get to was that Joe Biden, I apparently
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coincidentally and with rather poor timing, decided that he was going to go forward
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with an event to demagogue guns and to seek further gun control on the day
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where his own son was convicted for possessing a firearm that he wasn't allowed to
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and lying about it. I don't know how many Americans, especially swing voters,
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are going to make that connection, because the media didn't really make a
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big deal out of it, but it's pretty obvious and frankly, in my
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view, hilarious. And it was what Joe Biden said though, that was
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beyond absurd and put this into the realm of outrageous where Joe Biden, who
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was supposedly a moderate right back in the day, back when he was the
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Senator from Delaware, was nowhere near this crazy on issues like abortion, like
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gun control, like race. I mean, he's completely changed. He's a
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totally different person now in his old age, now that he's president. And
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he went on this diatribe about how horrible guns are, we need more sensible
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gun control, and he starts to lie flat that lie, in classic Biden
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fashion, about his background with regard to being a college professor, which is
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a total bullshare and the constitutional expert, you know, teaching the Second Amendment,
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like he has some special expertise in the Second Amendment. It's just a
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complete fantasy. But then after that he makes the argument that the Second Amendment
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is antiquated because of technology, and because of technology, it's irrelevant to try
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to keep the populace safe from the government by maintaining their right to bear arms
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because the arms that we bear today a rifle so to speak, which is
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what was the weapon of choice when the Second Amendment was written by our founding
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fathers, would be useless against the technology that the government currently possesses with regard
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to warfare. And so I want to play this clip from Joe Biden.
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First, he tells a bunch of lies. By the way, also lies
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about whether or not you can own a cannon during the Civil War. And
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I don't even know where the hell he would have gotten that idea from.
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But the crowd laughs like you know, and collapse like seals to this bs.
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But the most important part of this is at the very end. Unfortunately
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this version of the clip is slightly cut off at the end, but you'll
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get the essence of it. So here was Joe Biden lying about his background,
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lying about what the history of gun control is in this country, and
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then essentially threatening American citizens by saying, your stinking Second Amendment isn't going to
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save you against the government because we've got better weaponry, so damn important.
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We need you. We need you to overcome the relenting opposition of the gun
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lobby, gun manufacturer's, so many politicians when they opposed common sense gun legislation.
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I used to be a law when I was no longer the Vice president.
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I became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Before that, I
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taught a constitutional law class, and so I talked to the Second Amendment.
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There's never been a time that says you can own anything you want, and
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never you couldn't own a cannon during the Civil War. Don't sure to think
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about it. How about you hear this phrase the blood of liberty, clash
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of give me a break? Oh, I mean seriously, And by the
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way, if they want to think is to take on government if we get
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out of line, which they're talking on again about, well guess what they
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need F fifteen they don't need now. At the end of that clip,
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he basically says, you know the old Joe Biden, give me a break.
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This is all crazy. You know, there's there's no way that you
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guys could stand up against the government. I mean, that's a threat.
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That is a threat. Now he may not have fully understood what he was
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saying, but if you follow the logic, that's the president of the United
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States threatening the American public by saying, hey, look, you know your
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rifles are no match for us because we've got better weaponry. Therefore, therefore
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we should be allowed to take away your rifles. Because you know, it's
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irrelevant anyway. The whole point was a well regulated militia is important for you
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know, keeping the government in line. That's the essence, and I understand.
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I do think that was a large part of what was motivating the founders
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when they wrote the Second Amendment. But boy, my gosh, liberals hate
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the wording of that whole the Second Amendment. They really hate it. And
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you know, but it is what it is, and I think it's been
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properly interpreted, mostly by the courts. I believe in the Second Amendment.
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Even though I'm not a gun guy. We own a firearm, but I
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don't even know where the hell it is, so I'm not a gun guy,
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but I believe in the Second Amendment. But I'm most concerned with the
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idea that we've gotten to the point where a US president is frivolously talking about
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how irrelevant the Second Amendment is, because, after all, the US government
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has so much firepower, your stinking rifles aren't going to be of any use
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against us. In a weird way, he's kind of making an argument that
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we should allow even more weaponry among the citizenship, which is obviously never going
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to happen to this day and age, and probably wouldn't be a good idea.
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But if you use Biden's own logic in a rational fashion, you can
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certainly come to that conclusion. And so you know, I have great disdain
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for what Joe Biden did there. I mean, that's about as bad as
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it gets a US president essentially threatening our own populace and doing so oblivious,
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seemingly to the significance of this. Now, as far as Donald Trump's reaction
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to the Hunter Biden verdict and to the issue of the Second Amendment, I
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found his reaction on truth social and via his email list to be rather interesting.
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This was a written statement by Donald Trump in reaction to the Hunter Biden
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verdict, and this is classic Trump. But I think this is probably,
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in some ways the best version of Trump. I don't agree with everything he
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says here, but this is pretty decent giving the circumstances he wrote. Many
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people have asked me to comment on the conviction of Hunter Biden. Sleepy Joe's
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son was found guilty of lying on an application for a gun. Hunter Biden
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is it's a terrible person who has funneled millions of dollars from other countries to
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his father. We don't know that for sure, but that's what Trump is
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saying. Even so, it is hard to blame him for wanting a gun
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which he has a god given right to under the Second Amendment, probably the
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greatest amendment of them all, if we're being totally honest. I don't agree
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with that. I think the First Amendment is far more significant and much more
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clearly and better written than the Second Amendment. But okay, back to Trump's
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statement, his father, one of our worst presidents, is more concerned with
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making the gun control people happy, so we won't have the courage to step
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in here and help Hunter. Don't worry, Joe, I will save your
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son after I get elected for the third time exclamation point. And you know
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that that's kind of an interesting shot at Joe taunting him into, you know,
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my guess, pardoning his own son. I mean that politically, again,
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I don't know how many people are actually gonna get be exposed to what
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Trump said, but strategically there's something to be said for this. He's essentially
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taunting Joe Biden to pardon his own son by saying I'll pardon him. Now.
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That's a pretty good move there. I got to handle the Trump on
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that one. So, you know, basically talk about rooting for his dad
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to lose if you believe Trump, and I kind of believe Trump here.
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I think he would take great pleasure in pardoning Hunter Biden after beating his father.
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So if you're Hunter Biden, now are you really rooting for Donald Trump
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to win? Because that's the guy who could safely give you a pardon and
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either prevent you from going to prison or and whatever prison time you get sentenced
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to. I think there's some logic to that. So I didn't have a
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huge problem with Trump's response to that. Interestingly, all this is happening in
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the context of a story I talked about quite extensively in episode one hundred and
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sixty two of the Death of Journalism podcasts, which has completely disappeared, which
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is the whole notion that Trump was going to get a mistrial on his convictions
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because of what a cousin of a juror allegedly wrote on Facebook, a story
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which I told you, point blank and uncategorically with one hundred percent certitude,
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was bullshit. Well, gee, that story has just completely disappeared, just
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as if it never happened. Trump has never specifically referenced it that I'm aware
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of, and it's disappeared from the public discourse. The right wing media has
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dropped it. All those commentators that were saying last Friday evening that we were
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headed for a mistrial have just pretended that that thing never happened because they got
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duped. Either that or they were just using it for clicks. I'm never
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one hundred percent sure, but either or they were totally wrong, And I
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told you they were totally wrong, and it was as obvious as it could
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possibly be. So score one for Zig on that. My guess is we're
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never going to hear anything about that significantly ever again. Now when it comes
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to Trump. You know that I loathed the man. I've never voted for
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the man. I have considered maybe voting for him this year. I don't
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think I will because I hate his enemies maybe more than I hate him,
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and because there's literally no one else to vote for. I can't vote for
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the libertarian candidate this time around, which I have done in twenty sixteen and
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twenty twenty, because it's just such a nut job on the liberal side.
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So, you know, my opinions on Trump are well known. But if
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Trump has a strength, it's taking on issues that no one else has the
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balls to do so. And a few days ago we saw this yet again,
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and it reminded me about why it is that, you know what,
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for all his faults, maybe Trump does bring something to the table because at
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a rally just a few days ago, Donald Trump decided to wade into an
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issue that no one else has had the guts to fully address. And that
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is what happens when a boat powered by electric battery is sinking in shark infested
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waters. Because this has been gnawing at me for quite a while. When
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is somebody gonna, finally, at the presidential level, have the balls to
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take this issue head on, and there's only one man who has both the
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ball and the brains to do it, and it's Donald frickin' Trump. And
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at that's rally, he exposed the danger of this issue and how he and
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he alone has the intelligence to ask the right questions so that we as a
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society can deal with the greatest dangers facing us in twenty twenty four. And
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here's what that sounded like. So I said, let me ask you a
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question, and he said, nobody ever asked this question, and it must
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because of Mit. My relationship to Mit. Very smart, he goes,
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I say, what would happen if the boat sank from its way and you're
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in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the batteries now underwater,
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and there's a shark that's approximately ten yards over there by the way.
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A lot of shark attacks lately. Do you notice that a lot of shop
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I watched some guys justifying it today. Well, they weren't really that they
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bit off the young lady's leg because of the fact that they were they were
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not hungry, but they misunderstood who she was. These people are great,
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he said, there's no problem with sharks. They just didn't really understand a
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young woman swimming now who really got decimated in other people to a lot of
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shark eText So I said, so there's a shark ten yards away from the
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boat ten yards or here? Do I get electrocuted? If the boat is
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sinking, water goes over the battery the boat is sinking, Do I stay
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on top of the boat and get electrocuted? Or do I jump over by
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the shark and not get electrocuted? Because I will tell you he didn't know.
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The entry said, you know, nobody's ever asked me that question.
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I said, I think it's a good question. I think there's a lot
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of electric current coming through that water. But you know what i'd do if
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there was a shark or you get electrocuted. I'll take electrocution every single time
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I'm not getting near the shark. Folks, I hope you enjoyed that as
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much as I did, because that's some weird ass shit right there. Thats
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bonkers as it gets, even by Trump standards, because you've got to remember,
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we are unbelievably desensitized after the last nine years of the trumplification of American
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politics. But that is some batshit crazy stuff to be talking about at a
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public political rally. I mean, there's so many elements of it that are
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just crazy. But I don't know that I could possibly do better justice to
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just how bonkers that whole situation is than a Twitter user did by the name
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of Ed Greenberger. I don't know who Ed Greenberger is, but Ed Greenberger
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tweeted out the video that I just played for you, where Trump is talking
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about the dangers of an electric powered boat sinking in shark infested waters, and
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what Ed Greenberg wrote might be the tweet of the year. I don't know,
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maybe you have a different opinion, but it's hard for me to come
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up with a good rival as of this date in twenty twenty four for tweet
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of the year. But here's what Ed Greenberger wrote. I am a single
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issue voter. What to do if you're in an electric powered boat that's sinking
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in shark infested waters? No Kennedy has ever shown this kind of mastery on
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the issue. Trump just won my vote. Oh my god, folks,
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I'm sorry, it's all just so fucking crazy. You gotta laugh, You
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gotta laugh. I mean, this is what I meant, what I said
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on Newstation that I've said on these podcasts previously that we have as our choices
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for president a president with a rotting brain, a former president with a broken
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brain, and a third party candidate who admits that his brain has been eaten
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by worms. This is where we are. This is what I mean by
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the broken Trump brain. He's I don't think he's anywhere near as far gone
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as far as age is concerned as Biden, but his brain is still broken
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and he says a lot of crazy stuff. And if they you know,
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if the right wing media had had any interest in creating the narrative that Trump
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was losing it during the primary election or what there was a primary election,
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they easily could have done so, but they had no interest in doing that
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for their own self interest, which I've documented many times in the past.
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So that's where we are in the twenty twenty four presidential election. Trump has
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really gott himself focused on the issues that really matter to people. Electric powered
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boats sinking in shark infested waters. By the way, this does kind of
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substant sheet what Stormy Daniels said about her time with Donald Trump. I don't
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know if Trump fully understands that or not, but one of the stories she
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tells is that Trump was obsessed with the shark shows on television. So the
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idea that he didn't really have an affair Stormy Daniels just took another hit as
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well. But I don't even know. I don't even know how to fully
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comprehend where we are and where Trump's brain is. And I mean, of
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all the things that he could be talking about, how that's somehow made it
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to the top of the list, I honestly have no idea. Now,
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obviously, one of the best issues for Donald Trump is not electric powered cars
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and shark infested electrotrek powered boats in shark infested waters. It's actually the issue
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of immigration, and he may have gotten a little bit of a break,
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even though this is not necessarily a good sign. It might be a good
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development, but it's not a good sign. In a news story that happened
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earlier this week where eight isis linked, illegal immigrants have been arrested after crossing
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the southern border, and the mainstream news media has even reported this, even
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somewhat honestly, they have reported this, And I don't know again how much
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impact it's going to have. How many people are going to be aware of
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it. But this is something that the border hawks have been understandably screaming about
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for quite some time. How in the world can you have seven point two
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million or whatever the hell it is. I don't think they really know people
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cross your southern border with basically no vetting and have any confidence at all that
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the people that are coming into your country illegally are not doing so in order
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to create real damage through terrorist attacks or through whatever other means. Well,
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here we have real evidence eight isis linked illegal immigrants arrested after crossing the southern
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border. And by the way, when they initially crossed the southern border,
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they were easily able to get through whatever vetting there was. So this is
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a clear cut example of the real danger. It's not just an economic and
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a cultural issue. It's a national security issue. Of course, if you're
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really on team Trump, you know the Biden team can argue, well,
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we got them and so therefore there was no actual damage done. But if
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you're using your brain, if these eight were able to get through so easily
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and we essentially got lucky and eventually got them, how many others are They're
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out there already? So I agree that this is a very very serious national
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security issue. It's also a culture issue, it's also an economic issue,
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and as far as the power of the issue of illegal immigration as a political
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force. A few days ago we saw over in Europe dramatic results in their
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elections there, and this was shocking to a lot of people. Twitter.
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Right wing Twitter was a blaze with all sorts of celebrations that Europe has now
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stemmed the tide of insanity, that the wokeness over there was going to end,
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because there had been essentially to use American terms, a red wave election,
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and that in numerous countries, for instance France, there was a shocking
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wave of anti left sentiment that resulted in what I've referred to as this red
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wave election there, and of course a lot of people are thinking, well,
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this something has changed in the world, right, that this is the
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issue that's going to trigger a similar result in the United States of America.
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And I've always been very hesitant to take trends from elsewhere in the world,
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whether it's Europe or South America, like in Argentina or anywhere else, that
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somehow that's going to be duplicated here in America. Especially pre COVID, I
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used to think we were different, but we're not very different. We did
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exactly what the hell Europe was doing, essentially, and caved almost immediately.
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I've talked about that many many times before. Even though our brand was supposed
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to be different, We're supposed to be the place of freedom and liberty,
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but that all went by the wayside. But I still think that there are
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differences culturally, socially politically in America that don't necessarily make it a done deal
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that we're going to see the same phenomenon in America, where we have obviously
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a huge illegal immigration problem as what's happening in Europe. Europe is different.
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First of all, the countries are much smaller, the geography is much smaller.
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Each of those countries has or has had its own culture, many have
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their own language, and so therefore the identity of the country I think is
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much more easily understood to be at risk in a shorter period of time throughout
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the country in places like France, then in the United States as a whole.
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And what I mean by that taking that out of the theoretical and putting
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it into the real world, into the practical. What I mean by that
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is Okay, I can see where illegal immigration is a massive issue in Arizona,
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maybe in Nevada, maybe in parts of the South, obviously in Texas.
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California is far too gone for it to matter here. And California is
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actually the ultimate example of what happens when you let it get out of control,
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because there's no coming back, there's no boomerang. The pendulum has swung
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so far it can't return, Which is why I keep saying that Trump's biggest
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mistake in twenty twenty it might be his biggest mistake in twenty twenty four is
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not running against California, because if you're not careful, the rest of the
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country is going to become California. And illegal immigration is part of that equation.
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It's not nearly all of it, but it's certainly part of it.
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And so in those places, I have no problem with people being able to
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see, holy shit, our entire identity as a culture and as a country
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is at risk here because of this illegal immigration problem. But America is a
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huge country, and is it going to matter that much in Wisconsin, in
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Michigan, in Pennsylvania. I have my dad. I understand that there are
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many people who look at this and go oh wow, this is a really
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bad problem. We need to stop it. But it's not hitting as close
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to home for them in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, mostly for simple
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geographic reasons. And so I'm not sure that the immigration issue is enough to
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put Trump over the finish line because he needs to win one of Wisconsin,
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Michigan, or Pennsylvania. That's the reality of this, and I am skeptical
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that that's going to happen, certainly not solely on the power of the issue
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of illegal immigration. This despite the fact that nationally the issue is playing very,
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very well for Donald Trump's side of this equation. There was a CBS
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poll that created quite a bit of stir and even some consternation at CBS then
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indicated just how powerful nationally this issue really is. Here's a tweet from CBS,
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and it's interesting. They even tried to downplay their own results. In
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their own tweet, they wrote a nearly six and ten majority of voters.
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That's not accurate. It's actually more than six and ten because the number they're
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referring to is sixty two percent. But they wrote a nearly six and ten
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majority of voters say they would favor in principle, a new government program to
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deport all undocumented immigrants living in the US illegally. According to a new CBS
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News poll that isn't purely partisan, it includes a third of Democrats. It
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rises to nine in ten Republicans. A similarly sized majority would have local law
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enforcement try to identify those living in the US illegally, and just under half
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support the idea of setting up large government detention centers to sort out which people
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ought to be deported. Now, these are pretty dramatic numbers. I will
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fully acknowledge that this is good news. Now it should, in my view,
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be higher than just sixty two percent. But even the way they worded
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that question, I think god a lot of people stunned that sixty two percent
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were in favor of that, because even just the word new, like so
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we're going to do something different, something new, something dramatic, and we're
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going to deport all illegal immigrants. Sixty two percent or in favor of that.
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Again, what I'd like to know is what are those numbers in Wisconsin,
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Michigan, and Pennsylvania. I doubt that they're at sixty two percent.
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Sixty two percent gets you know, over the finish line. If you're Trump,
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if it's fifty percent or somewhere around there, that doesn't get you across
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the finish line, because not every single person that believes that is going to
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vote for you simply because of it. But it's obviously an issue where Trump
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benefits, even though I would argue that Trump doesn't really deserve that much credit
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on this issue because he was I hate to break this to you, but
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he was already president once and he didn't build his fucking wall, and he
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didn't deport nearly everybody that he said he was going to deport. There was
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no great deportation force because he wimped out. He went out on both fronts.
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And this was his number one issue in twenty sixteen. So let's not
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forget he was president. He had a shot at this, and you know,
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here we are now seven years later, and we'ren't way worse shape.
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Now. Obviously Biden's hugely responsible for that. But why is Biden president?
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Because Trump fucked up and gave him the presidency. I mean so in my
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view, you know, the presidency is supposed to be eight years, So
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you know, we're seven plus years after Trump's election, and our illegal immigration
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problem is way worse than when Trump got elected. Trump interrational world shouldn't have
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to take some responsibility for that. But for whatever reason, he's teflon on
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this issue. And I fully acknowledge that this is about his most potent political
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weapon in this election, because the contrast is so obvious, and because people
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see the pictures of people coming across the border of the stats are overwhelming,
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you know, the arrest of eight isis linked illegal immigrants. He helps this
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narrative. But even at CBS they were a bit taken aback by all this.
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And here's a clip of CBS's polling director talking with news anchor or host
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Margaret Brennan. Margaret Brennan got a lot of flak online because she's kind of
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stunned and confused by the results of this poll. And I understand why people
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were focusing on her reaction to this. I do think it was a bit
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telling about her real beliefs on this, and she tries in this clip,
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you're about to hear brings up some I think kind of bogus points about,
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you know, children and whether it's illegal to do what people want to have
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happen. But mostly people were interested in the fact that she's just stunned and
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confused by the results of CBS's own poll. And here's what that sounded like.
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You know, we have a lot of the campaign rhetoric speaking of what
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people say they would do. You'd seen the Trump campaign talking about mass deportations.
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We tested that in a general way, in principle, would you support
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a new government program that would deport all people living in the US illegally?
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And that finds majority favor, That finds six and ten. It's strongest among
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folks who are maga, It's strongest among Trump supporters, but also from some
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Democrats as well. And I think that that speaks to the general idea not
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just the people see the border as a crisis, but also where we are
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in the campaign, where a lot of very dramatic or new proposals out there
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are finding favor. Here, So unpack that a bit, because this sixty
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two percent of Americans favored deporting all undocumented immigrants. So Homeland Security says that
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President Biden has already deported or repatriated more people in the past year than any
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year since twenty ten. And then depending on the details of what's talked about
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on the campaign trail, some of what mister Trump talks about could be illegal.
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It doesn't seem practical in some sense to round up children. And then
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we know that the courts have questioned whether local authorities would have the ability to
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do it, and federal authorities don't have the resources. So what exactly do
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people think they're supporting. Well, when you measure public sentiment on this,
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or really just about any policy, you're getting a sense of direction. You're
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getting broad brushstrokes. But those kinds of details, well, that's often up
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to the legislatures and the courts. Later on, we tested even the idea
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of should local law enforcement be involved in this, and a lot of folks
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do say yes. Again, the details of that, the specifics, you're
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not going to pick that up and aggregate public opinion. They weren't tracking the
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Supreme Court decisions, undoubtedly not. But look, it does tell you,
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though, for the viewer watching this campaign, that what we're seeing here connects
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to whether it's the court what some people say is the politicization of the court,
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these ideas of mass deportations, et cetera. We are in a different
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era in which a lot of folks say the system as a whole is not
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working, and all of these, if you connect the dots through them,
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are part of that reaction against it, which explains some of that general sentiment
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for some of these policies. It's really just kind of a do something.
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Now. I agree with those who say that that was telling on behalf of
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Margaret Brennan, where she is essentially indicating that she would be very much against
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with the public view on illegal immigration is. But she does have a little
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bit of a point. And part of why I think she has a little
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bit of a point is because what I've already said about Trump having had his
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chance and proving that none of this is really feasible. And I think that's
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what she's searching for. She's trying to understand, well, they can't really
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be serious, right because this is just not going to happen, and Trump
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proved that this isn't gonna happen. Unfortunately, I would be in support of
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much of what Trump claimed he was gonna do. It's one of the reasons
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I don't like Trump is even on the good stuff, he never did what
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he was supposed to do, what he said he was gonna do. I
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mean, every freaking rally he held it was build the wall, build the
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wall. And he didn't build the wall, even though he was offered the
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opportunity to do so when he had the House and the Senate in Republican control.
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There are no excuses for this, except you know, Maga world just
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pretends that that never happened, and so she's kind of right. I mean,
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the reality is here's here's the reality of this. And the view of
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the Margaret Brennan's of the world is part of why this can never happen,
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because if it ever did, what would happen in the media. The media
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would bombard us with pictures of children. See that's the problem. And and
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those that are in favor of illegal immigration getting out of control, they know
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this, They know this is the ultimate weapon. Americans would be fine with,
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you know, twenty five year old guys with tattoos who don't speak English,
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who are here illegally and look kind of rough them getting deported. But
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you can't do it that way. It's not logistically or politically plausible, especially
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once you bring kids into the equation, because what do you do. You
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can't separate the kids, right, I mean, politically you can't do that.
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And the only other option is to deport the kids as well. And
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the media knows that this is the great vulnerability, because that sixty two percent
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number would plummet immediately, especially among the Democrats, with pictures of crying children
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and mothers being kicked out of the country. It's just not going to happen.
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The problem has gotten too large, The cancer has taken over the host.
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There's just no way to exercise the cancer, especially when you have a
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media that will one hundred percent be on the side of those who want them
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to stay and don't want them to be kicked out of the country. So,
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yes, sixty two percent is a healthy number of Americans who are in
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favor in theory of deporting illegal immigrants. But Margaret Brennan is actually pretty close
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to the reality of this, much more so than conservatives want to admit.
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And Trump proved that in the first term, where he didn't do what he
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said he was going to do, largely because I don't think he wanted the
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political headache that would be caused, especially with regard to deportations. Why he
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didn't ever fully build the wall, I don't understand. I don't get it.
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I mean that it was his whole stick and how he was never held
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accountable. Thank god. In a rational world, that alone would have prevented
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him from winning the twenty twenty four Republican presidential nomination. Your entire campaign in
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twenty sixteen was based on build the wall, and you had the opportunity to
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do so, a historic opportunity, and you didn't do so. And now
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we're being overrun because you didn't build your fucking wall, and because you gave
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up the presidency to a guy who's open borders. And yet somehow Trump not
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only won the Republican nomination, he won it easily so well. I think
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the Brennan reaction is interesting. I think she actually, kind of inadvertently at
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