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Back to episode — Episode 116 - Facts are not Influencing the Immigration Debate

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Now let me read to you some quotes I'm seeing this morning. So Jennifer Rubin writes for The Washington Post, and she says — and I think she's talking about Sarah Sanders being ejected from the Red Hen restaurant — Jennifer Rubin writes, "It is not altogether a bad thing to show those who think they're exempt from personal responsibility that their actions bring scorn, exclusion, and rejection." I…

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General Hayden said this morning — let me find General Hayden's tweet which I've also retweeted. You'd find both of these in my Twitter feed. General Michael Hayden said, "So exactly when do we send up the warning flare?" He's talking about Nazi stuff. He says, "After the torchlight parade chanting blood and soil? After the White House press office becomes a Ministry of Propaganda? After we punish a marginalized population? Asking for a friend."

So I called him a Nazi because that sounds like a Nazi, doesn't it? Now fair is fair. What he's saying is that there are some things that are happening that remind him of Nazis. And I would say okay, those things do remind people of Nazis. What he's doing right now also legitimately — then there's no joke here at all — legitimately what he's doing reminds me of a Nazi. Did we gain anything by him calling you guys a Nazi and me calling him a Nazi? Not really. And we're both right, right? In the sense that we're both just being rude. It doesn't mean he is a Nazi. It doesn't mean you're a Nazi. Anybody else is a Nazi. But if it's good enough to just be reminded of Nazis, then I think that's got to apply both ways.

So you may have noticed in my Twitter feed that when the critics are coming over, if they have a point about something I'll engage them in a normal conversation. If they disagree with me we could talk about facts and arguments and stuff. But when the haters are coming over and it's just personal, I call them a Nazi because they remind me of Nazis and then I block them. Did I just say I blocked Nazis? And then I block them.

Now it seems to me that the people calling people Nazis probably think that's the worst thing you could be called. And so returning it seems like an effective strategy because they're getting to feel what they're giving out. So if I'm reminded of a Nazi by their actions, meaning they've identified a group of society to say you people are bad people, then that's what they've done. They're saying Trump supporters should be singled out for actual retribution. That's Nazi stuff.

Now I'm not saying that the other side doesn't see things that remind them of Nazi things because they do. But everybody is reminded of Nazi things all the time. Everything we don't like looks a little bit Nazi. So let's just not pretend it's going one direction anymore.

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Now here's a thought that I've been having that's growing stronger in me. Most of you who have been following me for a while know that I'm not a Republican and that I don't vote. And I don't vote because I don't like to be influenced into team politics even though at this point I am. But because I've been labeled as a Trump supporter and I've already told you that I stopped — I've got one exceptio…

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