It's A Saturday Morning Bonus Podcast For 10-​26-24

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Barry Show.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
If you are a regular listener of our show and
our podcast, you know that we are big proponents of
learning a trade. I'll tell you a great story. There's
a guy that I know named Bert Harvey, and he
has a small renovation and construction company. And one of
his employees they are very very religious. The family is

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originally from Guatemala, although the kids were all born here
and they're they're very very religious. None of the I know,
all the brothers, all the siblings, they're all tradesmen. None
of them drink. They go to church like five times
a week there. They're very very devout and and you
know they don't even cost much less drink or smoke

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or corrals or anything like that anyway. So their younger
brother went to work as an intern. He did very
well in college and went to work at Price Waterhouse Coopers.
I happen to have a friend who works there, and
I sent an email. He's a partner over there, and
I said, hey, just keep an eye on this kid
and see how he's coming along. He doesn't have any

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white collar professionals in his family. Just if you don't
mind just popping on him, tell him if he has
any questions, because that's how I was as a young
man in a law firm. I didn't know what to do.
If your dad is a lawyer at a big law firm,
you can ask. But he didn't have any resources like that.
And the kid turned out to be golden for them,
so they made him a job offer, and he's graduating

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this semester and he'll be sitting for his I don't
know if it's audit or tax. I don't know which
assurance or which division he's in. But he decided that
since he has a little extra time since he's been
an electricians helper with his brother, one of his brother's electrician,
that he would also use this occasion before he graduated

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college to get his electricians license. And my wife and
I were laughing because he will almost certainly be the
only person with an electricians license at Price Waterhouse Coopers. Right,
this guy could wire your home but also provide strategic

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audit or tax I'm not sure which group he's in
for your Fortune five hundred company. I just thought that
was cool. So going to college for the sole purpose
of going to college, I've always said as a waste
of time and money, and people don't understand what college
is and isn't Unless you're getting a degree in medicine
or law or architecture, pharmacy. You don't need a college

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degree for most things you do in this world. I
have two law degrees, and I don't need them to
do what I do. I'm glad I did it. I
love studying law to this day. I'm glad I understand
the structure of our legal system, but I don't need
it to be a talk show host. Going to college
is an indulgence for most people earning a real life skill.

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Now that's important. A few years ago, JD. Vance gave
the keynote address at the second National Conservatism Conference, and
he talked about how our universities have been corrupted by
the left, and that is the subject of our Saturday
podcast today. As you know, our podcast is a rebroadcast

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of our radio show during the week, but when we
do a bonus podcast, that means it's a separate show
that we've done just for you and on Saturdays. Because
people were saying, hey, you know, I'm used to listening
to you every day and you're not on on Saturday.
Could you do something so have something to listen to.
So we started finding things that we like that we

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listened to and adding those to the Saturday podcast and
making a bonus podcast out of that, and this week
it is what we think is a very good speech
by JD. Vance from a couple of years ago.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
So enjoy so much of what we want to accomplish.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
So much of what we want to do in this
movement in this country, I think are fundamentally dependent on
going through a set of very hostile institutions, specifically the
universities which control the knowledge in our society, which control
what we call truth and what we call falsity, that
provides research that gives credibility to some of the most
ridiculous ideas that exists.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
In our country.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
And so I'm excited to close this conference with this
particular set of remarks because I think if any of
us want to do the things that we want to
do for our country and for the people who live
in it, we have to honestly and aggressively attack the
universities in this country. Now, I am, as of July

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of this year, a Senate candidate in the state of Ohio,
which is a very unique situation for me to be
in thank you. You can all go to jdvance dot
com and make yourselves as poor as possible to support
my campaign. But one of the things that consistently comes
up in my campaign, because I was one of these
people who didn't quite get Donald Trump in the beginning,

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I sort of fully appreciate where he was coming from
or what he was about, and now I very.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
Much do is this concept of red pilling.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
And if you ever heard this term, it comes from
the movie The Matrix, which, as I understand it is
made by a couple of people who do not share
the politics of the people in this room. But the
basic idea is that once you see the way that
knowledge is transmitted, once you see the way that public
policy works in this country, it's very hard to unsee it.
And so there's this scene in the movie The Matrix

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where the chief protagonist has given an opportunity to take
the blue pill or the red pill, and he takes
the red pill, and the red pill effectively reveals to
him the fundamental corruption that laid at the heart of
the society that he lived in. And I'm gonna come
back to this analogy later on in my remarks, but
I think it's important to understand that so much of

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what's going on our country, so much of what drives
truth and knowledge as we understand it in this country,
is fundamentally determined by, supported by, and reinforced by the
universities in this country.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
That is the world that we live in.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
We live in a world that has been made effectively
by university knowledge. And if you ask yourself, why are
we consented to this? Why have we accepted a world
in which the universities, which by the way, are not
exactly politically sympathetic with any of the people in this room,
Why have we done that?

Speaker 1 (06:29):
The universities will make two claims.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
The first claim, what they provide for our society is
that they provide for the dissemination of knowledge and truth.
That's what the universities do. That's the first thing. And
the second thing the universities do in this country is
that they train young minds to think in innovative and
thoughtful ways about the problems that we'll experience. Because no

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society can fully anticipate or appreciate what's a route to
come around the corner, and so it must train the
next of leaders to know what the next problems will
be to apply first principles to those problems and to
eventually solve the issues that our society encounters. That is
what the universities do to disseminate truth and knowledge and

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to train the next generation of young minds. It's worth
asking ourselves whether the universities today actually do that. Do
the universities disseminate truth and knowledge? Do they train the
next generation of young minds to actually anticipate the world
as it is, to apply first principles to critical and
difficult problems. And I think the answer is obviously no,

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That's obviously not what the universities do. But let me
provide just a few examples here. So just today, actually
I logged onto Twitter, that worst website in the entire world,
and I was introduced to a paper that was published
by you know, a professor's name I'd never heard in
the University of Texas. And the basic argument that this

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professor ma meant is that many of the research outcomes
in astrophysics and in other fields can be predicted by
an artificial intelligence algorithm. This professor said that if you
want to actually predict what the next generation of academics
will produce, one of the very useful tools is artificial

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intelligence algorithms. And it occurred to me, of course, that
for so much of the past ten or so years,
we've been told that all the blue collar jobs will
be replaced by artificial intelligence, and yet here's a professor
telling us that the academic knowledge that exists in our
society will be replaced by artificial intelligence. Of course, the
professor's reacted crazily to this. A pogram started on social media.

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The guy was turned into the great Satan, and I
have to bring out my phone here to remember the
exact thing that was said here. But today the professor
who published this paper sheeed the following apology.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Let me just read it.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
I apologize most humbly and sincerely for the stress that
I have caused with a p and as preprint the
paper and my book on using Metrics of research impact
to help inform decisions on career advancement.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
My goal was entirely supportive. I wanted to.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Promote fairness and concreteness and judgments that are now based
uncomfortably on personal opinion. I wanted to contribute to a
climate that favors good science and good citizenship. My work
was intended to be helpful, not harmful. It was intended
to decrease bias and to improve fairness. But of course,
according to the mob, his research did nothing of the

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sort and promoted bias and promoted on fairness. And so
this person has to propose this ridiculous apology. Now ask yourself,
what is the purpose of a university that responds to
a paper with that kind of reaction? What is the
purpose of the university it is theoretically promoted or it's
sort dedicated to truth and knowledge.

Speaker 1 (10:04):
Looking at a.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
Paper like that and saying, you know, this is totally unacceptable,
this person must apologize.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Now here's another remark that I want to bring you
your attention to.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
About a year ago, and I don't have the details
exactly correct, but about a year ago there was a
series of protests around surrounding the death of George Floyd,
which of course was a terrible tragedy. I personally find
the fact that our entire society was destabilized by it
for a generation ridiculous.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
But we are where we are.

Speaker 3 (10:37):
It was a terrible tragedy, and our public health authorities
last summer. Remember we're still in even in most relatively
pro freedom states, we're still in the midst of lockdowns.
And what did twelve hundred public health authorities all across
our country say about the anti economic devastation protests.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Well, they said this, first.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Of all, the anti racism protests, the protests that issued
from the death of George Floyd. They should not be
confused with a permissive stance on all gatherings. Of course,
the protests against racism and against the death of George
Floyd are totally justifiable under our sincerely objective public health rubrics.

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But protests against stay at home orders are rooted in
white nationalism. Now this is twelve hundred of our leading
public health authorities all across this country. Now think for
a second about all of the ways in which our
universities transmit not knowledge and not truth, but deceit and lies.

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About eighteen or so months ago, I don't remember the
exact date, but a paper came out suggesting that gender
transition surgeries and hormonal therapies for adolescents who were experiencing
genders for you, was in.

Speaker 1 (12:08):
Fact good for our society.

Speaker 3 (12:10):
That the people who underwent these treatments were benefited in
various mental health ways. They had lower anxiety, lower risk
of suicidal ideation and so forth. But what was obvious
at the time to people like Michael Regnerus was that
the data on which this study was based was ridiculous. Now,
of course, the mainstream press and all of our elite

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institutions reproduced this information as if it was the gospel truth.
And yet there were a few courageous souls who said,
the data on which this study is based is fundamentally ridiculous.
In fact, if you look at the data produced by
the people who created the study, what it found is
that there was no benefit to gender re assignment surgery,

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there was no benefit to hormonal therapy for adolescence. Indeed,
the risk of suicidal ideation and the risk of mental
health problems actually went up if you looked at the
data seriously and honestly. Now, the people who called this
out at the very beginning were of course called homophobic, transphobic,

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They were deplorable, they were unacceptable in our modern society.
And yet the institutions that are theoretically dedicated to the
transmission of truth and knowledge held this up as the
gospel truth, even as it was a lie. And it
was not just a lie, it was a lie that
led to increased suicide rates among our young girls and
increased confusion among kids all across our country. Ladies and gentlemen,

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the universities do not pursue knowledge and truth. They pursued
deceit and lies. And it's time to be honest about
that fact. Now we could go issue by issue, example
by example.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
I've recently become obsessed.

Speaker 3 (13:55):
I'm an alumnus of the law school at the ridiculous
Thank you Boo. I've recently followed the ridiculous situation at
Yale Law School, which when I was there was clearly
a liberal biased place. But I went back there and
gave a speech in twenty eighteen and it felt genuinely totalitarian, right.

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It felt like the sort of place where if you
were a conservative student who had conservative ideas, you were
terrified to utter them, terrified of being socially ostracized, terrified
of getting bad grades from your professors. And recently what
we've learned is that a young student who invited a
bunch of students over to his house in a joking
way has been threatened by the diversity bureaucracy at Leyae

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Law School, literally threatened that his bar examination might receive
a negative approval his character and ethics examination, might receive
a negative appraisal from the law school because he dared
joke about some of the ridiculous progressive orthodoxies that exist
on our campuses.

Speaker 1 (15:01):
I'll think about that.

Speaker 3 (15:02):
Think about what it means not just to be made
fun of or to be criticized by your peers, but
to have the diversity administrators at one of the best
law schools in the country literally threaten you that you
might not even be able to pass the bar examination
because you told a joke in a way that was
offensive to progressives. That is the world in which we

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actually live, ladies and gentlemen. That is the universities that
we actually occupy. That is the unfortunate situation in which
truth and knowledge in our country actually reveals and disseminates itself.

Speaker 1 (15:35):
Now we ask ourselves, this is ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (15:36):
Of course, I imagine that I don't have to convince any
more of any of you that this is preposterous, that
the universities in our country are fundamentally corrupt and dedicated
to deceit and lies, not.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
To the truth. But ask ourselves, why is this true?

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Why is it that our universities are so committed to
some of the most preposterous, dishonesties in the world instead
of committed to the truth.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
And my argument here is that it's about power.

Speaker 3 (16:05):
So I want to talk to you just a lot
about a few of the people who are affected by
the lies that are told in our universities. So right now,
if you are a lower class person or a country
of any race, and you want to live a good life,
very often the story that you're told is that you
must go to a college or university. If you want

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to live and work in a middle class life, you
must go to a college or university.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Ladies and gentlemen, who does that benefit?

Speaker 3 (16:33):
Who benefits from being told they have to go and
acquire sixty seventy eighty two hundred thousand dollars of student
debt to live a good life in our country?

Speaker 1 (16:45):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
The fundamental lie of American feminism over the past twenty
or thirty years is that it is liberating for a
woman to go and work ninety hours a week in
a Cuba cubicle at Goldman Sachs, shipping her fellow countrymen's
jobs off to regime that hates them, and that is

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liberation compared to the problems of family and patriarchy in
our modern society. Think about environmental justice, the term that
you'll hear if you're ever on a university campus these days,
where the net result of the policy of environmental justice
is to ship a large number of manufacturing jobs off

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to the dirtiest economy in the world, that's China and Franklin,
India as well, in exchange for the good feeling that
you have done something for climate change, when in reality,
if you're shipping millions of manufacturing jobs off to China,
you're making our planet dirtier, not cleaner, and the people
who lose their jobs in the process.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
Have a right to complain about it.

Speaker 3 (17:59):
Think about critical theory, thank you, and what does it
mean for our leadership to learn that the way to
rectify racial injustice in this country is to put a
black graduate of the Harvard Business School on the board

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of Morgan Stanley instead of to invest in black communities
all across our country. Are frankly white communities all across
our country. That is the ideology that comes from our universities.
And what is the net effect of it, What is
the purpose of it? Where does it come from. The
simple fact is that our universities tell the powerful what

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they want to hear, and they couch it in ridiculous
political rhetoric instead of dealing with the real consequences of
progressive policy. Say you're a middle class Ohio and where
I'm running for Senate right now, and you're worried about
the fact that your heating bills this winter.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Look to go up by fifty or sixty percent.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
Say you're worried about the fact that your grocery bills,
your gasoline bills are skyrocketing. Even as we speak, Ladies
and gentlemen don't dare complain about it, because didn't you
know the person who has implemented these policies is the
first female Treasury Sectory Secretary of the United States. She's

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a great trailblazer who cares that you can't afford basic
necessities for your family. The universities tell us that so
long as we're trailblazing on diversity, equity, inclusion, it doesn't.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
Matter if normal people get screwed.

Speaker 3 (19:38):
All that matters is progressive or orthodoxy, and whether our
society reinforces it. This is the world that we live in,
and I hate to say, this is the world created
by universities that care more about fake culture wars, that
care more about identity politics, that care more about diversity,
equity and inclusion than they do their own society, and

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they do the people who live in it. Critical race theory, which,
just to take a brief segue, may very well elect
Glyn Youngkin governor of Virginia tonight.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
I heard somebody say he won.

Speaker 3 (20:30):
I remember a similar feeling about a year ago, certain
that my guy won it, and it turned out it
turned out that there was some some toilet problems as
a late night counting.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
So I certainly hope that Glenn Youngkin wins.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
And if, frankly, if we lived in an actual first
world country, we would know by eleven o'clock tonight, and
I will be toasting Glenn Youngkin's victory this evening. But
really ask yourself what critical race theory does and what
its purpose is. Right now, in American schools, there are
millions of children who are learning about the fundamental evil

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of American slavery and America's racist pass And of course
we have a complicated past, and there are a lot
of sins that we have to atone for but ask
yourself why American children are learning about America's racist past
one hundred eighty years ago instead of the fact that
this very moment, there is a major multinational corporation named

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Apple that is employing slaves in China. Not one hundred
and eighty years ago, ladies and gentlemen, but right now,
this very moment, and you realize that progressive politics it's
not about an uplifting minorities. It's not about healing our planet,

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it's not about looking after the poor. Progressive politics is
a language, a language used by our new oligarchy to
do things, on the one hand, to rob the American
people blind, and on the second hand, to tell them
to shut the hell up about it if they dare complain.
That is the purpose of American progressive politics. That is

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its net effect, and that is the ideology that is reinforced,
that has given legitimacy, and that is taught at our universities. Why,
ladies and gentlemen, are school children learning from school teachers
that America is a fundamentally racist and evil country because
those same school teachers learned it from some progressive professor

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at a university's ten or fifteen years ago. That is
the fundamental problem of American truth and knowledge.

Speaker 1 (22:46):
Today.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
We create, we have created a system where to work
in the modern economy, to live a middle class life,
you have to go to a university.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
That is what our elites tell, are you, young people?

Speaker 3 (23:01):
And yet at those universities they are told that working
with your hands is looked down upon. They are told
that America is a fundamentally racist, in evil country. They
are taught the children who go through this university system
that this country, built by our fathers and grandfathers, is
an evil and terrible place.

Speaker 1 (23:19):
Ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (23:20):
We are giving our children over to our enemies, and
it's time we stop doing it.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Now. Somebody mentioned Anthony Fauci.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
And I didn't mean to talk about Anthony Faucci, but
of course I'm going to, because why not. It's so easy, right,
and I'm a synic candidate. Why not bring up Anthony Fauci.
But you ask yourself, what is the claim of authority
that Anthony Fauci has.

Speaker 1 (23:48):
We didn't elect them.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Oh, no person in here voted for Anthony Fauci. We
didn't do anything to make him the lord over our
entire economy and over our entire social life. I saw
recently that he said that if you want to hang
out with your family over Christmas, two years after the
beginning of the pandemic, you should make you and your
children wear masks. We didn't. No person in this room,

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no person in our country, gave Anthony Fauci this authority.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
No person in this country gave the twelve.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
Hundred public health authorities who issued that ridiculous letter authority
over our country.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Where does their authority come from?

Speaker 3 (24:23):
It comes from the piece of paper that hangs up
in the office walls of every single one of them,
the university diploma. And we subsidize, we support, and in
our own ways, all of us reinforce the power of
universities to control our lives and control how we live them.
I was doing a donor event not too long ago,

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encouraging people to support my campaign, which is of course
an important part of being a political candidate, and I
was talking with a person about how ridiculous it is
it that we tell our young people to go to
college to get brainwashed, to acquire sixty seventy eighty thousand
dollars student debt just to be able to live a
normal life.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
In their own country, and he said, well, what's the alternative.

Speaker 3 (25:04):
The donor at this meeting, a politically aligned person, a
person who's supporting my campaign, said well, what's the alternative.
I don't want my kid to become an h VAC specialist,
But if that's your attitude, ladies and gentlemen, we're going
to continue to empower the college, the colleges, and the
universities that make it impossible for conservative ideas to ultimately

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carry the day. We have got to get out of
the mindset that the only way to live a good
life in this country, the only way for our children
to succeed, is to go to a four year university
where people will learn to hate their country and acquire
a lot of debt in the process. That is a
necessary component of our ideas ultimately caring the day. Not

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only have seven or so minutes left, So I want
to leave you with a couple of thoughts here. The
first is, I believe you aren't correct me. If I'm wrong,
I don't see you. But this is the last public
speed each of this conference.

Speaker 1 (26:00):
Is that right of churs?

Speaker 3 (26:02):
All right, all right, Well, I'm just going to make
this really awkward and end us on a very awkward
I'm kidding, but I would to encourage us. And I
know there have been a lot of discussions, some of
which I've been able to participate in or at least watch,
some of which I haven't participated in, about what is
national conservatism. And I want to leave us with the

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thought that if national conservatism means anything, it means standing
for the people in this country who have been screwed over.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
The last thirty forty years.

Speaker 3 (26:41):
I want to call your attention to three people, three
people all from Ohio. I'm biased, obviously, I'm an Ohio guy,
and I've been campaigning in Ohio the last few months,
but three people in the state of Ohio who I
think you know. They might not read the same books
that we read. They might not speak the same language
that a lot of you speak about politics and police theology,

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but they're good people and they want to live a
good country in this place that their fathers and grandfather's built.
So one is a woman who cares a whole lot
about the immigration issue. I met her in southwestern Ohio
probably three months ago, and she really cares about the
southern border.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Because she's probably fifty five or so.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Years old, and she's caring for a young grand baby,
just like any of you who've read my book. No,
my grandparents cared and cared for and raised me. She's
raising a grand baby that she didn't anticipate to raise
because the opioid epidemic that has spread all across this
country took her daughter from her, and she did the

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incredibly honorable thing of taking her own grandchild, even though
she didn't have a whole lot of money lying around
into her home to raise and support that child. Now,
a left tells a story that the the reason this
woman cares about our ridiculous and porous southern border is

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that she's a racist. She's a xenophobe. She doesn't like Mexicans.
That's why she doesn't want a criminal gang controlling the
US southern border. But what if I told you that
the fentanyl that's currently pouring across our southern border destroyed
and killed her child. What if I told you that
that same fentanyl is currently running rampant in the community

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that she calls home. And what if I told you
that the reason she wants to close the southern border
is not because she hates Mexicans, but because she loves
her grand baby, and she wants that grand baby to
grow up in a community where safety and security and
community run wild, not fittanyl overdose. I also want to

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tell you about a young father who pulled his eleven
year old daughter in northeastern Ohio out of her school.
Northeastern Ohio is where Cleveland and Youngstown are for those
of you who are uninitiated, And he pulled as eleven
year old daughter out of high school, sorry, out of
elementary school, because she came home for a week, five

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days in a row, literally sobbing, because she was being
told by her teacher that she, because of her white
skin color, was an oppressor and that many of the
other children.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
In her classroom were victims.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Now, the left, when we talk about critical race theory, says,
first of all, it's not taught in our schools, which
we now all know is ridiculous. But they'll say that
the desire here is to try to correct historical wrongs.
We're trying to uplift our black citizens. And yet this
eleven year old girl, her best friend in class was

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a little black girl, and she was sad for two reasons.
First because her teacher was telling her because of her
skin color. She was a bad person. And I don't
care if we're talking about a little black girl in
nineteen sixty five or a little white girl in twenty
twenty one. Telling a little girl that she's evil because
of her skin color is disgusting and vile, and as

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a Christian, I'd say satanic. But she was most sad
because her best friend in class. Ladies and gentlemen, let
me think about this, her best friend in class. When
they did their separation into victim and oppressors, she was

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in the oppressor group and her best friend was in
the victim group. What is it that we're dealing with
when our adults tell eleven year old girls not to
love their fellow citizens, not to build friendships with them,
but to put them in one box as they put
themselves in another box. That's what we're dealing with in

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this country. And as we talk about ideas, and we
talk about the importance of freedom and liberty and classical
American traditions, as we talk about national conservatism, as it
says on the banner, I hope the you oor member
that the reason we fight, the reason that we do
what we do. I hate to say it. I love

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all of you. I mean I've met many of you,
and some of you who bought me a drink. It's
not for ourselves. It's for the grandma taking care of
her grandbaby. It's for the young father whose little girl
just wants to build a friendship with a person because
they're both children of God and not members of separate
groups victim and oppressor, Ladies and gentlemen. We fight for

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the American nation, and we fight for the people who
live in it. Now I want to close here, and
my timer says that I have fifty seconds. Though I
assume if I go a little bit over, it's not
going to ding me or you know, give me some

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ridiculous sound. But you know I I thought a lot
more than any you know, one of the things you
do as a politician, and I hate to say this,
but I guess I'm a politician now I'm running for
office asking for people to vote for me. One of
the things that you do is you go out and
you give speeches and you ask people to vote for you,
and you talk to them about the problems that you
care about, and you hope they agree with you. And

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I thought a lot more than any speech I've ever
given about the way to close this out. Partially because
I'm the last person speaking this evening, and this is
such a wonderful conference, and congratulations to all of you
for participating and putting it on, but also just because
you know, this is a great moment in our country's history.
We're all figuring out what the conservative movement will be

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in this new decade, we're all participating in it. And
I thought to myself, you know, I really want to
I really want to end this on an inspirational note.
And so I look to scripture, and I look to
you know, some of the great Holy fathers and saints
of the Church, thought about some of the great heroes
of Western civilization, and of course I thought about some

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of the great American leaders. And the person whose quote
I ultimately had to land on was the great prophet
and statesman Richard Milhouse Nixon. And I have to say
before I get to this, that we are celebrating today

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the birthday of Pat Buchanan, who first.

Speaker 1 (33:40):
Who first got a start.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
In the Nixon administration, and I think is the genesis
of many of the ideas that we discussed here and
have discussed here over the past few days. But Richard
Nixon not known for his inspirational quotes. And I'm not
gonna lie to you. I'm not going to offer you
an inspirational quote tonight. I'm gonna offer you a true quote.
Because there is a season for everything in this country.

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And I think in this movement of national conservatism, what
we need more of than inspiration is we need wisdom.
And there is a wisdom in what Richard Nixon said
approximately forty fifty years ago. He said, and I quote,
the professors are the enemy.

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