Ep. 1738 - Trump Defines the "N Word"
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of ExpressVPN for free, expressvpn.com slash K-N-O-W-L-E-S. Alina Habah, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, is officially charging Democrat Congresslady LaMonica McIver. I think I'm pronouncing that correctly. It sounds kind of Italian, doesn't it? LaMonica, LaMonica McIver. She is not Italian. LaMonica McIver

You might remember from the insurrection at the ICE facility a couple of weeks ago. I talked about this on the show. This Democrat Congress lady, along with the mayor of Newark and some other Democrat politicians, show up to an ICE facility.

a DHS facility, go in, trespass on property, and not only that, but start screaming at police who are stopping them, and in fact, allegedly, start assaulting and hitting the police. So, body slamming the police, in the words of one government representative. So, after this happened, there was talk.

that because the Democrat politicians broke the law, they might be charged with a crime. And this Democrat Congress lady did a media blitz to say, you better not arrest me. You better not even consider charging me. But she committed a crime, allegedly, on camera for all to see. And now she's been charged, according to Alina Habba.

Today, my office has charged Congresswoman McIver with violation of Title 18 U.S. Code Section 111.11a.1 for assaulting, impeding, and interfering with law enforcement. Now,

Habba went out to observe that she gave the Democrat Congress lady every opportunity to avoid being charged with a crime. They reached out. They tried to resolve this matter privately as a kind of deferential action, even though McIver behaved like an absolute barbarian, even though McIver is part of the other political party, even though McIver really did not deserve any of those courtesies.

Hava reached out to just try to resolve this. The Congress lady refused to. And so she said, I've persistently made efforts to address these issues without bringing criminal charges. I've given Representative McIver every opportunity to come to a resolution. But unfortunately, she declined. No one is above the law, politicians or otherwise. It is the job of this office to uphold justice impartially, regardless of who you are. Famous line.

From H.L. Mencken, who said that democracy is the theory that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to get it good and hard. Democrats have prattled on for five years now about how no one is above the law. And even some of the most powerful politicians, they need to be held accountable to the law.

And they said this in order to justify their multiple prosecutions against President Trump, along with the unprecedented effort to remove President Trump from the ballot, along with the effort to undermine his first term, along with the defense of spying on his campaign, along with a raid on his home, along with, along with, along with.

All the way up to the justification for his murder. In that case, it was preposterous. The very fact that the Democrats tried to prosecute Trump on four different fronts shows you that those prosecutions were not about blind lady justice, were not about how no one is above the law. They were a conviction in search of a crime. They were a prosecution in search of a crime.

That's not what's going on here. Trump, even though he campaigned in 2016 on how if Hillary if if Trump were president, Hillary would hate it because she'd be in jail. You know, we're going to lock her up, lock her up, even though he campaigned on on that, even on retribution and revenge and all the rest. When really pressed on it, what did Trump say? He always said, well, success is the best revenge.

Well, I'm not actually going to lock her up. I'm actually not going to prosecute my political enemies just to get vengeance on them or something. I'm just going to succeed because I have an agenda to make America great again. In this case, however, you have a Democrat, multiple Democrat politicians allegedly committing crimes on camera, harming law enforcement agents. This isn't just like with the Trump prosecutions. Trump gave a speech that the Democrats didn't like, so they're going to try to throw him in prison.

This woman committed crimes. You have to you have to apply the law. Trump is now doing what the Democrats pretended that they were doing. The Democrats pretended that they wanted something. Trump is giving it to them. Democracy, the theory that the common man knows what he wants and deserves to get it good and hard. Now, speaking of uneducated people.

Really disturbing, alternately disturbing and hilarious segment from CNN on a UConn college student, very prominent university, the University of Connecticut, a UConn college student who is illiterate.

In some ways, Alaysia Ortiz is living an American dream. The 19-year-old began her freshman year at the University of Connecticut in Hartford this fall. She's excited to study public policy, the culmination of hard work after moving north from Puerto Rico as a child. Do you remember when you first came to Connecticut? Yes, I remember I was very nervous, but I know it was going to be difficult.

better opportunities for me to learn. But Alicia says those opportunities never came to fruition. Even today, could you read this or would it take you a long time? It's impossible. I just think it's worse everywhere. Alicia graduated from the Hartford Public School system last year, but she says today she is illiterate. She still doesn't know how to read or write. The layers of this story, it's almost impossible to process. A girl

not only graduated from high school, but is currently enrolled at a prominent college without being able to read or write. In reality, you should not be able to go to college if you are not seriously, uncommonly intelligent and inclined toward education.

I know today we live in this time where we're told everyone has to go to college and you'll have a terrible life if you don't go to college. For the first, I don't know,

900 years of education, that is not how we thought about universities. The only people who went to college to receive a liberal arts education were people who were uncommonly intelligent. And that's just a thing you're kind of born with. And on top of that, uncommonly inclined toward education, toward the liberal arts, toward reading great books, toward abstract thinking about subjects that are not directly applicable. There are plenty of people who are super intelligent who are not inclined toward those things.

Who just want to go out and start a business. Who just want to go out and learn a trade. Which is fine. University was not for them. There are all sorts of things you can do with your life. That's what education was for. That's what higher education was for. We have now degraded universities so much that you can matriculate at a major university without knowing how to read. Not just without having read

Tolstoy, not just without having read the entire corpus of Shakespeare. No, no, no. Without having read ever a single word because you can't. How did that happen? Well, because she graduated from high school. How did she graduate from high school without being able to read? You should be able to read in the second grade. When I was a kid. Now I think you're supposed to read in pre-K or something. How did that happen?

because our whole education system is fake. I'll tell you exactly how it happened. I will tell you exactly the process, but it all comes down to our education system being totally fake. Hold up, hold up. Forget about what I was just saying for one moment, then we'll get back to it because first you got to go to goodranchers.com. Use code Knowles. Did you know over 85% of grass-fed beef sold in US stores is imported?

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And it's easy to believe that because we have iPhones and Google and doodads. But we're not actually. We're much less educated. It's very easy to hear politicians say, you guys are graduating college at a higher rate than any generation before you, the most educated generation ever. No, it's just that college doesn't mean anything anymore, necessarily. Graduating high school doesn't mean anything anymore, necessarily. You know, we...

We hear all of this stuff about, oh, the first generation college graduate, how amazing, what an impressive accomplishment. But unfortunately, it's not. I don't mean to be cruel. I don't really want to yuck on anyone's yum or rain on anyone's parade. But it doesn't mean, a college degree does not mean the same thing it meant 50 years ago. A high school degree doesn't mean the same thing it meant 50 years ago. Through the desire to improve people's lives,

regardless and totally untethered from any of the underlying realities of improvement, we've just destroyed those institutions. You cannot improve people through sheer tyranny of will. It's not possible. I came here for a better life from Puerto Rico. I thought I'd have all this opportunity, but I don't. No, you did have opportunity. You just didn't take it. And you weren't engaged with it.

And the educational institutions lowered their standards to try to engage in the social experiment, and it failed everybody. So it's all just pretend. It's all just pretend. I know there are students who are in graduate school now. I've interacted directly and indirectly with some of them. These kids should not have graduated from the seventh grade. They don't know how to write an English sentence. So what does that mean for the rest of us? Does that mean you shouldn't go to college? Maybe you go to college if you can make something out of it.

It certainly doesn't mean you have to go to college. These things don't mean anything. It is not enough merely to have the appearance of the thing. Some person who can't spell his own name holding up a college degree smiling like a buffoon on camera. Look at this. I graduated college. No, you didn't. Not really. You got to have the goods, man. You got to have the goods. There's really no shortcut to it. And the social engineers in our government are going to pretend that you can do

circumvent all of the difficulties to have a good society, but you can't. You actually have to do the stuff. Now, speaking of the meaning of words, President Trump has just given a very important lesson in language to Brett Baier when during a Fox News interview, President Trump explained the meaning of the N-word. Stronger, stronger, stronger.

to a point where the next one's going to be, you know what, the N-word. You know what the N-word is, right? Nuclear. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for the clarification. I figured you'd want to clean that up. No, it's the N-word. That's a very nasty word, right, in a lot of ways. The N-word used in a nuclear sense, that's the worst thing that can happen.

President Trump, first of all, knows exactly what he's doing. I love this whole setup. And it's going to be, look, if things don't work out, if we don't make peace in these wars, we're going to have the N-word. You know what that is? You know, Brett Baier, who plays it so straight. Yes, Mr. President.

Nuclear? Please tell me it's nuclear. It's nuclear. Yeah, you probably wanted to. What did you think I was talking about? Huh? Thought I was singing some of a new Kanye song or something like that? No. No, I'm not. Trump knows exactly what he's doing. And there is an important political point underneath it. He's not just making a little joke about the really taboo word and then it's not the word that you expect. It's not just that. The profound point there is

That the N-word Trump is talking about should certainly strike more fear into our hearts than the N-word everyone else talks about. You know the N-word? But what's so funny is that the minute he said nuclear, everyone said, oh, I thought he was talking about the scary N-word.

Nuclear is scarier than the other N-word, but our priorities are so messed up in our society today. The taboos are so totally skewed that we're more afraid of a racially offensive word than we are of nuclear winter.

We're so afraid. We would never want to offend anyone. We would never want to touch any racial sensitivities. We wouldn't want to misgender anyone. We wouldn't want to fail to acknowledge the historical sins of our ancestors in America with regard to the Ojiba Bibi people. But we're not worried about geopolitical events spiraling out of control to the point of nuclear war.

The point Trump is making here implicitly, I don't think he's making it consciously, is we got to rethink our priorities and our taboos. We spend way too much time worrying about relatively trivial matters. And we don't spend nearly enough time worrying about the serious matters. And so we're going to sleepwalk into World War III. We're going to sleepwalk into World War III because we're concerned about gender pronouns and racial sensitivities. Bad idea. Okay, we got to get back to normal.

Okay, we got to reorder. We got to be normal people again. We got to make America great again. All of that is implicit in the joke about the N-word. I'm not saying Trump is looking at it with the eye of a critic. He's probably looking at it with the eye of an artist, and he's just going with the bit. But that is what's implicit there. Now, speaking of black people, the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, has gone viral for defending

hiring black people over white people. And not just for discussing how much he loves hiring black people, presumably to the exclusion of hiring white people. It's for his explanation, which is that black people are just more generous. Some detractors that will push back on me and say, the only thing that the mayor talks about is the hiring of black people. No, what I'm saying is when you hire our people, we always look out for everybody else.

We are the most generous people on the planet. I don't know too many cultures that have play cousins. That's how generous we are. We just make somebody a family member, right? This is how we are. And so business and economic neighborhood development, the deputy mayor is a black woman. Department of planning and development is a black woman. Infrastructure deputy mayor is a black woman. Chief operations officer is a black man.

budget director is a black woman, senior advisor is a black man. And I'm laying that out because when you ask how do we ensure that our people get a chance to grow their business? Our people, who are you talking about our people? And just that phrase, just that phrase is so offensive to everyone who isn't black. All of this guy's constituents who aren't black, as you say, we mean our people.

I thought when the mayor of Chicago talks about our people, he should be talking about Chicagoans, his constituents. But he's not. He's talking about black people. He doesn't view himself as the mayor of Chicago. He views himself as the mayor of black people in Chicago. And he's going to give advantages to the black people in Chicago over the white people in Chicago and the Hispanic people in Chicago. And that's very offensive to people. And the upshot of all of this is

This is going to cause a rise in white racial consciousness, period, full stop. And you can trust me to have some detachment on this issue because I was on the beach for four hours over the weekend and I have become a person of color. The Moorish genes have come out, all right? So I have a little more of a disinterested perspective after this weekend. And I am promising you, as this keeps up,

the white racial consciousness is going to increase because white people have basically no racial consciousness and all the other groups consider race to be very important, especially black people who consider race to be more important than anyone else. I've mentioned this Pew Research Survey a number of times on this show. I'll mention it again. Black people have a 70 plus percent racial consciousness. Over 70% of black people say that race is somewhat or very important to their identity. For Hispanics and Asians, it's over 50%. For white people, it's just 15%.

And we used to keep the racial conversation a little bit within boundaries. So even if you had lunatics like this guy, he would just be marching with Malcolm X speaking some illiterate nonsense on the street.

Now he's the mayor of Chicago. This guy isn't just marching with the Hebrew Israelites or the Black Panthers talking about our people, the black people are the generous people. We're the people of the sun, not the evil ice people, white people. This guy's now elected. He's in office. He's the mayor of the second city. And that's going to offend not only the non-black constituents in Chicago, it's going to offend some of the black constituents in Chicago. It's going to offend people all around the country.

And I don't want to hear one little complaint from anyone about the rise of a white racial identity. It's not the white people's fault.

It's not even really the identitarian's fault. It's that guy's fault. If you got the mayor of your city saying, yeah, I want to hire black people. I don't want to hire white people. Black people are generous. White people are not generous. Our people are the black people. We're working for our people, not the white people, even the white people and the Hispanic people in Chicago, who even the ones who voted for me, they're not our people. There's some other people and I'm not going to help them. Well, then don't blame them when they decide they want a little racial consciousness too.

That's just what happened. This is a purely descriptive statement taken from a man who is now a person of color because I went out to the beach in Florida for a couple of days. Okay. Speaking of the beach in Florida, you need to go get the Wildwood Days candle. You got to go to thecandleclub.com right now. Stroll down the boardwalk.

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will allow President Trump to deport illegal aliens. What a sad headline. It's a good headline, I guess, that he can do it. But it's so sad that that has to be a news headline. The Supreme Court will allow the president to enforce a basic aspect of the law. Why was this controversial? Well, according to, I got the news report right here, right here from Reuters.

U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump end deportation protection for Venezuelans. Okay, so he can deport them because he's going to end their deportation protection. Why did they have deportation protection? Well, goes on, first paragraph, the court granted the Justice Department's request to lift another judge's order that had halted Homeland Security Secretary Christine Ohm's decision to terminate deportation protection conferred to Venezuelans

under the temporary protected status or TPS program while the administration pursues an appeal in the case. So all these, this judge ruled this, that was overturned by this judge, and it was blocked by this judge, and then this judge didn't know. But what it all comes down to is a temporary protected status given to the Venezuelans by Democrats that now Trump is removing. Why is that a headline?

Maybe because I guess the Democrats are illiterate. The T stands for temporary. Temporary means not permanent. If it's a temporary protected status, surely the president, the leader of the executive branch,

Can remove it. If not, then the status that the Democrats had conferred on these Venezuelans was not temporary but permanent. Is it the PPS program? No. It's the TPS program. The TPS program, according to Reuters, is a humanitarian designation under U.S. law for countries stricken by war, natural disaster, or other catastrophe.

giving recipients living in the United States deportation protection and access to work permits. So hold on, right there, right off the top, the Venezuelans who are in the United States, are they there because of a natural disaster or other catastrophe? Are they even there because of war? No, they're there because they have a terrible government and they're fleeing for better economic opportunity. And I get it. I wouldn't want to live under the Maduro regime in Venezuela either. But don't tell me that this is because of a natural disaster or some other catastrophe. That's not what it's for.

So they don't even really qualify under the TPS program. But the Democrats gave them temporary protection anyway. Now the Republican president comes in and says, OK, time's up. That was temporary. Now we've come to the end of it. And the Democrats are trying to argue that the people who don't qualify for the temporary program in the first place should have the program's protection permanently. What is confusing about this word?

It's not, I'm joking that it's because the Democrats are illiterate, but it's even worse. They are literate or at least semi-literate. They know what the word is and they don't care. They want to redefine the word just like they want to redefine all the other words. If you can redefine justice, if you can redefine man, if you can redefine marriage, then surely you can redefine temporary. But Trump is plowing ahead. He is wasting no time in trying to deport a lot of these people.

Some of whom he's pressuring in all sorts of different ways. He's giving certain incentives. He says, hey, if you deport yourself, you'll get a thousand bucks. Remember that program from DHS? We covered that, I think, last week on the show. Others, he's saying, hey, you've overstayed your welcome. Well, you didn't have a welcome in the first place. You've overstayed your first deportation order. You've been fined every single day. And if you stay in this country, you're going to owe millions of dollars, as is the case for a woman.

who was just interviewed by CBS Miami. Take a listen. An undocumented individual daily $500. Michelle Sanchez is Maria's attorney. She showed us the document Maria received. They're supposed to say on the date...

That she was advised, and this is blank, because they never advised her of the penalties. So that's going to be my argument. The 1952 act has historically rarely been enforced, but in February, the Trump administration announced it will penalize people living in the U.S. illegally under that act.

What she has is an order of removal in her absence. Is that still accumulating even today? Yes. So that figure is increasing. It could increase. For me, that is absolutely nuts. Sanchez filed a motion to reopen her client's case last year under a policy of the Biden administration, giving ICE attorneys the discretion to reopen cases and lift removal orders. Have you ever been arrested? Nunca. When I asked her if she would voluntarily return to her home country...

It would be extremely painful to be separated from my children. This is their country. This is all they know. Please have mercy. I want to stay with them. Okay. You feel sorry for this woman. You feel sorry for any woman who's crying. Even if she's totally in the wrong, as this woman is, you feel sorry for her.

And it's unfortunate that Democrats have done this. It's unfortunate that Democrats have told these people that they should come here when they shouldn't, and it's illegal. It's unfortunate that Democrats have consistently broken the law to put us in this bad position where our country is seriously imperiled and we have to enforce the law. And that offends people and saddens people who have been lied to and who have broken the law themselves. This woman has been here for 20 years, at least.

She was ordered to leave 20 years ago. She didn't leave. Now she's complaining about having to pay a fine and leave. But what's worse than that is she's been here for 20 years. She, at least 20 years, she was ordered to leave 20 years ago. She never even tried to learn the English language. When the guy asks her, when the reporter asks her, have you ever been convicted of a crime?

She says, nunca. Not even no. You just say no. It's the same word in Spanish and English. And she says, no, she didn't learn. And you don't need to be a Rhodes Scholar. We're talking about early. You don't need to have a super high IQ. You don't need to have a college degree to learn a foreign language. Anyone can learn languages. It's part of our human nature to speak languages. And if you come to a country, especially if you come to a country by breaking the country's laws, you should probably make a special effort to learn the language. On my mother's side of the family, and even a little bit on my father's side of the family, we had

immigrants come to the country. They made a big point to learn English. That's just basic respect. This woman has no basic respect for our country whatsoever. All she is expressing is disrespect. And now, 20 years later, after repeated attempts to say, hey, you can't stay here. You have to leave. Come on. How about you at least try to assimilate in any way? Now she says, can you believe this? Can you believe that mean old Trump? Yeah, I can. I can.

In fact, the fact that she's willing to go on TV just shows you how brazen the system has been. This woman, she knows that there is in principle a risk to going on TV. She says, I don't want my kids to go on TV. Why not? Your kids are American citizens. They cannot be deported. You're going on TV. In principle, you know that there's a risk that you'll be deported, but you are so brazen in your violation of the law that you don't care. You think there's no way they're actually going to deport me. It's so deeply offensive.

At the very least, if you're going to break our laws for decades, at the very least, learn a single English word, please. Is that too much to ask? Apparently it is. Apparently it is too much to ask.

Now, meanwhile, President Trump's immigration policies seem to be having a positive effect on society already. We will check out some crime statistics in Denver in one second. First, though, when you're a DailyWire Plus All Access member, you're not just watching the daily live shows. You are part of the conversation. No ads. Exclusive access to live Q&As where you can ask us questions directly and the first look at what's coming next.

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Two Republican responses to the Biden cancer diagnosis. One,

That we were obviously lied to, that the White House doctor lied and should probably lose his medical license. And the Biden family lied. And Joe actually didn't lie because he told us he had cancer three years ago. And then the media lied about that and covered it up. And so that's a political reaction. And then the personal reaction, usually in the same breath, is, well, pray for Joe Biden. I didn't like him. He was a bad president, but pray for him. You know, no one deserves cancer. It's really just awful. It's terrible. Please pray for him.

And had it been Trump, there would be dancing in the streets from Democrats. We all know that. Because all the top Democrat politicians actually justified the murder of President Trump by saying he posed an existential threat to the country. And then after he was almost murdered, after he was shot through the ear, there were many prominent Democrats who said, ah, you know, just a little, ah, we were a quarter inch off. Ah, if only. I mean, it's on tape, okay? We have the tape. But it's good. It's a reminder that

It goes back to Plato, I think in Gorgias, but it's a common moral thread throughout the West. It is better to be harmed than to do harm. To be harmed is just something that happens in life. Life entails suffering. But to do harm actually imperils your soul, and you'll be held accountable for that. So it's better to suffer an insult or an indignity than to inflict one. Okay, speaking of crimes and death, homicides are down 60% in the city of Denver this year.

You know, there have been a lot of immigration raids in Colorado and in Denver specifically. Now we have this news story. Newly released report says homicides dropped nearly 60% in Denver in 2025. Now, I am not drawing a line of causation. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why homicides might have declined. However, Democrats shouldn't be scratching their heads too hard.

It turns out that if you remove criminals from a situation, you'll get less crime. There's an old bit in a James Toronto column at the Wall Street Journal. It referenced Fox Butterfield. Was that his name? Fox Butterfield, who himself was a newspaper man, who had a famous headline, which said...

Despite prison, prisons continued to fill despite crime going down. This liberal journalist couldn't figure out. He was scratching his head. It seemed to him crazy that you would keep putting people in prison even as crime was going down. It never occurred to him that maybe crime was going down because you were putting the people in prison. You hear this from libs and from squishy people on the right sometimes. They say, we have an over-incarceration problem.

oh, that mass incarceration, that's so bad. No, as long as we have crime, we have an under-incarceration problem. We need to put more people in prison. I was recently talking to a Democrat and he said, Michael, you know, look, I'm a Bernie bro, but I think the one thing where we have a little common ground is we love criminal justice reform. There are plenty of Trump supporters who love criminal justice reform. I said, you pointed to the one thing I don't like about

From the Trump first term was letting letting criminals out of prison. You find the one thing, Bernie, bro, that I don't like. No, we have an under incarceration problem. And by the way, I'm not blaming Trump for this. Trump has Trump's figured it out. Trump is pretty tough on crime. And the Trump immigration policies would appear as a matter of common sense. And I think there's pretty good empirical evidence for it.

would appear to be helping the crime problem because you don't need a PhD in criminology. You don't need to be a brain surgeon. You don't even really need to be literate to know that when you put the criminals in prison, you get less crime. Democrats, however, they're not getting the message. Some of them are doubling down on illegal immigration, including Mayor Pete. Remember Mayor Pete? Mayor Pete, a liberal millennial politician constructed in a petri dish at Langley,

Mayor Pete, who somehow goes from being the mayor of the small town in Indiana to becoming a presidential candidate and doing relatively well and then becoming the transportation secretary under Biden. Amazing careerist. Mayor Pete wants to run for president again. He's already launching the first stages of the campaign, and he's doing so by embracing illegal immigration. They're saying like, oh, well, this guy, you know, he's a criminal. The whole point is that.

No one person, least of all, no one politician gets to decide that you're a criminal. Who decides? We have a process. We have laws. That's what due process is. You're not a criminal because the head of the government of the country you live in says you're a criminal. So none of that is true. Everything, every single thing Pete Buttigieg just said is wrong. And he's a very confused man, if you haven't noticed. So I'm not surprised that everything he said is wrong.

He's talking about an illegal alien. I think here he's talking about Kilmar, Brego Garcia, you know, Chris Van Hollen's girlfriend down in, boyfriend down in El Salvador. That guy got deported for ties to MS-13 and who the Democrat congressman or, you know, taking out on romantic lunch dates. He says, this guy, he's never been convicted of a crime.

Well, maybe. Even the bigger point that Buttigieg is making. Who decides? You don't get to just say he's a criminal. Well, first of all, if he's here illegally, I can just say that. You actually don't need to be convicted. If everyone agrees you are here in this country illegally, then we can know with certainty that you've committed a crime. So you are a criminal. Then Buttigieg goes on, he says, and in this country, no one person

Gets to just decide that you're a criminal. That's not true. That's what a judge does. That's the point of a judge. So, and certainly not a politician. Well, no, but the judges are politicians too. And so actually, so the first three things you've said are just totally wrong. Because in this country, we have due process, sure. And part of due process is a guy says you're a criminal or not, based on the evidence. Who decides? And this is the key. This is always the liberal objection.

Whenever we want to do anything good, the liberals say, well, who decides? Hey, I think we should have less hardcore abusive pornography all over society. Oh, yeah, Michael. Well, who decides what's good and what's abusive?

hey, you know, I think we should probably deport some of the millions of illegals who are here. Oh, yeah, you think we should deport people? Who decides? As if this were some brilliant insight. Who decides in politics? We do, I guess. I don't know. I guess we do. I'd like to. At the very least, we would say someone decides. Someone is going to decide, be it a judge or

be it an elected politician, be it voters who go to the ballot box, be it law enforcement, which enforces the law, be it cultural stewards who enforce standards and norms. Someone's going to decide. You got to decide things. You can't just not decide. You can't be in a state of indeterminacy forever, a state of radical skepticism that never comes to any conclusions. You can't do that. We're going to decide.

So Pete wants to decide, force his will through his authoritarian choices. He wants to decide to let all the illegal criminals stay and keep murdering people and thieving and raping. And the Republican opponents are going to decide to deport the illegals. And then you, the voter, can decide which of those kinds of countries you want to live in. We decide. We decide things. That's called democracy.

uh, reason, which is essential to self-government. That's what we're going to do. What decision are you going to make? Are you going to vote for mayor Pete? I don't think so. Speaking of national leadership, you know, and, and refugees for that matter,

You know that there are Afrikaners who are the white South Africans who are being targeted by their government. And so they're coming to America as refugees. And we finally found the one kind of refugee that the liberals don't like. They want to take in all the supposed refugees from everywhere in the world, even the ones who aren't really refugees, even the ones who are just economic migrants, even the ones who are face tattooed Satan-worshipping gangsters. They want to take in all those people as refugees. But the white South Africans who are being targeted for murder by their government are

Because two, at least, of the major political parties in South Africa regularly chant a song, kill the boa, kill the farmer, shoot to kill, get, get, get, and go to farms and rape and kill these people. Because 59 of those people are going to come to America as refugees tomorrow.

The liberals are up in arms here. And the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, is furious too. And he's calling them cowards. When you run away, you're a coward. And that's a real cowardly act. You're a coward. When you run away from the ANC party and from the EFF party chanting, shoot to kill, kill the boa, kill the farmer, shoot to kill. When you run away from us, you are a coward.

I don't know. I think that makes you smart. Doesn't that make you prudent? I think it is basically what this guy is saying. He's saying, it is cowardly of you not to let us reduce you to second-class citizens. It is cowardly of you not to let us steal all your money and steal all of your land. These are mainstream South African policies that that guy supports. And what he's saying is, it's cowardly of you not to allow yourself to be murdered.

which is not something that that guy supports, but it is something that guys like Julius Malema support, head of the Economic Freedom Fighters Party support, big party in South Africa, who chant, shoot the boar, shoot the farmer, shoot to kill, which has also been chanted by the African National Congress Party, the biggest party in South Africa. If you don't want the white South Africans to flee, there's a simple thing you can do. Rather than browbeat them and call them cowards and yell at them, you can just not persecute them. You cannot steal their land. You cannot steal their money.

You cannot encourage citizens to murder them and rape them. You can just stop persecuting them. But if you don't, then you can't blame the white South Africans for fleeing and seeking refuge in other countries. You can't. If you tie it right back to the top of the show, if you don't want there to be a white racial consciousness, fair enough.

But then you can't have the mayor of Chicago talking about our people and us being only black people and how we should only hire black people and not white people because the black people are generous and the white people presumably are not generous. I guess this is the broader lesson for the liberals. No one is immune to consequences.

Okay, you cannot, you can wish for all sorts of standards and habits in the world, and you can try to create them in the world around you. That is the political project, is to figure out how we're all going to live together in a way that's conducive to the common good of all. Okay, that's great. But you can't expect contradictions.

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