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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1)
It was said that J.K. Rowling, the author, is a left-winger who believes that the left has gone too far, with some examples given of her views.
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I know that you don't spend much of your day thinking about Harry Potter, but Harry Potter actually does play into this a little bit. The author of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling is a left winger, a left...
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It was said that J.K. Rowling, the author, is a left-winger who believes that the left has gone too far, with some examples given of her views.
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I know that you don't spend much of your day thinking about Harry Potter, but Harry Potter actually does play into this a little bit. The author of Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling is a left winger, a left wing activist, a feminist. But she thinks that the left has gone too far.
She came out. She put out a long tweet thread, and she signaled this point of view before where she said, look, I support people who are transgender. I support my transgender friends. I want them to be happy. I want them to feel comfortable. But it is simply the case that a woman is a woman, and there's something about being a woman that a man can't be.
And she's trying to, sort of like the Minneapolis mayor, trying to come to this accommodation with the hard left. They are furious at her.
I think she's waking up and saying, gosh, this is not the left that I thought I was a part of. This has gone too far.
Brave New World
It was discussed in a book podcast alongside the concept of not fitting in, and was suggested as a high compliment to individuals who dare to think for themselves.
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Michael and I today did a book podcast on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and not fitting in, I have to say particularly after discussing that this afternoon, not fitting in maybe abo...
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It was discussed in a book podcast alongside the concept of not fitting in, and was suggested as a high compliment to individuals who dare to think for themselves.
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Michael and I today did a book podcast on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and not fitting in, I have to say particularly after discussing that this afternoon, not fitting in maybe about as high a compliment as one can give to an individual in this Brave New World who dares think for himself.
It features prominently in Brave New World, which is what so happens we were discussing.
The Communist Manifesto
1888 Translated Edition (The Political Classic of Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels)
It was discussed in the context of Marxism and its advocacy for socialism and a totalitarian government to redistribute wealth, a system that historically has led to widespread misery.
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Marxism is is a philosophy. It was propagated by Karl Marx. Obviously, it's the foundation of communism. But but it advocates it. It it it views history through a lens of class warfare.
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It was discussed in the context of Marxism and its advocacy for socialism and a totalitarian government to redistribute wealth, a system that historically has led to widespread misery.
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Marxism is is a philosophy. It was propagated by Karl Marx. Obviously, it's the foundation of communism. But but it advocates it. It it it views history through a lens of class warfare.
And it calls for a revolution. Marxism. It's an approach to history. It's an approach to government. But it and it advocates socialism as its economic system.
So socialism is just the economic arm of Marxism. It's but. Marxism also consistently says we need actually a phrase, I think it was Lenin used a dictatorship of the proletariat, which is inevitably.
To get to Marxism, you have to have a totalitarian government come in and take the property from the people who have it. And what happens every single time is the Marxist who have power. Live like kings and everyone else lives in misery.
So when someone is a Marxist, they are advocating for the principles reflected in The Communist Manifesto that Karl Karl Marx wrote that advocated for Marxism anyway.
Promises to Keep (Lean On Me Book 1)
Joe Biden's book, 'Promises to Keep', reportedly sold around 300,000 copies and generated $12.2 million, with $8 million supposedly from royalties, which was questioned due to the retail price and typical royalty rates.
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His book deal sold about 300,000 copies.
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Joe Biden's book, 'Promises to Keep', reportedly sold around 300,000 copies and generated $12.2 million, with $8 million supposedly from royalties, which was questioned due to the retail price and typical royalty rates.
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His book deal sold about 300,000 copies.
His book had a retail price of $27 for hardcover, $18 for paperback.
If Joe was receiving 12% of $7 million, he would have yielded about $800,000. He's claiming he got $8 million.
He's claiming that Joe netted $12.2 million for a book deal.
Joe's book sold about 300,000 copies.
Dr. Seuss's Beginner Book Boxed Set Collection
The Cat in the Hat; One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish; Green Eggs and Ham; Hop on Pop; Fox in Socks
Senator Ted Cruz read this book to his daughters during a 21-hour filibuster, and they were very impressed.
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So it was really fun. I'm sure you read your kids' bedtime stories. It's a great thing to do. And so, and I tried to do that every night when I was at home, read them bedtime stories.
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Senator Ted Cruz read this book to his daughters during a 21-hour filibuster, and they were very impressed.
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So it was really fun. I'm sure you read your kids' bedtime stories. It's a great thing to do. And so, and I tried to do that every night when I was at home, read them bedtime stories.
And so since I was going, we came up, it was actually a guy on my team that came up with the idea of, well, why don't you read a bedtime story during the filibuster?
And so Green Eggs and Ham, when I was a kid, Green Eggs and Ham was my favorite book as a little kid. And I have read it to the girls many, many times.
And so we called home and told them, turn on the TV, turn on C-SPAN. And I read them Green Eggs and Ham because it was their bedtime.
And then Caroline, who's my eldest, whom I adore, she's five and she's just cracking up laughing. And look, Caroline has always been pretty cynical kid and pretty much nothing I've done in the Senate has impressed her. When I came home after that, she looked at me, she had her arms crossed and she went, okay, dad, that was kind of cool.
Fahrenheit 451
Senator Ted Cruz mentioned 'Fahrenheit 451' while discussing censorship and book burning in the context of Amazon's removal of certain books.
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And when it comes to books, actually, you're in my mutual friend. Ben Shapiro has been really good on this topic, and I've been retweeting him a lot this week because, you know, you think about
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Senator Ted Cruz mentioned 'Fahrenheit 451' while discussing censorship and book burning in the context of Amazon's removal of certain books.
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And when it comes to books, actually, you're in my mutual friend. Ben Shapiro has been really good on this topic, and I've been retweeting him a lot this week because, you know, you think about Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic dystopian novel for 451 being the temperature at which paper burns. That's all about censorship and book burning.
Judgment
A Novel
Byron York wrote an article in the Washington Examiner titled "Judgment Week," which discusses how the Manhattan District Attorney plans to use the "other crime" argument against Trump. The article details how prosecutors are trying to bootstrap a misdemeanor into a felony by claiming that the bookkeeping offenses were in furtherance of another crime. The article also highlights the importance of understanding what the judge will tell the jury they have to find about this "other crime."
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Judgment Week, how prosecutors will use the quote other crime against Trump.
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Byron York wrote an article in the Washington Examiner titled "Judgment Week," which discusses how the Manhattan District Attorney plans to use the "other crime" argument against Trump. The article details how prosecutors are trying to bootstrap a misdemeanor into a felony by claiming that the bookkeeping offenses were in furtherance of another crime. The article also highlights the importance of understanding what the judge will tell the jury they have to find about this "other crime."
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Judgment Week, how prosecutors will use the quote other crime against Trump.
Looks Like a Cheetah to Me
This children's book was mentioned as part of the reason why Eventbrite removed the event pages for Matt Walsh's What Is A Woman documentary. No specific content from the book was mentioned.
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They relied instead on Matt Walsh's statements about, quote, gender affirming surgeries, pronouns, and his Johnny the Walrus children's book to reach the conclusion.
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This children's book was mentioned as part of the reason why Eventbrite removed the event pages for Matt Walsh's What Is A Woman documentary. No specific content from the book was mentioned.
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They relied instead on Matt Walsh's statements about, quote, gender affirming surgeries, pronouns, and his Johnny the Walrus children's book to reach the conclusion.
The Student's Friend Concise World History
Parts 1 and 2
The book was mentioned as a movie by Mel Brooks and used a line from the film "It's good to be the King" to illustrate how the Biden family approached government.
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It's good to be the King
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The book was mentioned as a movie by Mel Brooks and used a line from the film "It's good to be the King" to illustrate how the Biden family approached government.
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It's good to be the King
Fire (Graceling)
The host, Michael Wolff, said that his three books about Trump had sold a lot of copies and that it all started eight years ago, when he was invited to Donald Trump's Beverly Hills home and had Hagen-Dazs ice cream with him. He said that he asked Trump why he was running for president, and Trump responded that he wanted to be the most famous man in the world.
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I found myself in Donald Trump's Beverly Hills home sharing Hagen-Dazs ice cream with him. I asked him why was he running for president? And he answered without missing a beat, because I want to be th...
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The host, Michael Wolff, said that his three books about Trump had sold a lot of copies and that it all started eight years ago, when he was invited to Donald Trump's Beverly Hills home and had Hagen-Dazs ice cream with him. He said that he asked Trump why he was running for president, and Trump responded that he wanted to be the most famous man in the world.
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I found myself in Donald Trump's Beverly Hills home sharing Hagen-Dazs ice cream with him. I asked him why was he running for president? And he answered without missing a beat, because I want to be the most famous man in the world.
Beautiful Things
A Memoir
It was mentioned that in Hunter Biden's book, he stated he was living in California during the time of a wire transfer, which contradicted the claim that he was living at the president's residence in Delaware.
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That came out as kind of like, hey, if you think that he was living in this house, that's the same residence of the president of the United States of America, you know, in Delaware, you're wrong.
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It was mentioned that in Hunter Biden's book, he stated he was living in California during the time of a wire transfer, which contradicted the claim that he was living at the president's residence in Delaware.
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That came out as kind of like, hey, if you think that he was living in this house, that's the same residence of the president of the United States of America, you know, in Delaware, you're wrong.
The plea agreement said during the time, and it also came out afterwards, Senator, that in his own book that Hunter Biden wrote, he also said in his book that he was living in California at the time that wire transfer would have come through.
Made Men
The Story of Goodfellas
The audio of Hunter Biden begging for money was compared to the character of Ray Liotta in the book Goodfellas who was also an addict begging his wife for money.
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What it reminded me of was was Ray Liotta's character in Goodfellas.
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The audio of Hunter Biden begging for money was compared to the character of Ray Liotta in the book Goodfellas who was also an addict begging his wife for money.
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What it reminded me of was was Ray Liotta's character in Goodfellas.
Bad Blood
Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
It was described as a fabulous documentary and book that detailed Elizabeth Holmes's fraud from the beginning, specifically highlighting her awareness of the technology's flaws.
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I read the book that was published by the journalist who actually exposed the fraud from the beginning. I think it's called Bad Blood. And it truly is insane.
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It was described as a fabulous documentary and book that detailed Elizabeth Holmes's fraud from the beginning, specifically highlighting her awareness of the technology's flaws.
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I read the book that was published by the journalist who actually exposed the fraud from the beginning. I think it's called Bad Blood. And it truly is insane.
The most insane part is that she knew pretty much from the get go what she was doing. She knew that this did not work and that there was no possibility of this technology being developed.
Animal Farm
George Orwell (Macmillan Collector's Library)
It was compared to the situation in Brazil, where the leaders were described as behaving like hypocritical pigs, ignoring the rules they set.
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Brazil is thus not just a dictatorship, but a lawless one its leaders are behaving like the hypocritical pigs in George Orwell's Animal Farm
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It was compared to the situation in Brazil, where the leaders were described as behaving like hypocritical pigs, ignoring the rules they set.
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Brazil is thus not just a dictatorship, but a lawless one its leaders are behaving like the hypocritical pigs in George Orwell's Animal Farm
Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed.)
It was described as an amazing book and one of the speaker's favourites, potentially alluding to the themes of individualism and capitalism within it.
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Atlas Shrugged is amazing.
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It was described as an amazing book and one of the speaker's favourites, potentially alluding to the themes of individualism and capitalism within it.
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Atlas Shrugged is amazing.
Irreversible Damage
The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
'When Harry Became Sally' was mentioned as an example of a book that Amazon removed, sparking a discussion about whether it was an instance of cancel culture or the free market in action.
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This is an argument I hear from left-wingers a lot when we decry cancel culture and Amazon taking down a very humorously titled, but actually scholarly book from Ryan T. Anderson, which is called When...
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'When Harry Became Sally' was mentioned as an example of a book that Amazon removed, sparking a discussion about whether it was an instance of cancel culture or the free market in action.
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This is an argument I hear from left-wingers a lot when we decry cancel culture and Amazon taking down a very humorously titled, but actually scholarly book from Ryan T. Anderson, which is called When Harry Became Sally. That's sort of the book at issue here.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
Introduction by Samantha Power
It was discussed as a source for the concept of the 'banality of evil', which was used to describe how ordinary people can participate in horrific acts, exemplified by Adolf Eichmann's seemingly unremarkable demeanor during his testimony.
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Hannah Arendt...wrote on what led to the to the evil that is the Nazis and she had a phrase that that was really powerful uh the banality of evil
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It was discussed as a source for the concept of the 'banality of evil', which was used to describe how ordinary people can participate in horrific acts, exemplified by Adolf Eichmann's seemingly unremarkable demeanor during his testimony.
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Hannah Arendt...wrote on what led to the to the evil that is the Nazis and she had a phrase that that was really powerful uh the banality of evil
she really she talked about how it's not just you know someone cackling with horns and a red tail like so obviously evil that that you know you're like okay this is this is a crazy bad guy it was the boring aspect she talked about I think it was Eichmann how when he testified at Nuremberg he he sounded like an accountant
Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)
The speaker mentioned it as one of his favorite novels, likely highlighting its exploration of psychological themes and criminal motivations.
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Crime and Punishment by Del Stoianski.
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The speaker mentioned it as one of his favorite novels, likely highlighting its exploration of psychological themes and criminal motivations.
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Crime and Punishment by Del Stoianski.
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