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Just when you thought the news out of Washington could not get any worse, I am going to send a chill down your spine with three simple words.
President Kamala Harris.
This is a real possibility.
It is not just coming from the fevered nightmares of conservatives.
It is actually being predicted by the sitting president.
I can say as much as I want from the time I... Two daughters were born that you can do anything a man can do.
It's one thing for somebody to say that and keep pounding that in the head of her five granddaughters as well.
But guess what?
Until they see it, until they watch, it becomes real then.
That's why, by the way, she's and happens to be in Asia for me right now, but that's why we have a female vice president of the United States of America who's going to be, we're going to have some presidents pretty soon.
We're going to have some presidents pretty soon.
That would be a change of pace, wouldn't it?
I think Joe Biden meant to say we're going to have female presidents pretty soon.
Pretty soon.
Does Joe Biden know something that we don't know?
That would also be a first.
Biden apparently does not know how many Americans are stranded in Afghanistan.
He doesn't know how much of our military equipment the Taliban now owns.
He doesn't know exactly who we're flying into America from the most violent country on Earth.
In fact, the only thing that we seem to know for certain right now about our politics is that things are likely going to get much, much worse.
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My favorite comment yesterday from Ryan Weiss who says, And I thought this has to be a joke.
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But then I had a number of people write in to me saying that this described their families too.
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Joe Biden.
Says, pretty soon, we're going to have some presidents pretty soon.
We're going to have a...
Which would be it.
Not just having a first woman president, but just having any president at all.
Because it seems that the guy who ostensibly is in the job right now is asleep at the wheel.
It has been days and days and days since the Taliban took down Kabul, took down the Afghan government within...
11 days of us really beginning to pull out.
And the question remains, how many Americans are trapped there in Afghanistan?
Biden has given multiple press conferences.
There's supposed to be press conferences.
The problem is he doesn't answer any questions from the press.
Thank you.
How many, hey, I know you're, you're just trying to tell us all to wear the masks and stuff and get the jab, but what about all the thousands of Americans in Afghanistan?
And you know what often will happen?
So Biden is just bolting.
After he gives his statements, he just bolts these days because he can't answer any of the questions.
But what has happened in the past with Biden is he'll give a statement.
He doesn't want to take questions from the press.
He starts to bolt.
And then he'll hear a question and he'll realize, oh, this is going to make me look weak.
And he'll stop and he'll turn around.
He's done this multiple times in front of the White House.
He can't do that here.
Not only because he knows that this is extremely politically damaging for him, the Afghanistan debacle, but also because...
He just doesn't know.
No one seems to know how many Americans there are in Afghanistan.
Initially we were told, you know, a few thousand.
Then it became more like five or seven thousand.
Then we were told it's as many as ten or even fifteen thousand.
But we're not being given the number.
And now Jen Psaki, spokeswoman at the White House, is saying that there are no Americans stranded in Afghanistan.
Does the President have a sense that most of the criticism is not of leaving Afghanistan, it's the way that he has ordered it to happen?
By pulling the troops before getting these Americans who are now stranded.
Does he have a sense of that?
First of all, I think it's irresponsible to say Americans are stranded.
They are not.
We are committed to bringing Americans who want to come home, home.
We are in touch with them via phone, via text, via email, via any way that we can possibly reach Americans To get them home if they want to return home.
There are no Americans stranded is the White House's official position on what's happening in Afghanistan right now.
I'm just calling you out for saying that we are stranding Americans in Afghanistan when we have been very clear that we are not leaving Americans who want to return home.
We are going to bring them home.
Now this is a very clever trick.
It's not all that clever because it's so transparent, but it's at least clever in theory.
Jen Psaki is being asked a question by Peter Doocy, one of the last reporters left in America.
And the question is, what about these Americans who are stranded in Afghanistan?
And Jen Psaki says, we are not going to strand any Americans in Afghanistan.
You see, he's saying, in the present tense, what about the Americans currently, right now, undeniably stranded in Afghanistan?
And she says, no, no.
There will not be anyone, ultimately, who is stranded in Afghanistan.
The question isn't about your promises, Jen Psaki.
The question isn't about your predictions.
Frankly, the White House's predictions on Afghanistan have been pretty bad.
They've been completely wrong, actually.
And even the president has admitted that.
And the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has admitted that.
And basically everybody involved in this evacuation has admitted that all their predictions turned out to be false.
They didn't even think it was possible that it would go this bad.
So please, for a moment, spare me your assurances and your predictions about what will happen in the future.
What about the Americans stranded right now?
No, we will not strand any Americans in Afghanistan.
Oh, really?
Like you won't lose all of our protective equipment and have it taken over by the Taliban?
Like you won't lose the Kabul embassy?
Like you won't, like you won't, like you won't give me a break?
Like you won't prevent Americans from being caught there in the first place?
Give me a break.
By the way, two hours prior to Jen Psaki's preposterous statement, Politico reports that the Pentagon confirmed another mission to rescue Americans stranded in Kabul.
That's the language from Politico.
Actually, the verb, or in this case, the adjective, stranded.
Pentagon confirms latest mission to rescue Americans stranded in Kabul.
Listen to how they do it.
This is in Politico.
Apart from that mission, a Pentagon spokesperson, John Kirby, said at a news briefing Monday that there had been, quote, at least one additional instance where rotary airlift was used to help Americans get from outside the airport into the airport.
He declined to elaborate further, saying I think I'm just going to have to leave it at that today.
They used rotary airlift What is rotary?
Well, there's only two.
I guess there's three ways to get something into the air.
There's an airplane, there's a rocket ship, and there's a helicopter.
And this one's rotary, so it's not a jet.
It's not like fixed wind.
Oh, it's a helicopter.
Oh, you're talking about a helicopter, but you don't want to use the word helicopter because helicopter evokes those images out of Vietnam, out of the fall of Saigon, the worst American foreign policy debacle ever.
Until now.
Oh, so they're going to use all of these euphemisms.
As always, the left is going to use all of these euphemisms.
They're going to try to redefine all the words.
They're going to try to use mealy-mouthed jargon.
They're going to try to play around with verbs and adjectives to try to pretend that Americans are not currently stranded, like they're not being evacuated as fast as they can, though most experts think there's not nearly enough time before the August 31st deadline to get the Americans out of Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, while we can't get the people we want out of Afghanistan, some prominent members of the blob of the liberal establishment, the deep state, are suggesting that we send some Americans into Afghanistan because we don't want them in our country anymore.
The former director of both the CIA and the NSA said, These are two very clandestine operations involved in spying and actually spying on Americans in some cases.
Michael Hayden was sent a tweet.
The tweet was, can we send the MAGA wearing unvaxxed to Afghanistan?
No use sending the plane back empty.
Hayden responds, good idea.
Good idea.
So, one of the men to whom we gave...
More power to spy on, not just foreigners, but also Americans, than anyone has ever had in American history, just about.
He is now openly calling for deporting conservatives.
Because he doesn't like conservatives.
And not even just conservatives, by the way.
He's got the MAGA-wearing part, but then he's saying un-vaxxed.
So if you...
Don't want to take the experimental drug for the virus that doesn't pose a particularly significant risk to most people.
You are worthy of deportation.
We don't want you in our country.
And people with an outrageous amount of power and who have had very prominent roles in the government want to ship you over to a war zone.
They want to get...
So Afghans out, Afghans who are largely unvetted, which we'll get to in a second, they want to get them out and bring them into America to replace you, because you, conservative, or you, person who even objects to being forced to take an experimental drug, you are going to go live under the Taliban.
They hate you.
They don't like you.
The ruling class doesn't want to come to a reconciliation, meet in the middle, shake hands and hug.
They hate your guts.
They think that you are a terrorist.
They think that you are a murderer.
They think that you are less than human, deplorable, irredeemable, bitter-clinging, Bible-thumping, and they want you out.
You know what I want in America?
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The war on the unvaxxed, the unclean, the unwashed.
Continues apace.
Now it's not just preening liberals on the coasts or people in the academy or people even in the media, Washington establishment.
It's medical doctors.
Even medical doctors now are throwing hissy fits because some people don't want to take an experimental drug that is supposed to fight off a virus that for most people is not particularly dangerous.
But actually, apparently, doesn't even really prevent infection all that well.
I suppose it ostensibly prevents the more serious effects of infection, but it doesn't, according to the science, doesn't really prevent transmission, doesn't really prevent infection, according to certain studies.
You actually have the same viral load if you're vaccinated or unvaccinated.
Doctors in Florida, 75 of them, are walking off the job to protest their unvaccinated patients, and the left-wing media are cheering them on.
Just moments ago, more than 75 doctors staged a walkout to protest the number of COVID patients coming to the hospitals who have not been vaccinated.
Let's bring in Kerry Sanders, because Kerry, you're in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, at this doctor's walkout.
And I know the area very well.
What Americans don't understand is for every unvaccinated person that's filling up an ICU bed, that means with a hospital's jam, somebody with a heart attack, and I've known somebody in this position, goes there, has trouble getting in, can't get treatment, can't get a bed.
It is a nightmare for the doctors.
It is a nightmare for the nurses.
And to the doctor's point of view, It's worse yet for sick people that want help from them.
That is truly reflective of the frustration that you see behind me.
And these doctors have gathered some coming off their shifts to come out here gathering to try to tell people, please, first of all, ignore the nonsense and the absurdities that you're hearing people say at public meetings and recognize the value of what a vaccine will do.
It's about time.
It's about time that these doctors finally summon the courage to refuse to treat sick people.
You know, I've been waiting for a long time, basically since the Hippocratic Oath was written.
That oath that the doctors take to do no harm and to do their best to do justice to their patients.
Because some people, they just don't care.
They inconsiderately get sick.
And then they expect, what, the doctors are just supposed to take care of them?
I wish that the doctors would take it further and also stage a walkout and refuse to treat all those fatties.
All those fatties who show up?
Because those fatties, they show up and they have heart problems sometimes.
Sometimes they have diabetes.
Sometimes they have all sorts of vascular issues.
And they're taking up hospital beds from the good skinny people.
Or the gay guys, for instance.
Really, the doctors need to go out and protest with the gay guys and refuse to treat them.
Because the gay guys are statistically at a greater risk of contracting HIV and AIDS. So, if they contract that virus, they're going to take up a sickbed from a good not-gay guy.
So, it's just in the interest of medicine and public health.
It's about time the doctors refuse to treat AIDS patients, right?
Or smokers, for instance.
It's a tough one for me.
Big fan of cigars.
But, you know, in fairness, for justice, the doctors need to refuse to treat these smokers.
Because what happens, smokers sometimes develop, there is a risk, they will develop on occasion, or even more than on occasion, health problems.
Heart disease, lung problems, mouth problems, and they'll take up hospital beds.
Oh, hold on.
That's their job.
Right.
That's the job of the doctors, to treat the sick people.
But the doctors don't want to do that because the doctors don't understand what they're doing.
Because none of us really understands what we're doing because we have lost...
The philosophical and political sophistication to discuss these matters, because all that is left is fear-mongering and contempt and disdain for our countrymen, specifically for conservatives, the only group that you are allowed to vilify in public.
Even more so, people will vilify men for being men, you know, the patriarchy, or they'll vilify white people for white supremacy, and whiteness is terrible.
But, you know, they'll also vilify women when they go along with conservatives.
I think Sarah Palin or somebody like that.
They'll also vilify black guys if they go along with conservatives, like Larry Elder.
We'll get to that in a second.
So, it's really just the conservatives.
Who should not receive medical treatment, who should be shipped over to live under the Taliban and very likely be killed in a war zone.
Now, on the topic of the vaccine, there might be one political benefit to this hysteria over the coronavirus more broadly.
If it is not exposing for the left its own hypocrisy on other political issues, it's at least exposing it for a lot of us.
There's a New York City Councilman, Mark D. Levine.
He is a City Councilman in New York, and he wants to remind you that the new vaccination screening program for various indoor activities is I'll just use his own words.
New York City's new vaccination screening program for indoor dining, etc., requires that you show proof of Vax and, asterisks, ID. If you have an ID, don't forget to bring it.
If you need an ID, get the city's IDNYC available to all, including undocumented.
Here's how to get yours, and he includes the link.
Didn't realize we had George Wallace on the New York City Council.
Didn't realize David Duke was able to get himself elected down in New York.
ID? You expect New York, which has a substantial black population, you expect that New Yorkers can get IDs to go indoors?
All right, Woolworth's lunch counter all over again, I guess.
Black people can't get IDs.
The Democrats have been telling me that for years.
So now you can't go into a restaurant if you don't have an ID. Pretty soon we're going to have different water fountains, if this guy has his way, right?
Or the IDs have nothing to do with race.
He goes on.
He explains what the ID is for.
The ID requirement is to help reduce fraud.
Hold on.
I'm going to have to read this again.
The ID requirement, says Democrat New York City Councilman Mark Levine, is to help reduce fraud.
Venues covered by the VAX screening program are required to check ID for those 18+.
ID for 12 +, is optional.
The COVIDSafe app allows you to upload a picture of your ID if you don't want to carry it.
So it's easy to work around.
It's easy to acquire, he says.
And the point is to help reduce fraud.
Gee, you don't say.
So now, if the Democrats are going to keep up this line of argument that it is essential that you get an ID, an official New York ID, a government ID, in order to go to a restaurant, in order really to go in anywhere, to any kind of recreational venue, but it's evil and terrible to make you to get an ID to vote, what you are saying is that we need to have higher standards for eating food.
A sandwich than we have for protecting our democratic republic.
There is a higher standard of proof required to go have tapas on the Lower East Side than to protect our constitutional order.
This guy, Mark Levine, you know what he sounds like to me?
He sounds like an extremist.
There are a lot of extremists out there.
If you tune into some British morning show, I don't even know the name of it.
They're really concerned about extremist language.
If you hear your kid using these kinds of words, you better intervene quickly.
They're finding these young boys on gaming sites, and can parents look out for maybe language that they use, their young sons might be using, or behaviour that they might have?
Yes, they can.
So there are lots of bits of language that might be red flags referring to people as normies or as triggered.
Normies is the word incels used for people outside their community.
triggered, based, cucked, describing being red-pilled or black-pilled, which are words they used to describe being infiltrated into the ideology.
And it's worth saying as well that they see this as a kind of conduit to other forms of extremism.
It isn't completely separate from far-white, white nationalist, white supremacist movements.
They actually really see it as a slipway.
So parents might see a combination of perhaps also racism creeping in as well.
The Insar community is a very racist community.
This is a racist ideology.
And of course white supremacist is a deeply misogynistic ideology.
If your son is not a cock, if he does not want to be a cock, he might be an extremist white supremacist.
My British accent is getting worse and worse by the day.
As though cock, which is one of the oldest insults in the world.
I mean, Italians actually have different symbols.
They wear it as jewelry.
The little horn thing, it looks like, or the little...
Like the rock star symbol that Italians wear.
That's the symbol of the cornuto, of the cock, the cuckold.
The idea that your wife is cheating on you.
You've got an unfaithful wife.
This is a very basic insult.
There are many of these others as well.
But if you use them, some of which are quite dated now, actually, your kid is an extremist!
No better than a terrorist, you've got to watch out.
All the conservatives are terrorists.
All the leftists, wonderful, great people.
We've got to kick one group out of society, and society's only fit for the other one.
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Can you believe it's only been, what, it's been about seven months since the attempted coup d'etat? it's been about seven months since the attempted coup d'etat?
Since the attempt, the well-organized attempt to take over the American government.
We were this close to tyranny.
The insurrection!
The worst event since the War of 1812.
We were told that, right?
We were told this was directed by Trump.
Trump called for the insurrection.
It was organized.
It was plotted.
It was a conspiracy by all the various...
Charlie Kirk was probably involved.
Alex Jones was involved.
Jared Kushner.
I don't know.
They just throw out random names that are in any way associated with the American right.
Roger Stone.
They all...
Well, the FBI has come out.
They've been investigating this thing.
And this is according to Reuters, not exactly a conservative news website.
The FBI has found scant evidence that the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, according to four current and former law enforcement officials, though federal officials have arrested more than 570 alleged participants.
The FBI at this point believes the violence was not centrally coordinated by far-right groups or prominent supporters of then-President Donald Trump, according to the sources who have been either directly involved in or briefed regularly on the wide-ranging investigations.
Huh.
Because we have a January 6th commission right now, you know, the big investigation, which is exclusively being run by Democrats, Democrats in the House, plus two fake Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who are court jester conservatives, whose whole point is to just sort of prop up the liberal establishment edifice.
So they're telling us we've got to get to the bottom of this organized central plot coup d'etat.
Well, the FBI has been investigating, too.
They say, nope, it's not.
It's not, quote, 90 to 95% of these are one-off cases, said a former senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation.
Then you have 5%, maybe, of these militia groups that were closely organized.
But there was no grand scheme with Roger Stone and Alex Jones and all of these people to storm the Capitol and take hostages.
This is Reuters saying this, by the way.
So, brings up an important side point, but it's an important one, how to read the news.
When If the news is potentially bad for a Republican and the mainstream establishment media go easy on it, you can probably believe it.
It's very simple.
Why?
The establishment media take every chance that they can to attack Republicans.
Sometimes they'll make up negative stories out of whole cloth.
So if the establishment media are going easy on Republicans...
It means that you can trust the report, because it really means they can't find anything.
The same would not be true of the establishment media going after Democrats.
Or even some far right-wing media group.
There aren't that many of them, but going after Democrats.
Because the incentives there are such that they want to find something.
But in this case, the media, they want to find something about the Republicans.
They're reporting nicely about them, which means...
They don't have it.
They don't have it.
It's not...
And I hate to say I told you so.
But early on, during the January 6th, remember the worst event, said, oh yeah, this is bad.
It's not good.
It doesn't look good.
It obviously didn't accomplish very much.
These poor people now are going to rot in prison.
That's unfortunate.
I don't like that.
Frankly, I wish there had been something a little more coordinated within the political system that could have looked into some discrepancies in Georgia or perhaps in Arizona or obviously what happened in Pennsylvania.
I wish it had been more effective.
But I said, the idea that the horn guy is leading the insurrection is preposterous.
It was laughable at the time, and it remains even more risible today.
They got in, right?
If this were an insurrection, and they really made it in to the Capitol, then they would have formed a new government.
But if they were just some guys in horn hats dancing around and the smiley guy with the Pelosi lectern, then they're not going to form a new government because it's not an insurrection, which is what the FBI has concluded.
Speaking of regime change, speaking of coup d'etat, Larry Elder, our pal Larry Elder, looking pretty good in this recall election in California.
We've been talking about the recall for a long time.
There was this effort for years building up now to recall Gavin Newsom because he was a terrible governor.
I say with personal first-hand experience of what a horrible governor he is.
I fled the state in part because of his poor leadership.
So there were these people who were trying to replace him.
You had Kevin Faulconer down there in San Diego.
I guess a good Republican, but he just didn't have the name recognition or the fundraising ability.
John Cox had already gotten beaten by Newsom.
Same thing.
Didn't really raise money.
Didn't have name recognition.
Bruce Jenner, who's not really conservative in any meaningful sense of the term, he said, I don't have any loyalty to the Republicans.
I don't have any loyalty to Trump.
I mostly focused on the LGBT, emphasis on the T community.
To say nothing of the fact that he clearly has a tenuous relationship with reality on very basic questions.
So that wasn't going to work.
That was always a distraction.
Republicans didn't really support him.
And then Larry Elder came in.
Larry Elder...
A little more libertarian than I would like in my sort of candidate.
He's much more libertarian, I think, than conservative.
But he's got some strong conservative stances.
I like the guy.
Pretty straight shooter.
He would be an extraordinarily great improvement in California.
And, and here's what's crucial, he actually has a shot.
The way I know he's got a shot is that the left is taking him really seriously.
The way I know he's really got a shot is Is that the left is now calling him a white supremacist.
That's how you know that you've got a really strong Republican candidate.
Is when someone who has never been accused or never been involved in racial, terrible things.
When just out of the blue, he gets called a white supremacist.
Even in the case of Larry Elder.
If he's a black guy.
I kid you not, this is the headline from the LA Times.
Larry Elder...
Is the black face of white supremacy.
You've been warned.
He's the black face of.
Don't let his black skin, his upbringing in South Central fool you.
No!
No, he's a white supremacist.
Is it even worth trying to read this article?
I don't think so.
Here's one.
I won't lie, writes this person.
Few things infuriate me more than watching a black person use willful blindness and cherry-picked facts to make overly simplistic arguments that whitewash the complex problems that come along with being black in America.
Few things delight me more than watching libs rend their garments and gnash their teeth when they face a serious challenge from a conservative.
Especially in this case a black conservative because they'll call anyone a white supremacist.
I mean they call Trump a white supremacist.
If I ever run for anything I'm sure they'll call me a white supremacist despite my swarthiness.
They call everyone a white supremacist.
Hitler, neo-Nazi.
They did it to Reagan.
They do it to everybody.
But it's really funny when they do it to a black guy, right?
Because it's so preposterous.
This is good news for Larry Elder.
I mean, he's doing very well in the polls.
The polls are a little weird on this race because the only poll that really matters, if you're Larry Elder, is whether you recall or you don't recall.
Because the first question on the ballot is, do you want to recall Newsom?
Yes or no?
The next question is, who do you want to replace him?
Larry Elder is trouncing everyone else in the who do you want to replace him part right now.
So the only question that matters is yes or no.
If 50% plus one voter say yes, then he's recalled.
If more voters say no...
He's not recalled.
But if he's recalled, Larry Elder almost certainly will be the governor.
The way you know that Larry Elder is also in a good position right now, California regulators are trying to sink his candidacy.
So we're not talking about the political operatives.
We're not talking about the establishment media, but I repeat myself.
We're talking about actual officials in the state of California who think, uh-oh, yikes.
This guy's getting a little too close.
So now, according to reports...
California regulators have launched an investigation into whether recall election gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder failed to properly disclose his income sources, according to the Fair Political Practices Commission.
So this is completely bogus.
It's extremely stupid.
What they're going to suggest is that Larry Elder didn't file some form that he should have filed, or maybe he forgot to mention that he wrote some book or something, or that he gave a speech, or he went on tour or something like that.
None of which would have any relationship to his recall campaign.
This recall campaign's only been going on for some weeks now.
It's not like this guy's been running for years and years and years trading on his political influence.
But they're going to say, no, he forgot to file Form 267, so he's out.
This is the way that bureaucracy clamps down on the will of the people and on our democratic and republican systems.
They go, no, you missed up this technicality, you missed it, so now we're going to have to come in and try to suppress your campaign.
This is still good news for Larry Elder.
It means they're genuinely afraid of him, which means that Newsom may well be voted out of office.
Another terrible governor just did leave office yesterday.
I think it was yesterday, right?
No, today.
Today is his last day in office.
I think he's officially out today.
He's no longer governor.
Andrew Cuomo.
Andrew Cuomo, just a couple days ago, was giving a press conference about the weather, basically.
He was giving a press conference about these storms and how New Yorkers can prepare for them.
He was asked a question, obviously, about what people really care about, his resignation and the scandals.
And he snapped at the reporter.
So yesterday, your personal attorney, Rita Glavin, suggested that she had information that would call into question Charlotte Bennett's credibility.
Why do you think it's appropriate for your attorney to make those remarks without providing significant evidence to back up the claim?
Yeah, you know, I don't want to get into Albany politics, which is what has been going on for the past few months.
This is about a storm briefing to save lives of New Yorkers.
But you're the Law Journal.
If you think justice is to accept a complaint from a person without investigation, And without credibility determinations, and without looking at past actions of that person, then you don't know what the justice system is.
I can make a complaint about you today.
Maybe it's true, maybe it's not true.
But that's why they do investigations.
Every day, Cuomo's sounding more and more like a Corleone.
More and more like a mobster.
Governor Cuomo, you're still attacking your accusers, so why do you think that's possible to do, or acceptable to do, without evidence?
Yeah, maybe I... Maybe I make a few accusations about you!
Maybe...
That's my father, Kay.
That's not me.
Luca Brazzi came over.
He's going to make you an offer you can't refuse.
He says either your signature or your brains are going to be on the contract.
Mr.
Reporter!
Sad end.
Sad end for Andrew Cuomo's political career.
I mean, it's a happy end, I guess, for all of us on the Republican side of the aisle, all of us who want good government in New York.
But it is corrupt over there.
And, you know, in fairness to Cuomo, he's a pretty crooked guy, but he's not the most crooked guy in Albany.
I mean, New York state politics is a very corrupt endeavor.
So crooked as he may be.
It's that whole swamp.
It's that whole just disgusting blob up there in New York.
And they took him down, and that's good.
That's something worth celebrating.
Now let's do Newsom now.
That's the next one up, everybody.
We got one down, one to go.
Speaking of governors who clearly want to be president, Kristi Noem.
Kristi Noem is the governor in South Dakota.
She made a big splash during COVID because she didn't really lock down her state.
And that was great stuff.
I mean, she showed really strong leadership.
Then people began to speak about her as a potential presidential candidate.
She looks good.
She talks good.
She had been governing quite well.
And then she started to go a little bit squish.
So a bill crossed her desk regarding whether or not men should be able to compete in women's sports in schools.
And she vetoed it.
She wouldn't go along with it.
She said, I'm happy to go along with this and kick the men out of women's sports K-12, but I'm not willing to go along with this to kick men out of women's sports at the college level.
And the excuses that were given by her people is that, well, you know, then we might lose some NCAA events.
Well, then we might lose some money.
Well, maybe, you know, I think what was implied was some corporations don't feel so happy about this.
And so she went a little bit squishy.
What I think should be a pretty simple question, a basic question of principle.
Should women be allowed to be a separate category from men?
Should women be accepted as their own category?
With their own bathrooms, with their own sports, or not.
And Kristi Noem went squished.
So now she's come out and she said, if Joe Biden illegally mandates vaccines, I will take every action available under the law to protect South Dakotans from the federal government.
Well, that's good.
I'm glad that she's doing that.
But I think there's reason for skepticism, because back last February, in February of 2020, She had the opportunity to sign a bill that would prevent vaccine mandates by schools, and she refused to do it.
And she came out very strongly in favor of vaccine mandates by schools.
And I get why she did it.
There's a long history in the United States of schools mandating certain vaccines.
And she said, so vaccines are good.
Some vaccines obviously are good.
And so I'm going to stand by those vaccine mandates.
Now she's coming out saying if Biden illegally mandates vaccines...
I'm going to take every action available under the law to protect South Dakotans.
Well, what changed?
What changed?
And will she really do it?
I'm not so sure.
I don't mean to cast any aspersions, you know, at Kristi Noem or anyone else.
But when we're talking about who is going to be the Republican standard bearer in 2024, we're going to need more than pretty talk.
We're going to need a record.
We're going to need concrete actions.
We're going to need to know somebody.
Because now everyone is trying to talk like Trump.
Now everyone is trying to talk nice and tough.
And don't forget, the people who become governor, senator, presidential candidates These are very good politicians.
These are varsity-level politicians who can really tell which way the wind is blowing much better than other people can.
And they're going to change the way they speak as a result.
But are they going to change their behavior?
Do they have credibility?
Are they going to follow through?
That I don't know.
I'd almost have more respect for Kristi Noem if she came out and said, look...
Some vaccines are good.
I think it's totally right for schools to mandate the pertussis vaccine, for instance, whooping cough.
But this vaccine was obviously hastily developed.
It's still an experimental drug.
It's to fight a virus that is not particularly dangerous to most people.
And especially not particularly dangerous to kids.
And so we're not going to mandate it.
She got into the specifics and explained why she would vote for one thing but not for the other.
I'm cool with that.
I think that's actually a good exercise in judgment and political leadership.
But if it's just going to be pretty words, that's not going to work in 2024.
Speaking of mandates, the American Bar Association, this is the organization of lawyers, the organization that is involved in accredited law schools, is now mandating diversity training and affirmative action according to reports.
The American Bar Association is poised to mandate diversity training and affirmative action at all of its accredited law schools.
Says one report, a move top legal scholars say could jeopardize academic freedom and force schools to violate federal law.
They'd be violating federal law by taking race into account in things like admissions.
Schools would be required to, quote, take effective actions to, quote, diversify their student bodies, even when doing so risks violating a law that perforce to prohibit consideration of race or ethnicity.
Shows you how the game is stacked.
Shows you how there's no neutrality.
In the law, and not just in the law, but in the organization that kind of runs the law, the organization of the lawyers and that shapes the law schools, they are now going to weigh in on the side of a radical leftist policy in violation of the law in some cases.
How strange.
For the squishy Republicans, the squishy conservatives, who believe that somehow secular liberalism is a neutral playing ground and we've all got to stop making substantive arguments about how we want the country to be run and we only should be making these sort of procedural arguments and we should only be just talking about how wonderful it is to have debate and openness and no, we have to be able to stand for certain things, as I've said until I'm blue in the face.
We need to be able to say, no, considering race in admissions and in hiring is wrong.
Disadvantaging whites and Asians because they have the wrong color skin and giving an advantage to black and Hispanic applicants just because they have the right color skin is wrong.
We're not going to do it.
We're going to stand against that.
Not only are we going to leave it an open question, but we're actively going to prohibit that kind of stuff.
That's what we need to do.
Because if you don't, if you don't actually stand for certain things, which means encouraging the good and suppressing the bad, then you're not just going to be left in this neutral playing ground of everything's up in the air.
You're going to cede the ground to the left, which is willing to institute what it wants.
The former Attorney General Eric Holder says people need to get out in the streets.
In raising the consciousness of people...
By demonstrating, by getting arrested, by doing the things that ended segregation.
If you'd asked people back in the 1950s, you think marching, demonstrating is going to bring down a system of American apartheid?
You probably would have said, no, that's just not going to happen.
And we should not lose faith right now.
We shouldn't lose faith right now.
Citizens can make a change.
Citizens need to be in the streets.
Citizens need to be demonstrating.
citizens need to be calling their representatives to demand the kind of change that will make this country more representative, make our democracy more fair.
That's Barack Obama's corrupt, biased, crooked Attorney General Eric Holder, who is not talking about segregation, who is not talking about anything involving civil rights in the mid-20th He's talking about a law right now that would federalize elections, upend this constitutional order, and give already sitting elected politicians a huge advantage to keep out anyone who wants to challenge them.
So corrupt.
And he's saying, get out in the streets.
Get out in the streets!
Just like so many Democrat politicians.
Go get out in the streets and pressure them and threaten them and intimidate everyone in this country into doing what you want them to do.
We can't have that.
We can't have a country like that.
The country seems to be disintegrating all around.
Not just in Afghanistan, but here as well.
And can you even imagine, under the potential President Harris.
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