Ep. 374 - Sleepy Joe Collapses
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On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about the second Democratic primary debate, and why it was even more ridiculous than the previous night. Plus, he explains why he played the Drinking Game and why he thinks the first debate should have been called "Drinking Game."
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The second night of last week's first Democratic presidential primary debate
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We will examine the attack from Kamala Harris that knocked the frontrunner down a peg.
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Then, conservative journalist Andy Ngo is brutally beaten by Antifa in Portland.
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We will analyze how it happened, why it happened, how we got here.
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Then, more pride pandering from Democrats, all that and more.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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I was so devastated that last week's second night of Democrat primary debate was Thursday night
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because I did not have the opportunity to just relive it all with you on the show on Friday.
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It was somehow even more ridiculous than the previous night.
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I was playing the drinking game last Thursday, the Democrat debate drinking game where I pour a lot of booze into my cup and then whenever they start talking, I drink.
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I had deja vu all over again when that debate started because the second night of debate began in exactly the same way as the first night of debate with Pete Buttigieg this time, instead of Beto O'Rourke, randomly speaking Spanish.
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Why does, this is America, we don't speak Spanish here.
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Now in Buttigieg's defense, he was at least asked the question in Spanish the night before when Beto started randomly butchering the Spanish language.
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In this case, the moderator, Jose Diaz-Balart, asked him, he said,
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Buenas noches, mayoro pito or whatever, you know.
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Jose Diaz-Balart should not be asking questions in Spanish.
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If you want to ask questions in Spanish of presidential candidates, then you should moderate debates in Spanish-speaking countries.
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Anywhere in Latin America, South America, I guess not Brazil.
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You could go to Spain and moderate a debate, but not in America.
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Now, Buttigieg doesn't totally get off the hook here.
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If I were in this debate, I guess I was in this debate because Eric Swalwell was there and I am Eric Swalwell.
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But if I had been standing there in my own body and I was asked a question in Spanish by Jose Diaz-Balart, I would say, I would answer in English and I would say, also, Jose, I'd just like to ask that you ask questions in English here because we're in America and I'm running to be president of the United States, not president of Mexico or of Guatemala or of El Salvador.
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Now, obviously, the Democrats can't do this because the Democrats, basically, the only tool they have left is racial pandering, pandering to allegedly aggrieved victim groups.
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But the pandering got a whole lot crazier than just Buttigieg speaking in Spanish.
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The moderator asked a question of the entire panel.
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She said, how many of you in your health care plans would provide free health insurance for illegal aliens?
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Raise your hand if your government plan would provide coverage for undocumented immigrants.
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Every single one of them raised their hand and told 100% of potential voters that they would take their money and give it away to criminals, to people who are their first act in America is violating our laws.
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I guess maybe not 100% of potential Democrat voters because of illegal alien voter fraud, motor voter and digging up dead bodies in Illinois.
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So maybe not 100%, maybe only 97% of voters, they were telling that.
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It's so easy to say, I'll give away everything for free.
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You are, when you give away something as valuable as free health insurance to any illegal alien who breaks our laws,
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you are creating an incentive to keep breaking the laws.
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So not only are they saying that they're not going to secure the border, they're not going to build the wall,
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In some cases, they're saying we need to decriminalize border crossing.
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They're also saying we're going to create a huge financial incentive for people to cross that border illegally.
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And don't forget, when you encourage people to cross that border illegally,
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you are empowering some of the worst people on earth.
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Drug traffickers who are poising our entire country.
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Sex traffickers who are abusing women and girls.
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According to Fusion and Amnesty International and the Huffington Post,
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60 to 80% of women and girls who cross that border illegally are raped along the journey.
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When you create that major incentive for them to do it,
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you are increasing the likelihood that that is going to happen.
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You are empowering the abusers and the predators who are preying on these vulnerable people.
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This trend of free stuff for everybody, not just citizens, everybody in the whole world,
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this trend of free stuff continued throughout the whole debate.
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It's what you would expect until Kamala Harris came out and decided that she was just going to
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shank Joe Biden live on stage and watch him and his political career bleed out on national television.
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So out of the blue, Kamala Harris opens up a line on Joe Biden and she says,
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listen, Joe, I don't think you're a racist, but, and as you know, when you say,
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but you negate everything that you said before that, especially in politics.
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So she opens up this line of attack and basically accuses Joe Biden of racism for working with segregationist senators 30 or 40 years ago,
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more than that at this point in the U.S. Senate for having a working relationship with segregationists in the Democrat Party.
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So it's not like these were Republicans, they were Democrats, and saying that because Joe Biden didn't support a federal policy going into school districts and mandating busing,
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And I got to say, it was a very effective attack.
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In this campaign, we've also heard, and I'm going to now direct this at Vice President Biden.
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And I agree with you when you commit yourself to the importance of finding common ground.
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But I also believe, and it's personal, and I was actually very, it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two United States senators
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who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country.
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And it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose busing.
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And, you know, there was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools.
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OK, pretty powerful stuff, pretty brutal attack on Joe Biden.
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The trouble with it is that it's mostly not true.
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She's trying to pretend she grew up in, like, the middle of Alabama.
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She grew up in one of the most progressive Democratic districts in all of America.
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Now, they did, in fact, have a sort of segregation because there was still redlining.
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It was still hard for black families to move into certain neighborhoods.
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You had basically unspoken of codes that black people either couldn't move in or it would be very difficult.
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So it is the case that the elementary school she went to didn't have a ton of black people for much of the 1960s.
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The middle schools and the high schools around her were quite racially integrated.
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However, that ended before Kamala Harris got there.
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Actually, it ended a long time before Kamala Harris got there.
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Actually, it started to end before Kamala Harris ever was born.
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We'll explain exactly what that looked like and where her answer was full of lies.
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So Kamala Harris, this big, you know, huge, obviously premeditated attack on Joe Biden.
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And Kamala Harris's school was quite diverse even before she got there.
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But actually all the way back in 1963, six or seven years before she got there.
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They had 15 black students at that time, the year before she was born.
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So busing had already integrated the middle and high schools by 1967.
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At that point, this is two years before Kamala Harris got there.
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Black students represented about 10% of her elementary school.
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After busing, by 1968, a year before she got there, black enrollment had jumped up to 37%.
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You've got to remember, black Americans are 12% of the population.
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So obviously this varies significantly based on neighborhood and based on community.
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By 1970, which was the end of Kamala Harris's first year there, black enrollment was up to 41%.
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So the claims that she's making, that she was this pioneer of racial integration in her elementary school, historically quite dubious.
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See, the Democrats always want to portray themselves as the civil rights pioneers, which is ironic because for almost all of American history, they were the opponents of civil rights.
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Even today, they're strongly the opponents of civil rights.
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Very literally, they attack our First Amendment rights, they attack our Second Amendment rights, they attack all of our basic civil rights in this country.
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Now, a lot of the pundits are giving Kamala Harris credit for winning this exchange.
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But bad news from a longtime Democrat politician and someone who knows Kamala Harris all too well.
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Willie Brown says none of these people can beat Joe Biden.
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Most important for this story is that Willie Brown basically started Kamala Harris's political career in his bed while he was married.
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Kamala Harris engaged in an extramarital affair with Willie Brown while he was still married.
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And then as a result, he put her on some council and launched her political career.
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So he has a piece in the San Francisco Chronicle today called Bad News for Democrats.
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He writes, quote, California Senator Kamala Harris got all the attention for playing prosecutor in chief.
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But her case against former Vice President Joe Biden boiled down in some ways to a ringing call for forced school busing.
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It won't be too hard for Trump to knock that one out of the park in 2020.
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It wasn't even popular in the 1970s really among really any group of people.
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But in many places today, schools are more segregated than they were in 1970 because people are choosing to live with people who look like them.
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And so does Kamala Harris really think that she's going to win an election by rehashing a basically unpopular policy from the 1970s?
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Now, Brown goes on in his piece, he says, Biden did himself zero favors by telling Harris that he opposed only busing that was ordered by the federal government.
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It was a weird endorsement of states' rights and local jurisdictions' right to segregate schools.
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That's the best argument he could marshal against busing little kids miles across town.
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Are we, obviously, you want to portray yourself as the most racially inclusive candidate, the most racially progressive candidate, the least racist candidate.
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But what is the issue they're actually talking about?
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He starts to do a pretty good job of responding.
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Do you agree today that you were wrong to oppose busing in America then?
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What I opposed is busing ordered by the Department of Education.
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Well, there was a failure of states to integrate public schools in America.
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I was part of the second class to integrate Berkeley, California, public schools almost two decades after Brown v. Board of Education.
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So that's where the federal government must step in.
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That's why we have the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act.
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Because there are moments in history where states fail to preserve the civil rights of all people.
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I have supported the ERA from the very beginning.
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Okay, it's a good hit, and then she talks about all these awful policies like the ERA, which would abolish different sex bathrooms, basically.
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It would abolish different sex sports, different sex education.
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It was shot down, and it's also a failed policy of the 1970s.
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But that's all Democrats can do is just rehash what they view as the glory days of activism,
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even though those alleged glory days have a lot of very bad ideas that go along with them.
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You can see at the very end there, Biden starts to get his groove back.
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30 seconds, because I want to bring other people into this.
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I'm the guy that extended the Voting Rights Act for 25 years.
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We got to the place where we got 98 out of 98 votes in the United States Senate doing it.
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I've also argued very strongly that we, in fact, deal with the notion of denying people access to the ballot box.
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I agree that everybody wants they, in fact, they should.
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He had been doing pretty well, but he collapsed because he didn't know how to end it.
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That moment made me realize why Trump gave him the nickname Sleepy Joe.
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Initially, I sort of suspected it was something like this.
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When he gave him the nickname Sleepy Joe, I thought, why did he pick Sleepy?
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But Sleepy is the attack because he's really old.
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Look, Trump is no spring chicken, but Trump has so much energy.
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Didn't he describe himself as youthful and vibrant?
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So this question of busing, people don't really like busing.
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Even progressive activists, alleged, they don't really like busing.
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Even when you do polls of black voters, they don't love busing.
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And of all people, Bernie Sanders on ABC News later on explained the problems with busing.
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And that means we have to focus on fair housing legislation and enforcement.
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Because your website actually says that you're coming out for repealing of the ban on funding for busing.
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No, busing is certainly an option that is necessary in certain cases.
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Does anybody think it's a good idea to put a kid on a bus, travel an hour to another school, into another neighborhood that he or she doesn't know?
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What is the optimal is to have great community schools which are integrated.
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The issue, the reason that they had busing in the first place is because of redlining.
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It's because certain neighborhoods black people weren't allowed to move into.
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Fortunately, now a lot of that de facto segregation is gone.
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So the question then becomes why are schools still segregated in many ways?
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Certain people choose to live in certain neighborhoods.
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Though they could now, now that we're no longer in the 60s, 70s, or even 80s, though they could live in other neighborhoods, they just choose not to.
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So now is the federal government supposed to go in and say, no, you're not allowed to live in the neighborhood you want to live in.
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You have to move to a different neighborhood because Kamala Harris says so or something.
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And do you really want to put a kid, a little five-year-old kid on a bus, as Bernie says, go an hour to some town that he doesn't know and go to school with people that he doesn't really interact with much?
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I mean, Bernie, to his credit, he says, guys, are we really going back to this?
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But it's because the Democratic Party has now run to the left of Bernie Sanders.
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I've been saying this time and again since Biden is the leader of the pack.
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I say at a certain point, we're going to remember that Joe Biden's a total doofus.
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He's been a doofus for his entire political career.
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There's a reason he ran in 1988 for president and collapsed.
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And then he ran in 2008 for president and collapsed.
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And he hasn't really accomplished anything even over his 750 years in the U.S. Senate.
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He's been in politics a long time that requires a certain skill, but he's not ready for true
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And I'm sorry to say the Kamala Biden exchange was basically the intellectual highlight of
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And for outright idiocy, I turn, of course, to my favorite presidential candidate this year,
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Keep your pistols, keep your rifles, keep your shotguns.
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But we can take the most dangerous weapons from the most dangerous people.
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But we're going to take the most dangerous guns away.
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So then I said, OK, I've let me just Google and pistols are the most dangerous guns.
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You go to the FBI statistics, you find out pistols are more dangerous than any other weapon
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Almost by a factor of four, pistols are the most dangerous gun.
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But Eric Swalwell doesn't know that because Eric Swalwell doesn't know anything.
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He's just, he's the glibest candidate in the entire race.
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You know, he ended up endorsing this Russian collusion conspiracy again.
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No one talked about Mueller directly, but a few candidates alluded to Russia.
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So he was asked, what's the first thing that President Swalwell, I don't know how the moderator
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even got that phrase out without bursting into laughter.
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What is the first thing that President Swalwell would do in the realm of foreign policy?
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And he answered with the glibness and the self-satisfaction of a 16-year-old running for
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My first act in foreign policy, we're breaking up with Russia and making up with NATO.
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The smile, if you could just see the smile on his face there.
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We're breaking up with Russia, making up with NATO.
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Unfortunately, I'm sorry to say, because he is me, that I'm probably not going to win the
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But the greatest candidate of the night was not Kamala, was not Biden, was not Bernie,
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The greatest candidate of the night was New Age author and activist, Marianne Williamson,
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who somehow managed to get on that debate stage.
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And she gave a direct threat and message to President Trump.
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I'm sorry we haven't talked more tonight about how we're going to beat Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump is not going to be beaten just by insider politics talk.
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He's not going to be beaten just by somebody who has plans.
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He's going to be beaten by somebody who has an idea of what this man has done.
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This man has reached into the psyche of the American people, and he has harnessed fear
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So, Mr. President, if you're listening, I want you to hear me, please.
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You have harnessed fear for political purposes, and only love can cast that out.
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So I, sir, I have a feeling you know what you're doing.
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I'm going to harness love for political purposes.
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She may not have won the debate, but she won our hearts.
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She says things like reach into the psyche of the American people for fear and love.
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Some conservatives have started donating to her campaign so that she gets better placement
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Though I will say, my heart is with the OG, Marianne Williamson, the man who has been running
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And he's running this time, but he didn't get enough donors or polling or something to
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We're hoping he gets into the debate next time.
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I speak, of course, of 89-year-old former Alaskan Senator Mike Gravel, left of Vladimir
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Lennon, famously produced a two-minute-long commercial in 2008 of him just staring into
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He just stares kind of cock-headed into the camera.
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Then he walks backwards along the bank of a pond in the woods somewhere.
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He picks up a big rock and he throws the rock into the pond and it splashes and then the
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I need that man to get on the 2020 Democratic debate stage.
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So I'm really hoping while conservatives are donating to Marianne, I don't want to take
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a penny out of Marianne's crystal-filled pockets, but we also have to get Mike Gravel on that stage
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also because his campaign is being run by high school students.
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There was a video of this on Vice on HBO where they interviewed the teenagers who were running
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The funny thing about this is that it kind of transcended a particular interest.
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It just seemed too exciting of an idea to not do.
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None of the people at this table want Mike Gravel to be president, including Mike Gravel.
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The plan is to get Gravel enough donors to make the 2020 Democratic debate stage and then
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And that's what persuaded me to give you my Twitter account.
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I can't wait until he gets on that debate stage.
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The, the answer is of the, of those, the, the total answer is Donald Trump.
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Of the Democrat candidates, Elizabeth Warren won even though she wasn't there because Kamala
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got her shot in, but she didn't prove very much about herself.
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It actually reminded me of that time where Chris Christie in 2016 basically just destroyed
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Marco Rubio's life in real time on live television.
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And it totally killed Rubio, but it, it actually didn't really help Christie.
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But I would add this, let's dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what
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He wants America to become more like the rest of the world.
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We don't want to be like the rest of the world.
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And when I'm elected president, this will become once again, the single greatest nation
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Not the disaster Barack Obama has imposed upon us.
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You see everybody, I want the people at home to think about this.
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The drive-by shot at the beginning with incorrect and incomplete information.
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Chris, your state got hit by a massive snowstorm two weeks ago.
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And then you stayed there for 36 hours and then he left and came back to campaign.
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This notion that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing is just not true.
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It was when Marco bot just, he just kept going, we must dispel with this notion that we must dispel
00:30:30.700
We're not currently living in the Christie administration.
00:30:37.080
I think, depending on which poll you look at, it knocked him down five to 10 points in the
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Gave her a little bit of a bump, but what is her path?
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Is she really going to be the candidate moving forward?
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You know, he didn't have a breakout moment in this debate at all.
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Buttigieg was pretty impressive, but again, he didn't really make the case that he's ready.
00:30:59.420
He made the case that he's actually got a lot of problems with his leadership back in
00:31:06.900
I think that right now, none of these candidates, none of them beat Donald Trump.
00:31:12.600
So what the left is going to do, because none of those candidates can beat Donald Trump,
00:31:16.560
is that they are going to literally and physically beat conservatives.
00:31:20.140
Antifa, the left-wing terrorist group, came out.
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They brutally beat many people over the weekend at a Patriot Prayer rally, including journalist
00:31:35.220
And people in the media, people in corporations, people in politics are defending Antifa, making
00:31:43.540
But first, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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Ten bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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You get to ask questions in the mailbag coming up on Thursday.
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Going to be very, very important when we sue these guys into the ground and the left-wing
00:32:06.100
terror group Antifa for their terrorist activities.
00:32:12.080
So at this Patriot prayer rally over the weekend, Antifa came out in their masks and their black
00:32:31.500
They cracked people's skulls, elderly people, and journalists.
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He's an editor at Quillette, and he was out there just covering Antifa.
00:32:40.200
He got brutally beaten and then sent to the hospital with a brain bleed.
00:32:59.140
So you see him just getting absolutely clobbered, being hit with all sorts of substances,
00:33:21.420
being punched in the head. This is in downtown Portland. The question obviously is where are
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the police? There are reports that the police were told to stand down, not get involved.
00:33:31.720
Where are the police? They're roving gangs of violent political terrorists on the street and
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the police do nothing. This has been going on in Portland for months. Where's the mayor?
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Nowhere. He's totally surrendered his town to terrorists. And Antifa is a domestic terrorist
00:33:48.200
group. They meet the definition. They use violence against civilians to achieve political ends.
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That's the most basic definition of terrorism that there is. And they say that they're
00:33:57.740
anti-fascist. They meet almost every single definition of fascism. It's very hard to get
00:34:05.140
a definition of fascism. Everybody uses it. It's been totally overly defined. Mussolini did give
00:34:12.120
a definition of it in 1932. He described it as violent. He described it as anti-democratic.
00:34:17.380
He described it as authoritarian, as desirous of absolute state power. That describes these guys
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to a T. They even dress like fascists. The fascists in Italy are called the camicianere,
00:34:29.400
the black shirts. The Antifa uniform is to wear a black shirt. It's to wear all black and they're
00:34:34.840
wearing that. So you've got these Antifa fascists and then you've got people making excuses for it.
00:34:42.080
I mean, what happened to Andy over the weekend was attempted murder. You've seen in the past few
00:34:47.360
weeks, there's a new tactic to physically assault conservatives, which is to throw milkshakes at
00:34:52.340
them. It's called milkshaking. It's really funny. Burger King sent out a tweet in the UK. They said,
00:34:57.020
we're selling milkshakes if you guys want to buy them, implying that they can throw them at
00:35:01.120
politicians. Carlos Maza, that little punk who tried to get Crowder and all conservatives kicked
00:35:05.880
off of YouTube. He said, milkshake them all. Throw milkshakes at conservatives. A lot of people
00:35:13.820
saying that over the weekend, the Antifa guys in Portland put quick drying cement in the milkshake
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cups. So as they throw them, they're throwing basically bricks at people's heads. That's how
00:35:23.320
they were cracking so many skulls. That is attempted murder. And people make excuses for
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them. Even after this happened, there was a checkmark, a blue checkmark leftist on Twitter
00:35:34.880
named Sarah Gailey, who tweeted out, quote, if we can't throw milkshakes, I guess we'll have to go
00:35:39.600
back to throwing bricks. Of course, no consequences for her whatsoever. When people on Twitter,
00:35:47.940
conservatives or even some feminists tweet out and say, men are not women, they get kicked off
00:35:52.080
of Twitter. That happened to the editor of a feminist journal. She said, men are not women.
00:35:57.020
She got kicked off of Twitter for that. But then someone tweets out and says, we should throw bricks
00:36:00.720
at conservatives. And no, no issue at all. A bunch of journalists, self-proclaimed journalists,
00:36:07.160
fake journalists, basically blamed Andy Ngo for, for the attack. They said he was asking for it.
00:36:13.220
C.J. Wuerlman said that senior reporter for Huffington Post, Christopher Mathias,
00:36:17.200
called Andy a fascist snowflake for complaining about, about his brain bleed and the attack.
00:36:23.780
All of these people, you know, the, the New York Times ran a piece from Kate Cronin Foreman,
00:36:32.080
who's an assistant professor of human rights, which is completely fake. What is, what is a
00:36:36.860
professor of human rights? That's not a real discipline. She wrote this piece in the New
00:36:40.420
York Times and said that we need to dox border patrol agents at the border. We need to give out
00:36:46.420
their personal information, their names, their addresses, where their families live. The implication
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being that they'll stop doing their jobs because they fear for the physical safety of their family.
00:36:55.280
The left has become violent and authoritarian. And what bothers me, the, I'm not even that bothered
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by the attack. I feel bad for Andy. He's a, Andy's a very nice guy. These attacks happen. Attacks do,
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it's sad, it's awful. I wish the police had done something. I wish that the mayor had done something,
00:37:14.040
but that, that always happens. What's so perverse about this is it's being defended by, by journalists,
00:37:21.820
by the media, by corporations, by politicians. It's even being defended by some people on the right.
00:37:28.260
You know, months and months ago after Charlottesville, when President Trump's comments
00:37:34.380
were completely twisted and made to mean something that he explicitly said they don't mean,
00:37:38.700
conservatives pointed out that there were Antifa people in Charlottesville as well. And that they're
00:37:46.120
a domestic terrorist group and they're really awful. And Mitt Romney came out and tweeted and he said,
00:37:51.700
you know, there, there's no moral equivalence. He said, quote, no, not the same. One side is racist,
00:37:56.960
bigoted Nazi. The other opposes racism and bigotry, morally different universes. He's, he's excusing
00:38:02.620
Antifa. Mitt Romney. Incredibly, we nominated this guy for president in 2012. This guy who sides with
00:38:11.560
Antifa. And, and how he, look, he obviously got it wrong here. He thinks that those guys aren't
00:38:18.120
bigoted. He thinks those guys don't behave like Nazis. He thinks, I mean, those guys are as bad
00:38:24.580
as anybody in America. I mean, they are actual domestic terrorists. They are actually cracking
00:38:28.640
people's skulls open. Why does Romney do this stuff? Why do other so-called conservatives or
00:38:34.760
right-wingers do this? Why would they side with Antifa? It's because those types of conservatives,
00:38:41.340
the ones who say I'm a conservative, but not that kind of conservative, they actually think that their
00:38:46.100
side is bigoted. They actually think that their side is sort of the bad guys. And so they don't ever
00:38:51.840
give their side the benefit of the doubt. They say, oh, the left, they're really the good guys. I mean,
00:38:56.340
I want lower taxes, so I'll side with the conservatives, but there are a lot of wacko
00:39:00.480
birds like John McCain called them. Crazies, awful people, bigots, all of that. But every side has
00:39:07.240
their bigots. Antifa is possibly the worst organization in this entire country. And you've
00:39:17.500
got the entire techno media political apparatus defending them. They're still on Twitter. The
00:39:27.040
people who are defending them are still on Twitter. You know, when I was attacked at the University of
00:39:30.560
Missouri, Kansas City, by what was luckily a non-toxic series of fluids, I don't want to even
00:39:37.540
get into what those fluids were. Luckily, it was non-toxic. What happened? Did the local politician,
00:39:43.560
the local chancellor of the university, did he apologize? No, he smeared me as a bigot.
00:39:48.180
What about the local paper? Did the journalists come out and say, we really shouldn't be doing
00:39:52.540
this, guys. We shouldn't have political violence on campus. No, they made fun of me. They did the
00:39:56.600
same thing that they did to Andy, who obviously had a much, much worse attack. So there was a great
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tweet that came out from Andy's lawyer, Harmeet K. Dillon. Tweet said, quote,
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Good night, everyone, except Antifa criminals, who I plan to sue into oblivion and then salt,
00:40:14.620
sow salt into their yoga studios and avocado toast stands until nothing grows there. Not even the
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glimmer of a violent criminal conspiracy aided by the effete impotence of a cowed city government.
00:40:25.920
And this is right. We obviously, you've got to sue these guys into the ground. You've got to throw
00:40:29.740
them in jail for as long as possible. And the ones who attempted murder should hang by a rope
00:40:33.760
after they are convicted of their crimes by the civil authority.
00:40:40.100
But we've got to, they're not, thugs are going to be thugs. We've got to take this fight to the
00:40:45.400
politicians, to the media, and to the big tech companies who are encouraging it. And we need to
00:40:50.720
also sue them into oblivion for, for their bias on their platforms, for not enforcing their laws
00:40:57.520
uniformly and for encouraging and defending threats of violence against conservatives. Because what
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this does, what they do when they have their paramilitary wing, the Antifa, go out and crack
00:41:08.140
some conservative skulls is they say, oh, that's bad. Oh, we sure shouldn't have that. Bad, bad Antifa.
00:41:14.740
They give them a little slip, slap on the wrist. And then Antifa still gets to run Portland. And what
00:41:19.000
it says is it sends a message to all of us. Maybe you better shut your mouth or maybe you'll be next.
00:41:24.620
Oh, hey, Michael, you just got sprayed with some weird, weird smelly liquid when you were at the
00:41:30.120
University of Missouri. Okay, maybe it'll be worse next time. Maybe you'll get your skull cracked open.
00:41:34.440
Maybe you should think twice before you go to a, on a campus tour. Maybe conservatives should think
00:41:39.880
twice before they hold a rally for patriotism and prayer in Portland. Really, really scary stuff.
00:41:48.020
Obviously we'll keep you updated on how Andy is doing. Really brutal attack for him and,
00:41:52.740
and there has been no answer from corporate America, from the media or from politicians.
00:42:00.660
Completely separate story. On the other side of the world, President Trump was on the Korean
00:42:04.700
Peninsula and he was visiting South Korea and he just sent out a tweet. And the tweet basically said,
00:42:09.960
hey, I'm in South Korea. If Kim Jong-un wants to meet, I'll meet with him. And Kim Jong-un accepts the
00:42:17.100
invitation and President Trump becomes the first US president in history to cross the DMZ and go into
00:42:23.220
North Korea. It was an amazing moment. Here's President Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un talking
00:42:29.140
about it. I think the relationship that we've developed has, uh, has been so much to so many
00:42:35.460
people. And it's just an honor to be with you. And it was an honor that you asked me to step over that
00:42:41.000
line and I was proud to step over the line. Okay. So there are other moments. You can see
00:42:46.180
the moments where he crosses over the line. You can see the moments where the new White House press
00:42:50.040
secretary is just pushing these North Korean thugs out of the way because they wouldn't let American
00:42:54.840
media in. She was fearless. She was great. And President Trump's impromptu meeting is being
00:43:01.960
criticized by all the usual suspects. The pearl clutchers on the right and the left who will
00:43:06.540
criticize him for anything. And they say that the big risk is that he's legitimizing Kim Jong-un.
00:43:12.200
He should never meet with the Kims because that will legitimize them. What does that mean?
00:43:19.840
The Kims have been in power in North Korea since 1948.
00:43:25.880
Our policy hasn't worked. It obviously hasn't worked. You've gone through three generations of Kims
00:43:30.760
and they keep developing their weapons. They stay in power. Nothing matters. At least President Trump is
00:43:36.220
trying something new. Works for me. You know, the other thing about this, and no one gives him
00:43:40.800
credit for it, is he is the most anti-war president in my lifetime. This guy, he called off an attack on
00:43:47.740
Iran because 150 people would have been killed by it. This guy is meeting with Kim Jong-un. It actually
00:43:53.420
shows a great humility. He's saying, I'm not concerned about my own pride or I'm not concerned about the
00:44:01.220
image and the optics. I will do anything, including more or less humiliating myself by meeting with this
00:44:07.280
tin pot dictator if it means that there's even a possibility of peace. You know, he said this is a
00:44:11.940
historic moment and it will be more historic if something actually comes of it. I don't think he's
00:44:16.780
optimistic. I don't think he has unrealistic expectations, but he's doing something. Nothing
00:44:23.700
that we were doing before got the Kims out of power. Nothing we were doing before got North Korea to
00:44:28.420
denuclearize. So Trump tries something new. He's so far given nothing away other than photos. I'm,
00:44:34.080
I'm for it. You know, it's, this isn't like Obama with Iran where Obama gives Iran the path to a
00:44:39.260
nuclear weapon, literally sends them pallets of cash on airplanes. It isn't like that. What have we
00:44:45.000
given North Korea? We've given them photo ops. If we can get any progress on the North Korean
00:44:50.920
situation in exchange for a few photos with Donald Trump, totally worth it. Absolutely worth the risk.
00:44:57.240
Before we go, I've got a little poll that I'm taking. This brings us back to New York. Obviously
00:45:02.420
pride month is over. I think it's going to be pride year next year though. So don't worry that
00:45:06.700
pretty soon you'll never have to end pride. We can celebrate pride at 365 days a year. But
00:45:11.160
in New York over the weekend at the gay pride parade, Chuck Schumer, who voted for the Defense
00:45:17.780
of Marriage Act, Chuck Schumer, who was against gay marriage until five seconds ago, Chuck Schumer
00:45:22.720
decided to get a bullhorn as always and pander, pander, pander. Here is his big statement on gay
00:45:29.180
rights. That's it. By the way, that's the only argument that is made during pride month is pride,
00:45:39.240
pride, pride, blah, blah, blah. It's just, just mindlessly saying these words without making any
00:45:46.120
argument. But I wondered, there are two senators from New York, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.
00:45:50.780
Kirsten Gillibrand a couple of weeks ago, she made her grand statement on the gay rights movement
00:45:56.000
in a bar wearing a rainbow shirt that said, love is brave. Here is her great thesis on gay rights.
00:46:03.040
Gay rights, gay rights, gay rights. Okay. So we've got the two statements here. We've got pride,
00:46:11.000
pride, pride from Chuck Schumer. And then we've got Kirsten Gillibrand staring off a camera,
00:46:15.600
kind of bouncing around and saying, gay rights. So I want you to go to my Twitter page and I just
00:46:20.500
need you to vote right now on which Democrat New York Senator has the most ridiculous pride
00:46:28.620
pandering. We need to find out. This is, this would be a very highly scientific poll.
00:46:33.380
That's all we've got today. In the meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles
00:46:38.440
The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Rebecca Dobkowitz and directed by Mike Joyner. Executive
00:46:48.960
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00:46:54.840
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00:47:00.620
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00:47:04.720
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00:47:09.480
Hey guys, over on the Matt Wall Show today, we're going to talk about this domestic terror
00:47:13.040
group Antifa and the violent riot they staged over the weekend. They've done many of these things,
00:47:19.000
many of these violent riots. This maybe was the worst one yet. People were pepper sprayed,
00:47:23.460
bludgeoned with crowbars. A conservative journalist was put in the hospital with a bleeding brain.
00:47:28.780
Just awful stuff. So we're going to talk about all of that, including what I think is the most
00:47:33.380
concerning aspect, which isn't even the behavior of Antifa as dangerous and vile as it is. It's the
00:47:41.140
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