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You cannot talk about any achievement that the city of Boston has had in safety, jobs, and economic development, in education without talking about the Somali community that has lifted our city up. We are proud and we are grateful for our Somali community and for our Somali American neighbors. Boston and the country are clear that hate has no place in our society. We will Use every attack to actually strengthen and expand the services available to empower and work alongside our community members who are already doing so much good in the world and setting the example for the rest of the country.

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They set the example from the beginning. You can't talk about any achievement of Boston. You cannot talk about the history of Boston without talking about the Somalis, right? I mean, who could forget the midnight ride of Paul Abdi Ahmed Mohammed Revere when he was galloping along with the Saracens through the streets of Boston yelling la la la la. The British are la la ba la la. Who could forget that? Who could forget. Who could forget the Boston Ambulo party when the colonials dressed up in tribal attire and poured that Somali stew that poor Jacob Fry in Minnesota had to choke down the other day with a smile on his face? They just poured all stew into the harbor. Don't you remember that? How could you forget? It's not just Mayor Wu. Who was it? Someone else the other day we covered it on the show, said Pramila Jayapal. It was Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat Congress lady, who said that you can't talk about the history of America without talking about Somalis. They built this country. Somalis built this country. There were statistically zero Somalis in America before 1992. Okay? There were none. There were statistically none. There were dozens who came over in the early 20th century and then a few more students came over in the 70s, 60s. But it was really not until Somalia failed as a state again in the early 1990s that we had Somalis come over here. They have nothing to do with American history. They have nothing to do with America. And we are being told to our face, total straight face from Mayor Wu of Boston and from Pramila Jayapal in Congress, that Somalis are as American as apple pie as ambulo pie. I don't mean to just beat up on the Somalis, though. They have nothing to do with American history other than very, very recent history when they have defrauded us. The only contribution that Somalis have ever made to America is fraud. Like massive, massive fraud. But it's not just the Somalis. Haitian immigrants, too, it turns out in Massachusetts, another, you know, bit of Massachusetts history. Here we've talked about the Ambulo Tea Party. Now we will move on to the $7 million in SNAP fraud thanks to the Haitians.

F (10:43)

Today we are announcing federal charges against two men, Antonio Bonner and Saul Elise May, for large scale snap benefit trafficking, a scheme that turned a program designed to feed Families into a multimillion dollar criminal enterprise. One legitimate supermarket in the same area as these stores redeems approximately $80,000 in SNAP benefits per month. Over the last 20 months, the Jasuela variety store was rebuilt, redeeming between three and six times that amount monthly, with nowhere near the space, inventory, customers, or infrastructure to support it. The so mache mix, a store redeemed over $120,000 in SNAP benefits in the last six months. Simply put, there is no plausible way SNAP eligible food could have been purchased from these stores for this long. Yet these two stores are alleged to have illicitly trafficked nearly $7 million in SNAP benefits. The fraud was shocking and glaring.

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I guess it's shocking, but it's not surprising. It's shocking because of the audacity, but it's not surprising because this always happens. These migrant groups come over and they defraud us. They just keep doing it. And we keep learning that the scale of the fraud, the enormity of the fraud is higher and higher than we thought. And then we're shocked again. At what point do we stop being shocked? I think there was a big turning point with this government shutdown. In many ways, I think it was similar to the turning point of COVID Inasmuch as Democrats loved Covid. They loved Covid because it allowed them to shut down the government, exert much more government control, and. And rewrite the election laws. So it gave them an advantage in the 2020 election. We're learning more about that too. We'll see if we have time to get to that story. But it helped them. It allowed them to tighten their grip over the institutions that they controlled. And crucially, it allowed them to rewrite the election laws in battleground states, in some cases unconstitutionally, to give them an advantage in an election that otherwise they were probably gonna lose. Now, the downside of COVID for them, though, was that Covid, for instance, sent the kids home from school and created remote learning. And as a result of remote learning, parents finally were able to see the nonsense that their kids were being taught in school because it was now mediated by a computer screen. And what happened as a result of that? There were massive demands for education reform. There was a huge spike in homeschooling, people moving out of the public school system. So in the end, I think it kind of hurt the Democrats. That's how I feel about this shutdown. The lib shut down the government a month or two ago, longest government shut down in history. And then they just conceded. They totally surrendered it Achieved nothing. It was entirely on them. And they did it because they were trying to shift the conversation. Trump had too many wins. They realized that the only hard issue that they were winning on was health care. And so they tried to shut down the government and make it about healthcare. But that kind of hurt him too, because then the Republicans came out and said, well, you're just shutting down the government cuz you wanna give illegals healthcare, you want to give illegals more access to welfare programs. And the Democrats didn't have a good answer. Initially they said illegals don't have access to healthcare or welfare programs. But then as the shutdown went on, the Democrats started saying, well you know, if the Republicans won't reopen the government soon, these poor undocumented migrants won't have healthcare, won't have food. You say wait a second, I thought you told me that wasn't happening. Now you're saying the reason we have to reopen the government fund the government is because of the thing that you said wasn't happening. But if you expand it beyond just the undocumented, that is illegal aliens to migrants generally. Previously the Democrats had told us, oh, they don't use welfare systems, they contribute to the economy, they're a net boon for the economy. And then all of a sudden we realized, no, it turns out certainly in specific migrant communities, 60% of them are on welfare or more so actually they're just a total net negative, even if you want to make a purely economic argument. And then finally, broadly, when we were looking specifically on snap, which used to be called food stamps, we noticed that there is just massive, massive dependence and fraud. Not even dependence like a poor young mother needs it to feed her kids. Just fraud, just Haitian Somali, even native born fraud. In some states, 10% of the population is on food stamps. That shows you that there is something seriously wrong with the economy where or with the food stamp program. And the economy right now is relatively strong. So there's obviously a lot of fraud going on here. I think it's gonna hurt em. I think it's tuned a lot of people in to say, wow, gosh, why is housing so expensive? Well, 2/3 of rent prices have been driven up by migrants. Why is food so expensive? Might it be because there's just massive fraud? Taking government subsidies to inflate the price of food? Well, huh, maybe actually the points that the Democrats are giving us, maybe they're actually the problem. So it's leading to a lot of people saying a lot of this comes down to mass migration and we need an immigration moratorium. Huge number just came out of TPUSA. We'll get to that in one second. First though, I wanna tell you about PureTalk. This episode is sponsored by PureTalk. As a consumer, you carry the success or failure of businesses in the palm of your hand. 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So from everyone in the PureTalk family, and I consider myself a part of the Pure Talk family because we've been partners on the show for a while and I've had Pure Talk for years and years. At this point I just absolutely love it. From everyone in the PureTalk family, thank you for your trust and God bless America. So we're all back from America Fest, most of which was podcasters fighting with each other. But there was some more concrete political organizing going on and at the end of it there were straw polls. Who do you want to be your nominee in 2028? What do you think of this issue? What do you think of that issue? Before we get to who they want to be their nominee, Important issue poll. The TPUSA straw poll shows that 90% of attendees support a full immigration moratorium. We need to stop migration into the United States. Illegal, legal, all of it. We're full. We got too many people aren't assimilating. We gotta stop it now the libs are going to say this is unamerican because we're a nation of immigrants. This phrase, nation of immigrants didn't even appear in America until the middle to late 20th century in it's a revisionist history. We are not a nation of immigrants. We're a nation originally of settlers. And then we had basically no immigration, very, very little immigration until parts of the 19th century when we had very restricted immigration. And then even that was too onerous and burdensome. So by the early 20th century, we essentially cut off all immigration until the latter part of the 20th century. And then we flooded the country with extremely foreign people. But the real history of America is not that we're a nation of immigrants. We did not consider ourselves to be that way for much of American history. And now it's not just the attendees at tpsa, which is a pretty good sample of the Republican base. 30,000 people completely sold out. They would have had 100,000 people there had they had more tickets. These are people who are activists, but who are normies. They're not fringe, they're not extreme. They are, Charlie Kirk, conservatives. And they're saying we need a full moratorium. So much so that you got Chip Roy here, conservative Republican in Congress who has introduced the PAUSE act to implement a moratorium.

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I've introduced legislation called the PAUSE act to pause immigration and to pause it until we get our hands around all of the problems that are currently plaguing our immigration system. The abuse of birthright citizenship, to have profit centering, profit centered ways to create American citizens by people coming here, coming across the Rio Grande, having children, making citizens that then can use American resources, our hospitals, our schools, our legal system, our welfare. We continue to allow a broken visa system to have extended family members be brought into the United States expansively and purposefully. H1B program has been exploited and abused now for years and must be abolished or massively reformed.

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Okay, look, I love all of this. I think this is great. Good on Chip. I'm a big fan of Chip Roy and I think in the 90s, people talked about an immigration moratorium, but it was really a fringe issue. Then it basically disappeared from Republican politics then. People have floated it in more recent years. Now it's becoming a mainstream issue. The Overton Window is shifting on it. However, I think we need to go even further. Can I offer that? Can I offer. I know, look, I want to take the win that the Overton Window has shifted, but I think we need to go a little further. I'll just show you how the Overton window shifted and where it needs to go. When I was a kid, the only two views you could hold on on immigration, were you wanting more legal and illegal immigration or only more legal immigration? But you know, it's gotta be legal. It can't be illegal. They have to fill out the right forms. But you always want more migration. Then it shifted to we need to restrict not only illegal immigration, but also legal immigration. So a shift away from just the procedure to the substance of Immigration now, it's shifting a little more. It's just a subset of that idea, which is, well, we need a full moratorium on all immigration. No one comes in, which practically is not possible. But you could dramatically reduce it to almost nothing. Kind of like the 1924 Act. But we're still avoiding one of the big issues, which is not the quantitative issue, but the qualitative issue. Even when we talk about an immigration moratorium, we get to avoid the really icky issue that people don't want to talk about, but which is obviously relevant, which is, what kind of immigrants do we mean? Where are the immigrants coming from? Is there a difference between an immigrant from merry old England and an immigrant from Somalia? Now, actually, maybe not, because both of their names would be muhammad, but like 30 years ago, there would be a big difference. One would be old John Smith, you know, who's got the traditions of Parliament and Magna Carta and the great kings going all the way back to the Battle of Hastings and this kind of shared history that we have. And Somalia, which has almost nothing in common with us. But that part you're still not really allowed to talk about. That part still seems a little icky or racist y or something like that. I don't think it is, but that's the part they don't want to talk about. And I think that's the part we have to talk about, because the 1924 Immigration act did talk about that. And the 1924 Immigration act just coincidentally happened to coincide with the greatest period of strength ever in America. Cohesion, strength, growth. That was it. The Immigration act from 1924 up until 1965. That was the period. Right now, it coincided with other things, too, though they might have been related. Our strength heading into the Second World War, the early successes in the Cold War. We need to focus on the kinds of people that are more likely to assimilate, and we're not. That's what we did for literally all of American history until the 1965 Hart Cellar Act. And then we were told that we're an evil, terrible, racist country. I don't know. Kind of all the arguments that that little Somali girl regurgitated. We're a stolen land. It's awful. We're terrible. We need to let in specifically the Third World, not just immigrants from the UK or Southern Europe or Eastern Europe. No, specifically the Third World. And that doesn't work. It's hard enough to assimilate Germans and Italians. It was legitimately hard to assimilate Italians and Germans and Jews. And Eastern Europeans and they're pretty close. They're very similar to the founding stock of the country. And it was hard to assimilate them. Some of my ancestors. It is a bazillion times harder to assimilate people who have a different language, radically different language, a different culture, different institutions, a different religion, different habits, different almost everything. So this is good. I encourage that. Yeah. Okay. We can have effective. We can call it an immigration moratorium, means a drastic reduction in all migration. But we're not going to get anywhere if we don't talk about the specifics. What kind of cultures are more easily assimilable, which are less assimilable? The ancient Israelites talked about this. The ancient Greeks talked about this. The scholastics talked about this. Every serious statesman who's addressed this issue has talked about this. We need to go all the way. We need to be honest with ourselves. And I think even the hardcore restrictionists, they don't want to be totally honest. They want to pretend it's just a numbers game. Well, you know, we're all just kind of the same. We're all undifferentiated blobs of humanity. Not quite. Traditions, culture, heritage, lineage, stock, religion. All these things really matter. Okay, now, speaking of the TPUSA straw poll, there is a clear answer on who the TPUSA base wants to be the President. We'll get to that momentarily. First, I want to tell you about Shopify. Go to shopify.com knowles this episode is sponsored by Shopify. When I was a wee lad starting my first businesses, boy oh boy, how much easier it would have been had Shopify been around. Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all e commerce in the US we even use it for our own daily wire shop to make sure things are running smoothly and efficiently so you can get all the goods. And you might be asking Michael, what if I can't design a website? What if I'm worried people haven't heard of my brand? 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Coming in with 84% of the vote, J.D. vance, followed by about 4% of the vote Marco Rubio, followed by about 2 1/2% of the vote Ron DeSantis, followed by 2% of the vote Don Jr. Followed by 1 or so percent of the vote Ted Cruz, followed by 1% of the vote Glenn Youngkin, followed by 3% of the vote, 2 1/2 undecided followed by 3%. Someone else write in required. It's just not, it's just not close. Not close anywhere. It's JD Which I've called from the beginning. And look, I like a ton of these guys. Rubio, Rubio's strong. Ron DeSantis I think is a tremendous governor. I really like Don Jr. Ted Cruz is a very close friend of mine. Glenn Youngkin, I don't really know him. Kind of miffed at his statement about the Robert E. Lee statue the other day. But he was a good governor. All these guys are good. It's J.D. why is it J.D. because of his particular political strengths. I think he in particular speaks to the political moment and he has a special skill at speaking to young people. But it's not even necessarily just about him personally. We are living in an almost unprecedented political moment in American history. Cuz we have a president who has a non consecutive second term. Which means that when Trump picked JD to be his running mate, he was effectively crowning him to be the heir. Because when you run for president, you're aiming at two terms and because this one was interrupted and President Trump is term limited by the constitution, by the 22nd amendment, which I'll point out, Ronald Reagan campaigned vigorously to repeal. Nevertheless, it's on the books. And so he essentially really, no matter what Trump says, he crowned him when he picked him in 2024. So obviously he's the pick. You don't need to just ask the kids at tpusa. Marco Rubio, who is the number two guy by a country mile, Marco Rubio has come out and told Vanity Fair he doubles down of his own personal.

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And political ambitions, telling Vanity Fair last week, if J.D. vance runs for president, he's going to be our nominee.

A (28:58)

And I'LL be one of the first.

G (29:00)

People to support him.

A (29:02)

Very rarely do you see in Washington.

G (29:05)

Politics somebody who does something like this.

F (29:08)

Yeah, really remarkable, kind of the setting.

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Aside of personal ambition. And arguably These two men, J.D. vance and Marco Rudio, would probably be among the top contenders. Yes, and that is backed up by the numbers. However, I love this reaction from the correspondents on Fox News. They say, wow, it's so rare to see people set aside personal ambition. That's a nice way to put it. And Rubio seems like a terrific guy. Nobody puts aside personal ambition willingly in Washington, D.C. marco Rubio has been running for president certainly since 2016, and he was making waves in 2012. I remember it okay. This is not about just voluntarily setting aside personal ambition, because, you know, that's just. He just so admires JD Vance. That's not my read on it. My read on it is JD Is the nominee. That's a fact. That's a fait accompli at this point. And so we need to deal in that reality. And look, he would be a good nominee, but as Rubio, I think more acknowledging reality. And look, Rubio could be a great running mate. Who knows if he's serious that he really wants to remain Secretary of State. It would be wild for him to be Secretary of State across, say, three presidential terms. That would be pretty historic. In any case, I really like this, not only because, as you know, I'm a great admirer of the Vice president, but it's not just because of that. It's because of the stark contrast between what we saw on the TPUSA stage during all of America Fest and what we're seeing in the polling numbers. What we're seeing within the government, among the hard politicos on the TPUSA stage, it was everyone sniping at each other and trying to excise people from the conservative movement and to vie for position and perhaps for perfectly fine, principled moral reasons. I'm not even casting aspersions on that. I'm just observing. That's what happened. And then I look at the base and I look at the government, and it's not division, it's unity. It's division among the podcasters and the commentators and the writers and the think tankers. It's total division. It's like every man's on his own team, it seems, and wants to boot everyone else out of conservatism. But then among the base and among the actual politicos, the people that we're gonna nominate and vote for, there's More unity than I've seen maybe in my lifetime. Just go back to TPUSA. You've got. What is it? 80. 80, sorry, 82.5% support for Donald Trump. 82.5% support for Donald trump in 2020. 84% support for J.D. vance. You actually have J.D. vance, who's the VP, who was senator from Ohio, who wrote an interesting book about growing up as a kind of hillbilly. That guy is, has more unified Republican support than Donald Trump, the man who won the popular vote as a Republican for the first time in 20 years. That is an amazing amount of GOP unity. And I gave a speech on this at Belmont Abbey, anticipating some of the fights in the so called right wing civil war, which is mostly a phenomenon of podcasting and commentators and think tanks. It is not primarily a phenomenon of hard politics, electoral politics. And I pointed out, I said, look, there are all these divisions and all of these isms and ideologies, some of them perfectly justifiable and some of the antagonism is justifiable. But I just want to point out, who do we all support for president? All of us who are really within the tent. Let's just use the example of the people Charlie invited to the event. He excluded some people. He invited a ton of people. Many of the people he invited hate each other. But who do we all support for president? We all support Trump. And who are we basically all gonna support next time? The heir apparent, J.D. vance. And what do we all think about immigration? We need to greatly restrict it. And what do we all think about foreign policy? It needs to be restrained, but strong. And what do we all think about the economy? It needs to serve the American national interest. And what do we all, we all, weirdly, when it comes to policy, we all kind of agree. When it comes to politicians, we all kind of agree. All the division takes place in this meta political space of the commentators. That's interesting in itself and there are all sorts of reasons for it. And I don't mean to just write it off, but I feel pretty good about that unity. Amid all this report of division, I feel pretty good about that unity. Now, speaking of impressive, albeit more unsettling unity, have you read about the throuple, the gay throuple in the Wall Street Journal? You haven't. Lucky you. We're gonna have to talk about it though, I'm afraid. This is from the Wall Street Journal. This is as establishment a newspaper stodgy. I love the Wall Street Journal headline. One throuple had three separate design tastes how did they manage a renovation? After buying a plain vanilla box, a Chicago trio brought in an interior designer who blended their aesthetics and added elements like a moody den for socializing and a three person bed. Am I reading Playgirl or am I reading the Wall Street Journal? What is we'll get to that in one moment. First, Christmas is two days away. If you need a gift, well, here is one that lasts all year. Daily wire plus annual gift memberships are 50% off. No shipping, no crowds, no last minute scrambling. You send a full year of ad free uncensored daily shows from the most trusted and sexy voices in conservative news, investigative reporting and premium entertainment, and you choose exactly when they receive it. This Christmas day is also the premiere of the Pendragon cycle Rise of the Merlin with episode one available in early access for Daily Wire plus all access members. Again, new annual Daily Wire plus gift memberships 50% off right now. Dailywire.com Daily Gift Today my favorite comment yesterday, it's from the drummers workshop. Norm's music. It almost always is, but this one. And I did see the name this time, and it wasn't even close. The headline in response to Disney or the comment in response to Disney. I'm dreaming of a white Santa just like the one I used to know. So true. So true. Mrs. Claus is black. Santa is black. The elves will be black. It will all George Washington. It's true. That's true. That's American history. What's up with the throuple? When corporate strategist David Goberdil and pharmacist Ryan Tungate started living together in Chicago 2013, they never intended to open their relationship, let alone their home, to a third partner. Excuse me one second. We're one sentence in and it's already nauseating. But when they met Consultant Michael Cowell, 35, through mutual friends in the summer of 2018, things took an unexpected turn. We just clicked. An unexpected turn. Homosexual men do weird stuff. It was just totally unexpected. We had no idea. Can you imagine homosexual men would have multiple partners? That's so crazy. Crazy. This is a man bites dog story. Stop the presses, Wall Street Journal. So anyway, it's this whole thing about how three gay guys live together. But the story isn't about that. If the story were about that, I would understand. Well, you wouldn't cover it because that sort of happens. It's unusual by norms, by normal standards, but it's not unusual necessarily within that community. However, I could see a newspaper covering it. It's just like, wow, can you believe this is what they do. That's crazy, isn't it? But that's not what the story's about. The story takes all of that for granted, says, yeah, these three dudes, or they're gay guys, they live together. It's totally. And let's just talk about their throw pillows. And one of them wanted the dining room to be eating room red. And can you imagine, the other wanted forest green. However did they resolve that conflict? In other words, the point of the story is to normalize. Throuple. The word throuple. I've used the word throuple because it's kind of a funny neologism. Guys, we can't normalize throuple, okay? And we certainly can't normalize gay throuples. I guess you see in history, in pagan societies, even in the Old Testament, though, it's not recommended. You see a patriarch with multiple wives. Maybe that would be a kind of a throuple. But the gay throuple thing, that's especially. And I don't even want to normalize the other throuple. This. This is gross. And one begins to understand sodomy laws. I guess that's the clip for Media Matters today. But it's fine. It should be the clip because people need to hear this. Someone asked at America Fest, actually, someone was asking about sodomy laws. Would I support sodomy laws coming back on the books? And I pointed out the. Of sodomy laws goes back to. Well, the legalization or the constitutional ban on laws prohibiting homosexual sodomy goes back to Lawrence v. Texas, a case about 20 years ago at the Supreme Court, which found over the objections of Antonin Scalia and the court's conservatives, that there is a secret constitutional right to homosexual sodomy written presumably in invisible ink somewhere between articles two and three. I don't know exactly where it is, but that right is in there, apparently. And Scalia's argument was, look, whether you enjoy homosexual sodomy or you disapprove of it, it's not in the Constitution. And so there can be laws about this. So then get into the actual laws. The idea that there were still these laws on the books as late as 2003, say, that seems kind of crazy to a lot of people, but I think it's also because they don't understand the purpose that these laws served. Many such laws, not just pertaining to this particular vice, but to other vices as well. People think that, you know, these poor perpetrators were getting their heads lopped off for committing crimes that many of us don't think are very serious all the time. That's not true. These laws were very, very rarely enforced. There were not purity police going around door to door to try to arrest Paul Lynde, say, okay, that's not how it works. This wasn't Iran. We don't do that. We don't have much of a tradition of that in America. We don't really have any tradition of that in America. So what purpose did the laws serve? The purpose that the laws served was to set a standard. Even if it was through a legal mechanism that was generally not enforced. And the standard said, not that two fellas can't have a long handshake every once in a while or what. It's not that Paul Lynde can't appear on Hollywood Squares, a lot of Paul Linda in the show. It's that we're not gonna put up with gay throuples in our newspapers. That's what the law said. That's the purpose of these laws that set standards and norms. It's to say, hey, here's a standard of society. We will tolerate some deviation from it. But make no mistake about the standard. I was talking to Jonathan Peugeot about this some years ago and he pointed out, you know, weird stuff has always existed in society. We've always had weird stuff. Go look at medieval manuscripts and in medieval manuscripts there's all sorts of weird stuff along the edges. Gargoyles and look at cathedrals on cathedrals. On the outside of the cathedrals there's all this weird stuff. Gargoyles and weird little kind of elfish looking creatures and some of them with grotesque features. And even in the manuscript, sometimes they got weird, like, you know, a giant phallus or something like that. And you say, this is really bizarre. Why do they. Why, even in the high Middle Ages, you know, the high point of Christendom Christian culture, why did they have all this weird deviant stuff on the outside? And the reason is because you don't want it in the center. It's a fallen world. There's weird stuff. You know, humans are quirky, but you need to make sure that the weird stuff is considered weird. You don't want the gargoyle with the gigantic phallus and 17 horns in the center of the altar. That's truly perverted, inverted even. You keep it kind of on the periphery. That's the purpose of these laws. And right now, what we've done by removing even the nod to standards in this behavior, we have moved that which generally exists on the edges in the Periphery. We've moved it into the center, and it's deeply scandalous and it screws up our whole culture, and most people don't like it. Which is why Republicans campaigned so effectively against transing the kids last year. That's eunuchs, transgenderism, transvestitism. These are issues that were always on. They've always been around. They've always been around the periphery. I mean, for goodness sakes, Nero, Emperor Nero castrated one of his slaves and dressed him up to look like the wife that Nero had murdered and married this boy girl. Which, by the way, that is the example of gay marriage in antiquity. So not like when people say gay marriage has been around forever. Yeah, you're pointing to Nero. I wouldn't. That's not a great example. But even you say transvestite. Yeah, right. It's a fallen world, man. These things have always been around. It's weird, but you gotta kinda keep it on the edges. Okay. Not in the Wall Street Journal. Have I made my point? Understood. Speaking of the new normal, Rick Wilson, who was some hack, cynical Republican campaign operative, you know, just a kind of scummy political creature. Rick Wilson decided that his business was drying up during the Trump era, so he flipped teams. Political hatchet men are not necessarily always known for their loyalty and deep moral principles. So Rick Wilson, he goes on some show. And as we look ahead to the end of President Trump's second term, after 10 years of Trump dominating American politics, 10 years to get his act together, to take a deep breath, this is what Rick Wilson had to say about Trump.

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My better angels, when Trump dies, are going to be out on the streets setting off fireworks. It's going to sound like a Baghdad wedding around here. He deserves nothing but our hatred, our loathing, our approbation, our dismissal. Donald Trump's grave will reek of ammonia for a million years. He is the most hated president in our lifetimes. His cult is intense, but shrinking every day. But I promise you, karma is a magnificent sculpted and Donald. She will roll around someday, inshallah. Someday sooner than later. And as you pass down into the gates of hell, people will. The last sound you'll hear is the laughter and cheering of Americans as you disappear from this world.

A (44:28)

Do you feel better, buddy?

H (44:30)

Do you feel.

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Oh, good. I'm glad you got that off your chest. Who talks like this? Who talks like this? It was poorly written, first of all. You can tell he wrote that one up. He thought, oh, ha ha. That'll really get him. Ha ha ha. Yes. But who talks like this? Whether it's spontaneous, whether it's extemporaneous or whether it's pre written. Who talks like this? Yes, yes, you'll die and I'll be so happy when you die. And then I'll celebrate you. He says. Trump's the least popular president in however many years. President Trump is the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years. President Trump built a new coalition in American politics that won increasing numbers of black people and Hispanic people and 46% of the Hispanic vote, of women, of even women under the age of 31, 40% of them. This is an inclusive coalition. They'll be so happy when you die, and I'll be happy when you die. And I'm reminded that the fruits of the spirit are an important measure of people on the left or on the right, people who say that they're religious, people who are openly irreligious. Really, this cuts across the board when you have people using vile language. You know, I tried not to go blue on this show. Occasionally a word slips out here or there, but I try not to go blue. Cause it's not good to do that and it's bad and it makes you worse when you do that too much. And I don't know, when you see someone using vile, vulgar language, constantly vituperative, always, you know, an abundance of invective. How many kind of silly multisyllabic words can I use in this description? It's a bad sign. It says that maybe something's gone a little bit rotten in that person. And maybe that person, rather than focusing their animus on some outside object or person, maybe ought to, I don't know, go to confession. I don't know, maybe ought to have a little introspection, maybe pray, maybe take stock of oneself. It's not just on the left. I see it on the right too, but it's not good. No one listens to that guy and says, ah, yes, this is a serious, balanced person whose views I should consider. I don't think so, by the way, before we go, because I know that, you know, we've got a lot of great programming for over Christmas and New Year, but this last, like hard news, I'm gonna be giving you answer Rick Wilson with what Nancy Pelosi just had to say. Because looking ahead to 2026, the Democrats are really hopeful that they're going to retake the Congress. And if they retake the Congress, they can impeach Trump for the third time. They're salivating to do so. And here is Nancy Pelosi who was the Democrat leader in the House for, I think, 246 of America's 250 years. Here is what Nancy Pelosi had to say about impeaching Trump in 26, just to make sure. I understand you. This should not be the agenda of Democrats for this next two years.

I (47:32)

If he crosses the border again. But that's not an incidental thing. You say we're going to do that. No, there has to be cause, there has to be reason. We had review. This was a very serious, historic thing. And our founders knew that there could be a rogue president, and that's why they put in impeachment in the Constitution. They didn't know there'd be a rogue president at the same time, a rogue Senate that didn't have the courage to do the right thing. It's bipartisan in the Senate, but it wasn't enough.

A (48:05)

USA Today. So, Speaker Pelosi, do you think that Democrats should impeach Donald Trump when they take power? No, he didn't do anything to merit that. You need a legal predicate for impeachment. Kind of rich hearing this from Pelosi. Now, she also realizes, because they didn't really have a legal predicate last time, I think she just realizes this is a political loser. But in any case, however we get it, you heard it straight from the horse's mouth. Is it the horse's mouth? It's at least some part of the horse. You heard it straight from that part of the horse. There is no basis for Democrats to impeach Trump. Okay, that's nice. Nice news heading into the new year. Today's Tee Hee Tuesday. The rest of the show continues now. You do not want to miss it. Become a member. Use code Knowles at checkout for two months free on all annual plans.

H (48:59)

What was it like, Marlon, to be alone with God? Is that who you think I was alone with?

A (49:14)

Maradin? I knew your father. I am yet convinced that he was not of this world.

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All men know of the great Taliesin. Who am I, father, that the gods should war for my soul? Princess Garrus, saviour of our people. I know what the bull God offered you. I was offered the same. And there is a new pirate work in the world. I've seen it. A God who sacrifices what he loves for us.

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We are each given only one life. Singer.

H (49:50)

No, we're given another. I learned of Yazu the Christ and I have become his follower.

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He's waiting on a miracle. And I think you can give him money.

H (50:03)

Trust in Yael. He is the only hope for men like us. Fate of Britain never rests in the hands of the Great Light. Great Light. Great darkness. Such things mattered to me then. What matters to you now, Mistress of Light? You, nephew. The sword of a high king. How many lives must be lost before you accept the power you were born to wield. So clinging to the promises of a God who has abandoned you. I cannot take up that sword again. You know what you must do. Great Light, forgive me. The time has come to be reborn.

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