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Flushing Away Taxpayer Dollars: Another Round of Aid to Ukraine (Ep.96) · V

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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report, early edition. Biden
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Speaker 1: is sending millions more to Ukraine. Trump says America won't
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Speaker 1: be bullied by Canada anymore. The NIH sends $ 1. 8 billion
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Speaker 1: to study racism. A woman is laughed at on X
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Speaker 1: for writing a thesis on why smell is somehow racist.
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Speaker 1: Biden's Department of Education is targeting Christian schools. A deranged
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Speaker 1: liberal journalist, Taylor Lorenz, is still a masked Nazi. New
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Speaker 1: Yorkers shout guilty at Daniel Penny. Jane Fonda thinks California
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Speaker 1: isn't leftist. Jill Biden unveils her cartoonish and tasteless decorations.
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Speaker 1: And Trump is set to attend the historic reopening of
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Speaker 1: the Notre Dame Cathedral. All this on Bongina Report, early edition.
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Speaker 1: The U.S. is reportedly preparing to send Ukraine an additional
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Speaker 1: $ 725 million in military assistance, including counter drone systems and
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Speaker 1: munitions for its high mobility artillery rocket system. And of course,
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Speaker 1: this may indicate more long range missiles are being headed
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Speaker 1: to the battlefield, further antagonizing Russia. And at one point,
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Speaker 1: we just have to ask ourselves, why? Because this war
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Speaker 1: is deeply, deeply unpopular. Americans are tired of funding it.
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Speaker 1: And even the majority of Ukrainians want a peace deal,
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Speaker 1: and they are willing to concede land to Russia in
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Speaker 1: order to get that peace deal. And if you're Joe Biden,
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Speaker 1: and you aren't going to get another term, your job
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Speaker 1: is now really just to preserve your image. And Biden
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Speaker 1: is an egomaniac. That's all he really cares about anyway
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Speaker 1: at this point, right? It's to preserve his image. It's
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Speaker 1: to have this this legacy. So why send money to
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Speaker 1: Ukraine and further damage that legacy on a deeply unpopular war? Well,
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Speaker 1: I think it has a lot to do with his
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Speaker 1: pardon of Hunter Biden, who served on the board of
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Speaker 1: the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, making millions of dollars while
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden was vice president and Joe Biden had direct
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Speaker 1: control over U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine. And the Biden
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Speaker 1: White House's never-ending support of Ukraine and the way that
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Speaker 1: Hunter has skirted all responsibility from the DOJ for his
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Speaker 1: influence peddling even before this pardon, they're not disconnected. The
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Speaker 1: war in Ukraine is ultimately about control of energy resources
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Speaker 1: in the Donbass and Crimea. I want you to listen
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Speaker 1: to Mike Benz explain. And this is a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a long clip, but it's worth it because he
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Speaker 1: lays out the connection really, really well. Take a listen.
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Speaker 2: Burisma was being used as an instrument of statecraft by
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Speaker 2: the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA as part
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Speaker 2: of a plan to bankrupt Russia's economy and build up
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Speaker 2: an alternative natural gas supply in Ukraine to supplant Gazprom.
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Speaker 2: And that's what Hunter Biden was doing there, in addition
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Speaker 2: to him personally profiting from the reorientation of U.S. foreign policy.
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Speaker 2: So I mentioned how after the 2014 coup, which is
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Speaker 2: right when the pardon starts, We made this play to
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Speaker 2: militarily reconquer the Donbass, which is where half of Burisma's
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Speaker 2: mining rights and extraction rights are in Ukraine, the exact
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Speaker 2: territory that had just been lost in the breakaway from
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Speaker 2: the Donbass in 2014. The other half is offshore by Crimea.
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Speaker 2: which was the other half of what we lost in
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Speaker 2: the 2014 countercoup disaster. And so why did Trump get
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Speaker 2: impeached in 2019? It was for threatening to withhold U.S.
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Speaker 2: military aid. Well, hey, why were we giving billions in
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Speaker 2: military aid to Ukraine before Ukraine was involved in a
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Speaker 2: military war with Russia? It's because we were directing the
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Speaker 2: full battering ram of the U.S. armed forces and as
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Speaker 2: well as our diplomatic and statecraft and intelligence arms to
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Speaker 2: reconquer the Donbass, which is the territory where the resources
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Speaker 2: of Burisma sit on, as well as the offshore resources
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Speaker 2: of Crimea. So we were using taxpayers were paying billions
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Speaker 2: so that the Pentagon could militarily reconquer Burisma's mining resources
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Speaker 2: and retain its mining rights. While you had all these U.S.
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Speaker 2: companies like Chevron and Exxon and you had Royal Dutch
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Speaker 2: Shell from the U.K. side, you had Halliburton, which had
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Speaker 2: billions of dollars in contracts with Naftagas, the main feeder
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Speaker 2: to Burisma. This is why Victoria Nuland, when she announced
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Speaker 2: the coup in December 2013, she was standing in front
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Speaker 2: of signs for Chevron and Exxon because they had partnerships
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Speaker 2: with Naftagas, the big Burisma feeder. So we paid— this story
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Speaker 2: goes far beyond the Biden family. This is about U.S.
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Speaker 2: foreign policy and what we're even doing in Ukraine in
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Speaker 2: the first place. And the reason they want to bury this,
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Speaker 2: and the pardon plays a big role in this, because
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Speaker 2: the best way to actually collect evidence about something is
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Speaker 2: through a criminal investigation. That's how you get the court-ordered subpoenas.
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Speaker 2: That's how you get access to everyone's cell phones and
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Speaker 2: emails and records. It's the kind of thing that you
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Speaker 2: can really only do through the court system.
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Speaker 1: I know that was long, but it is important. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the Bidens, through Hunter Biden, enriched themselves by selling out
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Speaker 1: the country to foreign nationals in Ukraine.
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Speaker 3: True.
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Speaker 1: But perhaps even more criminal is what Benz is alleging,
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Speaker 1: that Hunter's involvement with Burisma was part of a coordinated
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Speaker 1: effort to secure U.S. influence in Ukraine's energy sector. In 2014,
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Speaker 1: the CIA, of course, as Mike Benz mentioned, staged a
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Speaker 1: regime change operation in Ukraine. And ever since then, the U.S.
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Speaker 1: has been controlling and exploiting that region. And of course,
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Speaker 1: also antagonizing Russia at the same time. And the question is,
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Speaker 1: how is this worth pissing off Putin and thereby endangering
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Speaker 1: all of us with the threat of nuclear war? After
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Speaker 1: the fall of the Soviet Union, America had an opportunity
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Speaker 1: to make peace with Russia. Putin has asked to join
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Speaker 1: NATO on numerous occasions. And instead, our State Department made
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Speaker 1: it clear that the animosity would continue. And again, This
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Speaker 1: is not in the interest of the American people. And
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Speaker 1: it's not even a secret that the war in Ukraine
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Speaker 1: has nothing to do with democracy or whatever. I mean,
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Speaker 1: Zelensky has literally suspended elections. Ukraine supporters admit openly that
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Speaker 1: this whole thing is about money. Here's Lindsey Graham.
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Speaker 4: Ukraine is still standing. This war is about money. People
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Speaker 4: don't talk much about it. But you know the richest
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Speaker 4: country in all of Europe for rare earth minerals is Ukraine?
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Speaker 4: Two to seven trillion dollars worth of minerals that are
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Speaker 4: rare earth minerals, very relevant to the 21st century. Ukraine's
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Speaker 4: ready to do a deal with us, not the Russians.
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Speaker 4: So it's in our interest to make sure that Russia
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Speaker 4: doesn't take.
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Speaker 1: Over the place. Our government is endangering and bankrupting Americans
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Speaker 1: with this war for money, for the opportunity to enrich
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Speaker 1: themselves and to money launder. And real innocent people on
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Speaker 1: both sides of the conflict in Ukraine and Russia, they
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Speaker 1: are dying at the altar of this deep state war.
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Speaker 1: We're going to take a quick break, but when we
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Speaker 1: come back, we're going to cover how Trump defended America's
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Speaker 1: interests while humorously making fun of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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Speaker 1: appreciate anybody who works with Bongino Report Early Edition or
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Speaker 1: the Dan Bongino Show. Speaking of Ukraine, Representative Tim Burchett
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Speaker 1: has urged Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to audit the
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Speaker 1: $ 200- plus billion sent to Ukraine, which I think is a
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Speaker 1: great idea. I also think we should stop subsidizing communist
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Speaker 1: Canada while we're at it. And apparently so does Trump.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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Speaker 5: And tonight we're getting some new details about that Trump-Trudeau
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Speaker 5: dinner from two people who were at the table. We
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Speaker 5: are told that when Trudeau told President-elect Trump, that new
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Speaker 5: tariffs would kill the Canadian economy. Trump joked to him
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Speaker 5: that if Canada can't survive without ripping off the US
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Speaker 5: to the tune of $ 100 billion a year, then maybe
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Speaker 5: Canada should become the 51st state and Trudeau could become
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Speaker 5: its governor.
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Speaker 1: Right. We'll have more on that detail with the panel.
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Speaker 1: Pretty funny. I know Trump is joking. It's actually a
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Speaker 1: terrible idea. I don't want Canada to have any electoral
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Speaker 1: power in this country because, again, they're communists. But Trump
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Speaker 1: is right. What an outrage that Canada just expects to
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Speaker 1: screw over America and get away with it. And this
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Speaker 1: is the kind of America first foreign policy that I
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Speaker 1: love from Donald Trump, protecting American workers, protecting American goods,
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Speaker 1: not staging regime change in Ukraine and pissing off Putin.
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Speaker 1: I don't prefer that foreign policy. I prefer making fun
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Speaker 1: of Justin Trudeau and forcing them to actually be fair
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Speaker 1: trade partners with us. Now, back to efficiency. Elon and
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Speaker 1: Vivek also should look into the NIH, which in 2024
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Speaker 1: spent $ 1. 8 billion studying racism. Of that money, over $ 900
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Speaker 1: million was spent studying various aspects of systemic racism. For example,
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Speaker 1: the NIH approved a grant for over $ 125, 000 to study
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Speaker 1: examining anti-racist healing in nature. And at this point, none
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Speaker 1: of it's shocking anymore. Our government is just burning cash,
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Speaker 1: taxing us to no end and devaluing our currency. So
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Speaker 1: every year you make just a little less. Your grandparents
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Speaker 1: who save for retirement totally robbed by inflation, and it
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Speaker 1: is so unjust. But can we just take a step
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Speaker 1: back and think for a second about the crackpots who
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Speaker 1: are getting this kind of funding from the government? These
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Speaker 1: faux intellectuals spend years studying neo-Marxism, and then they receive
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Speaker 1: these prestigious degrees and honors, and they are poisoning the
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Speaker 1: West with their fake, indivisive, so-called scholarship One example is
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Speaker 1: a woman named Allie Lukes. And now Dr. Allie Lukes
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Speaker 1: is a Cambridge graduate, and she recently posted on X
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Speaker 1: that she is thrilled to announce that she received her PhD.
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Speaker 1: And the title of her PhD thesis is Olfactory Ethics,
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Speaker 1: the Politics of Smells in Modern and Contemporary Prose. And
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Speaker 1: I'm going to read to you guys a little excerpt
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Speaker 1: of Allie's abstract. She writes, This thesis studies how literature
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Speaker 1: registers the importance of olfactory discourse, the language of smell,
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Speaker 1: and the olfactory imagination it creates in structuring our social world.
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Speaker 1: The broad aim of this thesis is to offer an
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Speaker 1: intersectional and wide-ranging study of olfactory oppression by establishing the
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Speaker 1: underlying logics that facilitate smell's application in creating and subverting gender, class, sexual, racial,
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Speaker 1: and species power structures. I focus largely on prose fiction
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Speaker 1: from the modern and contemporary periods so as to trace
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Speaker 1: the legacy of olfactory prejudice into today and situate its
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Speaker 1: contemporary relevance. I suggest that smell very often invokes identity
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Speaker 1: in a way that signifies an individual's worth and status
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Speaker 1: in an arguable manner that short-circuits conscious reflection. So, in
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Speaker 1: other words, Allie received a PhD for a thesis that
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Speaker 1: argues describing smells is racist. That was what that abstract said.
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Speaker 1: All those words and the silly jargon that she was
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Speaker 1: inserting in there, that's the short answer of what she
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Speaker 1: just wrote that thesis on. And again, the abstract, it's
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Speaker 1: full of all this university jargon to beef up her argument,
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Speaker 1: but the truth is, anyone could hear this take in
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Speaker 1: 30 seconds from Joy Reid on MSNBC. It's not scholarship,
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Speaker 1: it's race Marxism. It's activism posing as inspired intellectual thought,
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Speaker 1: and it's poison. I want you to listen to renowned
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Speaker 1: feminist scholar Camille Paglia explaining what is happening to the
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Speaker 1: university system.
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Speaker 6: I'm totally opposed to any politicized agenda in the classroom, okay?
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Speaker 6: I do not want this crappy melodrama being taught to
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Speaker 6: our students that Western civilization is filled with evil patriarchs
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Speaker 6: and out there are the wonderful people of color. Well,
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Speaker 6: but I don't see anyone that I know of that
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Speaker 6: believes that, well, just.
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Speaker 1: Think of what you just said.
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Speaker 6: Think of what you said. Stephen Greenblatt, the new historicist,
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Speaker 6: my God, every word out of their mouth is about
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Speaker 6: the evil of Western culture.
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Speaker 7: All Western culture is evil and all Asian or African
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Speaker 7: culture is unflawed.
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Speaker 6: These people who have control of the universities, humanities departments now,
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Speaker 6: do not believe in great art. They believe that dead
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Speaker 6: white European males have been canonized.
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Speaker 1: So that's really relevant to Ali's dissertation. because her dissertation
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Speaker 1: is a critique on Western literature. She's smearing Western literature
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Speaker 1: as racist because the way that literature, I guess, describes
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Speaker 1: smells is racist. And Cleopalia is articulating the academic root
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Speaker 1: of all the nonsense spewing out of Ali's dissertation and
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Speaker 1: actually the entire university system. And she's right that art
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Speaker 1: really is the best way to see how poisonous things
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Speaker 1: have become. I want you to look at a side-by-side
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Speaker 1: of medieval literature Christian art, and it's also some Renaissance art,
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Speaker 1: and then the neo-pagan art. And it says that it's
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Speaker 1: an art from an atheist society, but really we are neo-pagan.
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Speaker 1: We haven't gotten rid of our religious inclinations. We do
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Speaker 1: believe in something, and it is neo-paganism. And just notice
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Speaker 1: the difference. If you're listening, you know, you see beautiful
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Speaker 1: stained glass, really intricate paintings with beautiful symbolism. And then
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Speaker 1: you see on the other side, a urinal. an ugly
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Speaker 1: painting of King Charles, a bizarre rock that looks like
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Speaker 1: it's smiling a hand with a face on it. Like
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Speaker 1: it's bizarre. And it is, it's not artful. It's not beautiful.
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Speaker 1: And there was a time when the education system was
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Speaker 1: actually rooted in something. It was rooted in Christianity and
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Speaker 1: the middle ages, people pursued knowledge in order to understand
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Speaker 1: and interpret religious texts, especially the Bible. We had the trivium,
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Speaker 1: which was grammar, rhetoric, and logic. And then we had
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Speaker 1: the quadrivium, which was arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. The
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Speaker 1: trivium provided the foundation in language necessary to understand sacred texts,
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Speaker 1: while the quadrivium offered a mathematical approach to understanding God's creation.
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Speaker 1: So education was always philosophical and intended to cultivate virtue.
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Speaker 1: And today, it's arguably the exact opposite. Meanwhile, our own
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Speaker 1: government punishes academic institutions that dare draw on the early
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Speaker 1: intention of education. According to a report from the American
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Speaker 1: Principals Project, the Biden-Harris Admin's Department of Education issued 70%
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Speaker 1: of its enforcement actions on Christian universities and career schools,
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Speaker 1: despite the fact that these faith-based institutions account for less
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Speaker 1: than 10% of the U.S. student population. So at least
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Speaker 1: 12 Christian colleges have been the target of excessive penalties
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Speaker 1: or banned from receiving federal student aid. And by comparison,
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Speaker 1: no Ivy League school has been a recipient of punitive
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Speaker 1: action by the Office of Enforcement. And this is, of course,
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Speaker 1: by design. Our current government is captured by neo-paganism because
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Speaker 1: the less moral and religious the populace, the easier they
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Speaker 1: are to control. The government likes and funds Marxist universities
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Speaker 1: and they detest Christian schools because Christian schools authentically educate
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Speaker 1: people and give them the intellectual tools to thwart our
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Speaker 1: pagan government pursuit of control over the people. And the
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Speaker 1: founding fathers intended for America to be a moral country.
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Speaker 1: They knew that we'd fall into tyranny the second that
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Speaker 1: the populace stopped being Christian. Even Alexis de Tocqueville famously
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Speaker 1: said on his travels that America is great because America
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Speaker 1: is good. When we aren't good as a people, that's
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Speaker 1: when the government has power to subvert the Constitution and
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Speaker 1: our founding mores, and they're doing that currently. Now, there's
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Speaker 1: also something to be said about the woman that wrote
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Speaker 1: this thesis. I've met a lot of women like her,
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Speaker 1: and they waste their lives pursuing credentials and studying postmodernism
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Speaker 1: and these fake fields of study, and they think that
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Speaker 1: they're geniuses, and they forego marriage, and then they wonder
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Speaker 1: why they're unhappy. And it's not just women, of course.
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Speaker 1: Men can also write BS dissertations and get crappy degrees
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Speaker 1: and That happens, but it's mostly women, because as of 2022,
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Speaker 1: women earned 56% of doctoral degrees in the humanities. And
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Speaker 1: the vast majority of them, I'm sorry to say, wasted
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Speaker 1: precious time doing so. And to be clear, I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about women like Ali, who studied within the strict confines
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Speaker 1: of fake neo-Marxist fields of study. We aren't talking about
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Speaker 1: astrophysicists here. But there's this perception that somehow studying... how
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Speaker 1: smells are racist is preferable to getting married. And this
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Speaker 1: is now ingrained in the culture. Has anybody in the
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Speaker 1: chat seen Moana 2? I saw the first Moana in
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Speaker 1: theaters with my little sisters. But what do you guys
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Speaker 1: notice about Moana or Frozen or the Snow White remake?
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Speaker 1: There's no Prince. Or in the case of Snow White,
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Speaker 1: he barely has a role. Here's Snow White actress Rachel
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Speaker 1: Zegler talking about the upcoming Snow White movie's love story.
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Speaker 8: Approach to what I'm sure a lot of people will
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Speaker 8: assume is a love story just because we cast a
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Speaker 8: guy in the movie, Andrew Burnap, great dude. It's one
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Speaker 8: of those things that I think everyone's going to have
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Speaker 8: their assumptions about what it's actually going to be, but
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Speaker 8: it's really not about the love story at all, which
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Speaker 8: is really, really wonderful. And whether or not she finds
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Speaker 8: love along the way is anybody's guess until 2024. All
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Speaker 8: of Andrew's scenes could get cut.
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Speaker 7: Who knows?
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Speaker 1: It's Hollywood, baby. Disney doesn't do love stories anymore. Women
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Speaker 1: are now above romance. As Peachy Keenan writes, Moana and
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Speaker 1: Snow White and Elsa are vestal virgins sacrificed to the
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Speaker 1: feminist gods. And the only ones hurt by this message
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Speaker 1: are women. My mom always said to me growing up,
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Speaker 1: you know, the most important thing you can do in
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Speaker 1: your young adult years is to focus on your love life.
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Speaker 1: Women who don't do that are not happy. Take careerist,
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Speaker 1: unmarried women Former Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz, who recently
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Speaker 1: claimed that people who don't wear masks in public are
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Speaker 1: raw dogging the air. That is that is the quote
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Speaker 1: she wrote in a post that planning a covid safe
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Speaker 1: book launch took months and thousands of my own dollars,
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Speaker 1: ensuring testing out outdoor space, far UV lights and a
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Speaker 1: litany of other precautions. Meanwhile, you dumb effers are out
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Speaker 1: raw-dogging the air and spewing your disease-laden breath all over
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Speaker 1: your elderly neighbors. We are not the same. And she
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Speaker 1: wrote that yesterday. Not in 2020. Not in 2021. Yesterday.
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Speaker 1: This woman is still incessantly wearing a mask, and it's
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Speaker 1: mental illness. There's something wrong with her. She needs to
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Speaker 1: live out a normal life and quit the journalism career
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Speaker 1: because it's clearly driving her clinically insane. And I'm not
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Speaker 1: saying women shouldn't get doctorates or pursue journalism, but the
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Speaker 1: culture is telling us that school or your job should
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Speaker 1: supersede your family. And I think that's wrong, especially when
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Speaker 1: when the doctorate you're pursuing is about smell being racist,
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Speaker 1: or the outlet that you write for is the Washington Post.
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Speaker 1: And can I just say that there is such little
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Speaker 1: respect for men among women in society. Again, the message
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Speaker 1: is constantly, you don't need a man, you have girl power.
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Speaker 1: But it turns out, girl power isn't the most helpful
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Speaker 1: when a schizo homeless dude starts terrorizing you on the subway.
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Speaker 1: In situations like that, you want a Daniel Penny. Daniel Penny,
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Speaker 1: of course, protected subway riders last year from a deranged
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Speaker 1: homeless man named Jordan Neely, who was threatening to kill
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Speaker 1: everyone on the train. And he, of course, Daniel Penny,
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Speaker 1: put Neely in a chokehold to restrain him. Neely eventually
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Speaker 1: died after law enforcement and paramedics arrived. And now Penny
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Speaker 1: is being charged with murder. Penny is white. Neely is black.
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Speaker 1: The woke libs have already convicted Daniel Penny in the
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Speaker 1: court of public opinion. Here are New Yorkers shouting guilty.
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Speaker 1: at Daniel Penny when he walked into the courthouse yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Charges never should have been brought against Penny. And the
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Speaker 1: message liberals are sending, liberal women are sending, is that
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Speaker 1: if you're a man and you ever witness a member
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Speaker 1: of of a political protected class, beating, robbing, stabbing, killing,
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Speaker 1: or raping someone, don't do a thing. Just let it happen.
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Speaker 1: And if women were smart, they would be defending Daniel Penny. Instead,
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Speaker 1: so many of them defend the deranged schizo guy who
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Speaker 1: was terrorizing people. And the people who lose are women.
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Speaker 1: Women are more vulnerable in a world that punishes heroes. Again,
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Speaker 1: wokeism warps our priorities to the point where we act
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Speaker 1: against our own self-interest and fulfillment. Blue cities and blue
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Speaker 1: states in particular are set up to kill the human spirit.
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Speaker 1: Criminals are rewarded. No one is safe. Everything is expensive.
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Speaker 1: And some people are just in denial. Here is Jane
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Speaker 1: Fonda defending California to Bill Maher.
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Speaker 9: You know this about California.
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Speaker 2: No, I don't.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 9: I don't. You don't. You've never heard that California is
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Speaker 9: overtaxed and overregulated, that We are a one-party state where
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Speaker 9: there's sort of no checks on that sort of extreme leftism.
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Speaker 9: And why do you think.
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Speaker 6: I don't for a minute consider California a state that
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Speaker 6: is extreme leftist.
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Speaker 1: Not at all. Not any way.
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Speaker 9: Well, that shows where your politics are.
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Speaker 7: That's not where mine are.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, California, it's a totally reasonable place. It's not overrun
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Speaker 1: by left-wing lunatics at all. Meanwhile, here, Senator... Padilla announcing
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Speaker 1: California will use tax dollars to cover legal fees for
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Speaker 1: illegal migrants facing deportation.
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Speaker 7: If it's legal assistance, legal advice, legal support, that's just
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Speaker 7: the California way. We embrace our diversity. Our diversity has
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Speaker 7: made our communities thrive and our economy thrive. And so
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Speaker 7: we will assist families against the threats of the Trump administration.
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Speaker 1: Michael says California is $ 500 billion in debt.
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Speaker 7: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Can you guys imagine being a Californian and putting up
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Speaker 1: with that? By the way, California is also spending money,
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Speaker 1: millions of dollars, to quote Trump-proof California in order to
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Speaker 1: stop him from breaking the law and violating the Constitution.
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Speaker 1: And it's unclear how Trump is planning to break the
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Speaker 1: law or violate the Constitution. It's just really another excuse
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Speaker 1: to waste people's paychecks. Leftism really feels like a ploy
23:54
Speaker 1: to kill the human spirit. Yesterday, Jill Biden unveiled her
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Speaker 1: Christmas decorations, which Greg Price, I think, accurately describes as
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Speaker 1: what would happen if a group of circus clowns projectile
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Speaker 1: vomited all over the White House. And again, that description
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Speaker 1: is very accurate. And this isn't new. Well, first, let's
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Speaker 1: look at these decorations. They are very clownish. They are
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Speaker 1: very ridiculous. And this is not new for Jill Biden.
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Speaker 1: Her decorations last year were just as awful.
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Speaker 7: Take a look.
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Speaker 1: If you're listening, Jill Biden installed these bizarre, oversized, plastic
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Speaker 1: White House Christmas decorations. And just like this year, the
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Speaker 1: elegant People's House looks cartoonish and tasteless. It's like a
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Speaker 1: freak show. By the way, the tap dancers here are interesting.
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Speaker 1: The tap dancers in that video are from the radical
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Speaker 1: leftist New York City-based Dorrance Dance Studio. So the dance
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Speaker 1: performance wasn't just weird. It was also another opportunity for
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Speaker 1: the Biden White House to slip anti-white racism and radical
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Speaker 1: Marxism into the country's Christmas decorations. The studio is avidly anti-police.
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Speaker 1: It promotes explicitly Marxist organizations like BLM on its website.
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Speaker 1: And according to the studio's founder, Michelle Dorrance, white supremacy, racism,
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Speaker 1: and colonialism are deeply embedded in American culture. And art
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Speaker 1: is rooted in protest and transcendence. You see why that
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Speaker 1: tap dancing probably sucked? It's all politicized. It's just what
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Speaker 1: Camille Paglia was talking about.
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Speaker 7: Contrast.
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Speaker 1: Contrast. Jill Biden's decorations with Jackie Kennedy's decorations. It was
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Speaker 1: so classic. It was so perfect. The Nixon's also had
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Speaker 1: great decorations too. I should have included those in this gorgeous,
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Speaker 1: a-frame gingerbread house. It was just wonderful. And let's also
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Speaker 1: play the Melania versus Jill Biden decoration video, Mikey. Again,
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Speaker 1: I mean, Melania was great. She was very classic, very beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden is just atrocious. Really, really horrible. We're good
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Speaker 1: with that, Mikey. I really feel like this is weaponized
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Speaker 1: bad taste from the Biden admin. Neither this year nor
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Speaker 1: last year was a nativity scene in sight. The White
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Speaker 1: House intentionally stripped its Christmas celebration of any deeper meaning,
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Speaker 1: just like the intentionally targeted Christian schools. And the result
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Speaker 1: is ugliness. clownish and vapid decorations that are more insidious
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Speaker 1: than just Jill Biden has bad taste. I think it's
26:57
Speaker 1: deeper than that. The Bidens subscribe to an ugly ideology.
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Speaker 1: Biden has spent the last four years victimizing the American people,
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Speaker 1: stripping us of our dignity and our spirit. The White
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Speaker 1: House flew pride flags and hosted anti-white racist dancers, but
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Speaker 1: refused to prominently display nativity scene. They threw pro-lifers in
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Speaker 1: prison and then gave honors to abortionists. And it's offensive.
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Speaker 1: Just like his presidency, a symbol of our descent from
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Speaker 1: a great country to one that is marred by tyranny
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Speaker 1: and lacking in any kind of identity. Lacking in beauty.
27:37
Speaker 1: I was reminded of this really sad reality even more
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Speaker 1: pointedly over the weekend when I saw the Notre Dame renovations.
27:45
Speaker 1: In 2019, the The Notre Dame Cathedral was burned. And
27:48
Speaker 1: after five years of renovations, it finally has reopened. Here
27:52
Speaker 1: is what it looks like today. So Trump has announced
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Speaker 1: that he will actually fly to Paris and attend the
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Speaker 1: historic reopening of the cathedral. I wish I could be there.
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Speaker 1: If you're listening, it's very bright. I think it's still beautiful,
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Speaker 1: but the aesthetics are different. than what it previously was. Michael,
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Speaker 1: can we pull up the side-by-side of the old versus
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Speaker 1: the new cathedral? Yeah, so you can see it's very dark.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of contrast with the beautiful light, and
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Speaker 1: then it's different now. It's much brighter. Now, I'm going
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Speaker 1: to just give you a little rundown on Notre Dame.
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Speaker 1: The Not really to flaunt wealth or to show how
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Speaker 1: artistic and artful they are, but it was to honor
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Speaker 1: the Virgin Mary and to express theological devotion. Medieval Christians
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Speaker 1: viewed cathedrals as beautiful spaces dedicated to Christ, inspired by
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Speaker 1: liturgical texts celebrating Mary as the living temple of God,
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Speaker 1: the bearer of salvation. They created masterpieces like the North
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Speaker 1: Rose Window to reflect their love of God and Mary.
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Speaker 1: Let's throw up a picture of the North Rose Window
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Speaker 1: if we could, Mikey. I mean, it's gorgeous. As my
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Speaker 1: medievalist professor, Rachel Fulton Brown explains, the Rose Window depicts
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Speaker 1: the relationship between heaven and earth. Let's keep throwing that
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Speaker 1: up there, Michael, if we could. The Rose Window depicts
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Speaker 1: the relationship between heaven and earth made possible through Mary.
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Speaker 1: She sits at the center of the rose with her
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Speaker 1: son in her lap, making for him a throne on
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Speaker 1: earth Even as by containing him in her womb, she
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Speaker 1: became heaven. And it matters that Mary is depicted in glass,
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Speaker 1: the sunlight streaming through her eyes. the window symbolizes the
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Speaker 1: light of God entering into the world through her and
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Speaker 1: taking on flesh. Now, the North Rose window miraculously survived
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Speaker 1: the fire, which is a relief because I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: anything nearly as spectacular and thoughtful could be innovated today.
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Speaker 1: As Fulton Brown wrote back in 2019, it will be
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Speaker 1: a great tragedy if France rebuilds the cathedral as if
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Speaker 1: it were not a beautiful building or an example of
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Speaker 1: human creativity. It is in reality an example of what
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Speaker 1: human beings can make when inspired by the incarnation of
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Speaker 1: the world through the womb of the Virgin. That faith
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Speaker 1: is the source of its beauty. Without faith, it is
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Speaker 1: simply a shell of glass and stone. By the way,
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Speaker 1: if you want to read More from Professor Rachel Fulton Brown,
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Speaker 1: whose substack is Fencing Bear at Prayer. That's the name. Now,
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Speaker 1: I think the restored cathedral is nice. I think I
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Speaker 1: preferred the pre-fire version. The dark aesthetic was very dramatic,
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Speaker 1: and it highlighted the contrasting, magnificent, colorful stained glass and
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Speaker 1: all the artwork. The new modernized altar, I will say,
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Speaker 1: is atrocious. If we could throw up a picture of that, Michael,
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Speaker 1: that looks awful. Yeah, it's terrible. But I don't think...
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Speaker 1: to Fulton Brown's point that another Notre Dame could be
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Speaker 1: spontaneously built today because the inspiration is gone. And I
31:03
Speaker 1: think Fulton Brown is right that while France has restored
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame, it isn't meaningful to the French people. Only
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Speaker 1: 5% of French people attend church regularly. So in other words,
31:15
Speaker 1: for most, Notre Dame is nothing more than a historical site.
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Speaker 1: It is, as Fulton Brown said, a shell of glass
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Speaker 1: and stone. The White House feels that way too. So
31:25
Speaker 1: does St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Institutions and
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Speaker 1: houses of worship, once vibrant, sanctuaries of faith and conviction
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Speaker 1: and meaning, have become hollow shells. And we're not building
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Speaker 1: anything new, anything beautiful, because we no longer stand for
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Speaker 1: anything enduring. And this is the insidious effect of liberalism.
31:47
Speaker 1: Moral relativism does not liberate. It strips us of our spirit.
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Speaker 1: It snuffs out creativity. reduces the richness of human aspiration,
31:55
Speaker 1: and diminishes the collective intelligence of society. There is a
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Speaker 1: direct line from Jill Biden's atrocious Christmas decorations to the
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Speaker 1: deeper rot exemplified by Hunter Biden's sketchy business deals in
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Speaker 1: Ukraine and the deep state's insistence on sparking World War
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Speaker 1: III with Russia. These are all symptoms of a civilization
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Speaker 1: in decline. We live in a society that has become
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Speaker 1: a shadow of itself, a hollow echo of slipped toward
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Speaker 1: tyranny and spiritual desolation, and recognizing the corruption is not enough.
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Speaker 1: I talked about this with Michael Knowles before the break
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Speaker 1: last week. Anti-corruption is a starting point. It's good, but
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Speaker 1: it's not the solution. Critiquing the left is necessary but insufficient.
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Speaker 1: We cannot build a thriving civilization on opposition alone. To
32:45
Speaker 1: reverse this decline, we have to reclaim what we have lost,
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Speaker 1: a belief in something greater than ourselves. We have to
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Speaker 1: return to Christianity, not merely as a cultural inheritance, but
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Speaker 1: as a lived and guiding faith. Without faith, there is
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Speaker 1: no foundation. Without conviction, there is no creativity. Without a
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Speaker 1: return to standing for something timeless and true, our critique
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Speaker 1: becomes nothing more than noise. To truly rebuild, we have
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Speaker 1: to rediscover the spirit that once made us great. That's
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Speaker 1: the only way forward. And that is all I have
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