Ep. 1498 - Trump Roasts Crowd At The Libertarian National Convention
President Trump roasts Libertarians at their own convention, Pope Francis makes a rather un-PC joke about homosexuals, and a husband and wife go viral for bickering on TikTok.
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President Trump showed up to the Libertarian National Convention over the weekend to make his case as to why the Libertarian Party should nominate him for president.
Now when I say Libertarian, we are not talking about your cool uncle with a lot of guns and a Gadsden flag on his truck.
We are talking about capital L Libertarians.
We're talking about members of the Libertarian Party.
We are talking about neckbeards and pro-porn activists and streakers.
So when the Libertarians inevitably started booing Trump, Trump decided to roast them.
The Libertarian Party should nominate Trump for President of the United States!
Whoa!
That's nice.
That's nice.
Only if you want to win.
Only if you want to win.
Maybe you don't want to win.
Maybe you don't want to win.
Thank you, D. Roy.
Thank you.
No, only do that if you want to win.
If you want to lose, don't do that.
Keep getting your 3% every four years.
The reasons for doing so Policy and politics are as solid as the Hope Diamond.
Keep getting your 3% weirdos.
I couldn't possibly care less.
So Trump is not getting the Libertarian Party nomination.
Instead, the LP decided to nominate a huge Lib, which doesn't really matter.
Because your cool uncle Libertarian with the guns and the Gadsden flag is going to vote for Trump.
And the serious Libs are going to vote for Biden.
And nothing whatsoever will change.
Just another 3% every four years.
Good luck.
I'm Michael Knowles.
This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show.
A husband and a wife have been bickering on TikTok.
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You will learn how to convert an IRA or 401k When I say the Libertarians nominated a weirdo, Big Lib, I am not exaggerating in any way.
They nominated a guy named Chase Oliver.
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That is Knowles to 98, 98, 98.
When I say the libertarians nominated a weirdo, a big lib, I am not exaggerating in any way.
They nominated a guy named Chase Oliver.
Now, Trump, he was too much of a compromise candidate for those libertarians.
They can't possibly support someone like Donald Trump.
No, no.
They are small government, disciplined, individualist libertarians.
And that's why they nominated a guy who supports employer vaccine mandates.
Who, this is all according to the excellent group America 2100, supports open borders.
A guy who supports transing the kids.
Okay, those last two there, I can sort of see the libertarian argument for it.
I can almost see the libertarian argument for letting corporations take away your freedom.
It seems weird, but there are some inconsistencies in the ideology broadly.
But then here's the big one.
They nominated a guy who fundraised for Barack Obama after he passed Obamacare.
I understand how libertarians who take this ideology of individualism and allow it to just be perverted and corrupted and they follow it to all sorts of illogical places.
How they could get to, your boss can make you take this experimental jab.
We, nations aren't allowed to have borders.
We need to trans and castrate little kids.
I see how you get there because it's an unstable and incoherent ideology.
But how do you get, if you're the principled libertarian, how do you get to, we need to fundraise for Barack Obama after he passed Obamacare and used the power of the state to force you to buy a product from a private company.
How do you get there?
The only way you get there is if your political party is a total joke.
Which the Libertarian Party is.
There is much to recommend libertarianism, lowercase l. I'm not a libertarian.
I think it's a problematic ideology.
But there's much to recommend some of the intimations of libertarianism.
But the LP, the Libertarian Party, is a complete joke, as Austin Peterson showed.
Austin Peterson, I think, may have been the LP nominee for president.
I think I'm right about that.
Some years ago.
But he's a great guy, you know, all over political media.
And Austin Peterson, AP for Liberty, on Twitter, decided to interview this guy, Chase Oliver, and completely destroyed him in 98 seconds.
Why do you think that the drag queens want to read to children?
Because I think that they are performance artists, and they want to be able to have different levels of performance art.
It's the same reason as why do the Wiggles sing to children?
Because they want to have a marketplace to kids.
The Wiggles is made for children.
They want to be able to...
The Wiggles is made for children.
It's obviously family-friendly material.
Drag queens are not what you call family-friendly kind of entertainment.
But a man in a dress is what drag is, right?
I mean, let's just be real.
A man in a dress or a woman in a suit is what drag is.
That is not inherently sexual.
There is inherently sexual drag.
And you're not going to convince me.
I mean, I'm not going to defend otherwise.
There absolutely is.
But there's also the ability to perform as a man in a wig without being sexual.
And that is what this is.
I mean, would you drop your kids off at a movie?
drag queen story hour and come back an hour later?
I mean, would you drop your kids off in a movie?
Yeah.
Okay.
All right. - Right.
Okay, Mr. Oliver, you can drop your kids off with the creep transvestites who feel a need to read and dance and jiggle for little children at the library.
You can do that.
I actually don't really think you should be able to do that.
I think that's child abuse.
But if you do that, you do your own thing, man.
You do your own thing, man!
Have your freedom!
But normal people would not go along with that.
Once again, we see.
The Libertarian Party squander an opportunity.
Had they endorsed someone like Trump, they might have some say in the Trump campaign.
They might have some say in politics.
But they don't.
They nominate this joker and he's going to get less than 3%.
And it's another reminder, another reminder, that capital L, LP Libertarianism is not a third way of politics.
That's how the professional Libertarians promote themselves.
They say, no, we're not Democrats, we're not Republicans, we're not left, we're not right.
We're this third way, man.
And this is what's going to bring everyone together.
Even though when you look at the political compass test, where people's views line up, you know, is are you more authoritarian or more individualist?
Are you more left wing?
Are you more right wing?
The quadrant that typifies the libertarians has basically no one in it.
No one really agrees with their platform.
But it's not a third way of politics.
It's a rejection of politics, is really what it is.
It's a way to say, look, I'm kind of right-wing, but I'm not that kind of right-winger.
It's like when you're in college and you want to date the liberal girl, but you're somewhat normal and you say, well, you know, like I'm a conservative, but I'm not that kind of conservative.
I think gay stuff and transvestites are totally cool, man.
You do you.
I would never infringe on your preferences and appetites.
It's a way to seem above it all.
But these people aren't above it all.
They're just not participating in politics.
They have absolutely no effect whatsoever.
I would say you might as well be a member of a Rotary Club or a Lions Club, but that's actually not fair.
The Rotary Club and the Lions Club do have an effect on politics and the Libertarian Party does not.
It is a joke.
Now, Trump is not the only presidential candidate who showed up to the Libertarian National Convention.
The vague also showed up.
And the reason that these guys showed up is because, while the LP might be a complete joke, they recognize that conservatives need more than just rock-ribbed conservatives to win an election.
There simply aren't enough conservatives.
So, who are you going to bring in?
Vivek proposes an alliance.
I believe the future is combining that strand of the America First movement that speaks to me.
National pride.
Pride in this country.
Pride in who we are.
Restoring purpose for people who lack it.
And say that we pledge allegiance to the United States of America because of what it represents.
Not because it's a geographic space, but because there are certain ideals enshrined in our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution.
To combine that with the policy vision that 98% of us agree on in this room right here.
That's the opportunity sitting in front of us.
And I think that if we go the direction of just, hey, saying that this is a separate silo and we view that as oppositional, You will not have the influence of shaping it.
I think it will be an opportunity to shape the future direction of this country by joining, fusing those libertarian and positive national pride-oriented nationalist instincts that actually make our country the best version of itself.
Okay, so Vivek is calling for a fusion.
And this word is really important because the old New Right The new right of the 1950s and 60s that was put together by William F. Buckley Jr.
and Frank Meyer and National Review was a fusion.
The philosophy put forward by Frank Meyer and promoted by National Review was called fusionism, and it fused together the traditionalists with the libertarians.
And it created this three-legged stool of traditionalists and religious conservatives.
That was one leg.
And then foreign policy hawks, including a number of Democrats who just wanted to go get the Soviet Union, was another leg.
And then the economic libertarians was the third leg.
And they called this the three legs of the stool.
And in recent years, we've said, okay, that National Review stuff, that fusionism, that's It hasn't worked, it's fallen out of favor, it's allowed the country to move very far to the left, so we need some new kind of coalition.
And what Vivek is proposing is a new fusion, not of libertarians and traditionalists, but of libertarians and nationalists.
And it's kind of funny, because people are going to say, hold on, you say fusionism was bad, but now we're just calling for a new fusionism that's similar.
Actually, Vivek's fusionism makes A fair bit more sense than the old fusionism of Buckley and Meyer and the reason for that is...
The old fusionism was half conservative, half liberal.
Libertarianism has liberal fundamentals, and traditionalism is conservative.
It's not really liberal.
Whereas, nationalism and libertarian are both fundamentally liberal, albeit of the classical variety.
I don't mean this in any way as a knock-on, Vivek.
His view is legitimately more coherent.
Now, a lot of conservatives are going to hear that and say, well, hold on.
We went from something that was half conservative to something that's not really conservative at all.
Yeah.
But what's the coalition?
What's the coalition?
I think some other people are going to say, hold on, what do you mean nationalism is liberal?
What I mean when I say nationalism is liberal, what I mean is nationalism is a product of the Treaty of Augsburg and the Peace of Westphalia, which put an end to the religious wars that broke out in the 16th century when the political unity of Christendom was cracked up.
So, the piece of Westphalia especially says, whose reign, his religion.
We're going to have a growing sense of nationalism, and within the borders of the principality or the nation, you get to do pretty much whatever you want.
The explosion of this happens in 1848.
1848 is the year of revolution.
You have all of these nationalist revolutions toppling the old monarchies, attacking empire, and declaring nationalism, and liberal politics, liberal governments.
The two go hand-in-hand, because if you make an idol out of the nation-state, then you're denying the solidity of the moral order.
If you make an idol out of the nation-state, if you really believe whose reign his religion, then you're saying that nothing is universally true, that there is no solid moral order that we can access.
It's just kind of whatever the king wants, or whatever the president wants, or whatever the prime minister wants, which is liberal, albeit of a more classical variety.
So, you know, it's not my preference.
It's not what I'd like.
I would like us to become more conservative.
I would like us to become more right-wing, not more liberal and more left-wing.
But to Vivek's point, and frankly even to Trump's, Trump went to the LP convention.
Where is the coalition?
There aren't that many rock-ribbed conservatives to the right of Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan, you know, who would make Franco blush or something.
Okay, so who are we going to pick up?
What's the coalition going to be?
That has been the political question for 70 years now.
Okay, and so it's very easy to knock William F. Buckley Jr.
or Ronald Reagan and say they got this wrong, they got that wrong.
Well, okay, we're in the exact same predicament now.
Where are the conservatives?
How are we going to turn things around?
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Now, speaking of a third way, the libertarians, they say, we're the third way.
No.
The third way in politics is not going to be found in ideology.
It is going to be found in institutions, chief among them, the church.
You know, Pope Francis, politically, he's been on a roll lately.
A lot of people view Pope Francis as rather liberal politically, and yet he's had some real, real zingers that we've covered on the show last week.
Well, he's got another one over the weekend, and I will translate this one for those of you who do not read and speak Italian.
This is a headline in La Repubblica.
La Repubblica has quoted the Holy Father many times over the years.
It's a center-left newspaper in Italy.
And the headline is, When I saw this headline, I did a double take.
I said, what?
Hold on.
Wait, that can't mean what I think it means.
So the translation is, please forgive my language.
I hope we don't have to bleep this because I don't know how else to explain it.
The headline is, there is already too much faggotry.
Pope Francis, Invites the Italian bishops to not admit gay seminarians.
And you can go through the whole thing.
It says to raise some eyebrows among the bishops.
I'll just sort of translate on the fly.
In a meeting behind closed doors, Bergoglio, Pope Francis, uttered this comment that left more than one prelate surprised.
But that's his take on it.
A little too much lavender in the seminaries.
Pretty based, you know.
Whatever you think about Pope Francis, most people think he's very liberal.
Some people, even when he says these conservative things, they say, well, this is just an example of Peronism, like Juan Perón in Argentina, who would appease the conservatives sometimes, and he would then appease the leftists, but he was always advancing leftism.
So that's one lens of viewing this.
You say, well, it's just Peronism.
Whatever it is, though, there's something else going on.
The church has been around for 2,000 years, okay?
I happen to believe that the Church has the protection of the Holy Spirit, which will preserve her, and the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church.
But for those who don't believe in the Church that way, at the very least, you can look and say, this institution's been around for 2,000 years, and it's really hard to revolutionize a 2,000-year institution overnight.
This is going to be the third way.
In politics, if you're a conservative and you're competing in ideology, you're losing.
Ideology is intrinsically left-wing.
Ideology intrinsically benefits the libs.
Because ideology divorces politics from ways of life, and traditions, and families, and peoples, and borders, and institutions, and more basic habits and characteristics of political life.
If you're competing on the level of ideology, actually my five bullet point manifesto says that freedom and equality actually, that's why we're going to totally, you're going to lose.
Okay, you've got, you're not going to win playing their game.
If you want to win, you've got to focus on institutions, way of life, peoples, family, habits, culture, borders, countries, okay?
Something that's a little bit deeper.
Which is why even those who want to say, Oh, the church has gone so left.
Oh, the Pope has gone so left.
Well, read that.
I don't know.
Pretty, pretty right wing to me.
Even, I'll move on from the Pope, but there was even another line.
This was on Friday.
I meant to get to it.
Didn't have time.
Pope Francis met with some plastic surgeons.
And in his meeting with plastic surgeons, he attacks plastic surgery.
He says, I welcome you with a smile on our lips, natural, not remodeled.
Even on our lips, is he using the royal we?
The royal we, which is how monarchs have spoken.
I don't know, I'm only reading an English translation, so I don't know.
But the Pope says, with a smile on our lips, that's pretty trad, pretty base, because he's speaking for the institution, for the whole people, not just personally.
I welcome you with a smile on our lips, natural, not remodeled.
Then he talks about How beauty is not subject to, quote, the planned trends of the fashion business, the business of culture, the culture of appearances, but which connects to the truth of humanity, to the most intimate being, which we cannot disfigure.
Our faces are destined to reflect a beauty that goes beyond what can be perceived with the eyes of the body.
I love this.
Totally love this.
I am very anti-plastic surgery.
I recognize in certain cases in order to repair something that has been disfigured, Through accident or the fallenness of this world, you know, I understand there can be some good uses of plastic surgery.
That's not how it's usually used.
It's usually used by insecure women and men who, you know, want to, who think, who think they know better than God and who make an idol out of their physical appearances and who end up usually, almost always looking much worse as a result of it.
This is a great line.
This is a great line.
That this natural beauty, we don't want to subject it to the whims and passing fashions.
We talk about radical self-acceptance in this modern world, and yet those very same people are the ones demanding cosmetic surgery.
So radical cosmetic surgery as to include men who think they're women to chop themselves up to look more like women.
No.
If we want a sort of radical self-acceptance, recognize That natural beauty has a lot more to recommend it than man's artifice, and that there's more to the world than just thinking about ourselves.
When we put our minds on something else, there our beauty really shines.
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My favorite comment yesterday, it's from the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music.
Who says, wow, another one from the Drummer's Workshop Norm's Music.
I'm telling you guys, I'm not looking at the name.
I just keep picking the Drummer's Workshop Norm's Music's comment.
It says, Biden visiting the Bronx would go something like this.
I would like to thank everyone for being here.
Where's Babe?
I think Babe Ruth is here today.
Where's Babe?
This is so true.
Where's Whitey?
Whitey didn't get along with Corn Pop back in Scranton.
You know what I'm talking about?
Where's Yogi Berra, smartest man I ever knew?
So true.
That's probably why he won't go to the Bronx.
Speaking of unnatural things, this is the most disturbing story on TikTok these days.
Sweet little Alisa called my attention to this one.
I don't even know if I have TikTok on my phone.
I'm certainly not logged in if I do.
I don't think Alisa uses it, but sometimes you see the TikToks on the Instagram and she uses that more.
So she sees this and it goes totally viral.
It's a mother Making her own birthday cupcakes.
Very sad.
This woman is crying.
She's baking cupcakes.
This is being a single mom is making your own birthday cake on your birthday so that your babies can feel happy they are singing to you.
Okay, now this story just on its face is very sad.
You don't want to think of anyone being alone or having to, you know, Suffer cruelty and you know, so anyway, she's doing this now If you don't just get sucked into the narrative right away you do ask this question Why is she filming this?
Why when I when I cry?
She's a very rare Sort of thing, you know a man is permitted to cry When he's looking wistfully at a sunset maybe once every two years or you know, if his dog dies or something You're allowed to shed one tear privately I certainly wouldn't make it public.
Even women who are a little more prone to the waterworks, they generally try to keep it private, right?
They certainly should.
So why is this woman filming this really sad thing?
This is really, really sad.
Why is she filming that?
Well, there's a wrinkle because then a man stitches, that's where you do a video on the video, stitches this video and he says, hey, hold on, I'm going to correct the record.
So I've been sending this video a lot over the last few days.
People asking my thoughts and my comments on it.
And before anyone says, oh you don't know her situation or you know, you don't know what she's going through.
Well, I do because I lived it.
I'm her ex-husband and right now I have full custody of our kids.
This is our parent agreement.
As you can see, I have all weekdays and weekends.
Time sharing with the kids.
All holiday academic breaks.
And for her to get any rights back to the kids, these are the things that she needs to do.
And yes, child support.
She owes that.
It's up to over $21,000.
So, she's a mother and doesn't pay child support.
She was done arrested for check fraud and during that hearing it turned out that it was found that she stole almost a million dollars from another guy.
And also she faked cancer in the past.
These are scans that she would send and post on her page before.
Okay.
It goes on.
I think there's another... No, I think we have it.
Okay, alright.
This is... Only one more.
Only one more.
But I can't stop watching.
I watched the first video, then I have to watch the second video, the second video, then I have... She responds to her ex-husband after he responds to her crying while baking the cupcakes.
Whatever you're saying about me on the internet, but there are other women that have filed restraining orders against him, and if anyone took All right, enough!
go look him up as well, that's what you would see.
Instead, you see everything you've looked me up, which is essentially coming from one man who is out to destroy my life.
That is in the nature of being a silentologist.
That is what they do.
And if you know anything about them, you would know that.
All right, enough.
Enough.
Okay.
We went from sad, oh, you know, single mother, bad circumstances, has to bake her own birthday cakes where kids enjoy it, to actually she passes bad checks, she stole a million dollars, she fakes cancer, she owes me money because I take care of the kids the whole time, to actually she owes me money because I take care of the kids the whole time, to actually he's a Scientologist and he's evil, Enough!
Enough, people!
Shut up!
Shut up!
Shut your mouths and put your phone away and stop talking.
What is wrong with you people?
What is wrong with you?
That you... It's not just that you're beginning to kind of live in a little bit of a Black Mirror episode.
You're like diving headfirst into the Black Mirror.
You want to live in this dystopian future.
Who does this?
Do you remember Private Life?
Do you remember that?
There used to be... Maybe the kids in the audience don't remember this.
There used to be a thing called Private Life.
Where you wouldn't air every time you wanted to cry or every time you got into a fight with your husband or wife or ex-husband or ex-wife or this.
You didn't air all your dirty laundry and grievances for the entire world to get what?
To get clicks?
To get clicks from strangers on the internet?
This is so deeply demonic and evil.
What is wrong?
What about these people's kids?
Neither of them seems to care much about their kids at all.
If you're going to go out and post this kind of stuff all over the internet, Your kids are props for your TikTok channel.
What is wrong with you people?
Good grief!
Just, ah!
I don't have much more of a take on it other than 97% of the time when you are torn between do something publicly and just kind of keep it to yourself, Whether that's whining about your ex, whether that's having an emotional outburst, whether that's talking about your sexual preferences.
Boy, that's a big one these days.
Whether that's screaming or ranting or raving.
I know I'm ranting and raving right now, but at least I've got a show on it.
There's kind of some formality and limits placed on it.
I'm not just yelling into my phone.
97% of the time, just don't.
Just don't do it.
And you know what?
You'll never regret not doing it.
Private life is good.
We think that fame is really good.
So we just relentlessly pursue fame.
To the point that we're not, I know, I get that there's kind of an irony because I'm talking into a camera right now, but I'm not in my bedroom, I'm not in my kitchen, I enjoy private life.
Private life is great.
Private life is really, really valuable, okay?
And what we've done is we've said private life has no value, public life is everything, the love and cohesion of my family, totally pointless, doesn't matter at all, not going to fulfill me, the clicks and likes from strangers, that's what's really going to gratify me.
I'm going to be lying on my deathbed, I'm going to be saying, oh, I wish I had more time to get clicks and likes from strangers.
No!
No, man.
You want to get back to anything resembling normal, flourishing life?
Next time you want to aim that phone at yourself and engage in whatever properly private activity for the public?
Put that phone down, grab your arm, you're gonna wanna take, and you pry that arm away from your phone.
Good grief, we are so, Black Mirror is like passe now.
Black Mirror, we're gonna look back on Black Mirror with nostalgia in a few months.
We're gonna say, oh, you remember when life was so simple like in Black Mirror?
Like in the Twilight Zone, you remember that?
Boy, I long for those days, well past the dystopian prophecies.
Speaking of private life encroaching on public life, speaking of women crying at inappropriate times, Sonia Sotomayor, the justice, liberal justice on the Supreme Court, just gave a speech at Harvard and she admitted to crying after conservative court decisions.
Here's the quote, Harvard usually doesn't allow filming of its speeches, one reason I was not able to speak there last semester, but Yes, it was last semester I think I was supposed to go, and I was not going to give a speech like Sonia Sotomayor did, who reportedly said, there are days that I've come to my office after an announcement of a case and closed my door and cried.
There have been those days, and there are likely to be more!
So what's she talking about?
If she's crying after any big conservative victories, Presumably, she's talking about the biggest one by far.
I have to assume she's talking about the Dobbs decision here.
It was the most contentious court decision.
It was the one where all the liberals were losing their minds.
Biggest conservative victory, which means that this woman, this judge, gets back to her office and she sits down and she just melts into a little puddle and she says, fewer babies might be murdered now.
I just want to murder more of them, and they won't let me!
Justice Alito!
Alito, you won't let me murder all the babies I want to.
This is a graduate of the Ivy League.
I think she went to Yale Law School.
Could be wrong.
Maybe it was Harvard.
I think it was Yale Law School.
And she is a justice on the Supreme Court.
And she can't reign in the waterworks when a conservative judge says there's no right in the Constitution to just slaughter a million babies a year.
Which, you know, again, I haven't seen that text in the Constitution.
The liberals pretended it was there, I think in invisible ink for about 50 years.
The judges didn't even say you can't murder babies anymore.
They said you've just you have to have laws Within states that determine how many babies you can murder and even that was too much and the waterworks go off This woman is completely unqualified to be a judge She's qualified to be a member of Congress is what she is No knock on members of Congress.
Some of my best friends are members of Congress.
Okay, but the government is supposed to correspond to the tripartite soul.
It seems a little like pie in the sky, but that's actually some of the thought behind our system of government.
We have the legislature and the executive and the judicial branch, and they're supposed to correspond to the three elements of our soul.
The legislature is supposed to be the more passionate element, the more appetitive element, responsive to the passions and whims of the people.
That's why they get elected every two years in the House and every six years in the Senate.
Though the Senate really was supposed to be elected by the states.
Then you have the executive branch.
That's the spirited element, the thematic element of the soul, okay?
Spirit and energy.
And then you get the judicial branch.
That's supposed to be the logical part of the soul.
No passions, no crying, no sobbing because fewer babies will die.
That's why the judges are supposed to be disinterested.
That's why they wear these robes.
That's why they wear robes in part to diminish their personality.
It's not about their personality, it's about the law.
Lady Justice wearing a blindfold.
That's why they sit in a giant temple.
That's why the Supreme Court is such a huge, impressive temple of a building.
It's supposed to be much bigger than you.
This is why courtrooms that are very small and look like little office spaces are very bad for justice.
Because they diminish the perception of the weight of the law.
And how this is not about the individual, we're supposed to be a nation of laws.
Remember in a league of their own, there's no crying in baseball.
There's no crying in jurisprudence.
There's not supposed to.
We hear calls all the time from the libs for Alito or Thomas to step down from the court because they're conservative and they're not liberal and that's very bad.
Well, at least they don't sob in the chambers, okay?
At least they conduct themselves in a way befitting a judge.
Same cannot be said At least of Sotomayor.
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Speaking of unqualified liberals, Pete Buttigieg, Mayor Pete, Just went on a liberal news show.
CBS faced the nation.
Mayor Pete is the transportation secretary for Joe Biden.
They've made electric vehicles a major initiative of the Biden administration, which is kind of awkward because they're at war with Elon Musk.
So while they are pushing electric vehicles, they refuse to work with really the only electric vehicle manufacturer in the country.
Ford, you know, some of the other, they kind of have EVs a little bit, but it's really Tesla.
So unsurprisingly, The electric vehicle initiatives have not panned out all that well.
And so Pete Buttigieg has to answer why, three years in, they've only built seven or eight electric vehicle charging stations.
The Federal Highway Administration says only seven or eight charging stations have been produced with a $7.5 billion investment that taxpayers made back in 2021.
Why isn't that happening more quickly?
So the president's goal is to have half a million chargers up by the end of this decade.
Now, in order to do a charger, it's more than just plunking a small device into the ground.
There's utility work.
And this is also really a new category of federal investment.
But we've been working with each of the 50 states.
Every one of them is getting formula dollars to do this work.
Seven or eight, though?
Engaging them.
And the first handful—again, by 2030, 500,000 chargers.
And the very first handful of chargers are now already being physically built.
I love that this woman laughs at Pete.
This woman on a liberal news network, they exist to be the propaganda arm for the liberal establishment, and she goes, huh, seven and a half billion dollars and you built seven or eight charging stations.
So by my math, I didn't really get far out of calculus, that would be about a billion dollars per charging station.
He goes, well, yeah, actually, haha, that's sure.
But by 2030, a little bit in the future, day after tomorrow, we're going to build all of them.
And she laughs because it's a total joke.
Because it's proof that the whole electric vehicle craze from the government, it's just patronage for Democrats.
Billion dollars per charging station.
That's that's pretty good.
That's a pretty good payoff.
If you're a Democrat flag.
The libs are not serious about this.
They are not serious about the EVs.
Joe Biden can't possibly build all of these electric charging stations.
He's too busy draining oil from our strategic reserves.
He doesn't have time to promote electric cars.
He's too busy draining The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, draining that reserve in the Northeast because he knows that people want to drive cars and he knows that solar power or wind power or whatever is not actually going to provide a lot of energy anytime soon, probably not ever.
So he knows that it's really about oil.
But he needs to mollify his base, which has a cult-like devotion to the Sun Monster and the religion of climate change, and he knows that he's got to pay off his cronies.
And a great way to pay them off, and this is going back to the Obama administration, remember the Solyndra scandal?
There was this green energy company, Solyndra, which was just a patronage slush fund for Dems to send federal dollars to pay off their cronies.
Same thing is going on now.
You judge the tree by its fruit.
If the Libs were serious about this, there would be EV charging stations all over the country.
They're not.
There's a lot of green dollar bills in Democrat pockets.
There's a lot of that.
There are a lot of oil prices spiking because of Biden's stupid energy policy on the oil front.
But you judge the tree by its fruit.
There's no fruit here.
There's no fruit from the green movement.
Just a lot of Back slapped and pockets greased.
Speaking of election troubles for Joe Biden, RFK Jr.
might make that presidential debate in June.
This is a little bit of a curveball.
It's not a guarantee that he'll make it, but You remember when Biden challenges Trump.
He says, I want to do a debate, but let's not do the presidential commission on debates.
Let's do a debate on CNN.
And I forget the other one.
Maybe ABC.
And let's start it in June.
Much earlier than the September debates that we're used to.
Why?
Because in part the Democrats changed the rules and they allow people to vote much earlier now.
Two, because Biden wants to get well again is good.
So that if the debate goes horribly, they can try to memory hole that through the media.
But right after that was announced, Trump said, okay, I'm in.
Bobby Kennedy Jr.
said, and I'm in too, but no one invited Bobby Kennedy Jr.
So they all kind of laughed about it.
Well, apparently Bobby Kennedy Jr.
might make the stage.
He would be the first independent candidate for president to make the debate stage in 32 years.
Last one, some of you listening are old enough to remember, Ross Perot, Ross Perot back in 92, who helped to cost George H.W.
Bush the election.
So if passed as precedent, having a Democrat on stage this year with a Democrat incumbent might be a little bit of a Ross Perot effect, might further weaken Biden.
I've said from the beginning, I think Kennedy's candidacy hurts Biden a lot more than it hurts Trump.
The time is short here, but Kennedy needs 15% in four national polls.
He already got 16% in two polls.
From last month.
That would be CNN, SSRS, and a Quinnipiac poll.
He then just drew 17% in a Marquette Law School poll of registered voters out last week.
That's another CNN-approved poll.
That means he needs only one more poll.
So, he's in the debate, right?
Ah, not so fast.
Because the Democrats never do anything without at least a little bit of corruption.
So, he needs the numbers.
It looks like he's got the numbers.
He also needs to be on the ballot in enough states, according to CNN, to make the stage.
Well, he's already filed his petitions to be on the ballot in those states, and it looks like he's good, but the secretaries of state have to approve his petitions.
When you're a candidate for public office, to appear on a ballot, you have to get a bunch of people to sign a petition saying that you should be on a ballot.
And you need to get many more signatures than the requirement, because the opponents will go through and they'll say, okay, well this address isn't right, or this signature doesn't look right, or whatever.
So they'll try to take off as many signatures as they can, and hopefully you have enough left over.
But there's a process for this, and it has to be approved by the Secretary of State.
So, if Biden really doesn't want Kennedy on that debate stage, maybe Joe Biden makes a phone call.
I know Republican presidents are not allowed to call Secretaries of State in the various states.
Then they could be prosecuted for that, as we're seeing with Donald Trump.
But I bet Joe Biden could do it.
And he might just say, hey, you know, sure would be a shame if you slow rolled the Bobby Kennedy petitions.
And so, through sheer delay, you could see a world in which Democrat Secretaries of State Deny Bobby Kennedy the opportunity to get on that stage.
It's within their power.
It would be very corrupt, but it's within their power.
If you see that happening, it's because they know, just as we know, that Bobby Kennedy is a bigger threat to Biden than to Trump.
So what are the issues they're going to talk about?
They're going to talk about the economy.
Biden's going to talk about January 6th, the worst day ever in history.
He's going to try to focus on all that nonsense.
And there was a porn star 30 years ago in New York, and there was this, and there was that, and blah, blah, blah.
One big issue that's going to come up, it ranks toward the top of everybody's lists, is migration.
And one of the potential Trump running mate options, he's not probably on the short list, he's not one of the favorites, but he's a real possibility, is Byron Donald, a member of Congress, who just went on Fox News Sunday and called for not only a restriction of immigration, but the mass deportation of illegal who just went on Fox News Sunday and called for not Donald Trump had this border secured when he was president of the United States.
When Joe Biden came in, the first thing he did was rip up Trump's border policies simply because they were put in place by Donald Trump.
It was a very stupid decision by Joe Biden.
The country has suffered as a result.
So now what we're going to do is go back to ending catch and release, go back and go back to remain in Mexico.
We are going to have to deport millions of people who should not be here because our cities and states simply cannot handle the flow of all these illegal migrants.
Now you got people who are going, Jordanians going, trying to breach Quantico under Joe Biden.
You saw what happened on the southern border in California.
Okay.
I'm skeptical that it will happen, as I've said from the beginning.
People might say they want mass deportation.
When the planes, trains, and automobiles start rolling, I'm not convinced that they actually want it.
Our country's secure.
We are going to deport millions of people.
It needs to be done.
Okay.
I'm skeptical that it will happen.
As I've said from the beginning, people might say they want mass deportation.
When the planes, trains, and automobiles start rolling, I'm not convinced that they actually want it.
But at the very least, you have people talking about it, calling for it openly.
family.
Now, we hear tough rhetoric on immigration every election year.
Is anything going to change?
The only way it changes is if the fundamentals of the politics of the political order change.
We elect Democrats, we elect Republicans, we get more migration.
That's just what happens.
Something more fundamental than this candidate or that running mate or this person or that person.
Something more fundamental has to happen for the political order for this to happen.
There appears to be an appetite there for it, but the difference between the appetite and what actually goes into effect in policy is going to hinge on what institutions, what structures are in place to Actually govern.
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