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Tulsi was Right: Christians Murdered in Syria (Ep.156) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report Early Edition. You
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's get into some of these stories today.
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  Speaker 1: So we have a brutal massacre targeting Christians in Syria.
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  Speaker 1: Tulsi Gabbard predicted this. Tucker Carlson faces accusations of being
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  Speaker 1: a foreign asset of Qatar. An MSNBC guest claims that
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  Speaker 1: Ukrainians are more American than actual Americans. A major fashion
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  Speaker 1: This is a blonde-eyed white woman, I will add. And
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  Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders invites a foul-mouthed transgender singer to perform at
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  Speaker 1: to report early edition.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Over the last few days, Christians and other religious minorities,
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  Speaker 1: including Druze and Alawite Muslims, have been massacred in Syria
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  Speaker 1: by soldiers of the country's new Islamist government. Three months ago,
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  Speaker 1: the United States indirectly... supported various rebel groups, some of
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  Speaker 1: which were terrorist organizations, in an effort to topple former
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  Speaker 1: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Before 2017, the U.S. was actually
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  Speaker 1: directly involved in aiding Syrian rebel groups. And while Assad
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  Speaker 1: was far from an ideal leader, he did maintain a
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  Speaker 1: degree of tolerance toward religious minorities, including Christians. The U.S.,
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  Speaker 1: each played roles that contributed directly or indirectly to Assad's fall.
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  Speaker 1: And today, Syria is under the leadership of a former
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  Speaker 1: al-Qaeda terrorist, Ahmed al-Sharah. According to GB News, since last Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: more than a thousand people have been killed in the
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  Speaker 1: worst wave of violence since Assad's downfall back in December.
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  Speaker 1: The violence erupted when gunmen loyal to the ousted Assad
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  Speaker 1: ambushed a Syrian security patrol, and then in response, forces
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  Speaker 1: linked to Syria's new Islamist rulers launched a brutal crackdown.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the grim reality of regime change, you guys.
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  Speaker 1: This is the instability our government ultimately helped to create.
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  Speaker 1: And for what? Tulsi Gabbard warned of this outcome years ago.
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  Speaker 1: She traveled to Syria in 2017 to actually meet with
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  Speaker 1: Assad and the rebel groups and also the minorities who
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  Speaker 1: were ultimately protected by Assad from these rebels who were
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  Speaker 1: much more extremist Islamic jihadists. And she was smeared as
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  Speaker 1: a Russian agent. She's still been smeared as a Russian agent.
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  Speaker 1: An Assad sycophant, an Assad toady, as Barry Weiss put it.
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  Speaker 1: But now with Syria in the hands of a former
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  Speaker 1: al-Qaeda leader, and Christians being massacred, it turns out that
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  Speaker 1: Tulsi Gabbard, she was right all along. Here was Tulsi
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  Speaker 1: during her confirmation hearing on the U.S. 's opposition to
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  Speaker 1: Assad leading to the rule of terrorist Ahmed al-Sharah.
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  Speaker 4: I shed no tears for the fall of the Assad regime,
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  Speaker 4: but today we have an Islamist extremist who is now
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  Speaker 4: in charge of Syria, as I said, who danced on
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  Speaker 4: the streets to celebrate the 9-11 attack, who ruled over
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  Speaker 4: Idlib with an Islamist extremist governance. and who has already
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  Speaker 4: begun to persecute and kill and arrest religious minorities like
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  Speaker 4: Christians in Syria.
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  Speaker 3: I understand.
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  Speaker 4: Why that should be acceptable to anyone is beyond me.
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  Speaker 5: It shouldn't be.
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  Speaker 6: And I understand.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: And she was being smeared as an asset of Assad,
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  Speaker 1: even during this confirmation hearing, during this process. People were saying,
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  Speaker 1: we can't trust her. She's not loyal to America. I
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  Speaker 1: guess you'll have to say Donald Trump isn't loyal to
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  Speaker 1: America either. Here was Donald Trump in 2015 saying, making
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  Speaker 1: really similar arguments to Tulsi Gabbard. He got this right.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump got this right. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 7: So I've watched Assad, and I've watched a little bit
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  Speaker 7: on the other side. The problem is the other side
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  Speaker 7: of Assad, we have no idea who they are. They
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  Speaker 7: probably are racist. I'm saying, are we better off with Assad?
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  Speaker 7: We have no idea who these people are. We give
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  Speaker 7: them weapons, we give them ammunition, we give them everything. Erin,
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  Speaker 7: we have no idea who, I mean, maybe it's worse
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  Speaker 7: than Assad. So what are we doing? Why are we involved?
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  Speaker 7: We have to get rid of ISIS, very importantly. But
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  Speaker 7: I look at Assad, and Assad, to me, looks better
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  Speaker 7: than the other side. And, you know, this has happened before.
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  Speaker 7: We back a certain side, and that side turns out
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  Speaker 7: to be a total catastrophe. Russia likes Assad seemingly a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Let them worry about ISIS.
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  Speaker 7: Let them fight it out.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump gets it. How many American lives were lost
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  Speaker 1: after 9-11 fighting al-Qaeda? to defend America. And yet our
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  Speaker 1: government has supported the fall of Assad only to see
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  Speaker 1: a former al-Qaeda terrorist seize power and his soldiers carry
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  Speaker 1: out mass killings of Christians. What has been the fruits
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  Speaker 1: of our endless wars and regime change in the Middle East?
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  Speaker 1: America is a Christian nation. Yet our government's interventions have
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  Speaker 1: done nothing but devastate ancient Christian communities. particularly in the
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  Speaker 1: Middle East. There were 1.5 million Iraqi Christians before 2003,
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  Speaker 1: and the U.S. government invaded the country, helped orchestrate the
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  Speaker 1: downfall of Saddam Hussein. Saddam's execution triggers a power vacuum
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  Speaker 1: that unleashes sectarian violence against these ancient Christian populations, as
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  Speaker 1: well as others, just like we're now seeing in Syria. Today,
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  Speaker 1: there's only 150 to 250,000 Christians remaining in Iraq. So
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  Speaker 1: there used to be 1.5 million This is not to
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  Speaker 1: say that Saddam Hussein was a good leader and nor
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  Speaker 1: was Assad, but there are consequences to reckless foreign meddling.
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  Speaker 1: American intelligence has a very successful track record of executing
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  Speaker 1: regime change. They're great at it. They do an amazing job.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, they're batting a thousand, right? But they have
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  Speaker 1: never successfully established a better, more stable country after toppling
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  Speaker 1: a government.
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  Speaker 7: They haven't.
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  Speaker 1: These operations have done nothing but bring devastation to the
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  Speaker 1: people of these nations that we're supposedly wanting to help,
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  Speaker 1: particularly Christians abroad. There are a lot of people on
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  Speaker 1: our own side who don't seem to understand this. But
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  Speaker 1: it's not America's role to police the world, especially when
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  Speaker 1: we face serious issues here at home. Our focus should
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  Speaker 1: be on securing our borders, ensuring the safety of our
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  Speaker 1: own citizens, and aiding the Christian countries that remain under
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  Speaker 1: attack if we're going to do anything at all. And instead,
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  Speaker 1: we've actually hurt them. Instead, we've actually fueled destruction of
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  Speaker 1: these ancient communities. Interventionist nation-building is a failed experiment, clearly.
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  Speaker 5: It sounds nice.
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  Speaker 1: We tried it out. But all it's done is spread
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  Speaker 1: chaos and death. We're going to take a quick break.
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  Speaker 1: When we come back, I'm going to talk about somebody
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  Speaker 1: else who was being accused of being an asset of
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  Speaker 1: a foreign entity, just like Tulsi Gabbard was. Probably Trump
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  Speaker 1: would be. Probably Trump is. I mean, Trump is, right?
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  Speaker 1: They call him a Russian stooge. and they're calling Tulsi
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  Speaker 1: an Assad asset. There's somebody else who's now being called
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  Speaker 1: an asset of a Middle Eastern enemy country. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about that in a second. But first, let's take a break.
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  Speaker 1: really soon, but he's got to save America. He's got
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  Speaker 1: a big job ahead of him. All right, so Tucker
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  Speaker 1: Carlson tweeted something in a very similar vein to what
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  Speaker 1: I was just talking about, right? Let's not meddle in
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  Speaker 1: foreign governments. Let's not declare a war in the Middle
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  Speaker 1: East and then have these results that aren't any better
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  Speaker 1: than the situation before. So he, and this, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I'll preface by saying that this tweet that he posted,
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  Speaker 1: it has gotten a very hysterical negative reaction from the
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  Speaker 1: political right, ironically, over the weekend. He wrote this, Fox
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  Speaker 1: News is wall-to-wall with dead-eyed politicians telling you that Iran
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  Speaker 1: is a dangerous sponsor of terror, softening up the base
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  Speaker 1: for a war. But what exactly does that phrase mean?
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  Speaker 1: And how does it apply to the United States? Here's
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  Speaker 1: one measure. Over the past 20 years, how many Americans
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  Speaker 1: have been killed by Iran on American soil? Try to
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  Speaker 1: find that number. and then compare it to the number
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  Speaker 1: of Americans killed by drug ODs, or suicide, or illegal aliens,
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  Speaker 1: or carjackings, diabetes, and the COVID vax. Still think Iran
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  Speaker 1: is the greatest threat? How about we focus on our
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  Speaker 1: own country for a minute? Some context here, you guys,
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  Speaker 1: is that tensions between the U.S. and Iran have escalated
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  Speaker 1: ever since President Trump took office and he withdrew from
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  Speaker 1: the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and imposed harsh sanctions on Tehran.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not going to say that either of those
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  Speaker 1: things are bad necessarily, but what worries me, as it
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  Speaker 1: does Tucker, Are these calls for war in addition to
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  Speaker 1: these antagonistic policies toward Iran? Is that a smart move
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  Speaker 1: for the United States? Is it a smart move to
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  Speaker 1: engage in direct open conflict with Iran? Last I checked,
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  Speaker 1: Iran isn't our neighbor.
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  Speaker 5: You know who is our neighbor?
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  Speaker 1: Mexico. A narco state with an average of over 80
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  Speaker 1: homicides a day. How about we declare war on the
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  Speaker 1: cartels before Iran? We have millions of unvetted people here.
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  Speaker 1: An entire illegal gang network operates across this entire country.
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  Speaker 1: A Tren de Aragua gang member was arrested next door
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  Speaker 1: to this studio that I'm in right now. Our people
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  Speaker 1: are on the streets dying of fentanyl. People I know,
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  Speaker 1: family of mine. Meanwhile, our city's descending into violence and disorder.
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  Speaker 1: And people will say, let's do both. Let's fight Iran
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  Speaker 1: and fix all the issues in this country. We're $ 36
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  Speaker 1: trillion in debt. Can we really afford another foreign war?
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  Speaker 1: And again, why would we sacrifice resources and American lives
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  Speaker 1: And it will be a devastating conflict against Iran, a
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  Speaker 1: country nowhere near the United States. And sometimes war is necessary.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have to be peaceniks. When the survival of
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  Speaker 1: your nation is at risk, when you stand to lose everything,
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  Speaker 1: you fight. But can anyone really say that about Iran,
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  Speaker 1: a country that, like Tucker said, has not, over the
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  Speaker 1: past 20 years, killed a U.S. citizen on American soil?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not denying that Iran sponsors terrorism. But will
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  Speaker 1: fighting the Ayatollah lead to a better outcome for Iran,
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  Speaker 1: for America, for the Middle East at large? Did we
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  Speaker 1: get a better outcome in Libya and Iraq and Afghanistan
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  Speaker 1: and Syria? What have we gotten out of foreign meddling
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  Speaker 1: and especially direct conflict in the Middle East? How has
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  Speaker 1: this benefited our country? Look at the track record here, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Don't let the war hawks do this again to us.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, I mentioned this before the break.
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  Speaker 1: People are accusing Tucker Carlson of being funded by Qatar
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  Speaker 1: because of that tweet and because he interviewed the prime
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  Speaker 1: minister of Qatar. Okay. Tucker Carlson is a foreign asset now?
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  Speaker 1: You guys have to be aware of this. Foreign assets
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  Speaker 1: do exist in the American media sphere. But there are
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  Speaker 1: also coordinated efforts to smear people who say things that
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  Speaker 1: other people don't like as foreign assets. And it's completely untrue. It's,
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  Speaker 1: like I said, a smear. There's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people critical of war with Iran who are
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  Speaker 1: going to be smeared as a Qatar asset. It could
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  Speaker 1: be me, right? I could be smeared as a Qatar
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  Speaker 1: asset next. Who knows? Just because you oppose war in
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  Speaker 1: any given country doesn't make you an asset of said
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  Speaker 1: country or an ally of said country. I want you
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  Speaker 1: to listen to UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell. He said some
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  Speaker 1: things I don't agree with, and I'll just leave it there.
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  Speaker 1: But I will say that this statement he made sums
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  Speaker 1: up exactly how I feel about foreign conflict at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to get your thoughts on the whole
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  Speaker 4: Russia and Ukraine situation.
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  Speaker 8: You know, here's my first thought is I'm not going
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  Speaker 8: nowhere to fight none of these wars for these politicians.
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  Speaker 8: I'm staying at home. And when the war comes to Arkansas,
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  Speaker 8: I will dig my boots in the ground and I
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  Speaker 8: will die for everything I love. And I will not retreat.
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  Speaker 8: If this country is invaded and Everybody's saying, well, we
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  Speaker 8: got to evacuate. We got to leave. I will not.
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  Speaker 8: I will dig my boots in the Arkansas soil and
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  Speaker 8: I will fight for the people that I love, for
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  Speaker 8: the land that I love, and the way of life
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  Speaker 8: that I love.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think he's so spot on. You fight
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  Speaker 1: when there's an existential threat to your homeland. But we're
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  Speaker 1: not fighting anymore wars for various politicians. How often have
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  Speaker 1: we done this? And what has it gotten us? And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, speaking of Ukraine, according to MSNBC guests
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  Speaker 1: and independent veterans of America, CEO Paul Rykov, Ukrainians are
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  Speaker 1: more American than we are. Yeah, Ukrainians, they're more American
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  Speaker 1: than we are. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 7: The person who's watching who just heard you say Donald
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  Speaker 7: Trump is not standing up for Ukraine. What do you
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  Speaker 7: say to the person who says, well, I don't care
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  Speaker 7: about Ukraine.
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  Speaker 5: I want Donald Trump to stand up for America.
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  Speaker 2: What do you say to them?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know where you got that.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, I don't have time for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but we hear it.
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  Speaker 10: We hear it.
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  Speaker 9: Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 6: Where did you grow up?
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  Speaker 9: Did you grow up in a place where you thought
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  Speaker 9: the Russians were the good guys? What part of America
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  Speaker 9: did you grow up in where they taught you the
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  Speaker 9: Russians were the good guys and our allies were the
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  Speaker 9: bad guys? That's that's the flip here that we need
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  Speaker 9: to continue to remind people the Russians are the bad guys.
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  Speaker 9: They're raping women. They're killing children. They're bombing cities. The
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  Speaker 9: Ukrainians are the noble good guys. Some ways they're more
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  Speaker 9: American than we are over the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 9: And we must stand with them in the same way
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  Speaker 9: we stood with the allies in World War II. And
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  Speaker 9: since this country was founded, this is not just about Ukraine.
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  Speaker 9: This is about the core and the integrity of American values.
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  Speaker 9: And that's what he's also betraying, not just Ukraine. He's
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  Speaker 9: betraying America.
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  Speaker 1: OK, there's a lot to unpack here. Ukrainians are more
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  Speaker 1: American than we are. What does that even mean? Obviously, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He has no argument against America for sentiment. This is
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  Speaker 1: how brain dead these war hawks are. His argument was
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  Speaker 1: the Russians are the bad guys. Like, what is this?
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  Speaker 1: Is this Rocky IV? Are we all stuck in a
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  Speaker 1: Rocky IV time capsule? Like, the Cold War is over.
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  Speaker 1: Geopolitics have shifted. We're living in Rocky IV right now.
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  Speaker 1: We're like, Sylvester Stallone is fighting this giant Russian guy
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  Speaker 1: and America's cheering on with, we beat the crap out
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  Speaker 1: of him.
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  Speaker 5: Like, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Cold war is over. Geopolitics have shifted. It doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: that we love Putin and that Russia is our friend
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  Speaker 1: and our ally, but why does everything have to be
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  Speaker 1: so violent with these war hawks? There are, they are
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  Speaker 1: our enemy. Therefore we must fight them. That's the argument.
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  Speaker 1: for everything, for every conflict. And it's absurd. And notice
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  Speaker 1: the World War II derangement that was in there, that
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  Speaker 1: we have to stand with the Ukrainians and send them
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  Speaker 1: billions of dollars because World War II. Not every foreign
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  Speaker 1: dictator is Hitler. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: They aren't.
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  Speaker 1: And frankly, it cheapens how bad Hitler was to compare
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  Speaker 1: everyone to him. It's a ridiculous thing to constantly be asserting.
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  Speaker 1: And the argument is incredibly braindead. She asked him a
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  Speaker 1: very fair question. Why don't we focus on this country?
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  Speaker 1: Why don't we have Why don't we put America first
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  Speaker 1: in the priorities of the American citizens instead of funding
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  Speaker 1: a foreign war? And he was like, I'm not even
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  Speaker 1: going to answer that question. And he said, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to answer it, not because he really thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a brain-dead-dumb question, but because he's brain-dead and dumb
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  Speaker 1: and he didn't have a response to it. And then
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  Speaker 1: he devolves into Rocky IV, World War II derangement. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you got to break out of these traps
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  Speaker 1: and start looking at geopolitics objectively without... putting stereotypes or
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  Speaker 1: past ills onto every conflict now and fueling constant war
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  Speaker 1: and chaos and really the destruction of the American people
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  Speaker 1: who have been fighting constantly over the last few decades
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  Speaker 1: and really to no avail, to no benefit to the
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  Speaker 1: American people. And a lot of these people, they say
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  Speaker 1: Trump is Hitler. So I'm supposed to believe Putin's Hitler,
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  Speaker 1: and Assad is Hitler, and also Trump is Hitler, and
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  Speaker 1: it's all coming from the same people, and it really
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  Speaker 1: is meaningless at this point. Like, okay, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: tell me that, you're trying to convince me that Putin
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  Speaker 1: is Hitler, and he's a really bad guy, and you're
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  Speaker 1: also telling me Trump is Hitler. I'm going to ignore you,
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  Speaker 1: because clearly you're a ridiculous person. And speaking of everything
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  Speaker 1: being compared to Hitler, Nazi Germany, have you guys ever
• 17:05
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• 17:09
  Speaker 1: older than 30, You probably haven't heard of it, but
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  Speaker 1: of Pretty Little Thing. A lot of the pieces sort
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  Speaker 1: of looked like they were inspired by strippers, honestly. Like
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  Speaker 1: it was just, some of them were decent, I will say,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot of them were pretty out there. It's
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  Speaker 1: basically cheap outfits for partying until now. Pretty Little Thing
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  Speaker 1: decided to do a massive rebrand recently. The clubbing fits
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  Speaker 1: are gone and in its place are these sort of understated,
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  Speaker 1: at this website. And not all of them are like
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  Speaker 1: super modest or anything like that. I'm not trying to
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: say that this is a trad wife going to church
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: kind of rebrand, but there is a noted difference between
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Pretty Little Thing before and Pretty Little Thing after. And
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: the company writes that the shakeup heralds an elevated new
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: era that celebrates the brand's heritage while boldly re-imagining its future.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: And this has really offended a lot of left-wing women
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: on TikTok. Pretty Little Thing is no longer selling slutty
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: outfits and they're upset about it. One girl on TikTok wrote,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: you know right-wing is in when a fast fashion company
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: does a whole rebrand going from mostly club clothes to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: half their pieces being modest trad wife, clean wife, Here
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: is one TikToker warning that the Pretty Little Thing or
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: PLT rebrand is a sign that we're actually descending into
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Nazi-style fascism. Take a listen.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I really wanted to talk about the rise in conservatism
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: that we're seeing in this generation, which is really surprising
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: because I wouldn't assume that Generation Z or Gen Z,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: which I'm a part of, would be going down this trend.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: So fashion and the whole obsession with old money aesthetic
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: and trad wife life and stay at home mom is
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: a really important social indicator of where people's political leanings
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: lie and how far to the right that we are
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: starting to swing. How many famous dictators in the past,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: such as Hitler, have preached the return of family values
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: and the importance of the nuclear family and of national pride.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: And this is something that we see being preached over
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: and over again in the US with Trump's administration, with
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: the rise of the ADF in Germany, with the Reform
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Party in the UK and and so many other extremely
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: right-wing groups across Europe, across the Western world. And again,
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: all the PLT rebrand, the obsession with old money aesthetic,
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: it's all balled up into one, and it kind of
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: makes me scared for where we're heading in the future.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Trump is Hitler. Pretty little things rebrand is
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: a sign of the West's descent into fascism. So why
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: is dressing in a way that enhances feminine beauty without
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: reducing women to sex objects seen as oppressive? I'm going
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: to dig into that question. But look, I also want
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to say before I before I do that, I'm not
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: here to be preachy about modesty, really. I kind of
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: hate when right-wingers shame women, other women online. It's like
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: you see it on X all the time. Some girl
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: is in a perfectly flattering and beautiful outfit. Some of
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: it's really bad, right? And we can critique it and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: people go after them. But sometimes it's just completely normal,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: feminine outfit. And the modesty police come out and they
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: publicly humiliate said girl. And it's just, it's nasty. I
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: really hate it. But what I'm addressing here, and is
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: this notion that elegant, more modest clothing is inherently authoritarian
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and Nazi. This is an insane thing to say. It's
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: an insane thing to say. And really the claim comes
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: from a deeper discomfort with beauty and form. The same
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: people who call feminine, more modest clothing as somehow fascist,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: celebrate hyper-sexualized or androgynous fashion as liberating. But why is
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: self-respecting clothing repressive while self-exposure somehow empowerment? And the truth is,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: rejecting modesty isn't about freedom. It is about rejecting femininity itself.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: So I do agree that Pretty Little Things rebrand is
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: a sign of the vibe shift that we're all talking about.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: But a vibe shift toward traditionalism, not fascism. This next
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: TikToker actually gets to the heart of this. Her advice
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: to women and response to the Pretty Little Thing rebrand
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: is to de-center men. And we'll talk about why this
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: is actually really revealing of the left's true gripe with
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: this rebrand. But first, take a listen.
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: As a woman, one piece of information that I would
• 21:40
  Speaker 10: like to bestow upon you, my lovely viewers, is to
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: decenter men. And not just in like the sociological sense.
• 21:46
  Speaker 10: In a sense where, do not let the male gaze
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: infiltrate your ideas of fashion, your ideas of identity, your ideas.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: Of what matters. being you means.
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: Not even necessarily in terms of adhering to gender stereotypes
• 22:01
  Speaker 10: or how you believe a woman should show up or
• 22:04
  Speaker 10: how you believe a woman should appear for her partner.
• 22:08
  Speaker 10: I'll even take it further to say, do not listen
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: to these feminine gurus online that are teaching you how
• 22:14
  Speaker 10: to be more feminine, how to show up as a lady.
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: I think it's very glaringly obvious the direction in which
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: the world is turning to. Looking at politics, we have
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: right-wing fascists.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: In the Oval Office.
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: Across the world, we're seeing people turn more and more
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: to traditionalism, conservatism. It's giving handmade. Like, I don't wanna
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: be an alarmist, but.
• 22:40
  Speaker 11: Okay.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: In 2024, Gen Z men swung 30 points to the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: political right compared to 2020. The vibe shift that this
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: woman is describing, a return to traditionalism, not fascism, traditionalism,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: is being driven by men. There are a lot of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: factors that play into that, but one is that we've
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: seen the fruits of the sexual revolution. Men specifically have
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: seen the fruits of the sexual revolution. I think there
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: was a generation of men in the 60s and the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: 70s who were excited by the sexual revolution. No taboos,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: free love, this impacted fashion as well. And we've only
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: decided further and further since to the point where instead
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of promoting sex, late-stage feminism has made young people sexless
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: a huge percentage. more young people are virgins today compared
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: to their parents and their grandparents at a young age.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I think Gen Z men look at sexual liberation with
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: a lot more skepticism and disgust. Hoes aren't hot. They're
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: kind of repulsive. There's a viral phrase now that she
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: belongs to the streets that men say really object. She's
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: just kind of to shame hoes, to shame women who
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: sleep around or who don't dress really well. There's a
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: growing sentiment that modern women are all just trash. And
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: let me say, I think men and women today have
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of problems created by modernity. But the point
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I'm making is that men are in mass rejecting the
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: fruits of the sexual revolution. They're turning to traditionalism and
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: they're turning to church. Gen Z men are the first
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: generation in recorded history to attend church at higher rates
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: than their female counterparts. And so while some women, like
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the ones in that video, like the one in that
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: video I just played, will continue to cling to Fashion
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Nova and the old pretty little things, stripper-inspired clubbing clothing,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Others are responding to men and they're embracing traditional silhouettes.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: This is why that left-wing woman said women need to
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: de-center from men. Don't respond to what men value in
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: a woman. Don't look beautiful for a man. This is
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: pretty atrocious advice because women really do inherently, I think,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: want to feel desired by men. And guys, here's the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: real irony. While these women claim that modest fashion is
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a slippery slope into authoritarianism, they also refuse to admit
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the true coercion that came from the sexual revolution itself.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Here are women in Paris just last weekend, taken to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the streets, topless, with either the national flag of the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: US or Russia, with fascist epidemic and swastika painted across
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: their chest, demanding a feminist Europe, not a fashion one.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And before I play this, you guys, content warning, these
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: are topless women.
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: Take a look.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Okay, so this is completely deranged.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: It's honestly embarrassing. They look ugly and feral and miserable.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: It's so unattractive. I can't even believe that this happened.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: And we've seen this before. It's happened here in America,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: these topless protests to take our shirts off and fight fascism.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: It almost seems purposely unattractive, purposely deranged. For decades, women
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: have been pressured to conform to a hyper-sexualized ideal. It
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: told that empowerment meant stripping down rather than elevating themselves
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: and covering up. And it was always a political pursuit.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: It was never about authentic fulfillment for women. Clearly, look
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: at the women in that video. Do they look happy
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: to you? They're not happy. The old pretty little thing
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: wasn't just selling club wear. It was selling a postmodern ideal.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: And now that some women are rejecting that ideal and
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: embracing elegance, suddenly it's a threat. And the truth is
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the backlash against Pretty Little Things rebrand isn't about freedom
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: at all. It's clearly about fear. Fear that the pendulum
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: is swinging back towards something that values beauty, restraint, and
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a more meaningful femininity. And if that's enough to trigger
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: cries of fascism, then maybe they're the ones clinging to
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: ideological extremism. By the way, speaking of women who are
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: letting left-wing insanity get in the way of their own happiness,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: we have to talk about what's happening today. what's happened
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: on Love is Blind. And for those of you who
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: don't know, Love is Blind is a reality dating show
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: where singles form emotional connections and get engaged without ever
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: seeing each other. So they get to know each other
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: solely through these pods that separate them. They talk, they
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: never see one another. After 10 to 12 days, they
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: select a person that they want to be with, they
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: want to get engaged to, and then there's a reveal
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: that And they decide whether they want to actually stay
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: with that person after seeing the person that they've picked.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: And they spend more real-world time together for about three weeks.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: And then they plan a wedding. And they decide at
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the altar if they want to go through with said wedding.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: In the latest season of Love is Blind, a woman
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: named Sarah leaves her fiancé, Ben, at the altar. And
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to her reasoning
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: for why she leaves Ben at the altar.
• 28:06
  Speaker 11: I know that the connection we have is so real.
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: And my heart is there. But we talked about a
• 28:13
  Speaker 11: lot of the values that I hold so close to
• 28:16
  Speaker 11: my heart. Making this decision, my mind is telling me
• 28:19
  Speaker 11: I can't.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Rise and fall right now.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Are you okay?
• 28:27
  Speaker 12: I'm okay.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: See me in the back.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: See me in the back.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: Can you feel my heartbeat?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Like, I asked him about, like, Black Lives Matter, and
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I'm no expert. But, like, when I asked him about it,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: he was like, I guess I never really thought too
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: much about it. That affected me, especially in our own city.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Like, how could it not?
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: How do you not make you think about something? I
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: asked him, too, like, what his church's views are, and
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: he said he didn't know. And so then I watched
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: a sermon online.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: From his church?
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: About, yeah, sexual identity.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: And it She left him because he didn't have an
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: opinion on Black Lives Matter or the COVID vaccine?
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: She left him because he didn't have an opinion on
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter or the COVID vaccine. Somebody says dodged
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: a bullet. Bobby Wilson. Yeah, he did dodge a bullet.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Also because his church was too traditional for her. And
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: you're right. Ben dodged a bullet. You should marry someone
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: who aligns with your values. And there are so many
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: guys out there who continues simping for women who are
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: politically left-wing, and it's really a waste of their time.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Either they get married and they're miserable, or she dumps them,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: like this woman, because they don't support Black Lives Matter enough.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: More likely than not, Ben had opinions on those issues,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: and he said he didn't care because he didn't want
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: to anger the Sarah lady. Of course he didn't. But
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: it pissed her off anyways, because better.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: For better or worse, she said, I'm not with you.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: You don't have a strong enough opinion. So it was
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: a waste of his time either way. And it's a
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: waste of anyone's time if you're a right-wing man to
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: continue simping after these women who don't share your values
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and who are going to punish you for it ultimately.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: And women like Sarah, she's her own worst enemy. This
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: is a blonde white woman. who was angry that a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: presumably great guy who loves her didn't sympathize enough with
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: looters and arsonists who ransacked American cities in 2020, and
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: that's why she's going to dump him at the altar. Really, Sarah?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: That's your reasoning? Her own worst enemy. She's completely sobbed
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: by leftism, and it's getting in the way of her
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: own happiness. The women who are angry about the Pretty
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Little Thing rebrand and her attempting to de-center men are
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: honestly sad. Sarah and all these women on TikTok, they
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: are sad, sad people. And I'm going to be real
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: with you guys. It's a problem that there are many
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: more right-wing men than women. The political gender gap is growing,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: and women right now are their own worst enemy. Half
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the time, they don't even want left-wing men. This TikTok
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: went viral a while back, and it's a good example
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: of what I'm talking about here. They say that they
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: are so offended by right-wing men but they are not
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: attracted to left-wing ones.
• 31:41
  Speaker 11: Take a listen.
• 31:43
  Speaker 13: On a date this week and I felt the feminism
• 31:45
  Speaker 13: leaving my body. The thing about a guy's guy is
• 31:49
  Speaker 13: he's putting his card down.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: He's paying for everything.
• 31:52
  Speaker 13: And I really just, it sort of activated something feral
• 31:57
  Speaker 13: in me.
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna lie.
• 31:58
  Speaker 13: He went to like another bar and he went, he
• 32:01
  Speaker 13: was gonna go to the bathrooms, but as he's going
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: to leave for the bathroom, he turns to me and
• 32:05
  Speaker 13: he hands me his credit card and he goes, here's
• 32:08
  Speaker 13: my card, get us whatever. It might be time for
• 32:14
  Speaker 13: me to get away from all these, you know, liberal
• 32:17
  Speaker 13: snowflakes on the east side.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Women are attracted to masculine men. Men are attracted to
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: feminine women. This is not that hard, guys. This is
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: not that hard. And the argument is that the right-wing
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: vibe shift is fascist and evil. But what's really evil
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: to me is an ideology that would incentivize women to
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: not embrace beauty. Encourage them to turn away from love
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: over deranged political views set up to keep them single
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: and miserable. And I'm really tired of the political right
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: being labeled as like radical when the left does things
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: like this. This is Laura Jane Grace, a transgender singer
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: performing at a Bernie Sanders rally in Wisconsin recently. I
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: want you to listen to these lyrics really carefully.
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: Here is Bernie actually thanking this singer.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: We got it, Michael?
• 33:38
  Speaker 14: Let me thank the University of Wisconsin Parkside for the venue.
• 33:42
  Speaker 13: Let me thank.
• 33:44
  Speaker 12: Kinsella and Pulse LLC for the music. Laura Jane Grace
• 33:48
  Speaker 12: for the music. Laurie Ellen Randy and Congressman Mark Buchan
• 33:53
  Speaker 12: for their great remarks.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: It's totally degenerate. It was really disrespectful to Christians. Imagine
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: if there was a song degrading Buddhism or Islam or any,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't happen. But it does happen to Christianity. And
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: this was a massive rally. This was part of Bernie's
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: fighting oligarchy tour across the country. I want you to
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: look at the people in this video. I'm going to
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: make two points about this. But first, I want you
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: to look at the people in this video and tell
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: me what you notice.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: Senator Bernie Sanders.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: First of all, massive crowd, massive, massive crowd. Let's play
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: one more before I tell you what's going on here.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Let's play the second video. You see a crazy man
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: in a tie-dyed onesie dancing. This is at this Bernie rally.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: And you also see a ton of people in masks,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: just like that first city. They're all wearing, I feel
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: sorry for them. I really do. Because what possesses someone
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: in the year 2025 to still be wearing a mask?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: There are so many of them. It's like a coalition
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: of crazy people. And it's like a magnet, Bernie Sanders.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: And they all come to this rally. It's a mind virus.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: They need help. But there are a lot of people
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: at this rally. I will say that. These are packed
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: auditoriums that Bernie is filling up. And clearly, there's a
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: lot of insane people, a lot of degenerates. But there
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: are also probably some normal people there too. Bernie is
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: the key to the left's success. He is a con.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: He is a fraud. But left-wing populism that Bernie Sanders
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: represents is the Democrats' only path forward. It's the only
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: way to fight right-wing populism. And let's pray that the
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: establishment Democrats keep suppressing left-wing populism. But really, it's the
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: energy of their party, and it's kind of scary. I
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: want to share with you guys also this epic video.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: There's a YouTube channel. It's called Jubilee. And they do
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: a lot of creative political debate videos, among other things.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: It's a pretty entertaining channel. And they did this video
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: with left-wing comedian and progressive political commentator. He's also an actor,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Sam Seder. Where Sam is, Sam who's in his 50s,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: he debates 20 young right-wingers. And the question posed by
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Jubilee for discussion in this video is, what's the problem
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: with xenophobic nationalism? Here is Sam facing off with a
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: young woman named Sarah Stock.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: Take a listen.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: What's the problem with xenophobic nationalism? Don't you think that's
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: better for Americans in general? To be xenophobic? Yes.
• 36:48
  Speaker 14: Nationalism is better?
• 36:49
  Speaker 12: We should have a coherent culture. Everyone should be a
• 36:51
  Speaker 12: part of the same culture. We should have assimilation.
• 36:54
  Speaker 14: Do you get to choose what the culture is?
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: We already have a dominant culture. What is the dominant culture?
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Based on European and Christian values and identity. That is
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: the dominant culture.
• 37:03
  Speaker 11: White Christian.
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: It's rooted in European identity.
• 37:07
  Speaker 14: So your argument is that.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: That has been the dominant culture.
• 37:10
  Speaker 6: Just to be clear.
• 37:10
  Speaker 12: And we're not letting people assimilate to that.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: We're saying you should keep your culture, and this is
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: why our culture is so divided.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Well, actually, no.
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  Speaker 14: I think actually the identity of America has been, for
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  Speaker 14: better or for worse, a melting pot in that regard.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe since the 1960s.
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  Speaker 12: Even then, even we had this idea. A melting pot
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  Speaker 12: literally means assimilation, too. It means melting.
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  Speaker 5: It means you're... assimilating to the dominant culture. Is that
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  Speaker 5: not what melting means?
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  Speaker 12: And now instead we're saying there's something wrong with xenophobia.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 14: I mean, look, I got to be honest with you.
• 37:46
  Speaker 14: You and I have a fundamental disagreement. We will never
• 37:49
  Speaker 14: see eye to eye on this.
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  Speaker 1: I think she was pretty well spoken. And she also
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: mentions H-1B visas, which are supported by a lot of Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been pretty critical of H-1Bs as well. And
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: you have people here on work visas working for very
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  Speaker 1: low wages, taking jobs, of real American citizens who can't
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  Speaker 1: compete with the salaries of imported workers, the low salaries
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  Speaker 1: of imported workers. And look, there's this idea that if
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: you want people to come into this country slowly and
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  Speaker 1: authentically assimilate, you have to do it in a way
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: that is, again, not massive and immediate and overwhelming, because
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: then the Foreigners end up changing the culture of this
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: country instead of assimilating into this country, a country that
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: she's right was founded by Europeans for a moral and
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: religious people were Christians, not with sectarian disputes like they
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: had in Europe, a Christian country, not necessarily with sectarian
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: violence and disputes, but that that idea is somehow xenophobic
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: is ridiculous. And I think she later pointed out on
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Twitter and I really, really well that This conversation started
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: out with a rigged premise meant to smear nationalists, that
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: it's xenophobic somehow to want to preserve the national identity
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  Speaker 1: of your country. And we can't let that smear bother us.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: You guys, we just have to shake it off. We
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: have to shake it off when they call you an
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Assad toady or a Russian stooge like President Trump, an
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Iran regime sympathizer or a Nazi fascist or a Qatar asset.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: If you aren't those things, then don't worry. These are
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: smears that come from the left and the right to
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  Speaker 1: paralyze us. They want you to think that skepticism toward
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: mass immigration and desire to preserve American culture cohesion is
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: inherently xenophobic. But as Sarah pointed out, there's a very
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: real economic and social cost to the kind of immigration
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: policies both parties have supported for decades. When corporations bring
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: in foreign workers on H-1B visas, it artificially suppresses wages
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: and displaces American workers who cannot compete with the lower
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: salaries of imported labor. And this isn't about hatred of
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  Speaker 1: other races. It's about protecting American livelihoods, which includes black, white,
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  Speaker 1: brown people. America is not just made up of white people.
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  Speaker 1: We're protecting American citizens by getting rid of these H-1Bs.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: A nation is not merely an economy. It is a people.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: And this gets to really the heart of the problem here.
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  Speaker 1: The way that some people view this country is very
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: warped and disordered. We are a people with a culture
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: and a shared set of values, and the idea that
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: we should abandon that legacy in the name of some
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: sort of undefined, borderless globalism, it's not just foolish, it
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: is suicidal. People from other parts of the world, irrespective
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: of race, can theoretically assimilate into this country, but we
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: can't have mass immigration as leftists are insisting diversity is
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: our strength because then you don't have assimilation. You don't
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: have a melting pot. You have chaos. You have nothing
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: to unite us. I played that video last week of
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: this man who went around the UK and asked people,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: would you fight for Britain? And their answer was overwhelmingly no.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: So I'm not from here. I'm from Brazil or I'll
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: go back to my country. And they're from someplace in
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: the Middle East, right? This is a country that is
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: overrun by tons and tons of immigrants. And if the
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: UK really needed to assemble a war effort and defend
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: itself in an existential way. I'm not sure the UK
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: could do it because the real British people, the actual
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: citizens who have been here for hundreds of years, they
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: feel disillusioned. They don't even think that they have a
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: homeland anymore. And the whole rest of the population is
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: full of people who aren't actually committed and having some
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: sort of affinity to the UK. And I worry that
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: we're going to have that problem here. We have this
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: mass import of people who aren't loyal to this country,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: who aren't even legal citizens. And I just say, screw
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: the smears. I'm not wasting energy on any bad faith accusations.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Nations have a right to sovereignty, to control their borders,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: and to expect immigrants to assimilate. This is not xenophobic.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: This is common sense. This is what any good leader
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: would want for his country. And I'm not going to
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: be intimidated by this dishonest framing. We've got to shake
• 42:10
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• 42:13
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