Andrew Clavin and Michael Knowles dissect Kevin Hart’s Oscar resignation as a targeted attack by "social justice warriors," exposing hypocrisy in punishing conservatives while ignoring offenses from figures like Kyler Murray or Jimmy Kimmel. They link it to broader systemic persecution, citing FBI leaks targeting Trump and EU overreach stifling British sovereignty post-Brexit—where Theresa May’s deal betrayed the 2016 referendum’s anti-regulation promise. Knowles frames the EU as a German-led, leftist project undermining national identity, while Clavin ties media bias to a coordinated "empire of lies," where truth-tellers face career destruction. Both argue elites weaponize outrage and climate narratives for control, from Vanity Fair hit pieces to Pope Francis’s cultural revisions. [Automatically generated summary]
Comedian Kevin Hart has resigned from his gig hosting this year's Academy Awards after he was attacked by a ravening mob composed of seven basement dwellers and 412 Russian bots for tweets he sent in 1852 saying that he wouldn't want his son to be gay.
President of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences Surly Whiteman told reporters, quote, this was a terribly embarrassing incident.
We assumed that Kevin, being a black comedian, could be counted on to have the opinions we white elites have assigned to African Americans.
But you might say he went off the plantation and we had to send the dogs after him to bring him back.
Then we had to whip him, then brand him, then sell him downriver so that other black comedians would not get any ideas about defying us in the future, unquote.
Hart's resignation left the Academy scrambling as Whiteman explained in a statement released to his therapist, quote, We now have to answer the question, who is homosexual enough to host an antiquated award show that nobody watches, celebrating incomprehensible movies that nobody saw.
After all, we have to come up with something to broadcast while normal people are out on dates watching the reboot of The Last Spider-Man reboot as it tries to elevate yet another not quite masculine actor to momentary stardom by having him get bitten on the ass by a radioactive spider, unquote.
Hart's resignation marked yet another victory for a faceless mob of social justice warriors who gathered afterward to celebrate at Riviera 31 where they danced the night away costumed as coyotes and pieces of garbage.
As head SJW Surley Whiteman, no relation to the Motion Picture Academy president, told reporters while vomiting blood on the men's room floor, quote, it isn't easy to be small-minded and mindless at the same time, but by golly, we did it.
And now thanks to us, another black man is out of work.
What a glorious occasion.
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All right.
Baby, it's swampy outside, boy.
All weekend long, the swamp has been overreacting.
You know, in Empire of Lies, a novel I wrote, one of the characters, Empire of Lies is about how political correctness, it's a thriller about political correctness that makes an oncoming terrorist attack virtually invisible by forcing people not to talk about the things that contribute to terrorist attacks, like in this case, Islamism.
And at one point, the hero goes to a university where he's finding out all the things that people can't say.
And somebody says this, I'm quoting myself here, which I don't like to do, but it's worth it.
He says, these powerful people, these powerful people believe things like one culture is as good as another, or there's no such thing as good and evil, and therefore if America is at odds or at war with somebody, it must be America's fault.
He says, you only have to think about those statements for two minutes to see that they can't possibly be true, but these people think they should be true, and they think they'll seem to be true if no one is allowed to say that they're not true.
So they attack anyone who says that they're not true.
They call him names, racist, sexist, phobic, offensive, whatever.
They demand apologies from him.
They make his life a misery.
So no one wants to speak up.
And the hero says, so it's like the emperor's new clothes.
And the guy says, right, except instead of clothes, it's the emperor's lies.
And in an empire of lies, only a crazy man would speak the truth.
And what he goes on to say is when they destroy you, they don't destroy you for speaking the truth.
They destroy you for being crazy because you have to be a different kind of person, an offbeat, eccentric, or even wild kind of person to speak the truth when you know it's going to cost you your job.
And when you're, you know, when you're listening to me, you know, my wife scolds me about this.
My wife actually says to me, you don't care enough about what people say about you.
You don't care enough about your status and your reputation.
She's right.
I don't.
I'm here doing something else.
I'm writing and talking as honestly as I know how.
It gives me great joy to do it.
They've already, you know, I've already lost all the Hollywood jobs and I've gotten the reviews where they call me names.
I've got all that stuff.
It doesn't mean a thing to me because I love what I'm doing and it matters to me and I think it's what God wants me to do.
But that's not the usual thing.
People can be got.
They want what they want.
They want the lovely things that they've built.
Kevin Hart is a guy who grew up without a mom, without a dad.
His dad was a cocaine addict.
He went to prison.
His mom raised him.
He is the guy that we want Americans to be.
He's the guy who overcame the difficulties of his youth and he became a big success.
He is the all-American guy, right?
This is the kind of person we think, like, yeah, this is what we love about America, that he can do it.
When he got his job hosting the Oscars, he said, this is my dream job.
This is what he worked.
You know, he's a kid.
He's growing up.
He's thinking about being an entertainer.
This is a big deal.
It is a big deal to him.
He wants it.
And they go back and they find some tweets where he said, you know, yo, if my son comes home and tries to play with my daughter's dollhouse, I'm going to break it over his head and say, stop, that's gay.
Okay, so this, oh my goodness, this was too much.
And so the whole point about this, it's not about right or wrong.
It's certainly not about the fact that it's in the past.
It's about the fact that it's all power.
It's identity politics.
It's just power.
Identity politics is power politics with your face pasted on it as a mask, right?
If they know they can take away from this man, his dream job, the job this black American worked for all his life and suffered for and did all the stuff that you have to do.
And when you go into show business, when you become a writer like me, you're risking a lot.
You're risking your life.
Most people who do these things could do other things, could do safer things like be a lawyer or a businessman.
Being in the arts is a risky, risky profession.
This guy made it.
He succeeded.
And now he's in danger because he said something that he believed at the time, may believe now.
He may believe it now, that that's the way he should.
It's none of your damn business.
And if he tweeted it, he has the right to his opinion.
Let me just point out, you know my points of view.
People on our listenership are always attacking me for not condemning homosexuality.
I don't care what other people do with their private life.
I've never said whether these things are sinful or not because I think that's between you and God.
And God, as I read the Bible, God has purposely told us that we are not to judge other men's sins.
That is not what we are here for.
We are here to love one another.
We're here to sit down, even with sinners, as Christ did.
It's hard for me to, you know, it doesn't tell you in the Bible what Christ said to the sinners when he sat down with them, but I really doubt he haranged them over dinner.
You know, I mean, it was everybody else saying to him, why are you doing this?
And he said, these are the people I've come for.
These are the people I've come to collect.
And so I feel like it's not my job to make those judgments.
It is God's job.
And I've worked with so many talented, lovely, wonderful gay people.
I don't want to attack anybody or even think about their relationship with God, which is their personal issue, okay?
But you have the right to pass judgments on behaviors.
You have a right to say what you think about them.
You have a right to even make nasty comments.
I mean, if you're crying out loud, it's not going to change anything.
It's not going to make people more tolerant, to silence people.
It makes you just more angry.
And it just enforces lying.
It means that now Kevin Hart has to not say the things that he wanted to say.
So we saw the usual lynching.
It's a lynching.
That's what it is.
It's a social lynching.
First they come out and Kevin Hart makes this statement.
This is cut number seven.
He comes out and says, oh my God, this whole thing is coming back and I don't want to hear about it.
Here he is.
My team calls me, oh my God, Kevin, the world is upset by tweets you did years ago.
Oh my God.
Guys, I'm almost 40 years old.
If you don't believe that people change, grow, evolve as they get older, I don't know what to tell you.
So that's the first thing that everybody says.
Oh, it was in the past.
And this is, I mean, they've actually gotten into trouble with this.
The Heisman Trophy winner, this lovely guy from Oklahoma U, Kyler Murray, he's the quarterback there.
He won the Heisman Trophy.
Gave this beautiful speech, thanking God, thanking his coaches, thanking his parents.
Obviously, a humble guy who's worked so hard for this.
USA Today goes out and finds a tweet from when he was 15 years old in which he used the word queer.
He calls somebody, you know, like, that's never, no 15-year-old has ever done this before.
But of course, and people jump down their throats as they should because he said it when he was 15.
I don't care if he said it today.
You know, the guy has a right.
Part of what defines you is what you don't like.
Part of what defines you are the things that you disapprove of.
You're perfectly allowed.
You should be perfectly allowed without risking your career to have an opinion.
It is not like attacking somebody's race, which is the way they're born.
It's part of the image of God that they are made in.
You know, it's not like that.
When you attack people's behaviors, when you attack their philosophies, when you criticize them, even when you make jokes about them, you're perfectly within the rights of human interaction.
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No ease.
It's not easy, believe me.
So that's the first statement that Kevin Hart makes just saying, oh, this is terrible.
Then he says, I'm not going to apologize.
Here's the second one.
I just got a call from the Academy.
And that call basically said, Kevin, apologize for your tweets of old, or we're going to have to move on to find another host.
Talking about the tweets from 2009, 2010.
I chose to pass.
I passed on the apology.
The reason why I passed, because I've addressed this several times.
This is not the first time this has come up.
I've addressed it.
I've spoken on it.
I've said where the rights and wrongs were.
I've said who I am now versus who I was then.
I've done it.
I've done it.
I'm not going to continue to go back and tap into the days of old when I moved on and I'm in a completely different space in my life.
The same energy that went into finding those old tweets could be the same energy put into finding the response to the questions that have been asked years after years after years.
We feed in the internet trolls and we reward them.
I'm not going to do it, man.
I'm going to be me.
I'm going to stay on my ground.
Regardless, Academy, I'm thankful and appreciative of the opportunity.
If it goes away, no harm, no foul.
So you just know that the next thing, what the next thing is going to be, because, again, this is the guy's dream job.
He worked his way to get it.
So finally, he steps down.
He says, I've made the choice to step down from hosting this year's Oscars, and he apologizes.
I sincerely apologize to the LGBTQ community for my insensitive words from my past.
I'm sorry that I hurt people.
I'm evolving and I want to continue to do so.
I wish, I mean, I think we all wish at this point that just one of these guys, just one of these guys would just say, you know what?
Screw you.
Screw you.
These are my opinions.
I have opinions.
Sometimes they're not politically correct.
This is me.
He wants his career.
He worked hard to get it.
He came up from a hard place.
He got the dream.
He doesn't want to give it up.
People care if everybody except your humble host cares about what people say about them.
And I think that this is, you know, what you're seeing is vicious.
And as other people have pointed out, and by the way, the apology will never be enough.
A Washington Post opinion piece was called, you know, is it enough?
Has he done enough penance?
Is it enough or is it just a start?
You know, the Washington Post is going to decide how much he has to suffer.
Christian Toto, our friend from Toto in Hollywood, the right-wing film critic, points out that all these leftists have said all these homophobic things.
Chelsea Handler, she used a homophobic attack on Lindsey Graham, saying what kind of video do they have of you performing oral sex that you have to go along with the Republicans.
Jimmy Kimmel attacked Sean Hannity, saying, do you prefer to be on top or the bottom with Donald Trump?
Sons of Anarchy guy Ron Perlman attacked Senator Rand Paul for saying he was having oral sex and all this stuff.
But that's the point, you see.
It's not about increasing tolerance about gay people.
It is about policing doctrine and punishing the people who essentially disagree.
Kevin Hart is a guy who never went along with the killing Trump crowd.
I don't know what his politics are.
He didn't use those jokes.
He didn't do what everybody is doing and virtue signal and send the signal.
Yes, I am certified.
The white elite can now approve of me because I go along with their opinions.
You know, the black community, if there is such a thing as a black community, the black community was part of the reason that even in California, moves to attempt legally and constitutionally to institute gay marriage didn't work.
The black community showed up and voted against it.
They had strong feelings about it.
And, you know, it's white elites who are imposing these ideas.
But again, it is not about tolerance.
It's not about anything.
It's the swamp.
It is the swamp saying, we are the dictators of opinion, of thought.
We are the ones who decree what you can say, what you can do, how you can succeed, what kind of person you have to be to succeed.
Which brings us to Donald Trump.
Because the thing is, going back to where I started, in an empire of lies, only a crazy man will tell the truth.
And they sent Donald Trump specifically because he's so offbeat.
He is such a guy, a guy with bad manners, so he doesn't care about political correctness, a guy who's not always the most moral person in the world, so scandal can't touch him because we all already know what he is, right?
So this weekend, or at the end of last week, not just the Mueller investigation, but the federal attorneys for the Southern District of New York to whom Mueller has passed on aspects of the investigation sent sentencing guidelines into the court, including sentencing guidelines about Michael Cohen.
Now, before I get to this, let me get to a story that was obviously leaked to CNN because they wanted it reported by a friendly source first.
But it's obviously going to come out in other places.
Emails that went back and forth between the FBI director and Rod Rosenstein at Justice, in which they said, this is in the, it says, this is a CNN reporting, right?
In the hectic eight days after Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Attorney Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and top FBI officials viewed Trump as a leader who needed to be reined in, according to two sources describing the sentiment at the time.
Now you know these sources are giving this to a friendly source, CNN, Swamp News, right?
CNN is Swamp News.
They're the news from the swamp by the swamp.
You're leaking this to protect themselves.
They discussed a range of options.
This is Rod Rosenstein at Custis talking to FBI officials, including the idea of Rosenstein wearing a wire while speaking with Trump, which Rosenstein later denied.
Ultimately, then acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe took the extraordinary step of opening an obstruction of justice investigation even before special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed, the sources said.
The obstruction probe was an idea the FBI had previously considered, but it didn't start until after Comey was fired.
So they were talking about this even before Comey was fired.
My point here, my point here is everything you're hearing is the Justice Department and the FBI, the FBI, our law enforcement agency, deciding that this was a president who needed to be reined in.
The guy that you elected needed to be reined in.
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You sent an offbeat oddball, a guy who wasn't clubbable, who wasn't one of the elites, who wasn't a guy that people were going to be seen with.
They thought that, you know, it was nice of you to vote for him.
Thanks very much.
But we are going to reverse this election.
We're going to reverse the effects of this election by starting an investigation that will rein him in.
Just imagine, just imagine if the FBI had been caught doing that to Barack Obama, who certainly violated all kinds of rules of constitutional governance, his IRS scandal and all the rest.
He violated all this.
Just imagine if the FBI had said, we're going to rein this guy in.
So when you hear what I say next, you should understand that this is all part of the program of the swamp to rein this guy in.
And, you know, it is not a point about whether he's a good person.
You know, you know what I think of his morals and the way he's lived his life.
It's not whether he's nice.
It's not even whether he has done stuff that we don't like.
It's the motive.
It is the motive.
It is not about, just in the same way, it's not about whether Kevin Hart or anybody else used a word queer or said something about gay people.
It's not about that.
It's about power.
It is about using those things for power because it doesn't count when the other side does them, right?
So in this sentencing guideline, they essentially say that Michael Cohen was guilty of violating federal election law by paying off some of the names that Trump was sleeping with and didn't want it going around.
And here's Andy McCarthy, who has been absolutely the gold standard on reporting on this.
Here he is talking to Fox about what exactly he thinks this means.
This is cut number three.
The Southern District of New York case, which is different from the Mueller case on Cohen, they are clearly going after the president on campaign finance violations.
And I think if you read the sentencing memo the Southern District filed in Cohen's case, it's clear that Trump is the target and he'll be indicted eventually.
The guidance the Justice Department has is that a sitting United States president can't be indicted.
So the president's not supposed to get an advantage from being president.
All we say is that he can't be put through the criminal process while he's president.
So I think what can happen is they can indict him and he could be tried down the road when he's out of office.
Now, you know, there could be real problems about that, particularly if he gets re-elected.
The statute of limitations on this would have long run by the time he gets out of office.
But will he be charged?
Are they setting the stage to file charges against him?
If you read that sentencing memo, I can't come to any other conclusion.
See, because in an empire of lies, only the crazy man will speak the truth.
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So again, you know, Trump sent out a tweet when all this stuff came out.
Totally clears the president.
Thank you.
That's not the point.
And the point is also, you know, some people on the right were saying, how can you call this a federal campaign violation if Trump has been paying off women all along?
He has, and he has been.
That's probably true.
But we should also think about the fact that that's our president, right?
That's the kind of president we had to elect to fight with the swamp, because in an empire of lies, only a crazy man will tell the truth, only a guy like Trump.
And so now they're going after him for his crazy, and we have to make sure not to get on the crazy train with him, but to defend him from what is essentially a power grab.
Now, of course, the media reacted with their usual restraint.
Let's listen to them.
This is cut forward.
If precedent means anything in the Trump era, Donald Trump will be, must be impeached because of the crimes prosecutors say he committed in the Michael Cohen case.
What does it take to get an impeachment, a hearing against this president?
He's accused of federal crimes by federal prosecutors in New York City.
The House is going to have little choice the way this is going other than to start impeachment proceedings.
Democracy is at stake.
And it seems to me if Democrats don't take their responsibilities seriously, they will be held responsible for what's happening.
It certainly looks like they are the kind of offenses that would call for impeachment hearings into the conduct of the president of the United States.
Stop the hammering.
The hammering will never stop.
They'll never stop.
Now, here's the thing.
You know, I'm not condoning paying off your cheap women that you cheated on your wife with, you know, to keep them silent.
And the idea that we as right-wingers should suddenly sit around and say like, yeah, cool.
No, that's not the point.
The point is that only a guy, they are so powerful, they are so willing to destroy you.
As we saw with Kevin Hart, they're so willing to take him in.
Doesn't matter.
Does it matter that he's a black man who worked his way up to get there?
No, it does not.
Does it matter that the kid who won the Heisman Trophy, same thing?
Nope, absolutely not.
It is what you are allowed to say.
It is making sure that you all tote the line, that we're all living on their plantation.
That's the whole point.
And if you don't think so, just think back to the fact that the Obama campaign underreported like $2 million in campaign contributions, and there were campaign contributions that were above the limit, and the Justice Department fined them.
They gave them a fine, $375,000, which was nothing compared to the fact that it was a billion-dollar operation.
It was nothing, you know, and so now they say, well, it's different now.
It's different.
And then we had, you know, remember Dinesh D'Souza made that, what was it, like 20 grand?
And they threatened him with 15 years in prison.
They finally forced him to spend time in that confinement facility where he had to go back and sleep in basically a prison-like environment until Trump pardoned him.
But then when Rosie O'Donnell was found doing, ah, that's different.
It's different.
It's only about this.
It is only about their power.
It is only about the fact that their power has been challenged.
And it's always this.
Now they're going to go after Trump on a sex charge.
They're going to impeach him on a campaign violation and a sex charge.
They'll probably do it, but it's going to be fun to watch because just remember, a lot of the guys who are in there now, like Jerry Nadler, who's calling for impeachment, he was defending Clinton.
So you can't impeach a man for his private sexual life.
You can't do that.
So the hypocrisy, of course, is thick.
It's all about the swamp defending itself.
It is all about the empire of lies.
They know that the kind of person who will attack the empire of lies are people like me who are just not quite like other people.
And sometimes people like me are okay.
I'm not a Trump.
I'm not a guy who's sleeping around and paying people off.
That's not my gig.
But I am not paying attention.
I am clearly not paying attention to what people are saying about me.
And I haven't been all these years.
So I'm a little different than everybody else.
But if you're different, it's pretty clear you're going to be eccentric.
It's pretty clear you're going to say things that aren't in keeping with the standards.
And they're going to be able to get you.
You're going to be vulnerable.
And Trump is vulnerable.
And the swamp is coming after him to get him.
And the outcome is in doubt.
We don't know what's going to happen or how much.
But the point is, my only point is it's not about the law.
It's not about protecting gay people.
It is just about preserving their power.
And we're going to talk to Michael Knowles about how they're trying to preserve their power in England by stopping Brexit.
That's coming up.
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So there was an article in The Federalist about the French riots, which are still going on.
And Emmanuel Macron, I never had it in Macron, Macaroni, Macaron, Macron, has been backing down and backing down.
He promised he was never going to be beaten up by the rioters, but he was.
And so now he's backing down about his gas tax and all this stuff, his pro-business stuff.
But there was an article in the Federalist by Auguste Merat, and he was saying that what this really is about is the fact that France has lost its soul.
And because France has lost its soul, it's losing its body.
It's people.
He's talking about losing their religion.
Its people, communities, business, and infrastructure.
And what we're seeing is a collapse in Europe of all their standards, all the things that made them what they are, Christendom and all this.
And Britain is fighting to try and get its independence back from this absolute juggernaut that is the EU with its leftist kind of bland, anti-religious regulatory state.
And they are doing just like they're doing everything here.
The swamp is doing everything here to get its power back.
Same thing is happening in England.
Michael Knowles, what a lovely sweater.
Oh, this old thing?
This is the old crank official.
Merry Christmas sweater at the Daily Wire story.
It really did.
I saw that and I thought, well, that's true.
Yeah, I am.
Nailed it.
Yeah, absolutely.
But then I realized they were actually being mean.
They were trying to.
I was confused.
They called me a dapper lib-triggering troll.
That's true.
Which I'll take it.
Yeah, that's relatively pretty good.
I've never heard of a troll described as dapper, but I'll take it.
Well, I would have liked to have been a dapper old crank.
I wouldn't have said no.
What on earth?
You know, it's funny.
Those guys were in Clinton's pocket.
Vanity Fair.
It was a Clinton publication.
I know people who wrote for them or tried to write for them.
And if you said anything about Bill, you were shut down fast.
And so they're just a dishonest publication.
Why are they attacking us?
Well, they're a dishonest publication.
And you read, I mean, it was a very long profile, but I got the impression she had never watched the shows.
The only one they referenced was one episode of our backstage show.
And so I think they didn't quite watch it.
It was obviously going to be a hit piece coming from Vanity Fair, but that's fine.
I mean, Donald Trump made it to the presidency on hit pieces.
So come at me.
Come at me, bro.
It is so, it really is true.
You know, I wrote a piece once about Rush Limbaugh in the LA Times, and it was called the Rush Limbaugh Challenge.
And what it said was, all the people attacking Rush Limbaugh have never listened to Rush Limbaugh.
They're only quoting these little lines that have come out from the left against Russian Brexit.
Whatever.
And so I said, I challenge you to listen to him.
So the LA Times responded.
They ran the piece, and then they responded by running the opposite piece of people attacking me.
And it was all left-wingers, like the guy who did All in the Family, what was his name?
Oh, Rob Reiner?
No, not Rob Reiner.
Norman Lear.
It was like guys like Norman Lear attacking me, saying, I've listened to Rush Limbaugh, and then using those quotes, those pull quotes from the left.
And I thought, damn it, I knew I was right.
Well, let them come.
Let them come.
Bring them on.
Bring them on.
They're now going after Brexit.
They're now going after Brexit.
What is going on?
It's like she's going to lose this, isn't she?
Yes, she is going to lose this.
People are so confused over what this is because there isn't even just one Brexit deal.
What is the Brexit?
The Brexit was a vote, a referendum vote on June 23rd, 2016, over two years ago now, for Britain to leave the European Union.
The European Union, the supranational transnational body which imposes its will on sovereign nations from Brussels from totally unaccountable bureaucrats on how many immigrants you have to take in, on what trade deals you have to accept, on how much salt you put in your potato chips.
How much salt you put in your potato chips, a slew of the European Court of Justice, all of these regulations coming down from Brussels.
And so that was the vote.
Then there was an agreement text for how this Brexit was going to work that was agreed to in November of this year.
So it took them two years, but they figured out an agreement.
And the agreement is terrible.
The agreement is not a Brexit.
It is Brexit in name only.
It fails to achieve what the people voted for, which is classic European politics.
Right, of course.
That's how they do it.
People express their will and then the.
That's exactly right.
So there was supposed to be a vote today on the agreement that was agreed to by Brussels and by London to leave the EU.
Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, had to pull it because she didn't have the votes.
She didn't have the votes on the left.
She didn't have the votes among the Tories either.
So now we have a few different options.
We can have a no-deal Brexit, so there's no agreement.
It just happens.
And then the EU is left temporarily without any trading partners with chaos all around.
Then there's the other option, which is a last-minute renegotiation.
That's what May thinks she's going to get right now.
She's flying all over Europe right now, trying to get people to give her a better Brexit deal.
And the final option is another referendum.
This is what George Soros wants.
Soros, and this is no conspiracy theory.
Soros has publicly talked about this.
He is campaigning for another Brexit vote next year because the left is going to count those votes until they get it right.
You're just anti-Semitic.
That's right.
Soros is a deeply devout Jew.
An orthodox, practicing Jew.
That's right.
So what is wrong with this deal?
This deal that May negotiated with Brussels.
She had these red lines.
And these red lines are a lot like Barack Obama's red lines in Syria.
They get a little pink, then they get a little clear, and they're transparent.
So one was that Britain will leave the single market and the regulations imposed by the European Union.
According to this new Brexit deal, okay, that happens.
But then Britain has to agree to a common rule book, which just coincidentally are all of the European Union's single market regulations.
No, no kidding.
Seriously.
So it's non-Brexit.
It is not.
When Theresa May said Brexit means Brexit, what she meant was Brexit and then Brexit or something like that.
Something like Brexit.
I mean, it says Britain was supposed to leave the customs union and be able to have free trade deals with non-EU members.
What's going to happen under this deal is that Britain is going to stay indefinitely in that customs union and it will only be able to leave by the consent of the EU.
And guess what?
The EU ain't going to give it.
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It said that Britain was going to have to be out of the Court of Justice, the European Court of Justice.
Guess what happens?
Well, under this deal, they're going to stay in the ECJ on regulations and trade, and the UK courts are going to have to follow their rulings.
But it's still a Brexit.
Wow, really?
Oh, yes.
So this was a total failure.
It's a farce.
It's a total farce.
And she just, well, she lost her majority, right?
She lost her.
So she just, does she not have the power to do it?
Or if she followed Brexit, if she went in and got a hard Brexit, what would happen?
Would she get the votes then?
Well, she voted to remain.
She voted against Brexit.
She's said ever since she took control as prime minister, she's going to advance Brexit.
But a lot of Tories, a lot of people in her party did not want this.
And a lot of people on the left do.
And a lot of people on the left do.
They think they're too pro-business, basically.
That's right.
You know, the right opposes the European Union because of sovereignty, because of questions of liberty.
The left opposes it because they view it as cronyism, corporate capitalism.
They think it's an impediment to nationalizing certain industries.
So it's got opposition on both sides.
What will happen if they're predicting that the sky will fall if there's a no-deal Brexit?
Oh, they've been predicting this forever.
Forever and ever.
What is really going to happen?
There almost certainly will be some limited chaos in the short term.
I mean, if it goes, this could affect air travel.
This could affect certainly, obviously, trade.
Instantly, trade deals are going to disappear.
This could the big worry is the backstop.
So what the backstop is, the backstop plan is avoiding a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
The Republic of Ireland stays in the EU.
Northern Ireland leaves as part of the Brexit.
So they're saying, well, if there's going to be a hard border, it's going to divide up Ireland.
It's going to be, it's unworkable.
And they're not going to do a hard border, so there's no real Brexit.
Nonsense.
This is total nonsense.
There was a common travel area for 50 years before this.
That's right.
That is a made-up worry.
So much of this trade stuff, they keep saying we'll have no trade with the rest of Europe.
I thought, like, why?
Because they won't have boats.
That's right.
How will we get across the channel without the EU?
But let's say, I mean, it's not going to be an economic catastrophe.
They'll just negotiate trade deals.
It's not a big deal.
Let's say that there is in the short run.
This is the argument.
Let's say that in the short run, stocks take a hit, the pound takes a hit, whatever.
The question is sovereignty.
The question is who runs your country?
Is your country being run by unaccountable bureaucrats out of Brussels who have nothing to do with you or your traditions or whatever?
By the way, profit in a decline.
In a decadent world, the elites do well.
That's right.
That's right.
That's exactly right.
It's the guys in the middle of the country, the guys who work for a living who get screwed.
That's right.
And so what are you going to prioritize?
I look at this as a terrible, scary lesson that Americans should take.
When you enter into these supranational international organizations, you can't leave.
You know, it's funny.
There are people, especially on the right, but there are people who look back and say that Lincoln was wrong when he elevated the Union above liberty and that the Confederacy should have been able to leave.
And of course, it's the evil of slavery that it's the evil of slavery that only makes that issue confusing because we all knew that this had to end and it was an absolute crime against humanity.
It had to be stopped and all this.
But if you leave that out for a minute, if you can mentally put that aside, the Confederacy, the states entered into that agreement with the thought, if we don't like it, we can leave.
And the fact that it became a civil war actually was a violation of that original agreement.
Once you're in, you can't, you know, it's like the mob, you know, that right now.
Once you're in, you just want to figure out.
Big man!
I know I'm confusing a few movies here, but that's yes, that's certainly right.
And I, you know, rather even than some normative judgment about it, this should be this way, it shouldn't be this way, there's just a positive realization.
This is the way that these organizations work.
Once you are in them, it is virtually impossible to get out of them.
And if you look at the history of Europe, Britain has a history of not getting involved with things that all the rest of Europe has gotten involved with, like the Inquisition, like the Napoleonic conquest like the Nazis.
You know, there's one thing, again and again, these bad things, like a stain, have spread over Europe.
This little island in the North Sea has actually stayed clear of them.
And they're actually following in that tradition.
They're more connected to us than they are to the rest of the world.
That's exactly right.
And I think there are some people even on the right who have this romantic notion of a unified Europe, the unified West.
And I get it.
I totally get it.
I loved very, I like the Roman Empire.
I like various parts in the Middle Ages.
I like various empires that existed.
But look at what it is now.
Look at what a united Europe looks like now.
It's not a united Christendom.
It's not a united common culture or anything like that.
It is this secular, weak, awful, leftist, decadent, environmentalist, whatever ism you want to attach to it that is being run by Germany.
That's the other side of that.
That's right, they won.
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I know.
They actually won.
They fought one war against the one.
They fought another war against the entire world.
And then we just gave it to them.
And now, you know, with letting all the Islamic immigrants in, anti-Semitism is spreading.
Germany is getting everything.
It just took them.
I always used to say if anybody really wanted to get rid of the Jews, you'd just be nice to them and they'd assimilate you.
As soon as you keep killing them, they said, oh, I'm still here.
All right.
You know what a show is in the Another Kingdom?
This is it, though.
This is it.
You know, I was at church.
I was at a church in Orange County yesterday, and someone heard me speaking, and she goes, Michael, that's you, isn't it?
And I said, yeah, yeah.
She goes, I love the show.
I said, thank you.
This has happened to me on multiple occasions, I've told you.
I said, oh, thank you.
That's so very, that's very nice.
I love doing the show.
She goes, yeah, you got to tell Drew.
It's so good.
I'm on episode eight.
I'm a little behind.
That is great.
And the numbers have been terrific.
I mean, people really seem to be loving it.
That's right.
Yeah.
So this is the last one.
And I will say, because I didn't write it that I can be boastful about it.
It's so good.
The last episode is so good.
It was powerful.
It's just excellent.
So if you're a subscriber, you get to watch it now.
And if not, what are you talking about on your show?
Today, I'm going to apologize for everything I've ever said.
I'm really sorry.
Just a little preview.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'll never say anything again.
I'm just sorry.
I don't care that they don't like me.
That's right.
I feel bad about that.
All right.
Thank you.
I'll talk to you later to see it.
our crappy culture.
Well, I have to end with this.
This is one of my favorite things, is climate change.
You know, I don't actually believe that climate change is a hoax.
I think that what is a hoax are the leftist policies that will not do anything about climate change.
The power grabs for oil business, the power grabs for control over our energy.
That's the hoax.
I mean, obviously, the climate is changing.
I'm sure that human enterprise has something to do, contributes to that.
I mean, we are making changes in the environment, but without going back to living in caves, that's just going to always be the truth.
But the thing that they're fighting for is not to save the climate, just like they're not fighting for tolerance to gay people.
They're fighting to make sure they have control over your thoughts.
They're not fighting to enforce the law on Donald Trump.
They're fighting to make sure he doesn't take their power away.
In the same way, they're not fighting for the climate.
They're simply fighting for that power grab.
And you can see it in this guy.
I love this cut.
This is Jacob Ward.
He is the new technology reporter for NBC.
And he talks about recent disasters and why they should be great because they bring climate change to you personally.
I'm so conflicted on this issue because on the one hand, it's good news in a sense that we can feel it in our lives now, that we're beginning to see floods and wildfires and all sorts of things that are directly being produced by the forces at work here in our changing climate.
And yet at the same time, scientists have always said to us that by the time we actually tangibly feel it in our own lives, it's kind of too late.
And so there's a real sort of mixed blessing here in the fact that we're actually experiencing it day to day now.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is the voice of the elite.
It is good news that we're having wildfires and floods because it brings climate change home.
And it's a little bad news because it might be too late, but it's not bad news because you're being killed.
It's not bad news because people are losing their homes.
It's not bad news because people are drowning or burning up.
Now, of course, there have always been fires and floods.
The climate then, you know, we can't control these things.
So it's not even proof of anything.
The fact we've always suffered from this, it is simply the narrative that this is getting worse under climate change.
I'm not even sure that that is true of fires.
I mean, fires are spreading for all kinds of different reasons.
But he just never, the one thing that he never mentioned in there were the sufferers.
I mean, how is it could be good news for people to lose their homes, for people to die in fires, for people to be washed away?
He said, it's good news because it's bringing climate change home.
It's bad news because it may be too late.
But it was never bad news because anybody was getting hurt.
That is the voice of the elites.
They do not care what's happening to you.
They just want their damn power.
Give it to them.
Give them the power now.
All right.
We will be back.
Oh, I won't be back tomorrow.
I'm sorry.
I'm traveling tomorrow.
I'm going to be speaking up in Silicon Valley at their Liberty Club in Silicon Valley.
If you're around, come and visit and I'll be there talking.
So I'm going to do Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.
I'll have a Friday show this week, but Tuesday, I'm gone.
So I'll see you on Wednesday.
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